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A look inside the SNES, PS5, and Xbox controllers with CT scans

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Re: A look inside the SNES, PS5, and Xbox controllers with CT scans

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Post by PretzelPirate »

WhereIsTheTruth wrote: post #9

DualShock controllers are the best, tactile, haptic feedback and gyroscope Nintendo's joycons also pretty novel, you just clip them on your console in/out and you unlock new ways to play, OP should have included them too, I'm curious now.. a shame its build quality is one of the worst of this decade Xbox's one is pretty basic and conservative, wich is a shame..

I don't want controllers to keep changing. I love the Xbox controller.

I also have a PS5 and a switch, but those controllers don't feel good in my hand. The PS5 haptics don't add much IMO, but hurt battery life enough that I'd rather just turn them off.

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Post by endisneigh »

guhidalg wrote: post #10
MichaelEstes wrote: post #7

Does anyone know how accurate these are to the raw data a CT scan produces, it looks really clean, has it been touched up any significant amount or is this actually the quality of the machines?

I've seen slightly better scans from the Lumafield machine I have access to at $DAYJOB, but only slightly better. The scans shown here are very high quality. You don't get access to raw data, assuming you mean something like individual X-ray images. The service runs the tomography on some cluster in the cloud and you get access to the reconstruction through a web app.

Radiologist?

Re: A look inside the SNES, PS5, and Xbox controllers with CT scans

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Post by guhidalg »

endisneigh wrote: post #12
guhidalg wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've seen slightly better scans from the Lumafield machine I have access to at $DAYJOB, but only slightly better. The scans shown here are very high quality. You don't get access to raw data, assuming you mean something like individual X-ray images. The service runs the tomography on some cluster in the cloud and you get access to the reconstruction through a web app.

Radiologist?

No, I am a software engineer at a writing instruments company... long story.

Re: A look inside the SNES, PS5, and Xbox controllers with CT scans

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Post by CSMastermind »

FloatArtifact wrote: post #2

It's a shame everything used to come with a diagram. Now we resort to CT and x-rays.

Blame intellectual property theft. I'm sure there's a right to repair angle in there as well but my guess would be that it's mainly driven by IP.

I had a friend who worked on electronics about 20 years ago. Suddenly they were facing a flood of reverse engineered devices coming out of China. The build quality was lower than their official devices but it was hard for customers to tell the difference and they were undercutting them on price enough to crater the companies revenues.

Enforcing patents and other IP was basically a non-starter even when they tracked down the shops in China.

Eventually they ended up just partnering with them and selling the lower quality and cheaper versions of their devices because they couldn't compete and all the work they had done to design, test, prototype, etc was written off as a loss.

Re: A look inside the SNES, PS5, and Xbox controllers with CT scans

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Post by chrisco255 »

sdf4j wrote: post #16

> Nintendo established the blueprint for gamepads in 1985 with the iconic rectangular Nintendo Entertainment System I'm pretty sure they did it two years before with the famicom gamepad.

Right, but Famicom is just the Japanese name for the NES, which, as you say, debuted in Japan first.

Re: A look inside the SNES, PS5, and Xbox controllers with CT scans

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Post by jonny_eh »

TillE wrote: post #6

The SNES controller is a beautiful thing because it's literally just a bit shift register wired up to the buttons. Super simple to emulate it, make an adapter for it, or be compatible with it.

Not to mention is still very comfortable, especially for its size. And it's basically the pinnacle of 2D controller design when it comes to functionality.

Re: A look inside the SNES, PS5, and Xbox controllers with CT scans

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Post by asdkfjhsifhsjd »

kinda of a let down.

CT scan and just focus on the big huge unavoidably obvious stuff.

The biggest change in feel and game play from the SNES and the newer controller for example is the lack of plate under the dpad and other things that are awsome to see with a scan like that. Yet they ignore all that.

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