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Mummelmann on 24 January 2010
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Arius Dion said:
Mummelmann said:
The Vitality Sensor is hardly new technology, it measures your pulse, on your finger. This has been done for over 20 years and is hardly groundbreaking.
I'm not saying it won't sell more than Arc and Natal (in fact; I think it will) but to call it innovative or fresh technology is plain wrong, and as a peripheral it is vastly simpler than both Arc and Natal on its own.

The bad news around here is that a Wii-Mote + Nunchuck with Motion Pluss and Vitality Sensor will cost nearly 300$ per controller...

How much will Natal cost? Or the Wand? Which, don't you need to buy an eye toy or whatnot for it to work?

Don't know, don't care since I'm not buying either. But the price of the Wii-mote and Nunchuck here is insane (150$). A Dualshock 3 costs roughly 100$ and a wireless 360 controller roughly 80$ in comparison.

If I were to guess the price of Natal and Arc, I'd say somewhere around the Eyetoy price range, which is/was 100$ here.

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c0rd; I don't live in the US, I live in Norway and a Wii-mote with a nunchuck costs 900 NOK, Motion Pluss costs 250 NOK and I assume the Vitality Sensor will cost at least 300 NOk and possibly 500 which amounts to 1450-1650 NOK (or 250-280 dollars). And I do not think Sony and MS' solutions are better, in fact; I think they're quite silly. Don't let the PS3 badge under my name confuse you.

Demotruk; playing multiplayer without more controllers is kinda hard so it really doesn't matter that one controller comes in the box. And FYI, I don't care about any of the peripherals for any of the consoles or the games utilizing them. My point is that the controller itself already costs damn much and the peripherals are very steep in price as well. I considered buying a Wii with Mario Kart and three extra controllers right before christmas but the cost of the controllers put me off the idea, I'll wait until they're more affordable, the three controllers cost a lot more than the game and the console itself.