Ps2 phr33ks...

[MuGen]

well... lemme present what I think of this....

the SNES has A B X Y then two shoulder buttons, R and L...and a one-part D pad...

The original PS has... X, Box, Triangle, Square, 4 Shoulder buttons...

it's a possibility that Sony may have been inspired to use shoulder buttons only because what else would you use your middle and index finger for.... its there and you can put more features in a game with a console with more buttons, and not hard to reach buttons too.

But keep in mind NES was like the first console... a classic one, and it basically paved the way with controller design...

So would it be fair to say Xbox stole the design of their controller from a mix of PS and Nintendo with Analog like Sony controllers, Shoulder buttons like Nintendo, black and white to serve as the Z button for Nintendo and such?

All controllers have their own distinctive layout and it's not fair to say anyone stole from Nintendo because Nintendo was the first console probably all of us bought...

Playstation's original controller also had grip stems on the right and left, the original SNES was a rounded rectangle...

[Typhoid]

The thing isnt who made the controlers and who made them first. Its the layout and the convienience of the controllers.
Like the origional XBOX controllers...well, they sucked ass..but the smaller ones are way better, and a little more orgonized. I think Nintendo is just trying to be different with their controller styles. like the N64 had that 3-pronged controller thing, which was surprisingly comfortable to hold, and then the GC ones, well, IMO they are just too strange...

And i think the reason why the XBOX contollers were so big at first is because they were mainly supposed to be for older people (not kids, obviously), or maybe it was a ploy to make people buy extra controllers and spend more money when the smaller ones came out.


EDIT: ya...Nintendo made their biggest threat...Sony....

[MuGen]

Originally Posted by Typhoid

The thing isnt who made the controlers and who made them first. Its the layout and the convienience of the controllers.
Like the origional XBOX controllers...well, they sucked ass..but the smaller ones are way better, and a little more orgonized. I think Nintendo is just trying to be different with their controller styles. like the N64 had that 3-pronged controller thing, which was surprisingly comfortable to hold, and then the GC ones, well, IMO they are just too strange...

And i think the reason why the XBOX contollers were so big at first is because they were mainly supposed to be for older people (not kids, obviously), or maybe it was a ploy to make people buy extra controllers and spend more money when the smaller ones came out.


EDIT: ya...Nintendo made their biggest threat...Sony....

my guess would be Microsoft wanted to emulate the whole SIZE DOES MATTER issue when they launched xbox....

the xbox was huge at launch and didnt have a fan
the xbox controllers were huge at launch

so yeah.... they were going for that whole BIG thing.

[Typhoid]

Originally Posted by rasengan

my guess would be Microsoft wanted to emulate the whole SIZE DOES MATTER issue when they launched xbox....

the xbox was huge at launch and didnt have a fan
the xbox controllers were huge at launch

so yeah.... they were going for that whole BIG thing.

Thats retarted...why would they ( microsoft) think that a bigger system is better? It just takes up more space and collects more dust..

[MuGen]

ask bill gates...
while your at it... ask bill how steve jobs is doin...

[Rndm_Perfection]

You folks are afraid of the connotation of "Fanboy" and not the definition.

[Null]

Originally Posted by Rndm_Perfection

You folks are afraid of the connotation of "Fanboy" and not the definition.