Comment Re:They say a picture is worth a thousand words... (Score 1) 59
Regardless of who came first, Sony's design is objectively worse.
What are the most used elements to control a game? Left analog stick and face buttons. Therefore, they should get the "sweet spots" of the controller, to be more accessible, more reachable. Sony's design fucks up by making the d-pad more prominent, to detriment of the left stick.
This only made sense as a quick and cheap way to add analog sticks to a controller that wasn't originally planned for that. But after the first version, Sony was just stubborn or lazy to insist on that clearly inferior arrangement.
And about the letters, that's the way the Dreamcast had them, and that's the best console ever. So there.