Tamagotchi gets first UK store as global sales double
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The egg-shaped toy which housed a virtual pet was one of the biggest crazes of the 90s.
  • Iheartcheese@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    2 months ago

    YO when the fuck is somebody going to make a billion dollars by just copying the chaos then adding modern online shit.

    I have monies.

      • Iheartcheese@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        Kind of sort of? It’s exclusive to that watch for one thing which is pretty damn limiting. But it doesn’t have like The kind of online features I dream about in a chao game. Like imagine the kindergarten from that but it’s completely online you drop it off in an online class with other peoples and it can learn from them as well or something like that.

    • EnderMB@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      It’s absolutely mad to me that Sonic Team have done nothing with this since SA2: Battle.

      I hate to say it, but it’s literally built for mobile devices! Have a Chao Garden game on consoles/PC, have them be downloadable onto your mobile device, and basically turn it into a Pokémon Go type thing where you can get kids and weebs to exercise and explore the outdoors.

  • halfapage@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    2 months ago

    Let me guess: it now involves NFTs? ;p

    edit: does not seem so, no mention of that in the article

    • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      They’ve been continuously still making tamas and Digimon they’ve just not had a big presence in the west beyond enthusiasts

  • ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    I had a Tamagotchi, but it was the original Digimon toys that I was really obsessed with. I got my friend into it too so that I had someone to battle with. We were even raising them in class. We had all sorts of hypotheses about what made them stronger, which were probably based on no real evidence. I had a bulking-cutting strategy where I force fed my 'mon to increase its weight and then trained it until it reached the minimum weight for its rank.

    I picked up an anniversary digivice a few years ago, I should replace the battery and raise some more digimon.

  • LunchMoneyThief@links.hackliberty.orgEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    Let me guess, $CURRENT_YEAR Tomogatchi release is going to involve

    • Tethered, always online connectivity to a master server
    • Microtransactions
    • Ads
    • Online accounts
    • Boost purchases intended to reduce grind
    • Full telemetry to hoover up user behavior & location data to sell to ad brokers

    If you think I’m being hyperbolic, just look at what they did to the revived Sony Aibo dog.