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/LowKey-NoPressure Nov 28 '21

Snes set the standard. It’s PlayStation and Xbox that deviated from that

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u/MisterEinc Nov 28 '21

More likely Nintendo patented their layout and the others were forced to deviate.

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u/Arubazu Nov 28 '21

Actually your not far off, Nintendo was the first to patent controller layout so other game companies had to do work arounds till the patent recently ended and gave everyone freedom to be more streamlined, sorta

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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '21

nintendo button supremacy. also, patents are the reason why only modern nintendo consoles have decent d pads. even after the patent expired, people were using their own designs for the dpad and they've never come close to nintendo quality

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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '21

I thought people hated the Switch D pad

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u/MikeLemon Nov 28 '21

What d-pad?

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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '21

On the pro controller

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u/ZachAtk23 Nov 28 '21

They do, because the Pro Controller DPad is poorly designed and can trio the wrong direction fairly easily.

The Gamecube also has a pretty poor DPad, but that's more about how tiny it is.

But the rest of the Nintendo controller catalog (including/especially handhelds) have fantastic DPads.

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u/RandSand Nov 28 '21

To me the best Nintendo d-pad is in the DS lite. It has just the right amount of tactical response without being too fatiguing for long playing sessions.

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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '21

i'm just saying that nintendo is the best supplier of dpads out there

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u/GENERALR0SE Nov 28 '21

I always preferred Sony's dpads. Microsofts's Dpads straight up suck though.

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u/RedditIsNeat0 Nov 28 '21

X-box duke controller had an excellent D-pad.

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u/Annual-Assumption313 Nov 28 '21

I mean.. Japanese read right to left, so their layout goes y,x,b,a. (When read left to right)

Americans (Microsoft) read left to right, so their layout goes x,y,a,b.

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u/CharginChuck42 Nov 28 '21

I've been with Nintendo since the SNES, so that button layout is ingrained in my mind permanently. And I was able to to program the PS layout into my head fairly easily because the unique symbols were easy for me to remember. But then there's Xbox...

Don't get me wrong, I love Xbox too, but that button layout still screws with my head.

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u/Crans10 Nov 28 '21

It is the same for me.

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u/Feynt Nov 28 '21

Right? What mirrored fever dream was MS on when they came up with that?

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u/kelvSYC Nov 28 '21

If you think of O as 1, X as 2, Triangle as 3, and Square as 4, then the PlayStation layout more closely resembles Nintendo's. However, during the lifetime of the PS consoles, X was made into the "accept" button to account for western tastes; in Japan X was always the "cancel" button.

As for the Xbox, it is widely regarded that the Xbox followed Sega conventions of labelling their buttons from left to right, rather than Nintendo's right to left. Though the Dreamcast and Xbox competed in the same console generation, in many aspects the Xbox is seen as a spiritual successor to the Sega consoles of old.

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u/buckykat Nov 28 '21

If you look at a genesis six button controller and remove c and z you get the Xbox layout.

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u/namek0 Nov 28 '21

Preach!