Rumor: Nintendo's New Console Will Make You Feel

[Madmanonfire]

By the way, the word "gimmick" is absolutely the stupidest and least useful term in online videogame discussion. Just for the record.

This to the max. Half of the people who say it don't even know what it means.

And I just wish E3 would happen sooner. Every day, Nintendo is getting hated on more based off of rumors. How silly is that?
If you're going to call somebody out on something, wait until that something is a fact first.

 

[briunj04]

Booo, I thought Nintendo would learn its lesson about cheap gimmicks! Oh well, at least this opens up a whole new realm of Japanese pr0n games!

I wish that if they actually are going to go ahead with this "sense stimulation" thing, I hope that they make it so that you can taste a potion as you drink it or smell Peach once you rescue her.

 

[Crimson_Dragoon]

Also, the system will be able to raise the dead.

Seriously, though, I'm chocking this up to pre-release hype. You hear all this sort of nonsense before any console comes out.

 

[SamElliot'sMustache]

Honestly, this sounds like it could be good (assuming the story is true). Adventure games where you can determine where a hidden door is by feeling a wall, for instance, would be something I'd like to play (and isn't this really an extension of what the rumble feature on the PS1 controllers was trying to do?). If anybody wanted to exercise some creativity, I'm sure there could be some other uses for a touch-screen controller (actually digging in Harvest Moon? Touch-screen reloading in a shooter where you have to slide clips/magazines/rounds in? 'Carrying' your RPG loot in the controller, and having to pick it out when buying/selling? Okay, maybe not that last one, but you never know...).

Of course, that brings us to the problem...

And no third-party devs will support it...

This. This and this some more. Only a handful of games across the Wii and all versions of the DS made use of their central ideas in a way that was either beneficial or experimental. Aside from Nintendo games, only The Bigs, Bully: Scholarship Edition, Okami, and a few others made effective use of motion controls on the Wii (and No More Heroes had the phone calls from the controller, which was fun), while the rest were either a mixed bag (Silent Hill: Shattered Memories), messy (The Conduit and the Wii version of Splinter Cell: Double Agent) or just waggle (damn near everything else).

Even if Nintendo put some strong support into the concept, and made good use of this rumored touch-screen in all of its games, somehow I doubt we'd see a lot of effort on third party developers to bring anything interesting to the table, if they made games for the thing at all (Capcom and Sega are probably the most reliabe here). If they could get around that problem, I'd like to see this happen.

 

[Scrythe]

Shouldn't they have at least tried to fully realize their previous controller before attempting to "reimagine" a new one? Are they hoping we'd forget that this [http://www.thinkmac.net/storage/blog//images/wiimote-1.jpg] is the biggest piece of shit controller in gaming since the Colecovision [http://www.old-computers.com/museum/photos/coleco_colecovision_controller.jpg]? Are they hoping we forget that they barely know how to use their own touchpad tech?

With Nintendo's track record, they aren't going to fully utilize the touchpad as, well, a touchpad. Ten bucks says it's going to function just like DS or early iOS games, where it just emulated button functions.

All of this mean nil in the long run as this thing is going to be the biggest fucking bestseller on the market, proving once again that Nintendo can literally sell you shit in a jar, slap a sticker that says "innovation" on it, and you'd still wait in line for two days to cough up $300 for it.

I can't wait to see all the new and exiting games for this new console. Can you imagine? Another wave of Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Donkey Kong, Kirby, Star Fox, and possibly a new Kid Icarus! Innovation, right?

Fuck you all.

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[Eternal_Lament]

I could frankly care less.

While most likely to be fake, IF such technology existed I'll say this much: Impressive from a technological level if succesful, especially if it can be used on a grander scale for getting closer to a Holo-deck. From a current game point though, what point is there to this technology?

Alright, I guess thats been said before with the DS and Wii, and those turned out okay, but consider this: How many games actually use the touch screen and motion controls as an integral part of gameplay? As in, how many games on these systems are designed in a way that made it apparent that they were games that could not exist without touch screen or motion controls?
.....Thats what I thought.

Again, useful technology in terms of an evantual culmination into a Holo-deck, but for what purpose would feeling do? I suppose it could be certainly useful for either highly visually-impaired or completely blind, but for other gamers I see little purpose for what this technology could do to enhance their gaming experience.

 

[Simalacrum]

I dunno, I'm gonna call bullshit on this particular rumour... touchpad on the controller seems almost certain by this point (since everyone and they're mothers are citing exactly the same thing), but texture sensor? I dunno... even for Nintendo, I think they'd struggle to find any way of really enhancing gameplay.

It's comparable to the rumble pack of the N64 era I guess - its kinda cool and a neat little thing to have, but not really advertisable as a revolution in gameplay, so I doubt it will "change the way we play", even if it is included in the console.

 

[internetzealot1]

So it'll be made from Octopus skin?
My idea of "developers-use-touch-screen-to-add-buttons-to-the-controller-as-needed" is looking better and better. Now we'll be able to actually feel the screen-buttons.

 

[MovieBob]

I'm getting the strange, unfamiliar sensation of having been right about something...
http://moviebob.blogspot.com/2011/04/moviebobs-insane-wii2-theory.html

Back when they first announced that a certain amount of the controller would be taken-up by a large-ish touchscreen, I had a crazy thought: What if the premise of this is "The EveryController?" - i.e. what if the "controller" is ONLY (or mostly) a small iPad-esque tablet and instead of every game having to be mapped to a pre-set arrangement of buttons the touchscreen would display a DIFFERENT set/arrangement of game-specific "virtual buttons" for each specific game; i.e. six-button arcade controls for Fighters, SNES-style arrangement for sidescrollers, etc.?

The ONLY "problem" with that kind of idea is that "virtual buttons" on touchscreens kinda suck for gaming, because the buttons have no tactile-feedback - you can't "feel" them and thus can't play without looking down at them all the time. Well, THIS would largely solve that problem: "Haptic technology" touchscreens aren't designed to replicate the "bumpiness" of virtual textures; their purpose is to make different sections of the onscreen image feel "distinguishable" from one-another to the user's fingertips, like say making the "clickable" parts of a website or an options menu (or the buttons on a virtual QWERTY keyboard for texting) feel different from the "static" parts.

IMAGINE: A controller that essentially "morphs" into a new form ideally suited to each different game - and maybe even customizable! I'd need to see/feel it in action to see if it actually works, but if they ARE using haptic-feedback touchscreens it's theoretically wholly-doable.

 

[yanipheonu]

A touch screen with tactile feedback?! THAT'S GENIUS!

That means if you have to control a game using the screen, you can feel for the controls, making it that much closer to full on physical controls, just with the ability to change the scheme.

It'd be cool if the iPhone used something like that. Make the virtual d-pads feel tactile so it's easier to tell when you're actually pressing them!

Really curious to see this now XD

 

[Xman490]

I wonder how the hell and why the hell Nintendo does all this touch screen, motion sensor, 3D setting, and "feel" screen stuff before anyone else does.

 

[OrokuSaki]

.....really? I wish Nintendo would just fire EVERYONE they hired since GameCube first released because they are clearly being staffed by children at this point.
Children who stare at pieces of crumpled aluminum hanging from the ceiling and try to advertise it through it's shininess.
Can someone PLEASE tell me what this adds to the immersion of gaming? Even a little? I have never in my life thought "WOW that desert is so realistic, I wish I could touch it". This ranks right with motion controls and 3D on the list of improving things in gaming that NEED NOT BE IMPROVED UPON.
At this time, graphics are great, controllers are a passable medium of exchange for gameplay how about for once just going with what works for consoles and trying to improve the games themselves?

I hate Nintendo.

 

[Tiswas]

Sure it'll be cool. But I fail to see how it'll work with real games. Nintendogs wuld be fine for it tho. I can see Ubisoft rushing to make tons of shovelware related to this.

But as long as it's just a feature it's fine. Like the rumble pack. It was there and a neat addition. But wasn't mandatory (as far as I recall) Not like the wii where if you didn't want to use Motion Controls you were screwed.

However I think if anyone CAN make this work. It's Nintendo.

 

[nukethetuna]

I got REALLY excited when I read the thread topic. I thought Nintendo had developed a way to force emotions on people with their next console.
"Nintendo's New Console Will Make You Feel Sad/Angry/Happy/Jealous/etc"

Then my mind went straight to how certain game-makers could create some sort of "spank the lass" game with real booty textures.

Then I thought seriously and was underwhelmed... but I also felt the same about the DS, which I ended up loving (even if the touchscreen was underutilized in the vast majority of games).

 

[Fasckira]

I hope its just a rumour, this sounds like a stupid gimmick which will ramp the price up.

EDIT: This also seems pretty much a casual gamer thing too, I thought this console was supposed to be aimed back at the hardcore gamers?

 

[MovieBob]

I wonder how the hell and why the hell Nintendo does all this touch screen, motion sensor, 3D setting, and "feel" screen stuff before anyone else does.

It's probably as simple as "because they can." In the tech industries, EVERYONE wants to be the guy who "got there first" on new innovations, and Nintendo - for better or worse - has more of an ability to absorb the risk of doing so than any other game console producer because they will always be profitable. ALWAYS. Because no matter how "new" the interface or "strange" the control scheme; enough people WILL "deal with it" in order to play the next Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Kirby, Starfox, Pokemon, Smash Bros. etc games to make it tidily profitable.

Seriously, that's kind of the long and short of it - they OWN, completely, at least 60-75% of the most garaunteed-moneymaker IPs in the business, so they get to do whatever they want. The next console could be projected on a water-screen and controlled exclusively by blowing into a straw, and "New Mario, New Zelda, New Everything Else," would STILL sell enough units to make it worth their while.

 

[Clive Howlitzer]

Here I was hoping we were done with stupid gimmicks.

 

[harvz]

not this again. what will come of it? everything i have hated about Nintendo systems, they come out with a gimmick (wii has motion sensor, ds has touchpad and worse, the mic) and every game has to have it, i miss gameboy days when the only gimmick was colour...and system link.

 

[Mr. Omega]

To everyone crying "Gimmick!":

Remember the Rumble in the N64? That was similar to this: a nice feature, but wasn't needed.

Plus, they have the standard two-analogue, d-pad, four button and bumpers. FFS, it shows those in the picture in the article! It also just has a touchpad. And now this. But you seem to forget the whole "it has standard buttons" thing in less than 2 days, and go right back to "WAH WAH WAH NINTENDO MAKES GIMMICK CONTROLLERS! GIMMICK GIMMICK GIMMICK GIMMICK GIMMICK! IF I KEEP SAYING GIMMICK, THAT WILL MAKE ALL THE OTHER PARTS NOT EXIST!" How quickly people seem to forget...

 

[General_Potatoes]

That looks pretty cool. Probably will be expensive when it comes out though