mysticwolf said: Okay, so the Wii U is compatable with all other Wii games. How would you play games like Metroid Prime: Corruption on the Wii U controller, because those games require the Wii Remote. How would that happen?
Maybe because the WiiU is compatible with the Wii Remote?
Are you implying that the black band on the U controller could be a sensor bar?
Two things about this.
1) If you look at screens of Wii U there is always a regular old sensor bar either above or below the TV, so is will probably connect as usual.
2) It looks like the black strip on the tablet may indeed be a sensor bar (perhaps for playing pointer-games away from the TV). On nintendo's e3 site where they describe the different parts of the controller there are two labels: one for camera, and one for sensor strip.
So the tablet has a sensor bar! awesome! now I can turn on my Wii U in the basement and then go up and play Metroid Prime in my room! hahaha!!!!
The sensor bar i'm thinking is to enable pointing through the new device much as we had through the old one. Though obviously it would be more like "windowing" and less pointing, similar to the whole "aim the pitch," thing they demonstrated in one of the montages
sounds right to me, like they showed in the golf demo. Also there is apparently another outward-facing sensor on the back of the pad, I'm not sure if it's an IR camera to allow pointer functionality with the TV or something else...
I've been thinking about range and how it would all connect. Through the controller or console? If it's console range is limited to bluetooth for wiimotes, the controller depends on it's connectivity. But looking at this video, I think we were reading too much into this. The sensor strip could easily be the small black one at the top (just like the IR on the 3DS), and this black band is just decoration. Has this black strip been confirmed to be the sensor bar yet?
