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Nintendo Doesn't Intend to Become a Health Device Company

Nintendo has clarified what the term "Quality of Life" means when it comes to developing future hardware and software.

One of the ways the Japanese game maker is aiming to broaden their sources of revenue is a "Quality of Life" platform that involves aspects of health. In the official English translation of the Annual Shareholder's Meeting, Nintendo's Genyo Takeda noted how the company aims to "improve their (consumer's) health in enjoyable ways, which we believe, is another kind of entertainment", reassuring investors that Nintendo "are not aiming to become a health device company."

Miyamoto said that he "would like to keep on producing new products that surprise people all over the world."

What sorts of health projects do you think Nintendo will become involved with?

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Darkflame (guest) 04.07.2014#1

"health projects do you think Nintendo will become involved with?"

The WiiFit brand should stay, and expand with 3DS "away from console" health monitoring.
Excerse is boring as hell, gamifying it works.

However, beyond that I dont think much should be touched really. Your either going to be making claims you cant back up, or be libable for things.

If Nintendo wants to do more things beyond just entertainment, education would be a better target. Combine games and learning is still a field hugely missused, but one with a lot of potential. After all we DO learn stuff for games, its just mostly useless in the real world Smilie

jb 04.07.2014#2

If Nintendo wants to do more things beyond just entertainment, education would be a better target. Combine games and learning is still a field hugely missused

Very true - Nintendo started well with the DS, and partly on Wii, but it's sort of lost that edge with 3DS/Wii U - 3DS should definitely try to bring back that market, but perhaps dabble in some more unique ideas - a Brain Training 2 perhaps won't work in quite the same scale.

I can see Nintendo releasing accessories that work in tandem with Wii U or 3DS, and to complement the Wii Fit Board as well.

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Phoenom 04.07.2014#3

Darkflame (guest) said:
"health projects do you think Nintendo will become involved with?"

If Nintendo wants to do more things beyond just entertainment, education would be a better target. Combine games and learning is still a field hugely missused, but one with a lot of potential. After all we DO learn stuff for games, its just mostly useless in the real world

Agreed. I personally love Edutainment games; Brain Training was one of my favourite DS games even if it was more of a top-up experience than a whole new learning one. There are far too few satisfying learning games. Just no more Mario Is Missing-caliber stuff eh Nintendo? Smilie

Darkflame (guest) 04.07.2014#4

Oh, yeah....or Marios Time Machine.

I think they could do much better these days too. You can either just make short adventure game style stuff in real world settings (easy, cheap to make many once you built your engine) or they could do something a bit more elaborate for the science stuff.

I once played a PC game where you were shrunk inside a body Inner-Space / Fantastic Voyage style. You then helped the body do various things in your little flying ship - fight off infections etc.
But it worked really well from an education standpoint, as you wernt just shooting stuff - you were manipulating the cells and stuff in the exact same way they work in real life. A real case of learning by doing.
I think Nintendo could make games like that excellently.

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