Icstis has also announced new rules which force quiz-based TV shows like Brainteaser to tell viewers their chances of getting through, and how much it will cost.
Other more demure offerings include a brainteaser to tests intelligence levels, a pursuit that has attracted older gamers to bag the DS. Iwata also explained, perhaps for the completely uninitiated, that traditional games that focused on sports, shooting and fist fights tended to draw young males.