| happydolphin said: 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 |
Yep, and going all the way back to the topic of this thread (I know it's been a while) that is the same kind of leader-following as Nintendo is doing right now trying to regocus their efforts on online because the other two publishers (most credit going to MS here) have shown how popular and successful it can be. And that is what started this whole mess.
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