Nintendo Revolution Button Gossip – Info Blackout Breeds Guesswork
Buttons and D-pad scrapped.
A D-Pad this morning
According to unconfirmed reports surfacing from Japan by way of the usually upstanding and efficient (they really are very efficient) German games site Gamefront, Nintendo has released snippets of information regarding its mysterious Revolution console.
In a piece in the latest Diamond Weekly, a magazine targeted at money-obsessed mid-40s Japanese male executives, Nintendo reportedly states that the Revolution will not have standard buttons as featured on previous machine controllers. The article also states that the digital D-pad will be removed.
SPOnG can’t really help but wonder who cares about any of this. The Revolution, whatever else it might be, will be a computer in a box. The computer in a box will plug into the back of your TV and play games, some of which will be online, via a very much standard controller and some other things too.
We are assured by Nintendo that the Revolution will be on show at E3, “...in a case on the stand somewhere.” Should make for a pretty picture. Stay tuned.
In a piece in the latest Diamond Weekly, a magazine targeted at money-obsessed mid-40s Japanese male executives, Nintendo reportedly states that the Revolution will not have standard buttons as featured on previous machine controllers. The article also states that the digital D-pad will be removed.
SPOnG can’t really help but wonder who cares about any of this. The Revolution, whatever else it might be, will be a computer in a box. The computer in a box will plug into the back of your TV and play games, some of which will be online, via a very much standard controller and some other things too.
We are assured by Nintendo that the Revolution will be on show at E3, “...in a case on the stand somewhere.” Should make for a pretty picture. Stay tuned.
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Ditto 21 Dec 2004 13:49
1/13
You can't say it will definatly operate via "a very much standard controller".
It might be voice or motion activated. We don't know.
It might be voice or motion activated. We don't know.
DoctorDee 21 Dec 2004 14:03
2/13
Adam M wrote:
It might be voice or motion activated. We don't know.
Or have a DS-like touch-pad on a cable.
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Arse McAdams 21 Dec 2004 14:32
3/13
DoctorDee wrote:
Or have a DS-like touch-pad on a cable.
If this had an LCD screen it could prove quite interesting, although, as the DS has proven, it would be b******s for controlling 3D platformers.
What they want to bring out is a big fat bastard touch screen, made out of car-window-sticker-type stuff, that you slap on your tele.
Actually, no, that would be crap...
acidviper 21 Dec 2004 14:51
4/13
>> DS-like touch pad on a cable
I'm not sure why you would want a DS style input when you could probably use the DS itself.
The d-pad is obselete for almost everything except 2-D platformers. It seems the D-pad is relegated to changing weapons (Metroid) and a cheap alternative for an arcade joystick in fighting games. The Nintendo GameCube d-pad is too small but it is cheaper than another analog stick and it mimics 4 buttons. It looks like a step towards more Virtual Reality type games as Mario 128 is for the GameCube.
As for the "non-traditional buttons" one can only hope they are cool .
Some old rumors also listed the Revolution as being able to hook up both to the TV and computer or computer monitor so I'm still perplexed and waiting for E3 2K5.
I'm not sure why you would want a DS style input when you could probably use the DS itself.
The d-pad is obselete for almost everything except 2-D platformers. It seems the D-pad is relegated to changing weapons (Metroid) and a cheap alternative for an arcade joystick in fighting games. The Nintendo GameCube d-pad is too small but it is cheaper than another analog stick and it mimics 4 buttons. It looks like a step towards more Virtual Reality type games as Mario 128 is for the GameCube.
As for the "non-traditional buttons" one can only hope they are cool .
Some old rumors also listed the Revolution as being able to hook up both to the TV and computer or computer monitor so I'm still perplexed and waiting for E3 2K5.
Autobot 21 Dec 2004 15:00
5/13
I'm sure I figured it out. The new controller will be either the DS or the Next Gameboy. Nintendo might include a basic controller with the Revolution but eventually your forced to use the Gameboy or DS as one. The touch screen was not well recieved as an acurate game control I doubt they are going to risk there company for a one shot gimmick like that again.
Who knows it could be an old school Atari 2600 joystick. I would like that.
Who knows it could be an old school Atari 2600 joystick. I would like that.
fluffstardx 21 Dec 2004 16:53
6/13
For all we know it's like a plasma globe that senses movement.
Let's face it, it's pseudo-news; they told us that much at E3, and they're very good at being tight-lipped.
Let's face it, it's pseudo-news; they told us that much at E3, and they're very good at being tight-lipped.
acidviper 21 Dec 2004 17:38
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Autobot wrote:
The new controller will be either the DS or the Next Gameboy. The touch screen was not well recieved as an acurate game control I doubt they are going to risk there company for a one shot gimmick like that again.
You don't make any sense. And the DS controls great, just not for FPS's or as a pseudo analog joystick so - no the DS would not be a good idea for a 3D control mechanism unless they got that gyroscope thing they wanted to add on.
You don't make any sense. And the DS controls great, just not for FPS's or as a pseudo analog joystick so - no the DS would not be a good idea for a 3D control mechanism unless they got that gyroscope thing they wanted to add on.
SPInGSPOnG 21 Dec 2004 18:24
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I'm not sure why you would want a DS style input when you could probably use the DS itself.
Because making a console that REQUIRED you to have another console (albeit a handheld one) to use it would be commercial suicide of the HIGHEST order?
LUPOS 21 Dec 2004 19:11
9/13
acidviper wrote:
You don't make any sense. And the DS controls great, just not for FPS's or as a pseudo analog joystick
i have to disagree... the bit i have played of metroid using the touch screen to aim is fantastic! on the other hand playing mario 64 on a touch screen after beeting that hell out of that game on the 64 is like trying to play ninja gaiden huricane pack2 while drunk and stoned! (trust me, it doesnt work!)
that said... if Ninty has the bawls to try and eliminate the control stick entirely and replace it with touch screen nonsense they might not live to regret it.
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Zeo [banned] 21 Dec 2004 21:19
10/13
a) This article is garbage. And you wonder why no one respects Spong.
b) You're an idiot if you think Nintendo will make you buy the DS to control their next system. Hello logic.
b) You're an idiot if you think Nintendo will make you buy the DS to control their next system. Hello logic.
marmaduke 22 Dec 2004 12:29
11/13
Actually, according to the online section of The Guardian's 'Life' pullout last Thursday, Spong "has a great reputation among professionals and consumers for reviews, rumours and news".
Article is here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,,1374155,00.html
So obviously people do respect Spong, even if it only the middle-class Guardian-reading museli-eating liberal elite like myself.
Article is here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,,1374155,00.html
So obviously people do respect Spong, even if it only the middle-class Guardian-reading museli-eating liberal elite like myself.
Pandaman 23 Dec 2004 05:21
12/13
I heard that the Revolution will be backwards-compatible with the colecovision, will opperate on mind waves, and will have an online Kid Icarus game OUT OF THE BOX!
...but that's just what I heard.
...but that's just what I heard.
kid_77 23 Dec 2004 09:19
13/13
Those damn voices in your head, eh?