Wireless Controllers for Tournaments (Will work?)

[nuro]

Does anyone know the answer to this? If there is a tournament for SSBB or SSBM where people bring wavebirds, classic controllers, etc does interference between the controllers happen?

Reason for this question is because the new Nintendo console does not have any controller ports that I'm aware of. I'm pretty sure that means we have to use wireless controllers for tournaments now. It's not that big a deal UNLESS there is some type of silly interference between them if you're syncing them or what have you.

I'm guessing that if two people want to sync two different controllers to two different Wii's that the controllers will get confused and not know which Wii they are trying to sync to.

On a side note, what is the lag that wireless controllers have? I've heard both sides of the lag argument on these. I'm pretty sure that wireless controllers have 1-5 ms lag which is near instant but I'm not sure. Can someone clarify?

 

[Supreme Dirt]

Bluetooth devices will not cause interference between each other unless there are on average 5 or more devices in close proximity, by close proximity I mean the average tournament venue size.

afaik the Wii U controller will not be using bluetooth, however the Wiimote DOES.

There is no lag with a wireless controller unless there is a decent amount of interference, or you're really ****ing far away from the Wii.

I've had it happen at a tournament before where interference was screwing with me, as there's one Wiimote user in my scene (who's PR too, go figure), a couple classic controller users and then you have the wiimotes some people use to turn on their Wiis. Lots of inputs kept being dropped, big part of why I switched to GCC.

tl;dr: Yes, there WILL be interference issues. Input lag has no impact on gameplay from the wireless controller unless you're purposefully trying to increase it.

 

[nuro]

tl;dr: Yes, there WILL be interference issues. Input lag has no impact on gameplay from the wireless controller unless you're purposefully trying to increase it.

End of the competitive smash scene answered in this thread?

 

[Supreme Dirt]

lolno

iirc it has usb ports.

There'll likely be converters for GCCs.

 

[-Ran]

End of the competitive smash scene answered in this thread?

Not really. You can easily make isolation boxes for the bluetooth signal out of foil. Leave only a cut out in the front of the unit, and you'll drastically reduce the signal saturation levels at an event.

 

[silentSWAG]

i started out useing a wave bird. not that big of a difference

 

[-Ran]

Wavebirds are infrared.

 

[popsofctown]

Not really. You can easily make isolation boxes for the bluetooth signal out of foil. Leave only a cut out in the front of the unit, and you'll drastically reduce the signal saturation levels at an event.

I've tested this. It works. Yeah, it's kinda silly :/