Nintendo Revolution controller revealed!

[mwgdrwg]

Jesus H Christ, if they hadn't dared to be different we'd still be playing with Atari joysticks.

Who do you thing made shoulder buttons and analogue control popular? It wasn't Sony or Microsoft!

 

[Kid_Eternity]

That's photoshopped, and badly photoshopped at that.

The picture may be but there will be a GC like controller that the Revolution one slots into going by the Nintendos President's keynote speech...

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Jesus H Christ, if they hadn't dared to be different we'd still be playing with Atari joysticks.

Who do you thing made shoulder buttons and analogue control popular? It wasn't Sony or Microsoft!

Indeed. I watched the keynote speech by the head of Nintendo and must say despite my initial reaction I can see how this might work (they show'd a short video showing how it might look working). I guess what matters now is whether games publishers think it's something to make games for...

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Jesus H Christ, if they hadn't dared to be different we'd still be playing with Atari joysticks.

Who do you thing made shoulder buttons and analogue control popular? It wasn't Sony or Microsoft!

Link

 

[fen_boy]

That's photoshopped, and badly photoshopped at that.

Sorry my fault, just checked the site it came from - ign.com - and they said it is a mockup based on the info nintendo had released, but something like that is definitely going to exist.

 

[mwgdrwg]

Link

So Nintendo were first with a cross shaped d-pad, shoulder buttons, analogue sticks and wireless joypads. How soon before Sony and Microsoft have tilt/distance sensors?

 

[LostNotFound]

i think it's great, on the condition that you can easily get traditonal gamepad control (as suggested in the photoshopped pic). it'll mean all sorts of novel control methods (pretty limitless if you think about it) - i can't wait to have a go with one personally !

 

[Logales]

Some folk on another board were moaning that because the controller is so different there will be a steep learning curve for most of the new games. I welcome this steep learning curve - nowadays it's all too common to put in a new game, pick up the controller and just play without even having to read the instructions.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Watch the key note speech and you'll see some demo's of how they envisage it will work. The critical point here for them is making things easy for non gamers to use hence the tv/dvd like controller...I was thinking about this last night regarding first person shooters and it hit me that the controller could be used as a very good light sabre in game!

 

[the B]

Watch the key note speech and you'll see some demo's of how they envisage it will work. The critical point here for them is making things easy for non gamers to use hence the tv/dvd like controller...I was thinking about this last night regarding first person shooters and it hit me that the controller could be used as a very good light sabre in game!

It'd be the best Lightsabre in game

 

[Kid_Eternity]

It'd be the best Lightsabre in game

I know! I looked at my DVD remote (roughly the same dimensions as the Rev controller) and thought how would this be used in a game? Star Wars was my first thought (although this was probably due to watching Spaced at the time! ).

 

[LostNotFound]

I know! I looked at my DVD remote (roughly the same dimensions as the Rev controller) and thought how would this be used in a game? Star Wars was my first thought (although this was probably due to watching Spaced at the time! ).

my main concern is how much of a prat youre gonna look madly waving this thing about

 

[Kid_Eternity]

my main concern is how much of a prat youre gonna look madly waving this thing about

Will you care when you're swishing a light sabre about onscreen (probably about as much of one as when you use any non standard controller like light guns etc)?!

 

[Phototropic]

I like it. I like the idea of it. I mean the way we play games at the mo can hardly last, there has to be some innovation on the way.

Be interesting to see what game manufacturers do with it. In house stuff will probably adapt better at first.

I say give it a chance to proove itself.

Now a pic for nostalgias sake...

Ahhhhhhh.......now that was a wondeful controller.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Kind of hard to judge the thing without trying it.

Nintendo made some of the earliest innovations; maybe this will continue in that vein.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

I like it. I like the idea of it. I mean the way we play games at the mo can hardly last, there has to be some innovation on the way.

Be interesting to see what game manufacturers do with it. In house stuff will probably adapt better at first.

I say give it a chance to proove itself.

Now a pic for nostalgias sake...

Ahhhhhhh.......now that was a wondeful controller.

It was...but yeah my hardline reaction against the new controller softened a great deal after watching the keynote (with demo vid of how it could be used); I think it could be an amazing controller (no worries about traditional gaming going by the announcement of a GC like controller which the Rev one plugs into) sparking some new and interesting gaming experiences, my only concern really is whether anyone will make any decent games for it. Nitendo has a bit of a history of coming up with wierd and wacky but duff gadgets that get laughed at.