Hi there.
Some of you have probably noticed I am a Nintendo fanatic. It's almost completely down to the quality of their games and the fact that they have an escapist quality that the supposedly realistic games for the other consoles just can’t replace. With that in mind I must say I don’t care what the controller looks like, why would you look at the controller while playing unless you have the memory of a goldfish.
The main complaint on the technical side seems to be "Why didn’t they just put the sensors on a normal controller". Well the reason for that seems fairly obvious to me. For the non believers, try following the procedure below.
1) Sit on sofa or gaming location of choice.
2) Allow a minute or so for bedding in.
3) Take your normal controller in both hands (The traditional fashion)
4) Now without removing either hand rotate the controller 90 degrees right.
5) Now without removing either hand rotate the controller 90 degrees left.
6) Now remove left hand from controller and repeat steps 4 and 5.
7) Notice how a single wrist has a full 180 degrees of rotation while joining two wrists via a normal controller restricts the range of motion.
8) Now go back to two hands. Point controller straight up.
9) Rotate 90 degrees left (About the axis of your arms).
10) Remove left hand and repeat steps 8 and 9.
11) Notice how it almost seems as though your wrist is specifically designed to work with a one handed controller of this type.
12) Hang head in shame at being a supposed game developer who can’t see the possibilities of this tremendous device.
Simple ergonomics chaps and chapesses.
"why does Nintendo have to constantly shoot themselves in their foot?"
no one else’s foot is theirs to shoot.
"I still am shocked, but I am awed at the possibilities."
Shock and awe eh. Let’s hope the new Nintendo is more successful.
In the future we will not spank the monkey, the monkey will spank us.
