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Nintendo Gaming / The Nintendo Wi-Fi Weather Station

« on: November 06, 2005, 12:30:49 AM »

For those who don't know, this is a basic weather station:

Wireless touchscreen weather station.

The station is a fairly basic proposition, consisting of a Base receiver (screen/computer,) that communicates with little sensors out in your garden or on your verandah, giving you readings on such things as temperature, humidity, wind speed, sunlight, rainfall, air pressure and whatever else you can imagine. They can give you forecasts, save your extreme conditions and other cool stuff. Being a weather freak and storm lover, I think these things are fantastic. That being said their cost is usually ridiculous, and I've never actually had one myself.

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That seems to be a fairly simple one... And it costs about as much as an Xbox 360. The thought came to me today, since the Revolution and DS are going to be, and are wirelessly capable, wouldn't they make a perfect base for a weather station?

I take it the cost of such a weather station decreases dramatically when you don't have to custom make an LCD base receiver. Instead, you would put a disc in your Revolution or a cartridge in your DS, and away they go! Data could be viewed on your TV or DS screen, the DS's touchscreen being even better! Nintendo could design the whole software around fun graphics and make it really cool and interactive.  

Furthermore, data could be saved on Revolution's flash memory for you to tally up yearly rainfall and what not. Obviously there'd be some technical issues with the fact your Nintendo Wi-Fi weather station wouldn't be monitoring things 24/7, but these things can be worked around.

Overall I thought it'd be a pretty interesting idea for a non-game type application that draws in an adult oriented market.

Thoughts?

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General Gaming / XBOX's media aspirations

« on: January 11, 2004, 02:41:55 AM »

In an address to kick off the International Consumer Electronics Show, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates introduced technology that allows users to take their Windows Media Centre PCs and any digital photos, music and video running on the platform, and display them on TVs or other entertainment devices.

By acting as a bridge between the PC and home entertainment centres, the extender technology marks a potentially powerful tool for the computing industry's aggressive push into the nation's living rooms, said Tim Bajarin, industry analyst with Creative Strategies.

Mr Gates said Microsoft also plans to make an adaptor kit with the technology for its Xbox gaming console, essentially turning the gaming device into a receiver for the Media Centre.

Maybe the Xbox is just one small part of a Microsoft grand plan. Hence all the money they're throwing away with it.

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General Gaming / RE: PSP to target apple and iPod? huh? as low as 60 dollars?

« on: January 10, 2004, 02:23:26 AM »

Well... there is potential for both companies to benefit greatly here.

Apple's iPod is being attacked by Sony's PSP.
Nintendo's GameBoy is being attacked by Sony's PSP.

If Apple were to make an iPod that could play GameBoy games, for a reasonable fee payable to Nintendo, then the iPod has a model to compete with PSP. Apple benefits from having the full GameBoy library playable on their machine.

No need for Nintendo to make hardware that has all the features of the PSP. They would continue to make theire GameBoy only hardware at a much cheaper price, while the iPod/GameBoy 'hybrid' would compete directly with the PSP in there own expensive market.

Nintendo would still be selling all the software and making big money, which is exactly what they want.

Apple would be filling the space needed to combat the PSP.


I am assuming this is for the Gameboy Advance SP successor.

Forgive me if i'm stupid and don't know what i'm talking about but it seems like a fair idea...