Eight people? With the four LEDs on the remote one would think that four is the limit. If the Wii can handle eight separate controllers, then that is really cool. Hopefully this is true, and they aren't just having one person hold the remote and another hold the nunchuck/classic.

Can the Xbox 360 or PS3 handle more than four players?

Infernal says that the last game was 8-players, and you did, in fact, have to share controllers...

So, I assume 4 players would use Wii Remotes and 4 would use the Nunchuk.

Quote

---

Originally posted by: nintendogamecube86
So, I assume 4 players would use Wii Remotes and 4 would use the Nunchuk.

---

Considering that the Nunchuk has a control stick and two buttons, I'm inclined to agree. But there was some interview sometime (you know, back then) that said there isn't a limit of four.

Not a limit of four?

Hmm, I swore I heard 4 controllers via bluetooth was the limit...

The PS3 uses Bluetooth for its controllers, and supports up to 7 controllers per system.

Well I can obviously cite my sources, so believe me instead of yourself.

If not four, what IS the bluetooth limit?

According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth), the limit is 7. Up to 8 devices can share a Bluetooth network, 1 master (the system) and 7 slaves (the controllers).

But Nintendo said very early on, I believe, that the Wii would only support up to four controllers.

~Carmine M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

I think it depends on the strength of the bluetooth transmitter included in the Wii

Did Nintendo likely spring for the best available? Doubtful, but I won't pretend I know much about bluetooth.

Besides, 8 is easy due to the GC controller ports and I'm not convinced you're even going to see many 8 player games that share one screen.

11 player games? Don't think so...

Maybe they ment online, cause I thought i remembered someone saying Wii-motes and GCN controllers can't be used at the same time. I could be wrong though.

I don't see that press release saying single-system so yes it's most likely over network or internet.

Quote

---

Originally posted by: Smash_Brother
I think it depends on the strength of the bluetooth transmitter included in the Wii

Did Nintendo likely spring for the best available? Doubtful, but I won't pretend I know much about bluetooth.

---

I want to know more about this...

I'm dire curious to know if the game will use all 8 potential controllers or be wifi or something.

Can you even see anything if you have 8 playing fields on your screen?

Hahahahah 7 players

Will 480p, you can actually do 8 on the screen at once, but it could be all shared. It might even be Tetris style where they just make it really tiny. Heck, DDR is 4 players now at least on XBox it is. Bluetooth does support up to 7 devices, but then, you can use both GCN and Wiimotes at the same time. You can even use the Wii Classic and the Wiimote at the same time. How do I know all this? Mess around with some Virtual Console games, and you'll find out that now Zelda can be co-op: one person on the B and A and the other on the D-pad on two different controllers. It could lead to more fun the you originally intended. Too add to that, even TP can be done co-op if you split the Wiimote and Nunchuck between 2 people. It's really fun that way even.

Back on the subject though, they could use the Nunchuck and the Wiimote because both feature the tilt functionality. I'd stick with that one because it says it uses the innvation of the Wiimote in some way meaning GCN controllers will not be used unless they designed it like a Mario Kart: DD style where one person is doing something and the other something else like a backup of sorts. This actually makes me wanna see another G&W Gallery game, but on Wii.

: I just realized something, Nintendo can always release a Bluetooth adapter that works via USB to add the ability to have more players at once right?

For any of you that don't know this, the Sega Saturn could support up to 12 players at once and Saturn Bomberman (USA) supported 10 players at once and it would switch into widescreen to do so, but you'd lose certain items. To preserve gameplay, you'd only use one multitap, and you could then use 7 players at once. Lemme tell you, the more players, the better. Think of Mario Party w/ 6 to 8 players. 8 might be too many, but 5 or 6 would really add a lot to it, you can do so much more with that number. Mario Strikers (3 on 3) could actually have 6 people playing at once which is more fun then just having 4. It's especially better to add more players these days when TVs are becoming so large. I've had my 50" big screen for 10+ years now and while it's not HD, that doesn't mean you can't play 8 player games just fine on it (which I have done).