Deus Ex

[the dark side]

its not a silly reason at all, its just an excuse for lazy game design, i have many consoles, have owned them for years, including ones that have far less buttons than a modern system (n64) and they have handled "more than 2 guns" with no issue. the best 2 systems i have found are the ones in Nightfire on the gamecube, and Perfect Dark on the n64. on Nightfire you used the D-pad, left and right cycled the guns, and up and down cycled the gadgets, on PD you just held A and used the anloque stick to select from a weapons wheel. both woprk every bit as well as the PC multi weapons select system, in fact i found the one for PD64 to be FASTER than any PC multi select i have ever used. so sayiong "it is too hard on a pad" is just an excuse for lazy design.