...the HELL?

Nintendo finally revealed the much speculated about controller for their new game console. The Revolution controller looks like part iPod, part TV remote, part suicide bomb detonation device - for the hipper, more 'with it' metrosexual terrorist. As you can see, I found these images on ign.com, and you can read this article for more details. Basically, it senses where the controller is in relation to a 'home' or 'neutrlal' position. Tilting, slashing and moving it around in your hand will have in-game effects.

Neat, huh? I said, "NEAT, HUH!"

Well, anyhow, I see it this way; with this controller, Nintendo has officially and irreversibly dropped out of the console war with Sony and Microsoft. Perhaps there will still be an add-on that will mimic a more traditional controller in form and function, but we'll have to wait and see. As for me, I'll buy it. I've gotten every Nintendo console so far and have yet to be let down. But for Nintendo's sake, they had better show some pretty bitchin' applications for this thing, or it might go the way of the Virtual Boy. And by that, I mean straight to the Isle of Misfit Toys.

"Who's ever heard of a 'Charlie' In The Box?"