Guden Oden said:
Yeah, let's all hang on to Perry's comments as confirmation for our pet hangup shall we. Now tell me powder.... When the heck was the last time that guy released a game that was worth a damn?
I bet if he praised it, you wouldn't hesitate to point it out, would you?
In fact, let's look at some other comments that you seem to have neglected.
Cary Brisebois
Technical Director, Radical Entertainment
The Wavebird was second only to the Sony controller…
I think that it is going to start getting really hard to make games that rely on the old standard configuration of face buttons fit with this model. It was tricky enough with the one fewer button on the Gamecube controller. Cross platform games may not be the model for Revolution.
As Napoleon would say: “Yikes.â€
Lorne Lanning
President/Creative Director, Oddworld Inhabitants
An interesting innovation for the “small handed†segment of the market. Hopefully a larger version will be available for the larger hand endowed audience that is likely to be more carpal tunnel prone.
Tommy Tallarico
President, Tommy Tallarico Studios
Executive Producer/CEO, Video Games Live
The only way that a new console will succeed is if they have third party publisher support. My only concern is that developers and publishers may have a difficult time in developing software for a single platform (which this controller ultimately forces them to do). Many publishers rely on multiple platform products in order to make the next gen console leap.
Demian Linn
Reviews Editor, Electronic Gaming Monthly
Not so sure about third-party publishers. The DS has attracted some good third-party exclusives, but Revolution titles will require a much bigger investment. I hear Nintendo will also offer a "sleeve" that you can slip the main controller into, which will allow for a more traditional button layout; that is absolutely necessary, and it better come in the box. I’m all for innovation, but there’s no need to reinvent the wheel, throw the baby out with the bathwater, or...well, I can’t think of another cliché that works here. Revolution owners are going to love their gyroscopic rhythm-action-fishing games or whatever, but that doesn’t mean they won’t want to play Splinter Cell again.
30% of people asked saw some sort of problem.
No doubt nintendo's controller isn't for everyone, but condemning it without even having tested it and only ONLY seeing problems with it, isn't productive. Nor logical, nor even healthy I'd say. Quite simply put, you sound like quite the don quixote the way you go off fighting your windmill giants.
I don't ONLY see problems with it. I've said more than once that I'm sure it will be great for games that are designed specifically for it. The drawbacks that I do see can all be read above. My criticism has been related to 3rd party games, most of which will not be tailored to it, and developers and professional reviewers see the same possible problems that I do.
Take off the rose colored glasses, look at the world with a sense of reality, and you'll realize nothing is perfect, everything has problems, and there is nothing at all wrong about voicing skepticism when something claims to be the greatest innovation in 20 years.
It's one thing to criticize and bash something you've tried and HATED to tiny itty bitty pieces. It's quite something else to lay down the same level of hate on something you don't have as much as five seconds of experience with, nor even having seen first-hand.
Question:
How much time have you spent using the controller?
You'll excuse me if I ignore any more of your ranting if you don't have any more first hand experience with the controller than I do. I generally don't pay attention to hypocrites.
Dave Feckin Perry and his ideas nonwithstanding, your comment about rose-colored glasses was as much out of touch with reality as all your other rants against the revolution controller.
30% of professional developers and game reviews in that article, some with actual hands-on experience with the controller agree with me at least to some degree. Another 2 expressed skepticism, but wouldn't make any definative comment until they've been able to actually use it themselves.
So, I take it all of these game developers are also out of touch with reality, but you, who know much better than these guys, never mind they've used the controller, and are making games for it, right? Because you are just oh-so smart and have all of that first hand experience yourself, right?
Reality is, nothing is perfect, and everything can be criticised. Even your precious Nintendo controller.
