Fooling The World With a 3D Printed NX Controller

Bwahahahaahaha

Is it mean to want more! This is high concept pranking!

Fake leaks are going too far. We have come to the point where we can CREATE physical objects to pretend being the real deal.

GOOD LORD PEOPLE.

THINK OF THE CHILDREN.

All this did is make me more excited to see the actual controller. WE NEED MORE INFO NOW!!! This is killing me!

Nicely done! It's as impressive as that Rayman Smash Bros hoax, it's all good fun! Thank goodness it's not the real controller too.

And the internet let out a collective sigh of relief.

@Spoony_Tech Yeah this is going to be such an exciting E3!

I gotta hand it to the guy... he really put a lot of thought in this. Honestly I'm happy that it's fake because the design in impractical and disgusting.

I'm so happy it's not the controller. Let this be a warning Nintendo, people clearly want their buttons!

@ekreig I think quite the opposite because these pranks have caused internet wide meltdown of hatred towards Nintendo and many of those people are not going to hear that they are pranks, or will continue to assume it's what Nintendo will do for the controller.

I love watching laser cutters working, they're the bee's knees. I would have a lot of fun playing with his equipment (no rude joke intended).

Does anybody know why it sounds like he's scraping cutlery together when he adjusts his camera?

To be honest, I'm getting real tired of leaks. Even though this one was thankfully fake, it seems that nothing is able to be a surprise anymore...

Wish I didnt bother visiting any gaming sites last week and I wouldnt have wasted my damn time reading/discussing about if this was faked or not

what world was fooled by this, exactly?

@FragRed I know the Internet can be pretty bitter sometimes, but I find it hard to believe people will boycott the NX because at one point they thought it had a controller that it clearly doesn't (or won't) have. It's like people refusing to buy a PS3 because of the boomerang controller (remember the boomerang controller?).

A non-existent piece of equipment is not going to be the main factor in whether people buy a console or not. No one is going to be posting on message boards, "no way man, I'm not getting an NX because of that controller it doesn't have". And I really doubt people will keep believe this is the real controller after the ACTUAL real controller has been announced.

I got to give him credit. He fool a lot of people online with this. Even if they don't believe the controller to be real, they believe the concept, which worried me more. I mean how low is the fate level in some longtime "fan" to think that this is a possibility.

I imagine an old man, somewhere in the world, seeing this controller... but his heart just couldn't handle the horrible device. He keeled over, and spoke his final words: "Here I come, Iwata-san." Then we find out this controller was a fake, and that the poor old man's death was in vain.

I'm so beyond sick and tired of these elaborate fakes that are made just to make headlines and have their 2 minutes of fame.

I wish I didn't have to be so suspicious about everything all the time as a result. I'd rather just not have leaks period.

It's not fun. It's emotionally exhausting.

Don't name this moron. All you are doing is giving him undeserved credit for proving the majority of people on the Internet are idiots.

Anyway, chapeau to this guy for a sterling piece of work that has (as well as getting a lot of people's knickers in a twist) generated some of the most interesting and earnest discussion about the console so far. It's got people exploring and discussing various new technologies that are coming to the surface (haptic feedback options, malleable buttons, etc.), and has given more structure to the debate than pretty much any other piece of speculation.

It's also got people genuinely fired up about tracking down a tree, which is hilarious. That was probably my favourite part. "It's this tree here, outside this particular studio! You can tell from the laptop keyboard layout and reflection in the monitor stand", "No, that picture was taken in 2008, the trees have since been cut down, check Google Maps", "No, not ALL the trees have been cut down, there's still one remaining", "But that's a different tree to the one we thought!", "But it could still be THE tree though, couldn't it?", etc.

I genuinely wish he'd given us the complete lowdown on the tree.

Knew it was a fake the moment I read the name of the leaker. I've never seen anyone from Finland leak Nintendo stuff before. This could've as well been someone from our university since one group from our class made a game controller from ground up last year as a school project. It could already be used for playing games so they could've just slapped on a screen as well and play Super Mario Bros. on it, making it look like it's playing VC games. Well, it's not quite that easy but you get the point. It's not that hard to fake things nowadays.

@XCWarrior He successfully trolled the world. His name should engraved upon stone monuments and sung in the sweet tones of children's choirs.

@WireWare It's an interesting time we live in for sure. Just wait until live videos can be cheaply and reliably 'photoshopped'. I'm actually more concerned what will happen from a legal perspective, right now good video evidence is considered to be pretty solid, but what happens when that's no longer the case?

Boy am I glad it was fake. I thought it was because I just couldn't see Nintendo making that kind of a mistake but then again Nintendo has done stuff that didn't quite make sense to me. I have to say that was a really well done fake and I like how he showed the process of making it. I bet it'll also be some good publicity for his business just showing what kinds of things they can pull off.

glad that it was a fake. it look real as well. but at the end it was fake.

but damn, did that made me want to know what the NX Controller really is.

Anyone who is genuinely angry at these 'leaks' probably needs to not only take them with a larger pinch of salt, but also a big, steaming mug of chamomile tea (or whatever else helps keep their nerves in check).

Treat them as an excercise in keeping an open mind. It's unlikely hoaxers will stop hoaxing because people complain about being fooled, when fooling people is the whole point of the excercise.

@Moon
I'm pretty sure Miyamoto, Iwata and co reiterated many times in the past that touch controls can never replace physical buttons in terms of responsiveness that's why they're not bringing their console games, save for a few exceptions maybe, to smartphones. You're a fool just like the rest if you actually believed that it's the actual NX controller.

Despite having decent effort put into it, it was still an obvious fake. I still can't believe anyone fell for it.

@Maxz now to be fair the always online and Kinect requirements polices took a long time to go away after they was dropped for the Xbox one and now its like 10-20 million behind.

Not saying its going to happen with the NX but It has "left the internet" as an hour ago I overheard a member of staff at my local GAME store today saying "probably best to save your money for the PSVR, the NX is probably not going to have buttons like a phone"

This was OBVIOUS it was a FAKE because it didn't have any buttons which is completely against Nintendo's ethos, if you believed it even in the slightest then your a FOOL and know NOTHING about what makes Nintendo Nintendo.

A for the effort! Awesome stuff.

Yes I did believe this...and I'm VERY relieved to see it's a fake.

Strong work on the prank man.

I love he starts out sitting there all ashamed of causing mayhem. I'd be so proud of myself.

This is 2016's Nintendo ON.

Guess we have to be skeptical of everything now, with the rise of 3D printing.

It was so funny to see how people were checking street view to compare trees (!!!) in front of Swedish dev buildings XD
Oh how I love and hate the internet.

Anyway: I'm glad its fake but morphing touch screens, haptic feedback and scrollable shoulder buttons sound pretty cool.

@yuwarite That felt a 1000% faker than this thought. I can't believe people actually believed that sh*t.

@AyeHaley You have to frame your mind in the context of 2005, though. And it was quickly debunked actually, games journalists had already seen the black Revolution console by that point and told readers it was a fake.

@abe_hikura I guess there's something to it, then but I still don't think the negative repercussions of this are going to be particularly widespread, given that the whole thing is completely fabricated and not Nintendo's doing. The Xbox and PS examples were features actually proposed by their respective companies, and so some of the flack stuck.

Sony and Microsoft (mainly Microsoft) had to do plenty of back-pedalling to get their products in a form the audience wanted in those cases, and in Microsoft's case it was arguably too late.

Nintendo on the other hand hasn't even made its first move, and I suspect most rumours will be almost completely forgotten about as soon as we get any official announcements. People will be too busy talking about them, and all this will be washed away.

Even if the poor customer who was misinformed by the member of staff in GAME took the advice seriously today, they'll likely be able to disregard it upon seeing the actual controller that Nintendo puts out (especially if it clearly contradicts what they were led to believe). I think that will be what really persuades them - certainly more so than the advice of same GAME employee from a few months ago before anyone really knew what the NX was.

Totally called it. I even said it was 3d printed.

Now can we stop giving attention to these fake leakers? It just serves to encourage this behavior by giving them this kind of attention

He keeps saying "easy" in that video, but this took many, many hours and specialized equipment. I'd say it will be awhile before we see something this convincing again, but the bar has simply been raised.

To those who dismissed the images outright, I wouldn't feel so smug about being right. I'd wager many of you didn't think it was a physical object either. It's not like Nintendo hasn't released products against conventional wisdom that made people react hyperbolically and then find out it actually works. How implausible and rediculous would it have looked to have the Wii remote leak before we knew what it was? Especially one of those prototype versions?

If, for instance, this device had features like haptic feedback and a way to feel where the buttons were before you pressed them and who knows what else, that part of the equation would be fine.

The shape was based on a crude patent drawing. That's the funny part I guess. However, who really thinks that Nintendo will release the NX console and/or NX handheld without at least one part of it looking really weird. If it just looked like everything else it wouldn't be Nintendo. It should intrigue with its shape. (Looking back, every console release controller was weird-looking compared to its contemporaries except maybe the SNES controller)

Glad this isn't the way they chose to do it though!

And yet people still won't take what they get from an unofficial source with skepticism...long live the internet sigh

@PanurgeJr I was thinking a better gift for him would be to find him, fly him to Syria, give him a handugn with 5 bullets and let him know he's now the first line of defense against Isis. Good luck!

Of course he had a Mac. That is the only way to go.

My hat goes off to him. I am happy to say I was #teamreal and #teamsad. Still, in the process of this hoax, a few journalists and developers apparently stated that it at least matched what they have been hearing, which is NO BUTTONS 😢. We want real buttons Nintendo!! The past few days have had me looking at my New 3DS with much sadness....

@Moon Yes! This has got me very excited but nervous as hell that there really won't be buttons. Because regardless , the patent is real...

I wonder if every site who posted the picture of the thing with the intent to rile people up ("Fans outraged by NX controller.") will be updating saying the whole thing was a hoax?

Now if the Coleco Chameleon guys would have put that much effort into their console fake, they could still be scamming us today...

Thank God this being fake. I was worried that it was the actual controller, which looks so ugly.

C'mom Nintendo! Make a GameCube controller 2.0!!

I feel sorry for everyone who actually thought this was real...E3 will give us all the NX information we could need.

It is great people have such time they can waste others .

@XCWarrior Oh, do pull yourself together. The guy made a pretend video games controller, he didn't make death threats against your family.

Saying he should be sent to his death as a result doesn't even work as humour.

Very clever but we all thought it's either fake or an early tech demo/prototype or even just early Dev kits but yes glad it's not true now tho lol.

We can now finally put this to rest.

What a life... (!)

@Maxz This guy clearly has the making of a spy. He pulled the wool over millions of idiots on the Internet. Just imagine, he might be sly enough to infiltrate Isis and deceive them from the INSIDE. He could be the key to stopping the war. How can we NOT send him is the better question.

With all this stuff, I just want E3 to be here so we (hopefully!) get an idea of what NX is. Rumors and fakes are getting a bit out of hand.

This was nothing. It was made sure by taking the picture from that exact angle that you can clearly make out the sticker saying 'confidential property'. As if it was necessary to be there.

No offense, but anyone who was fooled either really wanted it to be real or, well, rather gullible.

More like fooling the idiots. It looked too cheap to be real, from cheapness of controller to lightning itself.

The future is now thank's to science!

@Splatburst I'm a fool? Isn't that a bit harsh? I noted previously that it'd be weird for Nintendo to have a 'Better with Buttons' section on their eShop if they were planning on ditching buttons. This was believable because I can quite believe Nintendo doing something this stupid, unfortunately.

Awesome! Really good work from these guys.
They got some good publicity for their company.

Lol

Douche.

Well, at least I can stop panicking quite so much about NX—for now.

Very well done!

@Squashy Nintendo is right now desperately trying to change the NX controller after everyone savages it on the internet... Lol!

It was a very impressive fake. But seriously Nintendo, don't make this.

They didn't fool the world. I've been saying that it's probably a leak.

@antdickens Just because there's a patent doesn't mean Nintendo is going to use it on their console. There's many reasons for patenting a new idea, such as protection from patent trolls, and so they can use the idea if they change their mind and decide to use it later.

Was there actually anyone that thought this was real?

Nice video. I wonder if you broke part of a regular controller if 3D printing a new back for example instead of buying a new controller how much cheaper would it be(board inside controller intact)? Obviously only if you only had the 3D printer to begin with.

Has the price of the plastics gone down or up?

Rumours are Rumours!
"Forewarned, there is no guile"

Well, a shame for anyone who has believed in the rumor, but I repeat: Forewarned, there is no guile; Rumour is a Rumour!

LOL All the people who were convinced, where are you!?

I stated fake from the beginning but when the better photos came out, I wasn't as sure, but still felt the design wasn't true to what Nintendo would do. So, take that as you will, but I basically never believed it.

... buttons would've been nice!!!!

People believed this? In the age of 3D printing?

@FragRed Or perhaps Nintendo was planning a very similar controller (hence no statement), saw the hatred, and now they're rethinking the design.

@LemonSlice Cue hybrid between GameCube controller, N64 and PS Vita

I liked it because I knew it wasn't real. Plus it showed how quick people were to jump to conclusions without getting any official confirmation from Nintendo. Be patient and wait until they confirm or deny. There was a lot of pent up frustration and angst getting played out in here for no reason whatsoever.

I think a lot of people seriously need to take a step back and prioritise what is worth getting upset over in life. Videogames and consoles? Not really worth getting upset over.

I would have been more impressed if it was hand made from wood. 3D printing lacks craft!

@Spoony_Tech

yeah man. I'm counting the days to E3!

Oh Thank Miyamoto!

He should've waited a few more days until 1st April before posting it on Reddit.

The "CONFIDENTIAL PROPERTY" sticker was what gave it away for me.

This nonsense never fooled me.

Pretty cool mock-up of a controller there.
But... meh... Didn't have me fooled...

Haha - he got me on that one! Well played sir! The funny thing is, if it had been real I would've been intrigued by it.

Let's just hope that Nintendo do something decent with the hardware this time around.

Aww, and I'd just reached the 'acceptance' stage. Now I'll have to go through it all over again when whatever the actual dumb controller idea is is revealed...

You all know that when the real controller is shown off, it'll rustle just as many jimmies as this, right?

Why do people continue to do pointless things like this? Are they that starved for attention? It drives me nuts. I think everyone knew this'd turn out to be fake from the minute it was 'announced'.

You could argue that Nintendo have been sloppy of late with all of these leaks of new game releases (which I'll admit is strange behaviour by them) but considering NX is still in the development phase there's no way they'd let details of anything slip out let alone a photo.

Thank God it wasn't real! Phew..

With the way this story went viral, dude could make a mint off it on eBay...

Wow, that's impressive for a 3D printed mold! He must have access to a REALLY good 3D printer, because even the ones at places like Microcenter aren't that "faux-authentic" looking... I thought it was a prototype for something else entirely!

I guess this means that 3D printed molds for existing devices are going to be a possibility in the future too... So we must be vigilant for fakes when buying used devices! At least this guy had no malevolent intentions. We'll be wishing that conners merely did this sort of thing as a prank soon enough!

From my viewpoint, this spectacle served as a fair warning for the future: make sure you're getting the real McCoy when you buy something! (Unless, of course, you're looking for 3D printing designs/blueprints...)

@XCWarrior LOL, I think you're going a little overboard there... Well... Okay, more like SUPER overboard...

@blackice85 I didn't think about it under this perspective. With technological advance nowadays, the probability that this becomes a reality just grows everyday. It's a little frightening.

But from a legal standpoint, it won't be a threat for long. The juridical system has changed throughout the years to adapt to new evidence and scientific methods. You can discern a photoshopped picture (albeit unreliably) from a genuine one with the right equipment, so I have no concern that a loophole could be found if "shopped" video evidence was to be created.

Well I didn't believe it in the first place but I loved to see how much of a stir it caused.

@DiscoGentleman I can only assume his camera was hungry.

@Danrenfroe2016 Yeah haha lets all hope and pray that the real controller is nothing like this, otherwise Nintendo has got just a couple of months to design a whole new one!

To all the people who are saying it was so obvious it was fake: It's very easy to say that once you know it is!

Well done, it looked very Nintendo like, but i knew it was fake sinds it did not have the A/B/X/Y buttons

"Fooling the world"

Speak for yourself. I didn't believe it for a second.

Put on your tin foil hats with me for a moment and consider that this may have been leaked on purpose to judge the collective public reaction. Perhaps an internet wide focus group? Nintendo can easily say we never were going to make anything like that (unless everyone lost their bananas over it).

Very glad it is fake.. I hope Nintendo seen this and now know everyones reactions to it so they steer clear of this design.

Called it. Funny how the web just grasps at every "leak" like this. Then again, there was Sun and Moon.

People are like moths to flames... or flies to dung. I wish media outlets would stop "reporting" junk like this (read: feeding trolls desperately craving attention). We already know it was a fake mockup - do we really need a headline reporting, "Hey guys, the dude that made that fake thing explains exactly how he did it!" Sigh... The Internet can be a really nonsensical place...