March 31, 2005

Nintendo Revolution to Include Wi-Fi and New Controller

Nitendo President Satoru Iwata has confirmed the next-generation console, Revolution, will include built wireless Wi-Fi and a new controller. The new controller/user interface will be easier to use, where a mother who never played videogames will want to try it. This sounds fishy and as a hard core gamer, I'm becoming less and less interested. A touch pad? Built-in bongos? Whatever it is, I don't think so. The Sony Dual Shock controller is fine by me.

Speaking to Japanese weekly Nikkei Business in an interview partially translated by US website GameSpot, Iwata-san confirmed that Revolution will feature wireless LAN capability and said he hoped it would make playing games online easier for consumers.

"The next-generation console will follow along the same line as the DS [for wireless LAN]," he said. "The ideal is for users to be able to connect to the Internet without having to think about it."