"I hope if there's a new Xbox that there'll be fewer buttons on the controller," he told CVG recently.
"This is purely me speculating in my own realm of game development, but if you look at a controller right now it looks like an alien spaceship," he added.
Of course, as Nintendo's found out, Bleszinski has a point here. Too many buttons=too scary for grandma.
But now I'm scared. It's beginning to dawn on me that my beloved dual analogs (which I've enjoyed since Sony updated the original PlayStation pads) may be in their twilight years. What will the next generation of controllers bring? Will they all be remote/"nunchuck" combos? 3D glasses with headpieces that read your thoughts? Will toes somehow become involved?
CliffyB elaborated, "I think you could do things with a built-in camera or a little motion sensitivity. You look at the Wii controller with less buttons - they added functionality by doing waggle. Not a lot of games use the waggle well, but Super Mario Galaxy for example uses it perfectly. Zak and Wiki uses it rather well."
Even though I'm scared about the next generation of controllers, (you can almost bet on something radically different from Sony and Microsoft), I imagine that the console makers are a billion times more scared. Probably just about as scared as Nintendo when it introduced the Remote.
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"This is purely me speculating in my own realm of game development, but if you look at a controller right now it looks like an alien spaceship," he added.
Of course, as Nintendo's found out, Bleszinski has a point here. Too many buttons=too scary for grandma.
But now I'm scared. It's beginning to dawn on me that my beloved dual analogs (which I've enjoyed since Sony updated the original PlayStation pads) may be in their twilight years. What will the next generation of controllers bring? Will they all be remote/"nunchuck" combos? 3D glasses with headpieces that read your thoughts? Will toes somehow become involved?
CliffyB elaborated, "I think you could do things with a built-in camera or a little motion sensitivity. You look at the Wii controller with less buttons - they added functionality by doing waggle. Not a lot of games use the waggle well, but Super Mario Galaxy for example uses it perfectly. Zak and Wiki uses it rather well."
Even though I'm scared about the next generation of controllers, (you can almost bet on something radically different from Sony and Microsoft), I imagine that the console makers are a billion times more scared. Probably just about as scared as Nintendo when it introduced the Remote.
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