To me, it was Microsoft's E3 09 Project Natal presentation..

They copied Nintendo's 06 show almost word for word..it was so asinine..I had a difficult time swallowing that one, and I still haven't digested it completely..

No, what it should have said is

"Someone please get the guys who make cartridge games several rakes and wheelbarrows, they just unleashed Pokemon."

It almost always becomes a huge mess when the topic of "who did what first" is brought up. For this specific case though? Sony improved on the original Nintendo concept to such a degree that it's DS1 analog stick setup has been industry standard for over 20 years, while nobody aside the overpaid R&D dummies at Sega, ( who managed to double-down on it, with the Saturn and then somehow, almost beyond belief, again with the DC ) has aped the N64 single stick setup. It was a huge upgrade. Referring to it as a mere ripoff is not accurate.

Both Sony and Sega ripped off the N64 ideas. All they did was add another analog to the DS1 controller.. they also took the rumble feature at the same time. The industry standard dare i say is the conclave analog sticks where Xbox copied the DS1 design and placed them in what is considered the more popular decision. To say Sony improved on the N64 design and made it standard for 20 years is no different to saying the Xbox controller did the exact same thing years after.

How come everyone forgot about these moments? They're not as brazen as Sega/Nintendo back then, but this moment was quite pivotal for this current generation.

Radical change in placement of the stick and adding a second stick is a bit more revolutionary than making the top of a stick concave.

It has only revolutationized Playstation. No other brand uses there configuration.

Thank Nintendo for popularizing the analog controls. If Sony had that idea they would have brought out those sticks at launch. Its the exact same case many years later with the PS Move.

No other brand uses two analog sticks in conjunction, nor have they moved their single stick away from the bottom center of the controller.

Got it.

.....I knew if I responded, something along these lines would happen. Azzanation....you've missed the point entirely.

Adding a second stick is nothing revolutionary, only common sense. The GameCube controller wouldn't be too different even if ps1 and ps2 didn't exist. Sega genesis having more face buttons than nes/send wasn't revolutionary.

Goldeneye and select few other games had a two controller option where you held both controllers to have control of two analog sticks and two triggers at the same time. It was only a matter of time, and it would've been done with or without Sony.