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| Helloplite said: Gamecube is the only factually correct answer. Fantastic ergonomics, bold design focused on gameplay. Many of Nintendo's controllers have regressed since - especially their standard controllers that have abandoned analog L/R. Sadly Nintendo abandoned Gamecube controller's tradition, and their contemporary controllers share more in common with the abomination that was the Classic Controller for the Wii. Switch Pro controllers are good, but not innovative in the least. Joycons are innovative, but also have poor ergonomics, and are somewhat inferior to the Wiimote in some ways (and somewhat superior in others). While Nintendo has maintained the idea of innovation in their controllers, this no longer extends to ergonomics and gameplay as it used to with the Gamecube. A Gamecube controller with slightly modernised ideas (e.g. separate L2/R2 without Z button; while maintaining the 'click' function of analog L/R), L3 and R3 in analog sticks, full size R analog, addition of select button, would have been the best possible design. Sadly, Nintendo moved away from this towards standardisation of their Pro controllers, resulting in a good, but hardly unique, controller. |
I think there's too much "lets be cute for the sake of being cute" on the GameCube controller.
The d-pad sucked and that was because they didn't even want to put the d-pad there to begin with, the Z trigger sucked again I don't think they intended for that to be on the pad.
The diamond button layout of the Super Famicom is still the most sensible and logical for the widest variety of games.
The Pro Controller 2 may be a bit bland, but it's super comfortable and super usable (barring Nintendo's aversion to analog triggers)
Just for shits n' giggles I tried using the re-released GameCube pad for some games of Mario Kart World just to see if it felt good to play a modern game with it ... that lasted for about 5 minutes before going back to the Pro Controller 2.
