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Soleron on 06 April 2012
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IIIIITHE1IIIII said:
Soleron said:
IIIIITHE1IIIII said:


Well, now try to imagine the lag you'd be having when playing 4 player games. However, the 3DS still isn't capable of streaming to one DS at a time anyway. Even the Wii U controller was having problems streaming early in development despite being dedicated to doing just that.

It's a complex procedure.

DS = 256x192

Wii U = 1920x1080

So it needs 1/42 of the data transmission rate. Much much less than Wii U. I don't know whether it the DS is capable of that but Wi-Fi as a technology certainly IS, especially at short range (I can stream 4 1080p streams from my router to my PC through walls, compressed, though I agree that isn't a great comparison).

There there is the sound and all digital input that has to go through the 3DS. Also, it would be extremely complex to give each system stereo sound based on each character's location throughout the map (stand close to explosion - loud sound, far away - low sound) if you see what I mean. That can be expanded to the fact that the 3DS would have to create different looking screens for each system as it really isn't splitscreen, but "multiscreen". It really is impossible.

Sound is very low bandwidth compared to video. Parallel processing for several "screens" is done all the time in games, it's called surfaces in DirectX and the rendering just needs to be sent to the correct device.

Sure, it is hard, but impossible is really not the right word. The 3DS has the necessary hardware to do it, and "hard" is why one pays software engineers.