With the recent announcement of Nintendo’s Wii U, it has come to light that it can only support one touch-screen controller per console, but if a game requires a second controller, a Nintendo 3DS can theoretically be used instead.
Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto confirmed the news at the recently-held E3 conference in Los Angeles. “Our basic premise is that you can use one [Wii U controller] with a system. If we got to an idea of having multiple controllers it might just be more convenient for people to use their Nintendo 3DS and have a way to connect that,” he told News.com.au.
As to whether the Wii U will actually be capable of handling the streaming of images to two controllers, Nintendo is still researching the possibilities. “We are doing research about if someone brings their controller to their friend’s house and they want to play together on Wii U to whether or not something like that would be possible,” Miyamoto added.
And in the console race, the Wii is also the only console which doesn’t have HD graphics, but Miyamoto hopes that the Wii U will change that. “The question of whether or not to use HD was something that we debated back when we were developing the original Wii and for a variety of reasons including cost of the system and also power consumption on a system we hoped people would have turned on all the time, we opted not to go with HD graphics at that point”.
“Since then HD TVs have become much more common in a lot of people’s homes so it was a natural decision for us to use the HD option. Up until now people have looked at Wii in comparison to some of the other systems and thought that from a graphical perspective it looked a little bit weaker. Now with Wii U being an HD system that’s going to go away,” he ended.
