We stopped by the Nyko suite at CES to get a closer look at the new Wand controller that Nyko announced yesterday. The three contacts you see below the expansion port allow the Wand to pass all the remote button functionality from an attached accessory to the main controller.

　　The expansion port allows accessories like this pistol prototype to bind buttons on the peripheral directly to buttons on the remote. Hitting the hammer button on the pistol will register as an A button press in-game, and the trigger is bound electronically to the B button instead of using a messy physical pass-through like the one used in Nyko's older PerfectShot gun peripheral.

　　Nyko made all of the buttons larger to make them easier to press and to further differentiate the Wand from the Wii Remote. The new directional pad looks a little crazy, but it feels nice and the inner-square makes it easier to hit the diagonals.

　　Nyko hasn't announced the MSRP for the Wand yet, but Chris Arbogast, Nyko director of marketing, told us that he expects the price to be somewhere in between $29 and $39.