When I made that statment I was well aware of the saturn controller, but remember nintendo made the anaolg stick a standard and SONY followed suit shortly after.
Just imagine all those great PSX games, being limited to the D-pad. Thank you Nintendo. I remember prior to the N64\'s release Game magazines were discussing how the N64 was going to use and analog stick for control and alot of people were originally against it, under the impression that anaolg was crap.