Sony granted patent for handheld with touchscreen

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Morgyn said:

TWRoO said:

windbane said:
I'll love it if Nintendo ever adds shoulder buttons to a portable system. Then we can say that Nintendo copied Sony on portable gaming systems! I mean, let's really get down to specifics. Nevermind that shoulder buttons were around long before and they just happened to move to portable systems.

Same thing with touchscreens. Nintendo used it a pure gaming system first. Ok. As others have said, PDAs and phones have them before. Let's move on...

Ha ha. Classic.

@ the rest. It's not the point that the tech existed in other formats, it's that Nintendo implement it properly and usually first in the video game market.

 

 

The argument often trotted out and when backwards compatibility, optical media, memory cards these same people disregard them, bringing out the old stalwarts of rumble and analogue, even tho some were used in consoles before nintendo.

Nintendo brought Sony in (then pushed them out) to start with for optical media anyway. And there wasn't a need for memory cards before optical media.

I kind of agree with backward compatibility though, I think Game Boy Colour is really the first (notable) sysem to do it, but it is often considered as the same console so it's an odd one.