Nintendo Revolution controller

Originally posted by JToTheP
http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/09/15/news_6133335.html

As of right now, I hate it, a ****in REMOTE!? What the ****!?

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Looks.....Interesting...

Its like trying to re-invent the wheel. I mean, if it aint broke...😐

^Theres 2 sets of A & B buttons, im sure the d pad will come into play. Filp it to play nes, and plus theres gona be a add on shell, so theres gona be games for New and old gamecontrols!

Originally posted by JToTheP
There's also an a & b on the top of remote as well, and I don't think that would work for the SNES games. The top of the Revolution is a flip piece & inside is 4 GC controller ports, so I assume you use the GC controller to play the downloaded games, since the GC controller has the SNES buttons, A,B,X,Y, L & R, Z for N64 games, and the C stick for the C buttons.

There is 2 sets of A & B buttons which is kinda strange, but most likely for a reason, also a D pad, the control stick in the attachment, and a button on the attachment, so actually that's 7, plus start, select, & home, most likely from the Wifi internet.

The shell bit seems a bit dodgy to me, but people seem to be misunderstanding the purpose of the small "a" and "b" buttons.

Those buttons are so you can flip the controller to a horizontal hold and play games for the original NES. The sensor in the remote only acts as a laser for games with point and click and shooting options. Other than that, it transmits button pushes to the other sensors near the tv, and doesn't necessarily have to be pointed AT the screen (like the Wavebird).

In any case, I'm sure that the Revolution will have a regular controller, probably alot like a GameCube controller with the A, B, X, and Y buttons more evenly spaced.

The shell is a freaking aweseome idea. (yes i know thats not the real shell bitches). Probablly going to be very similar to their mock up anyway.

General Kaliero thx for clearing it up.

Anyways some people are scared of change and until they experiance it for themselves they will be skeptical, and it'll bring some familiarity to the system. If they didn't include the shell, they'd be limiting a lot of possibilities instead of expanding them, games that require it. Okay bitches lol

Originally posted by OB1-adobe

Strike 2: Gameboy micro- Making the SP smaller with a tiny screen, who cares?

I think the same of the PSP- small PS2 that you can pay for, to play on a small screen, in your room, and rebuy your games. That's when you know Sony have got people eating out of their hands and other orifices.

Originally posted by OB1-adobe

Strike 3: Nintendo Revolution- lame kiddy system that you can download old games (which you can on your computer already so why care?) that 20 times less powerful than the Ps3, with a controller that is hardly revolutionary.

1) It's not out yet, so it's ignorant at best to call it lame or kiddy.

2) Don't even mention power. PS2 was allegedly so much more powerful than the Cube- why is RE4 taking a downgrade to port across?

Originally posted by General Kaliero
The shell bit seems a bit dodgy to me, but people seem to be misunderstanding the purpose of the small "a" and "b" buttons.

Those buttons are so you can flip the controller to a horizontal hold and play games for the original NES. The sensor in the remote only acts as a laser for games with point and click and shooting options. Other than that, it transmits button pushes to the other sensors near the tv, and doesn't necessarily have to be pointed AT the screen (like the Wavebird).

In any case, I'm sure that the Revolution will have a regular controller, probably alot like a GameCube controller with the A, B, X, and Y buttons more evenly spaced.

Ah. So you CAN play it horizonatally. Much easier to grasp as an actual controller.

I think we should all see how it plays out.

Also, it was at the end of the story at Gamespot, but the look of the contoller isnt that actual look of it. They're still tinkering with it. (I read it somewhere, but I might be wrong)

Also, you can probably still use traditional controllers for third party support.

In all, the general consences with game critics and journalist have been positive.
Its looks very interesting.
I just hope I can still play my Madden.

2 hands to hold a controller? wtf? i mean wat if u need a drink or somethin, like i usually do when playing a game, u have to put half the controller hanging and use the other hand to drink, with a 1 hand held controller u can jus keep playin with one hand while takin a drink....😬

Originally posted by Smasandian
I think we should all see how it plays out.

Also, it was at the end of the story at Gamespot, but the look of the contoller isnt that actual look of it. They're still tinkering with it. (I read it somewhere, but I might be wrong)

Also, you can probably still use traditional controllers for third party support.

In all, the general consences with game critics and journalist have been positive.
Its looks very interesting.
I just hope I can still play my Madden.

Originally posted by crazy_shadow
2 hands to hold a controller? wtf? i mean wat if u need a drink or somethin, like i usually do when playing a game, u have to put half the controller hanging and use the other hand to drink, with a 1 hand held controller u can jus keep playin with one hand while takin a drink....😬

God, i hate you Nintendo haterz. Finding the littlest thing like that to criticize it. I can't believe i agree with you. But still not a big deal you ass.

Originally posted by Wolf Dog
God, i hate you Nintendo haterz. Finding the littlest thing like that to criticize it. I can't believe i agree with you. But still not a big deal you ass.

Originally posted by Tha C-Master
Is that necessary, who said he hates nintendo?
These discussions are usually ruined by the same petty fanboyism, because people can't accept others seeing otherwise, especially with nintendo.

I've seen past posts from him and its obvious he's a nintendo hater.

Originally posted by Tha C-Master
You missed my point, not timing as in mechanics, but as in control with fingers, quite awkward for fighting games and such, no?

as for fighting games/ beat em ups.. some have even suggested the interesting idea of hooking 2 remotes to one another, and moving them simultaneously in a 'boxing' type of movement

Originally posted by Draco69
But what if the small a or b button leads to combo? Or it guards? Or it jumps? Or it releases a special attack?

It would be quite difficult to switch from your former position of holding the remote to a lower position in order to access the a and b buttons on the bottom.

Here's another question which nobody has even thought of: What if we have to hold two buttons at the same time? The large B button may compensate for one aspect....but what if we have to hold say A and little a together? It would be quite annoying and quite tiring.

What if the game requires a complex set of button combinations say: A, b, A, A B, b A, a b, A = Link's Special Move? Anyone else think its gonna be VERY difficult to pull off?

I dont believe its going to work like that... the controller has a d-pad at the top.. so you can turn it 90 degrees and play it as if it were a normal NES controller.. think of how many operations you can command with the movement alone... what if making a circular motion with the remote caused your character to either block, or do a 360 degree attack?.. maybe a Z-motion with the remote and B trigger can be another special.. alot of things are possible

Originally posted by SaTsuJiN

I dont believe its going to work like that... the controller has a d-pad at the top.. so you can turn it 90 degrees and play it as if it were a normal NES controller.. think of how many operations you can command with the movement alone... what if making a circular motion with the remote caused your character to either block, or do a 360 degree attack?.. maybe a Z-motion with the remote and B trigger can be another special.. alot of things are possible

Possible. But not conventionally comfortable with most gamers in my opinion. We'll see how it panes out. I'm very skeptical. But as said before I applaud Nintendo for their boldness and originality.

For the "boxing" movement, nah..
I play tourney wise and having a small dpad is a kink, games like sf have circular motions, circles, semicircles, quatercircles.

If you've ever played on a handheld you can tell the difference.

even a normal ps2 controller isn't that good for me in those games, I have one espescially made for them.

Wow....kind of a jarring sight...not at all what I was expecting.

However, Nintendo is infamous for making controllers that look wierd and are initially put down as poorly constructed, and then hailed with praise once people try them out (Nintendo 64, Gamecube).

I have faith that this will be more of the same.

there is a reason for a certain degree of fanboyism for nintendo as opposed to other companies (btw Im not such a fanboy), the reason is that Nintendo continues to go out on a limb and "tries" to bring innovation into a stagnant video game world, whereas Sony and Microsoft seem to take the easier road by just pumping up polygons and squeezing money out of sequels

remember people, the reason we want better graphics is to better immerse ourselves, but graphics is only part of immersion, sound and control are the other two critical parts

imagine in the future where your controller becomes a holographic projection (whereby depending on the game it projects a different image...say a bat in a basball game, a sword in soul caliber 8, a plasma rifle in Halo 5.5, etc) yes this is farfetched and prob not possible, but it takes initiative like Nintendo is displaying to get us in that direction

that being said, I don't agree with alot of Nintendo's ideas, I think the DS is crap, but I applaud their effort and intent

so instead of buying the 85th rendition of MAdden with a coupla meaningless roster changes, perhaps you can try out the revolution

Originally posted by Tha C-Master
For the "boxing" movement, nah..
I play tourney wise and having a small dpad is a kink, games like sf have circular motions, circles, semicircles, quatercircles.

If you've ever played on a handheld you can tell the difference.

even a normal ps2 controller isn't that good for me in those games, I have one espescially made for them.