Topic: First Details of Nintendo's Quality of Life Platform Revealed

[Apollo5]

The company that has kept you from sleep for decades will now try to help you improve your sleep.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/38874/first-details-of-nintendos-quality-of-life-platform-revealed

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.

[Enner]

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.

[Luigi Dude]

It's really just a way for Nintendo to sneak into our dreams and brainwash millions of people into becoming loyal consumers.  All these people buying the device to help with sleep, will unexplainably wake up the next day with an urge to buy the newest Mario game, even if they've never played a game in their life.

[shingi_70]

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.

[Adrock]

I forgot this was still a thing.

[Enner]

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.

Ah, I haven't kept up at all with smart watches and fitness bands. Good to know.

[Triforce Hermit]

Subliminal messaging. SUBLIMINAL MESSAGING! This is starting to sound like crap Microsoft would attempt. I'm not liking it.

[Ceric]

All the wearables done by a lot of big hitters is probably why Nintendo is going the non-wearable route.  Another thing I would like about this device is you set it up and forget.  You don't have to charge it and your getting a reading night after night from the exact same vantage point making it more consistent.

[Ian Sane]

At the time this was first announced, with Nintendo suffering some pretty bad sales figures for games, it seemed like this could be their plan to leave traditional games behind and focus on Wii Fit/Brain Age health kind of stuff.  That was my fear anyway.

But this doesn't look to have software.  It looks like a singular product.  Even if Nintendo has a whole line of similar products in the works that couldn't possibly sustain them as a business model without the games, unless they wanted to scale down considerably.