Nintendo is beating the farm on innovation
I know this is off-topic for my blog, but I'd like to point everyone towards an established company that is innovating like nobody's business.
If my memory servers they were the first to:
Now I'm hoping the market place as well as 3rd party game makers embrace it.
Links:
If my memory servers they were the first to:
- Put "shoulder" buttons on their controllers
- Have an analog stick that was controller by your thumb, instead of your hand
- Provide rumbling capability in their controller
- Have a "trigger" button on their controller
Now I'm hoping the market place as well as 3rd party game makers embrace it.
Links:
posted by Michael Sica at
9:41 AM
7 Comments:
Uh, don't forget:
- Provide a touch-pad on a console,
- Provide two screens on a console, and
- Provide a microphone on a console,
all standard.
Mind, the dual screen/microphone innovation still has yet to truly prove itself, but the touchpad thing was innovation genius.
I totally forgot about their portables.
They'll still get wiped out by the PlayStation 3. I have a GameCube (that I never use any more) and am hankering after a PSP, but I must resist because playing video games is such a monumental waste of time.
Counter point on the videogames being a waste of time. ;)
Since I spend so much time working on Ataraxis Software/Unity my wife and I schedule at least 1 night during the week for game/date night. We find cooperative 2 player games, and that's how we spend time together.
It's quality time man! :)
I distinctly remember drooling over an Atari 2600 joystick that put the fire button in the trigger position of the stick, as well as an odd pear-shaped one with a shoulder fire button.
But the rest of your comments stand.
...and a few short Google searches later, I found them all.
A few more neurons have fired--I actually owned the TAC50 (trigger-mounted fire button), but I really coveted the odd-looking one with the shoulder-mounted button (the black and red EPYX model).
Hi Tim,
I forgot about those old-school (I'm going to call them) jet-fighter controllers. That's a trip down memory lane!
Now here is the classic one I remember using the most: http://www.4jays.com/J4.JPG
Now, in my defense of Nintendo. I think they were the first one to put the trigger on the controller in the way they did. :)
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