Poll: Please hand me that...

[Jedamethis]

Controller. It takes too long to say 'remote' at the start...

 

[nolongerhere]

I'd call it a pad. I don't know why but me and my mates always have.

 

[Andalusa]

Controller... because it's what you use to control the game...

 

[DracheX]

For video games controller

 

[DesiPrinceX09]

I have already been ninja'd but it's ok. Controller, because it's what you CONTROL the game with.

 

[PerkoApple]

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

I swear to god I added a poll. The thread took forever to upload and then when it did I couldn't see the poll. Not sure what happened.

See, I call it a remote because (at least for my PS3) it is remote from the console. No wire = remote.

 

[Biosophilogical]

I call it a controller, except when I mind-blank and fall-back to remote.

 

[ApeShapeDeity]

Um, meh.

Remote for the telly.

Controller for the games.

 

[Dango]

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

All of my Canadian relatives call it the clicker...

OT: For games consoles I call it a controller, for TV I call it a remote.

 

[deathninja]

I always called it a pad.

 

[Shade184]

Controller for consoles, remote for everything else.

 

[nunqual]

I've always called it the remote. Never heard 'controller'.

Edit: Oh, I thought we were talking about TV remotes. I call it the controller for video games.

 

[Blemontea]

I have never heard anyone call a controller a remote... and i say controller.

 

[Continuity]

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

Keyboard and mouse, they do exist you know, though I think the developers have forgotten.

 

[Monkfish Acc.]

Remotes are for TVs and shit. Controllers are for consoles.
I'm not sure when that was decided but it quite apparently was at some point.

 

[Stammer]

I call anything with a joystick for videogame-intended use a "controller", even if it is a remote item.