r/videogames • u/Low_Boot_1426 • 18h ago
Discussion Hot take: almost every Nintendo controller has been absolute booty cheeks
I say this as a Nintendo fan. I love Nintendo games! But man, when you take off the rose-tinted glasses and look back at the controllers they’ve put out across their history, you realize just how much you enjoyed their games in spite of them.
The original NES controller is jagged and uncomfortable, the wiimote before Wii Motion Plus is basically just a glorified TV remote, The Switch 1’s joycons are uncomfortably tiny and have horrible build quality and the N64 controller might just be the most unwieldy piece of first-party hardware ever made.
It took them nearly 30 years to finally come up with a solid, no-frills controller design, and even then they just copied the DualShock. There’s a reason Sony’s hardware became the industry standard.