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15 minutes ago, Kevvy Metal said:

I'm hoping this is something totally unexpected... and for it to be quite a cool and ambition project that's aimed at everyone. 

Basically the Switch's Wii Sports, but something unexpected. 

 

The head of Nintendo gave an interview recently talking about their 2018 plans where he recognised the need to expand their audience reach, as they seem to think they need to do more to get past the early adopter phase if they want to meet their sales targets:


 

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- "Our task is to add more users, including people who barely touch game consoles.”

 

- Nintendo has reached most early adopters because they really like Nintendo’s games
- Nintendo’s games are focused on the family demographic

 

 

 

https://www.gonintendo.com/stories/299576-nintendo-s-president-discusses-switch-s-crucial-second-year-ob

 

http://nintendoeverything.com/kimishima-on-switchs-momentum-compared-to-wii-and-more/

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25 minutes ago, Kevvy Metal said:

I'm hoping this is something totally unexpected... and for it to be quite a cool and ambition project that's aimed at everyone.

Basically the Switch's Wii Sports, but something unexpected.

Literally saying its aimed at kids.

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Imagine the following read out by Reggie: "We at Nintendo have teamed up with our pals at LEGO to bring you a new way to play on Nintendo Switch: Amibo LEGOs. Build amazing things that interact with your Nintendo Switch in ways you never dreamed. Use LEGOs to make exciting new designs. Your LEGOs have never been this cool, thanks to the Nintendo Switch."

 

Pack of Amibo LEGOs will be £50. And no matter how hard they try we will never call them LEGOs.

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From 4Chan, possibly rubbish:

 

"It's called "Nintendo Pixelbits".
Similar to lego, but not quite.
Build shapes/characters/small sets, similar to the 8-bit Mario and Link amiibo.
The IR Camera in the right Joycon reads them and incorporates them into games.
Comes in sets to build various characters. At launch will be Mario, Luigi, Link, Squid, Kirby, Samus, as well as a Mushroom Kingdom set containing a 1-up Mushroom, Flagpole, etc.
"Harder" Pixelbits such as Bowser and Ganondorf will contain more "bits" are be aimed more at adults to put together.
They are not amiibo. They offer more flexibility and offer no save/read data.

Release is set for June"

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N&B Block, also known as Nintendo Block (任天堂 ブロック) is a building toy line manufactured by Nintendo, with the first sets releasing in 1968.[1] The blocks were designed by Nintendo's games department under Gunpei Yokoi.

N&B Block uses a similar stud-locking system to LEGO bricks, though the N&B Block system uses a series of connected, alternating half-tubes, rather than the tube-locking system patented by LEGO.[2] In addition, the N&B Block line uses not only the standard brick pieces but also of a variety of other shapes, including various curved and round shapes; Nintendo would use this uniqueness in its advertisements to market N&B as the superior product compared to the blocky composition of models built using LEGO.[2]

Another Nintendo toyline released during 1968, People House, would use N&B Blocks as well. Each set comes with a box of N&B Blocks that can be built into decorations using the plastic front cover for the house, which features N&B studs.[1][3]

Nintendo ceased production of N&B Block in early 1972.[1]

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57 minutes ago, Stanley said:

It's interesting because I've never seen the Switch as being particularly child friendly. Compare it to the chunky 2DS or the Gameboy. It's a pretty fragile console.

 

I saw three kids with Switches at swimming. Watching them pull the joycons off, with barely a button press, and proceeding to balance the tablet on their legs above the tiled floor for no reason brought me out in a cold sweat. 

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7 minutes ago, Barnard said:

 

I saw three kids with Switches at swimming. Watching them pull the joycons off, with barely a button press, and proceeding to balance the tablet on their legs above the tiled floor for no reason brought me out in a cold sweat. 

Probably one of those things Ashens reviews on Youtube, an N-Co Svitch telegame. Yours for £12 delivered from AliExpress, most likely.

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12 minutes ago, Freeman said:

Surely 65% of kids have an iPhone 8, or an iPad worth way more than a Switch and equally delicate by now anyway?

We have a special reinforced case for our daughters tablet so it can be dropped from skyscrapers without being damaged. 

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2 hours ago, JPickford said:

 

I don't think they do.  It's just using the gyroscopes.   The infra red camera isn't even pointing the right way,  nor is there a 'sensor bar' equivalent for it to look at.

 

It doesn't have to point at the TV. It just needs to see movement.

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2 minutes ago, JPickford said:

All it's going to see is your wrist.  I don't think the camera is used for this.

 

 

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The most intriguing surprise inside the Joy-Con controller is a motion-depth infrared camera, which Nintendo's designers insist can differentiate between distinct hand shapes. To illustrate this, Nintendo reps showed off the controller recognizing hand shapes for rock, paper, and scissors. The tracker will also be able to detect exactly how far an object is from the controller. Nintendo says these will be able to record full video "in the future."

 

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/01/nintendos-joy-con-controller-contains-motion-tracking-camera-other-tricks/

 

 

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6 minutes ago, cohen205 said:

 

I was about to ask the same.... unless there's a joke in there somewhere?

 

If you are a kid at heart, you have the heart of a kid, right?

 

So if you're a kid at hand, you have the hands of a kid, OK? So they're small?

 

The joke gets much better if I explain it.

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8 minutes ago, JPickford said:

 

Link?

 

OK, not a video (Google-Fu is weak) but from Nintendo's own site:

 

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The IR Motion Camera in Joy-Con (R) can detect the shape, movement, and distance of objects captured by the camera.

 

So if the shape is your arm, or your chest, or whatever (the video demoed using a guy's shirt, IIRC) then detecting it "move" (it doesn't, the joycon does) will allow it to act as a pointer.

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