Controlling the Revolution
The Che Guevara of input devices.
When I saw the first pictures of the Nintendo Revolution Controller, my first thought was, “Are you shitting me?” It looks like the love child of an ipod and a smallish television controller. How is anyone supposed to play games with that? But than I watched the video over at IGN. Now I want to be part of the revolution.
The video makes it apparent that you don’t so much use the buttons on the controller as wave it around in the air in a way that interacts with the revolution. Maybe even leads the occasional revolutionary movement.
Nintendo would like us to believe that the revolution will allow gamers, (and grandmothers and attractive Japanese women), to use the controller like a sword, or device for chopping virtual sushi, or a conductor’s baton, or a pulse blaster. I badly want to believe Nintendo.
The strongest cause for disbelief that I found within the revolution video was the gentlemen who seemed to be hiding behind his couch so as to avoid some sort of gunfire. Does the Revolution know that his couch is there, or was he simply so overwhelmed by the realism of the game that he left that logical part of his brain behind and decided to take refuge in the physical world to avoid the forces of evil portrayed by the Revolution, (likely in this case embodied by Bowser).
Shit, I don’t care. Lead on Nintendo. We’ll overthrow the powers that be.