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Nissan plays with Xbox 360 urge - Amazing idea...
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 1:36 pm
by Don Carlos
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.
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 1:43 pm
by SOAPboy
Gimmicks... Could be neat tho..
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 1:57 pm
by Foo
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?
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 1:59 pm
by MKJ
great marketing
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 2:01 pm
by Foo
Raises some tricky questions about promoting safe driving, too.
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 3:12 pm
by werldhed
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"
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 3:28 pm
by +JuggerNaut+
..blurring the difference between driving in the real and virtual world...
rofl
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 3:30 pm
by plained
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
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 3:32 pm
by R00k
+JuggerNaut+ wrote:..blurring the difference between driving in the real and virtual world...
rofl
lol, I thought the same thing.
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 4:06 pm
by andyman
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.
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 4:08 pm
by +JuggerNaut+
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.
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 4:15 pm
by Freakaloin
moronics...
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 4:17 pm
by plained
i'll take one and two fried chickins and a coke
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 4:26 pm
by andyman
plained wrote:i'll take one and two fried chickins and a coke
toasted bread for me
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 4:54 pm
by FragaGeddon
Can you imagine the guy stuck in a traffic jam.
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 5:54 pm
by bitWISE
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.
Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 2:58 pm
by Guest
It'd be cool if all the windows in the car doubled as monitors.
Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 3:41 pm
by +JuggerNaut+
a prescription windshield would be cooler