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famousringo on 02 May 2011
RolStoppable said:
famousringo said:

I get how Cafe will be valuable as a game server that streams games to your handheld thin client. Mario Kart with no need to split the screen, fantastic.

Elaborate a little bit on this. What would the TV screen be good for in this example?


The cool kid (P1) could play off the big screen.

Or it could be used to display race stats and action cams. Only the content for all players, rather than the all the content meant for each player.

The daring idea is that it could not be used at all. Who says a home console needs to be hooked up to a TV? It just needs an output to give feedback to the gamer, and apparently every controller will be able to serve that function.

@play4fun

You're right. I'm running with some unconfirmed rumours. But if the Cafe controller isn't meant to serve as a thin client for game content, then I can scarcely see any point in the idea. Perhaps Nintendo knows better.



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TripleMMM on 02 May 2011

Crazy-off the wall thing Nintendo would do, Now I'm even more skeptical than the Wii-mote was first announced. I gotta see this to believe!



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JEMC on 02 May 2011
LordTheNightKnight said:
JEMC said:
LordTheNightKnight said:
JEMC said:
LordTheNightKnight said:
JEMC said:

I feel relieved by this news. I find touchscreens too imprecise to replace analog sticks and having all the buttons fitted into such small space (a 6" screen seems small even to fit the buttons that the wiimote and nunchuk have).

Now that one enigma is resolved, there are still a lot of them: what will the screen be used for? Which res? The images will be processed by the console or the controller itself?

E3 can't come soon enough.


How about will there be a screen at all?

All the rumors suggest that there will be one, so like it or not, it seems that there will be one.

Personally I still don't have an opinion. When Nintendo explains how and what it'll be used for, then I'll decide if I like it or not.


It's not about "like"; it's about cost. Just because it "seems" like a thing to do doesn't mean it's actually likely, unless the economics somehow allows Nintendo to do it affordably.

I agree with that, but some rumors suggest the console will process the image and the controller will only show them, without any extra hardware, thus lowering the cost.

After all, no one will buy contollers that expensive, look what's happenig with Sony's motion controller.


I actually was thinking of the screen alone. Monitors still need mechanisms to take in the visual data and process it onto the screen. Plus the controller would need a lot more information flowing to it, which means either risking lag if it's wireless, or a more expensive cord if it's not. And the screen itself wouldn't be cheap.

Very true.

I think we can agree that there are too many we ignore: resolution (SD or HD), display type (oled or led-lcd), what it will be used for (we just know that there will be buttons, but that doesn't say much) or, as you pointed, how the info will be transferred to the controler (cable would be a step backwards in my opinion, but is bluetooth capable of that?), etc. 

Let's just hope that all these enigmas get answered in June.



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