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1) It's basically making it so the entire console is ONLY for DUCK HUNT kind of games. I guess that's fun for people who enjoy flailing their hands around for hours at a time, pointing and clicking, but personally I don't think it will be that great!!
2) To be able to play most games, you're going to need to buy ATTACHMENTS! This means, after you spend the 30 to 50 dollars for your game, you're going to have to spend another 20 to 40 dollars just to be able to play it right!
3) There is just NO WAY they can get this thing to work for RPGs... I mean, I just don't see how it will work at all. It might work well for FPS, but RPGs are out of the question. And RPGs are my favorite genre.
4) Who could hold that thing for more than an hour? Seriously. Go into your living room or where ever you have your TV, pick up your remote control, and start pointing it at the TV and move you arms around a bit and click on some buttons. I imagine all games released for the Revolution will be fun for about an hour. Then you'll just get bored and/or tired and turn it off. Seriously, it gets tiring holding your hand out in front of you for that long!
5) This could have been a very smart idea for an add-on. Like an accessory or something. A cool little device used to play certain kinds of games. But it was a bad idea to use it as the MAIN CONTROLLER. Seriously. I don't know what they were thinking. It'd be like if Sony decided to make the EyeToy the main controller for the PS3!
6) third party games are not going to port well AT ALL! Games like Splinter Cell or Prince of Persia, where you need like 10 buttons to be able to do things. And fighting games aren't going to work very well either, because you need to push like several buttons to make combos and stuff. Imagine playing SSBM with that controller. It wouldn't work. It just wouldn't. Of course, the way they'll probably try to solve this problem is by, again, making ATTACHMENTS! Which will then cost extra money! So, you could either buy a different system that also has the third party games, without having to blow an extra $20-$40, or waste loads of money with the Revolution everytime you want to play some third party game! Or maybe they just wont port games at all... That would be a horrible idea, and I doubt they're that stupid... but after this controller design, I wouldn't be surprised.
I know that I can't FULLY judge the controller until I've actually played with it, but so far it's had an awful first impression on me. Seriously... I hope that there's more to it. I hope that there's something they're not telling us, because it really looks and sounds that bad. What's weird is that I kind of liked the controller, until I started reading articles and watching video clips. The more I learned about it, the more I thought "WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?!"
), here's what I feel: if this has been part of a controller, or a different, secundary controller, that would be absolutely brilliant. I mean, a controller that allows you to spin it, throw it, move it around, it's quite ingenious, and should be VERY fun for SOME games, lemme repeat that, SOME games. Now, being the OFFICIAL controller isn't very good, because that limits the kind of game for the revolution - what, will every game be wither a WarioWare or Mario Party game? Reminds me of the New Coke fiasco, with Coca Cola replacing Coke instead of creating a secondary, different flavor...
Either way, this more than solves the problem of third parties porting their games to the Rev.