Rumour: Wii-mote like controller for the PS2

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RolStoppable said:

MikeB said:
@ ALKO

basically ps123 pads born from snes one...

Why the NES or Snes? There have been gamepads and arcade sticks on the market before Nintendo released their game systems. Such as for example the Coleco vision or Vectrex (featuring an analog stick) from 1982?

Just take a look at the button layout of the SNES pad and compare it to the original PSone controller. Except for two additional shoulder buttons and a different shape of the controller, these game pads are practically identical. PS2 and PS3 pads still keep the initial button layout of the SNES controller intact.

ALKO is right when he says that PS123 pads are born from the SNES controller. 

yup the PS controllers are SNES controlers with two extra shoulder buttons(originally added as a way to control in 3-d space) It is  a derivitave of the SNES controller that Sony worked on for the SNES Playstation(CD-ROM add on). Analog and Rumble were tacked on later.

The layout of the buttons come from the SNES and not the genesis(diaond pattern) the game and watch had the first D-pad which was used for the NES.  The controllers after the NES have been much more standard and most not all features appeared on the NES->SNES->N64->Wii?. Where as before the controlers were very different from system to system until this generation you could pick up a GC/PS2/XBOX and be almost familiar with the buttons and controls and it was only a matter of preference and experience.

 

All that aside. Expect in the next gen for all controllers to have motion sensing and pointers. Wether companies decide to keep the number of buttons on the controller the same or make tham one handed or two handed controllers woudl seem to be more debatable.