Comments on: Snes joypad most influential joypad ever

By: turn.self.off

turn.self.off — Tue, 01 May 2007 21:04:34 +0000

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…

By: jangelo

jangelo — Tue, 01 May 2007 13:58:31 +0000

Because of ergonomics, I guess.

By: Peanut

Peanut — Tue, 01 May 2007 13:15:33 +0000

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.

By: Osborne

Osborne — Tue, 01 May 2007 12:22:56 +0000

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.

By: JC

JC — Tue, 01 May 2007 09:45:31 +0000

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.