Topic: Nintendo starting Quality of Life.

I'm really curious as to how this one will work

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2014/01/satoru_iwata_announc...

How will this motivate consumers to get their products is what wonders me? And worst of all, its only out next year........ wouldn't that be a danger sign for Nintendo?

Nintendo Blood Pressure Checker
Nintendo Sugar Levels Checker
Nintendo Weights
Nintendo Nebulizer
Nintendo Walking Machine with optional starman theme playing on the background
Nintendo Sugar-free Treats
Nintendo Vitality Sensor

No way

I think this is an arcade meets gym sort of thing

I think it's going to be more Brain Training and Wii Fit type stuff. Maybe trying to turn pedometers or calorie counters into game type experiences.

I don't believe it's Nintendo trying to encourage Wii U sales, but them expanding into other industries like they did before gaming. They know mobile is screwing up the handheld market, and gamers have showed a steady decline in interest for Nintendo consoles with each new gen (as it becomes clear that the vast majority of Wii owners are non-gamers and not interested in any new console).

So it's not something you wear, and it's not something you use in your living room... sounds like a gym.

I've always said if someone hooked up a game of Tetris to a weight lifting machine I would get buff really quick. Hope they have one nearby and don't charge an arm and a leg for membership...

would be cool if they released an omnidirectional treadmill add-on to work with the gamepad's gyro sensor and screen. you turn and walk and the input is sent to the game it would be a "reverse Wii" where the motion is used for actual character movement and the buttons for actions(like swinging a sword, for example)
that's ridiculous and won't happen but would be cool and would break one of the Gamepad's greatest weaknesses the fact no one wants to use it when there's a perfectly good TV in front of 90% of the WiiU owners and no reason to use any other screen.

Such a weird announcement... I dunno what to think about this yet...! o.o

this doesn't feel like something new when you think about the Wii, the Balance Board and the 3DS' play coins(that were suposed to be only obtainable if you take a walk with the 3DS)

...or by just shaking the system a bit.

exactly why I put that "suposed" there

I'm done with Nintendo. I'll still play their games and consoles whenever I can, but I see this as an incoming "white flag" on the console race. If Nintendo actually does well on this, then there would be no point in them making consoles anymore. The Wii U is definitely not selling, but I don't think they're interested in making their consoles as powerful (if not more powerful) than its competitors; that's already happened twice.

I can be wrong, I don't know, but I'm done defending Nintendo.

ok then it's your choice, I'm not going to stop you.... since hardware power is all that matter I'd recomend you getting a desktop you can upgrade it and even try to overclock if you're willing to risk! and dismounting it to change parts and having direct contact with the hardware is really cool.
why bother with consoles if they will be underpowered outdated tech by the time of release? I play videogames on consoles because I don't care about having the most powerful machine

@sdcazares1980 I dunno how you can say that when we still don't really have any idea what they're doing with QOL or whatever... when it gets closer to 2015 and we know more about it then maybe, but right now I think you're jumping ship a bit early...

I am actually pretty excited by this, because it seems like an entirely new class of device based on the picture Nintendo showed in their investors about how this will leapfrog wearable and mobile devices. The fact that it is something you do not wear and it is not a mobile device or console really makes me wonder just what Nintendo has come up with. I guess we will see later.

Here is what we know about it:

1. Nintendo is targeting their casual software at it (Miyamoto even said they now have software development resources to allocate to it)
2. It is an entertainment platform that can do other things beyond health, though health will be its initial focus (Nintendo said the first step is health but they will try and find a new blue ocean [bigger audience] with this platform, so it goes beyond that)
3. It is a not a wearable device (not a direct Galaxy Gear, iWatch [rumored], and Google glass competitor), mobile device, or console. It is new class of devices (Nintendo refers to it as a non-wearable).
4. Can be used in the living room but not restricted to the living room
5. We will know more about it and the business strategy around it later this year

sounds like a kind of Pokéwalker 2.0 Miiwalker "with 50 Minigames included!"

I think you're missing the point here. The Xbox One and the PS4 are much more powerful consoles, and the Wii U could've done the same thing. I want both Mario and the powerful hardware, but the reality isn't there. It's possible, but with each day passing by, it is becoming more of a pipe dream, hence my statement here.

BTW, I do own a powerful PC, but if Nintendo had the same powerful hardware as the other consoles, I wouldn't be complaining about it here.

...so a third pillar, basically. ...but the DS was supposed to be a third pillar...

I don't see this as an interest for me. I can do other things that can enhance the quality of my life, but I want Nintendo for games, yet they're not doing a good job at it. And with this announcement, I'm even less optimistic about it. If QOL is your cup of tea, then great, but I don't see this as the future of Nintendo (or at least MY future with Nintendo).

Nintendo has already stated they will continue to focus on consoles. They are combining home console and portable resources and creating a unified platform (something they should have done years ago; but better late than never) with that and now they have resources to make this other venture. A company can focus on more than one thing. Look at Sony, they do not just make video games they make other things. Apple does not only make Macs and making their more successful iDevices has not meant that they have abandoned the Mac platform.

Also, why bother make your systems as powerful as your competitor if your competitor is making huge losses trying to sell the things. Microsoft's gaming division has accumulated more than $3 billion in losses since it started, if Microsoft was not making money elsewhere I assure you the Xbox division would have been cut out years ago. Sony's entire recent existence has been surrounded with making expensive devices with better specs and sold at a loss in the hopes that sometime in the future they could make a profit. This constant push for better specs it also taking its tole on software companies, they have very little room to experiment because like movies games have become increasingly more expensive to produce but unlike movies the audience for them is much smaller, and so a game failing to break even can send shockwaves in a company. Moreover, audiences are starting to stick to well known franchises as opposed to experimenting because of the increasing expense of purchasing video games. This entire business, as it is laid out now, is becoming increasingly unsustainable.

For this reason I think it is good that Nintendo is stepping back and taking a different more unified approach to the console market as well as exploring other technology ventures. There is not point in fighting and copying the strategies of two technology Titans (especially considering how one [Sony] them is in deep financial troubles for following this strategy and the other [Microsoft] has not even made heavy losses in its console business following this strategy).

Then I just hope for the sake Nintendo that they actually do bring something other than a gimmick. I'm not interested in the "Quality of Life" product. I was never interested in Wii Fit, nor do I plan to get anything associated with it. I just want the games, but Nintendo has failed on that (except for first parties, but even they can't do it by themselves).

Nintendo, the ball is in your court now.