Yes, but if they hadn't called it an innovation and just demonstrated, it would have been better. By calling it a "Sony Innovation" at E3 of all places, where the most hardcore of the hardcore are, they basically admitted to copying it, as everyone there knew all the basics about the consoles.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=25...5&q=e3+nintendo the conference for the interested
More new news: Solid Snake is in Smash Brothers Brawl. I am totally serious.
http://www.joystiq.com/2006/05/10/super-sm...ng-solid-snake/