I know a big point of conflict in the gaming community is 'who stole what from who.'

I didn't make this thread to argue about that.

I made this thread to share this article, that will maybe shed some light, and hopefully provide some entertaining.

6 'New' Gaming Innovations That Are Way Older Than You Think | Cracked.com

All I ask is that if you have to debate, don't do it in a stupid way, please. Things get nasty way too quick around here, and I'd like to encourage intelligent discussion, not 'I'm right your wrong' discussion. Thanks.

Woot, Cracked is awesome. I read this article about 10 minutes after it was posted.

<3 Cracked. I definitely think more people need to read it. It's super informative.

That's pretty neat. I actually had no idea the Wii wasn't the first motion control. x.x you learn new things everyday I guess...the Wii is more fun though

Did anyone seriously believe the Wii was the first game to feature motion control? I could easily name at least 5 things games that had motion control before the Wii. I mean the Eyetoy on the PS2 came out just a few years before and doesn't anybody remember the Power Glove? Or the DS was the first game to have a touch screen? I've seen games with touch screens since I was a little kid.

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The Kinect was a major rip-off of the Eyetoy. Just sayin'.

Ripoffs/copying in the gaming world = Taking an old idea, improving it, and making it commercially viable.

some times people back then thought it was a gimmick but in this day and age they actually grow on us and now we see them as the norm and forget where they came from
good article

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very informative. (20char)

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More than just the gaming industry. This applies to almost everything, if there was no copying there would only be 1 company doing a lot of things creating a monopoly, and thy means much higher prices.

and I think it's funny that 2 of nintendo's recent "innovations" were done by them years ago.
Power glove came before Wii
Virtual boy came before 3DS
So they aren't new to gaming and aren't even new to nintendo