Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!debri From: debri@dds.nl (DEnnis Brinkhuis) Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: how do you do, PS2? Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 00:41:40 +0200 Organization: DEbri Lines: 23 Message-ID: <1dy5bwm.1omcabb98nfq2N@[194.151.88.142]> References: <7rilo6$g0d7@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <7rjlhh$g0d16@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <7rk19h$g0d18@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <867lluja67.fsf@foo.mel.cybec.com.au> <7rl62j$g0d20@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <7rli78$g0d23@chuka.playstation.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: a1-88-106.a1.nl X-Newsreader: MacSOUP 2.3 Derek da Silva wrote: > Nintendo are investing a lot of effort into designing a new pad for > Dolphin while it's fair too say Sony have been a little lazy in the > controller dept. Dual Shock owes a lot to Nintendo's SNES pad design, > and it was a little short sighted not to have included analogue from > the beginning. I guess having successfully weaned players off digital > and bearing in mind backwards compatibility, a major controller redesign > would've been too much hassle. What is the fuzz about? It's good for them and good for us... The fact that they did not start of directly with dual shock is in my eyes a commercial decision. And I can't blaim them. I'f youre not using a memcard or rumblepack on a N64, your controller looks incomplete. You need to pay for the rumblepack and if I'm right you even need to put batteries in there. And a joypad that concists of more that one part does not sound really robuust to me. When I loose, I sometimes trow away my controller, and with nintendo I think I could break the controller. It never happened to me with one of the PSX controllers.. DEnnis..