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Wyrdness on 02 January 2012
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Play4Fun said:
drkohler said:
Wyrdness said:
drkohler said:
Wyrdness said:

.. now considering the U controller will have no processer and such and just stream I think he's on the ball here.

That is complete nonsense. Behind closed doors, Nintendo has apparently shown early apps that run on the tablet (a web browser was one of the aps)


The app is being run by the console not the controller the latter is just streaming it, it's been confirmed that the controller will have no processor and just stream and be used for inputs, the controller can't function by itself like a tablet the console is what runs everything.

Nonsense. The web browser app was reportedly running independent of the base unit, on the tablet.  Of course, the tabled is not going to be nowhere as close as an ipad clone or "tablet" clone, but apparently it has enough computational power of its own to run some apps.


The console does the work for the tablet, do you understand that? As long as the console is on or in standby mode, the tablet can be used.

So, a game can be played on the controller screen  independently of  the TV screen but it's still the console that is processing the image, not the controller.

So, yeah you could just browse the web, watch videos or play   games on the controller with the TV off as long as the console is on or in standby.

 The controller is only going to show the images generated and processed by this hardware unit [console] - and sent from the hardware unit wirelessly. That's what Nintendo said.

Exactly the controller doesn't do any work and is not a stand alone tablet so won't have most of the expensive components inside it, the's no cpu or gpu inside it. So if they can make a tablet that costs 60 (which is the speculated price put forward earlier anyway) without government backing in India as someone put it then the controller minus the costly parts should be able to be even more cost effective, lol at the cheaper means less quality comments when a majority of products like clothes and electronics are manufactured for cheap in such countries.