I would counter that the entire idea of modern "social" gaming was pioneered by XBox Live. The showed that it was a viable concept on a mass market scale. The first point mentioned in the article is how the XBox created the idea of a console community, which predates what we would define as modern social gaming, IMO.
Is there anything you would like to give MS and the XBox credit for, or would you like to continue to reinforce commonly held beliefs about your personal biases?
