Sony did not get an award for Sixaxis! But both Nintendo and Sony got awards for their older controllers. Sony did get another award for the Xross Media Bar on PSP and PS3. Hope this clears this up!

http://www.emmyonline.org/emmy/advmedia_winners_release.html

It’s a mix of people who vote on these things. Some are are techs and some are just regular industry people who don’t have time to even look at the different systems, they just read something and vote. That’s it! So I wouldn’t make a big deal out of this. Gamers vote with their dollars and the vote right now is for the Nintendo Wii!

Nintendo
Sony Computer Entertainment America

Here’s another link: http://www.emmyonline.org/emmy/advmedia_winners_release.html

Nintendo won one too but I’m not sure if its for the Wii Remote or for the D-Pad, though both are revolutionary.

So you say that you are going to avoid that behavior in the future and be more positive … and that is all good. We shall see how long that last though. It does sound like you thought about this for a bit so I do congratulate you on that and I agree with what you said about all of us just being more respectful of our varying opinions and using more facts to back up what we say when we can. And there is no way insults will ever work at making someone see your POV so kudos on coming to that realization as well.

I agree with you totally its about choice. PS3 provides Blu Ray player and high def graphics in a package. If that is what u want from gaming then it is the right choice.

Wii offers innovative control methods and a heap of neat functions. Its games include quirky things to appeal to non-gamers and is the right choice for people who value fun over power.

I think in very broad terms the breakdown is roughly as follows

Technology fans / gadget fanatics – PS3
Hardcore gamers / ex-PC gamers – Xbox 360
Non-gamers / mainstream – Wii

Obviously people will buy both and so on but as a business model each has enough differences to attract a different audience. e.g. the non-gamer types probably dont know what High Def is and think Blu Ray is a type of fish so PS3 would be pointless for them.

D-pad – The little cross controller we all used to play games on. In 1980 Nintendo developed that for their Game and Watch LCD handheld games as it was much more compact than joysticks found on arcade machines.

Light gun – The NES saw the first home console gun which gave birth to all the shooting games today

Xbox Live (hub) – In Japan the Famicom/NES (think 1980s) had a modem which allowed owners to receive messages from Nintendo

Voice-recognition – The Japanese NES (Famicom) had a built in microphone in the controller and featured the very first voice-recognition system in gaming

First changeable game cartridges for a handheld – Game Boy (1989)

Shoulder buttons – SNES 1993 think how cluttered your six-axis would be without them

Playstation – Well ok a little harsh but in Japan Nintendo began working on an add-on CD based game system for its SNES games console in the mid nineties. Nintendo approached Sony to make the CD drive for this system. The two companies worked together on it for a year then there was a falling out and Nintendo dumped Sony for Panasonic. Sony took the prototype it had been working on with the big Nintendo and adapted it to work as a stand-alone console……….. Enter the Playstation aka Super Nintendo CD. (just look at the PS joypad for proof its a SNES controller with wings)

This was without a doubt Nintendo’s biggest mistake as if they had stuck with Sony it might have never entered the games market alone.

Online gaming – Everyone thinks Nintendo didn’t do this til DS, theyre wrong. In Japan Nintendo created an add-on for the SNES called Satellaview in 1995. This add-on allowed new levels for existing games and new titles to be downloaded for the Super Nintendo.

Nintendo took online gaming a step further with the N64 by bringing out a service called RandnetDD for the 64DD which was a subscription based service which allowed players to play games online, send email and download new content (Current Xbox Live anyone?) This only launched in Japan again.

Analogue controller (1997)- N64 featured the first analogue stick. PS still used the D-pad at the time and it was much later that Sony conceived (read stole) the idea and realised the dual-shock pad for the Playstation.

Force feedback (1997) – N64 also featured the first rumble technology. Sony tried to rip this off too but stole from the wrong company and got sued (see the court case which cost them millions last year)

Wireless gamepad (2001) – Before Xbox 360 etc Nintendo designed and released the Wavebird for the N64 the first fully wireless gamepad

First handheld featuring touch-screen, voice recognition and wireless gameplay – Nintendo DS

Love or hate Nintendo you can not dispute that gaming would be very different today without them. I’m sure other people would have developed things but we may very well have no portable gaming, no online gaming, no simple control methods and no Playstation.

Sony on the other hand has never really innovated on anything. Don’t take this as an attack and get all fan-boyish they do very well but their strategy is to borrow and implement the best technology available rather than develop anything new in gaming. Its worked well for them, but they can never claim to be innovative.

So finally lets look at Sixaxisas this is what the topics about – Features analogue sticks (Nintendo), D-pad (Nintendo), Shoulder buttons (Nintendo), USB charging point (Xbox360), Motion sensitive play (Microsoft PC / Wii depending who you want to credit), Design (SNES / Classic Playstation)

Nintendo licensed a mat with 8 control buttons for the NES as well, an item we could compare to the Dance Dance Revolution mat.

Many items that came with Nintendo back in the day, even ones that not everyone knows about, we can probably thank them for having better versions of today.