| Chrkeller said: The silly assertion that Sony wouldn't have a need for a new controller design for the ps2 is flawed. For starters the ps2 was a full 3d machine, while the ps1 struggled with full 3d, hence there was a need. |
They'd have no incentive to make any change, why change a formula that just sold 100 million units.
The idea that any force of nature/God/whatever gives a fuck about video games so much that they would have intervened to ensure the modern controller comes to be is actually very silly.
And actually the N64 is fairly underrated for how much influence it has on modern games, Mario 64/Zelda: OoT are basically the bedrock of most modern 3D game design to this day (3rd person games). For FPS shooters, GoldenEye 007 essentially created the home video game market for the FPS blockbuster, which then became Halo and then Call of Duty which continues to this very day. It was the first major mainstream console with analog control, forcing Sony and Sega to copy that. It was the first modern mainstream console with a rumble becoming a primary feature of the controller (virtually all Nintendo games post Star Fox 64 started to use rumble), forcing Sony and Sega again to copy that also.
