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Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has said that it won’t release Wii Vitality Sensor until its quality level is where it could approach 99 percent of users.

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Nintendo’s confirmed at its investor meeting that it’s still developing the Vitality Sensor for Wii, as well as confirming a summer launch for Kid Icarus: Uprising on 3DS.

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A patent application for Nintendo’s Wii Vitality Sensor was unearthed this week.

Thankfully, it’s just for Nintendo’s console and not for PS3, otherwise the device would explode when we play something like Demon’s Souls.

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Those wondering why Nintendo’s Wii Vitality Sensor was absent from E3 should instead look froward to seeing it at a different event.

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Shigeru Miyamoto has revealed the new Legend of Zelda for Wii may use the Vitality Sensor.

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Nintendo has trademarked Wii Relax in the US.

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Nintendo of America has told Kotaku that comments made last week by Nintendo president Satoru Iwata were “misinterpreted”.

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Speaking in an interview with Japanese newspaper The Asashi Shimbun, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has said you can expect to hear a lot more of the Wii Vitality Sensor this summer.

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Let’s see those fingers. Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has put a rough date on Wii’s Vitality Sensor for the first time, saying the peripheral will launch in 2010.

“We would like to deliver the actual product not too late in the year next year,” said the exec, speaking in an investor Q&A Nintendo posted in English yesterday.

Iwata then said that a “video game with a theme of relaxation” based on use of the peripheral is in the works at the company.

“We are conducting some tests internally at Nintendo, and found some patterns among our employees, like improving automatic nerve condition as the weekend nears or vice versa,” he said.

“Seeing what their condition is actually like, they can ‘visualize’ how they are looking forward to weekend. And see completely different patterns on each individual person.”

That actually sounds awesome. Hit the link and read answer five.

Reggie Fils-Aime has said that reaction to Nintendo’s Wii Vitality Sensor is the same as when the Balance Board, DS, and the Wii controller were unveiled.

“If I told you that you would be standing on an oversized bathroom scale, and having fun doing it, you probably would have said, ‘Reggie, I don’t get it’”, he told Fast Company. “And yet, here we are with the balance board arguably as the third largest development platform across the globe.

“All I can tell you is, with the game developers that we have, we will bring forth an experience that you will say, ‘Wow, I get it’. Until you have that software, it’s tough to understand.

“There are a 150 million consumers in the markets that we do business, that say they’d be interested in videogames if they had the right content, but today don’t play. Those are the consumers that we believe something like the Vitality Sensor with the right software could compel to get in the game.”

More through Eurogamer.

Asked about his ideas for the Wii Vitality Sensor, Shigeru Miyamoto said today that the peripheral could be used to help people learn to control their blood pressure. Thus, they would be able to relax more fully and de-stress.

Vitality Sensor: the anti-Wii Fit?

The developer was talking in a roundtable discussion at E3 earlier.

The Vitality Sensor was announced in Nintendo’s E3 press conference this afternoon.

In probably the biggest bombshell at this year’s E3, Nintendo company President Satoru Iwata has announced the Wii Vitality Sensor.

It’s a device that recognises your pulse when you shove your finger in it and helps you stay vital, or something.

Looks like a bull-clip. Nasty.