Patent ID: 8187095

Claim:
A game console controller comprising: a hand-holdable housing; at least one liquid crystal display (LCD) on the housing, the LCD caused to present, depending on what type of game console a user has selected, a first controller key layout for a first type of game console or a second controller key layout for a second type of game console, a key layout including plural keys selectable by a user to input commands to a game console, wherein the first controller key layout includes a navigation symbol that is cruciform in shape and that includes an up key, a down key, a left key, and a right key, the navigation symbol containing the up key, down key, left key, and right key within a closed cross-shaped border, wherein the first layout includes in a horizontal row a select key and a start key and below the select and start keys, L 3 and R 3 symbols, the first layout also including to the right of the select key and start key action keys arranged in a diamond configuration and respectively shaped as a square, an “x”, a circle, and a triangle and the second controller key layout includes at least a select key.