Sudoku Comes to Nintendo DS

Posted on June 23, 2006

A new Nintendo DS game called Sudoku Gridmaster makes it easy for Sudoku lovers to take Sudoku puzzles on the road. The game will offer four levels of difficulty.

George Harrison, Nintendo of America's senior vice president of marketing and corporate communications, says in a statement, "The Nintendo DS touch-screen controls make it easy for players to write, change and save their answers. Sudoku Gridmaster is one of the many ways Nintendo is getting new audiences involved in video games."

The press release says that Sudoku Gridmaster is one of the first titles in Nintendo's new Touch Generations brand, which "highlights titles with appeal beyond core gamers." That's true. You wouldn't think of Sudoku first as a video game like you would Halo or Tetris. But you also wouldn't think of Monopoly or Bridge as a video games and yet versions of them and many other board, puzzle and card games have been made into popular video games. There is a market for electronic versions of games that have been played by generations in a non-digital format. Touch Generations also produces Nintendogs, which sold over a million copies.