Nintendo Upgrading the Wii to ‘Intelligent’
Tuesday, March 13th, 2007
Nintendo’s Takeshi Shimada stated that the company is currently working on improving the Wii. First of all, the Wii is going to be equipped with a text-to-speech
ability, which means that the machine will read the news for you while you brush your teeth, or read your inbox messages while you’re busy doing something else. Second of all, Shimada also hints that the Wii’s motion-sensitive controller will get an upgrade as well, in the way that it will learn from the player’s movements and predict his/her actions
A new Wii channel is also in the scope for the machine. Using it will allow users to vote for their favorite Miis. It’s nice to see that Nintendo is thinking of improvements for their machine but as time passes, the Wii seems to become more of a 7-year-old kid’s toy. The truth is it does anything but serious gaming activity. Sure the upcoming features sound impressive but shouldn’t there be some new titles to go with them? And maybe not so childish ones this time.
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