Live Letter LI: THE GAMEPAD FROM HORI IS FOR RIGHT-HANDED PEOPLE

[Leticro]

For precision gaming sure, but I'm talking about when the mouse was first introduced and the jobs which used it, it would have made more sense for the mouse to be in the left hand given the number pad is on the right side of the keyboard and most people write with their right hand. Accuracy for the mouse wasn't important, people would have had enough fine motor control in their left hand for the basics of mouse movement back then.

Did they even have mice back then? Maybe because there were no numpads, and they could halfway type since Dvorak keyboards has all the vowels on the left so you could type most words using the left hand? Idk, I'm just guessing possibilities. You make a really good point.

[Lozza]

Did they even have mice back then?

Heh, I'm a... little on the old side. I remember when the mouse was introduced, most people were using qwerty keyboards with the number pad. I remember everyone saying, why even bother with a mouse, we all use keyboard shortcuts and cmds anyway.

[Leticro]

Heh, I'm a... little on the old side. I remember when the mouse was introduced, most people were using qwerty keyboards with the number pad. I remember everyone saying, why even bother with a mouse, we all use keyboard shortcuts and cmds anyway.

Interesting! I can totally see that too. When using any terminals or like SSH, the mouse is just in the way if you know all the shortcuts and commands. I guess mouse just created an interface so those shortcuts and commands don't need to be memorized (since I have a hard time remembering them XD)

[Iscah]

Left handed people use left hand on the mouse, which is to the left of the keyboard. How do you not know this.

Not necessarily at all. It's one of those things where using your dominant hand would be more of an inconvenience than it's worth - you'd never be able to just sit down at another computer and use it without rearranging things and making space for the mouse on the "wrong" side of the desk. (And then there's the matter of having the left/right buttons reversed, which is really more inconvenience than its worth.)

I'm left-handed but use a mouse normally, and because of that I've actually got better fine control specifically of a mouse with my right hand. It's practice as much as anything.


Two other instances where reversing things for left-handlers isn't necessarily better:

My (also left-handed) sister plays guitar, and chose to learn it right-handed so she can pick up any guitar and play, instead of the strings being reversed.

And left-handed scissors - maybe if you could reliably use them anywhere they'd be better, but again, 99% of scissors you might randomly borrow are going to be right-handed. And again, you just learn to work with that motion - I actually can't use left-handed scissors on the rare occasion they're available. I hold them at the wrong angle and they block my view.


So basically, using left-handed implements comes down to availability. If they're symmetrical, it makes sense to use them left-handed. If assymetrical right-handed tools are far more common, by insisting on left-handed versions you're just inconveniencing yourself, unless the right-handed one is actually hard to use.

[Nora_of_Mira]

This is because a gamepad is literally designed to be a replacement for a KEYBOARD. Thus, used alongside a mouse.

At first i thought it was meant for left-handed folks until I saw them play around with the prototype. its clearly for right-handed folks and I'm thinking about getting it.

But I think 100% their presentation with "LEFT HANDED GAMING DEVICE" was very misleading.

[Nora_of_Mira]

EDIT: It just dawned on me what you said in your post. I hate left and right. lol

Calling them left-handed gamepads is a mistake XD

they should've called it a "Larboard-handed gaming device"

[Caitlinzulu]

its obvious the device is for use with your left hand thats all.

[Leticro]

they should've called it a "Larboard-handed gaming device"

Perfect XD

its obvious the device is for use with your left hand thats all.

That's obvious yes. Some people just think it's made exclusively for left-handed people as well.

[linay]

Gamepads for right-handed people are used in the left hand. Gamepads for left-handed people would go in the right hand, but no company actually makes those.

Ah, well I can't use my right hand for mouse. I can use it for hitting a few buttons when I need to, like ctrl+alt+prtsc.

So to me this seems like a left-handed device assuming the joystick acts both as a mouse cursor and movement pad.

[Rinia]

As someone who has used one for years, OP is right. You use it with your left hand. The thumbpad replaces the use of WASD for movement and you still use your mouse as normal with your right hand. Can't wait for the pad to release and I pray that it's easy to get a hold of outside of Japan. With the G13 being discontinued and my personal hatred for all things Razer, the only options on the market are very cheap knockoffs that just don't feel good. I love HORI and have never had a bad product from them, so I am 100% ready to shell out the $100+ for this, especially since I use it for digital art. It's amazing being able to pan around the screen with the thumbstick and have a plethora of hotkeys/macros to use.