| BasilZero said: -The clunky and horribly designed N64 controller -The choice of going 3D which was barely used by anyone and developers knew that which is why most of the games never used or took advantage of it -WiiUs dying simply not from powering on for long amount of time (seriously what other hardware does that lol) -The joycon drift issue which is more common than the Dualshock 3/4 drift issue. -The power button placement on the 3DS and the Switch is horribly designed, forget the 3DS, but what other device this day forces you to press and hold the power button to get the menu to turn off a system in the 2010s/2020s? Switch is the only one that lacks a built in menu The best thing they did this generation was the Switch Pro Controller - great design and battery life that puts shame to both the Playstation and Xbox equivalent controlllers. No useless stuff like lights on the controller, no useless stuff like a built in mic on a controller, etc - just for playing which is what a controller should be for. |
You can list plenty of hardware flaws for every console.
- Xbox 360 RROD and Scratching games
- OG PS1 and PS2 models prone to disc-read errors
- Xbox Duke controller being an oversized mess
- DualShock 3 has garbage Triggers that might as well not exist
- The planned mandatory Kinect BS for Xbox One that was thankfully scrapped.
- PS3 was $599 U.S. Dollars.
- Capacative "touch" buttons on the OG PS3 and PS4 models
- The fact that Xbox controllers have almost never had a decent D-Pad
- DualShock 4's Stupid pointless light-bar that drains battery
- PlayStation 4 and 5 controllers having lame battery life in general
- PSP lacking a second analog stick
- PS Vita's mostly pointless rear touchpad
- Xbox constantly changing its UI and making it worse with each update
- The PS Store originally being a crappy web browser on PS3
- PS5's design (I personally love it, but a lot of people think it looks stupid)
No console is ever perfect. But people still buy these systems because they like the features and/or power of the console and are willing to look past any hardware issues. I'm not sure why we have to make a weird exception for Nintendo. By your logic, none of the big three should be making hardware. Everybody goes third party!
Last edited by TheMisterManGuy - on 18 December 2023
