Most influential system (and why)

[Soundwave]

Manlytears said:

Soundwave said:

Nintendo has a history of changing their controller to some degree every time out, Sony does not. Sony didn't do any of the analog stick, rumble, or even analog triggers first (Dreamcast had that first). If they weren't pushed by Nintendo they'd have largely kept the same design for the PS2 almost certainly. The setup worked, no reason to change it much. 

Changing control methods is just part of Nintendo's internal culture, that doesn't mean "well every company would just do the same", no they wouldn't. Nintendo has a lot of design quirks that most companies don't, that's one of them. 

More speculation...

The burden of proof lies with the person making the claim. Can you prove your statement?

You have that backwards. 

We know for a fact in mainstream consoles, Nintendo did analog first, rumble first, Dremcast had analog triggers first. Sony copied all of those things and was not first to any of them. No one can dispute that really. 

YOU would have to prove that somehow in a parallel timeline Sony would've incorporated those things into their controller magically some how unprompted if Nintendo or Sega didn't do it first with nothing to copy it from. I doubt that would have happened. You can't remove cause from cause & effect and expect the effect to be the same. 

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