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Sony copied Nintendo with the memory cards! The memory cards were built into the carts of Nintygames. sony have copied Nintendo with the Rumble Paks. Sony have opied Nintendo with the Analogue pads and have used the SNES design for the controllers.
Now I know wireless controllers were on older consoles but the PS2 have copied Nintendo with the idea of using wireless controllers!
I saw it in the latest SR magazine! An advert for Infra Red controllers! At least Nintendo have the common sense to use Radio so that the signal doensn't stop when something gets in the way!
But Sony didn't use these controllers before Nintendo's Wavebird announcement did they? It was only after Spaceworld that Sony started using wireless!
Now I know wireless controllers were on older consoles but the PS2 have copied Nintendo with the idea of using wireless controllers!
I saw it in the latest SR magazine! An advert for Infra Red controllers! At least Nintendo have the common sense to use Radio so that the signal doensn't stop when something gets in the way!
But Sony didn't use these controllers before Nintendo's Wavebird announcement did they? It was only after Spaceworld that Sony started using wireless!
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Lightguns were on the NES and SNES.
The playstation is the sequel to the SNES!
The playstation is the sequel to the SNES!
Even if they are copying, it's called "using the technology available to them!!"
wookiee_monster wrote:
> I though SNES controllers were actually flat, though I won't swear
> to that.
I'm pretty sure that they were 3D...
And I remember the NeoGeo console having memory cards, so that you could play a game in the arcade, and continue it at home. (Though why you'd play a game in an arcade, that you'd already bought, I don't know.)
> I though SNES controllers were actually flat, though I won't swear
> to that.
I'm pretty sure that they were 3D...
And I remember the NeoGeo console having memory cards, so that you could play a game in the arcade, and continue it at home. (Though why you'd play a game in an arcade, that you'd already bought, I don't know.)
edgy, Sony have got the right idea here, Nintendo get the idea out into the public and if it sells well then Sony make it aswell, it's not really called copying as it's on another format and you really shouldn't be concerned about it, if the item flops then Sony don't make it, simple enough method, don't know why Nintendo didn't 'copy' Sony with their light gun! so upset about that and hope that they have rifles and super duper high tech alien pulse cannons with feather dusters for some games on the GCube!
Copying is healthy for competition if everything was different then there wouldn't be competition as they would be different things altogether, which isn't going to happen, someone did say that these things have been out for ages and hes right, but it hadn't been used in a long time and after Nintendo used it, it seemed as if they were copying.
How does that PS2 'remote' work? it has all the buttons of a normal controller, can you play games with it? or is it dedicated to take up the port that never gets used unless you play 2 player!? 2 player, Sony is still in the dark ages! I still think that it can be improved on, I hope that it can be.
Copying is healthy for competition if everything was different then there wouldn't be competition as they would be different things altogether, which isn't going to happen, someone did say that these things have been out for ages and hes right, but it hadn't been used in a long time and after Nintendo used it, it seemed as if they were copying.
How does that PS2 'remote' work? it has all the buttons of a normal controller, can you play games with it? or is it dedicated to take up the port that never gets used unless you play 2 player!? 2 player, Sony is still in the dark ages! I still think that it can be improved on, I hope that it can be.
Well it was called Wipeout, I don't know what it was really.
Believe it or not Wook, but one of the first games released on the Odyssey was Wipeout!
NEWS JUST IN!
Sony announces Screen Overlays, an excellent new invention that enables the CPU to run a lot quicker, as it doen't have to cope with graphics and backgrounds!
When asked if they were just "simply" copying the old systems method of sticking translucent plastic over the screen, Sony replied: "Perhaps, but all technology has to start somewhere!"
There is a point in this post, admist the "humour".
Sony announces Screen Overlays, an excellent new invention that enables the CPU to run a lot quicker, as it doen't have to cope with graphics and backgrounds!
When asked if they were just "simply" copying the old systems method of sticking translucent plastic over the screen, Sony replied: "Perhaps, but all technology has to start somewhere!"
There is a point in this post, admist the "humour".
> sony arn't the first to have two analogue sticks on their pads i
> had a third party mega drive with two analogue sticks and a pc pad
> with two.
Not the first, maybe - but what about current consoles?
The thing that makes me laugh most about the original post is that, if you really want to be picky about it, then EVERYONE copied the Magnavox Odyssey!
Yes, it had game 'cartridges', analogue rotary controllers, AND - believe it or not - a light gun! And it was launched in ... 1972.
Check out this amazing site...
http://www.geocities.com/~compcloset/index.html
And make sure you check out the Viewmaster Interactive Vision - this system actually worked on VIDEO TAPE! I kid you not!
> had a third party mega drive with two analogue sticks and a pc pad
> with two.
Not the first, maybe - but what about current consoles?
The thing that makes me laugh most about the original post is that, if you really want to be picky about it, then EVERYONE copied the Magnavox Odyssey!
Yes, it had game 'cartridges', analogue rotary controllers, AND - believe it or not - a light gun! And it was launched in ... 1972.
Check out this amazing site...
http://www.geocities.com/~compcloset/index.html
And make sure you check out the Viewmaster Interactive Vision - this system actually worked on VIDEO TAPE! I kid you not!
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