| Desroko said: It's obviously a mockup because I have to believe that no design team would produce such an idiotic controller. Having the analog stick and face buttons operated by the same hand - thumb, actually - is a bad, bad idea. |
I was thinking that too, but in the end I don't think it's much different. If your playing Halo 3 for example, you still have to take your thumb off the right analog stick to press a face button. Same here in effect, but it'd be more comfortable and seem more natural for current players to instead have the face buttons above the analog control. Also, how will the analog control button compare to an actual analog stick? Not to favourably I'd imagine.
The overall control for a FPS would be improved, especially accuracy, but that might unbalance gameplay if they release a patch for this controller to be used. People using the new controller might have an unfair advantage, however slight - creating a lot of haters.
I can see MS doing this in their quest to expand into the mainstream market, but they'll always look like the copycat wannabe instead of the Wii-al thing. See what I did there? Yeah, sorry about that. Couldn't resist.
