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Nintendo Working On Football Controller
Siliconera found patent filings from Nintendo for a football controller addon that will work with the Wii. After tucking the Wii Remote into a lateral slot on the football, you slip your hand through a strap so that your fingers touch the Remote's buttons. Then you mimic running and throwing, which is interpreted by the accelerometer. 'The pitch angle and force of the throw determines the trajectory arc of the throw. Side to side motion determines the yaw angle. Pressing buttons on the Wii remote can adjust other options.' The device is described as 'squishy,' so your TV is probably safe, but I'd try it at a friend's house first.
But hey, that's me, that's why I now own a 360 after having sold my wii. I'm sure as hell not their target, so what do I know.
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I frankly don't see this working out too well without the MotionPlus' accuracy.
As a european my first thought was "that sounds really dangerous", then I read the whole summary and realized that they were talking about what some people like to refer to as a "handegg" and not an actual football.
/Mikael
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someone needs to let them know you're not supposed to touch the football with your hands
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Ok this is getting rather ridiculous. What's the point of having such a controller? If you're doing all that running around and stuff anyway, why not just go out and ... you know, do some actual sports?
Why are they doing all of this and still leaving behind the single best application of the wiimote - swordfights. That's the only place where I can see a benefit from doing sports electronically since it's a lot friendlier to slash at your friends with an electronic sword rather than a real one.
What's next? Everyone wears a Wiimote-shirt that can read smashing into other players so it can translate said readings into electronic caricatures of the game?
...I'm not so sure this design will ever hit market. Nintendo's got a bit of a history for filing patents on applications of the Wii Remote and never following through with them.
Is all the defensive Americans marking as Troll anything that highlights the ridiculousness of calling this particular game "Football". As a European, I had exactly the same reaction as another poster: that putting the Wiim-mote inside a football would be dangerous.
As it transpires, it's not actually a football, but for some twisted reason, it's still called that.
I used to read European news sites and blogs, and wonder why they would write the word "football" when they meant "soccer." Then I reminded myself that I was reading a European news site or blog, and I would feel really, really foolish. But that was years ago, and I've become much more cosmopolitan now.
One of the key rules of business is to know your market opportunities and cater to the larger segment. Clearly football has become the biggest and most popular sport in the US(sorry baseball) and they are going after a huge demographic by catering to them. Being a big football fan myself who doesn't own a wii, but like the idea of my kids playing football someday, I may purchase one so we can play when we can't go outside and use the real thing.
I'm assuming this will require the Wii Motion Plus to work accurately. However, one of the biggest complaints I've seen with the Wii Motion Plus is that it makes the Wii remote too unwieldy, especially with the necessity of the "jacket" wrapped around it. It's beyond my understanding why along with the Wii remote add-on Nintendo didn't just release a new Wii remote with the Wii Motion Plus functionality built in (well, i suppose they wanted the money made from the peripheral). Not to mention, a new version of the Wii Remote will fit much more easily into a football controller.
For most of the world that's not football.
If you want to play football, go outside and play some fucking football. This is getting ridiculous. How about some actual games now? This is why my Wii has been collecting dust since Mario Galaxy.
Please replace all references to "football" in the summary with "throwball".
Thank you for your patience.
Now a proper footy game for the Wii, that would be interesting. Maybe they could strap a Wiimote to each leg or something.
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Nintendo Working On X Controller
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Nintendo making a cheap replica of X and sticking a Wiimote to or in it.
There's a popular new game called Wii Sports Resort that uses a position-sensitive controller add-on to simulate several sports. One of them is Swordplay. You can jab, slice, and block your friend or computer characters. There's even a Nerf sword you can stick the controller into if you want to feel a little more dorky.
"Wow! I could swear I was really playing virtual skeeball!"
The Problem and cause of misunderstandings is, that the colonials are calling their girly protection version of rugby "Football"
You mean they play American Football while wearing tampons?!! This explains a lot.
After reading the title I thought that Nintendo was actually /working/ and that this might be worth reading.
TBH sounds like one of a million more Wii/DS add ons to compensate for a sub-par gaming system.
Useless attachment to plug onto my Wiimote for a single game that will cease to be fun after a couple of months, thus becoming a complete waste.
Seriously, The Wii was a great idea when you filled in the blanks with your wii-mote. When all you had was the nunchuck to add on and you could turn that into a rifle. Or turning that combo into a fishing rod.
It started with the Racing wheel, which I could ALMOST understand. It does make it a little easier to drive, though its not like it was difficult. But then Nintendo realized... Hey... We made alot of money selling this attachment, because everyone wants at least 2 steering wheels... and then BAM, theres an attachment for everything, even games that worked fine before without attachments *cough*Tennis*cough*. And no one wants to have to switch the attachments after each minigame, you spend as much time prepping for the game as you do playing the game.
Don't get me wrong, I like Nintendo, this all just seems like a Cash Grab, and they've discovered they've got enough fanbase for it to work. The only things I ever want to see with a Wii are a Nun-chuck and the wii-fit board.
You know what, no. I play video games just like everyone else but this is just retarded.
I'm not paying twice as much for a fake football that will be obsolete in a few years. Get off your fat ass, go outside, and play with a real football you lazy bastard.
At least, that's what my parent's would have said if I wanted one of these as a kid.
Wanna fight ? Bend over, stick your head up your ass, and fight for air.
In order to further international understanding and harmony let me explain the differences between 'futbol' and 'football'.
Futbol is sport in which tiny little guys dressed in their underwear run around a field the size of the state of Connecticut kicking a balloon. Nothing EVER happens on a futbol field so the fans take it upon themselves to entertain each other by beating the crap out of each other in the stands. And in the streets. And airports. And bars. And, I assume, in their neighborhoods.
Football is a sport in which huge, hulking steroid-engorged freaks of nature mostly stand around waiting for the TV commercial break to end wearing body armor adapted from the game "Unreal Tournament" and then kicking the crap out of each other for some reason.
Futbol holds the award for being the first participatory spectator sport and football holds the award for being the first sport to feature mostly-naked women bouncing around for your edification.
Clear?
Done and done.
Yup, football sure is sissified.
'Z' is notable as the only English letter to have three names. You've mentioned the most common two -- Zee, and Zed, which incidentally is related to the German name for it, Tsett (the 'Z' is usually a 'ts' sound in German). That said, there is a third not-so-well-known name for the letter, found in some areas of Appalachia -- Izzard. I suspect that the UK comedian Eddie Izzard is riffing off this, but I don't know him or his work at all.
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A foot pound is a unit of energy, not force.
When a thug pounds his foot into your head, your skull and spine absorb the energy from the shock. If this causes structural failure, you won't care about dimensional analysis.