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You mean a condom?
Moving back onto the Controller - moonfrog's info gives me a clearer picutre of how the remote will work - essentially, we are moving into spacial dimensions - earlier in this thread the idea that the controller turned the player into a finger and the TV into a touchscreen was mooted, which is one way to look at it - perhaps another would be that it turned the environment around the pad into a gamepad, with the upper body of the player representing the hand. Back to akira's Nintendo arm, in a way.
The other interesting thing - or at least the thing that strikes me immediately as interesting - is the relationship between motion and action on screen. Unformed thoughts - when you are playing an FPS or RTS using a controller, what you are doing with that controller has a specific and comprehensible but ultimately abstract relationship with the action on screen. Compare that with something like Dance Dance Revolution, where the action of the player, although stylised, has an immediate correlation to what the screen avatar does.
And balls. I was going to say that the Wii handset is this new thing where you are using the same device to represent both metaphorical action (pressing buttons to move forwards and back, say) and direct-link action, but on reflection the Nintendo DS does that, doesn't it - by e.g. having you blow into the microphone to represent blowing in Wario Ware, or shout "objection" in order to shout "objection" in Ace Attorney. Bugger.
I think I'll still suggest that there is a difference, at least, in the amount of freedom this controller allows in constructing the interface of action and result... I guess the next logical step might be to have the controller not only cause reactionin the game world, but to be reactive - so, for example, it could represent the head of a Nintendog and the player could use his other hand to stroke around it, tickle its ears, sort of thing... I guess you miht need to stud it with sensors, and perhaps wear some form of transmitter glove. Maybe a power glove.
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