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mr.funky 8 years 5 months ago Posts: 1620	When the PS3 was announced, the new controller was the Boomerang! But in a recent E3 interview, Sony decided to go with there normal DualShock design E3 Press Release: SCE Announces New Controller and Features for the PS3

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adventure_of_link
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I personally liked the boomerang one better.
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flamepanther 8 years 5 months ago Posts: 948	I've always hated the split D-pad, so I still don't like either version. Everyone should come up with their own controller designs and quit using Nintendo's

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adventure_of_link 8 years 5 months ago Posts: 9769	Yes, let's just take last gen's controller, rewire it, pack it in the same packaging, and add a name with the same number as the system itself. Creative.

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santuel
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Didn't they copy Nintendo's motion sensor thing too?
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flamepanther 8 years 5 months ago Posts: 948	santuel wrote: Didn't they copy Nintendo's motion sensor thing too? No, they copied part of Nintendo's motion sensing thing, and did a crappy job of it too. The Dual Shock 3 only has the tilt sensor, and only detects six degrees of tilt. The Wii remote has a better tilt sensor and a 3-D positional sensor, as well as an additional tilt sensor in the "nunchuck" add-on.

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santuel
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Hehe, all of those Wii additions are gonna cause black eyes everywhere
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mr.funky
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OK how bout this...we let nintendo design everyone's controller!!!
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flamepanther
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mr.funky wrote:
OK how bout this...we let nintendo design everyone's controller!!!
They already did.
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System 8 years 5 months ago Posts: 74809	The PS3's controller is perfect to me.... addign trigger control to the L2 and R2 buttons just makes it ideal. Plus the damping and (I don't know much nerdy facts) bit count to the analog sticks is a bonus. The only think I liked about the XBOX controller was the "feel" of the sticks.

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Luigi719 8 years 5 months ago Posts: 778	The PS3 coppied the the 360 cuase now their is a button in the middle of the controller just like the 360 dose, but they have not metion what it dose yet so well see. __________________ "Or mabye its a key all the time and when you stick it in people it unlocks their death"-Caboose:Red vs. Ble
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Evil Dr. Spears 8 years 5 months ago Posts: 118	I'm an XBox lover but I have always envied the PS controllers. Except for the shoulder buttons. I've loved the triggers since the N64.
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Evil Dr. Spears 8 years 5 months ago Posts: 118	flamepanther wrote: I've always hated the split D-pad, so I still don't like either version. Everyone should come up with their own controller designs and quit using Nintendo's No offense but even if Nintendo didn't come up with this modern design someone else would would have. It's juat natural.
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flamepanther 8 years 5 months ago Posts: 948	Evil Dr. Spears wrote: No offense but even if Nintendo didn't come up with this modern design someone else would would have. It's juat natural. There is absolutely no way to substantiate that, and every possibility that we would still be using Joysticks. Even after the NES was out, Atari didn't catch on quickly with their 7800, opting for a hybrid of a stick with the design of the Intellivision and ColecoVision style base and buttons. The Master System pad was a direct copy of Nintendo's, so we know where they got that. Sony copied the SNES pad almost directly, and they wouldn't even be in the gaming business without Nintendo, so they're out of the question. Microsoft got their pad design from Sega's Dreamcast, and we already established where Sega got the idea. Nobody has had an original idea on controllers in the last 20 years, and none have shown much incliniation toward major innovation of their own. Why would that suddenly change without Nintendo around? An innovation only seems "natural" once you've gotten used to having it around.

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Evil Dr. Spears 8 years 5 months ago Posts: 118	I disagree. As games became more and more complicated the use for more buttons would have been necessary. This would be true even if Nintendo never existed. Because of this advance more complicated contollers were made and they were made to be as comfortable as possible. Obviously nintendo did pioneer many common controller features (i.e. dual analogs, trigger buttons, etc.) but IMO these features would have come about naturally anyway. To me it seems that reinventing the controller would be like reinventing the wheel. Of course this is a big "what if" situation so it can't really be argued.
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flamepanther 8 years 5 months ago Posts: 948	Evil Dr. Spears wrote: I disagree. As games became more and more complicated the use for more buttons would have been necessary. This would be true even if Nintendo never existed. Because of this advance more complicated contollers were made and they were made to be as comfortable as possible. The game pad as we know it was not invented to allow for more buttons. Controllers with more than one button already existed. Bore buttons also does not necessitate a D-pad or the basic grip style we've become accustomed to. See some of Coleco's advanced controllers and the numerous flight sticks and other PC gaming accessories for this. Actually, when Nintendo moved their + pad design over from the Game & Watch to the Famicom and NES, the rest of the console industry was pretty much dead. What was left of video gaming was moving onto entertainment PCs like the Atari computers, Apple II, Sinclair Spectrum, and Commodore 64. It's entirely possible and rather likely that rather than invent a new controlelr style, the console industry would simply have died off.

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Evil Dr. Spears 8 years 5 months ago Posts: 118	I wasn't implying that more buttons required a better controller but it's obvious that more complicated games do. I'm not denying that Nintendo pretty much saved the industry or that they pioneered alot of technology. All I'm saying is that I believe that these technologies would have come along eventually regardless of Nintendo. And as I stated before this is a "what if" situation so will never know for sure what would have happened. It's not really worth debating. I'm not bashing Nintendo at all. Nintendo rocks! I'm just trying to state my thoughts on the matter. Now let's go back on topic, shall we.
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flamepanther 8 years 5 months ago Posts: 948	Evil Dr. Spears wrote: I'm not denying that Nintendo pretty much saved the industry or that they pioneered alot of technology. All I'm saying is that I believe that these technologies would have come along eventually regardless of Nintendo. Hard for that to happen if the industry is dead, don't you suppose? wrote: And as I stated before this is a "what if" situation so will never know for sure what would have happened. It's not really worth debating. ...says the guy who started the debate wrote: I'm not bashing Nintendo at all. Nintendo rocks! I'm just trying to state my thoughts on the matter. Good for you. I'm just stating mine. wrote: Now let's go back on topic, shall we. Sure, after one more thing: wrote: I wasn't implying that more buttons required a better controller but it's obvious that more complicated games do. Just sayin' there are plenty of other ways to tackle comfortable advanced controls.

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Evil Dr. Spears 8 years 5 months ago Posts: 118	I wasn't trying to be hostile or imply that you started the argument just that it has been dragged on too long. Sorry if it sounded like I was attacking you. If I can make one last point though (yes, I'm a hypocrite) I want to say that taking a formula that works (NES controller) and expanding on it is not, in my opinion, ripping that formula off. I don't see the sony controllers as a ripoff of Nintendo's controllers just as I don't see a skirt as ripoff of a dress or a hamburger as a ripoff of a ham sandwhich. I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. Truce?
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flamepanther 8 years 5 months ago Posts: 948	Evil Dr. Spears wrote: I wasn't trying to be hostile or imply that you started the argument just that it has been dragged on too long. Sorry if it sounded like I was attacking you. If I can make one last point though (yes, I'm a hypocrite) I want to say that taking a formula that works (NES controller) and expanding on it is not, in my opinion, ripping that formula off. I don't see the sony controllers as a ripoff of Nintendo's controllers just as I don't see a skirt as ripoff of a dress or a hamburger as a ripoff of a ham sandwhich. I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. Truce? Dude, there was a winking smiley in there for a reason

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adventure_of_link 8 years 5 months ago Posts: 9769	I personally liked the boomerang one better.

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santuel 8 years 5 months ago Posts: 483	Didn't they copy Nintendo's motion sensor thing too?

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santuel 8 years 5 months ago Posts: 483	Hehe, all of those Wii additions are gonna cause black eyes everywhere

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mr.funky 8 years 5 months ago Posts: 1620	OK how bout this...we let nintendo design everyone's controller!!!

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flamepanther 8 years 5 months ago Posts: 948	mr.funky wrote: OK how bout this...we let nintendo design everyone's controller!!! They already did.

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