[Destructoid] Leaked photo of NX controller?
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TLZ
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Humans by nature resist change and try to shoot down anything they don't know much about and therefore feel uncomfortable with. They become defensive and turn to mockery to not feel inferior when they see their beloved tradition slowly taken away from them. They feel their very existence is being threatened and something must be done to stop it. Sometimes this is called ignorance.
Only a handful welcome change and are willing to see what it might bring.
AppleSeason
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I'm going to do like I haven't seen anything. If this is what's left for handhelds now that Sony's leaving the market, I'd better start investing on a few spare Vitas. Maybe even a 3DS.
Please give one other example apart from the Wii U Gamepad, since you find it so enticing to be the 203rd person in this thread to come bumbling in with a "Nintendo gonna Nintendo"-post.
Stereogatari
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Yep. That looks like something Nintendo would do.
looking back at the wii u unveil is both funny and painful
we pretty much shit on it
and were all correct in shitting on it
we pretty much shit on it
and were all correct in shitting on it
Wow. The pages of mockery of the name and controller.
I miss when GAF was overly cynical.
Maybe not to the point where devs started leaving, but you know...
Seems like a prototype devkit controller, like the boxy PS4 devkit controller that got leaked before the official reveal.
Can't believe they are sticking with the idea of having a controller completely filled with screen though. Because that just screams 'gimmick' in every way.
Oh well, at least it's going to be fun to watch Nintendo fans come to terms with this thing if it's real.
Can't believe they are sticking with the idea of having a controller completely filled with screen though. Because that just screams 'gimmick' in every way.
Oh well, at least it's going to be fun to watch Nintendo fans come to terms with this thing if it's real.
SirPenguin
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I'm a diehard Nintendo fan, but come on, man, having a weird controller has been their thing since at least the N64 days
N64 - Designed for people with 3 hands (?), only 1 analog stick, looks sort of like a spaceship
GCN - Secretly the best controller ever made, but once revealed people mocked that giant green A button relentlessly. It generally looked bizarrely laid out, like some sort of toy, they were criticized heavily for having a fake 2nd analog stick.
Wiimote - There's a weird amount of "ends justify the means" with the Wii generally. It's true the Wii was wildly successful, and its true the controller helped that happen. It's also true that its conventional design kill off 3rd party interest and was generally offputting to many gamers. It cemented a certain reputation that they've been unable to shake ever since.
WiiU - yeah
This is all without even touching some of the insane moves in the handheld area. They love being some weird and gimmicky. It's ok to poke fun at them. You can still love 'em all the same
Vampirolol
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Looks fake enough to be real. But that typical fake bloom... mmm...
Lé Blade Runner
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It looks very, very fake. Like something I could build and then "leak" a photo of to the internet.
Newtype-001
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Dont care if its real or fake just burn that thing.
The Abominable Snowman
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It looks like a rear view mirror reflecting a game image from the Zelda trailer, IMO. Not sure what those white caps are but they look relatively flat.
Real leaks are usually followed up relatively soon with corroborating information. I'll give it another 12 hours.
Real leaks are usually followed up relatively soon with corroborating information. I'll give it another 12 hours.
Go back and watch the video of the live reveal and listen to the audience.
Milly Osworth
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Just give me a Gamecube 2.0 controller Nintendo!
Yeah, I remember instantly feeling that there was somerhing reaaaally wrong with that name the moment I heard it.
TatteredHat
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Oh lord, I hope for their sake that this is a fake.
Hope it's fake. I'm all for change, love the GamePad and what it allows Splatoon to do, but that mock-up looks really uncomfortable.
Man, I kind of miss how much less negative I was before GAF.
I would have been right alongside the posts dissing on the name if I knew about this site already. But I wasn't, and instead was actually pretty happy about it because (I think we knew about it at the U's unveiling?) Pikmin 3 hahah. That and the famous Zelda Wii U .gif. I remember talking to some friends on another forum on how excited I was.
'Course that all changed when Pikmin 3 got pushed back.
Also I'm now aware of the fact I was reading on the "Cafe" five years ago. Holy. Time flys.
Man, I kind of miss how much less negative I was before GAF.
I would have been right alongside the posts dissing on the name if I knew about this site already. But I wasn't, and instead was actually pretty happy about it because (I think we knew about it at the U's unveiling?) Pikmin 3 hahah. That and the famous Zelda Wii U .gif. I remember talking to some friends on another forum on how excited I was.
'Course that all changed when Pikmin 3 got pushed back.
Also I'm now aware of the fact I was reading on the "Cafe" five years ago. Holy. Time flys.
Probable fakery aside, wouldn't this just be a design refinement of the Wii U concept? A controller with a touchscreen.
Nintendo said NX would be something totally new so I assume that doesn't mean another roll of the multi-screen asymmetric gameplay dice.
(I'm assuming here that this is meant to be a home system controller. If it's a handheld, conceptually it's a round iPhone with analog sticks - similarly not exactly anything more than a refinement of the past)
Nintendo said NX would be something totally new so I assume that doesn't mean another roll of the multi-screen asymmetric gameplay dice.
(I'm assuming here that this is meant to be a home system controller. If it's a handheld, conceptually it's a round iPhone with analog sticks - similarly not exactly anything more than a refinement of the past)
InfiniteNine
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I've actually used that controller and it's great to the point I have zero idea why the Dreamcast controller didn't mimic it exactly.The idea being floated is that they're haptic buttons, not touchscreen virtual buttons. Sort of like the haptic feedback on the Steam controller. They stick up and you can actually feel them.
Sony just stuck a couple of sticks on their existing pad and called it a day. It was much less than perfect. Even up until the PS4, Sony's form factor was the red-headed stepchild of controllers. Sega started with a dpad/button gamepad as well, then made this monstrosity:
Identify it as a fake that it clearly is and go about your day like it doesn't matter in the slightest.
StickSoldier
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There's absolutely no way that Nintendo will release something that looks as uncomfortable and ugly as that.
mariachi507
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Just because you could doesn't mean you should.
Please be fake, this console will be DOA if this shit is real. All I want is a normal controller, no gimmicks and it keeps the price lower.
Please be fake, this console will be DOA if this shit is real. All I want is a normal controller, no gimmicks and it keeps the price lower.
It apparently includes tactus. Which raises the buttons from the screen so you feel/press it rather than tap the screen.
Only time will tell.
I can't believe there are so many people taking this seriously. Come on, you guys are smarter than this.
It just happens to look exactly like the drawings we saw before, it looks Photoshopped, it's completely impractical which despite fools saying to the contrary is not typical of Nintendo controllers... and people think it might be real? El-oh-fucking-el.
It just happens to look exactly like the drawings we saw before, it looks Photoshopped, it's completely impractical which despite fools saying to the contrary is not typical of Nintendo controllers... and people think it might be real? El-oh-fucking-el.
... They would because some person with a medically screwed up hand couldn't use a normal one so they as they want to cater to everyone considered him
Jack The Nipper
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Nintendo dropped the soap
pixelation
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I hope it's fake... but i feel like it's real, a gut feeling i'd say.
We're on page 39. I'm tired, but I don't think anyone is smarter than this. It's shown time and time again that most don't also know how patents work either and immediately jump to conclusions that "that's how the controller will look?!" when in reality the patents we've seen have been general use and possible functions of certain aspects. Not everything can or will make it. We've also never even gotten a design patent so there's that too.
Every controller and handheld patent we got has had radically different look from one another because those kinds of patents are not meant to show off the final design. And this sticks far, far too closely to a design that was not a patent for design.
Anyway, I'm out.
LightOfTruth
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Whoa that looks bad. Really bad. Which makes me think this is fake, but as others itt have noted, this is Nintendo we're dealing with. Its actually possible that this is real.
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