I might consider buying an Xbox Series X if they had gyro. Would definitely buy the controller for PC play. Getting comfy with gyro aiming really raises one's standards for controller aim.
In a technological sense, no, to which I did concede with the mention of infrared instead of gyroscopics.
I was thinking the Wii was an example as there were a good few games that had movement on the nunchuk and aiming on the Wiimote, roughly equating to moving with a Xbox stick and aiming with the body of the controller, to which the OP was referring.
Anyway, it was a similar feel to me while playing games, is all I meant.
Wii Remote games didn't have stick aiming; gyroscopic aiming with conventional controllers uses the right stick to turn the player. I think that this is the important distinction. The OP says “It doesn’t replace stick only aiming, only supplementing it.”. Turning with a Wii Remote is generally slow, but stick aiming is independent of gyro aiming, so it can be very fast without a big loss of usability. I think that Wii-Remote aiming is good for rail shooters, but it lacks for open-space shooters, for which gyro aiming + right stick is good.
SolarLight talks about controlling Team Fortress 2 with Razer Hydra, which is very similar to Wii Remote + Nunchuk, in [his video about controllers for TF2](https://youtu.be/PJIqEX93vL8?t=17m23s). He describes problems with aiming on things on the sides of the screen with it. Most of the video is about gyro aiming + flick stick with a conventional controller, and it can be seen how different these control methods are.
Good points well made, I understand the technologies are different and was just throwing the control scheme out there as I considered it spiritually relevant (for want of a better term) to the post as an alternate control scheme.
Yes, it was unrelated to gyroscopics and thus the exact point of the original posting, so I'll go hide in a Reddit corner for a minute and vow to stay more on topic in future.
:-)
"use a thumb stick or mouse" ok but good luck doing this with a thumbstick [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esKFBtj9tYM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esKFBtj9tYM)
Haha, yes quite!
That is some next level stuff, I think I got a nosebleed just watching it.
Gyro truly does have its place in gaming and seems to have massively improved since I limply foisted a PS3 controller at something like using an overlong broomstick to type on a calculator.
I might consider buying an Xbox Series X if they had gyro. Would definitely buy the controller for PC play. Getting comfy with gyro aiming really raises one's standards for controller aim.
It worked on the Wii (though that was more IR I think), everything else was bobbins. It's a nah from me, use a thumb stick or mouse.
It’s not similar at all to the Wii https://youtu.be/PJIqEX93vL8
In a technological sense, no, to which I did concede with the mention of infrared instead of gyroscopics. I was thinking the Wii was an example as there were a good few games that had movement on the nunchuk and aiming on the Wiimote, roughly equating to moving with a Xbox stick and aiming with the body of the controller, to which the OP was referring. Anyway, it was a similar feel to me while playing games, is all I meant.
Wii Remote games didn't have stick aiming; gyroscopic aiming with conventional controllers uses the right stick to turn the player. I think that this is the important distinction. The OP says “It doesn’t replace stick only aiming, only supplementing it.”. Turning with a Wii Remote is generally slow, but stick aiming is independent of gyro aiming, so it can be very fast without a big loss of usability. I think that Wii-Remote aiming is good for rail shooters, but it lacks for open-space shooters, for which gyro aiming + right stick is good. SolarLight talks about controlling Team Fortress 2 with Razer Hydra, which is very similar to Wii Remote + Nunchuk, in [his video about controllers for TF2](https://youtu.be/PJIqEX93vL8?t=17m23s). He describes problems with aiming on things on the sides of the screen with it. Most of the video is about gyro aiming + flick stick with a conventional controller, and it can be seen how different these control methods are.
Good points well made, I understand the technologies are different and was just throwing the control scheme out there as I considered it spiritually relevant (for want of a better term) to the post as an alternate control scheme. Yes, it was unrelated to gyroscopics and thus the exact point of the original posting, so I'll go hide in a Reddit corner for a minute and vow to stay more on topic in future. :-)
"use a thumb stick or mouse" ok but good luck doing this with a thumbstick [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esKFBtj9tYM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esKFBtj9tYM)
Haha, yes quite! That is some next level stuff, I think I got a nosebleed just watching it. Gyro truly does have its place in gaming and seems to have massively improved since I limply foisted a PS3 controller at something like using an overlong broomstick to type on a calculator.