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Soundwave on 26 July 2016
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spemanig said:
DanneSandin said:

This is how I interpet the image; The two small controllers are attached to the screen when you take it with you to play games on the go, using it as a portable console. When you get home and put the device in the docking station you remove the small controllers and use them in a similar way as you used the Wii-mote and nunchuk. In effect, you would play games the same way whether or not you play it on the go or at home, attached to your TV.

I don't think it's to scale, I think it's supposed to be the same screen but with the mini controllers attached and detached. The detached screen might be standing in a docking station or something similr to that; maybe you can use it as a TV by removing the controllers in that fashion.

Hopefully this helped you somewhat

No I understand that much, but it doesn't make sense. The screen is literally being wasted if it works as you describe. There's no functional reason why the controller can't have the screen in it when that is literally how you play when it isn't docked. Nintendo already has impressive local streaming tech. If the dock is separate hardware from the portable unit, there's no reason they couldn't stream the graphics wirelessly to the TV through the dock and portable unit talking to each other. There's no functional reason to have detachable controllers like that.

The detachable controllers could be motion wands, they could have some kind of new control input that encourages people to gather around the LCD display and play together. 

Sounds right up Nintendo's ally. Just because it's not what you wanted doesn't mean it doesn't make sense. 

For a lot of people if you described the Wii concept to them in 2004, it wouldn't make sense because no way would Nintendo make a console with a vertical single hand controller with little/no graphical update to the GameCube, no dual analog, etc. etc. etc.