More evidence has emerged that suggests Wii 2 will have a touch-screen controller - after CVG broke the news last night.
Games media behemoth IGN has this morning backed up our claims, reporting that its own 'additional sources' have confirmed the news.
Asked to comment on the report, a Nintendo of America spokesperson issued a straight "no comment".
IGN report today that "a pre-announcement this month with a full reveal expected at E3 and that the console will be backwards compatible with current Wii software".
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veato on 15 Apr '11 said:
I dont think some form of touchscreen on the controller and more power than Xbox/PS3 is beyond the realms of possibility (given the mediocre amount of RAM and aging graphics in those systems) but I still dont think they'll target it towards - and I hate this phrase - "hardcore" gamers.
Just a feeling.
nuggit3000 on 15 Apr '11 said:
How can anyone believe that a controler will have a HD display.
HD means at least 720p resolution, and would become the highest resolution handset screen. The cost of a controller would then be well over £100.
The screen is believeable, but will likely have no more pixels that the original DS.
Then again, everyone was saying the original Wii was going to have a touch screen on the controller.
corkscru74 on 15 Apr '11 said:
480p is the lowest resolution of HD. But agreed on the pricing problem. I'm not crazy on spending £45 on a controller at the moment (Wiimote and nunchuk) so god knows how much one will be with a screen! Saying that, electronics costs are coming down all the time, so who knows!
veato on 15 Apr '11 said:
No it's not. 480p qualifies as EDTV.
humanhand on 15 Apr '11 said:
Get crazy. Think of an iphone like controller, not looking like a phone, but looking more like a controller. Someting radically different.
boskersrevenge on 15 Apr '11 said:
I am stumped by this.
ste hicky on 15 Apr '11 said:
mentioned it elsewhere but has anyone played metroid prime hunters on the ds and,if so,do you not think a similar principle could apply here?
maybe nintendo are going with some sort of stick to move/touch screen for aiming on the new machine?
maybe a hud in your hand/game on tv like the 2 screens on the ds?
who knows,it's nintendo. it's folly to second guess them. still fun though.
Balladeer on 15 Apr '11 said:
I've just thought of something - does anybody else remember Four Swords Adventures for the GC? How difficult it was to put together, and how fun it then was to play? Separate screens in the controller are great for multiplayer games, but they need to be decent quality. And cut to Nintendo...
boskersrevenge on 15 Apr '11 said:
You know... it's like I'm speaking bloody Chinese half the time but it's on record that (if this is real) the 3DS has got connectivity with the new console.
*sigh*
Balladeer on 15 Apr '11 said:
Whu?
ste hicky on 15 Apr '11 said:
good shout there. same for FF crystal chronicles too. a t**t to set up but in the end it was secret of mana,4 player co op on the cube and if experienced in that state: worth the hassle.
here's another one: maybe it'll be handy for secrets in games (like the tingle tuner for the gba). or even allow you to mark points of a map on the fly in an rpg and allow your marks to show up on the tv in game as compass points in skyrim,etc...
@ bosker: special fried rice with shu mais please? nah,kiddin.
true about the 3ds connectivity but it still doesn't explain the possibility of a screen on the new pad.
anyway,what if you haven't got a 3ds?
would it be too cumbersome to link 4 3ds' and a wii2 for something like FFCC/4 swords?
if 3ds connectivity was the plan all along,why bother with a screen on the new controller? (if true,of course)
in the end the gba/cube link up was a pain in the arse. you'd have to put you're pad down and pick another machine up. then put it down and pick your pad up in wind waker unless you had a second player in on it with you.
much easier to have a screen on a controller and apply similar idea's to it without the need for the messing around.
rbt2 on 15 Apr '11 said:
Don't care what it looks like, what the specs are or anything about the controller....just make sure you give me the Wave Race 64 follow up I bloody deserve, Nintendo!!!!
And while you're at it, make the new doowhacky cartridge based. They'd be the size of War And Peace!
ste hicky on 15 Apr '11 said:
hang on,it's hit me: augmented reality with a lenticular effect.
they mentioned a while ago they had a screen attachment working for the cube,they may have ran a little wild with that one. for example: imagine a project zero game were you passed your pad over the screen to see a dead chick climbing in to your living room in realtime or even had to scan your living room for the dead who could be right f*cking next to you.
the pad could be the camera.
probably a bit far out there but i'd love something like that in fatal frame/pz.
tmten on 16 Apr '11 said:
"hang on,it's hit me: augmented reality with a lenticular effect."
f**k me ste hicky, you're a genius. On first reading these rumors I thought that the idea of a screen in the controller was nonsense. I thought that it wouldn't make economic sense, and that it would be frivolous. You just made me realise that this isn't necessarily the case.
Windowlicker79 on 16 Apr '11 said:
480p is not HD. Its a standard definition progressive scan format. Its better quality than an SD interlaced video signal, but it is not higher resolution.
I also think the 6" screen size is just a bit impractical. If the controller had that, plus at least some traditional buttons, rumble motors, accelerometers and a battery pack big enough to power it all for a decent long gaming session it would have to be HUGE!
The most sensible solution would be if they used the touch screen display that they currently use in the DSi XL. Its a good quality screen, it does everything they'd need it to and they already have it in production with a manufacturer.
The price of the controller would still be fairly high though. Although people seem to forget just how much it cost's for a full controller set-up for the Wii. At full RRP it cost £75.97 per person to get a Wiimote Plus, Nunchuck & classic controller!
Windowlicker79 on 16 Apr '11 said:
I don't think the fact that the next console will play HD is any sort of surprise. All televisions that you buy new nowadays are HD and have an HDMI input. It was an odd choice not to have the Wii output HD, if the next console didn't have it then it would be an idiotic decision. Its hard to even buy a budget DVD player now without it having HDMI out and 1080p upscaling. For a brand new games console not to have it would do nothing but guarantee commercial failure.