*complains*

[The Former DMiller]

I see Lazy's point, but I also see the point some are making that it is a standard layout. SNES, Xbox, and the DS all have the same A,B,X,Y layout so if you've played any of them for any length of time I don't see why it is so difficult to remember where they are. Those black and white buttons on the first Xbox controller are a different story, though. I do agree, though, that shape does help in a major way to memorize button locations on a new controller. Most of the early Cube games I played included a picture of the button on-screen instead of just stating the letter of the button, which helps immensely to quickly memorize the locations. Every controller should have a mix of colors, letters (not shapes), and slightly different feels to provide for the shortest learning curve. Even if a controller doesn't have all of these things (and no current console controllers do) that doesn't mean that the controllers aren't designed well. It just means it might take a little while longer to learn them.