Grimes on 24 January 2010
| 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... |
Electronic scales and strain gauges existed for many decades before Wii Fit. It doesn't really matter if the technology is new. How it's applied can be innovate no matter how old the underlying technology is.
The vitality sensor component could be under a couple dollars, maybe even a few cents. It's probably just a led light with a light sensor. I don't see how that could possibly add up to hundreds of dollars.
Anyone can guess. It takes no effort to throw out lots of predictions and have some of them be correct. You are not and wiser or better for having your guesses be right. Even a blind man can hit the bullseye.
