We may not think a lot about controllers but there are peaople who spend their lives designing them and here we look at how they compare. We were all impressed with the first Xbox but with it came a controller referred to as the duke controller.

It turned out that Microsoft got it wrong and the Duke was far too large and bulky and it hurt people’s hands. In response they quickly released a different design which was more acceptable to the public and is more like the one now used in the Xbox 360.

The the Xbox 360 version is now the best for comfort in your hand and may be the one which you are happy to play with. The Playstation 3 controller in use today is not as new as it might look.

It is not very different from the familiar one we had with the PS2 with some changes internally. The original PS3 controller was more revolutionary but the new control layout was soon abandoned.

The talk is that it wasn’t as simple and easy to use as the established PS2 controller. The right descision may have been made in the end though there will be many sleepless nights when they release their next games platform.

The PS3 controller does an adequate job but a new system will mean people expect high standards with the control systems in any new games console released. There are fewer customers with spare money these days and it may be we will have to wait some time so we may have to be patient to get what we want.

The most game changing brand is currently the Wii games systems from Nintendo which changed the market. The wii bundle comes with a wiimote and this being very different is nothing like everything you thought you knew about games controls.

Nintendo’s wiimote is such a change than anything we had seen before or had thought about as ways of how we could control the games we like to play. They are more advanced than anything else we have seen introduced on games systems in the last two decades.

Technology sometimes puts cleverness over customer appreciation but here it is great fun for us as gamers and it has the potential to take gaming to a whole new level. The wii and the wii fit bundle proved there are more important features than just the graphics chips used in the Wii but they ignored this game changing controller.

It will be fascinating to discover whatever the eighth generation of and if price is no problem these are the ones to get. Chances are they will all be interactive and who knows what new features they might offer us and give us a whole new era in gaming enjoyment.

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