A Revolution or Convolution?
What does the Nintendo Revolution controller look like? I don’t know any more than the average person, but I have a guess.
Based on some comments made by Nintendo VP Reggie Fils-Amie in an article on gameindustry.biz and seeing something interesting recently on ThinkGeek, I have a guess.
First, to quote Reggie,
“If you just think about it, we’re going to have the ability through wireless internet to download all your great games from NES, SNES, N64,” he said.
“Think about it – each of those controllers are different. How are you gonna play? That captured some of the imagination of what our controller needs to be able to do, and certainly as you get into the meat of that type of innovation with the developers, their eyes truly light up because they start to imagine what’s possible with that kind of configuration, which is vastly different than a sheer horsepower kind of game.”
So the controller should be configurable? How’s this for configurable? It’s a keyboard you can get at ThinkGeek.
Yeah, I know, it’s a stretch, but something like this would match the touch screen rumors that people have claimed. Imagine setting the buttons the way you want and allowing extra attachments for specialized games. The possibilities are pretty cool, if I’m right.
Knowing Nintendo, it’ll be cool no matter what they do.
