Topic: new nintendo console(not the gamecube or gba successor)

[KDR_11k]

SearanoX: Nope, I think it's a problem with the brain or something.

[MysticalMatt517]

A note on the depth perception thing:

My dad has the same problem. What happens is that one eye is not entirely straight. In other words, when you look straight ahead one eye points dead straight and the other eye is just slightly off. It doesn't have to be a big amount... You usually can't tell just by looking at the person. Am I making sense? It's not like one eye is dead straight and another it at the complete opposite side of the socket, it's just that it's mis-aligned just enough to cause a problem.

What then happens is that the brain get two differen't images. It tries to put them together, but can't make any logical sense out of it. Consequently the brain just ignores the mis-aligned images and viola - depth perception problems. The thing is that if you close either one of your eyes your brain is only receiving one signal, so you can "technically" see out of both eyes, but your brain doesn't put the two pictures together.

At least that's how it worked for dad. There may be other causes - I dunno.  

[Bill Aurion]

Famitsu reports that the new piece of hardware will play games already out...If that isn't proof of an Ique-esque console, I don't know what is...

[Edisim]

Hey Super,

... Your icon/avatar. Just what the hell is that anyway? (no offense. I just can't tell what it is, that's all)

... Faust?

[Bill Aurion]

Correct

[KDR_11k]

I doubt Famitsu has more information than anybody else, they're just speculating.

[Kanzensan]

The only thing I can thnk of is something similar to a portable DVD player which has a 7" screen. Much like a notebook I guess but a lot smaller and will have a GBA cart slot and a GC drive. The device will play both GC & GBA games and have wireless capability to communicate with other devices. I'd personally like that as the next console so you can take it and play anywhere and as it had a screen there are no issues hooking it up to a TV if you are away from your home to hook it up to your normal TV and hifi system.

Only an idea.

[Mario]

I think it wont use normal game control pads. There will be some 'other' way of controlling the game.

[KDR_11k]

Portable + Rumble + CD drive = FUN!

[joeamis]

One thing: Virtual Boy was not VR, it was just a screen inside a headset, it did not detect movement (nintendo's product is supposed to be for detecting movement).  VB was too heavy, too expensive, and only one color, basicallly ahead of it's time for portable consoles, and in a bad way.  We're on the brink of virtual reality headsets, it's only a number of years until they're common.

Now another thing is: people are speculating on here that the mystery product is a device that can play gba or gc games, or a portable dvd player, etc, the fact is the new device is not something that does what gba and gc does, but rather complements them, nintendo is not going to release something that can do what  gc and gba do alone.

[Edisim]

Actually, I kinda like where Kanzensan is going. I don't believe nintendo would release a product that would render the GC and GBA obsolete (or less attractive anyway) and claim that it would co-exist with or compliment the two systems as a "third pillar", though. But I do like the idea of a portable dvd-player/laptop - esque screen that you could plug the GC or GBA into.. If it were a widescreen, you could potentially have games that utilize the GC-GBA connection both show up on one screen. And perhaps the unit could function alone as a portable emulator station that would play n64, snes, and nes games that Nintendo would sell cheaply in disc form (plays existing games), or that you could download into memory. It could even play DVD's and CDs, and (wishful thinking) even have a built-in TV tuner. Sort of like Nintendo's answer to the "entertainment machine" that the PS2 and Xbox try to be. Only portable. And cool. In that slightly otaku way.

Maybe the wireless communication feature is to link up multiple gamecubes easily at any place without wires... and hell, maybe you could even access the internet or get email on this thing.. maybe it could even serve as a harddrive for the GC.

But I still wonder why Nintendo wants to release it simultaneously worldwide...
 

[Guitar Smasher]

Actually, I think we're quite far away from 'true' VR.  What I mean by that is that there is no helmet, no screen.  You do not use your body senses to play the game.  Rather, the game is created in your brain, through brain waves, so that that in no way you can doubt that it's real.  You think it's real, you react mentally as if it's real, but your body does nothing.  You are actually afraid of dying, because you don't know it's not real.  That's my vision, something that wont' be achievable in the next 75 years.  

[KDR_11k]

Guitar: That'd be evil. Who knows what else they put in your brain? Commercials?

[Pale]

I just had a thought...seeing as all these announcements are so over hyped by us....I bet this is just gonna be the freaking lcd screen from e3.

[Shift Key]

Egad. So many ifs and maybes. Don't get your hopes up too high, because its likely to be unlike anything we can think of.

Never Happening!!?!?!!11!!@!!! RUN AWAY!!!!111!!!

[Nightingale]

VR helmet??
Will Nintendo try again? after the failed virtual boy console on the market an almost decade ago?