Speaking in a recent interview, Epic's Cliff Blezinski has commented that the current crop of Xbox controller's look like alien spaceships and he sincerely hopes that the next Xbox will come with a pad that features fewer buttons. He also said they could do things like a built in camera or a little motion sensitivity.

"Epic's Cliff Bleszinski has said that current control pads look like alien spaceships, and hopes the Microsoft's next Xbox will come with a pad with fewer buttons.

"I hope if there's a new Xbox that there'll be fewer buttons on the controller," he told us during a chat about Gears 2's multiplayer.

"This is purely me speculating in my own realm of game development, but if you look at a controller right now it looks like an alien spaceship," he added, going on to point at alternative methods of interaction.

"I think you could do things with a built-in camera or a little motion sensitivity. You look at the Wii controller with less buttons - they added functionality by doing waggle. Not a lot of games use the waggle well, but Super Mario Galaxy for example uses it perfectly. Zak and Wiki uses it rather well," he said. N"

Source: Neogaf

Apologies if posted already, but I couldn't help but post for the humor. :)

Come on people... Alien Spaceship?

Maybe so, but it's the best-controlling 'traditional' alien spaceship there is

So in other words, the guy that hates the Wii 'cause he can't sell his engine for it wants MS to use it's controller ideas anyway.

Um ok? I think anything could look like a space ship since there are so many different designs.

Edit: Also could he be hinting at "newton"?

thekitchensink said: Maybe so, but it's the best-controlling 'traditional' alien spaceship there is

What if it was actually a spaceship?

That's pretty cool, now, everytime I play my xbox, I will think of the little people inside it controlling my games

It doesn't looks like any of the alien spaceships I've seen.

He must have been high.

It feels like a good quality controller as does the Wii-Mote.

Coincidentally I picked up a PS3 controller today for the first time and to me it didn't have the same quality feel as the other two.

IMO, more important than the mentions of extraterrestrial aeronautical design is his pretty clear wish that 360's controller was more like the Wiimote. Is this the same Cliffy B we used to know?