Enlarge / Lol at Bowser’s tiny iPhone.
After Nintendo’s major Switch system event on Thursday, the game maker quietly published a cute, Bowser-filled video that unveiled a first for the company–and, honestly, for any game console: an app designed to track and control how the system is used.
This app, uncreatively named Nintendo Switch Parental Controls, is clearly targeted at parents who have kids playing the new home-portable hybrid. The app-reveal video, which Nintendo has only officially published in Japanese as of press time, shows an animated 3D Bowser grimacing and growling at the Bowser Jr. character while a narrator explains how the Parental Controls app, coming to iOS and Android, will let parents keep tabs on kids’ play. (British gaming site Eurogamer somehow found an English-language version of the video.)
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Source: Ars Technica – Your screen time is in another castle: Nintendo’s remote parent-control app