Not even close to an Xbox controller. No offset sticks, different dpad, etc.,(reply>), Off set sticks were designed with 5th gen gaming in mind.<br>Yes, 5th gen was PlayStation/Sega Saturn.<br>Then the introduced Thumb Sticks on the DualShock were barely used, the Left Thumb Stick did nothing more than duplicate the D-Pad while the Right Thumb Stick only saw use in very few titles.<br>Since the main buttons on the controller schemes at the time were the D-Pad and the Action Buttons, this meant the later games of that generation were being played with off set hands, because people would go for the Left Thumb Stick as a D-Pad replacement while keeping their right thumb on the Action Buttons.<br><br>Microsoft while designing the Duke saw an opportunity there to move the Left Thumb Stick in Line with the Action Buttons, thus allowing the hands to sit symmetrically during gameplay.<br><br>Good idea at the time, but with the 6th gen controller scheme philosophy changed.<br>The Left Thumb Stick and the D-Pad became independent and no longer a duplication of the movement input, the D-Pad essentially became a second set of action buttons, while the Right Thumb Stick got a standard use controlling the camera.<br>The shoulder buttons that hand been use as secondary became the primary action ones.<br>This tendency became the norm over the 6th gen, the 7th and 8th just underlined it.<br><br>So in this "standard" scheme, most of your game time is spent with your thumbs on the Sticks.<br>It makes no sense having these off set and thus have your hands sit in an asymmetric position for hours on end.<br>Now, you can grow accustomed to the point you develop enough muscle memory to prefer it, but that does not make it ergonomic or inherently comfortable.<br><br>Try holding your hands in front of you without a controller, now try to replicate the movement of your fingers while playing with off set Sticks, then with in line Sticks and tell me the off set is a more natural and comfortable set of movements...