Iwata: Nintendo Wants To "Suprise Gamers" With NX

[zorg1000]

Soundwave said:

zorg1000 said:

Yes it did, u say standard NES game pad as if it was a standard controller for the time. Pre-NES, standard controllers looked like the Atari 5200/IntelleVision/ColecoVision controller. And it's not just about controllers, it's also about the games, Super Mario Bros was a massive leap from earlier platform games like Pitfall and were there games that played like Zelda or Metroid before those games released?

The controller was refined, but it wasn't really a "new way to play", it was just a better version of what had come before. 

And certainly the NES had far (far) better graphics than the Atari 2600/5200. 

But you can say similar things about say the leap from 16-bit systems to the Playstation, etc. The NES was a standard game console, while it did have gimmicky controllers like R.O.B. and Zapper this was mostly just to get retailers to carry the system because it was at its heart a traditional game system. 

The NES probably was the Playstation 4 of its day. The Sega Master System (ironically) is basically what Nintendo has turned their console division into (niche side product, no third party support, great 1st party games). 

The NES controller was absolutely nothing like the any previous controller, so it wasn't just a better version, it was completely new. Just like the Wii Remote wasn't just a better Dualshock/Gamecube controller, it was something brand new that let u play games in a new way. Both of these consoles branched out and featured new games genres that hadn't been used before.