Many have speculated and even analyzed how video game consoles have progressed over the decades in terms of graphical capabilities, sound, storage capacity and speed. With an abundance of specs to compare on the game system itself, it seems that the heart of user and console interactivity, known as the gamepad, has been ignored all these decades.
Damien Lopez, the author of the gamepad map that you see above, notes that from the Nintendo controllers on, number pads were no longer used. It’s interesting to see how every couple of generations a company completely redesigns the gamepad and it becomes the standard. And it’s not unheard of for some old features to reappear in new designs. Controllers had a joystick disappeared with the introduction of the NES gamepad, but reappear later in the form of a thumbstick with the advent of the Nintendo 64 controllers.
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