REVOLUTION CONTROLLER HAS BEEN REVEALED!!!!!

[A Black Falcon]

Yes, there have been. As I said, I've used such things. You basically move it around the air and the game, a motorcycle game that doesn't really work with that kind of controller, moves around too. With the right game, it can do wonders. So yes, they've been around. Again, this is new only in the sense that it's "new to consoles", and really I don't make that distinction because it's a pretty cheap tactic.

You are more wrong than right, I think. Read the various previews. This does not simply react to your tilting the controller. It actually (via the sensors you put by the TV) gauges how far your controller is from the TV, the specific angle it is at, etc... so it's not just "tilt". It's full movement in 3d space... yeah, not new, but not quite like what's been done before for games.

There is so much potential here... I was nervous for what Nintendo would do, but they created something completely different, very simple, and yet with so many possibilities... I think that, especially in Japan, they have a huge chance to do really well with casual gamers... I'll be really interested to see how it does with casuals here. Done right it could be huge... but of course, it also could end up like the last two generations. We'll see... but Nintendo had to do something noticably different from what Sony and MS did, and here it is.

So yes, it'd be nice to see more buttons on the main unit... even just one, next to A, so that with the dpad the top of the unit could emulate an N64 when combined with the other hand (Z1 and Z2 (the two buttons on the analog stick attachment) for L and Z, R on B-trigger, A as A, and new-button-B-next-to-A as B), and an addon that has four or six buttons, for a classic fighting game's controls or stuff like that (for the right hand, main controller-dpad in left), but this as it is is pretty good. And I'm sure they'll iron out the classic game compatibility given how many times they've talked about this working for SNES and N64 games in addition to NES ones.

As for ergonomics, none of the previews have mentioned that as a problem (of people who have actually used it). I'll believe that above abstract thoughts of "that looks like potentially it could get hard to use after a while"... because remember, you hold this like a normal controller in your lap. You hold it either vertically or tip it on its side and it's a NES controller. You do not need to be pointing it at some base unit all the time like a remote.