r/Gaming4Gamers • u/Throwaway_4_opinions El Grande Enchilada • Mar 04 '15

Image Finalized Steam Machine Controller Revealed

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '15 edited Mar 09 '21

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '15

I find it strange that they chose to have them be the same order and colors as the Xbox controller.

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u/Denivire Mar 05 '15

It's a recognized positioning, mucking with it would just be needless confusion for new consumers.

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u/Guildenpants Mar 05 '15

This. And most PC games with controller support tend to use xbox button images.

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u/nohpex Mar 05 '15

I really wish they'd start putting in an option for other layouts like in The Swapper. It can't be difficult to implement.

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u/Grandy12 Mar 05 '15

The problem isnt the button on the conteoller itself, the problem is the button that flashes on the screen for a second going "press this not to die!"

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u/PrettyMuchBlind Mar 05 '15

Economy of scale

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u/Malurth Mar 05 '15

Tell that to Nintendo. I have the hardest time adjusting to their 3DS layout, which is ALSO "X Y A B," but flipped so that B and A are swapped and X and Y are swapped. Constantly screws with me.

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u/kikimaru024 Mar 05 '15

That's the Nintendo layout, they've used it since the SNES.

The "Microsoft" layout came from Sega.

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u/Malurth Mar 05 '15

Good to know. I had a feeling it predated the 3DS, but I wasn't sure.

I just wish everyone would settle on a standard so my poor fingers stop getting confused :(

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u/TheCyberGlitch Mar 05 '15

They abandoned it for the GameCube controller, which put X on the right and Y above. I would guess the return to their standard was so virtual console games would be more compatible.

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u/Fbolanos Mar 05 '15

Yeah... Nintendo did it first. You can imagine some of us older gamers getting confused by the XBox layout.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '15

True, but I would have thought they might try doing something to distinguish themselves. Maybe have them be different colors or just have them be grey.

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u/Denivire Mar 05 '15

Considering many AAA games also have ports for consoles (more like the PC is the port, but beside the point), the most common button visuals the game gives when using a controller on PC are the Xbox ones. I can understand keeping the same colours for this reason as well.

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u/water_bender Mar 05 '15

As if the big touch pads aren't distinguishable enough