Nintendo No Longer Pushing Vitality Sensor

<p>First announced back in 2009 at E3&comma; Nintendo have confirmed that the Nintendo Wii Vitality Sensor &lpar;the accessory that could read stress levels&rpar; will not be coming anytime soon and has been put on hold&&num;8230&semi; for a while at least&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Speaking to shareholders&comma; Nintendo&&num;8217&semi;s president Satoru Iwata said&colon;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The Wii Vitality Sensor was under development as an accessory for Wii&period; We thought it would be interesting to understand how the human autonomic nerve functions while using the Wii Vitality Sensor&comma; and we did develop trial software and showed the media some of its features&period; However&comma; after a large-scale test of a prototype inside the company&comma; we found out that for some people&comma; the sensor did not work as expected&period; We wondered if we should commercialize a product which works as expected for 90 people out of 100&comma; but not so for the other 10 people&period; Though I am sorry that we did not give any specific updates after this product’s initial announcement&comma; I would say that knowing that a product has a problem&comma; we should not launch it for the sole reason that we have already announced it&period;”<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>What did you think of the vitality sensor when it was first announced&quest; Would you have purchased one for yourself if they were released&quest; Let us know at our Facebook page&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;Source&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;nintendo&period;co&period;jp&sol;ir&sol;en&sol;stock&sol;meeting&sol;130627qa&sol;03&period;html">Nintendo<&sol;a> via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;uk&period;gamespot&period;com&sol;news&sol;nintendo-putting-vitality-sensor-on-hold-6411100">GameSpot<&sol;a>&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"zemanta-pixie" style&equals;"margin-top&colon; 10px&semi; height&colon; 15px&semi;"><img class&equals;"zemanta-pixie-img" style&equals;"border&colon; none&semi; float&colon; right&semi;" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;img&period;zemanta&period;com&sol;pixy&period;gif&quest;x-id&equals;669e6456-e1bd-4a0c-89b2-06114b1d654a" alt&equals;"" &sol;><&sol;div>&NewLine;