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| Gamefreak:
Think about it. Nintendo (and our deceased friend Gunpei Yokoi had a lot to do with this) invented....The D-pad (Game & Watch), now standard in everything; the analog stick (N64), now standard in everything; Shoulder buttons (SNES), now standard in everything; and I believe rumble/force feedback (N64), since all the research I've done indicates that PC force feedback came after the N64 rumble pack, anyway now standard in everything. So what do you think controllers would look like if Nintendo never existed, assuming the industry would even be alive and kicking? |
| OldMan Nintendo:
Let's say that Atari didn't sell out to Time Warner Communications and that, because of that business decision, Atari managed to keep the gaming industry going and, therefore, preventing Nintendo from expanding into America where it became a mind-blowing success. Maybe Nintendo wouldn't have grown to its mammoth size if Atari didn't fold... (I love "What If" scenarios, don't you??) Assuming that the industry would be alive and kicking, controller evolution would have probably been very slow... I'd say that we'd be a good seven to ten years behind where we are right now with current controllers. |
| Ymeegod:
Actually, the atari 7800 series had directional pads + the mini-thumb analog (though it was screwed into the already existing directional pad). That was out a year ahead of the NES but just didn't have marketing capital. If you look at the controllers of the 7800 and Famicom they are very similar expect the famicom a and b buttons were closer together--the 7800's I think had nearly an inch gap between the two making it quite impossible to button mash :0. It's really hard to say who did what and "what if". |
| Gamefreak:
Sigh...Nintendo invented the D-pad, Atari 7800 copied... It's not hard to say, since Nintendo invented the d-pad years before the NES. It's called the Game & Watch, like I already said. And the 7800 didn't have analog, it was just digital with a stick I'm pretty sure. You can't screw in a stick onto the D-pad and call it analog. |
| ThePerm:
yeah..nintendo hada patent on it till 1999...the same year dreamcast came out. |
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