Not a chance. The joystick placement on the Dualshocks is bad, the select button is a little too hard to hit, and the buttons don't have the feedback that the 360 buttons have. Only thing that was superior was the D pad and the shoulder buttons were better contorted.
Dude the xbox 360 abxy buttons respond slower than a drunk old lady compared to the dualshock, the only advantage the 360 has is the thumbstick buttons are snappier and the analog triggers are nice
Maybe but at least their controllers hold up, I've gone through two Duals myself and have yet to break an 360 controller, even though I've thrown it a couple of times. Hell, I need to get a picture of what I did to the joystick because of how much it got used.
At any rate, can't wait for some demo of this Steam gamepad. Lets give it a chance to do its thing before we make a huge judgement on it (like the Xbone)
Well I've seen all my Xbox friends go through at least 2-3 controllers. One of my friends broke two of the wireless Xbox360 controllers, then he broke his wired one, and now all he has is 2 knockoff wired controllers that are starting to break also.My girlfriends brother was on his second or third Xbox controller before he got the R2-D2/C3PO special edition and he's been very careful with that. Everyone else I know with Xbox360's are VERY careful with their controllers because they're terrified it will break, so it's really strange to hear you talking about them like their superior.
I still have the first Dualshock controller I got with my PS3 4-5 years ago and the controller stick is just starting to break, despite the controller being thrown and dropped all over the place. I think the flaw in most Xbox controllers is their battery pack because usually it's right where the battery connects where the controller breaks, or the controller just stops working for some reason. The design of the Dualshocks alone looks more wear-and-tear-proof than the strange shape of the Xbox controller. The Dualshocks tend to roll more when they hit the ground where the Xbox controller hits the ground and might do a flip or two if it lands right but it just always looks like it hurt the controller more when a Xbox controller falls vs a PS controller. IMO.
Honestly the controllers durability is irrelevant though because everyone treats their controllers different. IE mine usually remains dormant in a drawer until I pull it out to play and then it is returned to a drawer or connected to the PS3 to charge. It's had many tumbles and falls but aside from the one time the plastic ring around the left control stick chipped it's still in perfect condition and works at 100% capacity.
Can't say anything about response time, I think you guys are hallucinating about that one. If there's a difference, it's down to a few miliseconds and I doubt you guys can really notice that. I do prefer PS3 buttons over Xbox ones though, I don't like how spherical the Xbox buttons are and it makes me feel like they're not pressure sensitive where the PS3 buttons (square, tri, X and circle) are flattened and just feel more comfortable to me. I also prefer the Dualshock triggers as to RIGHT BUMPER AND RIGHT TRIGGER. Fuck that, it's R1 and R2 and when I'm playing Xbox and it asks me to press RB I lose my shit. I can easily play with both of them but the Xbox controller has always looked and felt like a joke to me, like they tried really hard to be original by moving the controller stick and flipping the R2 buttons around but hey it works for the millions of people playing COD with it so I guess it's alright.
Then we've got this beauty.
I'm sure there will be other variations but I can't wait, it just looks like it will be fun to use and mess around with when setting key bindings.
The first controller that won't spaz out and move on it's own when dropped or left upside down on a couch, because no more sticks! No more applying delicate pressure to a control stick to get that perfect balance between running and creeping.
It's completely impossible that anyone could ever properly design a controller in a useful fashion
Oh, poor soul, it looks like you have not basked in the glory of the Nintendo Gamecube's controller, shit was so comfortable.
Oh I have, and I loved the GC controller and continued using all four that I owned to play SSBB on my Wii up until this past year. The only problem with GC controllers is the single analog stick and single back triggers. While the controller was innovative and comfortable it lacked all the proper buttons to make it a 5-star controller. I wondered if developers refused to make games for GC simply because of it's lack of extra buttons (like select too), because of the tiny disc size or because it was just Nintendo.
The WiiU pro controller is pretty nice too, it's like a Dualshock/Xbox crossover controller and it's really sleek and sexy. It's basically how I thought Xbox should of made their controllers. If you haven't seen it yet here's a peak.
So anywho, I would not call Steam's controller a Gamepad, because that makes me think of the WiiU's controller which is a form of pad, but this is a controller that has "touch-pads" as it's controller sticks, but you get what I mean. Those of us that will have to use it, will more than likely enjoy it. Those of us who refuse to use it, will probably go on living their lives the same way as before.