Every company develops and patents new technologies. Most of those never see the light of day, or ever leave the prototype phase. The difference happens when said companies actually move to finish and sell a product.
People can post a dozen different photos or articles claiming someone was first in the motion controller realm, but what matters is that none of those technologies came to life...other than the Wii of course. So for some reason or another, Sony and Sega developed a motion tech, but failed to implement it. Maybe because there was no market for something like that at that time, maybe because it would have been entirely new.
But give credit where credit is due. Nintendo took a risk, developed a motion control as the first source of input in their new console. They created the Wii mainstream audience. If it wasnt for Nintendo, these new technologies wouldnt probably exist today. Sony expanded gameing from nerds into "gamers", and now Wii has expanded it again into everyone else.
Like countless others have said, when something works, there are bound to be imitations. The Classic Controller Pro is an ugly Dualshock controller, the dualshock is a SNES controller with handles, etc. It hardly matters who thought of it first, now its who can make it better. And competition is always a good thing.
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