Understanding the Wii vitality sensor.

[NJ5]

Onyxmeth said:

NJ5 said:

dsister44 said:
What does it do? nobody will answer that question for me

Measuring the pulse?

This was a truly weird moment at Nintendo's E3 conferences. I don't remember them announcing a peripheral without games before, but that's really what they did here.

 

This is why I think the peripheral is going to fail. If Nintendo doesn't bundle it with desirable software, it'll never take off. Here's hoping they just didn't have the software ready to demo yet. Can you imagine the balance board without Wii Fit?

I think in this case, they must have some very clear ideas of what software they're going to make with this. It's such a specific, special-purpose peripheral that there wouldn't be a reason to develop it otherwise.

Having said that, I wouldn't bet on it taking off either.