Sony copies Nintendo, then claims Nintendo copied PS3

Yep, the M$ Freestyle was the first.


Sony based their touchpad DS screens off Touchpad PDAs...they based their 3D controllers off 3D Gyroscopic mice, tho clearly taking it to the next level:


Here's how I see this breaking down:

Nintendos Controller is the truly innovative one of the bunch. At the same time, it also looks to be the most awkward. Look at the GameCube controller, look at the N64 controller....this isn't exactly a surprise. Its going to have an awful lot of neet features, but because of its uniqueness, there will be times when you'll long for a good old "joypad" with dual sticks on it. How long before someone sues Nintendo when two people are playing and one of them catches a Wiimote in the eyesocket?


Sonys controller is a surprise, but not when you remember...oh yeah..they lost that lawsuit and can't use a "rumble" feature anymore. I'm personally going to miss the rumble feature in a big way. We've come to expect it to be there...it'll be weird when its not.

However the 6 degrees of freedom can make a big impact. If its precise enough, and if its done properly, I can easily see using the joypad for aiming and looking in a FPS...using the analog stick for movement. There's much more precision in your wrists than in your thumb.

The problem will be refresh...like a mouse..how quick will it react......for driving games and flying games I can see it being a REAL boon.


Microsoft.....good old classic controller. NOthing surprising or innovative here, but a good solid joypad is still something to be proud of.


I was actually hoping for more buttons on upcoming controllers....

I think the issue isn't whether the technology has been around or not, but whether you decided to use a similar technology to a competitor shortly after they decided to.


The whole copying thing generally applies only to a genre and then only to that or recent generations of it.


Tilt sensors have been around for long before any video game system. We didn't say the first controller to have tilt sensing copied something else that had tilt sensing, it is a whole different technology. Just like if someone came out with a car that had a tilt sensing steering wheel I wouldn't say they copied Nintendo or Sony.


But if a car comes out with a camera that tracks your head, and then another car manufacturer suddenly jumps to add a shoddy camera to their new model of car then... well yeah I would say it was a copy cat move.


Did any company recently invent motion sensing? No.


But Nintendo was clearly the first to make a solid commitment to it in the home console market (since the history of home consoles I do not recall any system featuring tilt sensors) and it's not even so much that Sony is implimenting it in the same generation but rather that it was clearly a last minute jump to include it. Many details have been pointed out that make a solid circumstancial case against Sony planning to use motion sensing technology in the PS3 until very recently.


If PS3 had gone to full analogue triggers like on the Xbox wouldn't we say they are copying Xbox, when indeed Dreamcast did it first in the home console market and who knows who did it first in the compute market? If the 360 suddenly came out with boomerang shaped controllers wouldn't we say they copied Sonys idea despite the boomerang has been around since before Batman?


The term copying here is being used with implied restrictions: This tech, this or recent generations. The farther you go outside of this tech or this generation the less weight the "copy" term carries.