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Since the beginning of my gaming time, virtually every console I have ever owned has had either a 'select' or 'back' button and in all honesty, I have rarely ever pressed it, rather relied on the more common face buttons to do the duty of selecting or deselecting options through gaming menus. So why did these console designers ever bother to put it into the design of the controller in the first place?
The N64 did away with such a button which makes sense to me, but in 2005 both Microsoft and Sony included a select button for their controllers, but to what point? The guide button for both is more than a welcome addition, but have they merely kept the select button in for legacy purposes? Or just to please the fans?
So is this fabled button truly the most useless button in gaming history? Or are there some hidden secrets that I have not been privy to for the past decade?
The N64 did away with such a button which makes sense to me, but in 2005 both Microsoft and Sony included a select button for their controllers, but to what point? The guide button for both is more than a welcome addition, but have they merely kept the select button in for legacy purposes? Or just to please the fans?
So is this fabled button truly the most useless button in gaming history? Or are there some hidden secrets that I have not been privy to for the past decade?