Official Nintendo Fanboy Smugness & Gloating Thread

betamax · Post by **betamax** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 1:44 pm 0

Samus wrote:
grue wrote:An arguement between a fanboy and the devil's advocate.
You fanboying me son?

"I want a dime every time someone uses it"- J Jonah Jameson.

fog · Post by **fog** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 2:35 pm 0

kalmar wrote:Apparently it will have speech recognition too..

According to the source, the system converts speech to text that can be sent to other players, even detecting the tone, pitch, and volume of your voice and adjusting the font size and color accordingly.
http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/15/wii- ... cognition/

Oh, I can just imagine

You have to wonder what the point of converting speech to text is.

And how accurate would it be? Brain Training only has to recognise a few different words and a typical game still goes "Blue.....blue.....BLUE! No I said blue you piece of crap!"

As long as it has voice chat I'll be more than happy.

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 3:09 pm 0

Speach to text is great for all sorts of things, but it shouldnt be just that.
Sometimes Id want it, other times I wouldnt.

Incidently, we already know the specs for the accuracy of the pointer from earlier. It sense's at a higher res then SD TV is by quite a margin, so frankly the issue is more to do with the software and human componant, then the actual hardware. How much "noise" is there in typical human motion of pointer? how much does this need to be filtered?
Will we need to start smokeing before using the controller to keep our aim steady?

xav · Post by **xav** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 4:00 pm 0

fog wrote:You have to wonder what the point of converting speech to text is.

Writing letters in Animal Crossing, and using the built-in "Shoutochat" program which lets you speak to your Wii to send a text message to Pictochat on the DS of the person sitting next to you on the sofa

TFO · Post by **TFO** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 4:19 pm 0

fog wrote:"Blue.....blue.....BLUE! No I said blue you piece of crap!"

Say it with an American accent and it works perfectly.
Sad but true.

TFO · Post by **TFO** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 4:20 pm 0

xav wrote:
fog wrote:Writing letters in Animal Crossing, and using the built-in "Shoutochat" program which lets you speak to your Wii to send a text message to Pictochat on the DS of the person sitting next to you on the sofa

But everyone knows Pictochat is only ever good for drawing cocks.

Jamesac · Post by **Jamesac** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 6:34 pm 0

TFO wrote:
fog wrote:"Blue.....blue.....BLUE! No I said blue you piece of crap!"
Say it with an American accent and it works perfectly.
Sad but true.

I am an American and I can report that it's just not true. "Blue. Blue. Blue! BLOOOOOOO!!!! Buh-Luh-Hoo-oo-oo-oo!... Cock."

James

Yak · Post by **Yak** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 6:35 pm 0

xav wrote:
fog wrote:You have to wonder what the point of converting speech to text is.
Writing letters in Animal Crossing

I hope it knows plenty of sex words then

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fog · Post by **fog** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 7:36 pm 0

Yak wrote:
xav wrote:
fog wrote:You have to wonder what the point of converting speech to text is.
Writing letters in Animal Crossing
I hope it knows plenty of sex words then .

Nah they will all be filtered out. Didn't anyone tell you Nintendo only make games for kids?

Roobarb · Post by **Roobarb** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 9:28 pm 0

Looks like IGN have been posting photos they shouldn't have...

Earlier today, 31 images including a Wii dev box, and in game footage of THQ's gamecube-game-shoehorned-onto-a-wii demo games.
This evening, all that remain are a few pictures of Spongebob fucking Squarepants.

Luckily, Joystiq grabbed them for posterity:

Others here:
http://www.joystiq.com/2006/08/16/new-p ... wii-event/

moobaa · Post by **moobaa** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 10:02 pm 0

Jamesac wrote:
TFO wrote:
fog wrote:"Blue.....blue.....BLUE! No I said blue you piece of crap!"
Say it with an American accent and it works perfectly.
Sad but true.
I am an American and I can report that it's just not true. "Blue. Blue. Blue! BLOOOOOOO!!!! Buh-Luh-Hoo-oo-oo-oo!... Cock."

Heh. Wait until you unlock the "Voice Calculation" training game. It took about 3 minutes for me to get it to recognise "five". All other numbers were OK; "fff-eye-fff" seems to be the correct pronunciation.

Samus · Post by **Samus** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 10:04 pm 0

Are people really struggling with the voice recognition in BA?

For me it took only a couple of tries to see what it wants to hear, after that, no probs. Maybe it helps that I'm not English...

A Black Falcon · Post by **A Black Falcon** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 3:36 am 0

True, but even in the US, the vast majority of people who were online were still on dialup, no? Dialup just doesn't really cut it. I tried it myself a few times, but it was never a great experience.

Broadband, and later, decent speed broadband, made a huge difference.

Dialup is slow, but it was just fine for most of the kinds of games out back then... downloads were really slow, but playing stuff like Warcraft II, Starcraft, whatever? Not really a problem, unless you're trying to download a really big SC custom map...

For modern games dialup isn't as good -- though some do still work on it, I've heard Guild Wars is tolerable on dialup for instance -- but, particularly in the US, some people just don't have a choice... huge amounts of rural America have no high-speed internet access at all... (I have cable, but plenty of towns in this state have no high-speed internet for instance...) I know that most online games and services these days just leave those people out, but while dialup is no good, the fact that some (many) people don't have a choice should mean that support should be maintained in some way...

Looks like IGN have been posting photos they shouldn't have...

Earlier today, 31 images including a Wii dev box, and in game footage of THQ's gamecube-game-shoehorned-onto-a-wii demo games.
This evening, all that remain are a few pictures of Spongebob fucking Squarepants.

Luckily, Joystiq grabbed them for posterity:

Nice...

namor7 · Post by **namor7** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 10:59 am 0

New Rayman pics:

More here: http://media.wii.ign.com/media/821/821585/imgs_1.html

Umm...is that Rayman's head split open and his brain showing in the last pic??

Roobarb · Post by **Roobarb** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 12:41 pm 0

The fur's back then

Last pic: Rayman's brains, guano, or a very bad wig. You decide

Loving the Rayman artwork more every day. Hope it plays as good as it looks.