Author Topic: NOA Announces Brain Age for DS (Read 19407 times)

Artimus · « **Reply #50 on:** January 31, 2006, 01:30:52 PM »

According to AMN, it's going to be just 19.99!!!!!!

Infernal Monkey · « **Reply #51 on:** January 31, 2006, 02:16:20 PM »

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But the Brain Training games look like something that could be replicated on paper with a pencil. Brain Training is something that doesn't have to be made in videogame format in order to work.

You haven't played it, so of course you're going to think that. It could work on paper, yes, the same way that Sega's Brain Training for PSP works, ie; not very well. Brain Training has the element of surprise on DS, you don't know what the hell is going to pop up on the screen next. With the technology known as paper, the questions and exercises are all right there. Unless you have them on palm cards and you shuffle them around while juggling your pencil and note pad. Which would make for a very portable experience!

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To me the difference is that Nintendogs really wouldn't work at all except in game format.

Dogs really do exist in the real world! =o

Dasmos · « **Reply #52 on:** January 31, 2006, 03:37:25 PM »

I have the demo on my DS as we speak. I will be buying the full version. End of story.

Mario · « **Reply #53 on:** January 31, 2006, 05:38:24 PM »

Every single person I know who has played the demo has decided to buy it. The game sells itself.

Requiem · « **Reply #54 on:** January 31, 2006, 05:50:59 PM »

What the hell is Soduko?

Seems hype...

Infernal Monkey · « **Reply #55 on:** January 31, 2006, 07:07:47 PM »

It's a fairly boring game that seems to be a gigantic Pokemon style success with fairly boring people! Even the PSP got in on the action.

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #56 on:** January 31, 2006, 07:21:29 PM »

"To me the difference is that Nintendogs really wouldn't work at all except in game format."

Sup, Nintendogs is back to being a GAME...Walk in circles everyday! As if the comment itself wasn't hilariously awkward already...

KDR_11k · « **Reply #57 on:** January 31, 2006, 08:09:37 PM »

What's wrong with a game working just with pen and paper? Didn't like Dungeons and Dragons, Battletech* or Warhammer*?

*= The rules say that you can use bits of paper or anything else that strikes your fancy instead of any official miniatures

Requiem: Wikipedia knows.

Artimus · « **Reply #58 on:** January 31, 2006, 08:25:48 PM »

Sudoku is just a craze. It's an old number puzzle that's just hit the newspapers lately with a lot of success. I just imagine IM doesn't do so well at it, there's certainly no reason to hate it.

wandering · « **Reply #59 on:** January 31, 2006, 11:45:11 PM »

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Nope, I wasn't. All I was saying is that as long as they don't interfere, then go nuts. That seems to be most people's opinion.

There has been a growing drought in the second half of the Cube's life, for whatever reason, which is not comforting. Surely some of the silence means they're working on next-gen. I just have a wait and see attitude about their strategy until we know what they've been working on. I'd be more enthusiastic if Cube hadn't underperformed in general, if Iwata didn't give a 50 minute speech about non-gamers, and then introduce the Revmote in the context of attracting them... so I feel more "show me the money" this time around.

Oh. Okay then.

I think the draught is mainly due to gamecube's disapointing performance as a system....which, actually, I think is due to the fact that they failed to capture the average joe's intrest....which they are doing now, quite agressively. I predict good things for rev's future.

KDR_11k · « **Reply #60 on:** February 01, 2006, 12:13:24 AM »

I think Sudoku is so profitable because unlike crossword puzzles they require almost no thinking (and certainly no dictionary) to make up, Wikipedia discusses various computer algorithms to generate Sudoku puzzles and rate their difficulty.

Requiem · « **Reply #61 on:** February 01, 2006, 03:11:50 AM »

Sounds overly complicated....

Ian Sane · « **Reply #62 on:** February 01, 2006, 07:02:13 AM »

"Dogs really do exist in the real world! =o"

Well yeah. But then you can play football in real life too but that's a pretty weak arguement against Madden.

Artimus · « **Reply #63 on:** February 01, 2006, 07:14:47 AM »

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Originally posted by: Ian Sane
"Dogs really do exist in the real world! =o"

Well yeah. But then you can play football in real life too but that's a pretty weak arguement against Madden.

Is it? Not really...it's the exact same argument you just don't like it.

Though technically football is a game, so it makes more 'natural sense'.

ShyGuy · « **Reply #64 on:** February 01, 2006, 07:32:15 AM »

Microsoft people were idiots for bundling Solitare with Windows. I can play that in real life! Non-game = teh d00m

vudu · « **Reply #65 on:** February 01, 2006, 07:49:59 AM »

I just completed my very first Soduko puzzle (the sample one on Wikipedia) and I'm really psyched for this game. That was fun.

Ian Sane · « **Reply #66 on:** February 01, 2006, 08:10:30 AM »

"Microsoft people were idiots for bundling Solitare with Windows. I can play that in real life!"

Solitare is FREE. If MS tried to sell it as a standalone game things might be different. Or more specifically if Solitare and Minesweeper were key parts in a strategy to sell game systems then things might be different.

That's like the whole point. Non-gamers don't need to buy a Nintendo game system to play the types of games targetted at them. They can get the same types of games on the internet for free or free with their PC or play it on their cell phone or whatever. They already own the equipment and they can get the games for free or for a much lower price then anything Nintendo can offer. The only people who need to buy dedicated gaming systems are people with a serious interest in gaming where Solitare and Bejeweled just doesn't cut it.

ShyGuy · « **Reply #67 on:** February 01, 2006, 11:17:32 AM »

People buy Tetris, and they can get that anywhere.

Ian Sane · « **Reply #68 on:** February 01, 2006, 11:54:23 AM »

"People buy Tetris, and they can get that anywhere."

That's true. Though back in 1989 it wasn't quite as easy to get a hold of which is probably why it did so well for the Gameboy. Plus back then there were no cell phones for people to casually game on the go. That's a good example though. The only major difference I can think of is that Tetris is popular among serious games while Solitare and Pop Cap games and stuff like that isn't so much.

Does anyone know how well Bookworm sold on the GBA? That's a perfect example of free game being made available for sale.

I'm also curious what Teris Worlds sales for the GBA are like. That's really the first portable Tetris game released in an era where everyone has a cell phone and the first major portable Tetris game that isn't made by Nintendo. I imagine "Nintendo's Tetris" sells far better than regular Tetris games typically do.

KDR_11k · « **Reply #69 on:** February 02, 2006, 03:38:22 AM »

Look at cellphones. There's a huge market for crappy games (do you think you can get anything for free for these things?).

A free game made available for sale... Hm... Bejewelled? Counterstrike?

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #70 on:** February 02, 2006, 07:04:04 AM »

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Originally posted by: Artimus
According to AMN, it's going to be just 19.99!!!!!!

Kotaku.com says "Nintendo confirmed today that Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day for the DS will sell for a mere $19.99."

it should easily sell to the impulsive game buyers, i might even buy a copy now.

Infernal Monkey · « **Reply #71 on:** February 02, 2006, 12:36:38 PM »

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A free game made available for sale... Hm... Bejewelled? Counterstrike?

Zoo Keeper. <3

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