Did someone just accidentally post a picture of the new Wii U controller to Twitter? I think so, and it does look like there are a few interesting changes that appear to have been made since Nintendo first showed off the Wii U at last year's E3.GamesRadar reports that the image of the updated controlled was allegedly uploaded via the Twitter account of an employee at Traveller's Tale Games.
The image has been pulled from the Web and appears that the account in question @MATTYBOOSH, has been wiped of all postings back to 2008.
Cooper's published a great, annotated comparison shot of the differences between two versions of the controller. There aren't many significant changes with the general shape and appearance of the controller. It's unclear whether the updated controller is actually indicative of what Nintendo plans to release as a final model.
Nintendo has also gone and update the controller's thumb sticks from small (ugly) nubs to actual analog sticks, like what is on the original Wii's nunchuck controller. The "Wii U" name has been stamped on the bottom portion of the controller's front side, and the "select" and "start" buttons previously sandwiching the controller's "home" button have been relocated to just underneath the cluster of "A,"B,"X" and "Y" buttons on the controller's right-hand side. Finally, there's a new square-shaped button on the controller's left-hand side, right underneath the directional pad - that's a new bit that never appeared on the Wii U's original design.
While some are speculating that the "new" controller shot is actually an image of a controller that predated Nintendo's previously revealed design, Cooper says that the new image does seem to fit rumours from earlier in the year that Nintendo was working on some controller redesigns prior to E3.
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