Eurogamer has done some interview with the people that made the Wii U Gamepad to work with the PC and they gave pretty good information on how it works, and it turns out that most people's speculations were right with the wireless N part. The really cool thing is that the input itself is registered 180 times a second back to the console, that's not too shabby at all!
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Secrets of the Wii U GamePad
Digital Foundry on how the controller was reverse-engineered - and exactly how it works.
Hackers have emulated the GamePad controller on PC, and they tell us everything we need to know about how the magical video streaming technology works so well.
The Wii U GamePad has been reverse-engineered by the developers behind the Dolphin GameCube/Wii emulator, with the controller's functions completely simulated on PC. When we heard the news on Twitter, we contacted developer Pierre Bourdon to find out more. In hacking the GamePad, we reasoned that the developers would have extensive information on how Nintendo's innovative controller actually works.
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