After wild speculating with fellow industry peeps, and having the start of my 5 yearly 'herbal induced next gen dream sessions' I'm thinking maybe, just maybe the Rev pad will be the GB2! Think about it, why did Ninty not reveal the Rev pad? To hide the idea from competitors? Part of the reason; Could it have been to keep the press focused on the DS, in the same way Rev games were not shown to focus press attention on the last hurrah for the Cube?
We've already heard that the "Revolution needs to combine the original NES, SNES, N64, and Gamecube controllers into one interface" We also know the Rev already has this capacity in the Nintendo GC ports (controllers that can already handle all the said platforms) - so why are these ports necessary? Because not everyone will be able to afford the rev pad to start with? By all accounts it sounds like it's going to cost as much as the DS anyway!
Then think of the logical inclusions for the GB2 - Similar power to the Cube (in the same way the DS = N64 power), touch screen capabilities, internal giro sensors, adaptor for headphones and mic, external memory capacity (to upload game content past or present). All the aspects that would make the revs pad revolutionary.
It's also the perfect way to entice consumers into buying BOTH sets of hardware, remember they can also get away with just buying one of each, but to get the full big N experience 2 would be necessary. I know this stinks of 'Connectivity' - and lets be honest; that promise only flowered fully with Four Swords, but to have two systems to closely intertwined technically and from a marketing point of view makes perfect sense.
That's my 2 pence, but to be honest, this is based on bugger all really. All we have to go on is Iwata's 'revelation' that he exclusivley revealed to the Seattle press that you will use your hands to manipulate the new controller. Something I pretty sure we've all known since the dawn of gaming.
We've already heard that the "Revolution needs to combine the original NES, SNES, N64, and Gamecube controllers into one interface" We also know the Rev already has this capacity in the Nintendo GC ports (controllers that can already handle all the said platforms) - so why are these ports necessary? Because not everyone will be able to afford the rev pad to start with? By all accounts it sounds like it's going to cost as much as the DS anyway!
Then think of the logical inclusions for the GB2 - Similar power to the Cube (in the same way the DS = N64 power), touch screen capabilities, internal giro sensors, adaptor for headphones and mic, external memory capacity (to upload game content past or present). All the aspects that would make the revs pad revolutionary.
It's also the perfect way to entice consumers into buying BOTH sets of hardware, remember they can also get away with just buying one of each, but to get the full big N experience 2 would be necessary. I know this stinks of 'Connectivity' - and lets be honest; that promise only flowered fully with Four Swords, but to have two systems to closely intertwined technically and from a marketing point of view makes perfect sense.
That's my 2 pence, but to be honest, this is based on bugger all really. All we have to go on is Iwata's 'revelation' that he exclusivley revealed to the Seattle press that you will use your hands to manipulate the new controller. Something I pretty sure we've all known since the dawn of gaming.
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