Video Game Controllers

[Tispower]

Bodhesatva said:

Entroper said:

I'd just like to add to my rant about the DualShock and its predecessors/successors:

Sony, if you were going to blatantly copy the SNES gamepad, why couldn't you at least keep the button names the same? What a tremendous disservice to gamers, making them learn a retarded button naming scheme involving shapes, especially when you pick "X" as one of the shapes and place it opposite from where the "X" was on the SNES gamepad. To this day, when I'm teaching my friends how to play a PS2 game, I refer to the buttons by their SNES names, and they understand me perfectly. I've owned a PS2 for years now, and I couldn't tell you where "triangle" is without going and looking.

Wow -- I couldn't agree more. Phrased in almost the exact manner I phrased this to a friend 5 years ago.

I can't even name all the buttons now. Triangle, Circle, Square... and what's the other one? Ugh. Seriously, someone remind me.

It's as if they figured people wouldn't notice the blatant copy-catting if they just renamed the buttons. Honestly, Sony, it's fine! Copying can be a good thing, and the SNES pad was great!

But no, they had to change at least one thing about the controller -- one thing -- and they messed it up.

 

 

As far as shape/design go, however, I still really like the dual shock. It was my favorite controller last generation (even though I didn't own any consoles).

 I think you need to be reminded to read thoroughly!