I whole heartedly disagree. You still have the use of the Gamecube and whatever controller through the acces ports on top of the Revo. Not to mention the controller itself is expandable and upgradeable and it contains the same amount of buttons as the other two with its analog stick connection, and you can reach the A button and b button the controller, unless you arent nimble enough to use a regular remote control, then you shouldnt even try.
The device is shear genius.
Problem: Not everybody is going to run out and buy all of those upgrades and expansions. Since developers can't count on anybody having anything except the core controller that comes with the system, they won't design their games to use those expansions in any really important way, leaving us with the core controller as the main implement for controlling the games. Remember how the Gamecube-gamboy advanced linkup was supposed to bring about all sorts of neat innovation?
Also, with a controller, you're using two hands to hold it between. With the remote, you'll only have one, meaning that you'll have to rely more on your right hand to grip it. Your hand will have to be under the controller (as opposed to being more on the side with a traditional controller) which will slow down how fast your thumb can reach the buttons. I've yet to hold a television remote control whose buttons I could hit with the same accuracy and speed as a controller.
"Turn it to its side its a classic controller."
Which is useless for modern games.
"Attach the analog stick it becomes no different than any other controller out there,"
No. It will still have fewer buttons and only one analog stick, in addition to still being more cumbersome.