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Rumour Control on the Revolution Controller
Gamespot's excellent Rumor Control column this week has some weighty topics to consider. Specifically, they take on the rumor floating around that the revolution in the Revolution's controller will be 'tilt resistance'. From the article: "When Nintendo intimated that the truly revolutionary aspect of its next-generation consoles was in its controller, rumors began to fly fast and furiously. One of the very first was that it would incorporate gyroscopes, which would allow players to control games via physical movement of the controller. Later rumors said the controller would sport everything from a touch screen, which would allow for configurable virtual buttons, to there not being any controller at all--just a visor and floor-mounted motion sensor." Their verdict? We're going to have to wait and see what Iwata has to say at the TGS. Other topics covered this week include Nintencats and Killzone 2.
Have you ever tried to hold a controller perfectly flat, especially while playing a multiplayer game? It's ridiculous and not any fun to do. Nintendo knows what they're doing, and they'll know that gyroscopes, except in special cases (the portable games that incorporate them, I believe there are Yoshi and Kirby games for DS and GBA, respectively, that do it, but they do it well. I doubt that possible on a controller.
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They'd implement a much better tilt detector. Remember how wireless controllers sucked and Nintendo came out with the Wavebird?
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Hehe, yes, memories indeed. That also reminds me of other little quirks that me and some friends would do while playing some of the games, such as raising the controller as the character was jumping, as if to give him some assistance with his grand leap, or smashing the buttons harder (more out of anger really) in order to make that punch/fireball/etc. more painful.
>>>Perhaps Nintendo have merely made wireless controllers with a good response time. That would be nice.
That would be a wavebird.
I do think that it's probably something simple and user-friendly, though I can't see something that would be simple yet be hailed as their major inovation. Oh well, we'll see it soon enough. I hope to be surprised.
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Yeah, because Halo 3 and Grand Theft Auto: New Quasi-Fictiosious City are going to be nothing like any game ever made...
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