A Japanese software maker plans to launch a skin care guide for use on Nintendo's hot-selling DS portable game player, giving beauty tips based on users' basal body temperature and hormone balance.Konami, known for sports titles such as Pro Evolution Soccer, said that by marking a target date such as a wedding in the software, DS users can get customized, daily skin care instructions in the run-up to the big day.
"We have developed the software under the concept of getting pretty while having fun," Konami's digital entertainment corporate officer, Naoyuki Notsu, told a news conference.
Konami Digital Entertainment is Konami's game software unit.
The DS has two screens, opens like a book and allows gamers to control play with a stylus, instead of by manipulating a keypad.
Its intuitive playing style, coupled with software designed to cater to game novices, such as the Nintendogs pet-training game, has helped Nintendo expand its clientele beyond a young male audience to include women and the elderly.
The skin care software will go on sale on October 18 in Japan for $37 (4,500 yen). Konami has no specific plans at the moment for an overseas launch.
