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Re:Nintendo Switch by fnord123 on Friday January 13, 2017 @03:58AM (#13389444)
>do kids/parents see that as a gaming device?

It's a "make my kids shut up in the car or in a restaurant" device.

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Re:Nintendo Switch by rickyc091 on Friday January 13, 2017 @07:43AM (#13390363)
This is the truth. Many kids are still using Nintendo 3DS as a gaming console in conjunction to having a tablet.
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Re:Nintendo Switch by unexistance on Friday January 13, 2017 @04:25AM (#13389554)
unfortunate truth ..
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Re:Nintendo Switch by vinay427 on Friday January 13, 2017 @06:40AM (#13390055)
It's especially bothersome to me when parents use "learning" apps to try and pretend that they're being a more productive parent by giving their child an iPad. Perhaps they can do some good, but their effects are also vastly overstated and are no substitute for hands-on physical teaching by parents.

Here is an example study that tries to test the effects of apps vs. parents teaching foreign language words: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20855901

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Re:Nintendo Switch by markonen on Friday January 13, 2017 @07:29AM (#13390293)
If by apps you mean a watching DVD, which (based on the abstract) was what this studied.
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