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RubberJohnny

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Yeah I agree, scanning codes and stuff would be nice, but really it just saves you like 10 seconds and if that's the only advantage of this technology, and the downsides are another massive DLC awful-pre-order chopping-up-of-content which even in its present day implementation is generally fucking awful then I'm not sure it's worth the tradeoff. Though judging by the response to the Wii, prepare to see this tech in PS4 and Xbox 720! They'll need the massive amounts of DLC to offset those dev costs!

No. I wouldn't buy that game, or any of the tat.

If devs take the piss, then gamers will let them know by ensuring their game makes the biggest loss the company ever faces.

Yeah, ok. Gamers are really good at standing up for things. Can you tell I'm being sarcastic?

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Stanley

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Perhaps I'm missing something but I can't see the point of this technology at consumer level. In shops yeah, it acts as a further layer of security, but in the home it's pointless. And at the end of the day a camera could read a points code, or a barcode.

From a game play perspective putting a heart on the Wii U controller to replenish health - talk about over thinking things.

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Stanley

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First we got motion controls and now we get real world objects to do stuff in our games. It seems every attempt to make interaction with games more natural only results in less immersion. Well, at least for dinosaurs like me.

Motion controls I can understand - some people like them some don't, and they're nit suitable for all game types, but have led to some interesting new ideas and ways of playing.

NFC though - cannot think of any way it will change or enrich anything. It's shit.

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First we got motion controls and now we get real world objects to do stuff in our games. It seems every attempt to make interaction with games more natural only results in less immersion. Well, at least for dinosaurs like me.

Soon you'll be adding a tennis racket to your controller to really feel like you are playing tennis!

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tnman

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You don't need NFC to get more pointless tat, the Japanese release of Kid Icarus had about $20 worth of collectable cards attached to various merchandise, with seemingly more on the way, that stuff can get quite expensive, especially if you get dupes.

http://hckblog.com/2...card-nightmare/

But... they're good. And available for free from Club Nintendo.

That article talks about Japan, which is an entirely different ball game. The Animal Crossing cards they talk about, for example, never even made it over here.

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scottcr

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Obviously you guys have forgotten what it's like to be kids... If you can buy toys and have them appear in your game, that's awesome. When I was 10 years old, being able to load my star wars toy collection directly into a game would've been the coolest thing ever.

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Obviously you guys have forgotten what it's like to be kids... If you can buy toys and have them appear in your game, that's awesome. When I was 10 years old, being able to load my star wars toy collection directly into a game would've been the coolest thing ever.

Well that's more like AR stuff than NFC - the stuff in the Rayman trailer with toys is crap. Imagine having to fiddle about with a plastic heart to replenish your health.
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Imagine playing a star wars game and busting out "Han Solo Hoth" figure and having it appear in the game... For a kid, that's brilliant... For a kid, shoving a big toy on to get your health is fun. I don't really give a fuck about it, but I can see the appeal for kids.

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Obviously you guys have forgotten what it's like to be kids... If you can buy toys and have them appear in your game, that's awesome. When I was 10 years old, being able to load my star wars toy collection directly into a game would've been the coolest thing ever.

As mentioned earlier, barcode battler worked because every single barcode generated into unique creation. 20 years on this should be the evolution of that - nfc chip in every salable product that a game then interprets as a unique in game use. But no - its just a set number of figures per game that are basically just triggering some pre built in code. That would frustrate me as a kid! Mummy, i want to scan yoda! Sorry little jonny you can only use jarjar.
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But... they're good. And available for free from Club Nintendo.

That article talks about Japan, which is an entirely different ball game. The Animal Crossing cards they talk about, for example, never even made it over here.

If they could get away with making you pay for them they would, rather like how most online games costs money in Japan, while they might be made free in the West. If they want to make supplementary cards for free to enhance the game experience, fine, not sure how you'd feel if money had to be exchanged for that.

Considering Activision thought this NFC was a great idea and have now proven it works commercially, no wonder other companies have decided to copy them. Getting people to obsessively collect stuff is a genius money making idea. Some people will buy crap games just to get some digital e-peen already as it is.

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