Sony: Why Vita gives us an advantage over Wii U

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Jumpin said:

Chark said:

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1. No, that feature uses the IR and would be hard to replicate unless using the PlayStation Eye to see the Vita and use the Vita's gyro to pinpoint the accuracy of your throws. Either way it makes more sense to use Move and Wii Motes doesn't it? Wii U wins on this front for ease of use but its nothing new.

2. Yes, the Vita could do this since it uses gyroscope to simulate this feature. In fact almost everything the Wii U does in regards to a second screen can be done by the Vita.

Are you sure? From what I understand, the Vita doesn't have a means by which a motion controller can interact simultaniously with it and the television screen. From the Golf demo, it shows that Wii Remotes can track from both the Wii U controller and the televsion; as the Wii U controller does have a means to be tracked (essentially comes with its own sensor bar).

With just gyroscopes you can measure angles, but not absolute position in space, this is true. But is it practical to use any motion control else than tilting it with a tablet-like controller? Swinging it like you would do with a wand controller, like a WiiMote or a PS Move, isn't practical or natural at all and the grip on it isn't strong enough to use it that way safely.