1. Four dedicated "buttons" for direction, where it makes it easy to do combo moves with the direction pad. I abhor pads that have a circular piece of plastic to activate direction -- sometimes when you press an exact direction you get the "in-between" directions (sse, etc)
actually, the d-pad on a playstation IS a circular 8-way pad, it just has little strips of plastic that make it look like 4 seperate buttons
i do recall hearing the same thing back when the sega cd came out and then after the saturn too at that time they had said they were gonna drop consoles for comp games instead
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1. Four dedicated "buttons" for direction, where it makes it easy to do combo moves with the direction pad. I abhor pads that have a circular piece of plastic to activate direction -- sometimes when you press an exact direction you get the "in-between" directions (sse, etc)
actually, the d-pad on a playstation IS a circular 8-way pad, it just has little strips of plastic that make it look like 4 seperate buttons
i do recall hearing the same thing back when the sega cd came out and then after the saturn too at that time they had said they were gonna drop consoles for comp games instead