Respected tech analysis site Digital Foundry has written an interesting article titled The Secrets of the Wii U GamePad. The Wii U GamePad has been reverse-engineered by the developers behind Dolphin. The team contacted developer Pierre Bourdon to find out more about the innovative device. The conclusion that the team came to is that the Wii U GamePad isn’t anywhere near as complex as the most basic Android powered tablet.
The GamePad itself isn’t anywhere near as complex as even the most basic Android tablet – essentially it’s a standard game controller, with a touch-screen and a WiFi card, paired up with a decoder chip for the incoming video stream. Controller inputs themselves are beamed back to the Wii U via the same WiFi channel (180 times per second no less), in contrast to the Bluetooth employed by the Wiimote.
thats because it is a controller
Here this is for you enjoy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlW7iP9hr7I
I love how you never actually read the ending because they still have the Wii U and they are just asking Nintendo to fix the problem of sales.
Wow, trolls keep getting dumber and dumber each day XD
“trolls keep getting dumber and dumber each day”
And yet you keep feeding them …
Some people just can’t resist.
Even I can’t resist! :P
correct answer.
I know lol… what the hell do these trolls expect? A friggin super computer GAMMA powered gamepad? LOL WTF? All press is good press in the end, even bad press… all this bullsnot is going to bit everyone in the ass soon enough lol.
I guess they think the ps4 controller with its microscopic touchscreen, which is the same tech as the gamepad, is revolutionary? HA! Ok digital trolls.
…lol? Of course it’s not, It wasn’t meant to be. Also you made an error and put “respected” instead of “lame”. Also if you post another ridiculous article like this im going somewhere else for my news, this is absurd, you guys are turning mynintendonews into a troll site instead of a news site.
We didn’t ask for your opinion…
Lol
And again no one undestud that this are actualy good news.
Ok…
This are good news guys! It means that the rendering power can be better used for games.
So, how much did Microsoft pay them?
That statement is incredibly retarded.
Lol.
This is no surprise, the Wii U gamepad isnt a tablet, its a GamePad, it has no GPU and no CPU, all it does is display the screen on the screen it has using the power of the system
Nothing, not even LED displays, cant display an image without some, at least primitive, form of GPU/CPU.
Simple hard-coded datachips. The Wiimote/Pro controller LEDs can blink withou being connected to a console.
No need to argue, just see if iFixit find any GPU chip in the gamepad
Maybe because it’s a controller, and not a FUCKING tablet?
Controller simpler than a tablet. You don’t say?!!
Yeah, next thing they are going to say is the the PS4 controller isn’t as Complex as most Smartphones O0O
they wont do that because that wont equal hits for them, anything with nintendo bashing IS HITS!!!
I really don’t see how this was bashing anything.
trolling is better term
i tell you am surprise with tge stupidity of this people….since the ganepad was show nintendo say…is not a tablet is a cobtroller with a touch screen…it is tied to the console so what the hell they think tgey will found? and tgat is tge reason i know the wii u is not week…this console is movibg two screen one HD up to 1080p the other one is SD in some games two diferent things on the lazy one just a copy of the main screen…but it is week? the ps3 can do this with the vita that it have cpu and gpu but not if sony realese a copy cobtroler like the gamepad with noooo gpu…cpu.and ram
Revise and edit. Ever heard this concept? Your post is hard to
read man.
i know but am not using a pc is my galaxy player 4.0 wich is a pain to write when you have big fingers
well duh they KNOW that because they can use that for high train their own site. Be real here they believe if they keep doing this will convince people that is true just like ReviewTechUSA. If you think digital foundry is stupid think again they know shit like this gets them views.
it also feels akward in my hand like it was designed for kids to hold and my hand arent that big
really? I am quite big (about 6’3) so accordingly, I have quite large hands, and I think that the controller I amazing. it feels perfected. like they took at lot of time to make the controller as comfortable as possible
Dude the Game Pad is the most comfortable controller I have ever held. Made for kids? Its the biggest controller ever made except maybe the original xbox controller, how could you possibly say it was made for kids to hold?
I also heard my TV is less complex then my computer. Ohh wait. They’re completely different pieces of technology.
I have reason to believe my desk is less complex than the hadron collider.
This will be the best thing I hear all day.
Lol, I had to google that. And I was genuinly impressed. You have successfully won Da’ Intahnet.
Funny. I thought the first set of comments were gonna be U bashing, but it’s the opposite.
Of course it’d be less complex than the basic android, there’s no cpu or gpu in it. No communication system in it. It’s meant to work as a controller with touch, gyrometer, and accelerometer, not an actual tablet. -sigh-
The ignorant crap that this site reports is getting old. Just like you said. It’s just a controller for the console. There shouldn’t e a bunch of processors on a videogame controller. The gamepad is the most feature packed video game controller the world has ever known.
Why does this site CONSTANTLY post every bullshit criticism that every idiot has for the WiiU. It’s funny the Internet works better on the gamepad than my iPad. I can type a sentence on it without typos and error and don’t forget all the processing is in the console. Come on Mynintendonews!!!!!!!! Stop posting this idiotic shit. It’s getting F’ing old.
well for every site if they dont get hits they will go out of business, why do you think my nintendo news use to have my playstation news.
The *original* article was not criticizing the Wii U in any way at all. It was presenting a fairly factual analysis of how the Wii U gamepad works.
People are too sensitive. Sheesh.
People forget that for the 3DS and Wiiu , Nintendo DELIBERATELY chose Resistive touch screen so you can draw.
Multi touch is completely 100% useless in Gaming especially if you have a full set of buttons. Miiverse without the Drawing would not be half as good.
Nintendo would probably choose Resistive again next gen as Multi touch is litteraly a useless gimmik , unless it’s on a buttonless smarthphone where it becomes essential.
The Gamepad is simple but the latency free streaming is top of the range and unrivaled.
Thank god it single touch. The amount of input errors I deal with when doing even the most basic functions n my iPad make me wanna throw in the river.
Well that’s usual busiensss with iCrap….
@Topic
Using a screen like the drawing tabkets or those huge Samsung phones would have made everything better. More precisesly than the Wii U Gamepad, finger and pen input, (SGS-note2) = 1024 measurable “pressure-strengths”, it would live longer.
I love multitouch! :D
Never had a single issue with my iPad.
well you should as its apple.
Resistive screens are NOT better than the capacitive screens. Iwata lied to don’t believe a guy who doesn’t know the difference between CPU and FPU.
in matter of fact he know more programming of gaming than you do. So I would assume he knows the CPU and FPU.
He’s been working in gaming since the 8 bit era. I’d hope he knows more about programming than most other people.
No, resistive screens are better than capacitive screens because it is more precise (stylus gives precise points on the screen), the resistive screen can be old tech, but on the Wii U Gamepad is perfect as it is. Yes, it is more cool the zoom in/out features of the multitouch, but I preffer precise points on real games. And no, your second statement is just trolling, try harder next time.
how is he trolling when iwata know the wii u spects. oh just because he does not say the spects on public does not mean he knows.
“Multi touch is litteraly a useless gimmik”
…… wow
“Multi touch is litteraly a useless gimmik , unless it’s on a buttonless smarthphone where it becomes essential.”
Come on now. Don’t be transparently selective taking quotes out of context.
He acknowledges on buttonless devices, multitouch is needed.
On the Wii U gamepad, which is covered in buttons, I don’t think multitouch would help all that much. Would be nice to have pinch to zoom for web browsing and stuff. But in games, its not really much use.
On phones and tablets, multitouch only emulates analog stocks, dpads and buttons. On a controller than already has all of those, a single resistive touch is ok.
Not great by any means, but I think we can all understand why they chose it. The added functionality of multitouch would justify the extra cost on a gaming device.
sticks* even.
and that* not than*.
and “would not”*
Fuck, I Really can’t type today it seems.
” in Gaming” where has multitouch been essential for a game other than what he has listed? I don’t 100% agree with him but he has a point
making fun of nintendo is funny but it got old a long time ago. wii u to android this is getting dull and this its cool to talk shit about nintendo every chance we can is getting old.
If people wanna make fun of something they should turn their sights on that shiny turd the Vita. Here you have a machine that blows the 3ds out of the water spec wise and is a complete failure. Why single out Nintendo all the time?
exactly, i talk a lot of shit about nintendo sometimes but thats for normal reasons in the last 3 years. people who try to stand up for the vita are stupid sheep and its just a huge mountain of shit that flys like to keep shitting on. like wii u to vita, the wii u sucks, all right but in the near future it demolishes that thing!!!!! just people need to stop being such kiss asses to there beloved company.
Eh, I like the Vita, I can’t seem to stop playing Persona and Soul Sacrifice.
so i heard that the psvita waas going to be bundled with the ps4. told you so!!! unless there lying to me im to lazy to look up if there right though
There has been no official talks about PS4 bundles; Just rumors.
You seem really upset, I think you need a hug.
I’m just gonna go play my shitty Wii u. That should calm me down. This is getting old though. I have owned almost every console since my parents bought an intellivision and SEGA master system never have I seen gamers act this idiotic. People are losing their damn minds. If you think the Wiiu sucks fine, but the need to make strangers feel bad about something they enjoy is sick and twisted and is a sign that humanity is veering further and further off course with each generation born. Jeez…..
yepn now thank you im going to jump off a cliff now
“Since my parents bought a intellivision” Im sry but i think they still buy your consoles. How did i come to the conclusión you said? Your stupid kiddy comment.
I thought that they were complimenting the Wii U Game Pad when they said it’s not as complicating as the most basic android tablet (because complicating is bad)? I seem to be the only one that took it that way.
Yeah, there’s pretty much nothing negative said in the article. Some people seem to get easily agitated over a few simple statements if the words are not, “PRAISE BE TO OUR SAVIOR, NINTENDO!”
Gosh damn it Simply G! YOU SHOULD BE PRAISING TO OUR SAVIOR! NINTENDO IS OUR SAVIOR! :P
and where’s the news?
we already knew it was pretty much just a controller with a screen + a high end wifi connection and some very basic processing capabilities
It’s not “high-end” it’s just operating at 5GHz.
which is currently high end, since it’s by no means standard and was specifically developed by broadcom and nintendo to suit the needs of the console
additionally it has close to 0 latency
most cheap wireless devices introduce quite a bit of latency
so yeah
high end
It’s a controller. *facepalm* It’s still gonna have better games than any app shit.
Walking Dead?
Is that a app?
It’s on iOS yeah.
Well fucking duh. there’s no processing in the controller, the processing is done by the console and then streamed
And the big surprise is? Nobody believed the 170$ cost thing, with said things it’s maybe 50$.
Are you stupid or just acting? I wich way this said that the price should be lower or that is cheap technology?
I didn’t buy it to be a tablet I bought it to play games and it does that very well. We knew this from the get-go with the Wii U, Nintendo said that the controller wouldn’t have any processors, so why does digital foundry feel the need to restate this?
actually it does have a processor but it’s almost not worth mentioning it because it’s so basic
somebody give this fucking retard a clue cause he apparently has forgotten that the gamepad is a controller and not a tablet.
Wait… a gamepad designed to be used as a controller for a console is not as complex as a Tablet that was built for multiple uses?… HOLY SHIT!!
Tose guys r smarts
They had to reverse engineer to figure that out? They must get bored easily.
“The Wii U GamePad has been reverse-engineered by the developers behind Dolphin.” Dolphin is a Gamecube/Wii emulator for PC. They probably reverse-engineered it to find a way to connect it to the PC, and/or they might be trying to emulate the Wii U.
No one ever thought it was as complex as a smart phone or tablet. It’s a controller with a big touchscreen. That’s all it has to be, that’s all it we want it to be.
A lot of people still believe that it’s a tablet addition to the Wii, so……
The Wii U gamepad will defenitely feel really out-dated in a year, in fact, it already does. The image quality on that thing (from 3rd parties, Nintendo games have better image) reminds me of any digital camera display from 2000.
Nintendo have good intentions and theories with Wii U, but they don’t do a good job. This is a fact and I’m not hating on them, just wondering why they would do the concept of Wii U in such a half-arsed manner. I love Nintendo, but if you would list all their consoles from best to worst, Wii U would be the worst (no counting VR, because it wouldn’t even make it on the list). I mean, come on, Wii U doesn’t beat NES, SNES, N64, GB, GBC, GBA, DS, 3DS or Wii, not even close!
I bought the Wii U because of games. I am sure Super Smash, the new Zelda, 3D Mario and Metroid will deliver, but 3rd parties will not deliver at all. NFSMWU, MH3 and LEGO City are three disastrous games. Partly because they all feel half-arsed (NFS->Poor FPS, repetitive races MH3->Shitty game-feel LEGO->POOR loading times, inconsistent performance (is low framerate supposed to be next-gen?!), etc) and partly because modern game design theory sucks so hard compared to 10 years ago.
This is my OPINIONS (SPELLING IT OUT FOR YOU, AS THIS IS AN IMMATURE PART OF THE INTERNET WHERE PEOPLE DON’T UNDERSTAND THIS)!!!
Earlier on, at Wii U release, I did not have these thoughts, I was biased. Now after a while, when the hype has died, I’ve realised the above. Now this is the most awful site on the planet to get your opinions and views respected by others in a mature way after youtube, but please, be reasonable and if you intend to reply on this as a butthurt Nintendo kid, then please reconsider. Thank you.
Well maybe if you played the right 3rd party games. Need for Speed with the gamepad tilt is the greatest game I have ever played in my life. I have already put in over 50 hours. It has changed gaming for me forever.
Ninja Gaiden is quite spectacular as well. (though somewhat put out by nintendo.)
I no longer want to game anymore if I can’t talk to everyone else who is playing the game, or create and find new artwork based on the game that is breathtaking.
I really enjoyed NFS on the PC, but still there it had performance issues (40FPS max). I thought that the game would be amazing on my Wii U which is A) next-gen, it must run the game better than the PC, as the game can be optimized for the specific hardware, B) the awesome wheel feature with the gamepad and C) Free DLC and extra features with the gamepad.
Too bad the game runs horrible. Worse than on PC. These issues really ruin the feeling for me, I mean, come on, it’s a fast paced racer, it shouldn’t constantly strutter like it does. Anyways, it was 50% off when I got it, so I guess those 30$ are barely worth the 15 hours of gameplay.
Your opinion differs a lot from mine. Although I agree the loading times in Lego City is way too long.
Android tablets have 2 gigs of Vram? Crazy!
holy, mother of god.. so they are telling me, the gamepad controller, is actually a CONTROLER!!!
WOW!!!
Why comparing two different pieces of technology? come on Digital Foundry, get real.
No shit Sherlock.
Excalibur: “Fools! Comparing a controller to a tablet is like saying that a tomato isn’t a fruit.”
Tomato is a fruit! :P On the serious note, some people say it is a fruit due to similarity of fruit elements. Other such as cookers, chefs, grocery store, etc will say it is a vegetable due to good combination with vegetable when its come to cooking. So it is going be never end debates.
Duh
Just a controller? I think that female port at the bottom might beg to differ. We’ll see what happens.
Okay?
I swear, Digital Foundry is just useless.
Does the streaming to the gamepad work, with next to no latency? Yes.
Thats it, that’s all you need to know.
I also hate parts of that article are basically just talking about the negative effects hackers and modders would face, and how the PowerPC is “meh” for emulation.
That’s probably because you’re not supposed to fucking do it in the first place.
Well, I suppose that statement was included since the information in the article is mostly from hackers.
Well if a hackers say that my console is not good for hacking i would take that has a complement.
Well, unless you emulate, PC gaming leaves you in a very limited ground.
And the news is…..???
I mean, we already know that it’s just a controller… No need to “reverse” it to know that
Well after that level of ignorance, I can never trust Digital Foundry again.
Because the GamePad is not a tablet, when are they going to understand it? It is a controller that incorporates the most popular peripheral Nintendo has produced in the last decade, the Touch Screen, it’s value as a device doesn’t derive from the touch capabilities or the apps, it derives from having A SECONDARY SCREEN.
Someone finally got that the wii u gamepad is not a tablet!! LOL
Did they seriously have to reverse engineer the gamepad just to figure this out?
The Gamepad is a fucking controller…no processor is in it like a pathetic tablet. The Wii U Gamepad isn’t a tablet.
I would be surprised if it were suppose to be an Android tablet, but seeing as it IS a controller. I am not. 💋
Of course it isn’t, everyone already knew that.
Well I would hope not because an Android tablet is a lot of money for it not to be more complex than the Wii U Gamepad. It should because it was designed for so much more than to be just a controller.
Well..
It’s a tablet-shaped controller; not a tablet.
I really don’t see the surprise here…or why some think this is a trolling article.
Yes, so…. what’s the problem with that?
Have Nintendo said that it is anything else?