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Re:Oculus Rift by pyrocat on Thursday June 11, 2015 @05:29PM (#9702575)
Really? I certainly liked the N64 and Gamecube controllers, but they're not exactly ideal designs for a "universal controller". The wiimote had kind of crappy motion controls and was borderline useless for anything that didn't involve motion. The Wii U uses upgraded wiimotes that suffer the same problem, and the gamepad is more like a giant gameboy than a controller. Plus we can't use any of those controllers on a PC without additional adapters or significant hardware hacks. The Xbox 360 (and to a similar degree Xbox One) controller is designed to be universal, and if you look at what people are using for PC gaming it's pretty much just those two.
Re:Oculus Rift by morsch on Thursday June 11, 2015 @06:11PM (#9702784)
The Wiimote is just a bluetooth device, there's no hardware hack or adapter necessary to connect it to a PC, you just need a driver. Not that I ever used it outside of an emulator.
Re:Oculus Rift by Bahamut on Thursday June 11, 2015 @06:58PM (#9702999)
Wii U Pro Controller sure beats what we have with the PS4 and XBox one controllers.