Tommy Stenberg wrote:

> They defend themselves by saying they won't let others copy their
> ideas, and therefore the controller isn't revealed yet. Looking at
> the history of Nintendo's controller-innovation, they are certainly
> right to be worried about that. Both analogue stick and the rumble
> feature was copied shortly after Nintendo revealed these features. I
> don't know, but I even read they invented the D-Pad, which could be
> right. This time they're making sure they're not copied, and actually
> are the first to implement these new features when the Revolution
> comes out.

Opinion seems divided here, but I thought the general consensus from a few 
months ago was that Nintendo didn't actually invent anything - they just 
took existing controllers from ages ago and brought them into the 
mainstream. Nothing wrong with that, but they didn't actually *invent* 
anything at all.

D.