Your dream controller or accessory ideas

[Samurai Ghost]

Thanks for the comments JKM! I agree that our screen filters are top notch. And I'm happy HORI keeps the quality high and would love to see some luxury sticks and controllers. I think HORI sticks are some of the best money can buy, and the VLX Premium sticks are just amazing peices of kit. It's really like someone just dropped a Japanese arcade cabinet panel in your lap. Too bad they are out of production at the moment. I hope more stuff like this comes out, but as for now I have to say the Fighting Edge sticks are pretty damn awesome. They just reek quality and are amazing to use, not to mention looking slick as hell. Not to sound like a commercial here but I just love them. If the Edge does well in the US we can expect to see more top of the line sticks in the future.

Make this a reality.

It's funny but when I was reviewing all of the past product proposals, one of the design guys at the Japanese head office had proposed this! A boob controller. I pushed for it but I don't think it will see the light of day unfortunately.

As for the dual mod issue, it's not possible due to legal issues. Almost everything HORI makes is officially licensed by Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, Namco, etc., so it's just not possible for us to make sticks compatible with multiple systems. Qanba just doesn't give a crap about any of this and does whatever it wants to without regards to licensing issues or legality, but I agree it would be convenient to have a stick that works on multiple systems without lag issues from converters. I had an XBOX/PS2/GC compatible Soul Calibur 2 stick but it was a piece of crap. So at the time I just bought converters for my homemade PS stick.

Would love to see a Saturn style pad out for the current consoles. There's something in the works that is along those lines though so I hope it garners enough interest with retailers to go into production.

[CPU64]

What that person is doing... on the t-shirt picture.. I'd love to try that someday.

Back on topic, I wish some of the audio in games came through the headset. Like radio transmissions in Battlefield, or whenever Cortana talks to you in Halo campaign

[Nando]

Would love to see a Saturn style pad out for the current consoles. There's something in the works that is along those lines though so I hope it garners enough interest with retailers to go into production.

That would be bad ass.

So can Hori not work as a DBA or with another company to manufacture top of the line converters? Some folks with multiple systems but not enough resources to buy multiple sticks for their systems would buy them. Obviously lots of bidness research would have to be done to see if it would be profitable/legal.

Anyway, not sure if Hori does it yet but what about controllers and interfaces for kids with disabilities?
http://www.ablegamers.com/Disabled-Gamers-General-News/ablegamers-2012-children-s-grant-program.html

[soop]

A Saturn like pad for smart phones and the ability to dock the phone to the pad. Mainly for home gaming, not so much portable.

That was the first thing I was gonna say.

How about this; say you had a SNES pad with a lead (or wireless maybe) to go to a certain system.  Now, you know those circles on the SNES pad, where the buttons go?  Imagine you could turn it a quarter circle and pop it out, and then put in a 3 button module in the Genesis layout, or pop in a 2 button rapid-fire unit for PCE games.

Something like that would be perfect for virtual console releases (though I'm not sure Genesis buttons would fit in the space of a SNES's).

I haven't really thought this through much, but I guess what I'm thinking is that people get their favorite base controller, and then swap around buttons for different systems.  IDK.

BTW, here's a SNES earring I made out of Fimo:

[Samurai Ghost]

Back on topic, I wish some of the audio in games came through the headset. Like radio transmissions in Battlefield, or whenever Cortana talks to you in Halo campaign

We generally don't make headsets, and I never use them myself, but it's true audio doesn't come through them? That seems odd to me.

So can Hori not work as a DBA or with another company to manufacture top of the line converters? Some folks with multiple systems but not enough resources to buy multiple sticks for their systems would buy them. Obviously lots of bidness research would have to be done to see if it would be profitable/legal.

Anyway, not sure if Hori does it yet but what about controllers and interfaces for kids with disabilities?

Well generally I don't think it would make sense for us to make converters with the licensing issues it would create and the fact that we would rather sell more controllers than a cheap converter. There are plenty of converters out there though! As for controllers for disabilities, we've been approached by people regarding that before, but unfortunately I think it's just too much of a niche market to be practical. I'm sure some custom controller maker/modder could do something like that though!

How about this; say you had a SNES pad with a lead (or wireless maybe) to go to a certain system.  Now, you know those circles on the SNES pad, where the buttons go?  Imagine you could turn it a quarter circle and pop it out, and then put in a 3 button module in the Genesis layout, or pop in a 2 button rapid-fire unit for PCE games.

Now that's an awesome idea! I've been trying to push for the retro style controllers as you know I'm a fan. HORI made an SNES style controller for the GC, and there could be one in the works for the Wii/Wii U, but it just depends on how much interest it would garner. I think it would be a great product, and if you could customize the button layout that would be great!

[kazekirifx]

How about a carrying case for a portable game system with space to keep a few games, where the games don't fall out every time you open the case?

[soop]

Wow, I didn't know that about the gamecube controller, but I guess it does sum it up pretty well.

[bartre]

yeah, i've used on of those GC controllers, and the button swapping idea is pretty sweet, the only problem i can see is how you'd connect the button circle thing.
perhaps something of a pressure contact? like put the contacts on a spring panel that gets pushed down when the button pad is on top?
or maybe just have 4 spots or so that get connected when the circle bit locks in place?

[soop]

Yeah I was thinking pretty much like a lightbulb.  But I'm sure Hori would be more than capable!

[Nando]

An Oppai controller!!   

[Nando]

Here's another what about a cradle that lets you output to a TV signal? are those available yet?

So along the same lines as the NeoGeo X - mount your phone, connect to S-video/AV/HDMI and a bluetooth controller.  So like the Ouya as well.