| LordTheNightKnight said: "I've read that some companies are making very basic tablets for dirt cheap around the prices he mentioned, now considering the U controller will have no processer and such and just stream I think he's on the ball here. The controller will have a camera, touch screen and probably a place for headsets to be plugged in but not much else as it's a wireless controller that just streams, people shouldn't think of ipads and so on as those have much more going in them." "some companies" does NOT mean "every device". Durability and stability need to be maintained for this, and the low end stuff tends to not be good in that regard. As for not having a processor, that's impossible. It has to accept a streaming signal and turn it into an image. That requires more than just a screen, receiver, and controller parts. |
Exactly. People keep pointing to the tablet in India that is selling for $35. The only reason it's just $35 is because its being subsidized by the government. When the subsidizing ends, it's going to cost $60. And at that price, it's probably not that great of a tablet. I doubt it could handle streaming video games without considerable lag. It's case is probably a cheap generic one, so durablity and cost won't be that great. The Wii U's controller, on the other hand, is going to be made from a better plastic, as well as being a custom mold, so its obviously going to cost more just for the casing.
Have to laugh at his claim it won't have a processor, too. All controllers have processors, otherwise it couldn't take button inputs and turn them into a signal to send to the console. And the Wii U controller is going to be handling a wireless feed that needs to be turned into a video image on a 6.2" screen, as well as touchscreen and button inputs that need to be output to the Wii U at the same time. So to do this without considerable lag, it will need a decent processor. And if the rumors are true that the Wii U will be able to run certain apps seperate from the console, it will definitely have good processor, as well as some form of internal storage. In short, the Wii U controller isn't going to be cheap.
