22nd September 2005, 12:24 PM
Quote: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.
You keep repeating this, but I just don't agree. A D-Pad isn't just "a flat thing that digitally controls a character in one of some number of directions", it's a crosspad. Invented by Nintendo. I've never heard anyone say before that the Intellivision pad is a d-pad, and I don't know if I ever will other than you, because it's not. It's a predecessor to the d-pad yes, but it is not a d-pad. D-pads aren't flat discs. Simple as that.
Quote: 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.
If I, for the sake of argument, were to agree to this, you'd agree to the equally true, by that logic, point that the Intellivisionalso did nothing that in any form can be considered an innovation, correct? After all, they merely changed the form of the Atari stick (which took the idea from arcade sticks), nothing more... :)
Quote: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.
You had a Playstation in preschool? :)