How the NX Controller will work, and why you will like it.

[Illusion]

The negativity here is so premature. Nintendo's hardware innovations are invariably made successful by the games that they create to compliment their hardware. For example, the WiiMote would have not been huge had it not been for Wii Sports, the N64 controller could have been a complete flop had it not been for Super Mario 64 and who knows if the Game Boy would have taken off had it not been for Tetris.

I want to see Nintendo properly reveal the NX before I make any hasty conclusions. What I see in these photos is probably an engineering sample that was never meant to be seen by the public. It is being shown in the most unflattering way possible and we don't even know what most of its features are going to be. Even more importantly, we have no idea what sort of killer app Nintendo is planning to release to utilize this new controller.

Yes, this could be the Gamepad version 2.0, in which case Nintendo is finished in the home console market. If this controller cannot capture the lightning of the WiiMote, though, it does not automatically mean that the NX is going to be the next Wii U. Nintendo's past is not as black and white as the Wii and the Wii U and people seem to conveniently forget that Nintendo has had many more modest successes in their past that have stemmed from their hardware innovations. For example, if this new controller ends up being the next N64 controller, would that necessarily be a bad thing? The N64 controller was weird looking, but it also established industry standards like the analog stick, the rumble pack and it pretty much gave life to the 3rd person platforming genre. I could see this new controller being something similar to the N64 controller and I am struggling to see how that is necessarily a bad thing.

And BTW, I am sure that there were many angry people back in 1996 who didn't want to game with an ugly and awkward controller a lot like we are seeing right now with this new controller. Mario 64 shut those people up back then and I am waiting to see what killer app Nintendo has incoming to do the same in 2016!

Overall, I am excited about the new controller and hopefully optimistic!