Relax, the Vitality Sensor is Still in Development

YES

The peripheral gods have smiled upon us all!

there on the pulse with that one

I never remembered about the vitality thing sensor till I saw this piece of news O__o

Couple vitality sensor with some brain wave reading hat and eye movement tracker and viola, you've got the next revolutionary controller. Stop the heart to make a double jump, anyone?

I want this for action. and horrorgames! High pulse -> bad vision, shaky hands etc..

I hope that this is just an add-on for the next console and not the primary controller. I agree witht the above post, this could work really well with horrot games.

meh

? ... I'm not sure what this is going to be, but hopefully it's NOT the new controller.

...please do not suggest that my beloved controller with a streaming screen on it may in fact be... THIS. Although I wouldn't mind it being connected to me during a Resident Evil game, a Silent Hll game, or a Tifa dating sim, you guys should probably forget I said that last one, lol.

...man, do I have Tifa on the brain this morning or what? Hmmm...

My finger is ready.

...wow, what are the odds this story would come up after my comment in the Conduit 2 review?

so, where would the touchscreen fit on that small thing?

... All right?

I said it a million times and i will say it again. It will be added into the new controller and that is the new gimmick nintendo is going to show at E3 this year

Oh, thank God! I was so worried!

I hope that this is the new way of controlling your character. Be afraid to move forward, be calm to move to the left, be somewhere in between to move right. NICE GOING NINTENDO!!

I don't think I would pay anything for that thing. If it was any good it would have been out a while ago and I can't see it being anything more then a gimmick. ROB ring a bell or the under used light gun.

I think that the vitality sensor actually has potential with the right system. Imagine if a game like Mario could alter the layout and difficulty of a level on the fly to match your condition (so it ups the difficulty if your heart rate is low and lowers it if your heart rate is too high). I don't think that it'd work too well in it's current form though, but it could be implemented in a regular controller by putting the conductive strips on the back of it.

Please be used on 3rd party stuff as well, I wanna see RE use it as a scareradar

I think Nintendo is going to use ths for a new spin off from the "Excitebike" series. Something more exciting then motorcross, I am thinking something more "hardcore" if you will...

Nintendo would have to spend millions on just telling reasons why you need it i.e. you don't. Nintendo is a games company, itneeds to remember that sometimes

I wouldn't be surprised if the vitality sensor was part of the PROJECT Cafe package. I am very interested to see some of the options that Nintendo has up their sleeves with this new console. Please let it be please be able to run UNREAL ENGINE 3!!!!

Meh. I don't care either way.

That device just screams for an Eternal Darkness followup. I think once the "under development" ends, the new system will be out and it will be one of the launching accessories for it.

I'm still curious as to where you would put this when playing games that require two hands. I can think of one place, but it's not really appropriate and it won't work for females.

how will this be used? 6 and 19 have some good ideas.

@ 20
Wouldn`t that be "Fraidar"? lol

That thing better clip fingernails, or I won't buy it.

@Dragoon Trainer It should also shine em while at it

Token Girl beat me to it.

The puns. They buuuuuuuurrrrrrrrn!

So many puns.... O.O

@30 LOL yeah thats better

"Could the Vitality Sensor even be the controller for Nintendo's next home console?"

I say YES!! (Just joking)

Less gimmicky peripherals, more focus on the core necessities, Nintendo! How many Motion Plus games you got? Or Wii Zapper? No, never mind that, we need to follow Sega's mid-90's gameplan!

"Here are all the games you want on the 3DS, here's a new consoles that does all kinds of stuff and is very powerful and HD and all, and here is the new Zelda...it's finished.......ah yes, and here's the vitality sensor, a peripharal for a dead console...something the other consoles have been using for a year now."

Will be an amazing reveal. ^^

BTW....wasn't there a rumour once that Silent Hill shatterd memories was supposed to use the thing, just as sgotch (post 6) is suggesting...I'm actually really sure I remember reading this and then it came out...and nothing.

I can't wait to stand in line at Best Buy for 3 hours to get my Wii Vitality Sensor and Wii Vitality Sports Mini-Game Collection that features full Mii Support! Then come home and sit on the couch with my awesome new Vitality Sensor on my finger and my feet on my Wii Balance Board, and do .... um..... something! No better way to spend $90!

But, the only problem that I see is that Mii's don't have a finger to put the Vitality Sensor on, so how is that going to work?

Who was getting worked up?...

Ummmm ... who cares?

While i don't think it will be the main controller for Nintendo's next console it could be good for a seamless difficulty adaption like
CaPPa (comment 19) mentioned.
This could be a main feature for the next console then because it would allow casual players to play a game like GTA, BioShock or Call Of Duty with a level of difficulty they can easily handle and by which they won't get frustrated over and over again.
Of course there could at least be some cool ways it's used in horror games or Tetris-like games like mentioned years before.
So all in all i'm very interested to see its actual impact on games in practice.

Interesting...

umm... okayz...

I can just imagine how much this will cost...