The XBox is the best designed console ever IMO... even something as simple as excellent Joypads, just like the Dreamcast, ignoring what some say about them for longer play sessions they are superb, even if 'small children' don't like them
Yeah, uh-huh. Small children and small adults, like, for example... many women.
My boyfriend has some fancy controllers for his PS2, and I used to wonder why my hands would feel strained after playing with one of them for a couple of hours. After all, I was just fine using a Dualshock. Then one day I realised that his big-ass controllers were just too big for my smaller hands. (I'm 5'5", he's 6'4"; you can imagine the hand size difference.) It was fine if I just used the sticks and the face buttons, but to use the L and R buttons I had to keep my fingers tensed and curled awkwardly, whereas on the smaller stock controller I could wrap my fingers around the back properly.
Thus, getting rid of things like the gigantic, awkward controller that the Xbox first shipped with isn't just catering to the small children you apparently don't want intruding on your grown-up game world, but rather opening up the system to anyone who isn't a hulking North American teenaged+ male*.
*Now, whether that's something the U.S. game industry wants to do is a question for another time.:-)
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Yeah, uh-huh. Small children and small adults, like, for example... many women.
My boyfriend has some fancy controllers for his PS2, and I used to wonder why my hands would feel strained after playing with one of them for a couple of hours. After all, I was just fine using a Dualshock. Then one day I realised that his big-ass controllers were just too big for my smaller hands. (I'm 5'5", he's 6'4"; you can imagine the hand size difference.) It was fine if I just used the sticks and the face buttons, but to use the L and R buttons I had to keep my fingers tensed and curled awkwardly, whereas on the smaller stock controller I could wrap my fingers around the back properly.
Thus, getting rid of things like the gigantic, awkward controller that the Xbox first shipped with isn't just catering to the small children you apparently don't want intruding on your grown-up game world, but rather opening up the system to anyone who isn't a hulking North American teenaged+ male*.
*Now, whether that's something the U.S. game industry wants to do is a question for another time. :-)
That's because you're not. :-)