Quote Originally Posted by A Black Falcon View Post
Why do you care so much if you can access buttons that you have no need to access in the games where you hold it that way?
Because then the game developers would have been free to use more buttons.

I don't see what is gained by forcing the d-pad and analog stick to be completely separate. What detriment would there have been to putting the analog stick by the d-pad and eliminating the middle prong? The only downside I see is it would eliminate the middle + left prong control option, which I don't recall any game really using.

Here's why I don't like it. Look again at the "right way to hold it" picture:



That is not a natural position to keep your hands in. They're not at the same angle, or the same distance from your body. It just doesn't feel right; it's weird and diagonal. Almost every other controller has you holding your hands in a normal side by side position -- with the few exceptions being controllers that are mostly panned by gamers, like the Intellivision. This is no coincidence.