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What came out of Nintendo HQ today is absolute proof that predicting the company’s next move is impossible. They’ve announced they’re getting into the alarm clock business with Alarmo, a traditionally shaped bedside clock that displays Nintendo characters and fonts. Is that all it does? Yeah….kinda. It’s an alarm clock, nothing more, though it CAN sense when you get out of bed and turn its own alarm off, saving you the arm motion of pushing a button. Depending on the time of day, Alarmo will display Mario, Zelda, Splatoon or Pikmin characters, with more to be added later through firmware updates, In a lengthy interview published today on Nintendo’s website, the team behind Alarmo did not reveal the exact motivation behind this product, but said they wanted to avoid turning the sleep cycle into a game. “If we implemented game-like elements, it can be assumed that users would continue to play with it in bed,” said Yosuke Tamori of Nintendo’s Entertainment Planning & Development Department. “In that case, it might end up disturbing their sleep instead. We didn’t want to create that kind of situation because we wanted users to wake up refreshed. So we decided early on to exclude […]
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