Your guess is as good as ours.
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/36432
Nintendo's business plan for the next decade will revolve around developing a "Quality of Life" based platform.
No details are available yet, but Nintendo President Satoru Iwata indicated that more details would be revealed in 2014, and the platform would be launched in April 2015. The new business area would impact Nintendo's profitability in the fiscal year ending 2016.
One facet of this platform will involve "non-wearable" devices that would monitor health, in contrast to the wearable devices (such as Fitbit, or even Nintendo's own Wii Fit U Meter) that have become popular.
Iwata also indicated that while this business will be separated from its games business, the two will have certain synergies. Certainly, Wii Fit could provide an example of this possible strategy. Another example is the Wii Vitality Sensor, which made its debut at E3 2009, and was never heard from again.
rebirth of the vitality sensor?
in what form does it emerge from it's cocoon this time.
rebirth of the vitality sensor?
in what form does it emerge from it's cocoon this time.
Nintendo never truly cancels anything. Except Pennant Chase Baseball.
So under Iwatacare, is Pokerus covered as a pre-existing condition? I seriously need to know this.Brb, gonna rant to Nintendo's board of directors for 21 hours and read a bit of dr suess while I'm at it.
@Phil
I think the disappointing thing is we are all interested in Nintendo the gaming company. Nothing Iwata said can be determined to be even remotely interesting on the video game side of things even though they are struggling badly there. Then they announce this? It's ackward, doesn't fit, and doesn't give me much hope that the games division will go in the right direction.
The right time for this announcement would be either in the fall or spring or maybe when they have something to discuss about this project. It feels like an attempt to misdirect from Nintendo's poor sales and it's not a very good misdirect at that because there was no information released on this.
He's obviously talking about making more educational and fitness software like Brain Age and Wii Fit. Those all had 'video game' aspects and they were educational and entertaining. Nintendo is trying something new (as they always do), this doesn't mean they are giving up on video games.
If you guys actually read the whole presentation (on Twitter and GoNintendo), you'd realize that Iwata sees a huge potential market with fitness games. They want to capitalize on the success of Wii Fit and make it even bigger and more ambitious.
Now what the heck is a non-wearable??? I swear, if Iwata tries to implant a chip in my brain so the NSA can track me, I AM GOING FULL PC ONLY
I think it's encouraging. If this works out, Nintendo isn't going to suddenly abandon gaming. It will have more money to create more games and take more risks.
