Wii U Hardware Comparisons

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Chandler said:

So your saying that the different analog stick placement in the gamecube and xbox controllers are enough to not make it a simple ripoff/clone/copy of the dual shock controller. But in your first post you are also saying that the different analog placement of the Pro Controller is not enough to not make it a simple ripoff of the xbox360 controller. This is hypocrisy.

I have never said that. Plus, the button placement doesn't change the fact, that they copied the whole shape of the body of the controller, which is what I'm criticising them for. If one car company copies the body of another company's car, they can't claim it's ok, cause they changed the lamps in the control panel.

I also love the whole "everything that MS copied from Nintendo, buttons, letters, colors etc etc. doesn't matter at all, only the one thing that Nintendo took from MS is the outrageous travesty, they should bow their heads and commit seppuku for this" spin. The bottom line is, Microsoft used Nintendo assets and SEGA assets on their xbox controllers to make gamers feel at home on their console and now Nintendo is cashing the favor in with the shape of the new controller and suddenly it's a travesty. Get a grip, man. I actually really really hope MS sues for this because this would burn them, hard. Good thing is that MS is actually smart.

MS used ideas of their competition, but changed and developed them significantly. The differences between the X-box pad and DC/PS2/GCN pads are really noticable, each one is different and unique, while the shape of the Wii U Pro Controller is a 99% exact copy of the X360 controller. If you can't see that, it means you are blind dude. Microsoft in their pad hasn't bluntly copied anything that influences a gamer experience, especially not from Nintendo. They saw some good ideas and took them one step further every time. Nintendo didn't bother doing that, that's why they deserve some bashing. My stance is that what MS did was taking inspiration and I'm fine with that. But what Nintendo did with their newest controller can no longer be considered inspiration. They just crossed the thin line. You see this pad and you immediately think about the X360 pad. That didn't happen earlier with the X-box pad, or any other pad actually. But I guess you can never convince a fanboy.

Oh and no, MS and N did not develope their controllers at the same time, I have already proven in this very thread that MS had knowledge of the GC controller about 5 months ahead of their own reveal.

And you really think that they didn't have their controller ready at that point? You think they were sitting there without a controller just waiting for Nintendo to release their controller so that they can finally prepare their own one during just a few days? Seriously, the X-box pad doesn't really resemble the GCN pad. You look at them and they look totally different. Yes, they moved the D-pad, but like Scoobes said, it's way more probable that they realised this was the better placement during their own development. Cause it's just that - better, than the Sony idea. You can't prove that it wasn't like that, so you can't claim they copied Nintendo. The time frame is too short to justify such a claim.