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Nichtcrawler X posted...

As someone who has always liked both the Nintendo and Sony layouts, what is the problem with asymmetric thumb sticks?

I've never found them comfortable. And the GC's controller was generally a mess. (Although I guess the smaller c-stick had its benefits?) The left stick in particular always just felt weird in both cases.

Metalsonic66 posted...

Honestly the only controllers I've ever had issues with were the N64 controller and some bad third-party ones.

The analog placement on the n64 was just weird, but nobody had been using analog sticks all that much prior. I would holding the damn controller by the center piece for some titles like Pod Racer.

adjl posted...

I just wish the GC button layout had stuck. Having the most-used button (in a control scheme that's actually designed sensibly with the GC controller in mind) in the most neutral position for my thumb was great. I'm also not sure why the WiiU's approach to the symmetrical layout hasn't been more widely adopted, since it had both sticks in the thumbs' neutral positions (which makes the most sense for dual-stick schemes), but I guess the face buttons were a little awkward to use for schemes that used them predominantly.

While I understand the practicality of having some over-sized buttons, it shouldn't have just been that one button since most games you're not just relying on one button no matter how much you use it.

streamofthesky posted...

And I'll NEVER understand the fixation w/ being the most powerful console. The most powerful console never wins in any gen for the past few decades. Maybe SNES over Genesis is a counter-example? Too young back then to recall, didn't seem like clean-cut "gens". Genesis was like in between NES and SNES.

Same, especially when what matters is what's on the console itself.

OhhhJa posted...

Didn't 360 beat out PS3 or am I remembering wrong? Seems like PS3 is the most trashed sony console and 360 is the most loved Xbox console

By the end of the generation, the ps3 was absurdly ahead of the 360 although the 360 is still MS's best-loved console. The ps3 had a disastrous launch and took a while to get going. Otherwise the 360 with its laughably high console fail rate would have been blown out of the water from the get-go. (Although the ps3 also notably had a very high fail rate later on.)

likehelly posted...

and sony is still going with it's garbage symmetrical design which no one likes.

In this case, symmetry means Sony has 2 well-placed analog sticks vs MS's 1. Symmetry by itself is generally a better thing, but it really matters where the things are placed in the first place.


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