I'm not sure the casuals would buy a piece of tech just to play games nowadays, and this tech might be a bit pricey, further alienating the casuals. Why buy a console and expensive games when you have your phone and free games? That's a hard pitch to sell. Some might be intruiged by it, especially if it uses haptic feedback, but as we saw with the Wii; the hype soon dies.WWhile I agree with your second paragraph and concur that that is quite ingenius, that might be considered a gimmick by core gamers, who we all know just loooove their standard controllers, thus this design might turn them off even further. But I'm personally quite excited by the prospect of movable buttons, especially if they are also haptic.

Because now the's a rewards program that goes with it that touches on more than just gaming, free games on phones won't offer that unless they're from Nintendo themself. Core gamers think anything different and new is a gimmick from the D-pad, analogue stick, online, motion controls etc... this is why they won't be the main focus here.

It's just too many pieces that needs to work perfectly for this to work at all. Nintendo needs to make THE best mobile games out there for people to even consider getting a whole new tech to play more Nintendo games. That tech needs to be something new, cool and fresh to capture peoples imagination, making them curious and eventually buying it. The reward program also needs to work smoothless, and the ads needs to be Top notch. So many things can go wrong here, and if something DOES go wrong it will all fall apart. IMO :)

The tech as far as gaming goes is new and fresh, I'm not aware of any controller that can completely remap itself due to the situation in game, I don't really get what angle you're looking from here as it's not many pieces it's one system that has reach into various markets. The accounts system becomes like a passort into everything Nintendo from theme parks set up by Universal, to media like movies to gaming platforms to mobile apps, you only need one account, the rewards system is already in effect in Japan and detailed in another thread, you get rewarded from doing things in Nintendo software as well as buying their products.

Why should developers and games adapt to Nintendo's weird and far-fetched controllers? It should be the other way around.

The NX is going to be worse than Wii U and I fear it will be Nintendo's last home console device.

The difference between an iphone (or any touchscreen smartphone) is that you are always looking at the point of touch. No tactile feedback is necessary. With gaming you are either looking at a totally different screen or in the case of smartphone games, at an image away from the touch screen controls. Touch screen controls just don't work for certain games. For games like farmville it works but playing an FPS or platformer they are a disaster.

IF that is the design, people don't need to use it before making a judgment because we have plenty of use cases to draw from already.

Maybe Nintendo knoiws something the rest of the world's touchscreen manufactures/developers don't and the have found a way to make it work for big screen games. But until they either debunk these images or show that it'll indeed work people being highly skeptical of the viability of the design have plenty of reason to be worried.

Thank you so much. I love you. I've been trying to explain this to people ever since we heard the rumor about motors in the controller and no one seems to get it. I won't go over my arguments again, but here they are...

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=214134&page=4#8

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=214134&page=4#14

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=214134&page=5#17

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=214134&page=5#19

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=214134&page=6#17

In short, I said exactly the same thing: the thumb would be able to produce way too much torque on a joystick to actually have motors in the controllers. If the joysticks are indeed nubs, then it's just silly to even have motors in there in the first place.

I would love to work at Nintendo as a mechanical engineer. That would be so sick. But I can't speak Japanese...T-T

I third this. There is just no way you would use a motor to try and hold something in place like that. The reliability would be amazingly poor even assuming the player didn't break it the first time they tried to move it while motor had it "locked".

This wouldn't work as a console controller, looking down every time to check the position of the button you want to press. As a handheld it can have some exciting possibilities.

Didn't notice the A and B buttons on the touchscreen at the right analoge stick until now. Also, pictures are displaying both white and black colors. If it is fake, it is an extremely good fake.

You made it sound a bit better, but I still can't see myselft playing complex games on it. Besides, third parties would totally ignore it, probably more than Wii U. It's too cray cray.