In an alternate universe, Nintendo and Sony’s partnership would have spawned the Nintendo PlayStation, but instead gamers live in a world where these two companies have become eternal rivals instead.
Despite that, the PlayStation 5 still managed to learn a lot from Nintendo’s previous innovations, with most of this next-generation console’s new features being indirect callbacks to what the house of Mario had introduced before.
So let’s take a look at how the PlayStation 5 essentially became a greatest hits collection of Nintendo’s past innovations, essentially aping the Sega Genesis and doing what Nintendon’t.
