@ManateeMentality

1 year ago

Whenever I think of the Sony Alphas, I think about how their first couple of DSLRs had weird ergonomics because their shutter buttons were placed slightly further back than where your index finger would naturally rest. So you kinda had to pull your index finger toward the back of the camera a bit in order to take a photo.

And I often think about what a dumb and uncomfortable design that was, similar to Sony’s DualShock controllers for PlayStation, which placed the left thumbstick in a spot where your left thumb does not naturally rest, so that you constantly kinda had to reach for it even though the left thumbstick was the part of the controller you used the most, so you’d think it would have been placed somewhere better.

Now, don’t get me wrong: I don’t want to be thinking about any of this. It’s just that it pops into my head from time to time and frustrates me to no end. I am a slave to these unwanted thoughts, and wonder who at Sony believed that these ergonomic choices (including the general shape and feel of the PlayStation controllers up until the DualShock 4) were the right choices to make. I want to sit these people down and ask them what they were thinking. And I want to tell them that they were wrong. Very, very, wrong.

Sincerely,

Me

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