Rough launch aside, would you say the PlayStation 3 eventually became the best console of the 7th gen?

[Kyuu]

JackHandy said:

Kyuu said:

I'm one of those weirdos who loved DualShock 1-3. DS3 a bit less, since it had slippery triggers. But the small size was perfect for me (and I have large hands), and the d-pad is the best in the business out of what I tried. X360's d-pad was atrocious.

You're not the weird one. The PS1 and PS2 utterly dominated the industry, the latter gaining a market share not seen since the NES. If the duelshock was "ass", that wouldn't have been the case. So it's actually the other way around. If a person thinks that controller sucks, which is an opinion they are totally entitled to, it's them that are "weird"... not you. You are in the majority.

I consider early PS controllers until Dualshock 2 to be the best ever made. But their small size ultimately forced Sony to enlarge and modify the shape of their next controllers, and most people were happy about these changes. I wasn't, and this is the part where I'm probably in the minorities

I think people with big hands in particular were generally not happy about Dualshock 1-3's size. But I liked that I could barely feel them in my hands outside the satisfying response/feedback of the buttons. Xbox controllers' fat/hard/rounded face buttons made me feel like a tortoise in comparison, not to mention the d-pad! Many complicated inputs/techniques were much easier to pull off on a Dualshock than on Xbox controllers.