I think it's hilarious to track Nintendo's placement of the thumbsticks over the years, they pretty much go on a journey to return just about where they started. Though first there was a single stick in the middle of a 3 pronged controller, which obviously is the most bizarre looking controller they ever released, but from there, they start with 2 sticks, left raised above the D-Pad, right below the ABXY buttons, just like the same placement Xbox has always adhered to. Then the Wii Classic controllers had both thumbsticks placed below the other buttons as the PlayStations has always adhered to, and then the Wii U controllers had both thumbsticks raised, a layout no one else ever touched, arguably it might had made sense for this to be kinda Nintendo's defining layout (I honestly don't mind the Wii U pro controller placement, though I think I do still prefer the Switch's overall), and finally they returned to where they started with 2 thumbsticks, left side raised, right side lower. The only placement Nintendo hasn't tried (or anybody for that matter) is left side lowered, and right side raised (which genuinely sounds awful lol).
