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Rumour: Nintendo Wants Flawless Hands?

04.05.2011

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Another rumour doing the rounds this week suggests that Nintendo had begun filming promotional material for E3. It's all about the hands!

According to GoNintendo, videos were snapped in Orange County last week with a prime focus on hands... doing things with what we can presume is Nintendo's latest tech. The likely contender would be the new peripheral for Project Café/Wii2/N6 - according to a @supererogatory Tweet.

The hands "had to be flawless" and "couldn't have blemishes, wrinkles or a lot of hair.

The report is unconfirmed, but if true then a focus on touch/feel would revolve around your hands.

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Sonic_13 04.05.2011#1

I'm not sure how indicative this is of specific console features. Nintendo would want nice hands holding their controller, no matter what. It's basic advertising.

I'm thinking that this probably happened, but now the details are being exaggerated to fit the rumors about the console when really it was probably just a standard hand modeling job.

jb 05.05.2011#2

But why the strong focus on hands? Sure you'd want to model the controller/hardware, but with the Wii it was families, young and old having fun, there's barely a closeup on the Wii Remote despite that being the core focus. With the strong focus on hands, if true, it must be to do with the controller/feeling.

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welshwuff 05.05.2011#3

I have vitiligo, guess im not to nintendo's standards... ;.;

Sonic_13 05.05.2011#4

jb said:
There's barely a closeup on the Wii Remote despite that being the core focus.

There are lots of close ups of the Wii remote, Wii Wheel, and Motion+ (all with nice hands holding them). Here are some:

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EDIT: Found one from Sony for the Move

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( Edited 05.05.2011 01:45 by Sonic_13 )

EthanOfNewBark 05.05.2011#5

I was just talking to my Alg 1 teacher about The Wizard, so I have a suggestion: a revamped Power Glove, but much slimmer and it doesn't cover the hands completely. Possibly the control system for the new Wii! Smilie

On November 21st (in North America), you'll know where to find me... knee deep in empty styrofoam ramen noodle cups, swinging a Wii remote+ around with my massive arms I will have developed from playing Skyward Sword for 20 straight hours...

Squidboy 05.05.2011#6

jb said:
But why the strong focus on hands? Sure you'd want to model the controller/hardware, but with the Wii it was families, young and old having fun, there's barely a closeup on the Wii Remote despite that being the core focus. With the strong focus on hands, if true, it must be to do with the controller/feeling.

It ties in well with the rumour of Haptic technology being used in "Nintendo Feel".

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Squeakmaster 05.05.2011#7

Yea EthanOfNewBark said what I was thinking. The new controller could be some type of glove instead of a controller than can slip out of your hands. That would probably make me buy that NGP

Angus 05.05.2011#8

I'm just glad they're not looking for feet.

Uzi Suicide 05.05.2011#9

Could they be pushing Haptic Feedback? Some off topic observations ahead, (bare with me you may find something here you didnt know before or maybe not, but its an insight in how intricate Nintendo have been in the past) but one things for sure, alleged being aesthetically reminiscent of the Super Famicom, it will somehow feature 'The Four Nintendo Colours' red, yellow, blue and green, as the Super Famicom and every home console since, N64 controllers featured this tradition, as did the GC, which had 64 holes on either side making 128 (bit) i believe the GC used a gekko cpu, a flipper gpu (project dolphin) and used splash memory, within the build of the console, the memory situated at the bottom of the cubed shaped hardware, then the flipper, then the gekko, (japanese for moon?) painting a picture of a dolphin breaking the surface of the waves in the moonlight.
Also the Wii carried the mark in its power button indicator, red for standby, green for powered, yellow online, and the blue diskslot light. (which flashes in sync with the morning call of a japanese bird when you have an update.
The 3DS breaks the rule in being the first handheld (may have to double check my GB Micro) to feature the colours, though (like Wii) you dont see them all unless you open the 3DS, and turn on the wifi, power light blue, wifi yellow, 3D slider green, turn on the camera mode for the reddish pink glow of the Super Famicom/NES power light.
Forget speculation, this information concrete, it might not be much but just remember you heard it here first.

Sonic_13 05.05.2011#10

Squidboy said:
It ties in well with the rumour of Haptic technology being used in "Nintendo Feel".

I feel like haptic feedback would drive up the cost too much of what is already (with a rumored 6" touch screen) likely going to be a somewhat pricey controller.