http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2002-2006 by the authors Wed, 5 Jul 2006 12:22:41 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/06/29/212103.php#comment-402694 This seems kind of silly and pointless if you ask me. They are planning on making a controller that is only a joystick/pad and maybe only one or two buttons? For one thing, this wouldn't work with most Xbox 360 games that are out now. So, they'd have to make a series of more simplistic games that are designed to only require the few buttons of this theoretical new control pad. But, if they are going to do that, then why even bother making a new controller? If they will make a game that only requires the use of the pad and a single button, then they could make it so that only one of the primary face buttons needs to be used, or they could give all 4 face buttons the exact same function, so it doesn't matter which one you choose to push (kind of like the original Sonic games on Genesis, in which the A,B and C buttons all did the same thing). I'm all for making some (not all, but some) gaming simpler for those who aren't as experienced or as skillful with many of today's more complicated games. But, making a new controller just seems to be silly. All that it means is that its another piece of equipment (that you don't really need) that you would have to buy. It would be one thing if there were going to do something like the motion sensor technology that is in the Wii controller. At least in that case, this new controller would actually do something that the regular, existing controller cannot. But, if they're just going to make something that only has a portion of the functions of the current controller, and otherwise nothing new, its just redundant and pointless. ]]> 402694@blogcritics.org Wed, 5 Jul 2006 12:22:41 EDT