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by PhasmaFelis 4402 days ago
> Sounds like compatibility is fine? Honestly, I'm okay with the 360 pad support taking over--Almost every controller had a standard button layout, but with the buttons oddly numbered from controller to controller. Newer controllers all mapping to 360 buttons has simplified everything.

It was indeed annoying that the pad manufacturers couldn't get their shit together and agree on a button ordering, but that doesn't excuse Microsoft inventing an entirely new and unnecessary standard instead of just declaring their own canonical ordering.