Nintendo, Please Give Me Something Else To Do With My Ring Fit Gear
Nintendo hasn't needed to think outside the box for a very long time. Right now, just weeks after it turned five, the Nintendo Switch continues to keep up with the sales numbers of the far younger PS5 and Xbox Series X|S consoles. Yes, a big part of that is the boatload of instantly recognizable IP Nintendo has attached to its brand. Mario, The Legends Of Zelda, and perhaps its biggest asset of all, Pokemon. But it's startling how little Nintendo has innovated while the other two have pushed for technological advancement and still come up short.
PlayStation and Xbox have IPs of their own, of course, as did Sega when it was Nintendo's number one console rival. Having the only console that will let you play Breath Of The Wild alone isn't enough, and Nintendo knows that. That's why its consoles are always so different from everything else on the market, and it's also why they often offer up optional extras.
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Nintendo has been offering up those extras ever since it sold us the NES Zapper so we could use it to play Duck Hunt. Since then there's been the Nintendo 64's Rumble Pak, the Wii's balance board that went with Wii Fit, and most recently Ring Fit Adventure on the Switch. These accessories are never cheap, and are usually made with just one game in mind, yet Nintendo never fails to sell millions of them. If there's an expensive piece of kit that officially pairs with our Nintendos, we want them all, and we want them now.
The thing is, these accessories are always really cool and work really well. I, along with more than 13 million other people at last count, coughed up the cash for Ring Fit Adventure and absolutely loved it.
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