Dubbed as the Pro Controller, the wireless peripheral has a remarkably similar shape and button layout to what comes standard with the Xbox 360 -- albeit with a duo a of evenly-placed joysticks and Nintendo-focused function buttons.
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Now even console games come with controllers covered with complex buttons, triggers and built-in joysticks.
Vendors such as Logitech have built thriving businesses selling cutting-edge joysticks and steering wheels for enthusiastic gamers.
It comes with a special set of accessories including an e-dice and four joysticks and strikers to offer a completely new digital gaming experience that combines the physical gaming accessory with the on-screen action.
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Production units are slated to be thinner, with flush PSP-like analog joysticks and two headphone jacks (instead of one).
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There will also be joysticks that let viewers turn around a 3-D image of what they want to buy on-screen.
Designed to enhance gameplay, the GC-2 Wireless Controller features juxtaposed joysticks, as preferred by first person shooter (FPS) gamers, for more natural finger positions and longer gaming sessions.
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Instead of a hand-sized game pad studded with joysticks and buttons, or the motion sensitive wand used on the Wii, the Wii U is controlled essentially by a tablet computer.
The analog joysticks and shoulder buttons are in just the right place -- if you're used to playing console games, you'll be right at home.
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For the Core, Ion went for a design that recalls the oversized lap joysticks designed for '80s and '90s consoles by third-party manufacturers.
Microsoft has shown off a wide range of two-screen scenarios, including GamePad-like touchscreen maneuvers (albeit without the GamePad's physical joysticks and buttons), the old standby of resuming a movie watched on a tablet or smartphone up on a TV, enabling controls for its forthcoming Internet Explorer for Xbox, and second-screen video programming.
The surgeon, instead of wielding a scalpel and cutting away, sits at a 3-D monitor across the room from the patient and controls three robotic arms with two joysticks.
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