Thats very true, I keep forgetting he's so young. Back in the day I was on the Ninty side of the Sega/Ninty war, and loathed Sega until Irealized there were games Iwanted to play and being a console snob made me the loser.  Funny, I always felt a loyalty to Ninty even when Sony was getting all my money. I always bought games on the GC when they were mutli-platform because of the GC controller (except for the Lord of the Rings games, for some reason I bought the PS2 ones. I wasn't sure if the movie footage would be mixed in the GC version like it was in the PS2 ones, and to this day I still don't know if it was.) But games like Alien Hominid, Beyond Good & Evil, Viewtiful Joe were always were for the Wavebird...... but I bought many more PS games last generation.

Anyway, I hope Leo does learn to lighten up, he'll have much more fun if he just plays good games, no matter who makes 'em.

Xbox's Controller S or whatever they called it was best last gen.

Every other gen belongs to Nintendo.

My vote is for the SNES pad. It was pure genius of gaming.

now this it the part where I get my self into trouble. So I'm gonna put on the flame suit.

I sincerely believe that anyone on this thread who voted for the PSone/Dualshock/Dualshock 2/SIXAXIS/Dualshock 3 controllers should be counted as a vote for SNES pad. Why? because all of them are SNES design theory with added features (like wings, rumble, analog). I also think this is a problem Sony needs to address. The SNES style is perfect for 2-D gaming, but both Ninty and MS have evolved their controller to play 3-D games while Sony has not. For crying out loud, why is the Primary analog stick in a hard to reach secondary position on a 3-D console. It makes no sense.

Of course this argument is moot when it comes to the SIXAXIS since obviosly it was designed for the next leap in gaming, 4-D gaming.

EDIT: I just remembered, the Dualshock 3 reportedly does switch the D-pad and Analog Stick. So accolades to Sony for finally catching up. You are only a decade behind Nintendo. 

GC was my favorite. It just felt so natural & I never got confused by the buttons. *gets out flame shield*

Wiimote (and the Nunchuk also) is the best.

That's not counting mouse & keyboard though...

the sixaxis

lol just kidding 

i'd say nintendo controllers are pretty much the best each generation. n64 controller was amazing at the time. so much better than anything before and a ton better than the psx controller. only downfall was the 3 prongs but you never needed all 3 prongs at once so it was fine and the analog stick and the z trigger were just revolutionary. gamecube controller while having weird button layout the only awkward button was the z button but it by far fit the hands the best. while xbox was good but awkward and hard to reach some buttons and sony just never does anything to change their mediocre controller. this gen the wiimote feels amazing and the 360 controller is pretty good but i'd have to give it to the wiimote. nintendo has always had the best controllers easily.

 The gamecube controller has it's issue's most notably the small D-pad but the Dualshock easily comes up worse then the cube controller.  The D-pad on the Sony joystick is a complete joke.  The button naming scheme is horrendous and the game pad hurts your hand in extended gaming sessions. Never mind the issue's of the controllers being prone to break!

The best pad is the SNES... 

The NES Advantage joystick, an arcade quality stick in your home in the 80s, and the thing was unbreakable.

Loved it.