| CaptainExplosion said: Am I the only one who thinks the N64 controller should've had a different design? Like this? |
Well, you're kind of Monday morning quarterbacking here... Or more like, twenty seasons later quarterbacking.
The N64 controller was designed like that, because dual stick gaming wasn't really a thing yet. The idea was you had a different grip for analog games and dpad games. It wasn't designed to use both. Although, basically no games actually used the dpad, so the whole thing became kind of pointless. It was sort of a prototypical second joystick with the C-buttons, but it wasn't there yet. Sony responded with the Dual Analog controller, and that basically became what we're still using today with some minor variations.
So, yeah, that controller is way better than the N64 controller design, but it's taking advantage of all the stuff that we've developed since then. It's a bit unfair to say that Nintendo should have came up with that design in 1995. The N64 controller was the important awkward middle stage between the SNES style controller and the dual stick controllers we have today.
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