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Xbox falsely claims it "pioneered" the dual analogue controller. - Push Square

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Bryank75

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It’s a big month for Xbox as it celebrates its 25th anniversary, with lots of entertaining initiatives underway – including a pretty cool website where it tracks your entire history with the brand.

But in a big – and otherwise interesting – celebratory blog post, boss Asha Sharma appears to have mixed up some of the facts.

Writing about the original Xbox, which launched 15th November 2001, she claims the console “pioneered dual analogue controllers”.
 
Bryank75 said:


It’s a big month for Xbox as it celebrates its 25th anniversary, with lots of entertaining initiatives underway – including a pretty cool website where it tracks your entire history with the brand.

But in a big – and otherwise interesting – celebratory blog post, boss Asha Sharma appears to have mixed up some of the facts.

Writing about the original Xbox, which launched 15th November 2001, she claims the console “pioneered dual analogue controllers”.
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25 fucking years of that cancer of a brand in the VG industry gross. :sick:

And I'm not shock about the headline I bet all there xbots believe its true.

EDIT - Just saw a post of a xbot posting about it being true. Case and point.
 
Still the best!
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Muddasar said:
Did you even read the thread title before posting your usual Nintendo drivel?
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Its hard for him to read giving how far down his throat he has Mario's dick. 😅

Alabtrosmyster said:
Wrong answer.

It doesn't even have the second stick.

Ps4 Ps3 GIF


All Xbox did was to move the position of one of the sticks and then use that to drive their shills nuts like they split the atom or some other B.S.
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Right answer its why this design is still being use today and for many more PS gens to come. (y)
 
Alabtrosmyster said:
Wrong answer.

It doesn't even have the second stick.

Ps4 Ps3 GIF


All Xbox did was to move the position of one of the sticks and then use that to drive their shills nuts like they split the atom or some other B.S.
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Playstation started with literally an SNES controller with double the shoulder buttons. Then they doubled the N64's analogue sticks. Then they did nothing. Well, lol, shitty touch pad.
 
Zzero said:
Playstation started with literally an SNES controller with double the shoulder buttons. Then they doubled the N64's analogue sticks. Then they did nothing. Well, lol, shitty touch pad.
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PS1 gamepad shits on n64. If we would have waited on technological advancement from nintendo we d still use n64 gamepad. Or maybe wii nunchuk.
 
Zzero said:
Playstation started with literally an SNES controller with double the shoulder buttons. Then they doubled the N64's analogue sticks. Then they did nothing. Well, lol, shitty touch pad.
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You’re a moron, a literal moron. PS1 controller takes a massive dump on the N64. Even Phil Spencer said the N64 controller was shit. 😂


“Spencer noted in Crackle's Playing With Power documentary (via VGC) that the Nintendo 64 controller didn't make any sense to him when the console was released and still doesn't. The controller had a rather odd design with essentially three grips with an analog stick in the center. The D-Pad was on the left side and the buttons used for other actions in games were on the right, making it a pretty bizarre thing to hold and use effectively. “I still don’t understand the controller, just being honest,” the Xbox executive admits. “I guess it’s multiple controllers in one, but you needed three hands to play that!”
 
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Ethos_PS said:
25 fucking years of that cancer of a brand in the VG industry gross. :sick:
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I know this is a pro Sony site, but don't rewrite history. Microsoft were a positive force in the industry and were competent competition to Sony; something that benefits us all.

Microsoft Game Studios released and helped release, dozens of quality games, tard-wrangling developers and keeping the game world honest, while shielding the industry from Microsoft proper.

It wasn't until the gamers who were in charge left or moved on (somewhere around 2008) that it became the cancer that it is today.

Unfortunately, Sony have copied some of Microsoft's worst traits because Microsoft no longer offer competent competition.
 
Petekilla said:
You’re a moron, a literal moron. PS1 controller takes a massive dump on the N64. Even Phil Spencer said the N64 controller was shit. 😂


“Spencer noted in Crackle's Playing With Power documentary (via VGC) that the Nintendo 64 controller didn't make any sense to him when the console was released and still doesn't. The controller had a rather odd design with essentially three grips with an analog stick in the center. The D-Pad was on the left side and the buttons used for other actions in games were on the right, making it a pretty bizarre thing to hold and use effectively. “I still don’t understand the controller, just being honest,” the Xbox executive admits. “I guess it’s multiple controllers in one, but you needed three hands to play that!”
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N64 base controller was far better than the original PS1 controller. Yeah, the wacky layout sucked, but it had an analog stick and the PS1 didn't. Go back and play games that pre-date the PS1 dual shock, like the original Tomb Raider, and try to justify using a D-pad in 3D space. You can't it was absolute shit.
 
I don’t remember the original dual shock having the second analog stick actually be useful, or the primary stick either. I don’t remember right stick was accepted for free roam camera until Mario sunshine… and that’s something everyone shit on sunshine about. Weird time… things that people hated at first became UI foundations. Including timepsplitters twin stick setup…

Always thought it was weird how they implemented it after n64 pioneered it and didn’t really have any games that utilized it. Nearly all psx games were perfectly playable and designed around d-pad inputs. Maybe GT? I didn’t start playing GT until PS2 gen.

Of course sega fans will say knights did it first … knights can suck my balls… game sucks and Mario 64 is still peak 3d gaming

Claiming who pioneered what is whatever… the arcades did it first.

Then Sony went too heavy with sensitivity inputs. I absolutely HATED when face buttons were pressure sensitive.
 
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