Alternate history: Switch a generation earlier

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HoloDust said:

curl-6 said:

They existed, but that's not the origin of what we see now on Switch. Gyro aiming on Switch got its kickstart with BOTW and Splatoon 2 in year 1, both of which inherited it from Splatoon 1, which popularized this method with the Nintendo audience.

There was gyro aiming before that, much like there were motion controls before the Wii, but these earlier ventures didn't directly create what we have now, just like not every early hominid is the ancestor of modern humans.

Yeah, because gyro aiming on WiiU/Switch is oh so different from other platforms before them, and not completely the same.

Like I said, sure mate.

You can draw a pretty straight line from the original Wiimote to Motion Plus to the gyro sensor in 3DS and Wii U to the Switch, I really don't think modern motion controls on Switch would be meaningfully affected if Sixaxis had never happened.