Time traveler accidentally moves a chair:

And it happened again!
- This was already real though...
  
  im going to be sick
  
  I've actually used that.
  I love the concept of getting rid of the 3 prong disaster, but the past of me that gets given absolutely nuts by asymmetry gates the way it feels in my hand.
  It gets partial credit for at least making it fully wield-able, but drive nothing to advantage of it (because it couldn't since this was like .000000001% of all controllers made), the benefit was useless, and the downside hurt even more because of that.
- Ah yes, the two input options, + and O
  
  Good God.
  
  The actual Dreamcast controller was a fucking mess, fight me about it. Such a garbage blob.
- That actually looks cute.
- Both of those make way more sense then they have any right to.
- But this one is what it should've been.
- Kind of love this tbh
- Six face buttons need to make a comeback. And no the shoulder buttons or the stick clicks are not exactly the same and the d-pad as non-move buttons sucks because you have to release the left stick. I want more buttons to assign items to like in Ocarina of Time. Like Echoes of Wisdom could have used a few extra buttons to assign echoes to.

I mean, a timeline where Sony actually kept working together with Nintendo on the SNES add-on is kinda plausible.
- But then we would have never gotten the classic that is Hotel Mario.
- Probably a timeline that kills Sega before they can make a Dreamcast.
  
  That's the nightmare scenario, where the video game industry is controlled by one player, the Nintendo-Sony joint.

Prototype PS controllers were wild.
- They look like alternate 3D0 controllers.
- Are the buttons in #3 shaped like the 4chan logo??

In this universe, the Rez vibrator is built into every controller.
- Like this rezz?
  https://music.apple.com/ch/artist/rezz/1046759940?l=en-GB
  Yea, those are great vibrations!
  So hyped seeing her at rampage!

And yet people would still hold it incorrectly.
- C'mon man... I need The Claw to run, jump, attack and move the camera all at once. 😩

I kind of miss having a three handed controller. I never know what to do with the extra now.

I wanna see this but with Sega ABC/XYZ buttons instead :D
- It's not like there's no potential for a coalition of people in the fediverse to make their own console with one of the single board computers that are on the market, we'd just need games, basically.

Idk if Sony would actively make the worlds worst controller even in an alternate timeline
- A lot of people really liked that N64 controller, though I feel it would have been an unnecessary design if that Z button wasn't included.
  
  Resident N64 pad defender here. It's fine to dislike the controller, but I'm never really sure if the "I don't have three hands!" complaint is a joke or just based on people who never played any N64 games or what.
  You're not supposed to use all three prongs, ever. It's just a hedge-betting controller. Nintendo was afraid people wouldn't like the new, 3D style of game control and would demand a return to traditional D-pad input.
  The N64 controller was their solution: if 3D movement is just a fad that dies out, well, move your hand over a couple of inches and forget about the analog stick. Now you've basically got a SNES pad with six face buttons and better ergonomics.
  Obviously, 3D took over that whole generation and there's probably less than 10 games that need D-pad movement, so it ended up being fairly pointless in hindsight. But I can't argue with anybody who starts their design process with "What if gamers hate this new style of input?" because when don't they.
  
  Hell no lol. It always made my hand cramp and lock up and it came out when I was 11 or so. And the thumb stick giving kids blisters because it's just a plastic stick with no soft rubber on top. Like wtf is that choice?
  
  N64 has less buttons to work with than it's predecessor due to this stupid three handle set up. And 99% of games are made with analog stick in mind, so I can't imagine a scenerio in which holding it is at all comfortable. I don't know what is there to like here, it's a step down in every way.
- I would say the DualShock is worse; never liked the placement of the thumb sticks at the bottom but apparently that's just me.
  
  daaaaang. i like the dualshock 2 and 4. the 3 was garbagio
  
  Personally I don't see how Dualshock's subjectively sub-optimal analog stick pla–ement compares to N64's mess of a controller.

the alternate universe where the sony actually made that CD drive for the snes