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?
Ouch, my career
a modular controller with options for steamcontroller pads. 2 joysticks. 2 dpads. 2 sets of 4 buttons. still got triggers and paddles and every thing is customizable.
cool, but I would imagine the controller to be pretty chonk
if its modular you can add and remove bits. plus you can 3d print the opensource parts so it can be as chonk or as smol as you like
THAT would be cool
as someone who has never had a playstation, knowing now the original semantic meanings of the playstation glyps i think they’re the best compromise IF we go back to their original meanings. they had it right the first time with hlw intuitive it is to have O being confirm and X being cancel, and it’d keep Nintendo people somewhat happy because confirm is still the far right button. maybe they could also release a version with reversed or hotswappable buttons, using the current PS layout (which in this case would be O on the bottom and X on the right) to throw a bone to the xbox crowd because this compromise doesn’t do anything for them otherwise
or like another commenter suggested, we throw out the diamond button layout, too tainted by the competing standards of the console wars, and use the gamecube layout like God intended
I always thought the colors were dumb. Imo this is what the color scheme should be:
A/Circle=Green=Accept=Go
X=Red=Cancel=Stop
B=Blue
Y=Yellow
Put them wherever you want lol and I guess square feels blue and triangle feels yellow (kinda looks like an upside down y and a y has 3 points). It also satisfies the original intent for ps buttons without being confusing since x and circle are represented with the commonly known colors for those things. I personally prefer the asymmetrical Xbox stick/button layout.
And actually now that I’m thinking about it it’d be kinda cool if the triangle was flipped and the square had a horizontal line through it, then circle could be like a lower case a. Then you have both ps AND Nintendo/Xbox labels XD
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The Steam Controller was perfection.
People don’t want to hear it. But you are right.
Steam controller, but swap the buttons/touchpad locations. Everything else is perfect basically.
X on the right so nobody is happy
Introduce ‘Ω’ button
placed in the center of the dpad
wipes and restarts connected device on press
touch sensitive
X-inverted c-stick southpaw
Bring back octagonal gated analog sticks.
Mouse and keyboard,
Ok, but there are more keyboard layouts than controller layouts so the standardization problem is now worse.
Xbox adaptive controller
It would never catch on, cause people don’t like change :p
But if there was one, it’d probably make sense to go with directions/arrows (←↑↓→) it’d be the least amount of memorization, since everyone from every language can guess that the button you need is the one at the tip of the point in the picture
Those might get mistaken for directional buttons. I had the same thought. Maybe I triangle with the point in the direction of the button, but you may run into the same issue.
I think to avoid that, it might be easiest to just show the four button layout with the correct button highlighted.
This is what Nintendo does on the Switch when the sideways joycon is supported and it works well. It may break the OP’s rules, though.
That too :3
But any symbols you choose to put on the buttons themselves are gonna be arbitrary mostly
It would have to be modular and customizable. Whether the buttons can be removed and swapped around like key caps, or the D-pads and sticks are on interchangeable units, users would have to be able to arrange things a few different ways to get literally everyone on board.
