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[Torillian]

happydolphin said:

Torillian said:

All those points are fine, because you've taken out the bit about them being first.  Nintendo can be the first to make it popular, the first to make one that was really comfortable for your thumb, and the first to show it's potential for games, but they didn't make the first thumbstick.  

 

And if them using digital instead of analog means that they didn't base it off the Vectrex doesn't the fact that Sony's PS1 Dual Analog was indead analog and was based off the tech in a duel flight stick controller that they had already made mean that Sony didn't base their controller off the N64?

Yes, you're right. But one would have to be in full denial to think that the DualShock did not come business-wise from the success the N64 had from its offerings, much like the Move was a business response to the  Wii. If somebody claims that, I'm at a loss ;)

Nope, somebody else showed that it could be popular, so Sony started working on their own version of a similar technology, but the idea that Sony saved millions because they just copied what Nintendo was doing has no proof towards it and based on the fact that Sony used their own tech for both of these to solve the same problem I don't think they saved any money tech-wise.  They just weren't the first to come up with it or make it popular, and nintendo can have credit for that, but they can't have credit for coming up with the technology that Sony didn't even use.