Bill Gates talks to Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg from All Things Digital concerning the future of gaming:
Bill: So 3D is a way of organizing things, particularly as we’re getting much more media information on the computer, a lot more choices, a lot more navigation than we’ve ever had before. And we can take that into this communications world where the PC is playing a much more central role, kind of taking over what was the PBX, sort of one of the last mainframes in the business environment. That will be a big change that will come to it. And as we get natural input, that will cause a change. … Software is doing vision and so, you know, imagine a game machine where you’re just going to pick up the bat and swing it or the tennis racket and swing it.
Walt: We have one of those.
Kara: Yeah. Wii.
Bill: No, that’s not it. You can’t pick up your tennis racket. And swing it. You can’t sit there with your friends and do those natural things. That’s a 3D positional device. This is video recognition.
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Bill Gates Nows Complains About The Nintendo Wii, this is an excerpt of the article:
“Look at the classic Nintendo positioning Look at the graphics. Look at Nintendo’s execution in terms of online capability… If you want to play online, get an Xbox. We’re not standing still,” Gates told the San Jose Mercury News.
“Look at what you saw today connecting up the world to the Windows PC. Do you expect Nintendo to rev up a team to create cross-device gaming and tool kits to develop those things? Not very likely.”
But according to the MS boss Nintendo “clearly did some things right” in the past, such as teaming up with UK-based developer Rare. “In my household, everybody plays Viva Piñata,” he confessed.
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Bill Gates has been chatting to MTV.com this week about matters of the gaming variety.
Revealing his doubts about Sony PS· and Nintendo’s Wii moves towards motion-sensing controllers.
“There’s room for innovation here, but moving that controller around, it’s something that’s not mainstream for most games,” he stated. “It’s tough because sometimes you move the controller, and you don’t [want] to fly into the ground. You just want to put the controller down. People aren’t that good at totally standing still. Even pilots actually sit in a chair when they do their flying. So there’s a lot to be learned about these controllers.“
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