DICE: No successful shooters on Wii due to difficult control scheme

[TWRoO]

exindguy said:

TWRoO said:
If you read my previous post.... this would sort out the issue with the screen moving when you are trying to aim.

This would then mean you could shoot where you want like in Wii Play..... And in that situation, the Wii remote pointer is just as accurate and quick as a mouse to the human eye.

I just read your post and, while I agree in theory, the problem is that any way you slice it, the Wii pointer is not as responsive as a mouse cursor so there is an extra element of anticipating where a target is going to be.

Still, it's an intriguing idea though I'm sure for the first several days I'd be about as accurate at it as a drunk playing darts ;)

It is responsive enough for it to not be noticable though.... seriously seach "Wii Play record" or something on Youtube.... the targets in that game appear in random positions for parts of it, but some guys don't miss or hit one of the dummy tagrets.... there isn't a noticable lag.

technically yes the mouse is faster and more accurate, more accurate mainly because it needs to work for far higher resolutions, and faster response only because it has a little less to work out. The lag on the Wii remote is limited to first, the speed of light from the sensor bar to the remote... then the blu-tooth signal of the IR cameras data to the Wii, then a little more for however long the Wii takes to work that out.... the IR camera refresh time is like 300 per second or something lke that.... all of that summed together means the remote can detect faster than your hand can move, so it really doesn't matter.