Nintendo officially announces Nintendo Network!!!

[happydolphin]

Torillian said:

happydolphin said:

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.

Fair enough Torillian, they probably reused their flightstick technology and thumbstick-sized it. But they looked at Nintendo, saw what they did, liked the idea, took their flightstick tech, and compacted it to the dualshock and socketed it into the controller, like Nintendo did. The idea was birthed by Vectrex, rebirthed by Nintendo some 15 years later, and 2 years later, Nintendo's idea to bring it back to the world of gaming was used by Sony. From a business point of view, there is leader-following (I won't use the term copying as it involves too many ambiguities).

For that I would be hard pressed to find anyone to disagree. But if so, let's continue! :D