27th March 2004, 4:03 PM
I haven't bought any, but I got a 3rd party controller as a gift once. Not only do I never use it, no one that comes over to play wants to use it. It's just sorta there for when there's no other option. 3rd party controllers, as far as I can tell, are still notoriously aweful, at least not nearly as good as the 1st party ones. Memory cards are a different issue, but there's a bigger fear there. No one wants to have a massive collection of perfect save files, especially ones at the end of RPGs, suddenly wiped out.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)