Origional Xbox controller=horrible, a disgrace to controllers everywhere.

Xbox controller S=a very large inprovement, but still not quite up to par with Gamecube's.

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I like the Gamecube controller if the Z button is not necessary, but if you need to use the Z button it sucks. I had to go out and buy the Mad Cats controller because I would have had to take Yoga to hit the Z button on the normal controller. Very poor design where that button is concerned.

I still like the XBox controller, and I think most people wouldn't mind it if they gave it some time and let their hands get used to it.

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Agreed. The Z button is horrid, and why isn't there one on the left side.

The C stick and D pad are quite awful too.

Other than that it's a good controller.

Yep, there should have been two Z-buttons. I still reckon the black and white buttons on the Xbox controller (both the S and normal) are around as awkward to press as the Z button, but none of those buttons are as badly placed as people make them out to be.

In the Z-buttons case, very rarely do the R and Z button have to be pressed at the same time, so I just use my index finger for both buttons (though I rest it on the R button all the time). You just have to stretch you finger back, but just as much as you have to strech your thumb up/down for the black and white buttons on the normal/S controller.

Another thing that should have been on the GC controller were the clickable analogue sticks, which should also be tougher to press on the DS2/Xbox controllers.

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I don't have a problem with the size as much as the button layout or controller design. Everyone I've met have big enough hands to use the thing, they just find it kinda weird and non-practical.

i cant use the s type its to compact i fat finger the white and black buttons

I prefer the normal one becuase of the placing of the white and black buttons, the s type are in a bad position

the xbox controler isnt that bad
at least its not as bulky as it could be

ex steel battalion controler now that was a controler:)