Why have standard controllers not evolved for 20 years?
I'm not saying to radically change it like with the wiimote or something.
Atari had 1 stick and 1 button.
NES had a d-pad, 2 face buttons and start, select
SNES added 2 more face buttons and 2 shoulder buttons
PS2 added 2 clickable sticks and 2 extra shoulders buttons.
Every single controller since then has been functionally identical.
2 sticks, 1 dpad, 4 face buttons, 4 shoulder buttons, start, select.
So many modern games could benefit from having a couple of extra buttons to map commands to.
Why are back paddles not standard yet? why not add 2 extra face buttons?
Why have standard controllers not evolved for 20 years?
Nathaniel Young
Leo Gutierrez
Still bothers me that there aren't 6 buttons on the right and 4 or 6 more in the middle by the start/select area. Screw the ds4's touchpad
Blake Gomez
Wish they would have made the xbox elite controller with the pack paddles into the new standard for series X. Having 4 extra buttons that you can use at anytime without lost of control precision is huge. I'm not using those fingers for anything else anyway.
You could have games with so much more complex mechanics with the extra control that more buttons can give you. Imagine how simple modern games would be if we were still restricted to 1 d-pad and 2 buttons on the nes.
Logan Jones
cause real evolution like the steam controller was panned by people who refuse to change their ways.
gyro aim looks promising for the future of controllers,but many will probably reject it anyways.
James Gutierrez
Gyro shit is shit and will always be shit. I want to fucking chill out while holding the controller in a stupid yet comfortable way, yet I can't fucking do that with PS4 journey because the camera moves in retarded ways and there's no fucking option to turn it off
Caleb Rogers
gyro aim is great, get good
Lucas King
If it aint broke dont fix it
Samuel Nguyen
yeah if you want to be some active fucking retard floundering about the room but fucking normal people don't want to do that
it's why everything but the wii failed in motion controls, because only nintendo fans would put up with that shit and normies flocked to it as a once per generation trend
Ian Hernandez
I am an experiend user experience researcher.
You never want to go away from the standard configurations unless you have amazing power (e.x. apple or steam in this case) or a very good idea.
Charles Watson
mouse aim on controller is good.
aim assist garbage is not.
>"b-but its forcing me to use it!"
just like how people who wanted gyro aim have been forced to go without it (at least on console)