Nintendo reported about a year ago it would add a "Quality of Life" sleep-tracking device to its product lines that include video games and gaming consoles. However, Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima announced at a recent investors event that the company has hit the snooze button on the project and has no plans to launch the sleep and fatigue gadget.

Kimishima shared the news at an investors Q&A session even though the investors did not ask about the device. He reported the company has no plans to roll out the sleep-tracking device by the end of March of this year.

Nintendo's president had made similar comments to a Japanese newspaper. He told Asahi the sleep tracker is not ready to be a Nintendo product, but it will release it when that happens, according to Ars Technica.

The video game maker released plans in 2014 for a non-game sleep tracker that gave health updates in a fun way, according to Wired. It stated that the device would be available by early 2016.

However, the company shared that it can still develop products for its Quality of Life program. The gaming giant unveiled it more than two years ago.

Nintendo's plan was to develop non-wearable health devices. That is due to the many health and fitness trackers already on the market.

After people went to bed the device would detect when they had fallen asleep. It would upload sleep data to the cloud to process it, and then send results and suggestions to users such as to eat healthy food or get more exercise.

Nintendo's former president Satoru Iwata explained in 2014 that sleep and fatigue are difficult to visualize. The company hoped that making that possible would help many people.

This is not the first sleep-tracking device Ninendo has dropped. It announced the Wii Vitality Sensor in 2009 that added biometric info into game design, but after bad reviews following its introduction at the E3 video game conference it later ended the project.

However, Nintendo developed the Wii Fit game series for the Wii and Wii U consoles. Their fitness trackers and exercise routines have sold over 40 million units. 

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