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Nintendo president not impressed by iPad, doubts people will take to 3D gaming |
Listed in: Wii, PS3, Nintendo DS, iPhone Tags: apple, Nintendo, Satoru Iwata
Nintendo's Satoru Iwata is not impressed by the recently-announced iPad. In an interview with the New York Times, Iwata called the iPad nothing more than a big iPod Touch.
"It was a bigger iPod Touch," said Iwata. "There were no surprises for me." Apple officially announced the iPad on Wednesday.
The Nintendo president also expressed misgivings towards 3D videogaming. Although he welcome 3D movies in theaters, he remained critical of 3D's encroachment into the home gaming space.
''I have doubts whether people will be wearing glasses to play games at home. How is that going to look to other people?'' said Iwata, who also added that Nintendo will have to look into possible health effects that come with prolonged 3D gaming.
As for their new hardware, Iwata outright denied rumors that Nintendo is working on motion control-equipped DS and Wii HD. He did add however that Nintendo engineers are working on new machines.
Via [NYT]
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Kinda like how the DSi LL is a big DS?
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Come on, Apple, you can do better than that iTablet (iPad).
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As if swinging around with a remote would look "normal" for any person not involved....
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Second, 3D gaming is probably going to be the future, but what about people who already wear glasses and can't get contacts? What do they have for them? Maybe he's still mad about the Virtual Boy lol
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It was all in black and red. But it did have some good games.
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With that said, Satoru is an idiot. He should get to know the products he's talking about before talking about them. The iPad is nothing more then a large iPhone!!! Not iPod. The iPad runs a fork of the iPhone OS. The iPod OS is a fork from the iPhone OS as well. To my knowledge the iPod Touch doesn't have either GPS or 3G data capabilities. The only difference with the iPad OS from the iPhone OS is it's missing the actual phone app and other apps have been upgraded.
The iPad is a total failure in my mind. Steve claims this unit is between a netbook and laptop? BS!!! It's BELOW a netbook. With a netbook I can browse the ENTIRE WEB. This iPad POS unit has no flash support!!! And why the hell did they NOT include a camera? Can you imagine the major sales point of sitting somewhere all casual like and carrying on a video chat with someone? That alone could have sold the unit. Also with a netbook you can run MORE THEN ONE APP AT A TIME!!!! This unit, being nothing more then an iPhone can only run one app at a time (aside from system specific apps).
FAIL!!!!
The iPad is too expensive to be a gaming machine. That's not it's market so WTF Satoru is even commenting on it in that manor is beyond any logical thought process. However, with that aside, YES there will be some kick ass games made for it because they WILL SELL A LOT of these and games will sell like hot cakes.
Honestly, if I had $500 (or $630 or whatever the 3G addition is) to piss out my rear I would buy one just so I could play my app store games on a 9" screen. Now if the damn thing would support flash I would buy it in a heartbeat!!!! Money well spent for me at that point but nope, Steve has his head up his ass as always!!!
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That sums that paragraph up nicely
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQnT0zp8Ya4
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What about the people with 1 eye? How come they can't get 3d to work that way? How come they have all this damn technology out there & they can't seen to have it work for people with 1 eye??? Really! I know they can! But I bet are to lazy to since there aren't to many people out there with 1 working eye.
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people with one eye cannot see in 3d period. not in even real life. you need two eyes for that.
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"its jjust like a bigger ds, nothing suprising"
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Good points on the ridiculous wiimote action, at least shutterglasses look like sunglasses, which most people think look cool.
Hey, didn't nintendo consider making a Head-Mounted display for the wii originally?
You'll see 3D gaming hit consoles in a big way once the HDTV's can do refresh rates higher than 80Hz, and they include depolarization filters in them.
Better yet, lenticular autostereo displays that require no glasses, then nintendo won't have any excuses!
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