national geographic presents: africa

National Geographic has picked up SCE’s African photography/expedition game and it’s expected to be released next month for the PS3.

The game’s premise reminds me of a less wacky Pokémon Snap, but it should still be really cool as the graphics are great, and with the moderate success of other simple wildlife exploration games such as Endless Ocean; it only makes sense for National Geographic to start publishing such games.

It seems games like Africa could have sold well when edutainment was the thing to do, but I think a large niche for this type of thing is starting to form and an exclusive title like this couldn’t hurt Sony in courting the casual crowd.