Although this isn’t anything new it is something that deserves attention, or at least proper recognition. Nintendo have been with us since the beginning (or at least the beginning of mainstream gaming), but although we don’t notice it, most of our current controllers have evolved from Nintendo’s own Snes pad.
Sega tried to do something different, with it’s horizontal alignment of the action buttons, but even so, ended up returning to Nintendo’s roots with it’s excellent Dreamcast controller.
Because there are *so many* different ways to arrange 4 buttons… You trying to meet a post quota or something? This may be the most pathetic post I’ve ever seen.
I think it says something that the current generation of game systems are using the diamond button layout rather than square or two rows of three buttons (such as the Sega Saturn controller or Microsoft Sidewinder PC controller). I actually prefer two rows of three buttons since that works a lot better for fighting games. I also think the the button labelling with the diamond layout is counter-intuitive. If the buttons are in a row, you can assume that the “B” button is the second button. But with the diamond layout, it’s not clear where any particular button is without looking. I do acknowledge Nintendo’s influence in this area.
If you’d used the EU version of the SNES controller, you’d also have seen that the colours of the buttons were all the same, all stolen from the perfect formula of the Super Nintendo.
Because of ergonomics, I guess.
thanks peanut, i was sure the snes’s i had played on had the color layout that everyone but sony use. never recall a purple themed snes, thank god…
I have a SNES with purple theme gamepad at home. I remember the one with 4 different colors is called Super Famicom while the one with purple theme is called Super Nintendo Entertainment System.