I feel sorry for the people that actually liked the controller.

Oh well, they can always download some game on their phone and have the same terrible experience.

I totally bought into this 2nd image because I really felt that there was no way that it could be CGI based on the scratchy reflections on the touch-screen.  I guess I was right about it not being CGI but I totally didn't think about the possibility of it being 3D printed and I also didn't think that a jokster would have access to a laser cutter that could create a convincing touch-screen.

I guess the lesson of this story is that with the increasing prevalence of 3D printing, we are all going to have to get a lot more skeptical about convincing leaks in the future.  Some of this fake stuff is going to start to look far more professionally fabricated then anything we have seen in the past.

yes that rigorous games "journalism" source check-   the real definative test

seriously,  good post 

I've said this it feels like a dozen times already.

WE ALL HAVE SEEN THE NX CONTROLLER. Consoles are not developed in 6 months on a whim. They are designed when the current console has gone gold and the initial shipments are being manufactured.

There was a Mario Kart Wii U ad that ran in Japan with a very odd looking Wii U tablet blurred out that when examined closely showed key differences from the Wii U design.

https://sickr.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/redesigned_wii_u_game_pad_rumour.jpg?w=840

I may be wrong, obviously only e3 will prove it one way or another. But I am willing to bet a thousand internets that the NX controller looks strikingly similar to the blurred rectangle in that screen capture.

Your guess is as good as anybody's about what the NX controller might look like, but I just think that Nintendo got burned so badly by the fact that so many people confused the Gamepad for a Wi add-on that they will make sure that the NX controller is unmistakenly different in appearance from anything related to the Wii U.  I mean, a lot of the people who saw the video above originally thought that the device shown was some kind of slim-Gamepad that was going to be released for the Wii U: just imagine if that is in fact the NX controller and everybody who sees it thinks that it is just an add-on for the Wii U when it comes out!

I completely forgot about that issue honestly. They had to create a marketing push after the release of the system just so people understood it wasn't just a add on to the Wii console as well. The slim gamepad was hotly debated however something always bugged me about the finger placement and shape of that device. We will see in a few more weeks what the device actually is and then we'll spend months talking about rumors and even more outlandish nonsense. 

One thing I want to point out is that Sharp had a deal with Nintendo back in 2014/2015 for Nintendo to use their freeform LCD technology. When I've heard people talk about a screen being the entire face of the handheld, the buttons being transparent and able to have their appearance changed according to the developers wishes it did not strike me being as out of this world as some others have thought. 

To soon... ;(

The internet was about to explode, then the leaker blows it...

Sad that Nintendo will likely come with an inferior tech controller than this fake.