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>>8479723
>Atari made some weird choices. A three button controller in 1993 is nonsensical. The six button pad should have been what came with the system rather than a separate purchase.
The 3DO controller had the same issue. It was a 3-button controller with two shoulder pads when the Super NES controller had four face buttons and two shoulder pads. Both were likely designed before the Street Fighter II craze became a thing. Eventually the Jaguar did get a 6-button controller, but I think the XYZ buttons simply replicated the functions of some of the numerical keys.