possible Wii Improvement.

Ive noticed how inaccurite the Wii is. Possibly to the limiting of the use of only one censor. Ive thought about the possible ways to solve the weaknesses of the Wii. and i came up of a possible way to remove the inaccuracy of the wii, rather than haveing only one censor have four, 1 on each side of the TV one on top one on bottom. It allows you to rather than aim at the censor but aim at the TV.

any other thoughts, ideas for solving some of the Wiis problems?

Ummm...I aim at the TV and not at the sensor bar. The Wii is not inaccurate. Make sure you have the sensor bar set to the same position as in the Wii Settings. It also seems that it tends to work better when set to above the TV.

-Shark2k

Ok, I give you that the cursor is slightly lower, but it does not affect the gameplay. But I was mostly referring to the TC saying that you wouldn't need to aim at the sensor bar, which you do not do. You aim at the screen and it works fine. The biggest problem comes from if you have sun light hitting the sensor bar cause it messes it up. Other than that, there is no real problem with the sensor bar, it works just fine.

-Shark2k

The trouble with that is it would potentially increase the Wiimote's operating distance, since the camera in the Wiimote (the REAL sensor... the "sensor bar" is just a set of IR lights) would have to be able to sense all the points.ThePlothole

Yes, I forgot about that. Maybe if they were to widen the range of the IR sensor, it might work. Of course, no changes like this will be made during the Wii's lifespan, but for the next one it migh tbe a good idea.

Or perhaps they could just rewrite the program for the cursor to make it more accurate.

The Wii Remote is supposed tobe able to detect it's distance from the sensor bar by using the distance between the IR lights. Using that, they should at least be able to fix the scaling problem; maybe it will be even more accurate if it asks for the TV size.

@shark2k6No. If you look a the tv and wii remote from an angle, you'll see that the cursor moves in relation to the sensor bar, not the tv. I play with my sensor bar at the top and the cursor is slightly lower than where i'm actually pointing my remote. In addition, the speed of the cursor depends on how close you hold the remote to the sensor bar.

@TC I think that would work, but 4 sensors is a bit excessive. I think we'd only need 2 at the most. one on the bottom and one on the top.tonitrus_acutus

Sure, the pointer on the screen is a little off from where you actually point, but in every game that uses the IR pointer, you move the wiimote in relation to what is happening on screen, not where the wiimote is actually pointing. This makes having the pointer point exactly where you point with the multiple IR sensor bars completely unnecessary. Also, it would be really tough for Nintendo even toput an extra sensor bar in, because allof the wiimotes would need to be configured to work with them.