Tamagotchi Pix has a built-in camera for taking pictures with your pet

Today, Bandai is announcing Tamagoti Pix: combining its classic Tamagatocchi belly-rearing toy line with a new built-in camera to take pictures with its digital pets.

The pix is ​​shaped like a hatching egg, with the top part of the “broken shell” acting as a shutter button. Using the camera, you can insert yourself (and friends) into photos with your tamagotchi, with appropriately cute photo frames. We have reached Bandai for more information about the quality of the camera.

Photos taken with Pix are stored locally, and any photos you take will appear in a feed that documents your time with your pet. Bandai frames this as a kind of on-device social media, but because Pix can’t connect to Wi-Fi and sharing photos is limited, it’s not really social. Presale for Tamagotchi Pix starts today for $ 59.99.

Past tamagotchi, like On the tent, Has used Bluetooth to connect to other devices, but Pixel is taking a less high-tech approach. If you want to share the picture with other pixel-carrying friends, they can take a picture of “Tama Code”. Bandai says that these codes are the entirety of what you are sharing, so you can basically exchange pictures through the QR code. If you play the game on tamagocchi.com starting in August, Bandai plans to offer Tama codes for in-game items.

In addition to the camera features, the Tamagoti Pix also features new touch-based buttons and several new gameplay mechanics in place of normal physical ones. Have you ever wanted to influence the future employment status of your tamagotchi? Apparently, how you grow your tamagatochi and decorate its room will now have an impact on your future profession and what other eggs you can raise after your first tamagotchi grows. Tamagotchi can also engage in new activities such as painting, cooking and ordering food for delivery.

Tamagotchi captures a little bit of Pix’s spirit Pokémon GoAugmented Reality Camera. It’s not as strong – you’re sticking your pet on a picture instead of going out into the world – but some of it is AR magic. While documenting the lives of their pets in the photos, perhaps some of that parent-child bond can be recreated, but I think the original feeling that Pix’s little AR photos can feel is more powerful You can: You are present in the same place where your tamagocchi is. In some way, it is real – even if it is limited to plastic eggs.

Tamagotchi Pix comes in four different colored “shells”: “floral” (pink), “sky” (purple), “ocean” (blue), and “nature” (green). According to Bandai, pink and purple are available for today, and blue and green are “coming soon”.