49: Pinching the Harmonica

John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss iPad use by three-year-olds, why non-gamers might consider the "Xbox" name a proxy for all of console gaming, the Wii generational hardware conundrum, and finally, an extremely long and obsessively detailed walk through the history of console game controllers, culminating in a rant about something that almost all other gamers love unconditionally.

Links for this episode:

• Super Nintendo Entertainment System controller - Wikipedia
  
• GameCube controller - Wikipedia
  
• PlayStation 2 DualShock 2 controller - Wikipedia
  
• PlayStation 3 DualShock 3 controller - Wikipedia
  
• PlayStation 3 Sixaxis controller - Wikipedia
  
• Nintendo 64 controller - Wikipedia
  
• PlayStation DualShock controller - Wikipedia
  
• Xbox controller - Wikipedia
  
• Xbox Controller S - Wikipedia
  
• Xbox 360 controller - Wikipedia
  
• Blue Ocean Strategy - Wikipedia
  
• Accidental Empires, by Robert X. Cringely - Amazon.com
  
• Edge Magazine - January 2011 Issue #E236
  
• Arcade emulator iMAME punted out of App Store - TUAW
  
• Back to Work #27: Danny, Hold the License Plate
  
• Barnes & Noble Considers Spinning Off Its Nook Unit - NYTimes.com
  
• Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader - Wikipedia
  
• Nintendo GameCube - Video Game Sales Wiki
  
• Shovelware - Wikipedia
  
• HOTAS - Wikipedia
  
• What comes after primary, secondary, tertiary? - Oxford Dictionaries Online
  
• PlayStation 3 "boomerang" controller (alternate picture) - ps3vault.com
  
• PlayStation 3 "boomerang" controller - Wikipedia
  
• Penny Arcade ridicules the original Xbox controller - Ursine Adventures
  
• Penny Arcade ridicules the original Xbox controller again - The Rest of the Story
  
• Purity - xkcd
  
• Certainty - xkcd
  
• Asymco on the reach of Apple's media stores
  
• Penny Arcade ridicules the original Xbox controller once more - You Know What They Say…
  
• Sony "Solo Shock" mockup by mindfad
  
• Wild Gunman scene in Back to the future II - YouTube
  
• Bonus: The Periodic Table of Controllers - Pixel Fantasy
  
• Bonus: A bunch of stuff about game controllers - Tumblr
  
• Bonus: The Evolution of Video Game Controllers poster - popchartlab.com
  
• Nintendo Entertainment System controller - Wikipedia
  
• PlayStation controller - Wikipedia
  

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