controllers

Nintendo has recently become famous for not being afraid to reinvent its hardware with the DS (with its extra, touch-sensitive screen) and the Wii (obviously, with its new control system). But I ask you this: have these changes scared away casual gamers that would prefer the "old-school"...

Why is it, that every time I find an N64 controller in the wild...it looks like someone dropped it from a 20 story building...a dog buried it..and scratched up by a weed whacker...then the joystick refuses to stay in place...then when I try to open it, over 20 pieces of plastic fall out of...

So after I and a couple of my friends were done writing finals I suggested we play some SSB:M before going our separate ways for Christmas. We went to my one friend's dorm where he told us that he hoped his Gamecube would work because lately it had been messing up. Curious I inquired as to what...