Nintendo Touchlife, ...maybe Touch"wise" would be better

Ok, a good lot of you saw my controller design for the revolution. Well, I like to draw rad looking computers, so I thought I'd draw what I thought the revolution should look like.

Let's take a look back at nintendo's gaming machines. Think - NES. What shape was it? A box. The SNES? almost a box - angular in definition. The gameboy - a box. Angular. Machine-like. The N64? Rounded for sure, but still a rectangle - now with bumps. The Gamecube? I'll let you figure that one out.

If Nintendo is really intending a revolution, they'd need to step away from sharp angles and boxy figures. Maybe... a sphere?

I knew it would have to have a base, but that's not so weird - the PS2 did it. The base is basically an inverted hemisphere in which the touchlife can rotate freely, but it's not like it's greased and it's going to be spinning all over the place.

So, why the weird, non-symmetrical shapes? The free-moving base? The weird colors? I have to say I got inspiration from the Ford Focus Ghia.



this isn't the greatest picture, but basically the hood scoop, the headlights, the taillights - they're all bubbly, all biological shapes. I thought that the touchlife, by incorporating such biological concepts as the motion of a finger, of a stylus, not just a button command, but an actual curve made by a hand - I thought this was the right way to portray the image. The handle pops out with a button press. The controller ports are only differently sized on the outside - the acutal ports are all the same size. The CD tray is, well - not on top, or on the bottom or even the side - it's just sort of on there.

Same with the base - all the decorative bar things are random lengths. And the buttons for power, eject etc are odd too, same as the controller not. Oh, and the control stick is a very simple touchscreen BTW.

That thing on the top - it's a port for things like a gameboy player, or maybe even a N64 player, or who knows what.

I think, also, if I were to delve deeper into this concept, I might add touch sensors all over the touchlife, so it might glow or make a noise wherever you touched it (glow is more likely - maybe it could be coated with that color changing liquid you see on those prank cards, like the ugly test and such?) And the words "power", "eject" and "Reset" would be replaced with "life", "death", and "rebirth" respectively (not sure about that rebirth one, might be a bit controversial )

Yeah... and about the colors. Tan is a very organic color, and light blue... is too I guess. Maybe it's just because I like the Ford GT40. Recolor it if you want to.

OH YEAH! I almost forgot. A shape like this - they could have ones that looked like basketballs, kickballs, the earth, the sun - maybe you could even cut up your favorite ball and make a custom skin for it.

Dr. Wario

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Could use some shading and those two handhelds at the bottom could use some work. :/

Looks ugly as sin, sorry. Probably your worst work.

Well then, I guess I only have better things to look forward to?

EDIted because I can be an ass sometimes

So, do you mean concept wise, design wise, or just art wise? I'd like to know before I consider doing a shaded version.

And I can understand that you might not like the design, but in my own little mind I do. Nintendo wants to do something that lots of people might not agree with. I guess I'm in the same firing range.

Dr. Wario

This post has been edited by Doc Wario on Mar 21 2005, 09:46 PM

Damn, way to boost his confidence(sp?).

Well, whatever it is, I still did a shaded version. This was just a quick MSPaint sketch anyways, shaded in PSP. I switched the colors because, well, no one would want a baby blue system with peach buttons. At least not the masses, anyways.

Dr. Wario

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Sweet concept, are you saying the system would be free to roll around freely within the system? I think it would be cool if if had some lights on it, and it had the ability to rotate itself around in the base (via tiny wheels inside the base giving the sphere a push to roll) and like start spinning really fast as a new kind of force feedback, also, with the lights on it you could play in the dark and the lights can produce any shade, but brightly, think of how gnarly that would be in the dark, a rolling ball of lights/pure color... but then again that's like huge health risk (hypothetically) since everyone is so concerned about epilepsy these days... anyways cool design, I liked it even before you started shading it.

Best. Reply. Ever.

Well, Sp wasn't being to helpful or to nice at all, which you probably noticed. I just hope he wasn't directing it at me. I didn't mean to offend anyone.

Excuse me. Next time I'll just say "best ever".

Or you could say something positive.

Why on earth would I say something positive about something I don't find to be very good at all? Something which I feel is a major stepdown from Doc Wario's previous work? I apologize for having a differing opinion from yours, Zae. And I'm sorry that Doc Wario can't accept that someone might not be very pleased with one of his pieces. He's welcome to ignore my comment. I won't force it on him.

You dissed it pretty bad and was not helpful at all, sorry to piss you off, but that's what I see.

And I fail to see how lying about my opinion would be any more helpful.

You people are too used to seeing "WTFC AWESOME LOL!1111111" on everything a popular member draws.

I never said you had to lie. you should atleast try to give some good advice.

Remember when people were able to have an opinion about something without being yelled at?

@SP: Even though it looks below par, tell him something to work on about it.

@DocW: MSPainted Version looks odd...but I love how you shaded it, looks really good once shaded.

*EDIT* Also, I don't know if the "R" Logo is official or anything, but it looks awesome.

This post has been edited by Alex the Hedgehog on Mar 21 2005, 08:31 PM

Why is it that negative opinions that aren't even remotely offensive require explanation but positive comments do not? I just think Doc Wario could have done A LOT better than he did.

Let's just drop it, sp has his opinions, we have ours. That's all that really matters.