10 Worst Mass-Market Video Game Controllers Of All Time

5. Nintendo 64

Console owners will forever defend the N64's terrible three pronged form factor as 'innovative' and 'unique', mentioning that "All you had to do" was hold the middle one in conjunction with a side-barb, to get on with whatever you were playing.

Naturally, this misses the fact that you should never have had to awkwardly hold 'half' a controller to play anything in the first place, and that's before you factor in the strange placement of the analogue stick, four buttons designed explicitly for camera controls, and a just-out-of-reach Z-Trigger that always felt cooler in concept than execution.

At the end of the day, the N64's software carried the system wholeheartedly, as whilst you have to hand it to Nintendo for inventing the analogue stick in the first place, Sony took the idea and paired it with more sensible ergonomics, resulting in the mighty DualShock.