Wii to have caricature-making software for Wii-profiles.

Interviewed by Wired.com at the E3, Katsuya Eguchi the producer of Wii Sports has revealed that the Wii hardware will allow users to create profiles of them that will not only include personal information, controller configuration. But also create a caricature of a players face that any Wii game will be able to access and use. This was demonstrated at Nintendo’s media briefing, where Wii-People versions of Reggie, Shiggy and Iwata were used in Wii Sports.

Eguchi goes onto explain that this will be done through some editing software on the Wii console itself, and doesnt sound like a camera will be used.

I have included an excerpt from the interview below but you can read the full one here.

Wired News: So the feature would be in the hardware and then applied to, potentially, any game
Katsuya Eguchi: Yes. The caricatures will exist in the hardware, as data, as one of several profiles that you could save in the Wii. And if you insert compatible software into the Wii, it will pull up the images that you chose.

Wired News: What would be some of the other profiles you could save in the Wii, then?
Katsuya Eguchi: The other details that will be saved as a part of the user profiles are as yet undecided, but right now we’re focusing on creating an editing tool that will allow players to create images as well as allow users to select one of several already-created images, if they’re not artistically inclined.

Source: Blogs.Wired.com