Sure, some of the games at the time were astonishing and well regarded classics, but man oh man do I dislike the controller, it just feels so... alien to hold you know?

Another thing too, the cartridge format whilst snappy, suffered from making too many cutbacks compared to the disc format of PS1 and Saturn which gave you pretty much the full scoop.

I am sure Nintnedo had their reasons at the time, but to me it was almost like it was a death by a thousand cuts scenario, a really powerful machine let down by not using what is literally the next gen medium at the time.

Let me know your thoughts, it is fine to disagree as the console is well respected with both nostalgia and entertainment, I'm just an outlier here.

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[–] NewNewAccount@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Technically the Sega Saturn had an analog stick controller available before the N64.

https://segaretro.org/3D_Control_Pad#History

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

No. The N64 was released in Japan before this weird abomination was released on either Japan or North America.

[–] NewNewAccount@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Looks like you’re right. The N64 released a month before the Saturn’s controller was available. TIL.

[–] PlasticExistence@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_stick