We’ve all heard about the Oculus Rift; the headset that promises to truly deliver a full Virtual Reality experience, dropping the player into a computer-generated world and letting them experience the world first-hand.
The tech has garnered a lot of coverage in the industry over the last few years, including a great deal of discussion regarding the shipping of the pre-ordered hardware.
With big promise comes a big price tag: while the retail version is, as yet, unpriced, the development kit will set you back around $350. The technology behind the system means that cost is always going to be fairly high.
The thing is, though, experiencing bleeding-edge technology doesn’t always have to be eye-bleedingly expensive. Nothing illustrates this better right now than the Google Cardboard project from the eponymous Google.
The article discusses a claim by an intellectual property (IP) expert that Nintendo likely does not hold patents strong enough to prevent the game developer Pocketpair from creating Palworld, a game that some believe resembles Pokémon. The expert suggests that Nintendo's legal challenges against Palworld could amount to nothing more than corporate bullying, as the patents Nintendo might be relying on are not robust enough to stand up to legal scrutiny. The situation could be seen as an example of a large corporation trying to exert undue influence over a smaller competitor.
Crazy how far they are willing to go over nothing rather than tell Game Freak to get their shit together and sort the quality of the mainline games out.
Personally I'd drop the two game bullshit, make a full on complete game, and take their time making the best game they can without relying on a silly battle gimmick they'll ditch after one game. Gimmicks out of battle is what they should be focusing on, beauty contests, berry making, secret bases, the underground, Seasons, events during day / night and post game content like travelling to a new location or something.
It's straight up bullying with mooney and using the government laws as a tool to do so. They should be fined.
Where does the time go?
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Nintendo should be all over this as their entry into VR for the WiiU tablet.
Its right up their street, low cost, low tech and if you stick some pictures of Mario on the sides, fans will pay silly prices for it.
There's a few others out there doing this sort of thing. I entered a contest sometime ago for one of Google's, but never won. I wonder how good it is compared with actual VR headsets. I can't imagine it's as good, but it looks like it might be worth trying at least.