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Nintendo's Newest Switch Accessories Are DIY Cardboard Toys (theverge.com)
sqorbit writes: Nintendo has announced a new experience for its popular Switch game console, called Nintendo Labo. Nintendo Labo lets you interact with the Switch and its Joy-Con controllers by building things with cardboard. Launching on April 20th, Labo will allow you to build things such as a piano and a fishing pole out of cardboard pieces that, once attached to the Switch, provide the user new ways to interact with the device. Nintendo of America's President, Reggie Fils-Aime, states that "Labo is unlike anything we've done before." Nintendo has a history of non-traditional ideas in gaming, sometimes working and sometimes not. Cardboard cuts may attract non-traditional gamers back to the Nintendo platform. While Microsoft and Sony appear to be focused on 4K, graphics and computing power, Nintendo appears focused on producing "fun" gaming experiences, regardless of how cheesy or technologically outdated they me be. Would you buy a Nintendo Labo kit for $69.99 or $79.99? "The 'Variety Kit' features five different games and Toy-Con -- including the RC car, fishing, and piano -- for $69.99," The Verge notes. "The 'Robot Kit,' meanwhile, will be sold separately for $79.99."
So excited!
was media. driver was a lobo junkie. same happened in porto alegre and the driver could be from rbs or othe shit channel
We have one. It's fun because - even though there aren't many games out - the games tend to do multiplayer well. Most of the time it's 4 of the local kids playing Minecraft, Brawlout, or Mario Cart. Or 6 playing Just Dance (you can use any smart phone as a controller). If you are playing games solo, I assume you have better options - but I have no idea because that's not my hobby.
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$300 for the console, $60 for the games, $50 or whatever for the SD card because Nintendo is cheap on space, $80 or so for extra controller, taxes and now $70 each for CARDBOARD toys that cost $1 or so to make.
They can be #3 in the console game and still make out from all the suckers willing to shell out all this money
meanwhile one of my kids can't get enough for a $27 copy of Minecraft on the PC and the other one plays Forza on a $189 xbox one s
Looking forward to taking one of these cardboard interface devises and using a OpenMV camera making my own generic interfaces.
Very well done Nintendo! Not interested in the games at all, but the ideas and implementation of the cardboard part is very good.
Seriously, I'm sure many of you will be happily mocking Nintendo's newest effort. But I think this particular product isn't aimed at virgin gamers living in their mothers' basements. This product is aimed at families with children. My 7 year old daughter loves to cut up every cardboard box we get and make something out of it. She makes houses, cars, planes, and even a recreation of Wall-e. This sort of stuff is aimed at them. Only now they don't just get to create lifeless box items for their imagination. They can see the mechanics of how steering wheels, pianos, and fishing reels work. The can see the pulley's and cameras driving this stuff. This is engineering for elementary school kids. You want to promote kids getting into STEM fields? Try cultivating their imaginations instead of mocking it.
I bought it purely for BOTW and have picked up a few more titles. I've loaned it to friends and family and it's got a bunch of use. Great investment IMO.
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There aren't many games out?
There are 403 games in the Switch download shop. (Okay, some of those entries are duplicates - like a game, and game-plus-DLC. But not that many. And one of the things is a non-game.)
There are 37 Switch-exclusive games out, and 15 more that are Switch or 3DS only, no other console/PC.
I can't think of another console that has had this many games in its first year. Granted a lot of those are arcade and indie ports, but there's certainly no lack of games to play on the thing. And there's certainly some crap in there (hogod, Vroom in the Night Sky), but not all that much, either.
They've sold 10 million of them, so maybe you're the idiot.
The right will fall for it if you put "Great for bigoted racist redneck morons!" on the box.
No one wants this shit any more than we wanted the fucking Wiimote or Power Glove. Give us a lump of plastic with buttons and thumbsticks and stop trying to cover up how shit your games are by making people play them with even shittier controllers.
What I'd like to see is for them to release the API so you can make your own arbitrary things out of cardboard and then program the console to sense and interact with your creations. That would be awesome.
"Remember, there never were pineapple-almond cookies here."
Leftwing humour comes across as butthurt sniveling. I'd like you guys if you weren't so goddamn serious, but Trump and his promise of Gorilla Channel for all americans won me over.
lol are you fucking retarded or just trolling?
I'll guess both. Fuck off, shitstain.
hahahahaha yeah nintendo makes bad games and ferrari make bad cars and gordon ramsay can't cook, you pathetic excuse for a troll hahaha
BTW preorders for this are already sold out on amazon, and everyone is loving the idea, oohhhh doesn't that sting? Poor little guy, LOL
Considering most of the cost should come from the game (and not the cardboard), I wonder how much it'll cost to replace the cardboard when you (eventually) break them.
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I've spent more time on the switch this in less than a year than I've spent in all the years owning a ps4.
You're asking Nintendo to be like Microsoft or Sony. What would be the point of doing that? If all you are doing is copying someone else, you will always be behind and always #2.
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Yeah, your numbers are probably right - but misleading. When you are game shopping, it feels like mostly retreads. There are only a few titles that make the console worth buying at the moment. I think one part of the disconnect for me is we are not using the portable aspect, so old titles like Stardew Valley hold little appeal.
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Nope.
The Game Cube was great at the time, with the 8 cm DVDs, ~500MHz CPU, good enough graphics features, and no internet!
It didn't get enough games and was killed relatively soon to make room for the wii.
I haven't really played consoles since.
The Switch is a more "normal" console than wii and wii U though. Only the costs are a turn off for me.
That says more about you than it does about the switch or the PS4.
Anecdotes are like assholes...everybody has one.
Yeah everyone should just forget that you guys are all those things and stfu and let this country get raped back to the 1920s by rich white people who only care about getting richer.