| Chrkeller said: Having actually worked in R&D for 20+ years i can assure you most ideas are being developed by multiple companies around the same time. This is extremely common. |
And plenty of companies do flat out just copy other companies too. See that a billion times over.
Nintendo of the 80s/90s especially was the industry trend setter, whatever they did basically others copied. They had a six button controller so ... Sega released a six button controller and later on tried to pass that off as the new standard Genesis controller .... that's not random coincidence, they obviously saw the SNES had 6 buttons and reacted to that. Then Sony copied that same exact layout and added an extra shoulder button.
Nintendo was the standard so anything they did basically got copied almost immediately. The analog stick and rumble pack were quickly copied.
No fucking sense in doing cartwheels and mental gymnastics to pretend none of that happened, even at the time I remember in the 90s most people just accepted "oh yeah, Sony/Sega are going to copy that".
It's actually part of the reason Nintendo is so annoying with drip feed news to this day ... they just embraced a company wide philosophy from those days onwards that they weren't going to show virtually anything too early (especially hardware wise) which has made it a pain in the ass for fans. Everything is treated like it's some top secret government secret with Nintendo, it's extremely annoying.
