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#1 NintendoReport

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Posted 21 December 2014 - 05:24 PM

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"Nintendo has released a lot of home consoles since the beginning in 1985 with the NES. A new animated GIF from Gadget Love shows the evolution of the controllers throughout the years, starting with the simple two-button NES controller in 1985, all the way to the Wii U GamePad in 2012.

It’s always interesting to see just how technology progresses and how complex game controllers have gotten. What the images don’t show are the various internal features: the motion controllers, accelerometers, gyroscopes, and vibration motors.

There are animated GIFs of the evolution of the PlayStation and Xbox controllers as well, which you can find below. Pay attention to the evolution of the Nintendo controllers and those of the competition"


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Posted 21 December 2014 - 05:31 PM

 
I loled so hard at the fanboyism in that article. xD
"it’s pretty clear which company is the most innovative when it comes to controller designs." My sides.
 
Cool gifs though.

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Posted 21 December 2014 - 05:35 PM

 

 
I loled so hard at the fanboyism in that article. xD
"it’s pretty clear which company is the most innovative when it comes to controller designs." My sides.
 
Cool gifs though.

 

 

Yeah, Wii U Daily lol.


I am adding the other gifs to the OP.


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Posted 21 December 2014 - 07:32 PM

I didn't know there were more than 3 for xbox and more than 4 for playstation O.o


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Posted 21 December 2014 - 09:44 PM

I remember little kids not being able to hold the first Xbox controller lol.

And yes nintendo has had a lot of changes but they all work out pretty good.

The Playstation has stay pretty much the same and there is nothing wrong with that. They didn't have a need for to much change and to tell the truth the ds4 is a great controller.
The best controller for Big N imo is the gamepad. Or the nes for its simpleness.
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Posted 21 December 2014 - 11:08 PM

The problem with the NES controller, as much as I love it, is the low amount of buttons.

I still love the 64 controller, and the 360 controller was probably the best for PC gaming. Can't stand the PS controllers past the first one though.


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Posted 21 December 2014 - 11:32 PM

Maybe I'm missing something, but i don't see how saying that Nintendo's controllers are more innovative is fanboyism. I mean there's clearly a lot more change from controller to controller and overall. That's a fact :/

Also, funnily enough, the Playstation gif is the only one where I've used all the controllers. Though i guess that makes sense when there are only 4 compared to however many nintendo has..


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Posted 21 December 2014 - 11:53 PM

Looking at all those Nintendo designs was pretty neat, my favorite is still the 64 controllers, because childhood.

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Posted 21 December 2014 - 11:57 PM

Nintendo gave us the D pad and shoulder buttons. That's revolutionary. Analog stick was around before but Nintendo first used it well at the right time and so Sony copied and evolved the idea. Yoshi PS1 originally didn't have analog until Nintendo brought out N64 and SEGA copied as well with the NiGHTS 3D controller that shipped with NiGHTS. GCN controller may have done the least to move controller design forward. The satilite buttons was cool idea never took off. Wii remote well that got wii to sell 100 million systems and MS followed up with Kinect and Sony with Move.

 

Gamepad is a fantastic idea that works well and Sony has copied. Nintendo just in fact the most innovative in controllers. MS has done nothing as Xbox controllers were based on Dreamcast controllers (no I mean that literally from when they were devloping OX) and DC controllers were a sleeker Saturn 3D controller. SEGA I love them and they made some great controllers and they in many ways innovated gaming but for controllers they were like Sony. Copy and paste.



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Posted 22 December 2014 - 02:03 AM

You don't need gifs to show the fact MS and Sony have been pretty lazy with their controller re-designs. At least one company out there is trying new things each gen.



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Posted 22 December 2014 - 07:07 AM

i like all of the Nintendo controllers  


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Posted 22 December 2014 - 09:26 AM

You don't need gifs to show the fact MS and Sony have been pretty lazy with their controller re-designs. At least one company out there is trying new things each gen.

 

Well Sony was going to use that "boomerang" design for PS3 but everyone hated it or something I don't know the details.


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Posted 22 December 2014 - 09:45 AM

Yeah Sony almost had a different controller for PS1 and PS3. PS1 looks like an upside down SNES pad.

Boomerang looked awkward to hold.

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Posted 22 December 2014 - 10:25 PM

Yeah Sony almost had a different controller for PS1 and PS3. PS1 looks like an upside down SNES pad.

Boomerang looked awkward to hold.

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What the heck? What sort of freakish mutated hands did their testers have?


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