Hah, I totally had an idea like this new Wii controller back when the first ipad was released.

This looks totally clunky and silly and the possible applications for the thing seem limited right now, but the actual technology behind it is freakin' awesome and I don't doubt for a single second that it's the future of gaming. It makes total sense for the tablet/touch technology to be applied for gaming purposes. In fact, I'm surprised that it's taken this long for the major players to jump on board.

I wouldn't buy the first generation of something like this though, it looks way unpolished. Nintendo should take some lessons from Apple on how to blow people out of the water when announcing something like this. The initial reaction seems to be largely negative (at least from people who weren't there at E3 for the demos).

I'm really excited to see where they go with this.