When Consoles Lose, Everyone Wins

Ground Glass writes "Does the traditional knowledge that 'history is written by the winners' hold true with consoles? Perhaps, but there's more to it than that. Sometimes, systems that fail do so because their most salient concept was one no one was ready for - these provide future 'innovations'. Sometimes their loudest message was one only a niche group would ever want to listen to - they provide much needed perspective. In an early medium, the failures are the ones questioning what a game should be. It's no wonder the winners keep writing their ideas back in."

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I'm really tired of this next-gen.biz editorial magazine getting onto slashdot all the time, and I'm starting to think there's some conspiracy here... No magazine is good enough to be slashdotted every week.