"sega WAS NOT the 1st to use cell shading "
Sega was the first t make it work. They started the trend. After Sega, everyone made a cell shaded game.
"ID WAS NOT the 1st to make a 1st person shooter "
The people from ID did make wolfenstein. Wolfenstien, as far as I know, was the first FPS.
"Atari WAS NOT the 1st console"
Atari wasn\'t the first console no, but it was the first to undersell hardware to make a profit on games. Thus, the first hardware model.
Even if all these points were factually incorrect, my point is that everyone copies good ideas.
Buggy or not, it\'s successful. Why change if your "buggy" software makes you the richest man in the world? He\'s got to be doing something right. Marketing? Maybe, but consumers regularily buy inferior products because of good marketing. Again, I fail to see anything wrong with being intelligent.