Most influential system (and why)

[Soundwave]

Manlytears said:

Soundwave said:

lol at giving Sony credit for ripping off the Super NES controller + analog stick + rumble from the N64 controller.

It's like hyping up a kid who stole his test answers from the kid next to him and declaring him a genius. 

Realy? let's see:

Analog Stick:

Nintendo didn't even have an analog stick; it was more of an optical tracker ball using a technology that has been completely abandoned. 

It's an "interaction" that failed miserably to become standard. It was fragile, imprecise, and lacked button functionality. The design was so bad that it was abandoned. Most later controllers (including those from Nintendo) are designed similarly to the DualShock's analog sticks, with potentiometers.

The concept wasn't even Nintendo's; it was implemented much earlier by the XE-1 AP controller.

Nintendo didn't invent the concept and failed in its implementation. What more can be said?

Rumble: 
Of course, every modern controller needs a vibration attachment, right? lol

Using internal motors is a design created by Playstation. This is the design that became the standard and influenced all subsequent controllers.

Nintendo's design died, is no longer implemented, it went extinct like Neanderthals.

Super NES controller:
Yeah, playstation copied this.

Without the N64 controller, no chance the PS controller has rumble or analog at that point and they would win the generation and have exactly zero incentive to change anything. 

Controllers today would be massively different if there was no N64 controller, that gave both Sega and Sony a kick in the ass to start looking at rumble and analog, glossing over that is crazy. 

Sony would've just stuck with this SNES rip off design:

Make this black and that's your PS2 controller and if that's your PS2 controller the rest of game history is completely different.