A patent filed in September 2011 by Nintendo has been unearthed, which reveals some possible unknown features of the Wii U controller…
- Could come with voice recognition software
- Players could give voice commands in-game
- “one or more additional microphones…may be provided on the front and/or back surfaces” of the controller
- Controller’s camera could recognize a face/parts of a person’s face
- This face data could be stored in Wii U’s main memory
- Wii U could be used as a videophone “exchanging images and sound”
- Hints that Skype/Skype-like service was being considered for Wii U; may still be possible
- Peripheral attachment examples: “a game-specific controller (gun-shaped controller, etc.) or an input device such as a keyboard”
- Wii U “might” feature a 3D display
- Wii U controller “might” feature an HD display (controller is sub-HD resolution of 850x or so)
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