Beyond Good & Evil had the best method of gamepad text input all the way back in 2003 and I've never seen this design replicated anywhere else

Things I would do to improve this: - Colour-code letters from A-Z as a rainbow, so you could visually tell where in the alphabet you were without reading each cell - Add separate face buttons for Space/Backspace - Tune the rotation so letters remain in the same spot upon looping

There was Controller Companion though, but it's not maintained anymore. I can't get it to boot. But it worked the same way!

Oh rad, someone had good taste

Not a text input method (as best I can remember) but shoutout to PREY 2017's spiralling selection wheel.

Ooh I completely forgot this but it's absolutely adjacent yeah

I would say best one I've used was steam big picture (I don't know if they still have this)

I used this a bunch but still found it slower; I'm sure over time you'd get good at both, like typing on a Nokia

My favorite method of text input on a controller

To effectively use this interface, players need to know the alphabet. This might be too high a requirement for them 😅

Warframe has one for its consumables! It gets longer for each item you add