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Wii 2 Controller To Include Vitality Sensor?

The Wii Vitality Sensor, first announced at E3 2009 seems to have done a disappearing act as of late. Nintendo gamers everywhere were frothing at the mouth with the endless possibilities and experiences that the peripheral could potentially supply. Today, news of the device has once again hit the internet with Nintendo revealing at a Japanese investor conference that the sensor is still in development and the delay was caused by the fact that the vitality sensor is only compatible with

''80% of people'' and it will be ''very difficult to up that number to 99%.''

This delay in releasing the device opens up many prospects as to when and what hardware it will be designed for. The gaming industry has recently been rocked by the announcement that a successor to the almighty Wii console is in development and will be playable at E3 2011. Surely, it would make logical commercial sense to integrate this technology into the new high definition console as the added horsepower could reali...

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user8586215496d ago (Edited 5496d ago )

save it for the wii2, at this point no1 would buy the vitality sensor for the wii knowing that there's a new console on the way

e.g sega 32x

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iamnsuperman5496d ago

I thought the abandoned it but I should have assumed that a lot of people will buy this like the Wii fit because it has the word fit in people buy it thinking it is great exercise

Updat8blogger5496d ago

I believe that the Vitality Sensor will make its debut either as part of the controller or as an add on peripheral.

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U.S. patent examiner rejects Nintendo’s summoning characters patent as obvious: non-final ruling

The rejection is non-final (and even when such rejections are labeled as “final”, the process is far from over, given that there can be, at minimum, an appeal to the Federal Circuit).

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Relientk7742d ago (Edited 42d ago )

Good, as they should! A game mechanic like that shouldn't be locked behind a patent, and Nintendo didn't invent it either.

PRIMORDUS41d ago (Edited 41d ago )

Nintendo wants to keep wasting money on bullshit lawsuits, real smart in this economy. They should put that money aside for other game projects. On the other hand, I don't care if they waste it all either, and they are screwed in the future maybe that will teach them a lesson.

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Nintendo Completes Share Repurchase and Sets Price for Secondary Offering

Nintendo completed its share repurchase and set its secondary offering price at 8,347 yen ahead of March 16 delivery.

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Nintendo Suing U.S. Government Over Tariffs

Nintendo filed a lawsuit in the United States Court of International Trade.

Nintendo of America is suing the United States government over the sweeping tariffs President Donald Trump put in place last year, according to a complaint filed Friday in the U.S. Court of International Trade and obtained by Aftermath.

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Deathdeliverer67d ago

Well dayum lol. Old agent orange pissing off every industry and nation.

0hMyGandhi66d ago

The fact that you have ANY disagrees will forever baffle me. And to the (apparent) MAGA contingent that exists on this website, enjoy your 8-9 dollar gas.

AuraAbjure66d ago (Edited 66d ago )

Yes, they had better be pissed after Trump told them the way they rip off the USA is over.

EveryPlatformGamer67d ago

LOL I read this on gaff, will they refund the money back to the gamers? highly unlikely. Didn't they just raise prices and pass it onto the gamers? Only Nintendo would send out the Ninjas to the US government.

-Foxtrot67d ago

That’s what I was thinking, imagine them winning hypothetically, getting a s**t load of money back which they would have lost if they hadn’t raised their prices and it’s business as normal.

It would just mean people paid more for no reason since they got the money back anyway.

Outside_ofthe_Box66d ago (Edited 66d ago )

A lot of companies partially passed the cost to consumers instead of all of it. They would still have to at least pay that back to gamers, but we know that won't happen. What's also sad is that prices won't come back down after the initial hike caused by tariffs.

People didn't understand the full repercussions of tariffs. That alone should have cost him the presidency if people knew it was a permanent price hike for consumers

Inverno67d ago

The people should sue these companies for having to over pay cause of these tariffs.

Eonjay67d ago

Naw they should sue the government for forcing the tax to begin with. No one reasonably expects these companies to absorb the taxes. Many smaller companies tried and were shut down or faced to increase prices to try to maintain their business. The tariffs effect everyone.

Inverno65d ago

I meant it mostly as a joke cause we all know the costs of these tariffs were passed onto the consumer. But it's seems no matter how vocal we are here in the states our "representatives" don't seem to care enough to represent us. And things are about to get worse.

Killer2020UK65d ago

The companies were doing what the law required then to do, the tariffs however were illegally implemented. Usually it's criminals we punish, you seem to have different ideas 🤷‍♂️

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