I'll give it to Nintendo; I don't think anyone thought of a sleep monitor.


Since it's still early and details are scant, it's hard to get a good idea of how sleep data will translate to Nintendo games (outside of Wii Fit U). Perhaps this is just as useless as another fitness band, but I think gathering my sleep data might be neat.

It's really just a way for Nintendo to sneak into our dreams and brainwash millions of people into becoming loyal consumers.  All these people buying the device to help with sleep, will unexplainably wake up the next day with an urge to buy the newest Mario game, even if they've never played a game in their life.

Expect the fitbit, Apple Watch all have a sleep moniter Microsoft just announced a fitness badn that does this as well. Only difference is that this isn't wearable.

I forgot this was still a thing.

Ah, I haven't kept up at all with smart watches and fitness bands. Good to know.

Subliminal messaging. SUBLIMINAL MESSAGING! This is starting to sound like crap Microsoft would attempt. I'm not liking it.

All the wearables done by a lot of big hitters is probably why Nintendo is going the non-wearable route.  Another thing I would like about this device is you set it up and forget.  You don't have to charge it and your getting a reading night after night from the exact same vantage point making it more consistent.

At the time this was first announced, with Nintendo suffering some pretty bad sales figures for games, it seemed like this could be their plan to leave traditional games behind and focus on Wii Fit/Brain Age health kind of stuff.  That was my fear anyway.

But this doesn't look to have software.  It looks like a singular product.  Even if Nintendo has a whole line of similar products in the works that couldn't possibly sustain them as a business model without the games, unless they wanted to scale down considerably.