Best Controller Ever?
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The DS3 would be a great controller if it wasn't for none ergonomic stick placement, convex sticks, poor dead zones, spongy triggers, convex triggers, and being a little too small.
Other than that. Yeah, not bad.
Fancy explaining to me how having one stick higher than the other is more ergonomic? Never quite understood that...
The natural resting positions of the thumbs are higher up, not pulled lower down on themselves. This was fine back in 1997 when analogue sticks on a Playstation Analogue controller were very much secondary to the d-pad. As time has moved on in over a decade of time, the left-stick is now the primary motion input, not d-pad, so they should be reversed to allow for the stick to be in the more natural, ergonomic position.
Easiest way to describe it, if you grab a steering wheel, then your thumbs move up nearer the forefinger, because that's natural. The analogue sticks on a Playstation controller are the equivalent of moving your thumbs on top of your ring finger(s).
Nailed it. There isn't anything particularly ergonomic about offset sticks, but there is no doubt that the left analogue has become the primary movement input for the vast majority of modern games, therefore it deserves the primary position. Whether the right stick also takes priority over the four face buttons is a much tougher call, so both the Wii U layout and the DS3/360 layouts are valid.
Gamecube pad, even with the wire, just nabs it over the Wavebird for me. Dat rumble.
However, the new Pro Pad for the Wii U is lovely.
I have grown to like the PlayStation pads, but even as a PS3 owner, I can't disagree that the 360 > DS3. Why couldn't they just move the damn analogue sticks and have proper facing triggers! D-Pad also mings hard.
However, the new Pro Pad for the Wii U is lovely.
I have grown to like the PlayStation pads, but even as a PS3 owner, I can't disagree that the 360 > DS3. Why couldn't they just move the damn analogue sticks and have proper facing triggers! D-Pad also mings hard.
Have to agree. I don't think the 360 can be the best controller ever with it's awful, awful (repeat 1000 times) d-pad.
Both mine are still perfect, plenty of hours on them too
It's not great, but it's nowhere near what it was at launch (where you would be all over the place trying to type letters because right didn't always mean right etc.)
PS3 one much more accurate, but still not in the league of properly great d-pads like the Sega Saturn (heaven).
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No, I prefer it too. I can see that the 360 controller is the better design, but I am simply more used to the DS3.I guess I'm on my own here preferring the ps3 controller then?
I'm guessing those that said N64 pad had 3 hands?
When i first saw it, pretty much thought it would be crap, but it worked, and it did it well.
D pad was barely used, at least with the games i have and the C buttons were awesome as hotkeys and extra's for games
my C buttons is the most used in Gretzky's 3d hockey
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360 controller is perfect imo (ok d pad could be better if you are into street fighter etc)
its closely followed by the n64 controller which was and still is a work of genius
its closely followed by the n64 controller which was and still is a work of genius
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I dont really have an all round favorite but use different controllers to fit different purposes
snes controller feels the most comfortable
saturn controller has the best d pad
360 controller is the best controller for modern games
Personally i found the dreamcast controller to be the worst controller i've ever used, the layout just feels wrong to me. Worse than the n64 controller, inevitable loose analog stick issues aside.
snes controller feels the most comfortable
saturn controller has the best d pad
360 controller is the best controller for modern games
Personally i found the dreamcast controller to be the worst controller i've ever used, the layout just feels wrong to me. Worse than the n64 controller, inevitable loose analog stick issues aside.
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Haha! so true.