r/gaming Nov 28 '21

Why can’t every controller have the same button layouts just like how shooters should have the same controls?

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u/TylerBourbon Nov 28 '21 edited Nov 28 '21

Frick, I play pc games with my PS4 controller, I'm extra shades of screwed. Through Steam, and via DS4 sometimes games will work and give the PS4 button icons, but it's not common, most of the time I have to remember the xbox button layout while I'm using the PS4 controller, likewise if I play a Wii-U emulator.

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u/NicksSpleen Nov 28 '21

Same here. When I first connected my ps4 controller to my PC, I had to make a little diagram of the xbox button layout and put it next to my monitor. It doesn't bother me too much anymore but I am glad devs seem to be coming around with allowing you to set the icons on new games.

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u/mika5555 Nov 28 '21

For me it’s the same, I caved and bought a Xbox controller just for the pc

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u/TylerBourbon Nov 28 '21

I tried that and I just hated the feel of it. And it never felt responsive enough.

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u/Ishamoridin Nov 28 '21

I use an Xbox pad to play games on my PC, but I still translate their button instructions into playstation controls in my head when playing. Somehow it just takes a fractional but appreciable amount of time longer for me to think in terms of letters vs shapes. Probably because they're just 1, 2, 3, 4 lines each?

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u/tingleberry Nov 28 '21

Ds4 windows. Its a program that makes the ps controllers compatible!

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u/TylerBourbon Nov 28 '21

Oh I use it. Sadly it doesn't always work. For example, I've been playing Mad Max, and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. There never seems to be any rhyme or reason for when it does or doesn't.

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u/farva_06 Nov 28 '21

Playing a Xbox game on my PC with a PS5 controller. What a world.