Well Miyamoto is at it again. He knows very good and well every time he starts talking about the future of gaming that us little gamers everywhere all start to have our little wet dreams about a home virtual reality console. However, that doesn’t seem to be stopping him from flapping the trap. We’ll get to that in a second, in the mean time let’s start this article off with a couple quotes from Nintendo’s leadership to make things spicy.
Nintendo President Satoru Iwata on the Nintendo Revolution, “We invented the current way a console is played - in front of a television and holding a controller - but maybe that image will change.”
I know, this is one of those mysterious comments. So let’s take a gander and break it down.
So we can 100% without a doubt infer from Iwata’s quote that at least one of two things will change when it comes to the Nintendo Revolution. Either 1. An aspect of the Revolution, optional or standard, will eliminate the need for a television - or 2. We will not be holding a controller.
Obviously we know that we will be holding a controller, we have seen the controller with our own eyes finally and I think every one of us who are sane can tell that it is meant to be held. So that leaves us with one option, a TV does not have to be used.
If you do not agree then you are blind to the painfully obvious option of some sort of new display. So now the question is what kind of new display will it be?
Another quote:
Nintendo Producer/Director Shigeru Miyamoto on how he would change gaming if he could have his way (which he has a very high influence in Nintendo), “I think maybe if I could do anything, I would make it so you don’t have to sit in front of a TV and play. If you could have a machine that you just plugged in and played inside a virtual world that - would be just great.”
So right about now, in combination with the giant shockwave Nintendo On sent through the gaming masses, visors are on everyone’s mind. We aren’t talking Virtual Boy here. Visors have become much different and highly advanced.
So some of you might be thinking Miyamoto was just answering the question. Just saying what he would do if he had high influence in the gaming industry. It’s not like he would ever say something like that twice when he knows that everything he says imbues massive speculation throughout the gaming community. What if the Revolution has no optional or standard VR aspect? He wouldn’t say something that could potentially lead gamers to dissapointment and bring down the Revolution’s wow factor when comes the full unveiling. He certainly wouldn’t say that twice!
Think again.
During an interview with Business Week when asked what he thought was in store for the future of gaming Miyamoto described a future in which televisions are no more, “It’s convenient to make games that are played on TVs,” he said. “But I always wanted to have a custom-sized screen that wasn’t the typical four-cornered cathode-ray-tube TV. I’ve always thought that games would eventually break free of the confines of a TV screen to fill an entire room. But I would rather not say anything more about that.”
We know the Nintendo Revolution won’t be emitting some giant hologram that you have to physically run around in, so this is definitely Miyamoto talking about a visor of some sort. Tsk tsk Miyamoto. How dare you torture us so! Especially since a visor would work so perfect with the Nintendo Revolution controller.
Nintendo said there would be a full unveiling of the Nintendo Revolution before the end of the year. Recent news suggests that the Nintendo Revolution internal hardware specifics may not be released this year at all. Currently it is speculated that perhaps we may get news around December 2nd. I guess we’ll just have to wait to see what the rest of Nintendo’s tricks include. In the mean time, keep dreaming, it looks like it may very well pay off after all. -TE
