I found this article on Slashdot this morning and I just had to be the first guy to post it on the blog here. It’s a low-down on the controller set to be released with Nintendo’s next gen console, Revolution. I suggest you read the article before you read my post any further. The shock factor of this thing should not be spoiled by my future comments. You need to see this thing with your own eyes without any preconceived notions.
Ok, read the article? No really, read it.
Alright, you done? Good. Now my first comment…
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WHAT THE &#%$! Holy FREAK!! Nintendo has just officially jumped off the deep end! Japanese developers are now completely out of touch with the American market. If those crazy Japs want a friggin’ TV remote for their controller, more power to them. Let them exist in their own little Mario/Pokemon/Fluffy-Puff-Marshmallow world. The American audiences (you know, the people that take gaming SERIOUSLY) will laugh this thing out of the stores faster than you can say “development disaster”.
The motion detection features are, in my opinion, a moot point. Seems to me that the only type of game you can play on this thing now are the rediculous child-like mini-games that people in Japan seem to love. Making a controller like this means that your RPG, FPS, RTS audiences now have to learn entirely new mind-set of gaming. They can’t just “get the feel” of a new controller. Now they have to completely unlearn their gaming brain. It’s rediculous. Consumers that were debating on whether to go with PS3, 360, or Revolution will now see this hog-wash and think “well that’s dumb, I don’t wanna have to deal with that, I don’t even know if it will work for me or if I’ll like it, I’m going to stick to what works”.
Go ahead and debate with me on this one if you think you have a valid point to make. But I really doubt any serious, American gamer can back this one up.