Guys, all you are doing is pointing out
"peripherals" or
"prototypes" controllers and patents that look good on paper but never saw the light of the day.
I'm sorry but I find most of these arguments totally useless and OOT.
Nobody can deny that touch screen technology was already available before the DS came out, or motion controllers before the Wii, or even dual shock setups ( like my Microsoft Sidewinder PC controller had it years ago prior to the PS2 or at the very least at the same time of the PSX ).
Sure you can have a 3rd party awesome controller, heck, I had a light pen and a Kempston mouse for my ZX Spectrum back in the 80s that were awesome peripherals but mostly used only by a handful of titles that came out with it !
Never saw too much support, and you know why ? Because they were peripherals, additional, optional controllers that the user had to purchase
separately if wanted.
Naturally, every peace of software supported the ZX Spectrum keyboard,
none to my knowledge required a joystick to work, and you know why ? Because the computer came with the frigging Keyboard !
My point is, Nintendo has balls and guts to release new systems and
forces us ( and developers to develop for ) to use whatever control method they think is the best at the time, by releasing as standard controller out of the box.
Remember when the Wii came out had a WII remote and nunchuck included in the box as
main controller and the option to buy a CC for those who wished to have a classic controller, but being the Wii remote what was included in the box, 99% of the titles made use of it, making motion controls the standard for that generation.
When Sony released MOVE, they where doomed to fail not because they clearly ripped off Nintendo trying to ride on the wave of success of motion controls, but because it was just that, a peripheral, optional controller, that developers may choose do support or
not.
And please stop mentioning the frigging PS2 eye toy or PS2 wand whatever was called, truth is, if nintendo didn't make motion controls cool and popular with the Wii, Sony would have never invested millions of dollars to release Move !
In that regard, speaking of innovation, Nintendo leads the market because it's the only company that really puts itself 100% behind an idea and pushes it down our throat whether we like it or not until eventually we get used to it and becomes the new standard.
Like the Wii U controller for instance: Nobody is saying that the technology inside is proprietary and exclusive to Nintendo, but have it as a main controller for an home systems and required to even boot said system, is certainly revolutionary in it's own.
Nintendo knows very well that optional peripherals are bound to see limited success, even in the good old N64 days, they had to come up with some ingenious idea and bundles to sell us the N64 memory expansion which was only supported by a certain number of games and ONLY mandatory for DK64 and Perfect Dark I believe.
The trick is, if you want to sell it and make it the standard, has to be shipped with the system to begin with.
But who has the guts to take such enormous risks and gamble on it for the sake of innovation ?
As long as Sony keeps on releasing systems with a dual shock type of controller as main input method, they can release whatever add on they think it's cool later on , however they'll never innovate shit.
Why can't we stop playing the "Who dun it first" circlejerk and actually care about products? People here are so fucking obsessed with saying "MY COMPANY DID IT FIRST" that the stop giving a shit about quality. We can keep going back to who did what first but the real question we should ask is who did what better.
So you are saying that Sony is better then Nintendo because the technology inside Move is better then a Wii motion plus ?
And how many games do support Move ( vs how many Wii games support Wii remote )and how many people do you know who actually even owns one ?
Really, I never saw that coming from you........
