The Best First Party Controllers, EVER! — Pug Hoof Gaming

When you think about it, game controllers are the most important thing about video games. After all, if you haven’t got a jump button, how is Mario going to jump? Without that Start button, you’d just be endlessly watching Street Fighter II’s attract screens. So yeah, pads are important, right? Glad you agree.

But controllers aren’t all created equal. Everyone had a third party pad they’d make friends use when they were houseguests, while you use the superior first party pad, but we’re not talking about unofficial pads — Not this time, anyway. There are some control methods that make the simple act of playing a game that bit more enjoyable, and these are some of the ones that I love using the most.

We’re going to start off with something current, Microsoft’s latest pad. The standard Xbox 360 controller was a real upgrade from the two different controllers for the original Xbox, but the Xbox One’s pad was somehow even better.

Having the dual analog sticks out of alignment might have had more to do with being different to Sony’s original Dual Shock design, but I always found Microsoft’s design much more comfortable (after all, D-pads are rarely used for common actions). On that note, the Dpad is a much better design than the skin-shredding Dpads that Sony continually uses (in my opinion, of…