Maybe Nintendo would be wise to test products a little more thoroughly before whetting the public’s appetite.
Nintendo, one of the world’s largest video game creators, this week acknowledged that its proposed “Quality of Life” health-tracking device has been shelved, according to Wired. In 2014, Nintendo said it planned to launch the device in March 2016. Back then, executives discussed some of the non-wearable device’s features, which included measuring the amount and quality of a user’s sleep.
Sounds nifty, but Nintendo couldn’t get it to work, executives said.
“In regards to the Quality of Life [device], which was not mentioned in any of today’s questions, we do not have the conviction that the sleep-and-fatigue-themed [device] can enter the phase of actually becoming a product,” Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima told investors earlier this week, Wired reported. “We no longer have any plans to release it by the end of March 2016. On the other hand, we still believe there are things we can do in the general category of Quality of Life, and we will continue to study the possibility of expanding into this field.”
Quality of Life is just the latest of Nintendo’s aborted efforts in the health area.
The Wii Vitality Sensor was also ballyhooed by the gamemaker during its testing phase and the pulse-sensing device also never made it to production.
