Reinventing The Controller

Thomas Denby has mixed feelings about the new Wii console and controller:

Simplicity is the greatest strength of Angry Birds and Wii Sports, but these probably aren’t the height of touch-screen or motion-sensor gaming. And they can’t replace the satisfaction of using all your digits in perfect concert to release a vicious flying uppercut or flash-freeze a nearby vehicle. Humans have evolved to use more complex tools. A generation raised with traditional controllers already finds them pretty intuitive. Just because a baby can use an iPad, does that mean the rest of us have to?