Poll: Please hand me that...

[PerkoApple]

...remote!!

Or do you call it a controller?

Which word do you use for video game mechanism/plaything?

A. Remote

B. Controller

 

[Watchmacallit]

Well it depends. I'm pretty sure a remote is separated from the system, essentially wireless. So a Ps3 controller is a remote control where as a ps2 controller is just a controller. Well, thats how I interpret it.

Don't crucify me if my interpretation is wrong >_>

 

[Phlakes]

Controllers control games. Simple as that.

 

[Penguinness]

If it's a game pad then controller, if it's for the TV I call it a remote control.

My girlfriends family would call the remote control the pinger...

 

[Latinidiot]

Is it for a gaming machine? Yes? Then it's a controller. everything else is a remote control.

 

[interspark]

controller, but for a TV it's a remote

 

[dawdarsd]

controller, how could i play dead space 2 without a controller?

 

[FamoFunk]

Yea controller here, too.

If we're talking about the thing that turns the TV over, I call it the flicker or Sky remote. No idea why I have to point out it's a Sky one for...

 

[rokkolpo]

You need a controller to actively control something on the screen.

A remote just changes channels.

(I just realised how same-y that sounds)
Alternatively:
controller=gaming
remote=television

 

[GeorgW]

If it's for controlling video games, then it's a controller.
You lied to me about the poll

 

[Blue_vision]

Controller for games, remote for TV. Makes things pretty simple.

 

[HellspawnCandy]

Remote for TV
Remote Controller for games. Or controller for short.

 

[AvsJoe]

Controller or Wiimote for games, remote for TV and DVD player.

 

[Jim Grim]

Controller, although I have a friend that calls it a 'joy-pad' for some reason.

 

[SuperSuperSuperGuy]

'Tis a controller, unless it's a Wiimote or a television remote.

 

[Souplex]

There are people who don't call it a controller?
CAPTCHA: unit aparts

 

[GodofDisaster]

I call things like game pads and other devices that control games controllers.

As for the device that controls the TV, I call that the remote.

 

[CarpathianMuffin]

It's always been controller to me, and it always will be.

 

[Erja_Perttu]

My grandma calls it a zapper.

But, then again, she calls anything you point at a TV a zapper.

 

[Yureina]

I'd call it a controller.