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Nintendo Revolution Controller Revealed
kakos writes "At the Tokyo Game Show, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has revealed what the Nintendo Revolution controller looks like. The new controller is a radical departure from traditional controller types. Has Nintendo struck gold with their new controller design? The reviewers seem to think so. It should be interesting to see how gamers react to Nintendo's new innovation."
Luanch titles for the system will include Dragon's Lair 1,2 and 3, Space Ace and any other old laser disc game that can actually be played on a tv remote and DVD player. Wait a minute, that sounds pretty cool actually. I miss those games.
Great, now I am going to accidently waste 10 minutes every game trying to control Mario with my DVD remote.
Thanks for the new controller Nintendo!
... it's so bad.
;)
Seriously, this feels like a move in a similar direction - I hope they improved the technology at least a little since then
I remember when I was a kid we would make fun of whoever was the kid who would move the controller trying to turn a car faster in a game... now look what nintendo did.
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Finally there can be a good cricket game!
If this weren't going to be marketed to children, I'm sure the one-handed controller could warrant at least one AO-rated joke. Ooh, built in rumble? Make that two - one for each gender. How fair.
I am intrigued by one of the demos mentioned in the article - "Pilot Wangs".
Slightly offtopic...
Reminds me of the day a friend and I were taking a scuba diving class in a lake. We were supposed to use small flashlights to find our way in the early evening darkness. We noticed that our lights looked like long, narrow purple beams. Without any discussion or signaling, my friend and I looked at each other, brandished the flashlights like lightsabers and had a fun spontaneous underwater duel. It was fun to flip around and upside down without gravity getting in the way. Fun times, immortalized with an entry in my dive log.
I suppose an new innovation is better than an old one, speaking tautologically and repetitively again.
Wow. I mean, wow. You mean half the population of this website are over 116 years old?
I remember laughing at people at uni who thought you could send a virus to somebody by email.
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Everyone who loves it is a fanboy, continually having faith in anything and everything done or said by their favorite corporation come hell or high water (or goofy designs). Criticism isn't just heresy, it's undisputably wrong.
Everyone who hates it is a troll, stoking their own agenda of loyalty to competing corporations. They obviously (that term is solid gold in a flamewar) only play "mainstream" titles like Madden Football or some kind of low-brow FPS, and don't know what real gaming is.
There is no middle room for opinions, and facts are neither relevent nor plentiful. Only hype, speculation, and brand loyalty matter.
Personally, I'm intrigued by the controller and would like to find a link to the movie that still has bandwidth. But half the fun of this weekend is going to be watching the flamewars between the fanboys and the infidels.
No, we don't want to keep playing Grand Theft Auto. We already beated that game.
-People
Buttons Included: Has a trigger on its backside, face buttons, and a D-Pad
;-)
I too am frequently frustrated by those controllers requiring after-market button purchases.
It's a NOVELTY console.
You state that as if it's fact but without seeing the games you're just talking shit.
Don't worry Nostrodamus, nobody's forcing you to buy one. You'll still be able to get your xbox and play halo 12 with those funny little stumpy things.
Star Wars kid...
But we all know that the ladies like guys with big arms, right? Here's the solution to making geeks with giant pythons. Nintendo has started an exercise revolution!
Good night folks.
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dude, what do you think wifi operates over? pixie dust?
in other news: the wavebird is not a wifi controller. 0 for 2, killer.
(also your wifi keyboard doesn't seem to have enough fairy powder in it to type a period.)
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I mean, they boys in blue look like they're really trying hard with the XBox 360.
E3 - Microsoft preps a big display to unveil their console. Sony shows off a video of Killzone 2 and everyone forgets about our favourite OS designer. And now we have the Tokyo game show and Nintendo comes along and again steals the torch. You'll have your day yet Billy. We all liked the Sparkle video, right?
The back of a Volkswagen?
Geeks have already very strong wrists, they practice alot since puberty.
Don't you know it is now both immoral and criminal to think beyond the next quarterly report?
Gets to skip Nintendo thumb, and go straight to Nintendo wrist.
Orthopedic Surgeons everywhere, rejoice!
New Dilbert book: Still Pumped From Holding The Revolution Controller Out In Front Of Me For Hours On End.
Don't expect to see Madden for the Revolution.
Next you'll tell me not to expect a heavy boot planted right into my balls.
Look, a mac gamer!
Analogies don't equal equalities, they are merely somewhat analogous.
Remember the first time you picked up a Nintendo controller for the original Super Mario Brothers games? Remember swinging your arms in the air like a moron, as if the movement of the controller was actually going to do something? Now we've been trained ourselves to keep our arms and our wrists still, and move only our fingers. Now it looks like Nintendo is asking us to revert ourselves, not revolt.
It will be interesting to see what comes of this. Surely the Asian markets alone will create the sort of community needed to spur game development and innovation with the thing. And I do appreciate that Nintendo continues to surprise us, whereas Sony and M$ continue to offer the same old, same old. Lest we forget, however, not every suprise is a good thing (remember Virtual Boy?). I'm betting on Nintendo to deliver the same quality, innovative fun that they've been delivering for decades now.
I noticed it. However, being a normal, healthy human being, I instantly recognized that it was supposed to be a dentistry simulation.
On earth, penises have always been roughly cylindrical. How did your species ever survive its early stages? It must've been terribly uncomfortable for your women.
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Now all I need are VR googles...
Why settle for VR when you can have the real thing?
Move Sig, for great justice.
So if it looks like a duck, and it clearly sounds like a duck, why go to the visual and auditory effort if it isn't really a duck?
Because that's a good summation of what, you know, gaming is.
Whatever man. Like us geeks really need another one-arm-only exercise.
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"Basically break a PS controller in two."
What an odd coincidence. After watching the video I went and did just that.
-- I have fans? Wow.
shake shake, twist shake punch...
what'd be cool is if you had 2 revolution controllers hooked up to each other, then for someting like a dual pistol FPS, you can control both pistols independently...
If you get this, we're 10 of a kind.
And we all know what that looks like, don't we? "You'll go blind if you keep doing that!"
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