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Re:Google's latest iPhone rival off to a rocky start by NoodleIncident on Monday October 23, 2017 @08:26PM (#15538171)
I saw the other day that no other game consoles use bluetooth headsets. However a recent Switch update enabled USB audio, either through the dock or with an adapter on the port (although for handheld you might as well just use a wire).
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Re:Google's latest iPhone rival off to a rocky start by NovaS1X on Monday October 23, 2017 @09:44PM (#15538576)
I remember reading that the Bluetooth spec has about 300ms of latency. Far too much for games, which is why no current console uses Bluetooth for their headsets.
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Re:Google's latest iPhone rival off to a rocky start by selectodude on Monday October 23, 2017 @10:42PM (#15538812)
The PS3 and PS4 use Bluetooth for their actual game controllers and the PS4 has audio out on the controller.
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Re:Google's latest iPhone rival off to a rocky start by MBCook on Monday October 23, 2017 @08:45PM (#15538268)
No matter how well you don’t Bluetooth has some latency, so until something improves I wouldn’t expect it to show up on game consoles.
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