The picture he linked is the original PS1 controller: it had neither analog sticks nor rumble. Those were added after Nintendo made the rumble pack and added the analog stick to their N64 controller. 

HAhahahahahahaaaa.................. The answer is yes.... And it can be found in that picture. But sometimes, people are just to blinded by their faith. lol!!

Okay, what is it? Clearly I'm blind. Honestly, I'm curious -- rather than simply mocking me, tell me what I'm missing. 

The handle grips. It first appeared on the PS1, next appearance was on the Nintendo Virtualboy and to N64. By the way...... the other thing is CD Rom was found on PS1 way before nintendo got into optical media. N64 was still on catridges.

Btw, I love my PS1-3, and I also love all my nintendos, from NES to Wii(I had every single 1 of em). I am not defending Sony against Nintendo. My purpose of contribution is to enlighten blinded fanbois. And I have no doubts that Nintendo has always been the top gaming innovator, just that they are not the only ones who innovate.

This is really splitting hairs, and also plays no part in controller functionality -- just comfort. The SNES controller had "hand pads," very much like "hand grips," as you can see here:

http://www.the-nextlevel.com/features/hardware/hori-digital-controller/hori-vs-snes-1.jpg

You can insist that adding a fully extended grip is significantly different from a simple extension of the pad if you'd like to. Personally, I think that if there is any real innovation here, it would be with ergomic design of any kind: which, to my knowledge, Sega started, not Sony or even Nintendo (link: http://www.videogamecritic.net/images/systems/gencontroller.jpg ).

Arguing that a "hand grip" is fundamentally different from a "hand pad" is like arguing that 6 frontal buttons (as seen on the N64 controller) is a fundamental evolution from 4 buttons (as seen on the PS controller, even to this day).

Again, I fully believe the PS2 Dual Shock controller is the most polished controller I've ever used. Everything is comfortable, everything is easy to reach, and it had every feature of its time. There's just nothing original about it.

Sega invented the CD for console. Nintendo was about to add that to theirs (copying sega yes) through Sony and yada yada yada Sony backstabbed Nintendo and the Playstation was born. The handle grips I will give them credit for, but there is nothing else the Playstation has ever innovated. The only thing they have ever done on their own is a bunch of weird and super highpowered features (PS3) which really the average player has no need for yet.

Whoa. WHOA. Huge revisionism here. Sony did NOT backstab Nintendo. If anything, it was the other way around -- although it really looks like it went both ways. Nintendo definitely renigged on a signed contract, which was particularly naughty of them; Sony was clearly trying to take control of the operation, including giving Sony considerable leverage on all Nintendo software, which wasn't particularly nice of them. Anyway, you can read about it here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play_station

Under the "history" section. The most relevant text: "The 9am CES announcement was a complete shock. Not only was it a complete surprise to the show goers (Sony had only just the previous night been optimistically showing off the joint project under the "Play Station" brand), but it was seen by many in the Japanese business community as a massive betrayal: a Japanese company snubbing another Japan-based company in favor of a European one was considered absolutely unthinkable in Japanese business." Clearly, the fallout between Nintendo and Sony was partially, if not largely, Nintendo's fault. 

This thread has degenerated into "Who's copying who?" Not specific to functionality, that is why I threw out this example.

If you believe that extension is nothing different, then... you should also believe that the joystick is no different than an analog stick or a Directional pad. As they are all for the purpose of controlling the direction. Ohh... and Sega Dreamcast controllers has some nice hand grips, which they look nuttin like PS1. Somehow Nintendo's N64 has so much similarity.

Btw, the 6-buttons can never be evolved from 4 button PS controllers, coz Sega was the first to have 6 frontal buttons on their controller for their Genesis.

 Ah, thanks, thats a better example. Although I didn't actually believe 6 buttons was a real evolution anyway -- my point was that it isn't :p

Again, this is getting pretty nitty-gritty, but there's a big leap from a Joy stick to a D-pad, while there really isn't one from the "hand pad" to the "hand grip" for several reaons, not the least of which being that they function in the same manner (while D-pads and Joysticks do not). Obviously, you could claim that any change was an innovation: Sony, for example, invented the "circle" button, as well as the "square" button. Those were invented by them, no doubt, but they don't show any real degree of any innovation over, say, an "A" button or a "B" button. So too, the hand grip really wasn't a serious step forward from a hand pad. I'll give credit to whomever originally started designing controllers with ergonomics in mind (again, I believe it was Sega), but not for someone who thought: "hey, let's make this even MORE ergonomic!"

If having the prongs vs slightly rounded controller edges is splitting hairs then so is putting buttons on the shoulders vs buttons on the front. Also to my knowledge it was well less than 6+ years before sony added analogue and rumble. As a side note I would like to say I loved my n64, but the rumble pack was next to useless and added an annoying amount of weight to the front of the controller. Sony solved that issue by sticking it in the prongs. The dreamcast controller was a thing of beauty. I really think the vmu concept wasn't pushed far enough. Maybe someday nintendo could innovate something just like it :) You could use your mii's on the go to play mini games and what not. Though I suppose that would invade upon the territory of the ds.