GoldenEye fans will have the chance to get a bundled control option when they pickup GoldenEye for the Wii later this year, but it’s not what you would expect for the motion-sensing Wii console. Rather than coming out with a Wii Zapper-type holder to use the Nunchuck and Wiimote combo, the optional hardware is a golden Wii Classic Controller Pro. This just further advanced my opinions that Activision does not have much faith in the traditional controls. This could have been seen going back to E3, when Activision had GoldenEye setup at the Nintendo booth four of the white Classic Pro controllers. I really wish the developers would put more time into the motion controls for their games. For a game like GoldenEye that is going to draw heavily on players nostalgia for the N64 classic, they cannot stray too far from the original formula.
This new gold controller got me thinking about Nintendo’s long love affair with the color gold. Check after the jump for other classic gold Nintendo items.