WiiU to only support 1 tablet controller?? Miyamoto speaks...

[NJ5]

HappySqurriel said:

NJ5 said:

For four people I doubt that any complex images could be rendered for each controller.

Keep in mind that even if the controllers have only 480p screens (and it seems they have higher res than that?), rendering four 480p images takes much more computational effort than rendering one 1080p image. So graphics would have to be much simpler than the Wii U can do at its best.

That's not necessarily true ... If you assume that the TV screen was split with 4 different viewports each of those would have a resolution of 960x540 which is higher than 480p.

Of course, what is rendered to the TV also eats away resources and there would be trade-offs regarding what could be rendered to each screen and the TV; especially as the number of tablet controllers increases.

But that's for the pixel shaders only. My understanding is that each separate viewport takes other significant resources as well, which is why splitscreen takes more horsepower than just a single full-screen for example.