people are always praising the gc controller. personally, ive never been very satisfied with it

Obviously, people have different hands and ideas about what is comfortable to them. Just look at the XBox controller, widely considered to be one of the worst standard controllers every made. Yet I know some people like it.

But I'm willing to bet that the number of people who absolutely love the GC controller vastly out-weighs the number who love the one for the XBox.

ps- your link is broken
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Ah, that's a pretty messed up post by that parent. Yes, it's never the parenting at fault, always the outside element. Sure. Ban all video game consoles. And cell phones. And massaging devices. Good luck to him.