Wii Remote Rejects
Nikkei Business Magazine recently published some truly bizarre Wii remote prototypes. There is one that looks like a DVD remote, another that looks like a digital camera, some bastard stepchild of the N64 and Gamecube controller (I think it was stillborn actually), then we have a star buzzer.
Okay, most of the controllers look playable in some respect. You can see how the DVD one would have worked alright, except for the button placement and the directional pad is all wrong. The black swivel camera phone controller thing was just a bad idea. That white blob in the corner looks like some of those deformed clone Ridleys from Alien Ressurrection, ‘Kill me… kill me.’ Ah! Gross!! The one that intrigues me the most is that star controller. What the hell? How do you? What is it? Where do I start? Alright, how would you play this thing? Is it motion sensitive? Is the star a directional pad or just a button? How could you actually play a game with this thing? What kind of game would you play? I couldn’t imagine playing anything more complicated than one of those Leap Frog educational games. I can’t understand this Pandora’s controller disk of invincibility!
Dear readers, help me figure out this mess. What do you think? How could Nintendo have utilized these controllers?
Wiijects [4ColorRebellion]
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Posted to Video Games on 19 December 2006
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The swivel one looks like it’s supposed to be held like an NES/SNES controller and then…swivel to be held in a different way? I have no idea about the middle one. It must be some kind of joke or something. Are those red things buttons? WTF?
The bastard-stepchild controller on the bottom right actually could be useful. It looks like it was designed be be a Gamecube controller, but it’s very tall so that you can plug the wii-mote into the bottom of it so that you can get conventional controls with tilt-function at the same time.
The “Star Button” controller is just that—a button you press in time to different games…
Sorry, but that’s just the way the Big N rolls ;P Developers can work it out later ;D
Those red things on the Star controller are probably lights that flash . . . it’s like one of those game show buttons. I think . . . I don’t know. I’ll try to be more careful next time . . . .
about the big disk thingy…
what do controllers need?
1 – direction control
2 – between 2 and 4 action buttons
this one handles direction by being a steering wheel. the 3 buttons are action buttons and the middle one is the 4th button. which you can head butt.
Alternativly, you wear it like a hat. then you can move you whole body to walk your character on the screen. You turn your head? so does the game character. someone hits you on the head? your game character gets concussion.
I think the star controller would be awesome for Jeopardy-type quiz games.
Speaking of which, I hope Nintendo makes a nationwide or even worldwide “Mario Quiz” type of game that you can just hop onto at any time to play against random competitors like what they have in a lot of bars nowadays. If not Nintendo, I’d take a networked version of “You Don’t Know Jack”.
Hey Raindog - did you know Jellyvision launched an online version of You Don't Know Jack in December? Check it out, at least while you're waiting for that worldwide Mario game to come out...