Nintendo Revolution Controller

Published on September 16, 2005 By Island Dog In Personal Computing

I'm not sure about this.

"In his keynote address Friday at the Tokyo Game Show, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata took the wraps off a complete redesigned wireless controller for the company's forthcoming Revolution game console. The controller works like a remote control in one hand, with an optional analog unit for two-handed gameplay."

Betanews link

http://www.betanews.com/article/Images_Nintendo_Revolution_Controller/1126852531

Comments (Page 4)

Mr_Frog

on Sep 21, 2005

I find having to read the word 'gay' used in such a way on what should be a mature and adult forum personally insulting to my intelligence, thank you very much.

Jesus Christ, can't you read? Here, let me quote it for you, since it was just the previous comment from the article author...

That is enough of the personal insults here. Get back on topic please.

Personally, I think the new controller is interesting. As long as they keep in mind that some people are going to prefer 'conventional' controllers, I think they'll do fine. Personally, I'd like a keyboard controller, since I play PC games and am not really used to using console controllers.

Case in point: I got my ass handed to me in Halo 2 because I had such an issue playing using a console controller. However, I can hold my own in FPSes if I'm playing on a PC, because I can use a keyboard. Even something like a small chording device would be cool.

-- B

Jafo

on Sep 21, 2005

I think it's time people stick 'exactly' to the topic and refrain from extraneous comments.....the latter will be removed as they serve no good purpose.

Topic is...the good or the bad of a new Nintendo controller.....

Solosturm

on Sep 21, 2005

who cares if it looks goofy or not, the one and only important question here is this:
will it work like how it is supposed to?

Even if it looks goofy, who cares, if it lets the gamer play the game like how it is supposed to do, then it works, odd design or not.

and really, i cant even begin to tell you how many people i see playing a game, rocking back and forth, jerking the controller from side to side, as if it will affect the game. well, now it will! great idea! Nintendo is either teaching people how to sit still or how to coordinate eye-hand movements.

iTZKooPA

on Sep 21, 2005

I personally don't care how it looks, if anyone is in my house and is gonna start making fun of me they can just leave. Aside from that I don't understand why people can't get over the "two hands," how many hands do you put on your controller? Three? No thats right you tend to use two there also, they just aren't seperated.

From all the different control schemes in arcades and controllers throughout the console I have never had a problem getting used to anything, even the rectangle that was an NES controller and I don't think anyone will have any problems either. Give it a chance, reserve your overall judgement of the controller when you finally play with it, and don't bash the system until you can play that either.

Just my two (USD) cents, which isn't worth much anymore

Edit:
Just thought I'd bring this to light, looks like Peter Moore from MS actually gave props to Nintendo for taking a chance.
Peter Moore: "First of all, I want to give kudos for Nintendo, for its attempt at innovation with the new controller - bringing people in that, as Iwata-san said, are either lapsed gamers or gamers that are intimidated by the complexity of the controller."

From GamesIndustry.biz TGS Article

gfcentral002

on Sep 21, 2005

i like that shell cradle thing

that kinda reminds me of the dreamcast controller, they had the little memory cards w/ screens you could put in them ~ sad i still own my dreamcast lol

on Sep 22, 2005

Yeah. Nice to have that as an option. After all, some people may not like the new design. Personally, I think it's cool, but has certain problems like I said before.

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