p2pnet - rss feed: New Nintendo control system
p2p news / p2pnet:- “Nintendo thinks it has the answer for people scared off by all the complex switches and buttons on home video-game controllers - a simpler device that looks like a TV remote control and can be waved like a wand or a baseball bat.”
Like a baseball bat? That’s what the Associated Press says.
Anyway, the company demonstrated Nintendo the new control device at the Tokyo Game Show which opened today, and which is “turning into a showcase for the intensifying three-way battle among Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo Co. Ltd. in next-generation video-game consoles,” says the story, going on to quote Nintendo President Satoru Iwata as saying:
"We thought about how everyone in the family uses the TV remote, but some people don’t want to even touch the game controller. We want to set a new interface standard for games."
And here’s where the baseball bat comes in, not to mention a fly-swatter.
“Simulations of the controller being used in a number of different games were shown during a video shown at the keynote. It was swung in a baseball game as someone would swing a bat, stabbed into space to kill imaginary bugs as someone might use a fly swatter and swung from side to side to control a tennis game on screen,” says the IDG News Service.
"There’s an add-on unit, connected via a short cable to the main unit. It was simulated being used in a first-person shooter game, of the type that’s very popular in the U.S. The main controller was held in the hand and pointed while the secondary controller was held in the other hand and became the gun’s trigger."
Ah, the wonders of science : )
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Associated Press - Nintendo Produces New Remote Control, September 16, 2005
IDG News Service - Nintendo rethinks the game controller, September 16, 2005
September 16th, 2005 at 3:06 pm
Huray! Great new controller!
This is gonna be so awesome! I can’t wait to try this out.
Nintendo is always soo innovative and willing to take the lead on disigns.
September 17th, 2005 at 3:55 am
Well i hope it’s got a wire leading from it to the console itself. After all, millions of remote controls get lost every year in homes around the world.
Besides, what are the kids gonna play their games with, when dad steals “the new remote” then smashes it in a fit of rage because “it doesn’t work!! Can’t change channels or nothin!!”
Typical tech company, only thinking about the hardware ;o)