So what if Microsoft take Nintendo ideas and improve them. This is nothing but a plus for gamers. Just look what happen to Madden football after EA killed it competition (sadly not by gameplay but by owning NFL copyrights). If it wasn't for competition I wouldn't have got my PS3 with a Blu-ray for $400 (no way am I playing ps2 games on PS3 when I already have two). So I don't want one system to run too far ahead from the others.

Remember when everyone said the Wii killer would be a PS2 with waggle? Remember when lots of Sony fans said it was a brilliant idea for Sony to release a U$ 99 PS2 with these said controllers? Anyone remember Realplay?

MS may release these controllers as a test for their next console, but do not expect it to steal even 2% of Wii casual centric game sales. Another issue is the price. I am still pissed to pay U$ 60 for wiimote+nunchuk. If MS can charge U$ 50 for a wireless PS2-like controller (or a Wavebird with rumble), how much would they ask on a motion sensing controller?

Casual gamers can keep Wii Sports for all I care. Who knows if Microsoft can build a good wii-like controller with a more deeper game play than Wii Sport.

I loved MS's old sidewinder controller, and will be interested to see what they come up with. Surely the extra couple of years of research should allow them to do something a bit better than the Wiimote. However, unless such a controller is packed in as standard with future consoles, is as simple and easy to use as the Wiimote/Nunchuck combo, and MS gets 3rd parties to develop games with it's use in mind (and for that matter gets it out in a hurry), it has no chance of "killing" the Wiimote. Better I think for it to become standard with the XBox 720.

A factor? To be sure. A decisive, even an important factor? That remains to be seen. Oh, sure, it matters to a handful of "hardcore" tech heads, but the number of people without HD right now remains quite high. Perhaps it will be a bigger deal in a year or two, and then Nintendo might suffer, though they likely will be too distracted by piles of yen to notice.

Yes, because Wii Sports represents the most effective use of motion controls on the Wii... it's not like Zack & Wiki, Metroid Prime 3, and Super Mario Galaxy are out or anything.  I'm tired of trolls.  

-obviously won't kill the Wii
-if real, probably not even coming out until the next xbox
-possibly just an elaborate hoax

lol break apart. Wasn't this one of the prototype designs nintendo did. They cut a GCN controller in half.


Had so many prototypes and eventually got to were we are today with wii remote.

I have no doubt SMG and Metroid Prime 3 are great games which should be no surprise to anyone as Nintendo has always been good producing great software. ( It seem to me that Wii Sport was one of the most effective software which sold the Wii)

It like too many here fear that Mircosoft may actually give Nintendo a run for their money which I see as a gamer a very good thing and hope Microsoft is successful. So explain to me exactly how it that being a troll?

That's why I think it's just a hoax. Why would Microsoft copy Nintendo's ridiculous-looking and failed prototype design instead of copying the insanely successful Wiimote design (when the whole point would be to emulate the success of the Wii)? MS has done a lot of stupid things over the years, but this would make the top 10 list.