21st September 2005, 1:30 PM
It's a disc, not a dpad. As I said, form matters as well as function, and they are not the same. Nintendo invented the D-Pad. Intellivision invented the disc. And as I said before, the disc isn't much more innnovative than the dpad was, given how it's just a joystick without the stick...
For the same reason that the N64 and NGC analog sticks are so much better than the PSX one, having some idea of direction (such as the eight-cornered joystick edge versus Sony's circle) is good...
Quote:And why on earth does it need arrows? For retards that can't tell which way is up? :/
For the same reason that the N64 and NGC analog sticks are so much better than the PSX one, having some idea of direction (such as the eight-cornered joystick edge versus Sony's circle) is good...