Nintendo got sued by an employee of Sony for stealing number 6. And first three things never caught on. Can't innovate if you are making useless inventions that don't even sell.
@Fanta And if Sony made the idea for the disc tray, and they turned it into the Playstation, then it was their idea that innovated the disc tray rather than inconvenient cartridges.
This happens all the time. I'd bet you all my shards that the dumb guy will lose.
The fact that an invention doesn't sell doesn't mean that its useless. Nintendo was just dumb in marketing the devices. The power glove only had 2 games, while the Virtual Boy had a stupid rental system that killed all their marketing efforts.
Also while Sony (and Phillips) created the disk tray, it was ultimately Nintendo that approached them and asked them to create a CD-Rom add-on.
And the whole concept of the Playstation was initially meant to be a Super Nintendo compatible device. You can pretty much say that without Nintendo there wouldn't be any Playstation.
And yes, the Playstation was more popular than that the Nintendo consoles, but thats because Sony tried to scam Nintendo by claiming complete control over any and all titles written on the SNES CD-ROM format., forcing the later to break the agreement and try something else, which resulted in them losing 3rd party developers including Square Enix, in favor or the Playstation.
Sony acted smart while Nintendo, as usual, acted dumb, But that doesn't change the fact that Sony's popularity is based on the fact that they tricked Nintendo, stole their idea, and forced them into a dark alley full of thugs and rapers.