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osamanobama on 23 June 2011
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they are basically the same.

i ever so slightly prefer the Dual Shock. for a few reasons.
pros:
-logical placement of analog sticks (it literally makes no sense to have one up, and the other down, why not both up or both down, whats with having them in weird placement)
-the buttons for the R1/L1 are much better on PS3 (plus i prefer shooting with those buttons because they have very little fall, so are very responsive and quick)
-D-pad is vastly better on the DS3, its very odd how bad the xbox one is.
-sixaxis, though most games dont incorporate it, its really nice when it is, like KZ3, and uncharted it is almost necessary. for example, your climbing, and there is a ledge behind you, and one below you; you want to jump to the one behind you, so what do you do. do you press down on the analog stick, well how does the game know you want to go back, or if you want to go down. thats where sixaxis comes in. you tilt the sixaxis to jump back. then it also help with grenade tosses because you can aim far off in the distance with the camera staying on target instead of it raising really really high and you are looking at the sky instead of the target.

cons:
inferior shape, just slightly, but still inferior, its still comfortable but the xbox controller is a little more (the xbox ergonomics would be perfect if it got rid of that battery pack, it cramps my finger after a while becuase i cant extend them more)
-triggers are inferior the the xbox controller, should be concave (though i prefer R1 for shooting so doesnt really effect me in shooters, but its still vastly inferior)

nuetral:
analog shape, i dont find a significant difference in the concave/convex analog sticks. (though i guess since im more used to the convex DS3, i would choose that and i like that it distributes good pressure all over the center of my thumb.

but in all the controllers are basically the same. my perfect controller would be. the xbox shape, without the battery pack, ps3 face buttons, Dpad, and analog placement. and the xbox triggers with sixaxis