Traditional controller? You mean the same controller that Nintendo changed about 10 times in the last 20 years?
And whats wrong with the nunchuk configuration? I like the fact that I can leave one controller still, while using the other controller to scroll menus and select options much quicker than usual (im pretty sure Sony liked this idea too).
Even if lets say, the next controller was a traditional two handed device, I would find it HIGHLY unlikely that the IR Pointer concept wasn't carried over in some capacity. Noone discusses it, bcoz motion takes all the headlines, but that innovation in the wiimote is one of the best contributions to controller designs ever.
“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.
