Nintendo has delighted its fans by finally offering the Wii in the same colour as the dark of night and the raven’s wing, but between it and the “Classic Controller Pro”, certain similarities to Sony’s PS2 are noticeable:
The “kuro” Wii gets its release in August.
Unkind observers might even jibe that the similarities hardly end with the casing, for the Wii has never impressed with its power… Of course, this flattering imitation evidently works both ways.
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Nothings original nowadays. Besides, didn't Sony just release a motion controller of some sort?
yeah something like that. Never mind the fact that the playstation controller was a rip off of the SNES controller, and the Analog sticks were a ripoff of the N64. Minor details of course lol
It's not just a rip-off of the Snes controller, Nintendo actually designed a pad identical to the Playstation one back when Nintendo and Sony were developing a console together. Was a CD add on to the Snes I think!
Yeah Dude this site is in favor of Sony. Its FACT now. Sony beat the Nintendo 3 weeks out of 120 weeks and Sony is Unstoppable Sony is back at the bottom now and no one says anything.? The PS2's Controller is a rip off of the SNES and the N64 controller and yet those Details was left out. At E3 Sony Copy's Nintendo with there motion controller and yet nothing was said. Sony has Failed this generation the haf to copy people and Microsoft has taken there exclusives stop trying to save Sony They suck and its to late for them to catch up! Good Day Sir.
P.S I watch E3 on TV and Sony's conference put me to sleep.
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/05/08/ps3mote-sony-rips-off-wii-with-new-ps3-controller/
Artefact's calling the classic controller a rip off of the Dual Shock
EL OH EL
Let's start calling the PS1 pad a rip off of the SNES pad then.
Er, no. That's a perfectly decent analogy.
This is shit reporting, don't be a cock.
The name is realist. He is one.
Fact: Sony > Microsoft (at least in this generation) > Nintendo
Artefact is a Sony fanboy. It has become so clear to me now.
oh noes angry fanbois!
That was most people thought until they saw your above post.
Copy Cat xD
Videogame company fanboys: The only thing worse than the majority of Sankaku/4chan users.
heh your just jealous..........
PCfags are worse than all console fanboys altogether. They think they're superior than all others. The worst part is they just play FPSes, MMOs and RTSes with their high and almighty VGAs, processors, etc. Good luck playing Disgaea 3 on your PC.
you're all fanboys.. go play PC games, that's for REAL man, not buncha pussies like YOU!
xDDD good joke
Wow...
Companies ripping each other off...
Dont see whats wrong with the gamecube controller.
I smell a ninty fanboy.
though sony is diveloping a motion controller it works completly different than the Wii-mote. so there no chance of lawsuit
I Read alot of you retard sony fans have to say. F- it ill say it Sony is a ripoff nintendo got you to this point, this being said i have a ps3 and nintendo now isnt what its use to be so saying nintendo ripping off sony is plain retard f- you fanboys.
nothings original anymore,360 and ps3 are trying to make there own motion control things and now wii is making a black wii(it looks nice though)oh and for all you fanboys,sony is becoming a pitiful excuse for a company.the games for the ps3 all suck and it will never beat the ps2.oh yea,psp go?they just wanted to release something retarded to compete with the dsi
Rage harder. Black (kuro) was supposed to be an original color choice. Do the research. INB4 further failed comments.
Remember the horizontal stand?
http://www.consolas.es/wp-content/uploads/wii-horizontal-vertical.jpg
Exactly like PS2 lol.
really needs a wireless version of the controller
Artefact, this was your biggest mistake ever. Tease Xbox360 players, at least they have some decency and some good hardcore games, and some are capable of reasoning. Nintendo fanboys are the scourge of Earth. They will spam illogical arguments infinitely when someone says something which could be interpreted as offensive to Nintendo.
You know the Nintendo Wii was originally Black in the first place back when it was known as Nintendo Revolution. As for the Classic Controller, it is closer to a Nintendo GameCube Controller fused with the Classic Controller than it is a Dual Shock...
doesn't matter who is copying at the moment who nintendo is successful, so is sony. threads like this usually bring out the fanboys.
PS3 ftw
ps3 sucks dude sorry but it'll never be as good as ps2
Well, it seems that the headline really did its job. One of the most commented articles that isn't really political.
Kinda reminds me of a great big SNES controller surrounded by some sort of playstation/360 gripping device...
Pretty damn ugly.
Screw Playstation, this is awesome.
do i sense fanboi rage over the horizon?
Actually, it's right in front of ur face on this story.
The Monster Hunter screencap on the tv there sure brings up my hype levels.
Wow its like "you ripped ours, we rip yours"
To even imply that Nintendo ripped off Sony here is just asinine. All they did was make it black. Nintendo's been releasing multiple color options with their systems since the freaking Gameboy. And the Playstation controller was a blatant rip off of the SNES controller to begin with.
I'm sorry. Controllers have looked similar to that controller for YEARS. Long before the Playstation was ever out, there were controllers like those.
Sony ripped off the Virtual Boy controller.
Actually it was the SNES controller that was modified to make the PS controller. A demonstration of Sony's innovation no?
I really don't think that the PS2 has the monopoly on the color "black."
And the controller is just standard fare for a game controller these days. There aren't many other ways to design a controller and maintain functionality across the available software (at least if you want it to sell).
lol what about the new motion sticks from sony? no rip off of the wii controler? xD
This was one of the colors of the Wii that they showed back when, what, it was the Revolution?
It fucking took them long enough to release some alternate colors. I would've totally bought a navy blue Wii if they hadn't lollygagged so much on it.
If most of the gamers weren't so stupid to fall into the category of typical brainless fanboys of whichever company and/or console, they would read this and would think something alonge the lines of: "I hope that they did it right." or even "Does the Wii have any games that use all of those buttons or will it ever have them?". It doesn't matter if they used the same desing for a controller that another company has used or if it was even theirs from the beginning. The only thing that matters is that if it will be useful and if they make good games, regardless of which company it is.
For the spelling nazis, I meant to write "design".
The resemblence is uncanny, but to be fair, every contemporary console gamepad can trace its lineage back to the original NES controller. All Sony gamepads are a direct descendant of the SNES controller, and the Xbox gamepad is the result of highly convergent design, with the only major difference between it and the Dual Shock being the reversal of the D-pad and left stick positions.
Remember, every feature you see on a gamepad today was either invented or first utilized successfully by Nintendo.
people its just a recolored Wii chillaxe XD nintendo does this crap all the time (owns black gamecube, wants nintendo edition Sp)
it's funny how people don't fully read and instantly claim that artefact is a sony fanboy.
last part states and points out that it works both ways and has a direct link to the sony's take on their motion controller.
Wow... I don't care if you're the grand-Puba of sarcasm; this column is just retarded... I had no idea Sony trademarked the base color black? I could've sworn that was God...
It's horrible.
It's the worst thing ever.
Because it's Pretendo.
And nobody is ever allowed to like Pretendo.
EVER.
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I like it, even if it is a PS2 rip-off (and that's if it even is a PS2 rip-off).
Looks like a PS2 except that it's GAYER.
At least Wii now looks a bit better.
*less worse
Fixed for you.
WTF are you guys talking about? It's clearly coincidence that the button layout looks similar. I mean it's pretty standard. lol. And how the hell is it suppose to be a ripoff? Nintendo was first with analog stick and shoulder buttons... And the new classic controller is just and upgrade with handles and additional shoulder buttons.
And doesn't the classic controller resemble the SNES controller to you guys? Well, it's suppose to...
I don't know how Artefact ended up comparing the both. Just stop being a stupid sony fanboy and admit the black Wii looks hawt.
This was in the cards way before now to have other colors than white for the Wii. However, that new original controller looks like the PS2/PS3 controller w/ more curves. It's very suspicious, but this world is all about give-and-take, amirite?
If only the classic controller had better than 6-bit analog controls. GC controller is much better than it.
Of course just about everything looks like the PS2 controller these days. Not sure why -- the D-pad is horrible and the left stick is awkwardly placed.
Also, from several multiconsole releases I'm going to have to go with the GC/Wii being more powerful than the PS2, or at least easier to work with. Just saying! :P
6 bits provides a whole 64 unique values, that's really not terrible if it's per-axis, but it is on the verge of being noticable.
No, production costs for Wii games are generally lower than that for other consoles, making it appeal to developers, so we can still get sequels to games like Boom Blox even though they flopped a bit in sales.
Which is why you people are unlikely to get a Final Fantasy VII remake on the PS3, the amount of money and time it would take to bring it up to modern standards would be ridiculous.
I can't say for other people but I would gladly pay $100 for an FFVII remake, or a direct sequel.
- Simon Cowell of Eroge
Let's pay no attention at all to the fact that black was one of the original colours mentioned for the Wii back when it was first announced
That reminds me. Wasn't PS3 white/silver when it was first announced? And I think Revolution would have been a better name than Wii. Then again, some of wii's popularity could have been attributed to the funky name from marketing.
- Simon Cowell of Eroge
Which could STILL be a rip-off, you know...
Besides, his point is more about the controller AND the color. Not just the color. Use your brains.
let's not. it's more fun that way.
Where is the rip off? That is the NES control for Wii...
hahaha good job!
It feels like the 2 companies are going at it personally :D
Wasn't the Wii originally black anyway? Before it was even called the Wii
and it's about time Nintendo ripped off Sony really, not that original is easy these days
Sony Playstation was originally to be SNES CD, until Nintendo found out they've been had with the licensing deal. Sony finished the product under their own label, with a minor modifications to the controller (YXBA replaced with geometric symbols)which was pretty much a standard SNES controller with grips added. Wii classic controller pro shape is much closer to original SNES controller than dualshock, following the standard modern controller layout.
Just who ripped who is an interesting question here. It's not as simple as it would seem.
It also doesn't matter in the end, who cares who rips off who, I only care if it's good or not
I'v just learned tha "kuro" means black.
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+1... Japanese learning FTW.
-2 not knowing it in the first place
+10 bonus for enduring the "OMG u not weaboo u phail" trolls.
+10 learning foreign languages is one way to enlightenment.
People have an innate knowledge of Japanese as such? It's mainly spoken only in Japan you know.
the original playstation controller was a copy of SNES controller with nobs.
They put Sony workers on their controller?
lol it's black. omg what a rip off! /sarcasm
THIS. OMG IT'S BLACK SO IT'S A COPY. OMG IT'S DUAL ANALOG WITH A D-PAD ABOVE ONE OF THE ANALOG STICKS, IT'S A COPY. Wtf?
Not surprising, none of the companies do anything innovative. Wiifags can shut the fuck up already, it's like the Mac of the consoles. I'll let you decide what the PS3 is, since the 360 is fairly obvious. I'm gunning for the needlessly confusing Linux comparison.
Might as well call the PS3 the console wars version of Linux. Ironically, if you do some modding, the PS3 can run Fedora Core 6 (if you do it right).
Wii is the Mac of consoles? I lol'd
Yeah, if it was the Mac of consoles it would retail at the same price as the PS3.
*Other than that* you have a bit of a point. Most of the -notable- games are artistic or avant-garde, and it also is mainly supported in software by first-party games.
Haha who really cares.
I'd buy that controller if I can use it with gamecube games as well as the wiiware games.
I honestly hate how they make you spend money on gamecube controllers then spend more money on the classic controller. They could of just made either controller work with both classic and gamecube games.
Except they do? The GC controller works with the virtual console games...
I'm not normally one for console wars (I treat all consoles and handhelds equally unless something immensely terrible happens) but good lord I can barely tell that's a Wii controller in that last angled pic.
Seriously.. these speculations -.-
I mean, come on. It's pretty standard to have two sticks, a D-pad, four buttons and four triggers/bumpers completed with start/back and a "guide" button.
All I see there is the normal Wii classic controller with two added ergonomic "bumps" and the triggers/bumpers.
Sony's shit doesn't have a D-pad though. It has four buttons pretending to be a D-pad.
Which still -- amusingly, I might add -- turns out to be much better than Wii/Gamecube/Xboxes d-pads.
lr2guiltygear.
Wii is a pathethic console for the easy-to-please hoi polloi, that is why.
Lol your stupidity never ceases to amaze me.
Well, even if he said it bluntly he is true. Wii is a console for the easy-to-please masses.
Red steel 2 was the only interesting game for the wii I saw at E3. Some like Mario and Metroid, but seriously, only 3 good games? Nintendo released a freaking pulse analyzer.(FACE PALM)
I'm a Sony fan, but I can at least give Microsoft a pat on the back for their killer line up. Sony even showed a motion controller that put Nintendo into a Tea bag leg lock.
NINTENDO FAILED IN SEVERAL CATEGORIES.
lol @ nintendo fanboys.
You're the joke of the hardcore gaming community.
er resident evil 4 was better on wii than any other console, a view which is shared among my friend who now play re5 and think it is not so good because they can't play it on wii you douchebag.
You will be to when Sony and Microsoft releases that Causal Shit you will soon see the power of the Causal Bastards
Argument with unsupported reasoning = failed argument.
everybody knows that.
pointing it out = butthurt
WTH! looks like the ps controller had eaten too much D:
it looks horrible tho.
lol ^^;