A Skateboard Controller For Your 360..!?
Author: Rees | Date: May 2, 2008
Apparently, a company called Actiga have partnered with Microsoft to develop the answer to Nintendo’s Wii Fit balance board… The peripheral to end all peripherals, the pinnacle of console interface design: a skateboard.
Wait, what?
Yep, in fact the skateboard of ultimate power (my name, not theirs) is just the first in a line of exciting and really useful new controllers to emerge from the partnership, although they haven’t announced what the others will be. It’ll be known by a totally rad name, “The Qmotions Big Air Controller”, and will be available towards the end of this year.
Included above is a picture of the company’s controller for the original Xbox, which was compatible with Tony Hawk’s American Wasteland and SSX3. Following in its ancestor’s footsteps, the all-new next gen Big Air should be compatible with “all popular skateboarding games”, and it’s also wireless – so you can swing it around to your heart’s content.
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Damn you… You posted this story 1 minute before me!
So to recap my thoughts from the now deleted article… Not so keen on 3rd party controllers myself, they seem to break far too much. But skateboard controllers do bring back many fond memories of playing ‘Top Skater‘ in the arcades.
This deal is actually just Qmotions (a subsidiary of Actiga) signing a deal with MS to use the 360 wireless technology in their peripherals, not just this skateboard. So I guess that means it will be pretty much the same as the board you’ve got the picture of, just without wires…
You can check out the whole press release here…
SIIICCCKKK!! I need one of these for superawesomemysteryprize.com!
Is this still in concept phase or is the image an actual “controller”???!
I need one for my other project!
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