9 Video Game Innovations That Happened Earlier Than You Think

5. Analogue Triggers - NOT Xbox One

Actually: Sega's Dreamcast

At this stage, trying to think of a controller-based innovation that would genuinely enhance gameplay is pretty tough. With VR barely taking off outside of certain dedicated fandoms, Sony's PS5 has gone all-in on haptic feedback, with Xbox championing analogue triggers even back on the Xbox One.

While their marketing showcased some awesome connections between the gameplay of drifting a car with the feedback present in the controller's triggers, this exact idea existed years prior.

Step forward once again, the Dreamcast.

Whilst the Dreamcast's controller itself wasn't the most pleasant thing to use, the tech inside was pretty incredible. One such feature was analogue triggers, ushering in a wave of driving games where you actually got to accelerate on the triggers themselves - something that's now a genre standard.

Shooting also moved up onto the triggers from the face buttons - another massively influential change that Halo would popularise, but that the Dreamcast pioneered.