Miyamoto's Thoughts on VR

[FyreeTSG]

VIRTUAL NO

Miyamoto, never afraid to prove why he's one of the most intelligent people in the Gaming World, has offered his opinions on where gaming seems to be going back to, over 15 years AFTER Nintendo's one true fail, the VIRTUAL BOY--he does like where Oculus or Project Morpheus is taking gaming, but is against the fact that SUCH innovations take away from what Nintendo is, in terms of Gaming and where they try to get games to be:

“We've been doing our own experiments with virtual reality dating back to the Virtual Boy. And even to some degree, the 3DS was designed with a little bit of this in mind with its stereoscopic 3D…As game designers, we at Nintendo are interested in VR technology and what it can do, but at the same time what we're trying to do with Wii U is to create games for everyone in the living room."

“When you think about what virtual reality is…that's in direct contrast with what it is we're trying to achieve with Wii U"

What he's saying is that if you're going to play with a VR Game/headset, then you pretty much don't need anything else, and you lose what Gaming is supposed to do--Bring people together, make them family fun, friends playing friends--and not what Nintendo is ever going to lose focus on. Nintendo makes games that attract a WIDER audience than just about every other company.


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--FyreeTSG

[Frostbyte]

True, unless you can make the headsets cheap enough to get enough for the whole family/friends to all play next to each other.

I have seen Project Morpheus in action and you can have multiple people all next to each other playing together, but I'm guessing it's going to be outrageously priced so that wouldn't be feasible for everyone.

[FyreeTSG]

the problem with ANY sort of VR headset is it's just not going to BE profitable enough to be able to COMPETE, and that's what it all comes down to.

I saw the Morpheus thing too, and it does look cool, but it has to attract more than just a small percentage of fans, and with the long-standing BACKLASH from past attempts at Virtual Reality(which is still stuck in the 90's FAD area, tbh), and GIMMICKS don't always work. I mean, just ask Nintendo for the experience, and the serious downfall that the VIRTUAL BOY was--granted it was a pure experiment, and if it HAD worked we'd have seen a lot more evolution and progress in that front--BUT it didn't, and it's taken this long to see another(albeit improved) VR headset.

Sony can't put too much focus on it though, make the PS4 work by itself first--which they have done--but I don't wanna see em' start out STRONG like they did w/ the PS3's early success, and then have it dwindle down all-to-fast, and wind up being another footnote.