I think it actually came down to battery life requirements. It was easier to just make a plug-in controller than it was to require the user to change the battery packs or charge between sessions. The very first wireless controllers also operated on different frequencies as well and there might have been issues with getting the chipset necessary for a custom controller. This is less likely because the body of the controller had more than enough room for several additional chipsets (here’s looking at you audio cues) but I wasn’t an engineer working on the hardware then so this is… Read more »
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Stingy with magic is, of course, another reference.
Well, if anything, that would make the most sense.
Maybe the reason the guitar controllers are wired is because it simulates plugging an instrument into an amp?
I think it actually came down to battery life requirements. It was easier to just make a plug-in controller than it was to require the user to change the battery packs or charge between sessions. The very first wireless controllers also operated on different frequencies as well and there might have been issues with getting the chipset necessary for a custom controller. This is less likely because the body of the controller had more than enough room for several additional chipsets (here’s looking at you audio cues) but I wasn’t an engineer working on the hardware then so this is… Read more »