Current Console Controllers No Good

Gameindustry.biz is offering an op-ed piece with Phil Harrison and Peter Molyneux explaining why current console controllers are no good. This would not be interesting, if Molyneux’s answer wasn’t so telling about his approach to making Fable 2.

“We don’t use half the buttons on the 360 controller,) admitted Molyneux, “simply because the whole dream I’ve got is that someone will sit down to play Fable 2 who has never played a game before and they can play with someone who’s played games the whole of their lives.

“I wish there wasn’t so many buttons on the controller. You have to approach that in design terms by thinking you’ve only got one button,” he added.