Nintendo patents the “kind code” hint system

The market of computer and console games, or at least the journalists involved in the coverage of new trends and releases, for several years, has made a clear distinction between "casual" gamers and "hardcore" gamers. This is because the answer to the question “Which category of players is more profitable to focus on?” Was not given, not only because of the fundamental differences between different areas in the igroprome (RTS, FPS, RPG, MMO, etc.), but and the difference between platforms (Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, PC). Nintendo, whose Wii console has recently been increasingly called the golden mean, may have found a solution to a problem that does not allow making money on both categories of players.

A patent received by the creative director of Nintendo Shigeru Miyamoto will give buyers of Wii games the best from each side of the barricades - it describes a hint system called “Kind Code”. The main difference between the traditional hints for today's games, which are usually given in starting missions and the Kind Code, is that the latter will offer a video or text hint to the player at the very moment when he may need this hint. That is, a fictional MMORPG player, for example, at the moment when he cannot cope with some task, will be shown either a text prompt or a small video where the same section of the game is run by one of its creators. Naturally - such "hints" will be evenly spread throughout the story, and not just the initial missions.

Nevertheless, despite the interesting implementation options, the use of this system by gamers is still a big question. Will once hardcore gamers pry all the time in the tips? Or maybe casual players would prefer to view the passage of 80% of the plot by someone from the development team in order to know where all the dogs are buried and in what location are the keys to the apartment with money? Nintendo cannot answer this question either, considering the fact that the real use of the Kind Code cannot yet be found in any other released game. However, it is not necessary to wait long.

via Geek