Key Highlights:
- Nintendo has moved Dr Kawashima’s Devilish Brain Training from 8 March to 12 April 2013 across Europe.
- The Nintendo 3DS game focuses on working-memory, concentration and attention exercises.
- Nintendo later delayed the European release again, and the game ultimately did not launch until July 2017.
Nintendo has delayed Dr Kawashima’s Devilish Brain Training: Can You Stay Focused? from 8 March to 12 April 2013 across Europe.
The Nintendo 3DS title will launch both as a physical retail release and digitally through the Nintendo eShop. The game is known as Brain Age: Concentration Training in North America, where Nintendo plans to release it on 10 February 2013.
Dr Kawashima’s Devilish Brain Training shifts the series towards exercises designed around concentration and working memory. Nintendo says the game contains 30 exercises and mini-games, including 18 new activities.
The Devilish Training exercises adapt their difficulty according to the player’s performance. Sessions are designed to be short, with many exercises lasting around five minutes.
Nintendo developed the game in collaboration with neuroscientist Dr Ryuta Kawashima, whose work also inspired the earlier Brain Training titles for Nintendo DS.
The revised 12 April European release date did not ultimately hold. Nintendo delayed Dr Kawashima’s Devilish Brain Training again on 8 April 2013, saying it wanted to optimise the game’s launch timing within the European market.
The delay became far longer than expected. Dr Kawashima’s Devilish Brain Training eventually launched across Europe on 28 July 2017, more than four years after its originally planned March 2013 release.
