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Interesting point — if you no longer need to use a joystick to aim your weapon, how will controllers evolve? Will the second joystick be used for some other fun
by gnicholas 3y ago
Interesting point — if you no longer need to use a joystick to aim your weapon, how will controllers evolve? Will the second joystick be used for some other function, or will it be replaced by a different type of input method?
It would be funny if controllers evolved to be more like the single-joystick models that we had decades ago, with the joystick on the left and rows of buttons on the right. History doesn't repeat itself, but perhaps it'll rhyme?
- Fire-Dragon-DoL 3y agoOne joystick has to exist since there are many videogames where the character is not in focus (barely), thinking of hack and slash with top down camera (the recent diablo 4),the majority of the focus is on where the attacks are going. In top down bullet hell shooters the player had to aim and shoot in one direction as it walks in another (potentially opposite), so one stick is still needed
- gnicholas 3y agoAgreed — I'm thinking we'd have just one joystick, to control movement. The second joystick could evolve into some new interface, or devolve into a row of buttons.
- cubefox 3y agoPSVR2 already has eye tracking. And unlike the Apple Vision it also has controllers with a stick. Perhaps there are already such games which let you aim with your eyes (assuming you are shooting at something), while you move around with one stick, and the second stick isn't used at all.
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