First announced back in 2009 at E3, Nintendo have confirmed that the Nintendo Wii Vitality Sensor (the accessory that could read stress levels) will not be coming anytime soon and has been put on hold… for a while at least.
Speaking to shareholders, Nintendo’s president Satoru Iwata said:
“The Wii Vitality Sensor was under development as an accessory for Wii. We thought it would be interesting to understand how the human autonomic nerve functions while using the Wii Vitality Sensor, and we did develop trial software and showed the media some of its features. However, after a large-scale test of a prototype inside the company, we found out that for some people, the sensor did not work as expected. We wondered if we should commercialize a product which works as expected for 90 people out of 100, but not so for the other 10 people. Though I am sorry that we did not give any specific updates after this product’s initial announcement, I would say that knowing that a product has a problem, we should not launch it for the sole reason that we have already announced it.”
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[Source: Nintendo via GameSpot]
