I wonder if there actually exists a Dreamcast 2 prototype from the early MS stuff that exists in some sort of prototype state. Even if it's just the shell.
I remember some of the Dreamcast prototype controllers.
How about this crazy concept for the Dolphin / Gamecube controller?
Not just the screen but also some sort of trackball on the left shoulder.
To me the original Xbox isnt the Dreamcast 2 but the sort of younger western brother, more like a weird sibling than an offspring
Woah what the hell is that?!
Would fit Scorpio better, it looks like a big Xbox One S with the disc slot in the middle.Hope this design is resurrected for the Neo. This is a piece of kit that screams "look at my teraflops".
Looks like those weird third-party N64 controllers.Yup.
Looks like those weird third-party N64 controllers.
Fun fact: Sony was actively shopping around the idea of a stand alone UMD player to help spur the market a bit for UMD Movies (the market took off in a big way at launched but slowly cratered with the huge $30-40 asking prices per movie). The HD-DVD and Blu-Ray war pretty much killed it since there were just too many movie formats fighting it out on the shelves, but even if it didn't, the lower costs of memory sticks and rise of digital would have put the kabosh on that relatively quickly.
No one really knew about that, so source is me I guess.
Fun fact: Sony was actively shopping around the idea of a stand alone UMD player to help spur the market a bit for UMD Movies (the market took off in a big way at launched but slowly cratered with the huge $30-40 asking prices per movie). The HD-DVD and Blu-Ray war pretty much killed it since there were just too many movie formats fighting it out on the shelves, but even if it didn't, the lower costs of memory sticks and rise of digital would have put the kabosh on that relatively quickly.
No one really knew about that, so source is me I guess.
The Ultra 64 controller
(it was just a bit emo and the stick looked less destructive on your thumbs)
Given how small it was I have doubts on whether they were ever seriously going to use it
From what I remember reading no one outside of Sony ever got to hold the thing.
He's at Apple these days. But he still plays consoles as well.I miss Matt Casamassina.
I would kill for that! Using the d-pad on my 3DS is an awful experience because it's placed so low.A 3DS prototype with modular parts
I have never, ever, EVER something so crazy as the "starpad" prototype controller. That Nintendo even publicized the pic is crazy - I would be ashamed to get something like this out.
I would have to have smoked a ton of weed to even consider this a viable idea.
The DS4 prototype which im sure has been circulated plenty of times, just looks a bit chunkier
Prototype Atari Jaguar controller
http://www.videogameauctions.com/be...e-boy-64/prototype-atari-jaguar-controller-3/
Does anyone have a picture of the N64 controller mock-up based on leaked info before the reveal? I think it may have been in Gamefan, but perhaps it was EGM. Loving this thread, btw.
I found this video. I don't know if this is the mock-up you're talking about
Proto 360 slim
Apparently these are prototype controllers for the Wii
Here's the story behind it. It is by Atari, made around Jaguar time, and ended up being released as the Spaceball Avenger.People always post this and call it a prototype jaguar controller but outside of this auction that wasn't won, i dont buy it. For one, we know where the "jaguar" controller originated - the atari jaguar controller is just a black atari falcoln controller. Two, the jag standard doesnt support 4 analog axises as shown, only 1. This thing is most likely a prototype of the spacetec orb, not a jaguar controller.
The Nintendo Advanced Video System
Here's the story behind it. It is by Atari, made around Jaguar time, and ended up being released as the Spaceball Avenger.
http://spacemice.org/index.php?title=Mystery
Only somebody who was at Atari could really say what the timeline and original purpose of this prototype is.Ah, so I wound up being correct (it i indeed ultimately wound up being a prototype for the Space Orb). I suspected that was a serial mouse connection, not a Jaguar connection. So that controller really has nothing to do with the Jaguar at all.
Only somebody who was at Atari could really say what the timeline and original purpose of this prototype is.
Until then, I'm happy to call it a Jaguar prototype.
Am I crazy or would this have been better than what we got?
so many proprietary headset inputs 😅More Xbox One prototypes with slight iterations
so many proprietary headset inputs 😅
So Seamus Blackley posted these on twitter, the first designs for the original Xbox controller from Nov. 1999
Notice the VMU and swirls? They seem to have had a really heavy Dreamcast influence back then, say what you want about the Duke and beyond but i'm happy as hell we got those instead.
But why stop there, I thought it would be cool to carry on with some more, heres the Playstation 1
the purple outline seems to hint an NA Super Nintendo influence, not surprising considering how the Playstation was born. It's weird how this DNA spreads
This ones an easy guess, the Gamecube controller looked a bit lankier
Theres way more out there, feel free to post and discuss them, ill try to keep adding more
Cords underneath the controller was a bad idea that MS was going to carry over?
Sega perfected controllers with the model 2 Saturn controller. All they needed to do was to find a way to add 2 analogue sticks to it.
None of those have the cord coming out fo the bottom, they have the vmu on the bottom (look at the buttons/analogs/dpads placements)