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

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Illusion said:

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.

The N64 actually sold less than the NES, SNES, PS1, PS2, PS3, PS4, XBOX, XBOX 360, and PSP. So I would hardly use it as an example of Nintendo's innovative successes.

The Wii only sold well for a certain number of years because it was heavily pushed by the mainstream media (CNN,FOX,CNET,ABC,NBC,etc). A single title, Wii Sports, was hardly responsible for its sales.

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.

I also want to see what nintendo has before making conclusions, that includes making predictions of its market success. But frankly "killer app" is just a marketing buzz word and you can't really say Nintendo ever had one of those outside of the Wii.

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.

The N64 was not really that successful as it sold less than its predecessor and its competitor (PS1). And the N64 controller did not set industry standards like analog sticks, rumble, etc. The N64 did not have true analog sticks at all and instead used a multi-directional dpad approach. It also did not ship with rumble as that shipped later and required batteries to operate. The playstation analog joystick was the first controller with true analog controls in the console relm (It launched before N64 came out). The dual analog controller was the first console controller to feature both analog sticks and rumble (it came out the same month Nintendo shipped the rumble addon for its controllers). So to say that Nintendo innovated both analog sticks and rumble is not really true.

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!

Actually many people have never played Mario 64 because they never owned that system and the N64 controller was noted to have an unique design flaw where one cannot hold the controller in both hands and use all the bottons without having to repsoition your hands.

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