Doctor_Thomas
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I'm not excited. I found touchscreen controls to be wholy unusuable on my phone. I have no interest in a controller for a console that does the same.
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NX Controller Rumor [Up5: Original was fake, and thus this is too]
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I'm not excited. I found touchscreen controls to be wholy unusuable on my phone. I have no interest in a controller for a console that does the same.
Ding ding ding.
My nieces and nephew were in town earlier this month, and were fucking BORED TO TEARS when I tried to play traditional video games with them. They just wanted to play on their tablets and iPod touches.
The change isn't coming it's already happening.
axisofweevils
Holy crap! Today's real megaton is that more than two people can have the same first name.
It seems that the NX will be a tree-mendous console.
Seriously, though, I reserve judgement. Every Nintendo controller has turned out to be comfortable so I don't see why this would be different, but I do have serious concerns.
Seriously, though, I reserve judgement. Every Nintendo controller has turned out to be comfortable so I don't see why this would be different, but I do have serious concerns.
JetSetRadio
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Can't wait to call people with this little lad.
Aaronrules380
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I don't feel like most gamers have had extensive exposure to earlier versions of VR, and it's a dream technology that's very easy to understand and conceptualize. Whereas this is a case where gamers are intimately familiar with a similar concept (touch screen buttons) that has key differences, and it's not necessarily something as simple or vague as VR.
I mean, VR as it's being currently done isn't really the first thing most people would even think of when they think of the idea (Which would be way more advanced and be more inclusive of senses beyond hearing and sight)
You can use finger and stylus. Stylus would make more sense for games like Mario Maker (screen seems kinda small for that game though).
SolidSnakex
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It's not a battle they even have the slightest chance of winning. Why? Because you don't need a NX. People are at a point where they need their phone. And a direct benefit of that is that you can play games on it as well. Other may need their tablet, and you can obviously play games on that also. But again, the NX is a luxury item. It's not something you "need" to make your daily life easier.
TheGreatMightyPoo
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Nintendo reading this thread like
Nintendo having to convert the haters again.
Nintendo winning in the end as usual
I like this guy or girl poster now.
Aceofspades
Banned
True words, Nintendo thinking mobile definitely.
petethepanda
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Long Live Mario Kart Go
Long Live Smash Bros Go
Long Live Metroid Go
Long Live Zelda Go
(Not to disparage the excellent Hitman & Lara Croft Go.)
Dragonfly224
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This whole thread has made my day!
Thank you GAF for all the laughs ♥
Thank you GAF for all the laughs ♥
Snore Crime
Neo Member
lol.
I wish I got further with Witness, such a cool game, but I have too short of an attention span.
Anyway: I'm just not that excited for another Ninty console (or gaming in general tbh) right now to be excited. I dunno what they'd have to do to make me consider buying one, my Wii U is basically my Netflix machine.
Zombie James
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Nintendo winning in the end as usual
Can I have the coordinates to your home dimension?
HandsomeCharles
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Potentially, it could open up some exciting and interesting gameplay possibilities. For example, imagine if you were doing some kind of puzzle in-game, and you had to (for whatever reason) find out which of 3 keys had been left outside in the snow. The device could not only make your fingers feel the shape of a key, they could also change the temperature of each key (With the coldest being the one you actually want)
That's a really quick and lazy example, but you have to think outside the box with these things.
foxuzamaki
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I very much doubt this is real, for clear reasons as no nintendo controller has ever really leaked, especially so easily, if these were even real the guy or guys would be taking shelter in afganistan in a cave somewhere hiding from nintendo lawyers right about now, how nonchalant and casual they are, especially the one taking next to the Wiiu gamepad for some reason.
Another is that's just not nintendo's button layout, even when it came to controllers like the wiimote and gamepad the button layout is still in a way that its innately familiar with past controllers, including the control pad which I dont see why nintendo would even give that up just for a controller like this.
It's missing everything that makes it a nintendo controller.
Another is that's just not nintendo's button layout, even when it came to controllers like the wiimote and gamepad the button layout is still in a way that its innately familiar with past controllers, including the control pad which I dont see why nintendo would even give that up just for a controller like this.
It's missing everything that makes it a nintendo controller.
DeCreeperHater
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I'm drinking bleach right now.
It'll be interesting to see what Nintendo does with this device.
This kind of screen could be amazing for a handheld, but for a console the manufacturing costs should be $40 max, not like the $85 Gamepad was.
It wouldn't make any business sense
shysaursoft
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You mean the Nintendo that tried *really* hard. The SNES controller was considered 'too many buttons'. The N64 controller, well, no need to even explain how THAT went over originally. Using the Rob to sell the NES in the US..
Nintendo has *always* tried hard, I think you're just misremembering.
This is insane. What you're saying is fine for phone games, but doesn't work as a control method for traditional console games. So - that's totally cool to play games designed for a phone, but these control methods are useless for more traditional games. Which is fine if Nintendo won't be making much of these anymore.
Just don't expect 3rd party support.
Quick and dirty
"I felt a great disturbance in the force. It's as if millions of Nintendo fans suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened."
So how does this better appeal to gamers who only want touch controllers than the Wii U?
Sony and Microsoft take a loss on hardware because they have other ventures that they can afford the hit.
All Nintendo does is games. They would get slaughtered with an equivalent powered box at a higher price.
Zomba13
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But we've had Smartphones for years. We already know if we dislike touch screen buttons.
most don't like them
I'm usually on board with Nintendo's weird shit. I loved the Wiimote+nunchuck, I love the gamepad (when it's used right or for off TV play) I love the 3D in the 3DS and I loved the two screens on the DS.
This, where there aren't buttons but only fake buttons, could lead to interesting things, different games having different button layouts, but then that destroys muscle memory, "HIT X" now becomes not a question of "Am I on a Nintendo, Sony or Microsoft platform?" it becomes "where the hell is X again in this game?".
And if they all use a default layout then why not just have actually buttons? They provide better feedback of being pressed and you can "ready" a press by holing your thumb over the button, touching it but not pushing.
Plus the whole "smartphones have been doing this for years and they all suck". The best Smartphone games are the ones that don't have virtual buttons but actuall controls tailored to it, like touching where you want to go, swiping, holding etc which some games may very well have, like in phones, but there will be a whole load of games that don't control well at all and ruin the thing, like a whole load of games on smartphones.
EDIT: oh, and is this really going to be a capacitive touch screen? Or will Nintendo once again go "Na, resistive is good enough"
"if this is the controller they are offering"
If this is really what they have planned, they should just move to mobile. Default physical buttons are the saving grace of dedicated video game consoles. Without them the video game console no longer has a reason to exist.
ForsakenLotus
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What you need to ask yourself is what is more likely and also what you would prefer. Do you think Nintendo is more likely to have a basic, and I stress basic, haptic feedback or the fairly new Apple taptic or magic gel buttons? And what would you prefer, physical and responsive buttons, or digital?
It's one thing to embrace new technology. It's another to embrace it before it's viable and before the new technology is superior to the existing tech.
To put it simply: Would you rather have a cheaper, superior method of input or a more expensive, inferior input with more customization options?
TheSlySoul
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Pretty much on point. Nintendo don't want old man money.
Games are going to aim to get simpler to reach a wider audience.
Aaronrules380
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I mean, if you include the possibility of a standardized set of virtual buttons that mirror what's found on traditional controllers, I don't see why this would stop third parties at all.
Theanine3D
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100% agreed.
You were expecting it? It's Nintendo. They haven't had massive amounts of 3rd party support since the SNES.
And_Gignac
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Looks great, even when it may not be the final design.
-"Pretty sure"
-"I'm very confident"
-"I'm speculating here"
-"Nintendo knows"
-"No way"
i dont get wtf you're trying to accomplish here, rhetorically
Haptics don't work like that. When you get the feedback you will already have pressed the button, just like the vibration on a smartphone - that's why it's called feedback.
So unfortunately it will not help distinguish the buttons before you press them.
And even if they made the buttons "feel" different, you'd need to actually touch it 2 times - one to distinguish it based on its feel and one for the actual input.
Agent Gibbs
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It's a discussion about the proliferation about clash of clans and how the tribal nature of the game is causing kids to act out in weird turf war related bouts, the climax being that teachers refusing to stop them because they're also into the game to the point where they'd rather stomp the kids in the game then stop the antisocial behavior.
baphomet
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All the fun and precision controls of a mobile game on a premium console....
darkside31337
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Unless the nx is literally running android it's a fight they lost about five years ago (wiiu did wonders) People already have devices and ecosystems they are content with. Adding a more complicated than touch screen device input isn't going to help them at all.
Wait, how the hell are you supposed to run & jump? Holding 2 virtual buttons with one finger/thumb on a touch screen isn't possible, isn't it? I've never really played many platformers on a phone, but isn't that an issue for games like Mario?
In regards to the design of the controller, it looks really slick. Too bad the lack of physical buttons are deal breaking, especially on a home console where you shouldn't look down constantly to figure out where the on screen buttons are. Oh well, I'll inevitable pick up the handheld version for Animal Crossing and Pokémon.
In regards to the design of the controller, it looks really slick. Too bad the lack of physical buttons are deal breaking, especially on a home console where you shouldn't look down constantly to figure out where the on screen buttons are. Oh well, I'll inevitable pick up the handheld version for Animal Crossing and Pokémon.
DeepEnigma
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Nintendoland, duh!
MrCunningham
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backflip10019
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Haha, posters in this thread are getting ridiculous.
Yeah, and EA DICE has an office in Stockholm as well.
Different trees tho
Spyder_Monkey
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At least this has a headphone jack, your move Apple.
It's pointless trying to compete in the traditional space against Sony, 3rd parties do not give a shit about Nintendo.
Their best bet is doing their own thing.
redfox088
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Wii sports edition
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