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Have you noticed that controllers are user friendly with right handed people. I maybe right handed but what would my gaming life be like if i was left handed?
The 64 controller is evidence of right handed favoritism as the main buttons are on the right side of it. Now I know that Left handers say that they have no problem with the controllers but are they enjoying the same gaming experience as the right handed people. A new problem now arises with the use of 2 analogue sticks as one is on the right side and one is on the left so gamers might be moving characters with their weaker hand.
Of course there is a solution, Developers could make games use both analogue sticks or if they already do then there could be an option to switch which one did what.
Left handed people deserve to have the same experiences as the right handed people. So maybe it is about time people like Sony and Nintendo should take these people into account when producing controllers. Should they make Left handed controllers?
But then they need to release two sets of consoles one with Left handed controllers and one with right. So is there another way?
What do you think?
Here's to the future
Dringo
The 64 controller is evidence of right handed favoritism as the main buttons are on the right side of it. Now I know that Left handers say that they have no problem with the controllers but are they enjoying the same gaming experience as the right handed people. A new problem now arises with the use of 2 analogue sticks as one is on the right side and one is on the left so gamers might be moving characters with their weaker hand.
Of course there is a solution, Developers could make games use both analogue sticks or if they already do then there could be an option to switch which one did what.
Left handed people deserve to have the same experiences as the right handed people. So maybe it is about time people like Sony and Nintendo should take these people into account when producing controllers. Should they make Left handed controllers?
But then they need to release two sets of consoles one with Left handed controllers and one with right. So is there another way?
What do you think?
Here's to the future
Dringo
I play the piano left-handed, and I type left-handed, by the way.
Lots of left handers around here aren't there? (myself included). I agree with FM - the cutlery analogy is very true. I tend to be ampidexterous most of the time though, with the excpetion of writing and drawing - but hopefully I won't have to write ever again now the age of computers is upon us ;)
I'm also left handed, and the only problem I've come across is that with some of the Mario Party mini-games, I can't press the buttons quite as quickly with my right, as I could with my left.
But hey, I still nearly always beat the opposition when it comes to who won most coins in mini-games, so I don't suffer that badly!
But hey, I still nearly always beat the opposition when it comes to who won most coins in mini-games, so I don't suffer that badly!
Lefties don't get it too bad. There was a left handed mode on Turok: Dinosaur Hunter!
Ha. We Have this 'Suuper Pad 64 Plus' in our house and unlike most other Nintendo 64 controllers, official or not, it has two sticks, well, one big bulgy one and another smaller one. And because it isn't exactly the ideal pad to play multi-player Goldeneye with we used to say it was left-handed, but it doesn't stop there...my younger brother...being 10 has not officially entered the world we call gaming and always wants to play with me and my elder brother...Oh we let him...on one condition....remember the black pad I mentioned about 90 words back...he uses that....of course it doesn't say on the pad that it is 'left-handed' cause it isn't! But we say that so he'll use the pad!!!
The moral of this story is: Don't get stuck with a dodgy pad, pawn it off to your younger brethren and have a blast!
...TAKE ADVANTAGE!!!!!
Game
You don't want a crap pad ds
Ha. We Have this 'Suuper Pad 64 Plus' in our house and unlike most other Nintendo 64 controllers, official or not, it has two sticks, well, one big bulgy one and another smaller one. And because it isn't exactly the ideal pad to play multi-player Goldeneye with we used to say it was left-handed, but it doesn't stop there...my younger brother...being 10 has not officially entered the world we call gaming and always wants to play with me and my elder brother...Oh we let him...on one condition....remember the black pad I mentioned about 90 words back...he uses that....of course it doesn't say on the pad that it is 'left-handed' cause it isn't! But we say that so he'll use the pad!!!
The moral of this story is: Don't get stuck with a dodgy pad, pawn it off to your younger brethren and have a blast!
...TAKE ADVANTAGE!!!!!
Game
You don't want a crap pad ds
The least people are left handers, but they should design controls for both.
Im left handed AND highly intelligent so i prove FM's point nicely :-)
You seem to be going on a bit about controllers recently Dringo, life that boring eh? :-)
I think that it doesnt matter to me what handed the controller is, if i can still use it i dont care. I dont think it detracts anything from my gaming pleasure if i have to use a right handed controller. Ive been playing games since the days of the SNES, i've grown up with it, its not really an issue.
You seem to be going on a bit about controllers recently Dringo, life that boring eh? :-)
I think that it doesnt matter to me what handed the controller is, if i can still use it i dont care. I dont think it detracts anything from my gaming pleasure if i have to use a right handed controller. Ive been playing games since the days of the SNES, i've grown up with it, its not really an issue.
My left handed friend can beat me, quite easily, at Perfect Dark.
(But that doesn't prove anything. Anybody can beat you easily.)
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(But that doesn't prove anything. Anybody can beat you easily.)
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I think controllers are neither right handed or left handed, like a car steering wheel, you hold it in both hands and I don't think the case really applies here.
Another analogy, if we do accept that controllers aren't ambidexterous, is the knife and fork.
MOST, but not all, left handers (moi included), use a knife and fork right-handed because that was the way we were brought up, it was table etiquette, so we stuck with it and got used to it and so now it's second nature. You could say the same with a controller, except for the fact that you do have a point that with the analogue sticks we do have the 'strong' hand issue, but the control is so gentle in most cases that I wouldn't have thought this was a factor.
So for controllers, I don't think they need special design for south paws.
Left handers are highly intelligent.
Another analogy, if we do accept that controllers aren't ambidexterous, is the knife and fork.
MOST, but not all, left handers (moi included), use a knife and fork right-handed because that was the way we were brought up, it was table etiquette, so we stuck with it and got used to it and so now it's second nature. You could say the same with a controller, except for the fact that you do have a point that with the analogue sticks we do have the 'strong' hand issue, but the control is so gentle in most cases that I wouldn't have thought this was a factor.
So for controllers, I don't think they need special design for south paws.
Left handers are highly intelligent.
Have you noticed that controllers are user friendly with right handed people. I maybe right handed but what would my gaming life be like if i was left handed?
The 64 controller is evidence of right handed favoritism as the main buttons are on the right side of it. Now I know that Left handers say that they have no problem with the controllers but are they enjoying the same gaming experience as the right handed people. A new problem now arises with the use of 2 analogue sticks as one is on the right side and one is on the left so gamers might be moving characters with their weaker hand.
Of course there is a solution, Developers could make games use both analogue sticks or if they already do then there could be an option to switch which one did what.
Left handed people deserve to have the same experiences as the right handed people. So maybe it is about time people like Sony and Nintendo should take these people into account when producing controllers. Should they make Left handed controllers?
But then they need to release two sets of consoles one with Left handed controllers and one with right. So is there another way?
What do you think?
Here's to the future
Dringo
The 64 controller is evidence of right handed favoritism as the main buttons are on the right side of it. Now I know that Left handers say that they have no problem with the controllers but are they enjoying the same gaming experience as the right handed people. A new problem now arises with the use of 2 analogue sticks as one is on the right side and one is on the left so gamers might be moving characters with their weaker hand.
Of course there is a solution, Developers could make games use both analogue sticks or if they already do then there could be an option to switch which one did what.
Left handed people deserve to have the same experiences as the right handed people. So maybe it is about time people like Sony and Nintendo should take these people into account when producing controllers. Should they make Left handed controllers?
But then they need to release two sets of consoles one with Left handed controllers and one with right. So is there another way?
What do you think?
Here's to the future
Dringo