The 'Revolution' Controller

[FishFishRevolution]

I love the people that say Nintendo will be dead in a few years.

This really is a step into the future. I guarantee Sony and Microsoft will be adopting add-ons similar to this controler in order to stay competitive in the future.

[Saturos]

Nintendo patented it.

[evilbutterfly]

Your lack of GCN controllers is no reason to dislike the Revolution's controller. Don't discredit Nintendo's decision based on your own choices.

I said I disliked the controller? I discreditted it? What? Lemme see....

If I had ever considered getting another Nintendo console ever (and I didn't, really), this just blew their chances of me buying one. It may be good for some things, and it may be cool and all when I'm playing on a Rev in Best Buy or at a friend's house, but I am not buying that. Seriously......wtf!?

I don't have a GameCube. I'm not going to go buy GameCube controllers. If I was gonna waste money on that, I would just spend the extra money and get a PS3.

Oh wait that's what I'm gonna do anyway. d=

I said I wasn't gonna buy one because the controller was wtf, and that the ability to spend extra money and get normal controllers was not enough to sway me otherwise, and that I would rather get a PS3. Yeah, it'll be cool. I will want to play on it and I will have fun when I do, most likely. The thing is, they're making this for the non-gamer folk who move their controller when they hit the button to turn their car, and the ones who kinda made hopping motions with their old NES controller when trying to get Mario over things. I don't do that. While watching me race my RA, my roommate and his gf were observing that I was quite motionless and focused. I don't want to have to move all around to play my games. Yeah, it'll be cool for a little while, just like the EyeToy was cool for a little while.

I never said I didn't like the controller or the idea or Nintendo because of it. I even said it was cool and that I would play it. It's just not my style. I am not part of Nintendo's intended market. Sorry for not being you. Ya know, cuz it's not cool to have opinions and separate wants and desires from other people. Geez, who does that anymore!?

[suicidalmuskrat]

OK guys. First of all, the GCN controller will probably not be used for any Revolution games. Seond, perhaps you still don't get it. This controller can be anything. An additional addon is going to be a controller shell. It's going to look like a standard controller. It's going to have your two analog sticks, and all your buttons, but since the freehand 'remote' will slide inside the controller shell, you will still get all the motion/tilt sensing that makes it so unique.

IGN made a rough mockup, but it definitely illustrates the point:


So all of you worried about it's functionality with ANY genre, have no fear. An easy way to think of it is that with the shell you'll basically be getting a fully functioning controller, with a mouse. So what can be find to bitch about that? Well let's hear it EB, tny, fallen, LD...I'm interested.

EDIT: It's not about seperate desires and wants, at least not to me...It's about you not getting it yet. And Nintendo's intended market is everyone, obviously.

P.S.: EB, you should replace the lightgun in your sig with the new controller.

[Pumble]

The one problem i have with this is that Nintendo is just making more things to buy for some of their games to work. Surely they figured out from FFCC and Four Swords that people don't give a shit about slightly (and i emphasize slightly)better gameplay when it costs so much money.

I hope Nintendo will figure out a way to make all games friendly with the new controller without all this extra garbage. I'd really like to see this idea take off.

[esupin]

That controller shell makes lots of sense.
The d-pad looks just as small as the cube's, though.

[suicidalmuskrat]

Yeah, because Nintendo is trying to gouge us. What with their console expected around 200-250, their games still expected around 50, and their FREE online play. Price savvy consumers should definitely buy a PS3.

But I do agree, I hope Nintendo releases a few first party attatchments, and then if 3rd party companies want to ship a fishing rod or a steering wheel or whatever else in with their game that's fine, I just hope a few attatchments cover a wide range of games.

EDIT: @ esupin--Yeah, it looks like the GC's...probably because it is. This is just a mock up by IGN from information heard from Nintendo

[evilbutterfly]

If the controller that came with the system looked like the one that you posted, I might consider getting it, except that I hate that controller too and hate GameCubes. All the new consoles have such weird ass controllers, and it's really annoying me. Nintendo's is.....yeah, PS3 has a fucking boomerang and X-Box....hell I don't even know. But really, the price for all the stupid peripherals for the controller could actually make it cost more than a PS3.

But again, it's not any use arguing. The people who were gonna buy a PS3 before any info was out are still going to buy PS3s, the people who were set on getting an X-Box 2 will be getting the 360, and all the people who were waiting for Nintendo to introduce their next "genius controller design" are gonna get the Nintendo. You're not going to convince me nor anybody else that this controller isn't a bad idea. One thing you fail to realize is that I haven't liked a Nintendo controller past the SNES. Ever since N64, Nintendo has just gotten weirder and weirder designs. This takes the cake, though. I would rather just have a normal controller, thank you very much, because the games I would play that would need such a controller I would be playing on the computer anyway, not a console. I get the console for games that I like playing with controllers instead of mouse/keyboard, so I'm not going to get a console that does a better job than that combination but I have to buy extra parts to play a game that's good for controllers.

[kickassbuddy]

I got the perfect YTMND for this. http://nintyrevcontroller.ytmnd.com/

[PsYcHoZeRoSk8eR]

The remote idea is very innovative, but i'm not liking it. Personally, I just can't picture myself playing with that.

The controller, though a mockup, looks much better than the remote thingy. Either way, I'm getting the 360.

[suicidalmuskrat]

See, that's the thing. Why are people so ignorant? People are actually capable of acknowleding the brilliance behind this, yet they won't buy the console. I just don't get it. This controller is capable of any setup, it's capable of being better than a keyboard and mouse, yet it doesn't make any sense....I think this defines ignorance. I just can't find any other explanation.

[mead1]

Muskrat, other people have opinion too. Even moreso than eb's "ignorance", your inability to accept input from other people is the problem here. Not everyone is going to agree with you on everything. And even fewer people will agree with you when you try to force your opinion on them like a sex offender on a six year-old. You will be much happier when you take a few deep breaths, and decide to leave it be because it isn't worth your time to fight over something as trivial as peoples views on a controller they haven't used yet and can only judge by pictures and pre-emptive features lists.

[nforcer06164]

Well, I have to respectfully disagree with you, mead. I thought that Nintendo made a truly "revolutionary mistake," if you'll excuse the pun, with this controller, like they did with connectivity. However, this thread alone completely turned my thoughts around.

The fact of the matter is, Nintendo has now implicated in their newest systems features that the other systems cannot reproduce. Yet, Nintendo can do everything they can, and more. People here and everywhere else having skeptic idea about this controller are too close-minded to realize the genius behind Nintendo's decision; Sony and Microsoft have grounded themselves to conventional gaming, whereas Nintendo is going above and beyond, and whether their innovations fail to catch on, they can still reproduce ANYTHING another console can.

Nintendo is not stupid; they know third-parties will develop a majority of their games for a conventional controller; heck, I wouldn't want to play the second-party (HAL is a 2nd party) SSB3 on that thing. That's why they have GameCube ports, an add-on option... heck, this thing is genius. Fighting games will work. Sports games will work. ANYTHING will work. Of course Nintendo knew that if they deviated too far that there'd be problems. You guys just didn't think as far as they did. I'm sure they have EVEN MORE up their sleeve that we don't know about yet. The Revolution will be able to accomplish more than any other console simply because of this controller.

Third parties can make any game for all systems, but they can do MORE with the Revolution. It's a step above. Those of you who fail to realize this need to stop and rethink it. Reread this post if you have to. In fact, I just convinced myself through writing this post =P

[Chromer]

I would have to disagree with you on that nForcer. If youthink about it, let's give SSB 3 as an example. You have the regular Rev controller in your hand and you want to moe around. No problem since you just move your hand. Oh no! I want to jump up and Smash attack below me! Not only would you have to forcefully swing the controller downwards and press B, take account that you might hit another button in a frenzy trying to hit a button. See? It would cause a lot of strain on your wrist to move this thing.

And don't let me even get into sports because I definitley know a Rev controller would be hell. This thing reminds me of the Power Glove now, for some reason. =/.

[nforcer06164]

Chromer, I was referencing to the add-on (not directly) in my whole post. I have no doubts that SSB3 will use it, and there may even be an option to use the gyro sensor or not for certain functions. That is what I meant when I said it could do anything another console could do and more... the add-on brings the whole thing home.