HappySqurriel on 04 February 2012
| Jumpin said: Nintendo first patented motion controls in 1989. Development on Wii U began in 2006 - although I would say the idea originated on Dreamcast with the VMU. |
In rough terms, I wouldn't be surprised if the origin for the Wii U tablet controller could be dated back to experiments with the Gameboy and SNES or N64 ...
The reason it has only been released today is that Nintendo (probably) believed they could never sell enough portable systems to design a home console around, and the technology to implement it well as a controller has only become cost effective recently.
