J at work got himself a new joystick to better be able to pwn in Battlefield 2 (he also got a BF2 Z-board keyboard as well). Anyway, the joystick has some ubar force-feedback abilities, which maybe this little movie demonstrates:

Shake It!

(mp4 camera-phone movie - should play in Quicktime)

Much fondling of joysticks from a couple of homies today over Nintendo's announced new console's controller.

I remain unconvinced. It is no-doubt an impressive and revolutionary idea and in the oft-shown “nunchuk” mode with a thumstick-on-a-string could well drag FPS control on consoles to something approaching the mobility you get with a mouse. Hands-on reports have been largely positive but I wonder if anyone has used if for more than a few minutes.

Try this test: see how long you can hold your hands out - without resting your elbows on anything - in the pose shown in the press release? Five minutes? Ten? Thirty? What about when moving one of your hands around a bit? Or try it with resting your elbows on something - I'm not sure it's an improvement.

We'll see anyway, I doubt my scepticism will have much effect, though it's good to know I'm not alone in it