7th December 2005, 2:26 PM
The black and white buttons were not very well named. Being moved around didn't help. Now they have a more conventional name.
Keep in mind the SNES and NES controllers, and the DS, and everything else Nintendo has made, do some sort of reverse alphabet thing. B and then A. Well, Japanese people read backwards.
Someone: It's not backwards to them!
DJ: Duh, but to US it is, and that's who I'm talking with. It's just a fact, relative to us, they read backwards.
I will say this. Even with the GCN, total newbies to gaming look at the controller to see where the buttons are.
There will still be a few hours of learning curve for those who have never played a game in their lives with the revolution. Even with two (reasonably usable) buttons, they will be looking for a bit.
Keep in mind the SNES and NES controllers, and the DS, and everything else Nintendo has made, do some sort of reverse alphabet thing. B and then A. Well, Japanese people read backwards.
Someone: It's not backwards to them!
DJ: Duh, but to US it is, and that's who I'm talking with. It's just a fact, relative to us, they read backwards.
I will say this. Even with the GCN, total newbies to gaming look at the controller to see where the buttons are.
There will still be a few hours of learning curve for those who have never played a game in their lives with the revolution. Even with two (reasonably usable) buttons, they will be looking for a bit.
"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)