12th July 2005, 9:03 AM
Indeed. Unique games are great, I love something original like Canvas Curse. It's just that, well, these things don't promote a unique experience.
Now then, maybe we've read this all wrong. Maybe the new controller really is a touch sensitive surface that's shaped like a controller, and that's how they will reduce buttons and sticks (though in such a case they should add a lot of bumps and grooves so you can still recognize where your fingers are by touch). However, you have to wonder...
If Nintendo's new innovation is just some reduced (though I'm sure... comfy) controller, I'll be upset... Designers may all end up saying "um, yeah, we're using the Gamecube controller, because it's actually SUPERIOR to this 3 button wonder...".
Now then, maybe we've read this all wrong. Maybe the new controller really is a touch sensitive surface that's shaped like a controller, and that's how they will reduce buttons and sticks (though in such a case they should add a lot of bumps and grooves so you can still recognize where your fingers are by touch). However, you have to wonder...
If Nintendo's new innovation is just some reduced (though I'm sure... comfy) controller, I'll be upset... Designers may all end up saying "um, yeah, we're using the Gamecube controller, because it's actually SUPERIOR to this 3 button wonder...".
"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)