Maybe you can plug it into Wii music and try conducting the orchestra by increasing and decreasing your heart rate. While waggling the controller of course. Always, always waggle the controller...
The only good thing I can see from this is the next Eternal Darkness, your pulse measures your sanity or something. But keeping you're finger inside that the whole time? Blehh....
What is the purpose for it? Is it really THAT interesting to know how fast your heart beats that you have to purchase something and display it on your TV?
Perhaps a game with gameplay that evolves depending how stressed out you are?
Hard to see what this could mean for traditional games i must say. Surely Nintendo has some plans up theirs sleeves for this and I'm quite curious what it is. Most likely it will not interest or concern most of us here but it is nice to see new ideas hit the market.
What would this E3 have been would Nintendo not have introduced motion controls some years back?
I suspect that this will likely have some sort of medical application, for use to help people with consistent anxiety with relaxing exercises. Surprisingly Japanese, actually, and I could see it doing well there. Here...it'll be a tougher sell.
The strangest part of this whole mess is how Nintendo doesn't usually trot out a new peripheral without a test demo disguised as a game to show its capabilities.
This was lame 20 years ago when they got that for stationnary bikes in gyms and it's STILL lame today on a console. Quite a bad idea. Though the console version of Rapelay intrigues me.
I could see uses if it was a strap thing you wore while playing wii fit, giving you information on your heart rate as you exercise, but it seems to be a thing that just sits on a desk and you stick your finger in it, which seems pointless to me.
Also, I'm putting money down on a 50/50 chance of this never coming to actual market, if only because developers take one look at it and give a bit 'WTF are we supposed to do with this?'
I can imagine it pretty clearly. Maybe a challenging game that makes it harder to play as your heart rate goes up. The challenge will be to play fast while staying calm.
its a device to be used with the wii fit nonsense to see if ur actually doing the exerises and recording you progress so that the fat or calorie conscious can be satisfied.... or like someone else said its a lie detector which would be awesome
They just need to make it bigger so I stick my dick in it and play games with it........ Anyways, what the hell is this for? Playing Super Smash Bros. Brawl with my heartbeat? I don't get it.
It's one of those finger traps isn't. I know you stick your finger in, it cuts off the tip and shreds it, now you can no longer play with the xbox 360 and PS3 controllers and have to use the wii for the rest of your life. Nice move Nintendo, kind of a round about way of doing it, but you just tapped into a new demographic.
Either a) It's a Traua Centre thing, and it slowly releases hallucenogenic drugs, or b) It lets you know if you're alive or not. I have trouble figuring that out sometimes.
Do you guys remember the time when the NES had all kind of silly Accesories like this? No? Check this video then: http://www.gametrailers.com/video/angry-video-screwattack/34014?type=flv
Anyway, Nintendo is doing it again I guess. Ounce Nintendo reaches the top, they start to do all kind of stupid things like this.
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