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kurasakiichimaru on 13 June 2011
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Michael-5 said:
lightbleeder said:
Michael-5 said:

Everyone copies Nintendo. They are leaders for Innovation. However some of the upgrades you mentioned would have come naturally over time.

Rumble pack built in, did you expect that to remain a peripheral?

Also Wireless controllers, with built in batteries.

Literally everything is copied from Nintendo. The handheld controller, D-Pad, Start/Select buttons, 4 right thumb buttons (ABXY), shoulder buttons, rumble, wireless controllers, 4 player consoles, trigger buttons (Z on N64, gamecube trigger shoulders), Motion gaming, list goes on. MS only introduced the Home button, and Sony did duel analog with built in batteries, that's it.

P.S. PS1 controller with duel clicky analog sticks came before the N64 controller

The N64 was released on 06/23/1996 in Japan, the Dual Analog controller (the predecessor to the first DualShock that didn't have clickable thumbsticks) was released on 04/25/1997 in Japan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_64

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_Analog_Controller

OH WOW!!! I forgot, original PS1 controllers had no analog sticks!

That settles it, everyone copies Nintendo. However not everything is copied.

MS introduced achievements, a home button, and basically introduced online play onto consoles. They also made Kinect.

Sony introduced less, all I can think of is the built in battery pack to controllers, Eyetoy (but one can argue that's a copy of Gameboy Camera), and that's about it. Maybe Analog sticks for handhelds?

Nintendo leads with innovation, simple.

I just hope they introduce some form of achievement/trophy system with the Wii U. They are addictive, and I like completing my favorite games. Completing a Zelda would be a very daunting task, but I've done it for Ocarina of Time.

I'm pretty sure most of what Nintendo have done weren't really innovation. They were all done before.

Trophies existed on Gran Turismo  in the Simulation mode. Not sure if there were similar things like that from before although it's not online certificated.