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HORI announced a special gamepad for Steam / Steam Deck [classic "Xbox layout"]
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Idk about you but my left and right hand are symmetrical and having offset analogue sticks is really annoyingly uncomfortable playing for longer periods.
In most games it's the opposite. Most of the time by far you're gonna be having your left thumb on the left joystick and right thumb on the buttons, not the right joystick. The positions those are in on the Xbox style controller are the natural positions for your hand and your thumbs are positioned symmetrically. On the PlayStation style, your left thumb is always forced to be in an unnatural position.
For platformers you're right, but for twin-stick shooters you're using the shoulder buttons/triggers far more than the front buttons, and you are constantly using both sticks. And those happen to be fairly popular on PlayStation consoles.
Okay but there's no difference on the right half of the controller? Both layouts have the aim stick in the same place.
My point is more that the sides aren't symmetrical, but for twin-stick shooters it makes more sense if they are (which they are for DualSense).
I mean, except for OCD, I don't see it being symmetrical as important. It's basically saying that you'd rather have something less optimal just so that it's equally worse on both sides, instead of it being better on one side and worse on the other.