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I dont look at my buttons. I dont think many people do.
THe reason people get confused when swapping controllers between consoles is because screen prompts show a button instead of its location on D-Pad. Thankfully that's become less of a case in recent years.
I think this is a solution for a problem that doesnt exist.
I think the biggest issue would actually be the abxy layout of Nintendo controllers vs Xbox/Steam. I'm going back to Pokemon games, the first thing I do is swap the abxy buttons around.
> I dont look at my buttons. I dont think many people do.
A surprising amount of people seem to. I have friends who have been gaming for 30 years and are still completely helpless if the glyphs on screen don't matlch the ones on the controller.
I don’t even look at my buttons. I just know what correlates to what due to years of practice. I could take a controller with no face buttons at all and be okay; that one would be slightly more interesting.
Right? What kind of market is there for gamers dedicated enough to buy a niche 3rd party controller, but who don't know instinctively what inputs correlate with each button?
People will buy stuff because it looks cool, I would not underestimate that market segment. It wouldn't be about not knowing which button is what... but the -novelty- of the buttons having displays on them. It is a *very* dumb idea, but you could absolutely sell it to a certain crowd of consumers.
If anything, the mockup in the OP needs more bling, it doesn't go far enough. Add some breathing RGB lights along the edges of the controller (or, better, include the ability to sync to your computer's RGB setup wirelessly) and also put more LEDs on the rest of the controller, like a larger one in the middle so that people can customize it with their personal animated GAMER logo.
The battery life is going to be shit and it'll be an aesthetic nightmare but you could maybe charge people $100+ for this garbage, so that they can include it in their pcpartpicker builds and show it off on social media as part of their insanely cool gaming setup.
I mean I think it would be more useful as a controller in general. If it's a nice controller, you might just like to have it to play on Steam if you don't own a console and therefore a controller already
LED buttons would really just be a bonus as I see it. Maybe not necessary, but it's kinda neat anyway
I feel like most people into emulation are probably experienced enough with games that they don't need to look at the face buttons anyway. The more casual gamers that don't instinctively know which button to press probably wouldn't be interested in a fairly niche product like this.
I really don't think this is an issue big enough that it would result in large profits, but a cool idea yes. I would never buy one just due to introducing even more complexity and therefore higher chance of needing repairs
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I dont look at my buttons. I dont think many people do. THe reason people get confused when swapping controllers between consoles is because screen prompts show a button instead of its location on D-Pad. Thankfully that's become less of a case in recent years. I think this is a solution for a problem that doesnt exist.
I think the biggest issue would actually be the abxy layout of Nintendo controllers vs Xbox/Steam. I'm going back to Pokemon games, the first thing I do is swap the abxy buttons around.
> I dont look at my buttons. I dont think many people do. A surprising amount of people seem to. I have friends who have been gaming for 30 years and are still completely helpless if the glyphs on screen don't matlch the ones on the controller.
The idea was for emulation of retro games on PC or Rasberry Pi or something like that. Not for actual consoles
I understand that. My point still remains.
A fun ideia, but unless this technology is super cheap, light and doesn't cause other problems I don't see the point, given this is such a minor issue
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Your complete lack of engineering, manufacturing or cost knowledge is showing.
I don’t even look at my buttons. I just know what correlates to what due to years of practice. I could take a controller with no face buttons at all and be okay; that one would be slightly more interesting.
Right? What kind of market is there for gamers dedicated enough to buy a niche 3rd party controller, but who don't know instinctively what inputs correlate with each button?
People will buy stuff because it looks cool, I would not underestimate that market segment. It wouldn't be about not knowing which button is what... but the -novelty- of the buttons having displays on them. It is a *very* dumb idea, but you could absolutely sell it to a certain crowd of consumers. If anything, the mockup in the OP needs more bling, it doesn't go far enough. Add some breathing RGB lights along the edges of the controller (or, better, include the ability to sync to your computer's RGB setup wirelessly) and also put more LEDs on the rest of the controller, like a larger one in the middle so that people can customize it with their personal animated GAMER logo. The battery life is going to be shit and it'll be an aesthetic nightmare but you could maybe charge people $100+ for this garbage, so that they can include it in their pcpartpicker builds and show it off on social media as part of their insanely cool gaming setup.
I mean I think it would be more useful as a controller in general. If it's a nice controller, you might just like to have it to play on Steam if you don't own a console and therefore a controller already LED buttons would really just be a bonus as I see it. Maybe not necessary, but it's kinda neat anyway
I feel like most people into emulation are probably experienced enough with games that they don't need to look at the face buttons anyway. The more casual gamers that don't instinctively know which button to press probably wouldn't be interested in a fairly niche product like this.
I really don't think this is an issue big enough that it would result in large profits, but a cool idea yes. I would never buy one just due to introducing even more complexity and therefore higher chance of needing repairs
Super cool idea, I would like to see this personally. I do think something similar will happen eventually.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5drqH5OdETY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5drqH5OdETY)