Nissan plays with Xbox 360 urge - Amazing idea...

Post by **Don Carlos** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 1:36 pm

Nissan plays with Xbox 360 urge

The Urge has a LCD screen to play games
Nissan is blurring the difference between driving in the real and virtual world by bundling an Xbox 360 in its Urge concept car.
The roadster will come with built-in controls for Microsoft's Project Gotham Racing 3.

Drivers will be able to use the steering wheel and pedals to play the game on a seven-inch LCD screen, but only when the car is in park mode.

Nissan said it would unveil the Urge at the Detroit auto show on 9 January.

Post by **SOAPboy** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 1:43 pm

Gimmicks... Could be neat tho..

Post by **Foo** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 1:57 pm

Can you picture seeing someone parked up at the side of the road twiddling the wheel and hammering the pedals, when the car is stationary?

Post by **MKJ** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 1:59 pm

great marketing

Post by **Foo** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 2:01 pm

Raises some tricky questions about promoting safe driving, too.

Post by **werldhed** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 3:12 pm

I can't imagine mashing on the pedals and wrenching the wheel of a stationary car is good for it. And what do you do to change gear? Jerk the gearbox around? I'll pass.

And

at "The Urge"

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 3:28 pm

..blurring the difference between driving in the real and virtual world...

rofl

Post by **plained** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 3:30 pm

hey ever see that lcd they were working on where its between the layers of safty glass in the windscreen?

that'id be pretty imursive ey ey

Post by **R00k** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 3:32 pm

+JuggerNaut+ wrote:
..blurring the difference between driving in the real and virtual world...
rofl

lol, I thought the same thing.

Post by **andyman** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 4:06 pm

You KNOW some retard is gonna think that since he is the shit in the game, he might as well try it on the streets. Quick way to die, if you ask me.

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 4:08 pm

you can only play when it's in park according to the BBC.

nothing "amazing" about bundling a video game console in a car environment. old as the hills really.

Post by **Freakaloin** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 4:15 pm

moronics...

Post by **plained** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 4:17 pm

i'll take one and two fried chickins and a coke

Post by **andyman** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 4:26 pm

plained wrote:i'll take one and two fried chickins and a coke

toasted bread for me

Post by **FragaGeddon** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 4:54 pm

Can you imagine the guy stuck in a traffic jam.

Post by **bitWISE** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 5:54 pm

I think it's an awesome idea techologically, but it's too impractical. I've always thought it would awesome if an arcade racing game used an actual car with LCDs for each window.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 2:58 pm

It'd be cool if all the windows in the car doubled as monitors.

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 3:41 pm

a prescription windshield would be cooler