Rumor: Microsoft's answer to Home? My GamerPad [Update]

u gotta be shittin me dude fuck microsoft be original u fags.

Dude, I don't really tend to bash on other consoles, for all consoles are unique in there very own way...

'be original u fags.'

So, you want Microsoft to be original.

Let's see how Sony, has borrowed the idea of others. So, Wii came out first, with motion in a controller, is that not stealing an idea.

Sony continuously said, 'rumble feedback in a controller is last gen,'. yet gamers are pleased with rumble with the 360 and Wii controller, what does Sony do, releases the Dual Shock 3.

Now, All 3 consoles are special in there own way, but don't bash on one console, saying, they are fags for not being original.

@LilTmac2003,

Nintendo didn't invent the Wiimote. And you can't call Sony copyists about rumble - they had it for years and it was the court case which forced them to launch with SIXAXIS, bringing DS back later. You know it so quit telling bull$hit.

Back to the Wiimote. There is a complex and interesting history to the idea of the motion sensing game controller. Elliot Myers set up GameTrak in 1989 and started work on such a proposal. Then, about seven years ago a company called Gyration approached Nintendo and pitched what we now call the Wiimote to them. [Nintendo fanboys will claim an earlier project by the Japanese company but no proof has ever been presented other than their whiney protestations]. Gyration brought another company into the project, called Bridge Design. Apparently the resulting hardware looked quite different from what we now know, but Nintendo knew where to go to steal a good form factor design to cover the electronic bits......

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jakeway/Pics/GreenHillZone/DreamcastWond.jpg

Does that look familiar? That would be Sega's prototype Dreamcast motion sensing controller from..........about 1999. You know, many years before the Wii was even thought of.

Unfortunately Nintendo fans are a lot like Apple fans. Just like the LG Prada has been wiped from history and the Koreans' phones are now mocked as "iPhone ripoffs and clones", gaming fans refuse to acknowledge the genesis of Nintendo's so-called "revolutionary" Wiimote.

Now: how are those highly original Xbox Mii's and motion sensing controller coming along?

@DelSource: If you really want to make that argument then you should remember that Microsoft created and released the motion sensitive controller, the Sidewinder Freestyle Pro controller in 1998.

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/1998/may98/devicepr.mspx

Anonymous never lies

Or... you know... XBLA games ;)

Yeah but free... i.e. included with your xbox live gold account.

I see what you did there.

Funny... :)

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It's freakin' photoshop..

Kind of the point of this week's Would You Rather.

What have you got against midgets?? They're allowed to game too!!

Chill. We report news as well as rumors. It was lighting up NeoGaf and before even more tips poured it we reported it. Also, we also call it fake due to the source.

To be honest I wouldn't have really paid any attention to it if it wasn't for the tips and the massive threads @ neogaf.

I don't like 4chan. Everything we hated on during the Fancast begins its miserable life there.

It appears to be the Nazi salute. Sieg heil!

Actually, both spellings are accepted as correct.

However, it's interesting to note that -able is typically a British English spelling, and -ible the American spelling...

One could argue that since Microsoft is an American company, they would almost certainly use the American spelling; however, these leaked screens could have come from a British version. :P

All in all, there are bigger issues with the image than this word. :)