Everyone has become used to the most popular computer video games consoles that have become such a normal part of our daily lives. We make comparisons between the three systems and we only think in terms of the graphics capability but we should consider the benefits of the games controllers available.
You probably don’t think much about the importance of the controllers you use but the manufacturers spend a lot of time on design and we usually just use them without thinking. The original Xbox was released in 2001 but with it came a controller known as the duke controller.
Microsoft was quick to discover that people found the controller was too large to use comfortably and it hurt people’s hands. Realizing the problem they released an alternative controller known as the S model which is much like the 360 controller you get today.
The controller they supply now is probably the most comfortable and one which you are happy to play with. The controller for the Playstation 3 in use today is not as new as it might look.
There are not that many changes from the familiar one we had with the PS2 with a few internal modifications. The original PS3 controller appeared very different but it’s new control layout was soon abandoned.
Most people feel sure this was because it wasn’t as simple and easy to use as the established PS2 controller. That may have been a good decision but Sony will have to get it right getting ready for the replacement system.
There is nothing basically wrong with the current system but a new system will mean people expect high standards with the control systems in any new games console released. There are fewer customers with spare money these days and the release of new games consoles might be put off for a year or two but we will be looking out for something special when it arrives.
The most game changing brand is currently the Nintendo Wii games console controllers which changed the market. Something totally different was included with the wii bundle and the wiimote was so different it was hard to make a comparison with everything you thought you knew about games controls.
The designers were thinking outside the box with the wiimote with a novel than anything we had seen before or had thought about as ways that you interact with the characters on screen. Bring out the motion sensing controller is more revolutionary than any other controller we have seen over the last twenty years.
It is a quite superb example of technology great fun for us as gamers and I feel sure this is the future direction for computer games. Long term gamers dismissed the Wii video games console because of the graphics chips used in the Wii though they didn’t realise what a great change the controllers introduced.
It will be fascinating to discover whatever the eighth generation of and these are the most complete systems you can get. It seems likely they will be similar to the wiimote and they could be completely different to what we expect.
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