Another day, yet another interview
with a gaming luminary pared down to a favorable quote on the Nintendo Revolution controller. Sites this morning
are all atwitter with news that—miracle of miracles!—Will Wright likes the Revolution controller!
It seems that we're all still trying to convince ourselves that the Revolution controller will be worthwhile. Here are the fears that we're trying to allay through this incessant (and perhaps unnecessary) pursuit of any shred of evidence at all favorable to Nintendo's new controller scheme:
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We're worried that nobody will make games for it. Therefore we gleefully quote any and every game developer that says anything favorable about it.
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We're worried that it'll flop.
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We're worried that everyone will fall back on the standard controllers that are sure to be released for the system.
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We're worried that it'll be awkward.
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We're worried that our arms will get tired using it for hours on end.
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We're worried that the idea of the Revolution controller will die without regular support.
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We're worried. Worried sick!
All of these fears are understandable, given Nintendo?s significant departure from the controller evolutionary tree, so we suppose that a certain amount of justification and defensiveness is natural. We?re not asking that it stop, just recognizing it. That?s how the healing begins.
Of course, to an extent, all next-gen coverage addresses these same fears applied to various systems and components of systems. Everyone wants his team to win, so everyone talks a big game and keeps up a constant patter of ?it?s going to be all right. It?s going to be all right.?
It?s like a giant therapy session, where the participants in the room range from editors of print gaming magazines to bloggers to the folks who comment on various message boards and blog posts.
