noname2200 said:
If you honestly believe that this
isn't "broken" for most people, then you're clearly in the minority of the population. Two analogue sticks, two analogue shoulder buttons, two digital shoulder buttons, six fave digital buttons, a digital D-pad, and the sticks can each be pressed to act as additional digital buttons. Performing routine actions in a videogame with one of these can take new players (and occasionally veteran ones) a lot of adjustment time. It is no coincidence that elongated and forced tutorials become more common as generations continue. Performing precise, complex actions can be extremely difficult for all but the most experienced gamers, to the point where the game must make allowances for the clumsiness of the controller. Think of auto-aim for the most basic and common example. And of course performing super-precise actions are essentially impossible on this thing. No bowling or tennis game is ever going to replicate how I perform in reality. As someone who's put in his time with the current controller, these may be moot issues to you. You've long since adjusted, to the point where you don't even have to think about what you're doing anymore. But that's not true for most folks. And if videogames wants to expand its audience (it really should), then this will not "work just fine." |
Why does the industry need to continue expanding? There are already hundreds of millions of people playing video games and the influx of new gamers are mostly playing casual games. Many studios have learned to cater to the audience that have adapted to this controller design. These studios are creating core experiences that haven't benefited from the current crop of motion and touch controllers as far as I can see. I can understand how the current controllers are an obsticle to new players but as I said, hundreds of millions of peopl ehave gotten by until now. You know, as I was reading how "super-precise actions are essentially impossible" I remembered the time I got the platinum trophy on TimeSplitters: Future Perfect's sniping challenge with maximum aim sensitivity. I've never encountered any motion controller that was anywhere near as accurate as proper joystick controls and both are a joke compared to a mouse. Just my two cents.
PS. I'm selfish so the current controllers aren't broken to me and that's all that really matters :P
