{"id":92136,"date":"2019-04-18T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/04\/rumour_nintendo_has_reportedly_axed_its_quality_of_life_department"},"modified":"2019-04-18T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T03:00:00","slug":"rumour-nintendo-has-reportedly-axed-its-quality-of-life-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/04\/18\/rumour-nintendo-has-reportedly-axed-its-quality-of-life-department\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumour: Nintendo Has Reportedly Axed Its Quality Of Life Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ad6d0db35b80b\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ad6d0db35b80b\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Nintendo Presidents\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ad6d0db35b80b\/nintendo-presidents.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ad6d0db35b80b\/nintendo-presidents.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Nintendo Presidents\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Nintendo&#8217;s &#8216;Quality of Life&#8217; initiative has been dragging on for years now. Last June, there were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/06\/nintendos_share_value_plunges_amid_reports_that_quality_of_life_project_is_dead\">suggestions<\/a> the project was dead, after a dramatic fall in the company&#8217;s share price. Nintendo&#8217;s hardware partner Panasonic also reportedly bailed on the project and the last official announcement about &#8216;QoL&#8217; before then was in Nintendo&#8217;s Annual Report for 2017, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/07\/nintendos_quality_of_life_project_lives_on\">claiming<\/a> it was still alive and well.<\/p>\n<p>The latest information comes from a report by the Japanese business journal Nikkei. According to a translation, Nintendo&#8217;s &#8216;QoL&#8217; department has now been completely axed. A prototype of a sleep monitoring device is also believed to have been canceled.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nikkei reporting that Nintendo&#8217;s QOL department is no more. Apparently a prototype of a sleep monitoring device was nearly complete, but the project was canceled due to the product not being very &#8220;Nintendo-esque&#8221;. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/C8GtNbPLb2\">https:\/\/t.co\/C8GtNbPLb2<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Kyle McLain (@FarmboyinJapan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FarmboyinJapan\/status\/1118667640900214784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 18, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Former Nintendo President Satoru Iwata originally announced the &#8216;QoL&#8217; initiative way back in 2014, during an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2014\/01\/satoru_iwata_announces_a_quality_of_life_platform_business_of_non_wearable_technology\">investor briefing<\/a>. Nintendo&#8217;s original intention was to develop a new business platform within the health sphere, which encouraged people to live healthier lives. Since then, there&#8217;s been a constant uncertainty about the future of the project.<\/p>\n<p><em>Do you think Nintendo should move on? Or would you like to see something more from this initiative? Tell us down in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo&#8217;s &#8216;Quality of Life&#8217; initiative has been dragging on for years now. Last June, there were suggestions the project was dead, after a dramatic fall in the company&#8217;s share price. Nintendo&#8217;s hardware partner Panasonic also reportedly bailed on the project and the last official announcement about &#8216;QoL&#8217; before then was in Nintendo&#8217;s Annual Report for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}