2012-10-22, 03:34 AM
byakugan Wrote:I am not talking about connectivity between the games on the 3DS and the games on the console. I'm talking about turning the 3DS into a controller for the Wii U in aside the connectivity between games. Since the 3DS has it's own graphics processing hardware It wouldn't hinder the console, allowing for it to dedicate all its potential into graphics and other stuff. Besides you'd have 3 screens instead of 2, one of them in 3D for whatever developers wanted to use that aspect.
Personallly I find this as a much more practical idea than having to buy 4 gamepads. Sony is already getting into something like this with the PS3 and the Vita, so if Nintendo doesn't stay alert they might beat them to it.
It doesn't matter.
No hardware is ever going to seriously support any interactions between systems like that. It just isn't worth the money to assume people have access to multiple 3ds consoles for use as controllers, especially given the much smaller screen size/resolution compared to the gamepad, the limitation of a single slide pad (Without another add on) and numerous other reasons.
How many games actually used the GBA-GC connectivity? A handful at best, and the only real in game uses were four swords adventures and crystal chronicles. Neither of which did spectacularly. At the most optometrist, we might eventually see a 4 swords down the line, but that is it. Sonys PS3xVita plan is going to tank precisely because you need two consoles for it. The only reason Monster hunter is happening is because CApcoms selling the same game on both consoles, and I don't think they're doing anything bar connecting the two wirelessly.
Heck, for that matter, the Wii and Original DS could connect together in the same way you mention. How many games use it? It's a number very close to 0.
Also: The Wii U can't support 4 gamepads. It's limited to 2 at most, and I'm led to believe that already cuts the FPS in half.