Many online journalists seem to be suggesting that 2010 is the biggest year of this generation because it is the year Sony and Microsoft supply their answer to Wii's motion controls and Nintendo loses its edge in the market. However, they mostly ignore and have less anticipation for the Wii's answer to continually striving for uniqueness this year: the Vitality Sensor. None of these hardwares so far have released details about what their software line-up is going to look like (unless you include what would have been this thumb-ache), so this is all based on ideas behind the technologies themselves and how people will perceive them.

I myself am willing to predict that the Wii Vitality Sensor will overshadow both the 360 Natal and the Sony Arc. Here are my 10 commandments of why this will be so.

1. Motion controls on the Wii will have been available 4 years by the end of this year
2. MotionPlus+ will have been available for a full year
3. They have been supported by high-quality Nintendo software (high-quality Third-Party software too)
4. Both 'casual' and 'hardcore' gamers will have titles to make them purchase MotionPlus+ well before the end of this year
5. Arc is too close to an imitation of the Wiimote to stand out
6. Natal will have significant problems with application because of its intangible-style interface
7. Vitality Sensor, Arc and Natal are now all expected to release late 2010 (Arc has lost its major advantage)
8. Vitality Sensor is the new technology this year and will stand out because of it
9. As with 3., it will be supported by high-quality Nintendo software in its induction
10. Nintendo knows how to advertise, and advertise well

If it could measure your heartbeat outdoors + mp3 player, then it would really tab into a new blue ocean. At home you can manage your health and setting up new goals for your next run. Combine this with diet plans and sales will rise again.

Haha, quite probably. Though I would say the Vitality Sensor is not as sure a bet as Wii Fit was, I do think it has a greater potential to be big if only because I would have more confidence in Nintendo making the right software than either of the other two first parties.

"commandments?" ... that a fancy way of stating your ... opinion?

At anyrate my opinion is on NATAL for uniqueness alone, you can talk to people who aren't real, which is actually kinda scary to be honest.

Because Nintendo has a pretty good track record I'm willing to not call the Vitality Sensor a complete waste of time but I'm also not ready to call it good yet.

I could be pretty cool in a survival horror type game or Wii Fit, but beyond that, I don't see a lot of use.  Of course Nintendo has surprised me before so I won't rule it out yet.

Vitality Sensor are you kidding me, really, and they wonder why gamers sun the wii............. I thought it'd be obvious. But then again maybe Nintendo might invest all this money into an actual game console next gen........ one can only hope

Once I know what it is and what it does, then I will agree with you. Right now Natal is the gadget with all the buzz.

Relaxation and health primarily, but there are functions in traditional gaming if you're imaginative.

Tread carefully friend... i kindly think you should... rethink that post...

I trusted Nintendo even when it did the worst way ever how can I don't trust them when they are by far the leader this gen.
Well Vitality Sensor will be a success no doubt in that and about sony arc & microsoft natal project I really don't care if they success or fail it's not Nintendo problem.
Nintendo at the first place or at the last place NINTENDO was, is and will be forever THE BEST COMPANY IN GAMING INDSUTRY.