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Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata has revealed that development of the Wii Vitality Sensor has hit a major hurdle which is preventing the peculiar device from being released.
The Vitality Sensor was shown at E3 2009, but two years have passed and the sensor isn’t in stores.
Speaking during an investor Q&A Iwata said: “I imagine that you are worried about that because it hasn’t been put on the market even though a long time has passed since it was initially announced.
“This is a totally new type of entertainment, and there are large individual differences in the biological information of humans. For example, if it was acceptable that only 80 per cent of the users thought the result was natural, then we could propose this to consumers right now. However, we are aiming for a level of quality in which 99 per cent of consumers feel comfortable, and that is why this project is taking time to complete.
“I feel that this project has a lot of interesting potential, and we would like to continue this project without giving up, but it is difficult to overcome this hurdle, so please understand that now I cannot clearly say when we will be ready to put this on the market.”
Iwata’s comments suggest that while Nintendo is working to achieve a level of usability which will enable the device to be released, it is no longer certain the sensor will make it out of development.
With the successor to the Wii to be revealed at E3 we could quite easily see the Vitality Sensor removed from development altogether – at least as we currently know it.
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