[Xantar]

Originally Posted by Null

this new controller comes from nitnendos ODD thinking that controllers are getting too complicated, and too many buttons.

Or maybe Nintendo wants to have true three dimensional control for the next Mario game. They wouldn't exactly tell us that right now, though.

In any case, I would rather have Nintendo trying new things and have some of them ending up as mere gimmicks than try nothing new at all.

i dont find anyone complaining that controllers are too complicated, many would like a couple more buttons infact.

Because as everyone knows, the people that Null talks are representative of the entire world.

Seriously. Hand your controller over to someone who hasn't played very many videogames in their life and watch how quickly they lose interest. I remember a few girls at Swarthmore who were actual basketball players. They quickly lost interest in basketball videogames because there was too much, "Wait. Which button is pass?"

somtimes i'd want to just lie back on the couch and play, not wave my arm all around. maybe depending on where i am i dont have room to swing it like a bat to hit the baseball.

I find it interesting that you know for a fact that you will grow tired of the controller. Meantime, everybody who has actually tried it has had nothing but good things to say about it. One even went so far as to explain that you only need little wrist movements to control the FPS Metroid demo, and the controller is really light to begin with. He didn't find it to be a chore at all. I'm sure somebody must have posted a link to it somewhere (right? Hasn't somebody done that yet?).

I'm not saying I love it and know that I will have a blast playing with it for hours on end. But frankly, I trust first-hand accounts a whole lot more than I trust your unfounded opinion. You should too.