Hand controllers are for the birds….Or so Nintendo believes. Check out the report below:
Leading microchip manufacturer Intel believes Nintendo’s successor to the best-selling Wii console won’t come with hand controllers.
“We imagine some future generation of [Nintendo’s] Wii won’t have hand controllers,” said Justin Rattner, the company’s chief technology officer.
“You just set up the cameras around the room and wave your hand like you’re playing tennis.”
Intel has been speaking to Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo regarding what chips might power the next round of consoles. According to Business Week, the firm is keen not to miss the opportunity to get involved in the next generations of games systems after it was beaten to it by IBM for the current models.
Intel claims its newly developed microchips are capable of 1 trillion calculations per second. This is far in advance of the current IBM Cell processor, which is only capable of running at around 256 million calculations per second.
My Thoughts:
In all honesty I have no idea what to think. It is obvious that Nintendo really hit it out of the ball park with their 5th console Wii attracting legions of new gamers while retaining basically all of the Nintendo fan base that they have built over their illustrious career. On the other hand, how the heck would I control all of my favorite franchises without the use of a “hand controller”.
I am VERY interested to see what you guys have to say so leave us a comment in the comment section and let us know. Interesting stuff to say the least.
Game On.