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Nintendo Revolution Details Reaffirmed
Nintendo President Iwata has reaffirmed details already released about the upcoming Revolution console. Gamsutra has details from his talk, where Iwata touches on the wireless capability of the Revolution, the designer friendly attitude of the console, and the secretive nature of the console's controllers. From the article: "For the next-generation console, we plan to introduce a friendly user interface so that, for example, a mother who's watching her child playing a game might say, 'Oh, I'd like to try that too.' However, user interfaces are devices that can be easily imitated by other companies, so I can't reveal any details right now." GamesIndustry.biz also has coverage on this topic.
"Somehow I get the feeling that we can say goodbye to duel thumbsticks..."
It's about time! It takes forever to kill somebody with a thumb stick.
"Derp de derp."
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Rumor Control: http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/03/25/news_6121
Same story from Gamespot: http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/03/29/news_6121
More Rumors and speculation from IGN: http://cube.ign.com/articles/522/522559p1.html?fr
The latter has some interesting theories and "leaks", as well as some drawings of interest.
"Why would they do that when they could charge you monthly to connect to their game servers?"
*sigh*
Do you realize that the whole reason that Nintendo isn't on-line right now is that they DON'T want to do business that way? (It's this exact reason that a lot of people are under the mistaken impression that Nintendo is anti-online.)
a.) It's not all that profitable, especially considering the maintenance involved.
b.) It's not all that popular. Only a small fraction of PS2 or XBOX users actually pay for the service.
c.) Quality of service issues making charging for it that much more difficult.
"Derp de derp."
I don't think the thumbsticks complicating today's controllers. They are very easy to understand and use. I think the real complexity is in the number and position of the buttons.
You have no idea how long I tried to honk my car horn on GTA3. when I found out that the left control stick was "L3," I yelled, "What fucking asshole invented this? It makes no sense."