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mai on 07 June 2009
 
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Nintendo 'rejected' rivals' choice of technology

By Robin Harding and Chris Nuttall in Los Angeles

Published: June 4 2009 22:32 | Last updated: June 4 2009 22:32

Nintendo tried and rejected the motion-sensing technology that Sony and Microsoft are counting on to catch up in the video game wars, the company's president told the Financial Times.

Satoru Iwata said his company had made experimental games controlled by camera-based sensors, but got better results with the accelerometers it eventually chose to use for its Wii console.

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thekitchensink on 07 June 2009

Interesting. I wonder what it was that made them choose the accelerometers instead.



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scottie on 07 June 2009

If I had to guess, they rejected Sony's method of combined Wiimote + camera on the basis that it required them to release a camera as well and would have increased costs

I'm not even sure if the technology MS is putting in would have been ready in 2006, and it certainly wouldn't have been cheap back then



Cobretti2 on 07 June 2009

agree with scottie, 2006 the tech would of been expensive and not ready.

Hell we don't even know when Microsoft will release this.



 

 

megaman79 on 07 June 2009

already posted - i posted it days before gaf and gonint. did.



“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.

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the_bloodwalker on 07 June 2009

Nintendo has a huge R&D department so it's very likely they tried everything and they have valid reasons to reject them



megaman79 on 07 June 2009

http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=75756&page=1



“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.