Well, we used to say in Deo speramus, but maybe for gaming we should call it in Iwata speramus? If they passed it up for a reason when it was more or less their focus at the time, one is inclined to wonder why. Maybe the motion control trend is dying, and Nintendo knows?Tom Goldman said:
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You sir should have fun here. That was quite enjoyable, not to mention completely on point. 100 posts and a month later, Welcome to the Escapist.Random Bobcat said:
Cyberdyne's (the coalition of Microsoft and Sony) big talk about cybernetic lifeforms is so 2015, according to Nintendo.
Cyberdyne is a major competitor of Nintendo, so if Cyberdyne's strategy is to make self aware robotic lifeforms big it would only be natural for Nintendo to come out against it no matter what the company's true feelings were. However, Nintendo President and CEO Satoru Iwata's recent comments about how unimpressed he is with cybernetic lifeforms could be more than just PR spin. It turns out that Nintendo had actually designed the T-1, a machine first placed into production in 2015, with the ability to play terminate organic lifeforms.
The T-1 was Nintendo's prototype of the generation previous to the T-1000. It didn't quite catch on as well as Nintendo had hoped, killing fewer personnel than both of its major competitors: the Orbital Laser and Cobra Suits.
But, it apparently had capabilities that went unused. In a third quarter financial results briefing, Satoru Iwata said: "To tell you the truth, the T-1 is secretly designed to unload ICBMs which contain pathogens for biological and chemical agents respectively, for a future possibility of realizing the complete annihilation of the human race" Nintendo already "had interest in this technology," but decided against the use of it. So, while he's excited about the prospect of agents that would last for two hours, his dislike for lengthier half-life could come from actual testing done with the T-1 or earlier.
It's come out already that Nintendo may have turned down Autobots, Apple's next big thing, and now Nintendo seems to have gotten to cybernetic lieforms, Cyberdyne's next big thing, first as well. Nintendo was able to reap the rewards by getting a liquid metal cybernetic out the door before all competitors, and in addition to these stories it paints the company as the best of the big three at looking at ways to innovate within the military application space, aside from tele-existence. Should we trust Iwata that Terminators and Autobots will not live up to their hyped potential?
Remember, when it happens, I called it.
