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On a whole how are Nintendo controllers?

The best 311 57.59%
 
Okay 114 21.11%
 
The worst 81 15.00%
 
See results 34 6.30%
 
Total:540
room414 on 21 July 2013
archbrix said:
MohammadBadir said:

http://tanookimike.deviantart.com/art/Evolution-of-Game-Controllers-312251113

Great link. :)


Horribly innacurate chart. Made by a nintendo fan of course. 

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theRepublic on 21 July 2013
Jumpin said:

3. The L & R buttons felt really springy and cheap, they would even make a springy noise, almost like they were a toy. It was really awkward using them.

Those were analog triggers.  Not buttons.



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Proxy-Pie on 21 July 2013
room414 said:
rakugakist said:
Nintendo is the innovative company when it comes to controllers. D-pads, Shoulder buttons, mainstream analog on a console, wireless that doesn't suck (wave bird), and motion controls. Love or hate them, they innovate.


None of those things are nintendo innovations. Nintendo is good at popularizing other people's ideas. 


D-pad is indeed  a Nintendo invention, Nintendo were the first to put the ABXY buttons, they made the analog Stick mainstream, they created the SNES shoulder buttons, and put rumble into their controllers, and introduced Motion and Touch Screens to the mass audience.



JazzB1987 on 21 July 2013

Best otherwhisepeople would not copy all the stuff like:

D-Pad on the left side
Select/Start in the center
4 action buttons on the right
Shoulder buttons
analog sticks
rumble
motion
Touch

the only thing Nintendo copied was the Home button



Proxy-Pie on 21 July 2013
room414 said:
archbrix said:
MohammadBadir said:

http://tanookimike.deviantart.com/art/Evolution-of-Game-Controllers-312251113

Great link. :)


Horribly innacurate chart. Made by a nintendo fan of course. 


horribly thought out comment, made by a Sony fan of course

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POE on 21 July 2013
BasilZero said:
bananaking21 said:
BasilZero said:

NES = Great
SNES = Great
N64 = WTF - this is so bad but yet its so fucking awesome! i fucking love this controller!
GCN = Perfect
Wii = No Comment


fixed!!!


I've had great memories but....the GCN controller was da best imo n_n

Cant wait to get a WiiU and see how the pro controller is like.

You´ll be amazingly surprised at how good the Gamepad is. Once you get used to it there is no coming back.



archbrix on 21 July 2013
room414 said:
archbrix said:
MohammadBadir said:

http://tanookimike.deviantart.com/art/Evolution-of-Game-Controllers-312251113

Great link. :)


Horribly innacurate chart. Made by a nintendo fan of course. 

I enjoyed it mostly just because it was funny but the fact that you in particular declare it horribly inaccurate lends even more to the chart's credibility.



room414 on 21 July 2013
MohammadBadir said:
room414 said:
rakugakist said:
Nintendo is the innovative company when it comes to controllers. D-pads, Shoulder buttons, mainstream analog on a console, wireless that doesn't suck (wave bird), and motion controls. Love or hate them, they innovate.


None of those things are nintendo innovations. Nintendo is good at popularizing other people's ideas. 


D-pad is indeed  a Nintendo invention, Nintendo were the first to put the ABXY buttons, they made the analog Stick mainstream, they created the SNES shoulder buttons, and put rumble into their controllers, and introduced Motion and Touch Screens to the mass audience.

The first d-pads i'm aware of were for the Cosmic Hunter Microvision handheld released in '81 and on the atari cosmos (http://www.atarimuseum.com/videogames/dedicated/cosmos/cosmos.html ) exhibited at the 1981 New York Toy Fair. One year later nintendo comes out with their first d-pad on a game & watch handheld after about 15 which didn't have one. 

abxy buttons i'll give you. 

There were many analog sticks before nintendo used one. First dedicated thumbstick was on the Philips cd-i controller. Nintendo did popularize it.

From that chart you posted you can see a few controllers with shoulder buttons. I guess nintendo gets credit for their particular placement. 

Interesting story behind rumble which was first seen in arcades on The Fonz (1976). The Force Fx (http://www.thecomputershow.com/computershow/reviews/chforcefx.htm ) was the first controller with rumble released in march '97. Nintendo released their rumble pack one month later and sony released their dualshock that same year but outdoing nintendo by having it integrated into the controller and with two different types of rumble motors. It took Nintendo 4 years after Sony to release a controller with built-in rumble. Yet nintendo are somehow the innovaters?

Motion control: Xavix released over 2 years prior to the wii. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH9u0eKgytc

Touch screens: Vectrex and PalmPilot, long before the DS. 

Anything else? My favorite is light guns which have been around since the 1930's with, you guessed it, duck hunt games. lol 



                                
Proxy-Pie on 21 July 2013
room414 said:
MohammadBadir said:
room414 said:
rakugakist said:
Nintendo is the innovative company when it comes to controllers. D-pads, Shoulder buttons, mainstream analog on a console, wireless that doesn't suck (wave bird), and motion controls. Love or hate them, they innovate.


None of those things are nintendo innovations. Nintendo is good at popularizing other people's ideas. 


D-pad is indeed  a Nintendo invention, Nintendo were the first to put the ABXY buttons, they made the analog Stick mainstream, they created the SNES shoulder buttons, and put rumble into their controllers, and introduced Motion and Touch Screens to the mass audience.

The first d-pads i'm aware of were for the Cosmic Hunter Microvision handheld released in '81 and on the atari cosmos (http://www.atarimuseum.com/videogames/dedicated/cosmos/cosmos.html ) exhibited at the 1981 New York Toy Fair. One year later nintendo comes out with their first d-pad on a game & watch handheld after about 15 which didn't have one. 

abxy buttons i'll give you. 

There were many analog sticks before nintendo used one. First dedicated thumbstick was on the Philips cd-i controller. Nintendo did popularize it.

From that chart you posted you can see a few controllers with shoulder buttons. I guess nintendo gets credit for their particular placement. 

Interesting story behind rumble which was first seen in arcades on The Fonz (1976). The Force Fx (http://www.thecomputershow.com/computershow/reviews/chforcefx.htm ) was the first controller with rumble released in march '97. Nintendo released their rumble pack one month later and sony released their dualshock that same year but outdoing nintendo by having it integrated into the controller and with two different types of rumble motors. It took Nintendo 4 years after Sony to release a controller with built-in rumble. Yet nintendo are somehow the innovaters?

Motion control: Xavix released over 2 years prior to the wii. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH9u0eKgytc

Touch screens: Vectrex and PalmPilot, long before the DS. 

Anything else? My favorite is light guns which have been around since the 1930's with, you guessed it, duck hunt games. lol 


D-Pad :Game and Watch release in 1980 :P

also, the problem with your Touch Screen and Motion anaologys, how many people have them? XD that's why i said Popularize, not Invent.

Rumble: Rumble Pak for the N64, nuff said



room414 on 21 July 2013
MohammadBadir said:
room414 said:
MohammadBadir said:
room414 said:

None of those things are nintendo innovations. Nintendo is good at popularizing other people's ideas. 


D-pad is indeed  a Nintendo invention, Nintendo were the first to put the ABXY buttons, they made the analog Stick mainstream, they created the SNES shoulder buttons, and put rumble into their controllers, and introduced Motion and Touch Screens to the mass audience.

The first d-pads i'm aware of were for the Cosmic Hunter Microvision handheld released in '81 and on the atari cosmos (http://www.atarimuseum.com/videogames/dedicated/cosmos/cosmos.html ) exhibited at the 1981 New York Toy Fair. One year later nintendo comes out with their first d-pad on a game & watch handheld after about 15 which didn't have one. 

abxy buttons i'll give you. 

There were many analog sticks before nintendo used one. First dedicated thumbstick was on the Philips cd-i controller. Nintendo did popularize it.

From that chart you posted you can see a few controllers with shoulder buttons. I guess nintendo gets credit for their particular placement. 

Interesting story behind rumble which was first seen in arcades on The Fonz (1976). The Force Fx (http://www.thecomputershow.com/computershow/reviews/chforcefx.htm ) was the first controller with rumble released in march '97. Nintendo released their rumble pack one month later and sony released their dualshock that same year but outdoing nintendo by having it integrated into the controller and with two different types of rumble motors. It took Nintendo 4 years after Sony to release a controller with built-in rumble. Yet nintendo are somehow the innovaters?

Motion control: Xavix released over 2 years prior to the wii. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH9u0eKgytc

Touch screens: Vectrex and PalmPilot, long before the DS. 

Anything else? My favorite is light guns which have been around since the 1930's with, you guessed it, duck hunt games. lol 


D-Pad :Game and Watch release in 1980 :P

also, the problem with your Touch Screen and Motion anaologys, how many people have them? XD that's why i said Popularize, not Invent.

Rumble: Rumble Pak for the N64, nuff said

Game & Watch released in 1980 but as i said in my post, nintendo made about 15 of those without a d-pad until donkey kong in '82. 

That's what i said in my first post. Nintendo popularizes other people's ideas.

I already addressed rumble in my comment. Maybe you should read it.

One thing i missed was "wireless that doesn't suck" from rakugakist's post. There have been wireless controllers since the atari 2600 and most of them did suck. The airplay controller for ps1 worked quite well though. Here's a review: http://www.gamemonkeys.com/reviews/a/airplay.htm