N'Gai Croal proposes a better Wiimote

@wilbo

You joke, but that would make pressing those two buttons so much more comfortable. Not to say the original is bad, but this would be an awesome improvement.

That would be amazing in Metroid, but that might be weird in a game like Super Paper Mario where you hold the remote horizontally.

The redesign in the picture looks like it would be more comfortable and user friendly and I have a Wii so I've had extensive hands-on with the original Wiimote. This would be a welcomed change to me.

The controls work well and logically for me. A and B are raised because they are primary context-based action buttons. +/- are auxilary, and recessed to de-emphasize them. Having all of the buttons in the same style is a step in the direction of a button-heavy PS/XBOX scheme that caters to experienced gamers.

The only mechanic that doesn't work well in Wii games IMO is the forward/backward motion sensing. When I pull it back or push it forward, the on-screen character is half or 1/4 through the motion but I've fully extended my arm and need to move in the opposite direction to reset like a mouse on a tiny pad.

N'Gai 3rd party hardware ftw. If he were to make a game-phone, would it be called the N'Gaige? N'Gaiden?

Man, Colette, your on a roll with good story's today

I love it.

Although it may not be quite as good for sideways games like Paper Mario, that would merely be because it feels weird. For games like MP3 where you hold it normally but still need + and -, however, it would be a dream.

It would also work greatly for RE4.

I wonder if the next nintendo system will even have the same concept of controls, or if they will concoct some new thing, or even just simply go back to normal controls. There are pros and cons of going either way, obviously they don't want to compete in the graphics dept.

I thought bioshock controlled pretty damn well on the 360, definitely well enough to keep the thick sheet of dust growing on my wii.

Holy crap, that's...that's a great idea. Damn, now I'm all disappointed.

This would have been better from the get go for the Wii. I find the + and - buttons quite cumbersome at best. This would really be handy for FPS games.

I posted this earlier, with the suggestion that buttons be under A, rather than over, so that they don't interfere with games where you hold the Wiimote sideways. I really, really want this.

I only have a few complaints about the Wii Remote. The home, minus and plus buttons are just too small and reaching down to press the 1 & 2 buttons is inconvenient especially in games like Metroid Prime 3 and Zelda:Twilight Princess that I have played. Other than that, I really like the controller, but Croal's proposed redesign is even more appealing.

could never happen based on HALF the ppl i know that have wii's. this may be hard to believe, but adding buttons only frightens and confuses them.

I think this update would be completely unneeded. The entire time I was playing MP3 up until I got the last weapon, I was completely expecting something to be mapped to the other 3 d-pad buttons, and I was completely let down and felt a bit cheated. That was 3 usable buttons completely unused right near the A button, and easier to hit than the + and -. I also felt cheated at how few new weapons were actually in MP3, besides the grapple beam, there wasn't any actual new weapons at all, just the Hyper mode, and that was my only complaint with the whole game.

I think this is an awful design. First, the buttons would be very small like that. Second, the buttons would be hit all the time inadvertantly. I use the middle of my thumb to hit A, and I can comfortably hit down on the d-pad with the tip. With this setup, Id hit the other buttons every time I tried to fire a missle. No thanks.

Are the buttons as is really uncomfortable for some? They aren't at all for me.

Somehow moving two buttons upwards slightly does not strike me as a particularly ambitious controller re-design. Furthermore, I agree with mandlebaum123 that you would constantly hit these new - and + buttons accidentally.