Nintendo should preemptively attack Microsoft

[scottie]

Squilliam said:

WereKitten said:

Squilliam said:

Xoj said:

Roma said:
Iwata already looked at the technology before Microsoft did and they did not like the technology

yeah so did sony.

microsoft it's going to market it like it's accurate though, when it isn't.

Nope they didn't. It was 3DV. Natal is primesense. The reason why Microsoft bought 3DV is so that they control all potentially similar camera technology so it would be difficult for anyone to come along and copy them.

Source on the bolded?

And source on 3DV coming with any wide and tested patent, instead of useful tech implementations?

 

Scottie: Iwata has stated that when prototyping the Wii, they considered camera based motion sensing (including 3d cameras) but decided against it. This is not something you can debate - Iwata said it. You can call him a liar if you so desire.

Its not mutally exclusive that Iwata and Microsoft would come away with differing impressions of the relevant technologies and therefore opinions of their relative worth respective and cost/benefit ratios.

 

As far as I am aware, the discussion has run

 

OP - Nintendo should bring out a camera

Everyone - they considered it and decided against it

Squilliam - whatever you said, which from your most recent response I'm assuming I missinterpreted, I thought you were saying "no they didn't"

So of course I responded with

Scottie - Yes they did

Then you responded with the bit quoted above and I responded with this.

 

So yeah, thoroughly confused - I wasn't trying to say that because Ninty decided against it, everyone should have. Just to say that because Ninty has already considered it, the chance of it them changing their minds and making one is low