Lots and lots of people have been presuming that the controller was going to feature a touchscreen display. That presumption based on nothing more than a lack of imagination on their part – the DS has a touchscreen, therefore the Revolution must also have a touchscreen.

And just a tiny bit more thought would have led them to realise that having a touchscreen in the palm of your hand will make controlling anything on a TV screen some feet away, on a different plane of vision, an absolutely nightmare and possibly one of the least comfortable or intuitive interfaces ever, yeah?

Well, they were kind of right. The Rev controller is a stylus, or a virtual finger, and it turns your television set into the touchscreen display.

Every single DS game is now theoretically possible on the Rev. Only it’s not just limited to that, because the ‘stylus’ can recognise motion independent of the touchscreen.

In short: fuck me.