17th September 2005, 7:18 AM
From now on, every controller will have true 3-D control, there's no denying that.
Designers now have a choice: Use the true 3-D and increase sales, or be cheap and use 2-D (by putting the Rev controller in a shell).
The result will be very easy to see, companies that use the Rev controller will have higher sales. Once people play RE5 with the Rev controller they wont want 2-D control. True 3-D control is a true revolution.
The question for me is, since the Rev has GC ports which I could use for NES, SNES, N64 and GC, do I want to buy a shell to play traditional 2-D games for Revolution? If a new third party game like RE5 comes out and it can only be played with the 2-D shell, I dont think I would run out to grab one, Why make me buy a shell when you could take an extra few weeks in the game's development to add full 3-D functionality?
Designers now have a choice: Use the true 3-D and increase sales, or be cheap and use 2-D (by putting the Rev controller in a shell).
The result will be very easy to see, companies that use the Rev controller will have higher sales. Once people play RE5 with the Rev controller they wont want 2-D control. True 3-D control is a true revolution.
The question for me is, since the Rev has GC ports which I could use for NES, SNES, N64 and GC, do I want to buy a shell to play traditional 2-D games for Revolution? If a new third party game like RE5 comes out and it can only be played with the 2-D shell, I dont think I would run out to grab one, Why make me buy a shell when you could take an extra few weeks in the game's development to add full 3-D functionality?