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"Other manufacturers products are not relevant here. But why you ask? Well, I am NOT looking at who invented what or who introduced which feature into the console market first. I am simply looking at Sega and Microsoft's design choices from one generation to the next. I am NOT saying who or what (if any) external influence affected their design choices." So he disregards any influence outside of Sega, which makes his whole video kinda pointless. At least to prove your point. Anyway, it doesn't really matter if Microsoft took his inspiration from Nintendo or Sega (and the Dreamcast Controller in turn took inspiritaion from Nintendo, look diamond shape, button colors). The bottom line is that microsoft is hardly the originator of their controller design. The only thing they did first was the home button and I can give credit where credit is due.
The sidewinder pics have no resemblence to the Xbox brand AT ALL and are indeed heavily influenced from the genesis and sega saturn controllers. There are no analog sticks to be found, no analog triggers and the shape is completely different. Neither shape nor function are in any correlation to the xbox brand. |
The original picutre showed parts of a Nintendo gamecube controller as the design of a x360 controller, I mentioned that the x360 controller is a variant of the xbox controller and the original xbox controller a variant the Sidewinder which is heavily inspired by Sega's controllers (especially the saturn 3d control pad). If you read my initial post and reply, I mentioned that Microsoft controllers are heavily Sega inspired, in part becuase they had a very strong relationship in the mid-late 90 with co-development of the dreamcast, I never mentioned microsoft controller orignality but I am disputing they got their current controller inspiration from nintendo.
