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Kotaku On The Evolution Of Game Controllers

From Kotaku’s In Defense Of The Classic Controller:

“If you think about the quintessential image of GTA IV, it’s basically a screenshot,” says Lantz. “But if you think about the quintessential image of Rock Band or Wii Sports, it’s an image of people in a room doing something.”

The quintessential image of Wii Music? People sitting in a room, bored out of their mind.

The article makes a great point - there are some situations where a more natural interface makes sense (the first-party Wii games, mostly), but if companies think that gamers are going to play first-person-shooters, action/adventure games or driving/racing games (aka “core games”), they are wrong. The traditional A/B/Start/Select controller is here to stay.