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So? What does this comparison add to the table? Is it somehow bad to create the same thing for a different platform? Did you also write on Google Chrome thread when it launched "4 years after Firefox"? It just sounds demeaning. I for one don't care what Xbox has or doesn't have, I like my PS, and I'm happy that people with disabilities can also game on PS now if they'd want to do so.

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5 years late and only one joy stick. How can you simultaneously be late to the innovation table AND deliver an inferior product?

What makes you think that an official controller doesn't have enough inputs, or that it's inferior? Just a single image?

Uh.. the review where the disabled gamer mentions that he can’t play the game that needs 2 thumb sticks because the controller only had 1. It’s stated clearly in the article.

It's merely a reminder that they didn't think of it first and aren't trailblazing anything.

There have been many community controllers but I believe MS was the first to try to make a real consumer product that serves disabilities without DIY stuff. Kind of an odd stunt and a tiny market, but it appears to have made some splashes.

Sure we can 'just be happy', but we can also acknowledge that Sony didn't care about it until Microsoft did something about it. Same as they didn't care about motion controls until Nintendo busted out the Wii. Both MS and Sony scrambled to put out motion shit the next few years.

Fair enough. I guess I'm just conditioned to see that almost nobody cares about accessibility and so I'm just happy to see a win no matter how small.

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