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JamIt:

--- Quote from: severdhed on May 09, 2009, 02:04:17 pm ---the biggest problem with the wii, is that the sensor bar is too small to allow for accurate calibration on a big screen. I use mine on a 102" screen, but i need to stand between 12 and 15 ft back in order to accurately calibrate the guns...which required modifying the wii sensor bar to increase it's functional distance.

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Hey Severdhed, after calibration, do you still have to stand 12-15ft back to play?
Thanks,
JamIT

severdhed:
yeah...you have to stand pretty much wherever you calibrated it from for it to be accurate. the only reason i have to stand back that far is because my screen is so big....if your screen is smaller, you should not need to be back nearly as far

DJ_Izumi:
I gotta be honest, as I've seen you mention a 102" screen multiple times. I think you have no room to complain because you have a display that's 7+ feet and it's just VASTLY beyond the dimensions at which any home console hardware or software developer would ever considder.

It's like complaining that the garage on a house isn't built for a semi tractor. They just arn't building things for that size and can't be expected to.

severdhed:
i'm not complaining...i understand that i have an unusually large screen, and i don't expect nintendo to support that out of the box. the problem is though, my friend has a 67" DLP Tv, and he has similar problems. you cannot calibrate the wiimote accurately unless you move back pretty far, at which point the IR Tracking only works intermittently. With big HDTVs being pretty popular right now, you would think that nintendo would have made the sensor bar longer in order to accommodate large TVs. not everyone is playing video games on a 13" TV

Shoegazer:
Actually, that's not unusually large at all. I have a 90" screen and was considering putting in 100". Several of my friends have screens that large or larger as well.

Also, displays keep getting larger over time. More houses today are being built with "media rooms" (traditionally the domain of only the most expensive mansions, now it's pretty commonplace). This is especially the case given the proliferation of front projection units, where you can produce an image as large as you want provided you have the wallspace for it. Console and hardware developers today MUST consider this as a factor - not doing so would be ignoring a growing chunk of the hardcore gaming community.

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