Every Controller Is the Same Now

The consensus is in, and Xbox won

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Amazon just announced a new game streaming service called Luna. It’s a direct competitor to Google’s Stadia, Microsoft’s Game Pass, and Nvidia GeForce Now.

We saw this coming. As Eric Ravenscraft has written before for OneZero, Amazon is incredibly well-poised to take over the gaming industry, with its massive cloud infrastructure, ownership of Twitch, and experience with digital media.

Honestly, I don’t care about that, because look at the controller Amazon released.

Amazon’s Luna Controller

Do you notice anything familiar?

What about now?

The horrific Playstation DualShock controller (seriously don’t @ me) and the Stadia controller follow the same exact layout, except they switch the locations of the directional pad and the…