So you're telling me a sega saturn controller in 1997 could turn the TV on and change channels plus change the inputs, but it's 2023 and no video game console controller can do that?
Technology has not moved forward, only sideways.
EDIT: https://cohost.org/plumpan/post/2538758-a-collection-of-responses
Also please do me a favor and drop a like on this feature request that would allow me to completely silence notifications on this, without deleting the whole post. TBH I stopped caring about this a couple of days ago and I want my doots to be about sega rally or Dovi's ass and not someone saying Wii U again.
Many pointed out that the Wii U could do this. It is truly, a console we did not deserve. I did not own one (as I did not deserve it) so I learned about that today.
Some also pointed out that there is provision for devices to talk to eachother via HDMI to do this, and it's riddled with various gotchas as one might expect. If this all just worked I imagine we'd all know about it.
To all of those wondering why they never knew: You needed the IR controller to do it. The US model probably also did this, but did not have the controls marked on the face like this. I haven't looked up the manuals, the magic words are HSS-0116 and HSS-0126 if you're curious.
