> I'm fuzzy on the history but I do believe online play was embraced by Microsoft far before Sony or the others. XBox had online play by default, Sony and Nint

> I'm fuzzy on the history but I do believe online play was embraced by Microsoft far before Sony or the others. XBox had online play by default, Sony and Nintendo required you to buy a peripheral. As a footnote, I think the Dreamcast (1998) was probably the first console that came with a modem by default, and an optional broadband adapter. > Sony/Nintendo had their popular portable systems - designed for offline play. PSP had wifi built-in.