So I saw a thread about all the innovations that Sony has made to the industry, so I decided to make one about Nintendo
First D-Pad: Essential to gaming nowadays, almost all controllers have these (NES)
First Diamonds Button Layout: ALL controllers have these nowadays (SNES)
First Use of Shoulder Buttons: Very useful for FPS and other genres (SNES)
First True Motion Controller: Not the biggest fan of this but it is still a very large market, though now 7th gen is over motion controls are kinda dead (Wii)
First Analog Stick: Once again, this is literally ESSENTIAL to gaming, EVERY controller following the N64 was expected to have one (N64)
First Sidescrolling Game: Before SMB, games were usually just one screen, maybe changing screens, but never actually following you (Super Mario Bros)
First System with 3D capabilities without glasses: Similar to motion controls, this is just a little contribution they have made, however, it is still pretty great (Virtual Boy or 3DS, whichever you think is better :)
First Rumble Feature: N64 featured the first ever rumble feature in a controller, very helpful today and is included in all controllers (N64)
First Microphone and Touchscreen: Alot of controllers nowadays have microphones and the DS was looong before the iPhone, amazing for its time (DS)
