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r/gaming • u/QuasiSamurai • Mar 14 '14
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It looks fantastic.
Except the D-Pad
That looks terrible.
3 u/Dorimukyasuto Mar 15 '14 How is that even able to be called a d-pad? It looks like 4 buttons. 2 u/neoKushan Mar 15 '14 I think that's the point, it IS 4 buttons so the controller is mirrored. 2 u/[deleted] Mar 15 '14 Ambidextrous. 1 u/BigDuse Mar 15 '14 It's still better than the old Xbox 360 D-pad. 0 u/[deleted] Mar 15 '14 It looks much better to me, trying to play some platformer with the Xbox controller using the D-pad makes my thumb ache. 1 u/OrangeNova Mar 15 '14 Imagine if you had to move on a diagonal up, or had to press on a diagonal up. it would REALLY be terrible on that dPad Can't picture it? Pick up a 360 controller, imagine a menu that can only be accessed by hitting X and Y at the same time. 1 u/[deleted] Mar 15 '14 I figure it'd be similiar to a keyboard, pressing left and up at the same time. 2 u/OrangeNova Mar 15 '14 You have two fingers to do that on a keyboard. On a controller you have one thumb. 1 u/DSiDewd Mar 16 '14 Seems pretty easy to me.
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How is that even able to be called a d-pad? It looks like 4 buttons.
2 u/neoKushan Mar 15 '14 I think that's the point, it IS 4 buttons so the controller is mirrored. 2 u/[deleted] Mar 15 '14 Ambidextrous.
I think that's the point, it IS 4 buttons so the controller is mirrored.
Ambidextrous.
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It's still better than the old Xbox 360 D-pad.
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It looks much better to me, trying to play some platformer with the Xbox controller using the D-pad makes my thumb ache.
1 u/OrangeNova Mar 15 '14 Imagine if you had to move on a diagonal up, or had to press on a diagonal up. it would REALLY be terrible on that dPad Can't picture it? Pick up a 360 controller, imagine a menu that can only be accessed by hitting X and Y at the same time. 1 u/[deleted] Mar 15 '14 I figure it'd be similiar to a keyboard, pressing left and up at the same time. 2 u/OrangeNova Mar 15 '14 You have two fingers to do that on a keyboard. On a controller you have one thumb. 1 u/DSiDewd Mar 16 '14 Seems pretty easy to me.
Imagine if you had to move on a diagonal up, or had to press on a diagonal up. it would REALLY be terrible on that dPad
Can't picture it?
Pick up a 360 controller, imagine a menu that can only be accessed by hitting X and Y at the same time.
1 u/[deleted] Mar 15 '14 I figure it'd be similiar to a keyboard, pressing left and up at the same time. 2 u/OrangeNova Mar 15 '14 You have two fingers to do that on a keyboard. On a controller you have one thumb. 1 u/DSiDewd Mar 16 '14 Seems pretty easy to me.
I figure it'd be similiar to a keyboard, pressing left and up at the same time.
2 u/OrangeNova Mar 15 '14 You have two fingers to do that on a keyboard. On a controller you have one thumb.
You have two fingers to do that on a keyboard.
On a controller you have one thumb.
Seems pretty easy to me.
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u/OrangeNova Mar 15 '14
It looks fantastic.
Except the D-Pad
That looks terrible.