Impulsivity said:
Both contributed major innovations to controllers. Nintendo added the mass market dpad+buttons+start select controller, Sony moved in dual analog and built in rumble. Sony added controlling the console via movement (via the eye toy) and Nintendo adapted more exact movements to a controller. Microsoft made controllers bigger then the biggest hamburger you've ever seen which didn't catch on quite as well. |
How is adding 2 analogue sticks innovation over the original 1 (main penetration and use via N64 although I believe an earlier system had one... not sure if it was full analogue though (distance +direction) or just directional.
And vague motion sensing has been around longer than the eyetoy.... the Dreamcast had a controller kind of like the Wii's except not so great... the powerglove came before it, (also not so great) and the NES zapper used a camera in kind of the opposite way to what the eyetoy does (Zapper is half way between Wiimote IR and eyetoy)
eyetoy is a good thing though, I do like it.
I'd say the memory card has been a good thing from Sony, although it's not needed so much anymore.








