Nintendo Joins American Heart Association for Mysterious Purpose

[Tom Goldman]

Nintendo Joins American Heart Association for Mysterious Purpose

Nintendo is likely doing something to promote happy and healthy hearts that will be announced this week.

A press conference will be held tomorrow so that Nintendo and the American Heart Association can announce... something. The companies put out a press release [http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20100514005025&newsLang=en] that is somewhat vague, but says that they'll be making a joint announcement tomorrow, May 17. It's not that hard to figure out what will probably happen.

Nintendo has already announced its Wii Vitality Sensor, a device that clips onto the finger and reads a person's pulse, but hasn't really told anyone what it'll be useful for. The American Heart Association has a lot to do with the heart, I gather, so Nintendo may finally reveal what this Vitality Sensor will do.

Nintendo's Reggie Fils-Aime has Calvin Tucker's Redneck Jamboree [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/93093-Nintendo-President-Defends-Wii-Vitality-Sensor].

Via: 1up [http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3179330]



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[Danpascooch]

Couldn't it just be that they are announcing a new set of games aimed toward maintaining a healthy heart (like, cardio games or something)?

Maybe the Wii Vitality sensor is the new health gauge, it keeps track of your heart rate, and every time you get hurt, it injects a bit of poison that lowers your heart rate. You die in the matrix game, you die in real life.

 

[deleted_scifidownbeat]

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[Mr Companion]

There is something slightly creepy about this... or am I the only one who feels that? I mean,I get the feeling that in the near future we will all be required to keep wii health registration booths in our houses in order to asses out daily intake of nutrients so that we might better perform as near mindless workers. Or am I just reading a bit too much "George Orwell" into it?

 

[JediMB]

Maybe the Wii Vitality sensor is the new health gauge, it keeps track of your heart rate, and every time you get hurt, it injects a bit of poison that lowers your heart rate. You die in the matrix game, you die in real life.

That's hardcore gaming!

 

[Vanguard_Ex]

Maybe the Wii Vitality sensor is the new health gauge, it keeps track of your heart rate, and every time you get hurt, it injects a bit of poison that lowers your heart rate. You die in the matrix game, you die in real life.

That's hardcore gaming!

Fuck yeah, I like it. Turns out Nintendo were the most hardcore company all along

 

[johnman]

Wii surgery! Its like Operation but half as fun! Unblock artries by making a scrubbing motion with the wii-mote, and perform a lobotomy by making a drilling motion
Fun for all the family!

 

[therandombear]

Couldn't it just be that they are announcing a new set of games aimed toward maintaining a healthy heart (like, cardio games or something)?

Maybe the Wii Vitality sensor is the new health gauge, it keeps track of your heart rate, and every time you get hurt, it injects a bit of poison that lowers your heart rate. You die in the matrix game, you die in real life.[/quote

Or it could be used for future horror games, send monsters when low beat and the other way around.

Of course, your idea sounds good as well

 

[Jack and Calumon]

When your heart is slow, it plays pounding music and attempts to completely murder you in game.

When it's fast, then shit gets real.

Calumon: O.O I don't like this game.

Jack: Relax Calumon. Nintendo would never make a game that actually poses difficulty.

 

[samsonguy920]

When your heart is slow, it plays pounding music and attempts to completely murder you in game.

When it's fast, then shit gets real.

Calumon: O.O I don't like this game.

Jack: Relax Calumon. Nintendo would never make a game that actually poses difficulty.

I like Jack's idea. Would be quite the tweak for a Wii port for Alan Wake. Or even for a port of Left 4 Dead. You thought the AI Director was reading your mind before...

 

[ZakCanard]

When your heart is slow, it plays pounding music and attempts to completely murder you in game.

When it's fast, then shit gets real.

Calumon: O.O I don't like this game.

Jack: Relax Calumon. Nintendo would never make a game that actually poses difficulty.

Nintendo should have a chat with Valve for ideas. If the sensor could work with something along the lines of Left 4 Dead AI Director, that would be crazy awesome.

What I can see instead is Wii Fit 2010. Not only does it tell you that you're fat, it tells you that you've likely got coronary heart disease.

 

[Moriarty]

This could be great for horror games, remember that one silent hill game promising to change itself based on your behaviour to make it more scary?

If a game could really tell how scared you are, measured by heartbeat... it could really work

 

[CoverYourHead]

Maybe it plays that annoying noise from Legend of Zelda when your running out hearts whenever your heart rate gets below a certain point.

 

[DanDeFool]

It's so they can gather data on how quickly electronic gaming is sapping your life force.

They need that data! How else are they going to optimize their systems enough to be able to resurrect the Demon Emperor by 2012?

 

[William Dickbringer]

It's so they can gather data on how quickly electronic gaming is sapping your life force.

They need that data! How else are they going to optimize their systems enough to be able to resurrect the Demon Emperor by 2012?

wait they're resurrecting the demon emperor I should have known pokemon are simply the emperor's life force to brainwash little kids into buying nintendo products and when this comes out he will soon feed on everyone that owns a wii's life force

 

[Rad Party God]

Back in the N64 era, Nintendo did announced on a Space World (I don't remember wich year) that they were working on a peripherial that could be attached to the N64 controller, a heart beat detecting thingy that had to be connected to your left ear to register your heartbeats (like those cardio things on a gym) and they wanted to use it for... Tetris...

If you were relaxed, the game was going to be slower, but if you did get tense, the game punished your karmic stupidity with more and more blocks falling.

Ahh, Nintendo, you're the only company who knows how to make shitty peripherials that everybody will buy anyways.

 

[TheSkaAssassin]

KINGDOM

FUCKING

HEARTS

3

I know its nintendo and not disney/square enix, but it just feels right. Ya know?

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

The vitality sensor will automatically turn off your console when it sense you are getting excited playing a non-first party Wii game. To ensure that Nintendo games and boring shovelware are the only games people buy.

[HEADING=2]No More Heroes 2 is already $20. ALREADY![/HEADING]

 

[Gildan Bladeborn]

Calvin Tucker's Redneck Jamboree

Is... is that a real thing? I can't tell if that was sarcasm or not!