Nintendo Revolution Controller Debuts

Nintendo's new controller is indeed "Revolutionary." Truly the most innovate thing to come out of the Tokyo Game Show this week, Nintendo's Revolution controller is weird, crazy, and different than anything we've ever seen.

The controller is more like a remote control than a standard controller. Nintendo plans to produce several corded attachments to the wireless controller, but at present all they have developed is the thumb-stick attachment.

On the new controller, rumble will be standard, as will tilt sensitivity and 3-D pointing capabilities. Many die-hard gamers swear they only like playing first-person shooter games on a computer mouse. So, as you can imagine, the pointing capabilities have gotten computer gamers excited.

Of course, with Nintendo's earlier announcement that this console will be backwards-compatible all the way to the NES (with subscription), one very exciting thing about this controller is that you can turn it sideways to play all the old games on a controller very similar to the original NES and SNES controllers.

This thing is pretty cool (comes in 5 colors), but if you want a traditional controller, the company assured everyone they will have those for sale as well.