N'Gai Croal reimagines the Wiimote for Metroid Prime 3
by JC Fletcher 
on Oct 3rd 2007 2:00PM
Newsweek's N'Gai Croal, who you may remember
hating for his
shockingly-worded preference of 2D
Metroid, still really likes
Metroid Prime 3. In fact, he likes it so much he came up with an alternate button placement on the Wiimote for ideal
Prime playing, one that puts the - and + buttons around the A button like the GameCube's layout. He even suggested, during the same discussion that sparked the original outrage, that Nintendo could have shipped such a 'special edition' Wiimote with the game. He backed up this discussion with a Photoshopped Wiimote that Newsweek put together.
We think that's a pretty fun idea, despite being a collector's nightmare. If the function of the thing doesn't really change, why
not let people spend their money on weird one-off controllers? It's no different than, say, the
Guitar Hero controller or the $200
Steel Battalion doodad, except that it could still be used with other games.
