Wii Vitality Sensor

Wii Vitality Sensor headlines

• Wii Vitality Sensor: Nintendo didn't know what to do with it, suggests neuro-technology professor

  Nintendo’s long-absent Vitality Sensor was unveiled at E3 2009 and has since fallen by the wayside. Speaking to the press at the NeuroGaming Conference in San Francisco, professor Roger Quy from neuro-technology firm Technology Partners has shed light on why it may have failed.

• Nintendo: Vitality Sensor to hit 99 percent quality approach before release, Kinect not impacting Wii sales

  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.

• Nintendo still developing Vitality Sensor, Kid Icarus 3DS hitting this summer

  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.

• Patent application for Wii Vitality Sensor shows the device can recognize breathing patterns

  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.

• Wii Vitality Sensor to be shown at "other venues", says Dunaway

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

• Wii Vitality Sensor for new Zelda is possible, says Miyamoto

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

• Nintendo trademarks Wii Relax in US

  Nintendo has trademarked Wii Relax in the US.

• Nintendo: Iwata's comments on new handheld were "misinterpreted

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

• More on the Wii Vitality Sensor this July, says Iwata

  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.

• Wii Vitality Sensor to launch "not too late" in 2010, "relaxation" game in works

  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 […]

• Reggie says that people will "get" Nintendo's Vitality Sensor

  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'”, […]

• Miyamoto: Wii Vitality Sensor could be used to help people learn to relax

  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. […]

• Iwata announces Wii Vitality Sensor

  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.