If we believe mr. Iwata, we won't need a GameCube controller to play Mario Party 6.

In a briefing about Nintendo's business strategy, president Satoru Iwata spoke about the Nitnendo Revolution. Iwata-san told analysts and reporters that Nintendo isn't looking for "next-generation technology, but next-generation game play".

Iwata continued his speech with something which stands in line with that thought: Later this year, Nintendo will release Mario Party 6 for the GameCube. However, according to Iwata the game can be played without a controller!

"In the past, there have been people who have felt controllers are hard to deal with and did not play games, but this will seek to appeal to those people" said Iwata.

Whether this news involves the recently rumoured new pheripherals for the GameCube (the camera-like thing) remains unknown... for now...