Leynos said:
It's the first dual analog stick controller and 4 shoulder buttons with hand grips but Vextrex in 1982 had an analog stick. Nintendo similar to Apple would popularize an existing technology. Nintendo rarely (tho the Dpad is a thing) invented anything for their consoles. |
Nintendo has a culture of pushing every console generation they have to bring something new to the table control wise.
They don't have to do that, it's actually unusual, but because of that they've pushed adoption of ideas like the SNES layout, shoulder buttons, the d-pad, analog control for 3D games, rumble, wand/motion controls to the *mass market*.
It doesn't matter if some niche, random company did it first, we are taking about mass market influence.
Nintendo is the weird one in this case, most companies would just stick to a standardized control method and leave it alone especially if there's no competitive pressure to do so. Nintendo is the exception to the rule, not the rule itself, don't mix those two up.
Same thing really for Apple, as much as haters want to hate on them, there's no way the modern smartphone is what it is without the iPhone.
