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Bluelava on 19 February 2010
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Shonen said:
uno said:
@bluelava

I dont think glasses with video screens built in is a viable option. If Ninty does anything its done affordably. With this method you dont need a TV to play but who would drag around a Wii with their glasses?

Personally I think the new 3D movies, etc. are just a bunch of who-ha. Ninty wouldnt go that way. Ninty does things that change the way you interact not change the way the visuals look. That is something Sony or MS would do.

@Shonen

Again, cost drives everything. The Wii is successful because the console was cheap tech. The controller's cost was rolled into it. Video screen goggles would be very costly guys. That is the bottom line

I dont think that would coast that much in fact i think nintendo could sell it at 79,99 no more than a balance boar i mean how much coasts a 2 lcd screens of 4x5 cm ? i think very little for the main problem with that idea is that this would make turn the wii into a very single player experience ,cuz onle one person would see the game , and nintendo sad that they dont like the idea of using 3d glasses cuz for other people not using the glass the image would become blurry , if they dont like blurry they will certainly not like no image at all...


It really wouldn't be difficult to allow one person to play with a 3D headset and someone else to play/watch on a standard tv at the same time.

You'd just need to design a cable which would allow both the left and right eye images ito be sent to the 3D glasses..but  only broadcast the single left eye (or right eye) image to the tv. That would likely up the price of the hardware by a couple dollars at most.

I'm not convinced they could release a decent quality headset for $79...if you look at the video headsets on the market the most basic one is around $150...and average one is around $300.

Of course this sort of stuff was considered years ago. Sega had a VR headset in the works back in the Genesis days which they claimed would retail for "under $199"....they didn't release it as they claimed it was too realistic and caused some motion sickness (but the rumour was they were worried about it damaging eyesight in children and potential lawsuits).