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LightDemonCodeH In reply to BobChao87 [2012-06-09 22:20:30 +0000 UTC]

like what technical issues?

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BobChao87 In reply to LightDemonCodeH [2012-06-24 22:56:09 +0000 UTC]

Well, one thing is that there is no joystick on the left hand side anymore, but that can be easily fixed by shifting the Wiimote down further in the chassis. The tablet also communicates with a dual IR emitter from the center of it's own device, the Wiimote does so from it's front end. This means that either the system will have to adjust for this displacement, or have the Wiimote in the center. If you put the Wiimote in the center, then you lose out on the D-pad that you were removing to reduce cost.

Then there is the issue of gyroscopic balance. The tablet will likely measure its orientation and acceleration relative to the center of it's body, because that will make sense to the consumer. Both the Wiimote and the nunchuck have their own gyroscope data, so it is possible to reconstruct the actual center of tablet information.

Everything that was stated above can be gotten around fairly easily if it weren't for one thing. The Wiimote (and most likely the tablet) processes the motion data on an internal processor. It then sends the motion data to the Wii. This means that either special software would have to be installed on the Wiimote to understand that it was in a tablet, the tablet would need to intercept and fix all data collected by the Wiimote and nunchuck, the WiiU would have to know that it needed to pre-process data coming from the tablet, or the software (game) itself would have to compensate.

Since the WiiU cannot sacfrifice processor in a guaranteed case, it would have to leave that operation up to the software, which would then have to sacrifice some of its own processing power and thus we wouldn't have games that ran as nicely or were as pretty or something. Furthermore, all of these take time, and the motion controls would be slowed down for the need to process the information twice. So a sensor would have to be directly installed in the tablet. At that point, we've almost eliminated the benefit gained by putting the Wiimote and nunchuck in the tablet. As a final killing blow, the Wii (I don't know about the WiiU) is only designed to talk to four Wiimotes at once. So the tablet would also need to talk to the WiiU directly. At this point, all we get to take out from the tablet is one joystick and the D-pad. And somehow find space to fit a Wiimote and nunchuck... :/

Sorry if that sounded rough, but I really do like the idea, it's just not very feasible at this point. If Nintendo's next console also takes tablet input, it might work then with the miniaturization of technology and the increases in speed that would be possible!

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