Latest rumour on The Revolution Controller (Sounds legit)

[Curt]

Sounds like a cool idea, and I think this definately has a possibility of being "it."

Interesting nonetheless.

http://forums.gamespot.com/gamespot/show_messages.php?board=909104101&topic=23049163&page=0

 

[Lashujin]

Yeah it's been though to be "it" before, and really I believe that it makes a good bit of sense, I think it's a cool idea like the rumble pack was novel at the time (like they said in the post)

 

[rarehero]

i hope that's not all.
alot of folks will be dissapointed, but that fits nintendo's MO nowadays.

 

[Lagduf]

I was hoping the revolution controllers were going to have screens honestly.

Nintendo was really on to something in using the GBA as an input device for games like FF:CC. Sure it was seen as a gimmick by most, but it really worked well i thought. It got a lot of needless data off the main screen and was the best way to make the rpg styled menus work in a multiplayer game. It was sort of like the VMU to the next level.

 

[abasuto]

I've always hated the rumble feature on any controller. Did nothing but annoy me.

This seems like a legit rumor, but I'm still betting that someway a touchpad of sorts will be involved in the controller. I already think of Nintendo as a giant joke, but if all this "revolution" hype is all over a better rumble feature, I'm never gonna stop laughing.

 

[barf]

i liked the rumble in rtype delta when you make the big void explosion :P

but err... that can only be part of the "revolution" controller novelties

 

[LWK]

I am not keen on rumbling controls either and I have sneaky feeling they can cause hand injury in some way in the future. Crazy as it sounds, you really never know.

 

[gamejunkie]

Did you guys ever use that tilt pak made by pelican? It sounded cool, but was the biggest piece of shit ever made.

 

[J0e Musashi]

It's hardly revolutionary either is it, tilt control? I'd still rather use a d-pad or analog stick to steer a car in a racing game myself. Even built-in screens wouldn't be a new thing either. Now if it had a built-in teleporter or a device which let you turn into a motorbike like in Tron, so you could play games whilst you sped around at 200mph then that'd be revolutionary.

 

[Tacitus]

It's incredibly easy to do.


If you want a demo of what this feels like/does, take a hard drive, hook it up to your power supply and try to rotate it. I could see it being somewhat useful/innovative.

P.S. get a 12500 RPM Scsi drive and try it, too...