The company that has kept you from sleep for decades will now try to help you improve your sleep.
Nintendo has revealed the first details about the direction of Nintendo's new quality of life platform in today's Investor's Briefing.
The company announced that they have been working alongside ResMed, an American company that develops medical equipment to treat sleeping disorders, to develop a sleep quality tracker. This non-wearable device is placed near the user's bed. The wireless device tracks the users vital signs while they are asleep. The data collected is then uploaded to a cloud service where it will be interpreted on how this affects your quality of life. As Nintendo's first quality of life endeavor, the company hopes to improve sleep and reduce fatigue.
The device description resembles an existing product from ResMed that launched earlier this month, the S+ sleep sensor, which monitors breathing and body movements, as well as levels of light, noise, and temperature. It's coupled with an app that aims to help improve sleep and retails for $150.
As of this writing there is no announced date for this new product's release.
I'll give it to Nintendo; I don't think anyone thought of a sleep monitor.
Since it's still early and details are scant, it's hard to get a good idea of how sleep data will translate to Nintendo games (outside of Wii Fit U). Perhaps this is just as useless as another fitness band, but I think gathering my sleep data might be neat.
Expect the fitbit, Apple Watch all have a sleep moniter Microsoft just announced a fitness badn that does this as well. Only difference is that this isn't wearable.
