TOKYO—Videogame powerhouse Nintendo Co. started as a playing-card maker more than a century ago. That is where its latest generation of architects found inspiration for a feature of its new Switch console: games where two players look straight at each other, not at a screen. “When you play cards, you look opponents in the eye to read their strategy, and that is fun,” said Yoshiaki Koizumi, the Switch’s general producer, in an...

Source: Wall Street Journal January 16, 2017 09:49 UTC