A douchebag at one of the most unreliable gaming websites has a crass opinion no-one really cares about.

Now all you get is opinions after opinions.

Great job.

@61: Whoops. Just saw it.

#48 should have looked at the date before he decide to spark the same discussion again.

TBH neither is amazingly better than the other so far as I can tell after using both almost every day for 5 years. I’m now convinced most of the time any strong preference is simply all in the player’s head.

Looking through the comments, things certainly were more tense back then. I was shocked for a second, because I thought Shatner was back before I’d realised what happened!

Anyway, for the record, looking back at my comments on the DS3 3 years ago, I’ve had a slight change.

Since I’ve been CoD-ing on PS3, I’ve become very used to the softer resistance of the DS3 sticks, and I’m also starting to get used to their placement.

I still think the left stick should be swapped with the D-Pad, but it’s not actually as bad as I was saying back then…

Period.

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I still can’t believe the PS3 launched with a dualshock controller, although even then it was a botched attempt and Sony were forced to patch it up yet another time. Thier design staff must have been too busy pissing about with those hilarious target render trailers to design a decent controller!

Kinda fits with the whole ‘Ah fuckit, that’ll do’ attitude Sony had with the PS3. A barely functional online system, a half-assed OS, last minute GPU, last-gen controller. All so they could launch that new optical format. What a terribly dissapointing waste of the Playstation legacy.

Well, some of us are anyway

You go for it champ.

/Waits for incredibly useful and constructive input from morriss such as “semantic warz”

Is this site sponsored by Microsoft?

YES!

Is the opinion of some pro-Microsoft blogger (he admits he’s not editorial staff) posted as headline news?

YES!

Is one of the staff writers on this site known to be a hugely biased in favour of Microsoft?

YES! (And the evidence is all over this site and in quite a lot of his trolling on other sites)

Did he try and claim things were being blown out of proportion?

YES!

Sorry, what am I seeing that’s not there?

By contrast, you’re attempting to condemn me for something I didn’t actually say. Seems like yours is the questionable eyesight, not mine.

GIGs:
‘… because we gave them something flawed and now they’ve all just gotten used to it.’

360 fans like you have to have an AMAZING sense of humour to assign statements like that on the mentality of other companies. Love is blind, eh?

So do you reckon that if Sony paid for advertising on this site that Pat would suddenly change his reporting style and choice of content?

You’re seeing that things that aren’t there and just making yourself look stupid.

What is also amusing of course is that even the lowliest of news stories is ‘front page news’ regardless of what is being reported and the console it concerns – it’s a blog FFS – so I’m not sure what your point there is.

“President Kutaragi wanted something different for the controller,” Goto told Official PlayStation Magazine. “Quite frankly, we had set aside the ergonomic aspect in favour of the image it conjured up. We wanted to present an avant-garde model for the show, running a risk of being criticised.”

It’s a fact that Sony wanted to ditch the Dual Shock 2 for the PS3.

It’s a FACT. Nobody can “disagree” with a FACT!

They clearly signed off a pad for E3 2005 to present to the world as the new PS3 pad that even the designer admits was NOT designed with ergonomics as a primary concern.

If they didn’t consider how the pad feels to be important now, then why should anyone believe that they put it high on their list of priorities when coming up with the PS1 pad? (Which was just a SNES pad with ‘handles’ and extra LR buttons ANYWAY [Don't forget that the PS1 was originally only supposed to be a CD-drive add-on for the SNES in the first place!])

They also admit that the only reason that they went back to the Dual Shock design was that “there are so many players who are used to the PlayStation controller” Which is a bit like saying ‘We don’t want to give people something better, because we gave them something flawed and now they’ve all just gotten used to it.’

@ Shats:

I think that it’s true that right thumbstick on the 360 pad has been shifted over because it’s more important that the ABXY buttons be placed in the most natural thumb position.

But I’d rather have one comfortable hand when playing FPS’s than none.

Never said the games were shit. <3

And whilst you’re criticising people for lengthy posts how come you manage to ignore both of G1G’s comments?

Apart from the chronic d-pad and the fact Microsoft charge you extra simply for the means to recharge the pad I can’t really fault it. Given how many dual shocks have been around and for how long they’ve been around, why re-invent the wheel? Have Nintendo re-invented the d-pad? Nope. Same control in everything they’ve ever made. I guess there’s enough users of them to suggest it’s a system that works.

I enjoy arguments about how the 360 pads thumbsticks is better for players hand than a Dual Shock pad. I don’t know about anyone else, but on my hands my thumbs are in the same place, the left isn’t an inch or so higher than the other.