The website Gamefront.de (a German site), the japanese magazine The Daimond
Weekly said that the GameCube's successor will not have the A and B buttons and
no + Control Pad on the controller. Here's the full German text:
Quote by Gamefront.deNintendo
Revolution ohne Steuerkreuz und AB Tasten?
21.12.04 - Nintendos Gamecube-Nachfolger Nintendo Revolution soll kein
Steuerkreuz und keine AB Tasten haben. Das behauptet die heute in Japan
veröffentlichte Wirtschaftszeitschrift 'The Diamond
Weekly'.
Weitere Angaben zur Konsole macht das Magazin nicht. Nintendo hat den Bericht
nicht kommentiert und nichts derartiges bestätigt.
Die Konsole soll erstmals auf der E3 im Mai 2005 in den USA
enthüllt werden.
Nintendo has yet to acknowledge the message. The GameCube 2, better known
worldwide as Revolution, will be intorduced at E3 2005.
Umm, Gamefish! Can you translate what the german text says, since I can't read
it at all! But hey, the new Nintendo Revolution that uses no A + B buttons and no
control pad? Sounds very interesting! I
can't wait for the unvieling of the new system in E3 2005! Thanx for sharing
this, Gamefish!
yea a translation would be useful but it
does sound unique. i wonder how you'll play? maybe you'll use you mind or voice!
*Link i told you to do a backflip, then parry and then decapitate that monster!*
Quote by Gamefront.deNintendo
Revolution ohne Steuerkreuz und AB Tasten?
21.12.04 - Nintendos Gamecube-Nachfolger Nintendo Revolution soll kein
Steuerkreuz und keine AB Tasten haben. Das behauptet die heute in Japan
veröffentlichte Wirtschaftszeitschrift 'The Diamond
Weekly'.
Weitere Angaben zur Konsole macht das Magazin nicht. Nintendo hat den Bericht
nicht kommentiert und nichts derartiges bestätigt.
Die Konsole soll erstmals auf der E3 im Mai 2005 in den USA
enthüllt werden.
Translated, it says the following:
Nintendo Revolution without + Control Pad and A and B buttons?
21.12.04 - Nintendo Gamecube's successor Nintendo Revolution will not have a
Control Pad or A and B buttons. The Japanese magazine "The Daimond
Weekly" has announced this news today.
The magazine doesn't give any other information. Nintendo hasn't responded to
this news.
End of translation.
Quote by thegunblademasteryea a
translation would be useful but it
does sound unique. i wonder how you'll play? maybe you'll use you mind or voice!
*Link i told you to do a backflip, then parry and then decapitate that
monster!*
I've read some stuff on other websites about this
and a lot of people said mindcontrol. I think that would be a very cool feature
heh mind contro would certainly eliminate bad controller problems, but thoughts
can be easily distracted, like if your playing a game while listening to music,
then your character starts dancing
I heard that nintendo was trying to make an Eyetoy like machine to use in its
games. Nintendo is trying to make it easier for people to play games without
using difficult button combos. I think they were trying to do that with the next
Mario Party game... Perhaps it will play like "The World" but all you
would use is a headset. Being that immursed in games like resident evil or Zelda
would be totally awesome. And think about first person shooters and racing
games! Weeeee!!! Anyways im going to go now... I have a 6 hour drive home...
first they added buttons, and then triggers, then analog sticks...
so are they subtracting or replacing?
yes mind control would be cool, but realistically, they are either adding more
weird dohickes or, just thinking about taking away buttons, to reduce the combo
blah blah...
sounds ....stupid, unless they actually have something planned, i bet they won't
go through with it unless they have something revolutionary, and if that was
true, we'd ALL hear about it...it would be a great marketing stradegy, you know.
it's a very sad day indeed when Nintendo remove the a and b buttons i mean they
the only reason i played, for those two buttons. lol.
maybe well get lucky and they just put a nintendo sticker over the sony logos on
a ps2 contoller.
It's probably going to be Nintendo's next attempt at virtual reality. Maybe
sensors that read body movement? These have been done long ago, but maybe
Nintendo finally found a way to make them work correctly
perhaps it would be like the DS where it had a touch screen. maybe it has a
controler with a touch screen where you move your thumb upwards to go up or down
to well... move down etc.
sorry to disapoint the mind control idea but it is very far fetchd their would
be wires connecting to the brain waves bringing the old matrix idea back to
mind. either that it would be like to those toys where you have a glove to to
move that body part on the character.
*hand moves to grab soda and you notice link grip an imagenay soda*
I don't think it'll be touch screen... at least it won't be double screen XP ...
that would probably require 2 tv's
eventhough mind control sounds really cool, I highly doubt that it will be just
that. not to mention the wires needed, like Arelementis mentioned.
I'll keep everybody here updated on the revolution and stuff
The website Gamefront.de (a German site), the japanese magazine The Daimond Weekly said that the GameCube's successor will not have the A and B buttons and no + Control Pad on the controller. Here's the full German text:
Nintendo has yet to acknowledge the message. The GameCube 2, better known worldwide as Revolution, will be intorduced at E3 2005.
Umm, Gamefish! Can you translate what the german text says, since I can't read it at all!
But hey, the new Nintendo Revolution that uses no A + B buttons and no
control pad? Sounds very interesting! 
I
can't wait for the unvieling of the new system in E3 2005! Thanx for sharing
this, Gamefish! 
yea a translation would be useful
but it
does sound unique. i wonder how you'll play? maybe you'll use you mind or voice!
*Link i told you to do a backflip, then parry and then decapitate that monster!*
Translated, it says the following:
Nintendo Revolution without + Control Pad and A and B buttons?
21.12.04 - Nintendo Gamecube's successor Nintendo Revolution will not have a Control Pad or A and B buttons. The Japanese magazine "The Daimond Weekly" has announced this news today.
The magazine doesn't give any other information. Nintendo hasn't responded to this news.
End of translation.
I've read some stuff on other websites about this and a lot of people said mindcontrol. I think that would be a very cool feature
heh mind contro would certainly eliminate bad controller problems, but thoughts can be easily distracted, like if your playing a game while listening to music, then your character starts dancing
hahahah.. whatever it's going to be, I can't wait for E3 2005
interesting idea...
With bad humor I'd say they'll just rename the button C and D...
But a new system could be interesting...
With the voice maybe...
watch them do something like give it a keyboard and mouse :S
Mindcontrol?!
Does that mean Mario, Luigi and the other Nintendo Icons will know what I'm
thinking of? How scary! 
That'd be cool to have a mind-controlled buttonless system, but I think this is just a rumor.
How reliable is gamefront.de on thier info/news?
Are they on a level like The Sun, or Fark.com, or NY Times?
I heard that nintendo was trying to make an Eyetoy like machine to use in its games. Nintendo is trying to make it easier for people to play games without using difficult button combos. I think they were trying to do that with the next Mario Party game... Perhaps it will play like "The World" but all you would use is a headset. Being that immursed in games like resident evil or Zelda would be totally awesome. And think about first person shooters and racing games! Weeeee!!! Anyways im going to go now... I have a 6 hour drive home...
first they added buttons, and then triggers, then analog sticks...
so are they subtracting or replacing?
yes mind control would be cool, but realistically, they are either adding more weird dohickes or, just thinking about taking away buttons, to reduce the combo blah blah...
sounds ....stupid, unless they actually have something planned, i bet they won't go through with it unless they have something revolutionary, and if that was true, we'd ALL hear about it...it would be a great marketing stradegy, you know.
it's a very sad day indeed when Nintendo remove the a and b buttons i mean they the only reason i played, for those two buttons. lol.
maybe well get lucky and they just put a nintendo sticker over the sony logos on a ps2 contoller.
It's probably going to be Nintendo's next attempt at virtual reality. Maybe sensors that read body movement? These have been done long ago, but maybe Nintendo finally found a way to make them work correctly
perhaps it would be like the DS where it had a touch screen. maybe it has a controler with a touch screen where you move your thumb upwards to go up or down to well... move down etc.
sorry to disapoint the mind control idea but it is very far fetchd their would be wires connecting to the brain waves bringing the old matrix idea back to mind. either that it would be like to those toys where you have a glove to to move that body part on the character.
*hand moves to grab soda and you notice link grip an imagenay soda*
I don't think it'll be touch screen... at least it won't be double screen XP ... that would probably require 2 tv's
eventhough mind control sounds really cool, I highly doubt that it will be just that. not to mention the wires needed, like Arelementis mentioned.
I'll keep everybody here updated on the revolution and stuff