{"id":3573,"date":"2009-02-26T15:42:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T13:42:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"nintendo-announces-new-wii-controller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/3573-nintendo-announces-new-wii-controller","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo announces new Wii controller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo has officially announced a new forthcoming controller for its Wii.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendo.co.jp\/wii\/controllers\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Wii Website<\/a>, the console manufacturer and games publisher is introducing the &ldquo;Classic Controller Pro&rdquo;, which looks a lot like a traditional video game console controller.<\/p>\n<p>The controller bears more than a subtle resemblance to the standard Xbox 360 and PS3 controller, featuring a four way direction pad, two thumb toggles, and four action buttons laid out in the classic control pad configuration.<\/p>\n<p>The controller is essentially the same as Nintendo&rsquo;s classic controller, with the addition of an extra two trigger buttons and palm grips similar to those seen on the PS3.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment, the controller has no official release date, but will be available sometime over the next few months &ndash; in Japan, making it difficult to project a local availability time frame.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php?p=13285#post13285\" target=\"_self\">Discuss new Wii controller<\/a> in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cClassic controller Pro\u201d  adds additional trigger buttons and palm grips<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}