5th June 2006, 6:37 PM
They said that with the Gamecube and the GBA, and that didn't do JACK. Developers just found awkward solutions (and they were awkward) and Nintendo was the biggest offender with the GBA by breaking their own goal of "not having a bunch of SNES ports" by doing it THEMSELVES, and the two Metroid games, while great in most respects, didn't exactly win any awards for their missile controls (I would have preferred turning missile mode on and off with a shoulder button to having to hold the button to fire them). Cutting away buttons to force developers to use new controls isn't the best way to go. People either will use it or they won't, and with the "classic style" controller already on the system, limiting buttons on the Wii part isn't going to really do much of anything.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)