Oh thank you lord it connects to a regular style controller. I was so worried that Nintendo just shot themselves in the foot. I'm not against the design idea and creativity but as a business stand point there are 2 HUGE flaws with the remote control controller.
1) The limited amount of 3rd party games Nintendo was already getting would dramatically reduce. I'm friends with a lot of game programmers and they complain enough about getting the code to work on all three gaming consoles. But with a controller so different, this annoyance would become a serious pain if not impossible in some programmers eyes. I mean code and game play design would have to be drastically changed in some cases. This would kill 3rd party interest when PS2 and XBox are already more successful systems for them.
2) Though the actors may have done a good job in that video to make game play look fun one thing was screaming in my head as I watched "Carpoltunnel/tendinitis" (However those things are spelled I know I spelled them badly). When I worked in data entry they told us to avoid lots of repetative wrist movement when using the mouse especially. It was all about keeping your wrist straight and moving the mouse with your arm. This control set up is BEGGING for lots of repetative wrist movement. Carpoltunnel/tendinitis is already a problem for hardcore gamers. I'm not an expert but from what I know this set up is 10 times worse for that. I'd be very concerned about over playing with it.
But if there is a regular controller with this than this will be a repeat of the powerglove. A few novelty games will be made for it. A hand ful of us will get them. And 20 years from now, we will think ourselves super cool for wearing a t-shirt with the old remote control controller on it.
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