Iwata - Nintendo will not stand still while Sony/Microsoft progress

[Staude]

WereKitten said:

bardicverse said:
staude - innovate != invent, don't get the words confused. Example - Nintendo did not create Bluetooth, but they used the technology to be the way the Wii remote communicates with the console, thus innovating a new type of controller.

Regarding D-pad prior to the NES, I can't recall ever seeing one before that, got any documentation on prior versions?

back to OP - Nintendo buys Sony confirmed?

Wasn't the Intellivision control basically a d-pad, even though it was shaped as a disc rather than a cross?

A precursor to the standard D-pad was used by the Intellivision console, which was released by Mattel Electronics in 1980. The Intellivision's unique controller featured the first alternative to a joystick on a home console, a circular pad that allowed for 16 directions of movement by pressing it with the thumb. A precursor to the D-pad also appeared on Entex's short lived "Select A Game" cartridge based handheld system; it featured non-connected raised left, right, up and down buttons aligned to the left of a row of action buttons. Similar directional buttons were also used on the Atari Game Brain, the unreleased precursor to the Atari 2600.

The first "connected" (pad) style D-pad appeared in 1981 on a handheld game system: "Cosmic Hunter" on Milton Bradley's Microvision. The pad was operated the same way today's D-pads are, using the thumb to manipulate the onscreen "hero" character in any of four directions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-pad

 

@aquietguy. But they didn't. I'm not really a fanboy either. Fanman maybe. :p

 

@mai well.. I do think that cds were important back then. And blu ray can be important now.. with all the HD stuff it's pretty nice if you can get the stuff less compressed.. And with the cds back then. Command & conquer isn't command & conquer without the fmvs :P