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."

Comments

Porn!

[Yuioup]

Wow, imagine what the possibilities of combining this with interactive porn!!

Y

I've read it. It's still stupid

[Moraelin]

It's one of those idiotic ideas which sound all great and revolutionary (again) until you actually try it. No, seriously.

RPGs? Try swinging your arm around like with a sword for hours, because that's what you'd have to do in an action-RPG. See how quickly it gets uncomfortable and then outright _painful_.

FPS? It's been done already, and done better with lightguns. And skipping over the lower accuracy that's already been mentioned, again, the problem is that you just can't keep your arm pointing at the screen for hours. Those are games played for half an hour, maybe an hour at a time, and by then you're already desperately trying to find ways to "cheat" by resting your arm on something. It really gets that uncomfortable.

And let me get back to the "again" part. It's not even a new idea. The PS2 at launch also demonstrated cool-sounding gizmos, like swords you can swing around and see your character do the same swing. Guess why it never actually took off? And it goes even farther back in time, with gizmos like the power glove that was already mentioned.

Idiotic ideas are like vampires in this industry. You just can't ever really kill them. Just when you think one failed spectacularly and miserably, that you've seen it crumble into a pile of ash once and for all... someone drops a drop of blood there and it springs right back to life.

Or more accurately, some ignorant designer comes along and thinks he's soo utterly original for repeating the same mistake again. "I know! It'll be soo original to have permanent death!" (Well, no, every third idiot MUD coder gets the _exact_ same idea. It's not original, it just keeps failing and getting off the radar.) Or in this case, "I know! It'll be soo original to make people swing the controller around!" Or whatever.

*sigh* I know by now I can't expect people to learn from history, as in what happened in the 1600's at the court of some obscure HRE "kingdom". But, eh, the launch of the PS2 isn't _that_ far back in time. You'd think someone at Nintendo would get their head out of their ass long enough to remember that the exact same thing was hyped back then.