Van Gogh DS! The Nintendo DS turns into a drawing tablet
(c) Visuals: Ertain Japan K.K. 2006
Have you ever felt you want to use your DS to become more creative and turn it into a a drawing tablet? Then here is the answer: The Japanese company Ertain will launch a special painting program for the Nintendo DS in July. The concept is based on the classic “paint-by-number” idea. The user can “re-paint” famous classic paintings on the screen with the pen using different techniques like crayons, ink, oil, etc.
Sales price will be around 4,000 Yen.
The Nintendo DS is turning more and more into a general education and leisure device. Many dictionaries, language courses, Japanese Kanji trainers already exist for the DS and sell very well.
Actually now amongst the Top 10 best selling games in Japan 6 are Nintendo DS titles. And the interesting this is that most of these titles are not pure game titles but focus on educational content.
Another perfect example of how Nintendo and its partners are changing the rules of a whole industry by re-defining “gaming” and by winning total new target groups.
