Nintendo Targets 3 year olds
Check out this article from our friends in the UK Games too complex, Nintendo chief warns. Not surprisingly, Nintendo’s DS is the answer to this rampaging complexity among modern games. According to Iwata, it will offer a broader appeal. “The players of DS will have even wider demographics than today,” he said. “I hope people realised a DS game can be played by a three-year-old and a 50-year-old returning to games.
Really? A Three-year-old? I mean we know the DS is going to have Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and dual screens with a touch sensitive pad but I mean is that enough to satisfy today’s active and technologically advanced 3 year old gamers? C’mon Nintendo give us a break….
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My three-year-old son plays videogames all the time. I’m actually transitioning him from Xbox games (Simpson’s Hit & Run, Pac-man, Project Gotham 2) to Nintendo, which seems more age-appropriate. Mario’s a big hit with him!
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Well, think about it a moment.
At age three kids are just getting into early educational games. Which is better for a kid.. being able to move a mouse and click on Elmo.. or actually touching Elmo?
It sounds odd; but the DS could be even better for kids than the Leapfrog device. The younger set would have game featureing popular Nintendo characters. For example: Shape Recognition.
Mario holds up various objects from around the house and the children press the shape that the object most represents.
Learning Letters: Yoshi holds up an APPLE. Child spells APPLE with their finger or an oversized Stylus. Penmanship and Math can be heavily emphasized.
Coloring and creativity games: Mario Paint for the DS.. Oh, yes! That would be good.
Some of us remember Stickybear or Grover’s ABCs from the old PC games. Hell, educational games could experience a rebirth on the DS. Oh, man… Carmen Sandiego…. that would be cool. I loved that game. Imagine writing down your notes or investigating the scene of a crime on the bottom screen. For example, circle part of the crime scene and get a close up look at it on the top screen. Besides knowing what country to go to.. you would also need to know WHERE it is. Circle it on the map to go to it. Oh, yes. It would be harder; but it would also be much more fun. It would be like really solving that case.
But back on the Children’s Game bit: THQ has already said they will bring a Spongebob the Movie game to the DS. So.. we can only be worried.