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by uberfoop , Seattle-ish, Saturday, April 26, 2014, 00:53 (3661 days ago) @ Cody Miller
edited by uberfoop, Saturday, April 26, 2014, 01:16

The xbox controller's buttons were not pressure sensitive.

Yes, they are.

You're confusing it with the 360 and XB1 controllers, whose face buttons are binary switches.

Only the face buttons were pressure sensitive. You didn't lean with the face buttons. PS2 face AND shoulder buttons were pressure sensitive.

I just looked up what you seem to be referring to, and I don't think that's an issue with the number of analog inputs*, but rather the placement. Everything on the original Xbox controller returns an 8-bit analog value except for start, back, the stick clicks, and the dpad directions. The analog sticks, triggers, face buttons, and black and white buttons are all analog.

Whereas the PS2 has two sets of triggers, the original Xbox has one set of triggers and the two "extra" black and white face buttons. Since those buttons are horribly placed for a lean feature, you're kind of screwed (though according to this ancient post on IGN, the lean functionality was still technically included, it just sucks).

*The PS2 controller does have more analog inputs than the oXbox controller, because the dpad is analog. Does this lock the Xbox out of some functions, outside of being able to use analog movement on dpad versus left stick?