"The Controller Revolution"

As the gaming industry has been alive for the excess of 20 years, we can now take a look back and see the contrast in the first generation of games consoles to todays generations of consoles such as the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360. The main differences between today, and when video games were first brought into the world, are the fact that the technology introduced in todays gaming world is a lot more highly advanced and also, the casual gamers market that has only recently developed. The fact that the new technology such as controllers, which have developed over the years to suit the gamer, may also help with the fidea of the casual gamers. For example, the soon to be released wii U, wont really appeal to the hardcore gamers as it is more of a thing to do when your bored, and again Nintendo being the first to utilize more modern technology with another type of control with the touch screen on the DS series, which again appeals to more casual gamers.

Motion control, which is also used by playstation in the "move" and the xbox in the "kinect" seems to be an idea that instead or as well as using a controller, you can use your body to control the game.. However, this was again first utilized by Nintendo with the first Wii, and despite it being a sell out for the first few weeks due to the new idea, it hasnt really continued to be a best selling gaming console like the Xbox and the Playstation, which shows that they appeal more to the casual side of gaming, where as the playstation 3 and xbox 360 which both do now have motion controls, but didnt at the time, appeal to more hardcore gamers as they are still played by a lot of people, and the fact that they introduced the motion control technology may show that this is the future, and they are trying to appeal to more of the gaming crowd.

Despite there being many many different ways of controlling a games console, some of which talked about above, it is debateable what the enct generation of gaming console controllers will be like, we are due the release of the Wii U soon and that uses all of the above including touch screen, but it is debateable whether this will cause sony and microsoft to follow. However, as technology will evolve, so will controllers and the way we play video games.