Topic: Wii Vitality Sensor *expanding the blue ocean*

[Stratos]

Obviously, it makes no difference to me whether it gets released or not.  But all the time and cash that has gone into this completely unnecessary device that no one asked for could have been put into something a lot more worthwhile.

Like localizing a few Wii games we've been pining for these last few years.

My point exactly.

Every time I think of that list of DS and Wii games that never came here I die a little inside...

[Shorty McNostril]

Other more useful hardware could also have been worked on.  Or even some work to improve what is already there.  But anyway, crying about what COULD have been does nothing but make me miserable.  Instead we must focus on the here and now.

*sob*

[Stratos]

This is why I drink.

[Mop it up]

I doubt Nintendo spent very much time and money on this project, especially considering we haven't seen a hint of software for it, and I doubt even more that the team of people who developed it are the same who would work on the kinds of things that you people are talking about, like localizing games or improving existing hardware (like, say... the Wii Remote Plus?).

[Stratos]

Money can be spent in any department. And the Vitality Sensor money could have been allocated to localization or even used to absorb the possible financial ht that poor sales of said lost games could have caused.

[Mop it up]

You might have a point if Nintendo weren't worth over $20 billion. Their decisions are based on what they want to do, not what they have the money to do.

[Stratos]

You might have a point if Nintendo weren't worth over $20 billion. Their decisions are based on what they want to do, not what they have the money to do.

Not the way they tend to act. They still look to sell systems at a profit even though they could stand to afford a slight loss. They are always cutting things that don't seem to be making a profit for them (like when they sold Rare). They are a business and always look to not run product at a loss. If they really weren't worried about that we'd have seen a few of these games released.

[Mop it up]

Therefore, the decision to not release said games has to do with Nintendo believing they won't sell, not because Nintendo developed the Vitality Sensor, right?