A few pints in, Nintendo UK president David Yarnton has scounged up the sack to call out the PS3's controller for the innovationless afterthought Wanna-Wii it is. Of course, he also has the gumption to throw in some outrageous baldfaced lies. Namely, he claims that Nintendo is the sole merchant in innovation in all of gaming. Pretty bold, but the drunk often are.

I'd love to dig up some old Phil Harrison comments and say 'hang on a second - six months ago when we launched our controller you said one thing, and now why are you doing this?' I don't know what their decision making process is but I think if you look back, any innovation that has come in gameplay has come from us.

Historically we're always developing new things. We know Sony have had a lot of issues with their rumble feature and they've had to withdraw it - because they didn't innovate, they copied. With Nintendo, I'm trying to think of anything we've copied... but I can't.

Oh, I'm sure our readers can. And maybe they can answer another question for me: what are the historical problems with the PS2's rumble feature that Yarnton is jabbering about? The lack of rumble in the PS3 controller is another strike against it, as far as I'm concern: however meager, I appreciate tactility in my video games. - Florian Eckhardt

Yarnton slams copycat Sony [MCV]

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