Jumpin said:
I am unaware of this tech being available for 11 years. Can you please list one example of a console where a motion controller interracts with a portable tablet and a television system for a single gameplay experience? |
its been available for much more than 11 years, as the first time that it was used it was used for text because of information limits. it was widely available after the windows xp launch in 2001, 11 years ago. remote desktop is essentially the same thing, that the wiiu, vita/ps3 and apple are using and yes this was avilable to motion controls during windows 98, when tomographic detectors (im pretty sure they also used cameras for motion control on windows 98, but that didnt fail as hard, so i picked tomographic detectors to really drive my point across.) were placed into laptops, which didnt end up catching on. on a side note, many windows 98 laptops were also built with infrared sensors, one of the technologies that the wiimotes use for pointing.
as i clearly stated in my first post, this has not been applied to consoles until now because of information transfer limitations (ill repeat myself for the unattentive though), we're only just getting to a place where a majority of people have a high enough speeds that this would be able to become relevant. the industry tried placing these kinds of things into technology before speeds were at acceptable levels for stability and they lost a lot of money, an example would be tomographic detectors, lots of r&d, as well as manufacturing went into that and it fell pretty hard - right now its still being applied to other things though, your old garage door opener probably uses this technology :)
anyways, if you dont read any of that heres the gist: the core technology hasnt changed much, the limitations surrounding the technology have been collapsing though. at first, the only thing you could do was call on text line commands, then full text, then they went graphical. as the amount of data thats been able to be sent back and forth increases the amount that they can do with this technology increase. because everyone has the same speed limitations, everyone is on equal footing, no one will be able to outpreform another - if wiiu can do it, any platform with similar networking capabilities can, hint: both will be capped at 11n speed (assuming nintendo wont screw us here) so both will have the same networking capabilities