Tamagotchi's Next Trick? It's Becoming A Smartwatch

So uh, what you going to do with a dead pet inside your watch? Think about it.

Can't wait to forget giving it food and making it starve to death (oh the childhood traumas)

Helllllll yeah 😏⌚

@Snatcher I'm just hoping that, since these seem to be real, multifunctional devices, we might just be able to generate a new pet if the old one dies.

@alexybubble You can do that in every version of the Tamagotchi, just hold the A and C buttons down together for a few seconds to generate a new egg.

@Damo Any chance of getting an article about the Tamagotchi Pix, since that‘s an NA/EU exclusive as of right now? :> It’s the first color-screen version released to not be based on a previously Japanese-exclusive version.

I'm Surprised Nintendo hasn't done this with the Game & Watch brand yet. :3

Damn it! I am a grown man and absolutely definitely d̶o̶ ̶n̶o̶t need one of these!

I'd be hella tempted if they made a more discreetly designed masculine variant for d̶u̶d̶e̶b̶r̶o̶ ̶p̶o̶s̶e̶u̶r̶s professionals.

@Silly_G They’ve got Digimon versions (though they’re more fitbits with a thin layer of Digimon paint than virtual pets). You do different missions with getting in steps and raising your heart rate and stuff like that and it impacts how your ‘mon grows.

Minimal (none, maybe?) Japanese in the watch itself, so it’s easy to use even if you can’t read it. I think the app it pairs with for storing Digimon and taking extra daily missions and stuff is in Japanese, but people probably already have translations up online...

@Pod why? this has nothing to do with game & watch

@StardusterEX : Cool. Thanks for the heads-up. I don't know how this escaped my attention.

I'm not concerned about the presence of Japanese text though. These sorts of devices usually require minimal input, and I'll probably get by okay with reading kana (thought I ought to start learning kanji one of these years ).

@Bl4ckb100d
How does something that is a game and a watch at the same time have "nothing" to do with the concept of Game & Watch?

So basically the most recent digivice release. Interesting.

@Pod oh you where going for the pun

Cute idea but its gigantic

@Bl4ckb100d
That, ^^
AND the obvious thematic coincidence. Nintendo could easily have designed a series of small games in watch-form, just like these, and used it for continuing the Game & Watch brand.

However, Nintendo has never been particularly big on wearables, and to some extend I understand where they're coming from with that.

Also, in case you might not actually have thought of it, the "Watch" part of Game & Watch really is in there because the games doubled as a digital pocket watch when you weren't playing.

They did this first with the Digimon V Pet line with good results. I have been using mine since some months ago.

What does this have to do with Nintendo, though?

@Not_Soos Might be a bit of a stretch, but Tamagotchi games have pretty much been exclusive to Nintendo systems. Unfortunately, besides the first GB game, the Wii board game, and three of the Corner Shop titles on DS, most of them never made it out of Japan...

Can I still accidentally kill it from neglect?

Also can companies stop making products bent on making teacher’s lives harder? I can’t imagine the confiscation boxes in schools now. Smart watches, fidget spinners, tamagotchi coming back…

@Pod huh didn't know about the watch part, now what you said makes more sense. I guess the closer thing they did was the Mini classics, a series of small game & watch games.

@Pod Nintendo could release Game and Watch games for existing smart watches. It might be more profitable even though the novelty of a Nintendo smart watch would be cool.

I think I'll stick to my Digimon Vital Bracelet. It's more a workout device and I can raise Digimon while using it with a companion app on my smartphone. And battle with friends!

It's only a logical progression for something literally named "Egg Watch." These things only get cooler by the year.

@Snatcher use Revive or Phoenix Down.

Not gonna lie, I love this idea. My girls would love this!

@JayPrim3 If you don’t want to wait/import and are interested in color-screen models, the Tamagotchi Pix is currently available in EU/NA (and AU sometime later this year). Its camera eats batteries though, so it pairs well with rechargeable AAAs... It’s also got touch buttons, so there’s a little more interactivity because you can swipe them as well as using them like normal. The camera’s DSi/3DS quality, so it’s nothing amazing, but it’s a fun idea. It talks about social media, but as far as I can tell it’s just the other in-game Tamagotchi characters “liking” your pictures, so no actual interacting with other people/sharing images.

The Tamagotchi On is available in NA, but not EU last I knew. I like these quite a bit because you get to mix genes as your Tamagotchi marry, and it’s got an app you can connect to to get extra items and marry other people’s Tamagotchis from around the world. It’s got 3 different versions, but the only major difference is that each has an exclusive area with 2 exclusive characters to marry, so it’s kind of best to just go by which shell you think is the prettiest, lol.

...I’m sorry if I’m rambling at this point, I’m a little sad to admit Tamagotchis are my one consistent passion in life. u.u