We Don't Need No Stinkin' Buttons

Article From IGN

In this article, it talks about another article published in London's The Guardian, which deatures Iwata talking about the Revolution controller. He says that controllers nowadays feature too many buttons and sticks to appeal to people who don't normally play games. With such complication, it's possible that these people won't play games at all.

Sure this applies ok to non-gamers? But I thought Nintendo is going for an all-access gaming needing to get back to the true hardcore gamers, who I would think want some more buttons and sticks (analog) for the best control possible. Perhaps the "leaked" Revolution controller by SeriousGamer is right, it could feature only a few buttons with a d-pad, or analog with tons of buttons all on the same controller. Surely you need different controls for different gamers. With customization like that, they could even appeal to the left-handed gamers that DS now sometimes has functionality for as you can switch functionality of ABXY and the D-Pad.