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Apr 28, 2006View in Crawl 4
To recapitulate:So, this rumour pointed to a demo of Total Immersion technology. Using a video camera, the computer creates a 3d landscape out of what it sees (your desk, floor etc) and implements that into the game. You can see the game interacting with your room on the TV.I don't think this is possible because of cost (both economically and in terms of processing power). The cost to the consumer is greater than what you could expect from Nintendo. They want to sell a lot of these units and have been historically known to make profit on the hardware. After putting wireless motion sensing controllers (nunchuck remote), they can't recoup the licensing costs of gyration, total immersion and the additional hardware costs of fast webcams.Cost to developers: desiging a game that takes into account the player's physical surrounding And the handling of a new type of controller would be very time consuming. Too many factors, too soon. According to Nintendo's press, they want to lower the price for entering the New Gen market, total immmersion only detracts from that.Performance cost:Let's face it, the Wii won't be as powerful as the other consoles it will be indirectly competing with. With a slower processor than probably my pc, it can't maintain Xbox equivalent graphics while calculating yaw, position, acceleration of the controller for up to four frantic players or more while playing online.With less than 512mb of ram, I can't see them include your real world into the game map.Sorry to dissapoint you guys but Nintendo's next big secret won't be bigger than the controller. It will probably be just a DS addon that most 3rd party games won't use because they can't count on it being there.
Umm I higly doubt it will something like a DS addon.. it has to be something big that they want to surprise us with it now.. which should be concerning the gameplay since there is very little known about it...
Except its not. The hardware is nowhere near powerful enough to pull anything like this off. Lame. Inaccurate. Irrelevant. Even the Xbox 360/Playstation 3 is not powerful enough for this.
the VR simulation idea sounds awesome. the only question I have is how would they make the visor that is so close to your eyes appear further away so that it reaches your focal point and doesn't appear blurry? I wonder if Nintendo is really working on this in secret...that would really stick it to microsoft and sony, hehe...
press_00Apr 29, 2006
To recapitulate:So, this rumour pointed to a demo of Total Immersion technology. Using a video camera, the computer creates a 3d landscape out of what it sees (your desk, floor etc) and implements that into the game. You can see the game interacting with your room on the TV.I don't think this is possible because of cost (both economically and in terms of processing power). The cost to the consumer is greater than what you could expect from Nintendo. They want to sell a lot of these units and have been historically known to make profit on the hardware. After putting wireless motion sensing controllers (nunchuck remote), they can't recoup the licensing costs of gyration, total immersion and the additional hardware costs of fast webcams.Cost to developers: desiging a game that takes into account the player's physical surrounding And the handling of a new type of controller would be very time consuming. Too many factors, too soon. According to Nintendo's press, they want to lower the price for entering the New Gen market, total immmersion only detracts from that.Performance cost:Let's face it, the Wii won't be as powerful as the other consoles it will be indirectly competing with. With a slower processor than probably my pc, it can't maintain Xbox equivalent graphics while calculating yaw, position, acceleration of the controller for up to four frantic players or more while playing online.With less than 512mb of ram, I can't see them include your real world into the game map.Sorry to dissapoint you guys but Nintendo's next big secret won't be bigger than the controller. It will probably be just a DS addon that most 3rd party games won't use because they can't count on it being there.
flipedApr 29, 2006
Umm I higly doubt it will something like a DS addon.. it has to be something big that they want to surprise us with it now.. which should be concerning the gameplay since there is very little known about it...
j_belloneApr 29, 2006
Except its not. The hardware is nowhere near powerful enough to pull anything like this off. Lame. Inaccurate. Irrelevant. Even the Xbox 360/Playstation 3 is not powerful enough for this.
jpcoombsApr 29, 2006
The most intelligent people on the internet are nintendo fanboys. We also all happen to look to DIGG for our news.
press_00Apr 29, 2006
Last time I ever write a long and thoughtful articleon digg.
arcadejunkiesMay 5, 2006
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csninjaJul 19, 2006
the VR simulation idea sounds awesome. the only question I have is how would they make the visor that is so close to your eyes appear further away so that it reaches your focal point and doesn't appear blurry? I wonder if Nintendo is really working on this in secret...that would really stick it to microsoft and sony, hehe...