Bleszinski: I hate the dualshock, I love the Blue-Ray

[Grahamhsu]

Personally I find the 360 controller more comfortable to hold in certain games. Same with the PS3 controller, but realistically what's the difference between them...only difference is that the dpad has switched places with an analog stick big whoop! They both have shoddy dpads which everyone should agree to. You ever get blisters playing Street Fighter 3rd Strike for an hour? Yah it shouldn't happen if I had my arcade stick, or a saturn controller as disolitude says.

Keep in mind that Cliffy B works on Gears of War which would play better on a 360 controller. Why? Cuz it's a TPS having the movement analog up higher feels much more comfortable for a game like Gears. The reason for this is because you're going to use the A button sprint/roll a lot moving the thumb up to the level of your left hand feels more natural, than moving the thumb higher to the X button and pressing it down to sprint (remember while sprinting you still need your left hand to controller the character, on a PS3 controller the right hand would be higher and puts a small amount of tension on your hand). Another reason is because the left analog stick is higher it allows easier access to the left trigger (harder access to the left bumper a button i'm not sure what it even does...) which is needed unless you love to blindfire.

There's also the issue of the active reload. Why is it better for the right analog stick to be lower than the left? Gears requires your right hand to be able to hold the right trigger down and let go when you need to reload to press the right bumper. By placing the right analog stick lower a player's hand doesn't feel cramped when moving the index finger up for an active reload. The small size of the bumpers also contributes, the 360 bumper clicks down a lot faster allowing for easier and more precise active reload compared to the PS3 whose R1 button needs to be slightly depressed more. Also since the button is smaller the amount of force needed is less once again making it more natural and also easier.

Keep in mind I am a violinist and when it comes to hand tension, most people don't even know they are tensing their hand muscles, tension is actually used so you don't FEEL pain from putting your hand in an unnatural position.(also results in you not knowing that you are doing something wrong with your hands)