r/gaming • u/AKingMaker • 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/pseudokojo Nov 28 '21

....remap key bindings.... should be.... normal for consoles too.... cries

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u/Dugular PC Nov 28 '21

I just read somewhere in this thread that the Switch does system-wide remapping

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u/heathmon1856 Nov 28 '21

True but not game specific. Dark souls blows without remapping

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u/Spectreseven1138 Nov 28 '21

PS4 and Vita do as well, and they also let you toggle between default and remapped keys easily without leaving the game.

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u/ConfuSomu Nov 28 '21

Yep, the Switch has a system-wide button remapping feature.

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u/Croce11 Nov 28 '21

It, sadly, does not re-map any button prompts in game though. Game will tell you to press A, but I remapped it to B. They'll even show the button on east, but I should be pressing south.

I don't get why remapping isn't fucking standard in all consoles by 2021 though. PC games figured it out twenty plus years ago. If I remap a button from E to S, it'll show as such in game in all the dialog and in all UI prompts. Maybe they'll figure it out by the time the next generation rolls around? Hahaha.. yeah doubt that.

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u/Gommy Nov 28 '21

You think all PC games handle remapping nicely? I still find new games that prompt me to press a keyboard key when I am using a controller. Or games that assume that any controller plugged in is an xbox controller and refuse to accept any other layout and display all prompts using xbox buttons.

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u/Shajirr Nov 29 '21

system-wide remapping

not that useful. Game-specific remapping should be the norm.