[MuGen]

well... lemme present what I think of this....

the SNES has A B X Y then two shoulder buttons, R and L...and a one-part D pad...

The original PS has... X, Box, Triangle, Square, 4 Shoulder buttons...

it's a possibility that Sony may have been inspired to use shoulder buttons only because what else would you use your middle and index finger for.... its there and you can put more features in a game with a console with more buttons, and not hard to reach buttons too.

But keep in mind NES was like the first console... a classic one, and it basically paved the way with controller design...

So would it be fair to say Xbox stole the design of their controller from a mix of PS and Nintendo with Analog like Sony controllers, Shoulder buttons like Nintendo, black and white to serve as the Z button for Nintendo and such?

All controllers have their own distinctive layout and it's not fair to say anyone stole from Nintendo because Nintendo was the first console probably all of us bought...

Playstation's original controller also had grip stems on the right and left, the original SNES was a rounded rectangle...