Hiku said:
S.Peelman said:
I explained what they are probably thinking and what they are going for. It was as such back then and it likely is now. That's it. I think my earlier posts were clear enough, so I don't exactly feel like having a debate, and whether or not anyone, including me, likes the specifics of this products is a different story entirely.
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What you said would only make sense if the cable was as long as the original NES cable though. But it's not, and it makes even less sense because the average TV today is much bigger than it was back then, and the average distance between the TV and the viewer has increased. In other words, the 3M NES controller more adequately reached the viewer than it would today.
It may have been your experience that people mostly sat on the floor to play NES, but in my experience this only occured when the NES was outside of the living room, where there was no sofa. Typically in a boys room with an even smaller TV than the one in the living room.
The 3M controller cable plus the length of the video cable hooked up to the TV was more than adequate to reach any sofa I ever encountered. This 1M controller coupled with what I presume will be a 1M HDMI cable is much much shorter than what you experienced in the NES days.
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Sigh. I don't know why this is so difficult to understand for you people. Or the last line of my post for that matter.
That was the point back then and they're replicating it now. Or at least hoping to. Hence short cables. The end. It's totally irrelevant how long those cables were, if anything they made them too long for their proposed purpose back then.
