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And besides that, frankly, I want another excuse to play with them. as the only reason to give them an airing is creating quite the atmosphere in there. Five amiibo are currently bunking in a ?-block in my living room, and having Super Smash Bros. Nintendo is churning out waves of the things, releasing different lines for different games, and have you seen those adorable carrying cases? But they need more purpose. We idiots will buy anything branded attractively enough, and Nintendo knows it gimme! Prev of 9 Next Prev of 9 NextĪmiibo are selling like desirable, plastic collectibles that people inexplicably go mental over. Theres real money to be made there, particularly given how much more personal a watch is as an accessory. The same pool of fans buying multiple amiibo (me) and new 3DS facades (also very possibly me) would clearly snap up a few watch faces without a second thought. And if they put out a smart watch with an equally must-have range of swappable shells, emblazoned with mascots, Ill be bankrupt within a month, living out of a small hut fashioned from discarded Nintendo packaging. If I do succumb to the smaller sized machine for the sake of faceplates, I am buying a lot of them. And somewhere in Kyoto, someone is all too aware of that. Okay, that actually sounds like the stuff nightmares are made of, but if Im spending my grown-up money on a new 3DS, on principle I want to be able to kit it out so that it looks like it belongs to a 12-year old, dammit. Sure, I want the biggest screen available to play my games on, but you know what else I want? A customisable, cute-as-a-basket-of-bunnies-wearing-kitten-costumes handheld. If theres one thing thats throwing a spanner into my decision-making process when it comes to the new 3DS, its the face plates available for the smaller model (I live in the UK, so I have that choice/blessing/curse). Prev of 9 Next Prev of 9 NextĬustomisable face plates would rake in the money Integrating those features into an inconspicuous smartwatch would be the next logical step. It turns out that wearing a bulky pedometer when youre not engaging in a Rocky training montage on a daily basis can make you feel like a bit of a plonker. The more obvious examples of this are the Wii Fit games and peripherals, but even the 3DS sneakily conforms by showering you with play coins as you rack up steps on the pedometer, cutting you off after 1,000 to make sure your get your pudgy butt moving again the following day for your next fix.īut carrying around my 3DS everywhere so that I can trade coins for fortune cookies from the Nook twins isnt ideal and, as I dont actually do any exercise, when people see me wearing a monitor around my waist they assume I have a medical condition. Although now, instead of flogging playing cards alongside packs of cigarettes for poker night, quality of life is the dominant theme. Prev of 9 Next Prev of 9 NextĪ smartwatch is a perfect fit for Nintendo's 'quality of life' ethosĪs far back as the early 1900s, Nintendo has always had its eye on the fusion of games and lifestyle. Until of course they were dashed by the handheld market, but that's a story for another time. The Game & Watch was hugely successful and led to all sorts of innovations, like the much-beloved D-Pad, but Nintendo was lured back to the world of timepieces when it licensed its titles to Nelsonic for its line of game watches that wait for it were actual watches that you could wear and play games on. Despite the name, it wasn't actually wearable - although a roll of duct tape and an indifference to the imminent and agonising loss of arm hair could soon change that - but the perfunctory alarm and the time displayed in the corner very loosely fulfilled the advertised 'watch' functionality. A few years later, he graced the world with the Game & Watch. Game Boy creator Gunpei Yokoi first dipped his toe into the waters of handheld gaming with the Game and Watch, after he saw a business man on the bullet train having a whale of a time punching 80085 into his calculator and thought that we all deserved a more substantial form of on-the-go entertainment.