Nintendo’s next gen Wii could lack Wiimote
Nintendo, despite my wishes to the contrary, has captured the “low-end” and “casual” gaming market with its Wii console. Most of you should be familiar with the Wiimote controller that is used to play all games on the Wii but some analysts think that Nintendo may drop the Wiimote in what I’ll call the “next gen Wii.”
With processors (and even GPUs) capable of performing just about every general or specialized calculations increasingly faster, Intel thinks that only a few motion capture cameras would be needed in order to control characters and their actions in a game, according to Absolute Gadget.
Justin Rattner, Intel’s chief technology officer said, “We imagine some future generation of [Nintendo's] Wii won’t have hand controllers.”
Just don’t go holding your breath. Intel suggests that processors would need to perform close to a trillion calculations per second and IBM is working on chips that can “only” do 256 billion calculations per second each so just get four of them and everything is all set.
I must admit the idea of just using your hands is very cool, so I might have to pick up the “next gen Wii” whenever it comes out and only if that is part of its feature set.
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December 17th, 2007
When I first read the title, I thought you’d be spewing your usual shit again. The next 4 paragraphs were actually pretty good. But what a DISAPPOINTING ending. How’s about posting only on ‘how good the 360 and PS3 are’ and leaving this bullshit in your ass.
December 17th, 2007
It *IS* his usual shit again.
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Nintendo, despite my wishes to the contrary, has captured the “low-end” and “casual” gaming market with its Wii console.<<
As if somehow being hardcore gamer and owning a Wii were mutually exclusive. It’s the usual ignorance.
And the 4th paragraph is misinformed. Intel is shopping around its new chip (ready to go) which does 1 trillion calculations / sec. And IBM isn’t working on a chips that can do 256 billion calculations / sec — it already did that with the Cell processor for the PS3.
Fine research by Jonathan, as usual.
December 17th, 2007
But they aren’t on the market yet, are they, the Intel chips? They’re also probably not general purpose processors and is some damn specialized architecture, but that is pure conjecture on my part.
I said “Intel suggests” that much power is required, does not necessarily mean it is.
It’s also not exactly clear what the article means by “next set of chips” from IBM, that could mean nearly anything, not necessarily a processor… though that could be inferred it’s not explicitly stated.
The Cell isn’t really by IBM, it was a joint venture between Toshiba, Sony and IBM though it is manufactured by IBM it was not its sole invention.
Try clicking on the hyperlink next time, Joe.
December 17th, 2007
“Nintendo, despite my wishes to the contrary, has captured the “low-end” and “casual” gaming market with its Wii console.”
In other words…
Nintendo, despite my wishes to the contrary, has made lots and lots of money, reinvigorated the gaming market, expanded the gaming audience and become the top dog once more despite heavy competition.
Jonathan…you realy need to both rethink your opinion and how you present it publicly.
December 18th, 2007
What if the graphics weren’t good, Jonathan? Would you still pick up a next-generation Wii if it had hand movements, etc.?
December 18th, 2007
That’s what I’m saying.
December 18th, 2007
I think that the Wiimote is the best you can get to real. The reason why Nintendo’s Wii has sold so much and is sold out is because of the Wiimote.
Now , they might wiiname (hehe) the Wiimote to something else but I hope that it has the same use’s as it does now.