21st September 2005, 7:22 PM
A Black Falcon Wrote: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...
That is completely irrelevant. The disc IS a D-Pad. It is a device in which pads contact electrodes, which controls the movement of onscreen objects. Since Nintendo's D-Pad is in no way different in fuction whatsoever, it is not an innovation or an invention by the very definition of the word. It is an improvement. If you want to tell me how much more useful Nintendo's D-Pad is, I won't argue. If you try to tell me they invented the technology, I will, because it's simply not true. There is nothing about Nintendo's D-Pad technologically that in any form or fashion deserves to be considered an innovation. It was an aesthetic improvement. Nothing more.
Quote: 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...
I stress again, I mastered it while in preschool. Either that makes me a prodigy, or you're nitpicking just for the sheer sake of it.
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