Nintendo President Defends Wii Vitality Sensor

[Diablini]

This could work well with an FPS, if you get jumped on by suprise the vitallity sensor transmits it to the game and you get a bullet time or bloom effects or whatever.

 

[Knonsense]

It's not actually that new or unusual. In Tetris 64, there was a mode called "Bio Tetris" where the game speed followed the player's heart rate. It was a Japanese exclusive, however.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_64

 

[Knonsense]

This could work well with an FPS, if you get jumped on by suprise the vitallity sensor transmits it to the game and you get a bullet time or bloom effects or whatever.

Well, judging by the picture, the sensor is exclusive of the nun chuck, which would be bad for non rail based FPSes.

 

[pantsoffdanceoff]

Ben Kuchera of Ars Technica puts it well enough:

"You know, I'm done being angry at or skeptical of Nintendo. Every time I think they're doing something stupid they sell five hojillion copies of their newest concept. So sadly, I believe him."

That's kind of what I was thinking. If I can give the Wii credit for anything, it would ingenuity.

 

[toasterslayer]

I'll wait to pass judgement.

 

[Arkhangelsk]

They're making any kind of weird add-on, cause they know that they will get money from the 8-year olds that own a Wii. They have the potential to do great games with this gear, they just haven't got there yet.

 

[tk1989]

What the heck is that thing? We now have games that check our pulse?

Is this a joke? Someone tell me this is a joke.

What's next? An attachment that pricks your finger and checks your blood sugar? Maybe give a blood cell count?

http://www.slipperybrick.com/2009/07/nintendo-ds-glucose-reader-for-kids-with-diabetes/
In case you were genuinely had no idea

Damn, beaten to it

 

[Lexodus]

The crazy guy with the scary eyes does have a point...

 

[SirSchmoopy]

Is my FINGER the only thing I can put in it?

Good call Reggie, I'm liking the sounds of this thing when I use my IMGANINATION (wink) too.

 

[Raykuza]

Nintendo is already a big and powerful corporation that has made millions upon millions of dollars selling video games; and now they think they can pass off medical equipment as a peripheral??? Fat chance!

That's like if they released an add-on called the Wii Pregnancy Test; NO ONE WILL BUY IT! (besides the incredibly old and the incredibly stupid.)

[small]....................well, maybe not the incredibly old....................[/small]

Wii pregnancy test... oh god, I hope no one that works at Nintendo sees this. They might get ideas.

 

[Pendragon9]

Nintendo: Scamming gamers across the globe since 06.

 

[JWAN]

looks like a way I could test my blood pressure so I can get used to controlling it during rifle matches

1000 meters is a ***** if you cant control your heart rate

 

[whaleswiththumbs]

What the heck is that thing? We now have games that check our pulse?

Is this a joke? Someone tell me this is a joke.

What's next? An attachment that pricks your finger and checks your blood sugar? Maybe give a blood cell count?

Coming soon to a game store near you! Wii Doctor, all the fun of looking at test results, but none of the fun of giving someone the diagnosis that they have Aids.(No offense to people with Aids, but i saw a video earlier of people getting the news, cheered me up.)

That thing won't work on my, the doctors had to go back to a watch and their finger on my wrist to get my pulse, it's in my file apparently.

I can see a use of it, the Wii Fitness stuff, that way they know for sure if your running or just kindof moving the Wii-mote when you run.

 

[CrystalShadow]

Hmm...

I may be more inclined than most to defend Nintendo, but really, this is ridiculous.

I mean, it's possible you could do something interesting with it, but they haven't shown anything...

All they've done is show a device, and say 'wait and see'.

I'm officially calling this a flop. Maybe I'm wrong, but not everything Nintendo makes actually works. (cough. Virtual Boy. cough.) - Looking stupid is the risk you take for creating things that defy existing conventions though...

This one seems too awkward, and too limited in utility to catch on...

 

[Simalacrum]

...so basically what Reggie's done here is call the Wii Balance Board an "oversized bathroom scale"

 

[Baneat]

woohoo! more closet-bound junk! put it beside the banance board, the wii sports addons, the gun add-ons and the countless other attachments you can get. Wouldn't surprise me to find a dildo add-on, tbh.

 

[El Poncho]

I'm getting it anyways

 

[Velocirapture07]

This shit keeps getting more retarded....

 

[Low Key]

If you have to defend a useless periphrial, that's a sign to stop making it. Nintendo doesn't seem all that stoked about future development for it anyways. If I was a game maker, I wouldn't design any uses for it.