Cool controller, never seen that before. A gamepad with an analogue stick 7 years before the N64.

Saturn 3D pad predates N64 controller by a year. Let's not forget Saturn used hall effect as well as Dreamcast.

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. 

I think you missed the point and missed it by a large margin.  

You said would not exist which means invent. They did not. Choose your words better next time then. Plus you were flat wrong about Atari. 

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. 

With all due respect, what you said doesn't make sense...

I can only speak about my reality, the reality I know, the reality that operates with facts:

Fact: Nintendo pioneered a single digital thumbstick design, similar to a "tracker ball," for the N64. The design was flawed and was abandoned; it was never used again in the industry.

Fact: Sony implemented a design with two thumbsticks with potentiometers. The design was a success, subsequently replicated throughout the industry for about 30 years and still counting. Even copied by Nintendo.

Fact: Nintendo created an accessory called the Rumble Pack, a type of "vibrating cartridge." This design is not used in modern consoles.

Facts: PlayStation was the first to implement internal motors in its controllers. These motors became a reference and a standard for the industry. Said desing, again, copied by Nintendo.

Is there any untruthfulness in these facts?

Based on the facts, who influenced the industry more?

A) Sony, which developed designs that became the standard for about 30 years and still counting?

B) Nintendo, whose designs were entirely discarded, and which adopted the designs created by Sony?

Still missing the point.  It was a joke post mocking the idea that something wouldn't exist if the original wasnt invented.  I thought the "because reasons" made that obvious but apparently not.  Lol.

If anything you are accidentally proving my point to Sound.  Nintendo didnt invent all those things.  Did you even read the last couple of pages?

If anyone is curious these are Sony PS1 prototype controllers. The SNES influence is more obvious than ever https://www.reddit.com/r/retrogaming/comments/1mziseq/sony_playstation_1_controller_prototypes/

Dude. Seriously fuck off with every post you make to anyone being some kind of argument where none exists. I stated a fact and you twisted it. Stop doing that with everyone on this fucking forum and fucking fuck the fuck off.  Do not quote me ever again if this is your approach. You may bait Perma into 65 pages of War and Peace sized posts. I'm not. This is all you get.