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Isn't this more of a developer issue and what they do to set up their control schemes rather than an actual layout of the controller issue?

 

I've never really had an issue with the layouts of buttons, analogue sticks however i have, even back with the ps2 i started to find the sticks were at an uncomfortable position in relation the hand grips, and at certain tilts your thumb was stretched a bit too much

 

As a side point why AB XY? AB are self explanatory the first two letters of the alphabet, but why XY? why not YZ? sure we eventually got Z added but why XY?

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As a side point why AB XY? AB are self explanatory the first two letters of the alphabet, but why XY? why not YZ? sure we eventually got Z added but why XY?

 

Maybe "CD", when pronounced by a Japanese in English, is phonetically equal or close to an offensive or tabooed Japanese word?

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Perhaps:

 

abcd.jpg

 

ABCD was a logical option, however, if you wanted to add a third set of buttons later on:

 

abecdf.jpgabcdef.jpg

 

Either you have to change the existing buttons or make it look stupid, but with ABXY...

 

abxy.jpgabcxyz.jpg

 

You can add a third set of buttons later on. The order of the letters still make sense and you don't have to alter the layout of the existing buttons.

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A and B = first two letters of the alphabet. So, I understand that. Could have easily been 1 and 2. Maybe it was thought at the time that people responded better to letters than numbers? Possibly.

 

X and Y like the axis of a graph. That's how I always saw it. It's probably wrong but that's how I've always seen it.

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As with Cubes post you can get the answer to "why x and y and not y and z"

 

With X and Y if a 3rd pair of buttons was added Z would make a logical progression keep it in order and without the need to change positions of teh existing buttons.

 

If they went with Y and Z and then in the future thought they might add a 3rd pair there's no letter after Z. So if they went back to X they'd end up with YZX which would be out of logical order (brains remember orders best when in a logical order) or they could have put it in the order of XYZ but would have to move Y and Z to different positions which could confuse people if they had become used to the YZ format.

 

 

Did that make sense?

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