What the fuck is Nintendo thinking?

Tacks · Post by **Tacks** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 7:13 am

WTF is this bullshit? http://money.cnn.com/2005/09/15/commentary/game_over/revolution/

http://hardware.gamespot.com/Story-ST-23521-2567-x-x-x

Post by **Mop** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 7:15 am

You can play one handed ! they need to add in hot cyber chat rooms to all games then!

Jimmy Durante · Post by **Jimmy Durante** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 7:37 am

Looks like a cross between an iPod and a tv remote.

Several years ago, there was a controller for the PC called Spaceorb360, which had a ball you could twist and pull for FPS games. It didn't take off at the time due to flakey game/driver support as well as the steep learning curve, but a similar idea may have potential.

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 8:28 am

it's bizarre for sure, but at least it's different

Tacks · Post by **Tacks** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 8:37 am

So was the Power Glove and Virtual Boy :P

Jimmy Durante · Post by **Jimmy Durante** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 8:55 am

I just skimmed through the article: To be honest, in concept it actually sounds quite intuitive. Being able to wave around the controller in order to move/aim makes it more enticing. I'd like to see where they take it.

Zanchief · Post by **Zanchief** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 9:00 am

Is there going to be a standard controller also?

Post by **Tossica** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 9:19 am

Virtual Boy RULEZ! Anyone else own one?

Kaeerwen · Post by **Kaeerwen** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 9:23 am

Do you own a very thick set of glasses as well?

Jimmy Durante · Post by **Jimmy Durante** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 10:12 am

From a post on Shacknews:

"How does it compare to a mouse?"

From what I experienced, it seemed to be more precise than a mouse, but it's also much faster because it requires only a much smaller movement of the hand to achieve the desired effect. You just instantly point the controller at any part of the screen and bam!, that's where you're looking.

There is no lag.

There is no error.

It took a while to get used to the idea of how little effort is required to play a game with this controller. I kept wanting to lean forward and move the controller closer to the screen, and it took some practice to just sit back and just calmly move my hand ever so slightly.

At one point, someone said, "If you were to play a game with this against someone using a mouse, they'd have no chance against you." I had to admit it was true.

I've been using a mouse and keyboard for gaming for almost as long as I've been a gamer. I've logged over 80 hours so far in Battlefield 2 and I have a level 60 World of WarCraft character. If somebody had tried to tell me before now that a better controller would come along, I would have laughed at them.

But it only took me 5 minutes with the Revolution controller to realize that I don't need to use a mouse ever again.

Let's take a first-person shooter as an example. With a flick of the wrist, you can completely change your aim point from one corner of the screen to the other. Changing your aim point that way would require you to move a mouse all the way across a gamepad and could potentially take up to several seconds of pushing on a thumbstick with a standard console game controller.

Add to that the fact that the controller can correctly interpret roll (rotation of the controller clockwise and counterclockwise) and movement toward the screen or away from it, and you start to get an idea of the universe of new gameplay possibilities that Revolution games will be able to explore.

\from an attendee

Bigrozz · Post by **Bigrozz** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 10:27 am

Heh, if you add on the analog peripheral it looks like a pair of nunchucks(Sp?). That way when some one beats you in madden you can beat the crap out of them with the controller.

Captain Insano · Post by **Captain Insano** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 10:41 am

Tacks wrote:So was the Power Glove and Virtual Boy :P

I was going to say the same thing... This stupid remote idea is going to go over like a fart in church...

Who wants to get carpal tunnel playing Mario Kart?

Tacks · Post by **Tacks** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 10:55 am

Tossica wrote:Virtual Boy RULEZ! Anyone else own one?

I actually have one plus every game ^_^

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 11:23 am

All I really have to say is Fuck controllers that need batteries

Ginzburgh · Post by **Ginzburgh** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 12:31 pm

And there is a peripheral port on the bottom of nintendo's new controller that allows the player to plug in the joystick portion if you don't want to use the new point method AND you can plug in all the old nintendo controllers so you can play the retro-active games downloaded off the internet with the game's original controllers.

If you can download every game nintendo has ever made and it's affordable ($5-$10 a month) I will buy it.

Post by **Tossica** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 2:41 pm

Tacks wrote:
Tossica wrote:Virtual Boy RULEZ! Anyone else own one?

I actually have one plus every game ^_^

I have all the cheap games. I didn't bother with the $200 one offs and whatnot.