Another Revolution Controller Rumour
Well, we all know that Nintendo didnt reveal the Revolution controller. We also know that the controller will be the aspect of the system that will be the revolutionary. Since we have no clue what it is, its time for some more speculation! Yeah!
First, check out this new technology that could also be used in video games in the future:
Revolution? Well, that would certainly be an interesting, hands free controller. We also have another user submitted theory just for fun. Dark Wario compiled a bunch of the theories on the controller (touch screen, ability to play back catalogue of games and portability/connectivity) and made a theory. What, no gyros?
Let’s talk about Revolution’s controller. Some people thought that the controller itself was hidden somewhere in last E3. Do you think they were all wrong? Well, Nintendo did not take it to the show, but it gave us something to speculate with.
Do you remember the super screen that impressed us so much? I mean the touchable screen with pressure sense capabilities in the Zelda booth that attracted a lot of people’s attention. Let’s think now, Revolution will play NES, SNES and N64 games, and we need a controller able to emulate their controllers.
What about a screen where all could be drawn? Every developer could create their own controller, adapting it to their games, they could have all the analog buttons they wanted to have. There’s a problem with this kind of invention, we have no physical reference to the buttons. Nintendo, of course, has a solution to this.
Do you remember the words of Square’s president, when he said that the next Nintendo’s system would not be exactly a home or a portable console? With this kind of controller you could play in its screen like if it was a portable system itself, the difference is that it has no microproccessor, every bit of information is proccessed in Revolution itself and it communicates via wireless with the controller.That’s because Nintendo has to minimize the cost of the final product, the controller is not a console itself but it can be with the Revolution.
About final costs”¦ Nintendo did not give us technical specs”¦ they did not have them yet. Nintendo will give us a cheaper system than others. The technology of these controllers is not very cheap, so the rest of the system can’t be as powerful as competitors’, the final costs would raise incredibly”¦but Ninty is an inteligent company.
Do you remember the release dates they gave us a year ago and the ones that we hear now, at least in speculation? Remember this: if Nintendo give us Revolution at the same time PS3 comes, it will be not as powerfull, but if it comes in q4 of 2006 – 2007, one year later than XBOX 360, it can give us the same if not even superior technical specs and a real revolutionary controller.
Nintendo must be thinking a lot about this. I could say much more things about Revolution, but I think we have enough for now. Let’s speculate friends!! What do you think about this? I want to apologyze for my english, I know it’s far away from perfect(I’m spanish).
Submitter: Dark Wario and Spin_Cycle
Edgar - June 1st, 2005 - 
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