Best Video Game Controller?

1a - The NES Advantage Joystick. The thing was a tank.

1b - The original 3DO pad for the Panasonic FZ-1. 3 face buttons + play/pause, 2 shoulder buttons, the cord was a ridiculous 12 or 15 feet long, it had a 1/4" headphone jack w/ volume control on the controller, and each controller had another controller jack on it, so you could daisy-chain up to 8 controllers together for multi-player without needing to buy a multi-tap. Seeing these in 1993 was like a revelation of how all future game controllers should be designed, at least until analog thumb sticks became commonplace.

I'm partial to the Wavebird too, all things considered.

360's D-pad sucks. That's it's only flaw.
PS3'3 Analog is inaccurate, sometimes (especially in Prince of Persia)
Wii-Remote's plus and minus buttons need to be moved closer to the A-Button (in my opinion)
Dreamcast's controller.......well, I really liked it!
My Logitech Wireless PS2 controller is pretty sweet too!


All other controllers are just evolutions to what we have now, and really cant compete.

I think the Logitech wireless PS2 controllers are the best interpretation of Sony's layout.

 Slightly off topic but Logitech is making some GREAT stuff these days. I just got myself their Illuminated Keyboard. The letters and numbers are laser cut so it's not even that obvious but in a lighted room even the letters are much brighter than printed on. Also it has a fantastic feel.

for me its would be:

gamecube controller
genesis 6 button controller
xbox 360 controller( with the D pad modded)

1) Wiimote and Nunchuck
2) Gamecube
3) SNES (most modern controllers pull their design from this one)
4) Xbox 360
5) N64 (I want to put it higher because of the anolog stick, but I have a few issues with it)
6) Xbox - the small one
7) Dualshock 2
8) Dualshock 1
9) original PS controller
10) NES (a classic, but there have been so many improvments)
11) Keyboard and Mouse (but still the best for the RTS genre)
12) Xbox - the big one
13) Atari

I think that is all of the contollers I have spent a considerable amount of time with.

Added keyboard and mouse for you.

Nice, I didn't even know a 14 year old knows that much about the SNES.lol

I would have to say the NES controler. Beat that with a stick... A d-pad, start, select, A & B buttons. it handled over thousands of games

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