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?
Ok that bottom image is interesting. It certainly looks a little more trigger-like. I dunno what console that is, but I think it’s noteworthy that the PS2 controller has convex buttons for both R1 and R2. And even the PS5 seems to have only gone so far as making the button relatively flat:
With a steep convex bump out at the top, and a very gentle concave curve (much too gentle IMO to still be described as “similar to a gun trigger”) across the rest. Personally, I don’t particularly like the idea of naming the buttons in a way that is dependent on minute details of design like whether it is convex or concave. It’s unintuitive and particularly if you throw third-party controllers into the mix, could lead to the names being even more misleading and unintuitive.