This was on Fox the other night. It's a story about a guy who invented a two axis controller for using motions to control on-screen action. It's very much like the Wii remote and Numchuck set up used in Wii Sports Boxing. Check out the story here and video - http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/ex-midway-guy-suing-nintendo-for-wiimote-controls-has-himself-s/ Yakumo
http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/15/exclusive-shots-of-goschys-prototype-wiimote-controllers/ Some comments people been making are kind of interesting.
Looks close, but not exactly what the Wii-mote is. His controller looks like you would map the hand motions to button presses for existing games (kind of like a Sega Activator you hold in your hand) and although he doesn't really talk about new play mechanics for future games it is implied. He probably would have sold the idea if he would have dressed up in a suit and combed his hair instead of shooting his promotion video in a night shirt and boxers. He just got back from the beach or something. I wouldn't be suprised if he farted and cracked a brewski in the middle of that.
Another funny thing on dreamcast was that you could use the fishingrod for a wii like gameplay. It could be used in Soulcalibur and Virtua Tennis.
Well nintendo did say before revealing the controller it was based on exsisting technology that wasn't really fully used. The only game that comes to mind in motion sensor is samba de migo.
My horrible English doesn't allow me to get into deep conversations (I'd love, however), but anyone who has kept an eye on hardware rarities prior to the Wii controller know that technology has been being used for years... Even for videogames. The P5 Glove indeed is based in a similar concept. But he didn't get any support from the market (not to mention the Japanese). I've always believed that the main success of Nintendo hasn't been manufacturing "this or that" piece of hardware. In fact I also believe that the History of Videogames is very manipulated in this way, giving too much credit to Nintendo because of some concepts which weren't 100% original from this company. In my opinion its success has came from its hability to introduce its new hardware with a good market strategy and software which really gets the best from such hardware. And this includes the thumb pad and the touch-screen.
Exactly! Nintendo takes credit because people remember the implementation of the hardware in the high quality games. You hit the nail right on the head. :clap:
