My nintendo DS from 15 years ago gave me an eye strain warning every time i started it up and it doesn't always cause eye strain, only misuse does and I know that thanks to the informative banner.
I love that Nintendo is very aware of the potential negative effects of their products and games and tries to inform users / mitigate.
Even when it comes to encouraging positive play between users - in the new Pokemon MOBA (games known for their toxicity) there's no text chat, only communication with a few emotes you can show. Some of their decisions make for arguably worse games for "hardcore" gamers (like the way they rank users in smash, or how they focus on more casual-style in-game tournaments or make matchmaking harder) but they sacrifice that in favor of a more positive general experience, especially important since children play their games.
I thought pictochat was great too and a lot of fun. They could have opened it up and made it into a global network, but the beauty is that it operates on local networks so it was more of an in person social network, plus no way for advertisers and commercial companies to break in.
I remember pictochat, so many dicks and graphic drawings sent to each other in JR high. The sensitive world today would have had a field day with that.
This part of the thread went pretty off topic but I like it! Pictochat was certainly ahead of its time, wish we stuck to things like that.
