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Forums - Sony - First Impressions: Could the PS4 Controller Be Gaming's Greatest Ever Input Device?

ethomaz on 05 July 2013
tuscaniman99 said:
@riderz13371
No actually I KNOW the Xbox stick placement is superior along with the majority of the gaming community. Why do you think COD is played on Xbox at MLG? Why is Halo at MLG and Killzone not? In fact I'm pretty sure the only thing people use the DS3 for at MLG events is fighters because it has a superior DPad and even then most use a fight stick.

It's not the controller for sure.



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Hynad on 05 July 2013
tuscaniman99 said:
@lxhizy
And you and every Sony fan on this site thinks Sony is a God. What is your point? Xbox controller stick placement is superior. Get over it. Sony still uses 90s ergonomic designs for controllers.


Why is it superior? As far as I know, my hands don't feel good on a 360 controller after a while. And the left stick placement is the culprit. Are you telling me that my hands didn't evolve properly from the 90's to the current age?



ethomaz on 05 July 2013

enditall727 said:

Damn! Is this PlayRoom? I never seen this part of it yet

Yeah... The PlayRoom.



J_Allard on 05 July 2013
riderz13371 said:
J_Allard said:
Is there an alternate design with the sticks offset like a modern controller design should be? I have only seen images with terrible side by side placement.

"modern controller"

I loled.

I'll take that as a no, that Sony is still using the dated 1990's design that virtually every other company has ditched on controllers. Thanks.





riderz13371 on 05 July 2013
J_Allard said:
riderz13371 said:
J_Allard said:
Is there an alternate design with the sticks offset like a modern controller design should be? I have only seen images with terrible side by side placement.

"modern controller"

I loled.

I'll take that as a no, that Sony is still using the dated 1990's design that virtually every other company has ditched on controllers. Thanks.

Yeah it is a no. Enjoy the Xbox Juan.



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ethomaz on 05 July 2013

J_Allard said:

I'll take that as a no, that Sony is still using the dated 1990's design that virtually every other company has ditched on controllers. Thanks.

I don't see nothing modern in asymmetric placement of the sticks... side by side is far better.

Anyway the symmetric sticks were 2000's not 1990's... controller in 1990's didn't have sticks.



Wagram on 05 July 2013

KB/M for me personally is one of the worst input methods. I just hate how it feels.



Hynad on 05 July 2013
ethomaz said:

J_Allard said:

I'll take that as a no, that Sony is still using the dated 1990's design that virtually every other company has ditched on controllers. Thanks.

I don't see nothing modern in asymmetric placement of the sticks... side by side is far better.

Anyway the symmetric sticks were 2000's not 1990's... controller in 1990's didn't have sticks.


Correction, they didn't have dual stick for most of the 90's. Both the Sega Saturn 3D Control Pad and the N64's controller came out in 1996. ^_-


While the DualShock came out at the end of 1997.



TheKoreanGuy on 05 July 2013

Omg really?.... Sure the stick placement on the xbox controller can be good for some things, but there is nothing wrong with having symmetric sticks on the dualshock. Personally, it makes more sense to have them symmetric so both my left and right hands are positioned symmetrically on the controller rather than have to adjust them differently. Look I can have an opinion too!



smbu2000 on 05 July 2013
pezus said:
tuscaniman99 said:
@pezus
I've already answered it three times. Stick placement.

No, you haven't...

This is the question: "Why is the right stick below the face buttons and not above, since that is the perfect thumb position?"

'Stick placement' isn't an answer to why the stick placement is like it is...

For every other game besides fps games you're more likely to use the face buttons, so it makes sense to keep them in the dominant position. How many games still use the digital d-pad as their main method of controlling movement? Besides fighters and classic shooting games(Gradius-type) most games use the Left Analog to control movement so it should be in the dominant position like on the 360 controller. (fighters/shmups are better with a joystick anyway and not a d-pad)




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