Did You Know? Nintendo's Musical Electroplankton Strikes a Chord on Jan. 9
REDMOND, Wash., Oct. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- The artistic musical experience Electroplankton(TM) will begin making beautiful music in the United States on Jan. 9. This should come as welcome news to gamers and music fans who have longed for the hit Japanese music-making title to arrive overseas.
Electroplankton, made exclusively for Nintendo DS(TM), doesn't fit the traditional definition of a video game. It features 10 different musical modes that let the user create melodies using the microphone and touch screen. Electroplankton is something that could only be played on Nintendo DS. Its dual screens, touch screen and microphone provide the perfect palette for artistic creation.
Created by renowned artist Toshio Iwai, Electroplankton presents a beautiful combination of art and music that unfolds in a different way with every touch of the screen. Players might find themselves getting lost in the melodies they create before they share their masterpieces with friends.
"Electroplankton represents just one of the many ways that Nintendo is developing new kinds of software to reach new audiences," said George Harrison, Nintendo of America's senior vice president of marketing and corporate communications. "Even if you have never played a video game, you can pick it up and start making amazing musical combinations with no instruction."
Electroplankton, Rated E for Everyone, will make a public debut befitting its creative, quirky nature. Electroplankton will be sold exclusively online and at the Nintendo World Store in New York. It will be carried by all major online retailers and at Nintendo.com.
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Originally posted by: stevey
"Electroplankton will be sold exclusively online and at the Nintendo World Store in New York. It will be carried by all major online retailers and at Nintendo.com. "
Nintendo just kill their sales and for what resone?
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Orginally posted by: Ian Sane
How interesting that after all this talk of attracting non-gamers, the ulimate example of a non-game is being sold exclusively online, likely because NOA doesn't have enough faith that it will sell.
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This "people are getting bored with gaming" crap doesn't apply outside of Japan. In North America gaming is just getting bigger and bigger. This is why I don't like this non-gamer strategy. It fixes a "problem" that only exists in one area.
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Right now Nintendo's original ideas are going to stuff like this while the more cookie-cutter stuff is going to the "traditional" games. Now Mario Kart and Advance Wars are cool but we can't just have sequels. The Rev NEEDS an original IP that will sell well in North America.
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Originally posted by: joshnickerson
I guess they figure it's gonna end up attracting a very small audience, much like Pokemon Box (which was also only sold online). But no matter what their reasons, I can guarantee you one thing... it's gonna be a hard item to find a few years down the road.
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Originally posted by: Ian Sane
One thing that I suspect might give Nintendogs more appeal is that it still has somewhat of a goal for the player. The goal is to unlock all of the breeds and items and stuff. Electroplankton doesn't have a goal. I think a sense of accomplishment is something everyone likes and wants to get from a videogame. I find the best games are the ones you think about when you're not playing. You think about what you want to accomplish when you get back to playing. Nintendogs still has that and that probably plays a big part in why it has been so successful.
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I see. I guess then we're lucky to get it at all. Now I'm really concerned about their non-gamer strategy. They pushed the hell out of Electroplankton at all their presentations. It was a frequent example regarding what they're doing to appeal to new types of gamers and stuff like that.
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Originally posted by: Ian Sane
A game without any goals is very rare. In fact I can't think of one outside of Electroplankton. Maybe Mario Paint. Basically if the game has no goals it has nothing to earn. You can see and access the entire game from the moment you turn it on and there is nothing to strive for. It's just a toy to play with. Tetris has the goal of getting a higher score. Animal Crossing has all sorts of items to collect.
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If they had given up on it the game wouldn't be available at all in the States.
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Originally posted by: MarioQuote
If they had given up on it the game wouldn't be available at all in the States.
They gave up on it's selling power I mean.
Oh yeah one more thing, Electroplankton has goals. The goal is to make cool sounds.