2p news / p2pnet: Brain Training is where it’s at, says Nintendo president Satoru Iwata.

He had them laughing at the Game Developers Conference in San Jose, last week, “seemingly unperturbed by Sony’s PlayStation 3 and Microsoft’s Xbox 360, but was, “steadfast in his support for the unusual - and comparably less powerful - Nintendo Revolution and its remote-control-shaped controller,” says MTV.

Iwata’s keynote address was, “long on humor, frequently eliciting applause (especially when promising a free game to every attendee), but short on details about the Revolution. Interviewed one-on-one,” but he wasn’t offering anything more than hints.

MTV says although Sony used the show to demonstrate its PlayStation 3, “Nintendo relegated the still-code-named Revolution’s presence to a glass case at the company’s booth on the show floor”.

Iwata, a former game designer who helped create Nintendo’s pink puffball mascot Kirby, told MTV “Brain Training” had brought him back to video games. “I played it every day for three to five months since the game launched, and by the end of the day, I got my brain age down to about 27,” he said. The object of the program is to get as close to 20 as possible.

He’d started out at about 40.

“Nintendo’s Brain Training efforts have sold stupendous amounts in Japan - we all know that - but according to a report sourced by the Associated Press from Mainichi Daily News, it’s not just the stupid children and anxious adults who are picking it up to find out whether their noggin’s actually firing on all nerve structures,” says Eurogamer, continuing, “now doctors are recommending elderly folks in their care give it a go to help stimulate the mind”.

Oh.

The upper right screenshot is from Eurogamer’s feature on Brain Training.

Meanwhile, the game is proving inspirational not only for elderly folk, but also for Nintendo’s teams, Iwata said, according to MTV.

“Internally at Nintendo, with the success of ‘Brain Training,’ our own developers have gradually started offering their own unique ideas, and that’s where we’re really starting to see this come to fruition.”

Also See:
MTV - Nintendo President Says Revolution Still Full Of Surprises , March 31, 2006
Eurogamer - Hospitals using Brain Training, March 7, 2006

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