Tendo City

Not sure what that image really even means. It could just be advertising, as in "check out what you'll be playing on the Wii". It could be they are making a LOT of different retro controllers (but I prefer the remodelled NES controller to the original design). I'm leaning towards the former for the moment. Oh, and why the first version of the Genesis controller instead of a 6 button one?

But anyway, it's not really needed if they stick comfy handles on the existing "retro controller" design, reposition those "L2 and R2" buttons to be more easily accessible, and make the 4 button layout a 6 button one. One controller. One possibly more expensive than normal controller, but it'd be fine considering this is an optional add-on for retro gaming anyway.

I'd get at least one N64 one for sure, and a Genesis one if they offered the six-button model (not that the 3-button is bad, but the 6-button made it pretty much irrelevant, even if only a few games support it... it's just better.)... but yeah, it's impossible to tell if this is just a promotional thing to the magazine and they aren't actually going to release these things (I'd say it's likely -- why release separate Sega Master System, TurboGrafx, and NES controllers when all three use pretty much exactly the same one, for instance? Just for the slight design and color differences? Most people would say "not enough different to be worth buying" to that...)... I mean, while it'd be cool to use each console's games with exact replicas of its controller, that'd be pretty expensive, especially with all of the OTHER addons to this controller they're thinking about... while the ideas are cool, the price is high! Nintendo needs to know that they can't require expensive extras for games very often... it hasn't worked before and it won't now, no matter how cool it is when it's actually all working with an appropriate game (see: GBA Connectivity!).

Well there's one major snag. I already HAVE the original system and controller for a lot of those systems (not Master System or Neo Geo mind you), but I don't want a "totally authentic experience", I'm using Wii's "virtual console" to play all the games on one sleek router sized system with a single comfortable controller, saving space and money. If I wanted the original controller, I'd get the original system too for consistancy.

Quote:Well there's one major snag. I already HAVE the original system and controller for a lot of those systems (not Master System or Neo Geo mind you), but I don't want a "totally authentic experience", I'm using Wii's "virtual console" to play all the games on one sleek router sized system with a single comfortable controller, saving space and money. If I wanted the original controller, I'd get the original system too for consistancy.

A good point, but there are still some issues -- while the N64 and Genesis both have six face buttons, I wouldn't want to play one on the other... the N64's small C buttons are maybe not as good as main action buttons as fullsize ones, while the Genesis' lower-three-large upper-three-small layout works differently... each is good at what it does and can't quite do the other. Same for Genesis and SNES, really... I know that you can get an approximation, and a six face button controller with shoulder could stand in for a SNES pad, but... especially for N64, as I've said before... the N64 has a unique controller, and playing those games on anything else just doesn't work nearly as well!

The only issue I ever had was the lack of 6 buttons. A small size and shape difference didn't really affect me.