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Vitality Sensor can be the next Balance Board

So says NoA boss Reggie Fils-Aimes
Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aimes hopes the Wii Vitality Sensor can follow in the footsteps of the Wii Balance Board, which he describes as arguably "the third largest development platform across the globe."

Speaking to ,a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/ngai-croal/dialogue-tree/nintendos-innovation-console-qa-reggie-fils-aime" target="_blank">Fast Company, he said that Nintendo would carry on pushing the envelope as it had done by introducing Wii motion controls, while rivals Sony and Microsoft continue "looking over their shoulder at what we've been able to do, and are trying to participate."

The Wii Vitality Sensor goes over the end of its user's finger and detects their pulse, but it's unclear how the peripheral will work with games as compatible software has yet to be demoed.

"... All I can tell you is, with the game developers that we have, we will bring forth an experience that you will say, 'Wow, I get it.' Until you have that software, it's tough to understand," said Fils-Aimes. "If I told you that you would be standing on an oversized bathroom scale, and having fun doing it, you probably would have said, 'Reggie, I don't get it.' And yet here we are with the balance board arguably as the third largest development platform across the globe.

"... The fact is that Nintendo will continue to push the envelope on what a gaming experience is. Now, we're doing that, because as we showed, there are a 150 million consumers in the markets that we do business, that say they'd be interested in video games if they had the right content, but today don't play. Those are the consumers that we believe something like the Vitality Sensor with the right software could compel to get in the game."

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Posted by RumbleThunder
He's right.

But I hate him.
Posted by JimSteele
Hot air.
Posted by jonbwfc
It could also be the next Virtual Boy.
Posted by roland82
Really?

he should read this article games radar wrote about the fallingist Nintendo add ons, it was pretty funny.

http://www.gamesradar.com/f/nintendos-most-failingest-peripherals/a-200907081084532066

They got a track record with overpriced plastic crap.
Posted by wrightandrewjame
Nintendo have a history of crap add-ons. They hit the money with Wii Fit, but no-one in their right mind will want a vitality sensor. Especially when they can do it for free by holding two fingers on your wrist and counting. Oh I think I've stumbled across why they're doing it... ;)
Posted by The Kool Kid
Regie, I don't get it.
Posted by suchthef00l
Anyone else having an irony overload? Nintendo bring out a peripheral which literally puts their fingers on the pulse of wii gamers, showing how out of touch they are? :p
Posted by P_3te-r
im bored now of people making jokes about it, ha ha you people are so funny coming up with the same crap people were saying years ago. why can't you see what it might bring to the gaming table. for instance in horror games or even fps's you could get hounded by more enemies depending on your pulse or in a racing game you could get pressured more by other drivers.
Posted by GTCzeero
Your point about it benig used for FPS's and horror games is valid, but as you said yourself, these are concepts that MIGHT happen. Far more likely is that Nintendo (and the other usual suspects) are lining up masses of health related garbage to peddle to Mr and Mrs. Casual, rather than try anything daring or remotely game related. It's the times we live in I'm afraid.
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