9 Video Game Innovations That Happened Earlier Than You Think

1. Wireless Game Controllers - NOT Xbox 360 Or PS3's SixAxis

Actually: GameCube's Wavebird

Maybe you're young enough that wireless game controllers are just the norm, but for us slightly older gamers, finally sitting down with something like the Xbox 360 pad or the PS3's DualSense felt super strange, until it became an industry standard.

To that end, we associate the notion of "going wireless" with the 360 and PS3, as both consoles could finally connect to wireless internet - albeit with the an adapter for the former - but the first widely available wireless controller was actually the GameCube Wavebird.

Victim to that system being overlooked as the PS2 dwarfed everything around it, Nintendo were still laying down the blueprint on how to improve the gaming experience for every consumer.

If Nintendo had stuck with a "dedicated game console" rather than the Wii immediately after, chances are we'd of seen Wavebird tech front and centre, and that Switch-like burst of popularity could've come a decade sooner.