Miyamoto: 'Have confidence' in Nintendo's ability to develop for the Vitality Sensor

While I don't have confidence in the vitality sensor, I do hope hes right about DD.

I'm one of those people who vastly prefers physical media over digital. I hope games will follow the same path as music where people can buy either or.

Nintendo will be the only one developing decent things for it because just like the wii-mote they;re the only ones who know how to make anything worth while for it. 3rd parties gave up trying to make decent games for it in the first year leaving Nintendo supporting the thing alone with a bunch of lame minigames and shovel ware coming from everyone else.

The Vitality Sensor could be kind of cool, I'll give Nintendo the benefit of the doubt on it.

Also, really digging Miyamoto's opinions on digital distribution, I feel the exact same way.

I would laugh at the idea of Vitality Sensor doing any good, but the Wii balance board has taught me otherwise....

How nice it must be to have a mind like Miyamoto's; full of magic and imagination. He could turn any piece of shit idea into a wonderfully fun game for all ages.

At what point will Nintendo stop coming up with ideas that involve more fucking peripherals?

Yes, Mr. Miyamoto, we would also like to 'have confidence' but, seeing as how the entire gaming population is too retarded to understand the potential of a heart monitor in a gaming situation, you'll need to provide some actual ideas of the Vitality Sensor in games. That are not also retarded.

As I said at E3, I reserve judgement until I see what they plan on doing with it. Hopefully something kickass, like a new Eternal Darkness as many have suggested.

Nintendo hasn't let me down yet. Expect Microsoft and Sony to roll out their version of the vitality sensor a few years down the road. Imitation being the sincerest form of flattery and all.

Here's my question about the "Vitality Sensor":

Who Cares?

Dark Wayne:
"i guess im not so much thinking of wii or the sensor as the games themselves. I just cant imagine how something that would completely change the game constantly over and over again based on the sensor could fit on anything less than a blu-ray disc"

The Wii reads games at 6X. Most Wii games are single layer DVD with a BUNCH of filler data. That means load times shouldn't be too extreme.

A lot of people don't know that the Wii can read dual layer DVDs (SSBB is) so obviously there IS room for tons of data on a game disc, the developers just need to use it. You can't blame the hardware when the developers aren't pushing its limits.

i'm sure Nintendo had something planned like this since the N64 days so I think they've had plenty of time to know how to implement it into games

i don't actually see this taking off, and being the next balance board, but if used properly, this could be great in horror games

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Oh I'm sure they'll make interesting software for the vitality sensor.

My concearn has always been about Nintendo's decision making and making software I CARE about.

Some crappy puzzle game that uses your blood pressue doesn't take away from the piss poor online experiences, and crappy horrible state of their shops, specifically the DSiWare shop.

Also, Jesus Christ, is it so hard to give up North American's a God damn monthly release date list for their digital download games?

No. He said "I don't like digital distribution because I like having a hard copy of the media." He also said that he believes we'll continue to have what we have now, a combination of digital and physical media. You can buy songs on iTunes and games off of gaming networks or Steam, but you can also buy CDs and games at, say, Best Buy.

I'm not concerned about this.

Like, I REALLY don't care about the peripheral. I wish they wouldn't introduce it without the game, because it's those things that I'm interested in. "Here's the game, and oh it comes with this weird new peripheral."

Instead of releasing useless garbage why doesn't Nintendo come out with good games instead? Obviously you can't count on third parties to release anything good for the Wii.

maybe they could make an incredible hulk game, where you're just regular Bruce Banner going about his everyday life. But when the game make YOU angry enough, you transform and get to take out your anger on whatever is around you.

The funny thing is I believe Iwata. I'll bet Nintendo knew they were going to take a lot of crap from gamers and professionals when they announced, so they probably have something huge in the works to show why they think the Vitality Sensor is a good idea.

I'm also wondering what Suda51 (the crazy guy behind No More Heroes) is going to do with it, since he's shown interest in it.

Also note this is the second E3 were they had to defend what they did and ask for our patience.

How much patience do they think people have?

Have confidence huh? Like the same confidence we had in Wii Music?

Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice.. shame on me.

Sorry for the wall of text in advance.

Why should we trust him with Nintendo's awful record of backing up peripherals? R.OB. - 2 games, The Power Pad - 7 games (mostly Japan Only), The Power Glove - 1 game, The Super Scope - 9 games (including 3rd party games), Wii Speak - 2 games (the only Nintendo game being Animal crossing which came bundled with the stupid thing). There are plenty of other examples but come on, give us something to get excited about if you are going to try and pimp another piece of niche plastic. I don't see any way that this thing is going to crap out more than 1 or 2 games that are worth playing. More likely we are going to get another Wario minigame collection that uses the sensor to figure our how stressed you are directly, effecting the shakiness of the floating hand you're trying to shove up some guy's nose. Nintendo is already starting to find out that the people they have been catering to with this kind of crap for the last three years are the first ones to stop buying games when the economy tanks...look at their performance last quarter for a glimpse into the foreseeable future.

HHHNNNNNGGGGG gameplay for the win!
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When the Balance Board came out, I was able to come up with quite a few ideas of how it could be used for success in some kind of game. For that matter, when the Wii Remote came out in the first place, it gave me about a dozen ideas for gaming possibilities, and the Wii hasn't let me down with those.

But the Vitality Sensor? I can't think of a single good reason to use it in a game, especially when you have to remove the Nunchuk. Nintendo should have just waited until they could present the Vitality Sensor with some context of what good it will actually do. I love the Wii, but this peripheral is, so far, a misstep.

Boy I hope this doesn't become a trend for game consoles. This is disgusting! Look, if you're gonna excercise, get a bowflex and leave the gaming world alone. If Sony ever becomes as casual a game console as the Wii, I'm gonna be really dissapointed. Gamers (no matter what console, fanboy or not) should rebel and protest this kinda crap. I mean, come on, never in the early days of the Super Nintendo and SEGA Genesis and even carrying into the SEGA Vs. Nintendo Vs. Sony would anyone have permitted such software to pervert and disrupt the console wars. I just don't think I can handle this crap anymore. Someone, please come and liberate us from the casual gaming. Suddenly Eliza Dushku and Megan Fox start gaming? BECAUSE THE WII COMES OUT! NO! The world is gaming now because everyone is. Eck!