Nintendo To Announce Virtual Boy 2

SlappingOysters writes Nintendo has officially unveiled the development of its next home console, codenamed the NX. This article at finder puts forward the case that Nintendo will be stepping back into the virtual realty game with a follow-up to its ill-fated 1995 peripheral, the Virtual Boy. It would be going head-to-head with the Vive, Project Morpheus and the much-rumoured, not yet announced, Microsoft VR unit.

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What?

[doramjan]

Is it April 1 already?

I hope that they don't call it "Virtual Boy 2"

[VitrosChemistryAnaly]

Youngsters will have never heard of a "Virtual Boy" and will be confused by the name while old fogies (like myself) will remember just how bad the Virtual Boy was and make sure to steer clear of the "Virtual Boy 2".

I actually read TFA...gasp..and no they didn't

[Guru80]

Actually no, they didn't announce a damn thing you completely inaccurate headline and summary. They very well might but that is just one article speculating at what they might announce based on what other companies are doing.

Re:I actually read TFA...gasp..and no they didn't

[EmeraldBot]

Actually no, they didn't announce a damn thing you completely inaccurate headline and summary. They very well might but that is just one article speculating at what they might announce based on what other companies are doing.

It gets better. At the end, the author mentions, "Here I come, Hyrule!" To me, that implies nostalgic reflection on the many fond hours of gameplay he had playing a Zelda game on his original Virtual Boy. Only one problem: Nintendo never released a Zelda game for the Virtual Boy.

Nintendo Xylophone

[TraumaFox]

Posting an article's baseless speculation about what an announcement means takes away all the fun of letting us baselessly speculate about what an announcement means.

Clickbait - shame on you Slashdot

[Anonymous Coward]

The article is pure speculation, this story has no reason being here, and the title is clickbait.

Re:Headaches part 2 electric boogaloo

[ArcadeMan]

Here's hoping you don't have to sit the thing on a table, lean forward awkwardly and stare at 2 colors[...]

It was four shades of red, you insensitive clod!

No wait, it says:

Reflection Technologies Inc. SLA Model P4 – monochromatic red, LED display
384 x 224 pixel resolution (produced by mechanically scanning each 1 × 224 LED array)
Four simultaneous shades per 4-pixel column (black + 3 red, of approximately 128 levels of intensity)
50 Hz[6] double-buffered frame rate

What is "four shades per 4-pixel column" supposed to mean? And how does black + three shades of red (2-bit) turns into 128 levels of intensity (7-bit)?

Clickbait Title

[Anonymous Coward]

Is this really what Slashdot is coming to? The linked post is purely speculation with no evidence other than what other companies are doing, which has never been a major motivator for Nintendo. The title presents it as fact. Come on guys, hold stuff to a higher standard than this garbage, don't turn into Buzzfeed or Gawker.

Re:Headaches part 2 electric boogaloo

[tysonedwards]

Think of it this way... Each column *can* display up to 3 shades simultaneously, but those shade choices within those columns *can* be any of 128 levels of intensity.

Think of it as "Column 1" shades value "1,2,3" and "Column 2" shades value "4,5,6". Each pixel need not be completely off and completely on.

Re:My eyes....

[ArcadeMan]

It wasn't the Virtual Boy's fault.

Twenty minutes playing that and your eyeballs bleed when you return to sunlight.

You went outside. That's your problem.

Editors need to fix headline

[bluefoxlucid]

Should read, "Jackass shockjock makes up fantasy about Nintendo re-releasing Virtual Boy"

Far better articles with the cunning use of google

[kennethmci]

http://www.eurogamer.net/artic... UPDATE: Here's Iwata's quote on the NX, translated officially by Nintendo: As proof that Nintendo maintains strong enthusiasm for the dedicated game system business, let me confirm that Nintendo is currently developing a dedicated game platform with a brand-new concept under the development codename "NX". It is too early to elaborate on the details of this project, but we hope to share more information with you next year.

Also, Iwata said Nintendo's new membership service would play a key role in NX.

Nintendo, together with DeNA, will jointly develop a new membership service which encompasses the existing Nintendo 3DS and Wii U systems, the new hardware system with a brand-new concept, NX, and smart devices and PCs, and Nintendo will be the primary party to operate this new membership service. Unlike the Club Nintendo membership service that Nintendo has been operating, the new membership service will include multiple devices and create a connection between Nintendo and each individual consumer regardless of the device the consumer uses. This membership will form one of the core elements of the new Nintendo platform that I just mentioned.

Embarassing

[Isarian]

This post is just embarrassing.

No they're not.

[HalAtWork]

This is just some clickbait headline, the entire thing is speculation, apart from the fact that Nintendo announced a codename NX for their next hardware. You seriously think Nintendo would follow up with something called the "Virtual Boy 2" with the bad impression the first one left? The "Virtual Boy" name is worth nothing right now. They won't even bring its games to Virtual Console on 3DS even though that makes so much sense it's crazy.