[Destructoid] Leaked photo of NX controller?

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Why? Less competition isn't better. I'm curious why people want to see Nintendo fail...

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Why? Less competition isn't better. I'm curious why people want to see Nintendo fail...
I want to be able to play Nintendo's fantastic games without investing in ridiculous gimmick controllers, on lobsided hardware, with an online infrastructure that is basically going to be playing catch up to the rest of the industry.

I have 6 different controllers sitting in my drawer of all shapes sizes and functions in my drawer. Now we might potentially have this oval gamepad 2.0 shit to add the storm of controller fuckery. Enough.
 
Not taking it. R&D maybe, but Ninty probably wouldn't make a controller where its default usage means some part of the screen always being covered. That's just not good use of screen space.
 
Something something leaked photo was uploaded by an unknown game dev with no results from online search, later gamedev claims he has doubts its the actual controller as the logo was taped off, something something picture quality yadda yadda

I'm so tired.
 
my game on NX

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that'd be cool
 
Here's a quick mock-up I did for the few people who said they could see people playing CoD on this.


Can somebody show me where they would put the emulated buttons for LB, RB, the D-Pad, and the face buttons?

How would you hold it?

How would you see what you're doing?

How would you make it not clustered but also big enough to click, a problem iOS and android has in emulation.
So many games have so much UI that it does seem a difficult task to shrink to that kind of screen.
 
Guy claimed to be a game dev and that it's from a dev kit in another office in his building, so he didn't like have to sneak in there or anything. So... he just takes one blurry pic? Doesn't grab ten pics from different angles? He's a dev, he knows what people want to know about this thing (what the buttons do etc). Instead he gives us something that'd be super easy to fake (one somewhat fuzzy pic from one angle).

If it's real he did a good job making it look like it's not.
 
All they had to do was move the stick a little to the left and it could have been a somewhat regular controller.

They over engineered that thing.

No one knew how to make an analog stick controller. N64 was treading new waters (yes, there were some clunky analog based controllers here and there before the N64). It wasn't until many iterations later that the modern gamepad took shape.
 
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Would people want this over a vita with a bigger screen that stops at the buttons/sticks?

I don't see the point of having the screen extend to where your hand covers.

Well that's what they have in the Wii U gamepad. A smaller Wii U gamepad with cool haptic stuff going on (not replacing physical buttons though) would be cool.

my game on NX

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that'd be cool

I want it.

Still want buttons tho.
 
I want to be able to play Nintendo's fantastic games without investing in ridiculous gimmick controllers, on lobsided hardware, with an online infrastructure that is basically going to be playing catch up to the rest of the industry.

I have 6 different controllers sitting in my drawer of all shapes sizes and functions in my drawer. Now we might potentially have this oval shit. Enough.

So you only want Mario.
 
well, it looks like the patent... at this point I'm just going to wait until they show it officially. All these rumors and speculations are too much to keep up with

also this thread needs a "real or fake?" poll with it

Please let this be real.

Please let this be the hardware that flops so hard they withdraw from the hardware game and go third party.

Please.

people still begging Nintendo to go third-party

this shit will never end
 
I have went through the whole thread but I hope its not 28 pages of people calling Nintendo crazy before we know if its real or not

And those graphics on the controller look high tech lol
 
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Seriously though, I agree. They need to just go third party. They've sucked at hardware since...well...the SNES is the only flawless console they have ever come out with.

I cant believe people are still saying they "need" to go third party. If you actually look at long term financials Nintendo is doing absolutely fine.
 
Here's a quick mock-up I did for the few people who said they could see people playing CoD on this.


Can somebody show me where they would put the emulated buttons for LB, RB, the D-Pad, and the face buttons?

How would you hold it?

How would you see what you're doing?

How would you make it not clustered but also big enough to click, a problem iOS and android has in emulation.

Yeah opened the .png in photoshop for the full size and that analog stick looks scaled inward and rotated a bit.
LB and RB would be where they always are on a controller. The back. The dpad can easily be placed on the left, right, top and bottom of the left analog, and the face buttons can be mapped the the paddles on the back of the device.
 
On the Pro Controller NX.

Please, no.

The Wii U's biggest hurdle, beyond graphics, for getting third parties was having too many controller options that weren't guarantees. Nobody wants to develop a game for that many controllers, not even Nintendo managed to do it.

One controller option is the correct choice for launch.
 
I want to be able to play Nintendo's fantastic games without investing in ridiculous gimmick controllers, on lobsided hardware, with an online infrastructure that is basically going to be playing catch up to the rest of the industry.

I have 6 different controllers sitting in my drawer of all shapes sizes and functions in my drawer. Now we might potentially have this oval gamepad 2.0 shit to add the storm of controller fuckery. Enough.

Fair points with the online infrastructure and the controllers, but that is what Nintendo does. If you want to play their games you usually get caught up in all of their controller madness, and it also gives the developers the chance to display their creative freedom (but this isn't actually executed that well in reality). In theory Nintendo's innovations seems awesome, but usually their gimmicks just feel like gimmicks. But that's Nintendo, and I don't think it's enough of a reason to hope the fail out the hardware business IMO.

What competition does Nintendo offer anyone? MS and Sony couldn't care less that Nintendo exists.

They clowned Sony and MS last generation, and held up better in the portable business than Sony did. So....
 
I want to be able to play Nintendo's fantastic games without investing in ridiculous gimmick controllers, on lobsided hardware, with an online infrastructure that is basically going to be playing catch up to the rest of the industry.

I have 6 different controllers sitting in my drawer of all shapes sizes and functions in my drawer. Now we might potentially have this oval gamepad 2.0 shit to add the storm of controller fuckery. Enough.
Nintendo still makes money from hardware, and that helps them fund their software. Third party Nintendo would play it safer than ever.
 
The style of a controller is largely arbitrary with regards to how good the games that utilize it are. In fact, seeing the creativity behind how game designers work with unorthodox controllers is part of the fun.

But with that said, this would be truly limited because of the lack of buttons. If this mockup is true, that says to me they aren't interested in mainstream 3rd party software. They wouldn't want the same typical swarm of games going to PC/PS4/Xbone (some odd ports like Mass Effect 3 Wii U will happen, of course). Although with touchpad there is some potential to serve as a habitat for PC-centric genres like RTS and MOBA. You could play a game like FTL off a touch device no problem.
 
Could you imagine a world where all of Nintendo's resources are funneled into making the best games possible? I can. It's my favorite dream.

Nintendo investing in the mobile space may be only the beginning...
Nintendo's resources exist in big part because of their hardware, lol. I guess you'd get a crapton of Mario on PS4, and mobile Pokémon.
 
I suppose technically the shape of the screen, housing, and sticks would make this a viable item to put in one's pocket, take out without getting caught on something, and I dunno, maybe lop off just enough of the screen to sacrifice in favor of performance?

I'm at a loss honestly if this thing is real. I really didn't expect anything -exactly- like that patent.

This is like finding out there was webcam footage of the "Green Is Noises" guy, and discovering there were actual green lines flying at that girl's head while the dude jerked off
 
This looks like some college kids in a shop 3D printed some crap to put on a hacked phone screen in order to prank people off a patent drawing.

I'd believe it's a real photo of a fake thing.
 
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