Nintendo has unveiled the controller for it's next-generation Revolution console.

I have to say, Nintendo has never lacked ideas, or the guts to follow through on those ideas. Sometimes it works (Game Boy, DS - started bad, but now going strong), and sometimes it turns out to be an utter waste of time (Virtual Boy!!!). At this point, the new controller falls smack dab in the middle, it seems interesting, but do I really want to be gaming with a controller that looks and (likely) feels 99% like my dvd remote? They say the Revolution will have some backwards compatibility (Will it be like gaming with the old square NES controller? Now that's true retro!) - and that the controller has a slot for add-ons for increased functionality. Woo! Something else to spend money on, we'll need a bin to pile all the extra parts!

Knowing Nintendo, it'll start off slow because developers will have no damn idea what to do with the system, and the only good games will be the ones Nintendo creates on its own. They've always been kind of selfish that way ;). In the end, the Revolution won't have near the market share owned by the PS3 and 360, but it will definitely have it's niche. And in this business that guarantee can be as good as gold.