Is Nintendo making an enormous misstep with the Switch Pro Controller?

Here's some context: I'm a person who loves my WiiU Pro controller. I've been using an adapter to make it show up as an Xbox360 controller on my PC, so any game that has controller support sees it as such, and it can freely intermingle with 360 controllers on PC. I love it. It has an 80 hour battery life, it's lightweight, and the rumble functionality is great. It's truly remarkable.

Whenever I play local multiplayer games with friends, people complain about the WiiU controllers because "the buttons are in the wrong place," and time and time again I have insisted that "the buttons are in the same place relative to the stick".

The WiiU Pro Controller has the closest button to your thumb if you roll it down as the "A" button, and the "x" button if you roll to the side.

The Xbox 360 controller has the closest button to your thumb as the "A" button, and if you roll your thumb up, you get the "X" button.

The Switch, however, has placed the stick in the Xbox 360 positioning without amending the button layout at all. This is in keeping with past nintendo games back to super nintendo, and will work fine if you are meant to use these buttons without the right stick, but once you need to use a stick and then Press the "A" button to jump or the "x" button to reload, you've suddenly confused a great number of controller users, and the natural roll of your thumb no longer makes sense.

Beyond that, you can remap the button functionality, but now you've created a disparity between what buttons do what, especially in 3rd party content.

Couple this with the information that No previous controller can be used with the switch and you're both asking for a large investment from your consumers who may already have been the only ones who bought into the WiiU and supported that system, and also asking them to throw out their old controllers that are ostensibly the exact same as your new ones with slightly different feel.

This design, coupled with a "lets start fresh" philosophy, probably starts Nintendo out on yet another bad foot for a console launch.

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