Nintendo/Revolution Press Conference

[Xantar]

my question for FPS type games tho is this... with a mouse when you look say to your left, you can pick the mouse up and center it again, but if you move this controller to look left, and you want to center it, moving it to the right is going to make you look to the right in the game again. isnt it? what if i want to turn a corner and go straight again. how is the controller going to know im not trying to turn to the right again?

There's nothing that says the motion sensing has to be on all the time. Maybe it's only on when you squeeze the trigger underneath. Then you can release the trigger and move the controller back to a neutral position whenever you want to, sort of like lifting up your mouse and putting it back in the center of the pad.

Originally Posted by Kurt....BLAHAHA

This is the next powerglove (and I actually called it in an earlier thread), except this time Nintendo is banking their entire next gen system on it. Smart.

They banked an entire handheld on a "gimmick," and it's doing just fine.

Not only that, but they are giving you an incomplete controller. You have to get "peripherals" for it if you want something as everyday as a thumb-stick. So they will charge you piece by piece if you want to put together a controller that will play most 3rd party games.

*cough*Gamecubecontrollerports*cough*

Developing games is becoming more and more expensive, especially with what is expected from the next generation. This doesn't make any sense for the Western market.

If you're saying that this will make development more expensive...I don't follow. How exactly do you know this will make developers have to spend more money? The programming for the motion-sensing of the controller is going to be just like for an analog stick with a third dimension added on. It's certainly not as expensive as requiring that all games made for it be rendered in HDTV regardless of whether the player actually has the setup.

Now there are a bunch of quotes by EA, THQ, Activision and Ubi Soft praising the Revolution and saying they will develop for it. But why bring those up?

Nintendo is expecting you to buy a giant DS. A system based on a gimmick. And you know what, the Nintedroids in this hemisphere probably will.

There is significant evidence that many DS buyers are people who barely played videogames before. The DS is bringing in people from a new market just like Nintendo said it would. So I wouldn't say that Nintendo expecting us to buy a giant DS is a bad thing. Apparently, Metroid Prime: Echoes using the Revolution controller is a blast.

Oh, that's right. You don't believe in actually trying a device before deciding whether you like it or not.