https://r.nikkei.com/article/DGXMZO43574890Q9A410C1000000?unlock=1&s=3
So that's that it seems. I wonder what Iwata's true vision for it was.
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Nikkei: Nintendo's Quality of Life project is no more. Wasn't "Nintendo-esque".
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https://r.nikkei.com/article/DGXMZO43574890Q9A410C1000000?unlock=1&s=3
So that's that it seems. I wonder what Iwata's true vision for it was.
Yes. But to be sure we got the message, the QoL cancellation will be the focus of E3 2019. Possibly GamesCom too.
It was announced nearly a decade ago by Iwata, makes you wonder how much R&D really went into it.
Shocker. It honestly just felt like a deflection when their main business wasn't doing too hot. Doubt they ever had anything too substantial for it.
Nintendo wants to be Apple so bad and I love it. My dream would be them becoming the same company even tho I hate monopoly's
Well, hopefully the 10-years R&D effort can be put into Switch, future Nintendo consoles, and future QoL projects (if any).
At least, we can finally nail the coffin and say, yes, the QoL project is no longer vaporware, but it's officially cancelled.
At least, we can finally nail the coffin and say, yes, the QoL project is no longer vaporware, but it's officially cancelled.
I knew nothing would ever come of it. What, was Nintendo gonna release some stupid alarm clock or something? Not surprised at all.
I mean who wants that anyway, what was the point? Waste of resources.
I mean who wants that anyway, what was the point? Waste of resources.
It was originally made because Nintendo needed to diversify because of the Wii U. They don't need to do that anymore.
I wondered the same thing.
Having a sleep monitor, for instance means all the tracking is done while you are sleeping and that means the interactivity Nintendo usually has with other products like Wii Fit, for instance, just won't be there. I have to think the Vitality Sensor had the same issue, at least for it's main purpose, because that at least seemed like maybe they could have additional gaming functionality, like the Wii balance board, but just like that device, I don't think the added ability is enough to make it marketable when it's leaning on the gaming market to do something they need to appeal to a completely different market that may not care about gaming.
I've always thought Nintendo is good at gamifying tasks and making enjoyable interfaces for even mundane sorts of tasks, so them attempting to expand into a QoL area seemed like a place they could be successful at. At the same time, it seems to be an area that was competitive already and would require more specialization that Nintendo didn't have and probably more than they were interested in developing to stay competitive in that market.
At the very least, I'm curious what their idea for "non-wearable devices" was, especially since it sounded like the Switch was built with ideas for compatibility with these plans.
It was pretty clear this initiative wouldn't survive Iwata's untimely passing, but I was actually very much in the market for a Nintendo-made sleep therapy device and I'm sorry to see it go.
I think this is the first confirmation we've had that the QoL department within Nintendo has been disbanded, though.
Apparently their sleep sensor was cancelled in 2016, but at that time they still wanted to keep the QoL initiative going.
https://www.wired.com/2016/02/nintendo-qol-sleep-tracker/
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this makes it sound like they knew the Wii U was going to bomb years in advance
maybe they did
You generally don't lie to investors. If there was a whiff that anything about the project was fabricated to bolster stock prices, there would be lawsuits.
A multiplayer racing game where the better you sleep the faster you go.
Wasn't this always just a conspicuous flashing light Nintendo set up to distract from the abject failure of the Wii U?
This is genius! you should have worked for Nintendo before they disbanded the QOL department :^(
I think I'll never understand what the Quality of Life is or was. I mean, I know what is a QoL feature, but how people would make a project with it?
I mean, it's something related with healthy? In a videogame? Hard to say what it was.
I mean, it's something related with healthy? In a videogame? Hard to say what it was.
