And if you read the link, Atari had analogue controllers in the 80s.
"It's not far fetched to assume that Sega copied from Nintendo because pretty much everyone copied elements from Nintendo controllers several times, Sega included."
But what you ARE stating is that its far fetched to assume that Nintendo copied from Sega?
http://www.nightsintodreams.com/NiD/violet/whatisnid/thegame.htm
Summer 1995: Details of the pad were released.