/vr/ - Retro Games

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A bunch of the wider horizontal ones are and if you don't find them perfectly comfortable there's always 3d printed grips to make them feel more like controllers. Not all horizontal ones because you can still fuck it up.

What you're more likely to find is that a device you like will be in the wrong format or have buttons in weird places. It's real minor shit.
Take the TrimUI Smart Pro for example, a budget handheld that's extremely close to a Vita in feel w/ a near 5" screen and it does feel comfortable to play for extended sessions, it even managed a symmetrical stick/face button layout that feels comfortable because they're appropriately sized.
So beyond the shitty firmware that people like to talk about what's it's absolute biggest problem? The menu buttons suck to use.
Menu button's on the bottom left, far away from the dpad so you have to almost pinch to press it so even if you could bind it as a key for RA shortcuts the left buttons would be out of the game. The start and select buttons? Opposite the menu button of course, on the bottom right, so again a pinch style of press is required and is far away from the face buttons & shoulder buttons.
They leaned too hard into copying that Vita design. A minor issue a nitpick but overall it's good enough.

Then you have devices like this or the R20S where buttons are placed in extreme positions, unergonomic bricks with even weirder button placement in extremes. This is worse than putting a stick or a button in the wrong place or in the path of something else. This is heresy of the highest order. The base of your thumbs should be resting at the bottom of this abomination but that's where the face buttons are, select and start are at least close by but those two buttons at the top are also being blocked by sticks and did anybody with a hand try and depress a shoulder button on this while using any other button?
This shit isn't even comfortable for mutants or kids to use.