Dear Reader:
*RUMOR* Nintendo of Canada rep lets loose force feedback secret?
The following excerpt is from a recent interview between Denis Talbot (Canadian entertainment personality) and Nintendo of Canada’s Director of Marketing, Pierre-Paul Trepanier. R-T stands for Radio - Talbot.
NoC: “It looks like a small television remote, very easy to use, very small and wireless.”
R-T: “Is there any force feedback in it?”
NoC: “Yes there’s feedback in it even though it is wireless, we will show more at E3. Before in our wireless controllers, we didn’t put feedback because of battery life problems but now we have found a way to do it without lowering the battery life of the remote.”
R-T: “Everyone who talked with me at Radio-Talbot said it was an amazing controller. For example if we want to fly a plane, we could put it upside down and use it like a joystick”
NoC: “Exactly! There’s plenty of possibilities and we will see much more of them at e3. We measure a lot of things with the revmote. For example the axis X, Y and the distance with the screen. Also it measures angle, so if you twist the controller, the information is sent to the system. Even before pressing any buttons, the system already has an idea of what the player will do”
R-T: “So that means there will be some sort of thing to place on the tv?”
NoC: “It is to be confirmed, but I’m pretty sure it (the revolution) needs some sensors near the television. This way the revolution will know where the remote is”
NoC: “Everytime the player makes a movement, the controller then sends the information to the system and it calculates everything, for the hardcore gamer it really immerses them into the game”
R-T: “I guess you can’t talk about how many games there will be at launch, or you don’t have that information? Or you simply can’t talk about it?”
NoC: “I can’t really say anything about this, I can only repeat what George Harrison from Nintendo of America said to Game Informer magazine, we will have around 20 games for the launch this Autumn”
ABOUT THE DS LITE
R-T: “So when will the DS Lite be released in the USA”
NoC: “We will confirm this in 1 or 2 weeks, it really depends on the japaness market,…”
*some conversation*
NoC: “We are simply waiting for the demand to stop over there so we can gather enough stock from there to launch it here”
The only debate is in the context in which the question is answered. Does he actually mean force feedback, or is he just talking about a rumble feature? It sounds like nothing more then rumble to me. If you click the link below you can check out the audio version of the interview if you want to give a go at your own translation! HUGE thanks to Manyourpost for the heads up!