gamepad

The gamepad is best for navigation, the keyboard is best for text input, the mouse is overall bad.

The Wii U uses upgraded wiimotes that suffer the same problem, and the gamepad is more like a giant gameboy than a controller.

However, there speaks nothing against making a gamepad more specific to this use-case so you have better portability.

For games, it's worked pretty well with everything you'd be happy playing with a gamepad (e.g.

In Steam Big Picture you can type with a gamepad if you go to the friends-chat-mode.

Different input mechanisms (mouse and keyboard vs gamepad) need different input schemes to be fun.

Side note: apparently its the best PC gamepad you can find that has a good D-Pad; the D-Pad is probably the best one I've used since my childhood.

The virtual blocks develops keyboard/gamepad skills and usually illustrates unphysical simulation.

Games designed for a gamepad don't work well on a phone/tablet.

And I would add a way to customize the controls and support the gamepad api.

I beat Super Meat Boy 100% with a wireless gamepad with no issues at all.

I think I would love to have something like that to go on to the back of a gamepad sort of deal.

The gamepad thing is "oh we need a gamepad, the 360 is popular right"?

On OSX, theres "USB Overdrive" in case you want to get your gamepad to work.