First, thereвЂ™s that touch pad, which youвЂ™re far more likely to press by accident in most games than for anything you might want to do on purpose (although maybe this can be blamed on a lack of creativity from developers). But the arrival of the DualShock 4 brought unnecessary embellishments, and wrecked the beautiful efficiency of earlier models. The PlayStation controller is like a crocodile вЂ“ itвЂ™s remained pretty much unchanged through years of evolution because the designers nailed its shape and format the first time around. The coup de grГўce was the extra white and black buttons, marooned so far up the controller they may as well not have existed. Accidentally hitting B, inexplicably directly above A, was a regular occurrence and all the buttons were pill shaped because, what, it looked cool? Who knows. The four main A, B, X and Y buttons were needlessly slanted, which made it needlessly hard to move from A (at the bottom) to Y (at the top). Still, weвЂ™re here for the buttons and boy were there some wrong вЂuns here. Its oversized design was hated by most gamers and it also possessed one of the all-time worst D-Pads. Nicknamed вЂThe DukeвЂ™, the original Xbox controller is an infamous misstep in gaming history. вЂњWhat did I do wrong, Shigeru? Senpai!вЂќ Andy Vandervell (Almost) every button on the original Xbox controller Z and R hung out in fashionable bars downtown while L stood outside in the rain, wondering what it ever did to anger the gaming gods so much. The three-pronged controller design made it a third wheel in a salacious tryst between the stout, reliable R and the exciting, dangerous and titillating Z-trigger вЂ“ a glorious button immortalised by this publication not long ago. ItвЂ™s not that the left shoulder button (L) on the N64 controller was a bad button вЂ“ it was fine. James Temperton The N64вЂ™s left shoulder button

That combination makes these vile little chunks of mushy spring and ill-shaped plastic the most abominable buttons to ever adorn a DualShock controller. And the inwards slant of the button also made it needlessly hard to find and press. On the DualShock 3, firing a gun felt like pulling a trigger made of jam.

A good trigger should make you feel like youвЂ™re performing a decisive action вЂ“ whether youвЂ™re shooting or accelerating, the feedback needs to be just right. And why did they slant inwards rather than outwards? The L2 and R2 triggers on the DualShock 3 were so reviled they created a secondary market in вЂњtrigger capsвЂќ вЂ“ a futile attempt to fix the unfixable. The controllers we once loved have become more like a prison, and so now weвЂ™ve pulled together our ranking of the worst video game controller buttons of all time. Those were halcyon days вЂ“ a more optimistic time, when everything was looking up, and we werenвЂ™t spending every single evening on the sofa tethered to our games console. Late last year, the WIRED office went into meltdown in an argument over the best video game controller buttons of all time.

Ps1 controller button layout