Starchasing
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That is what I was referencing. Was there a patent for the Joy-Cons? I must have missed it.
That is what I was referencing. Was there a patent for the Joy-Cons? I must have missed it.
You do know that Wiimotes had an IR sensor?Why would they put an IR sensor into the Joycons? It would serve zero purpose. An IR blaster like on Wiimotes would add very little to the battery drain.
I want to play like a Wiimote. How would I control Skyward Sword without extra buttons lined up near my thumbs?
Why would they put an IR sensor into the Joycons? It would serve zero purpose. An IR blaster like on Wiimotes would add very little to the battery drain.
Accelerometers are dirt cheap, they could easily throw one into one or both of the Joycons.
We're talking about Nintendo though, a company that has cut features/components from their systems to save literal pennies per device. It would be great if they had full motion support too though.It's 2016, this tech is not expensive.
Actually, if I recall, it could be calibrated without needing the IR, but it would also automatically recalibrate during gameplay as it detected the IR.Skyward sword only needed the IR to initially point at the center of the screen, and after calibrated, only used Wii Motion Plus accelerometer movement for the rest of your play experience.
Let's count. The left joycon acts like a nunchuck, but has a shoulder, a trigger, an analogue stick and 4 buttons. The right joycon has an analogue stick. That seems to be more than enough, no?
That excluding the possibility of clickable sticks and lateral buttons (the speculated L and R for the horizontal joycons).
But I'm not sure this is intended for games like Skyward Sword. I think it's rather intended as a touch screen emulation for TV.
Hopefully this supports the traditional sensor bar if needed and the tablet sensor bar is a makeshift solution if you don't have one or if you're playing on the go.
God, I really hope it doesn't have IR pointing in games. I just want to play Nintendo games with a regular controller and not be bothered with pointers, motion, etc.
Sensor bar is just two ir leds. No one should really worry about that.
More options are a bad thing
We believe the handheld, when docked, will switch on two small IR lights similar to the Wii Sensor Bar at the top of the handheld screen, peeking out above the top of the dock.
It would make more sense if, unlike the Wiimote, the IR camera is built in the tablet and the Joy-Con devices only have a line of IR LEDs. It would have a similar technology to PS Move. Also it's easy to include that IR light on the Joy-Con central unit and the Pro Controller, as in the DS4.
Just in time for Prime 4 - we are about to eat soon.
That would mean no IR pointing though. At least I can't figure out how that would work. It'd be IR positioning coupled with gyro aiming (much like the Move, yes). And 3D positioning is something Nintendo has never had before (except for distance from the sensor bar), so that would be new, and it wouldn't really work like the Wiimote at all.
You've got it wrong, that's exactly how the Wiimote works. The sensor (camera) is in the Wiimote, the "sensor" bar is just a bunch of IR LEDs which the Wiimote tracks. You can replace the sensor bar with a pair of candles (which emit IR light), and it'll work the same.
Ingenious. I knew it had to have something like this... How could it get Just Dance otherwise?
Wasn't motion+ capable of emulating this without a sensor bar? Why go back to IR?
Sensor bar is just two ir leds. No one should really worry about that.
In the early Wii days, there were people who got by with two candles as a wireless sensor bar.
Maybe I'm over/underthinking things but, would Nintendo release these Joycons with Wii-esque motion controls without wrist straps? Seems like they'd just be asking for trouble given how things went after the Wii was released.
I know this thread is mostly about the IR stuff, just a little confused about the bit of motion speculation. The IR bit is neat but I imagine they'd have to find a way around the whole "put your console in front of the center of your tv" thing because I imagine that would be a pain for a majority of users.
At least they'd remember such a concept works better on higher end hardware.Omg Metroid Primewith motion controls!FF2
That means that I can still use motion for Pikmin
YES
Good. That means that FPSs can actually be played properly on the system.
God, I really hope it doesn't have IR pointing in games. I just want to play Nintendo games with a regular controller and not be bothered with pointers, motion, etc.
Sensor bar is just two ir leds. No one should really worry about that.
10 years later and people still can't cope with progress.
Did SS use IR? Wasn't it ALL motion, even the item menu?As I wrote earlier in the thread, I played all of Skyward Sword like that. Seriously.
whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat yesssssssssssssss that'd be the most exciting thing I've read about the hardware so far if true!
I hope it does get used for aiming in some games though. C'mon guys!
Did SS use IR? Wasn't it ALL motion, even the item menu?