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swii26 on 21 February 2013
dahuman said:
swii26 said:
dahuman said:
You can use all the controllers on PC if people bother to write drivers for it, getting the Wii U Game Pad to work would take a lot of effort though.


True, but most people don't like that extra work (or don't know how). I use xpapper with some games that don't support a controller but perfer games that already have that option built in. 

 

Would the touch screen on the gampad even function, or would you only use the buttons and joysticks?


You'd need to reverse engineer the Wifi protocols used to get the gamepad screen to function, then you need the CPU to be powerful enough to encode the image and pass it via a Wifi adapter, it would be a major pain in the ass and we need college kids or fresh outta college kids with a lot of time to do that shit.


Definitely too much work for me :)



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swii26 on 21 February 2013
torok said:
Well, it will be the same. Probably compatibility with next-gen Xbox controller. Graphics will improve on PCs following the new next-gen engines. More ports from consoles since the architeture is similar and that is a very good thing.


Hopefully the new controller isn't radically different... haven't heard any rumors about it, just the new kinect



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torok on 22 February 2013
swii26 said:
torok said:
Well, it will be the same. Probably compatibility with next-gen Xbox controller. Graphics will improve on PCs following the new next-gen engines. More ports from consoles since the architeture is similar and that is a very good thing.


Hopefully the new controller isn't radically different... haven't heard any rumors about it, just the new kinect


I think it will be almost identical. Have seen some rumours about minor changes to improve confort.



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