What are your wackiest ideas for a “universal” controller layout that would appeal to the fans of the Xbox, Nintendo, and PS layouts? You certainly can’t pick one of the three, that would be lazy and frankly unfair for the other two layouts. It’s got to be something that everyone agrees on, something different!
I’ve got a few ideas: NSEW (the cardinal directions), RGBA (colours, also transparent button could be cool…), or maybe CMYK (printer ink colours for ease of printing)
What are your ideas for the universal controller layout?
as someone who has never had a playstation, knowing now the original semantic meanings of the playstation glyps i think they’re the best compromise IF we go back to their original meanings. they had it right the first time with hlw intuitive it is to have O being confirm and X being cancel, and it’d keep Nintendo people somewhat happy because confirm is still the far right button. maybe they could also release a version with reversed or hotswappable buttons, using the current PS layout (which in this case would be O on the bottom and X on the right) to throw a bone to the xbox crowd because this compromise doesn’t do anything for them otherwise
or like another commenter suggested, we throw out the diamond button layout, too tainted by the competing standards of the console wars, and use the gamecube layout like God intended
Everyone could learn a thing or two from the Steamdeck. The twin sticks, the touch pads, the double shoulder buttons, the four on the back, the overall ergonomics, it’s really great to use.
Ouch, my career
Bring back octagonal gated analog sticks.
It would never catch on, cause people don’t like change :p
But if there was one, it’d probably make sense to go with directions/arrows (←↑↓→) it’d be the least amount of memorization, since everyone from every language can guess that the button you need is the one at the tip of the point in the picture
Those might get mistaken for directional buttons. I had the same thought. Maybe I triangle with the point in the direction of the button, but you may run into the same issue.
I think to avoid that, it might be easiest to just show the four button layout with the correct button highlighted.
That too :3
But any symbols you choose to put on the buttons themselves are gonna be arbitrary mostly
This is what Nintendo does on the Switch when the sideways joycon is supported and it works well. It may break the OP’s rules, though.
Mouse and keyboard,
One joystick, two buttons.
Mr fancy pants over here with his two buttons
Not sure who you’re talking about, I’m wearing my smarty pants.
Xbox adaptive controller
The one Xbox layout (asymmetric sticks) is to me the best.
I don’t see it any other way.Are you by any chance a Nintendo hardware dev and need inspiration? ;)
It would have to be modular and customizable. Whether the buttons can be removed and swapped around like key caps, or the D-pads and sticks are on interchangeable units, users would have to be able to arrange things a few different ways to get literally everyone on board.
It already exists.
The Steam Controller was perfection.
People don’t want to hear it. But you are right.
Whatever the layout, being back the Dreamcast VMU. Maybe we don’t need the external memory anymore, but the little display with extra game details was so cool.
We achieved perfection with the Atari Jaguar and have strayed from its light further every day since
Also shout out for the NegCon
Final unironic answer, the OG Xbox duke is the ultimate layout, maybe the 20th anniversary version
X on the right so nobody is happy
Introduce ‘Ω’ button
placed in the center of the dpad
wipes and restarts connected device on press
touch sensitive
