The superbly monikered N’Gal Croal has been thinking long and hard about the problems he’s having with Metroid Prime 3. Finally, he reached the conclusion that it’s not the game that’s the issue, but the design of the Wiimote. He reckons the “plus” and “minus” buttons (which are essential buttons in the game) are placed too far away from the all-encompassing “A” button.

With this in mind, he got his design fascist buddies at Newsweek to mock up a picture of how the controller should ideally look. Not having played MP3 (yet), we can’t say whether this would really be an improvement, but other internet jockeys like Go Nintendo and Joystiq have made noises of approval. We imagine that it could work pretty well for the rest of the Wii’s games catalogue, never mind MP3 alone.

Of course, Nintendo is unlikely to change the design of the Wiimote on one pundit’s say so. And even if they did, they’d take their sweet time about it; they’ve only just got round to addressing the “Wiimote through the TV” syndrome with their little rubber jackets. But there’s no reason that that a third party manufacturer like Mad Catz or Logitech couldn’t get in on the action…

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007 at 12:36 pm by Bulent Yusuf
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