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Originally Posted by DNieves
Alot of people have a preference for the PS3 controllers because they're accustomed to the shape/fit/size since the PS1 days a hundred years ago.
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A hundred years ago? Nice. and what pray tell might your age be?
The SIXAXIS/DS3 has roughly the same layout as the DualShock 1 & 2. They kept it because it works. It is the original console controller design theory perfected. Four circles on the right. D-pad on the left. Two analog sticks where your thumbs rest. Shoulder buttons where trigger fingers rest. Start and Select in center. Symmetrical down the middle.
It is widely considered the greatest controller ever because 20 years of evolution brought it here. No goofy offset control sticks for me. It should be laid out how my hands rest if I were to put two fists together and open my hands. Not with my left thumb cocked off to the side. Besides the size, the original Xbox controller caught so much flack from pundits because of the odd button shapes and locations and that damn offset stick. Ya just wanted to slap them and say, "guys you can design your own unique controller but still use tested, tried and true design methods!" They should have simply created a better controller (which they did) but kept the sticks where they belong.
You, Bandit, really must have an anomaly of a group of friends if their only complaint about the PS3 is the controller. Game delays, sure. But the controller that forged the gaming industry into what it is today? The controller that has been used and loved by 100's of millions? The controller that takes it's design principles from a dozen million+ seller consoles that came before it?
Oh and you are totally free to like the 360 controller more and think it fits better in your hand...that doesn't mean that it will for the majority of the gaming population. My dad uses his mouse upside down in his left hand at work(he's right handed), and while playing RTS's he uses it upside down in his right hand. Now he could probably sit there all day and rant about how "OMG how can you not see it?! It's just sooo comfortable and it fits right in my hand and it just works!" But he doesn't because he knows he is in the minority and can see that most people use it in their right hand right side up.