360 or PS3: Which are you more likely to buy it for?

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Have you every played with the original sized North American XBOX controllers?

Of course I did. Yes it was huge and bulky, and looked rather silly. Was it hard to use at all? No. And it's true that I preferred the smaller versions that came out soon after, but in all honesty while playing the game, I didn't notice a damned difference between the two. I'm too busy playing the game. Both controllers fit into hands, both have easy access to the buttons, etc. I suppose people with small hands would get annoyed with the first one that came out, but that's the probably the only real complaint I'd accept as being valid.

And there is no way you can say a modern day game controller isn't more comfortable to hold for hours on end than an NES button box.

An NES controller feels weird to me now, yes. I'm too used to modern controllers. However during the time those consoles came out, those controllers felt fine to me. I never had a problem with them. I used to play games like Zelda, Mario 3, Crystalis, Dragon Warrior I-IV, Ninja Gaiden, etc, for hours on end during the weekends. And suppose I did grab an NES controller right now and started playing on my old NES which is still next to me on my desk right now - It would probably feel awkward for about 40 seconds of using it, then I'd be comfortable with it.

PS3 to 360 isn't much of a difference

Almost no difference at all. I honestly just plain don't notice it while I'm playing, to the point where I forget which console I'm playing on sometimes. The only exception to this is the Wii controller, because it's very interactive.