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they are. Like i said previously. Them starting by themselves are a feature. That way you can save a bunch of time.. if you're capable of watching and seperating the voice track of the three :p



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Haha Nintendo wins!



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This is still motion tracking. It's not genuine motion control, as the EyeToy is tracking the wand. Was it mentioned before that the Wand had gyroscopes or whatever?

Besides, this is all catch-up to what Nintendo has already made. People may or may not be attracted to this as there are already other products (Wii) out on the market, or something new that has a lot more marketshare than the PS3 (Microsoft's X360 and the Natal).



that means that the wii is not genuine motion control either seen as it needs a sensor bar to work, some people...



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Those look silly.

If you don't think so, you're a huge fanboy.



Wii has more 20 million sellers than PS3 has 5 million sellers.

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Naraku_Diabolos said:

This is still motion tracking. It's not genuine motion control, as the EyeToy is tracking the wand. Was it mentioned before that the Wand had gyroscopes or whatever?

Besides, this is all catch-up to what Nintendo has already made. People may or may not be attracted to this as there are already other products (Wii) out on the market, or something new that has a lot more marketshare than the PS3 (Microsoft's X360 and the Natal).

How are they playing catchup when it's more advanced tracking and allows for more different types of tracking ?



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Naraku_Diabolos said:

This is still motion tracking. It's not genuine motion control, as the EyeToy is tracking the wand. Was it mentioned before that the Wand had gyroscopes or whatever?

Besides, this is all catch-up to what Nintendo has already made. People may or may not be attracted to this as there are already other products (Wii) out on the market, or something new that has a lot more marketshare than the PS3 (Microsoft's X360 and the Natal).

Let's play along just for the sake of spreading more correct information.

- Technically, the wand works on a combination of position tracking with the camera and rotation motion sensing with accelerometers and gyroscopes. Just as the Wiimote uses an IR camera to track its postion relative to the sensor bar and accelerometers (+gyroscopes in the motionplus add-on) for orientation. Thus both use relative motion tracking from an extarnal device and intrinsic motion sensing. I don't know what you mean with "genuine motion control". I'd say that any device that allows you to control by moving it around is endowed with the feature of motion control.

- This system plays catch-up with the Wiimote in the market for certain features (not in development or concepts, mind you... Sony was researching this stuff in the early 2000s, google for the filed patents). It adds several ones that the Wii control system will have to catch up with in turn. One is absolute position tracking of the controller, another is augmented reality, another is webcam image analysis for headtracking etc.

- Why people should choose a product based on the marketshare is beyond me. Leaving aside the real value maker (software that appeals to them), they might choose depending on the marketing, or on word of mouth from their immediate friends and aquaintainces. But the marketshare per se? Basically software will sell this and Natal (or fail to do so)



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It really is fantastic that another great nintendo designed controller is being ripped off by the others. Yet again Nintendo has changed the videogame world!



"...the best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system." - Bill Gates (Microsoft Corporation)

"Hey, Steve, just because you broke into Xerox's house before I did and took the TV doesn't mean I can't go in later and take the stereo." - Bill Gates (Microsoft Corporation)

Bill Gates had Mac prototypes to work from, and he was known to be obsessed with trying to make Windows as good as SAND (Steve's Amazing New Device), as a Microsoft exec named it. It was the Mac that Microsoft took for its blueprint on how to make a GUI.

 

""Windows [n.] - A thirty-two bit extension and GUI shell to a sixteen bit patch to an eight bit operating system originally coded for a four bit microprocessor and sold by a two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition.""

Bladeforce said:
It really is fantastic that another great nintendo designed controller is being ripped off by the others. Yet again Nintendo has changed the videogame world!

With sony having a version of this up for the eyetoy before the wii was even announced you could argue that nintendo saw it and decided to rip it off ?

 

ofcourse that's preposterous :p



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^^yeah every one knows sony invented their idea for mc before the wii, so that could be indeed possible



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