Are The Video Game Controllers Getting Harder To Use?

I mean in the 80s when we had classic nintendo, there was a D-pad, Start, Select, A button, & a B button.Then each console got more buttons.The Nintendo 64 introduced the control stick.Gamecube has 2 control sticks and various buttons.The Wii has a remote-like item and a numbchuck part.Do you think it was easier to know the controllers on the past consoles?

2007-08-13 11:53:19 Kirstin-Weisgarber says: The newer controllers have more buttons so you can do o much more in videogames these days baseball buttons. Your character can do more functions than back in the 80s baseball buttons. like Mario could only run, dash, jump, duck, & throw fireballs back in 1985(my year of birth)in 1996, he could jump in various ways, punch, kick, crawl, flip, & slide. Now he could probably do even more with more buttons and controllers.

2007-08-13 12:04:37 Avril-Fry says: DEFINITELY!!! I find I can't play games like Halo. The whole concept of using one joystick to choose your direction and using another to physically move boggles my mind. And it's not like I'm an inexperienced old fogie either!! NES and SNES were too simplistic. Sega Genesis was slightly better. N64 was great, GameCube was mostly good. Xbox and PS really depend on the game. Haven't tried Wii yet...I guess I am old now :'( baseball buttons. I'm guessing I'm the only person looking at this who remembers the launch of SNES, while owning a NES...just looked it up, apparently I was a couple months old when NES came out here, and 5 when SNES hit baseball buttons. So old... :'( I say this not to share my life story but to show that when you grow up with the simpler technology, the more advanced can go over your head! This must be what my parents feel like! :P baseball buttons.

2007-08-13 11:51:15 Robt-Milne says: I think the controllers are getting harder to use, but they are making the harder games easier to play. If you're a veteran gamer, the more buttons the better. If you're a beginner, the new controllers can be pretty scary.

2007-08-13 11:52:17 Jae-Eisaman says:

• Playstation has been using the same controller litterly for 13 yrs.
• now!!!!!
• How long does it take to learn where the buttons are located?!?!?!!??

2007-08-13 11:54:49 Ellen-Townsend says: U know they may have more buttons but I think they're way easier than the past ones.For me the past ones were easy but these ones r more easier.

2007-08-13 11:47:58 Hazel-Highlands says: maybe cuz then it was more simple

2007-08-13 11:52:53 Chi-Tilton says: because of the how simple the games were then all they needed was that simple controler but now to get more interactive with the game and open newer possiblities of what you can controll they added more buttons and even motion sensory to them.. which does make em much more complex looking but once you geta hold of em for a while you adapt and learn pretty easily... even little kids can do it

2007-08-13 11:53:37 Geoffrey-King says: controllers of the past were vary easy to use but for me just to simple, now a days its the ps3 is easy plus its got the shake and motion sensore is difficult. i thought i would never get used to the wii but i though zelda for the wii was pretty easy but hard game takes a while to get used to though