The Nintendo Switch

https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Nintendo-Labo/Nintendo-Labo-1328637.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=NintendoLabo%7CAnnouncement%7Cw3

super cool, like a lofi Gakken for young kids

u crazy for this one nintendo
(i will buy this)

That's dope

ok holy shit that looks amazing

wow that looks rad

nintendo’s current purple patch brings me immense joy tbh

labo's kind of a crazy idea. papercraft is always fun though

That looks super cool, even though I think my kids are too old for it. So how does it/will it work? They're going to sell ready to go cardboard kits?

yeah they have two packs to start with

http://labo.nintendo.com

like the robot suit looks nuts, how the heck does that work

1. do a bunch of research online, order parts, and build a functioning robot suit
2. tape cardboard to it

this looks cool! I just signed up to participate in the local workshop with my littlest, hopefully we'll get picked!

very pumped about this

Looks gimmicky, but it does make me think I that I should get a switch.

wonder how well it holds up.

this.... this is pretty crazy. i love how crazy Nintendo is.

apparently the cardboard kits themselves will be optional and the patterns can be printed on other material. no doubt folks will be 3d printing robots and pianos for this

so yeah the patterns will be free. so if you end up ruining a piece of cardboard then just buy a new cardboard box for $1.99 and spend 15 minutes or so to cut out new patterns. sounds like there is some foam board and string involved too but again, nothing you can't find in the craft section for under $5

The Toy-Con all make use of the main Switch console and Joy-Con in unique ways. The most basic creation is the Toy-Con RC Car (which is actually a remote-controlled bug-like creature not entirely dissimilar in concept to the Hexbug Nano range of toys) and this takes around 10 minutes to make and uses the HD Rumble of two Joy-Con to move around the room; you control the action with the Switch touchscreen and you can even view the world through the right-hand Joy-Con's IR camera, sending the bug on secret missions inside unexplored nooks and crannies. Outside of that the potential for competitive play is obvious; one of the demonstrations we took part in was a sumo battle where the last bug inside the circle wins.

At the other end of the scale there's the aforementioned piano, which is utterly, utterly ingenious. Everything is made from cardboard, right down to the keys which use folded flaps to spring back into place when pressed. The Joy-Con slots into the back, with its IR camera pointed at a small slot just above the rear of the keys. When one is pressed, it pops into view through the slot and reveals small strip of reflective tape - the camera picks this up and plays the relevant note. The same visual trick is used to change the tone of the keyboard, adjust the pinch, record patterns and much more besides; you can even use the slot on the top of the piano to insert a cut-out (created by yourself) which changes the sound of a keypress based on the shape of cardboard.

http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2018/01/hands_on_the_future_of_gaming_is_cardboard_thanks_to_nintendo_labo

you mean you can make your waveforms by using scissors and cardboard? insane

The piano looks fun to play with for ...10 minutes? A one or one and a half octave range, ehh... does it support polyphony?

ha, that's more or less what my girl said and i think it misses the point. you're not buying a cardboard piano, you're buying an experience! A NINTENDO EXPERIENCE!

i dont think polyphony is possible. it sounds like it supports sequencing though so id imagine you can probably layer multiple patterns to that effect. seems more like a diy synth than a for-real keyboard

It uses a camera. Polyphony is def possible.

We'll have to wait until I try it to know for sure

They play more than one note at once in the trailer at least

this shit is fantastic and i love how angry its making HARDCORE GAMERZ. love you crazy nintendo men and ladies.

Ingenious special effect use of rather simple technology put Nintendo on the map as toymakers in Japan so this really feels like a throwback to that.

They play more than one note at once in the trailer at least

they do! i was wrong. i had a friend once who made a IR drum machine that worked by punching the air and it could only register one hit at a time to a MIDI trigger. so this seems like newfangled computer magic.

this shit is fantastic and i love how angry its making HARDCORE GAMERZ. love you crazy nintendo men and ladies.

seriously how are these man baby trolls so trollable

These look super neat, for kids. If I had to play Captain Nintendo Devil's Advocate Concern Troll, some might be worried that after a huge failure (Wii u) that seriously hurt Nintendo, it's come back in a big way with Switch, and maybe some people are innately concerned this could prematurely distract Nintendo from further rebuilding its video game brand (or move ever so slightly away from its reputation as a console for young people) and open the door for another potential disaster.

The flip side is that it can't possibly cost the company that much to make cardboard cutout toys, and also it seems so perfectly in line with current STEM education trends. I think of all the cardboard stuff as just another accessory, like a Pro Controller or infrared gun or something. Except it's creative as well.

they are charging 70 bucks for a few sheets of cardboard and a 40 buck game; this is fucking genius imo

seriously how are these man baby trolls so trollable

It's hard to even conceive of how doing goofy cardboard nonsense could anger a person

One of the things I appreciate about the Switch - as someone who hasn't spent much time gaming since the Amiga 500 - is how self-contained and beginner-friendly it is. Outside the games, there's zero need to engage with games culture, man baby trolls and whatnot.

(And inside the games too.)

it's just a shame they cancelled all their other games to solely focus on cardboard. will be cool to see what From does with it though /s

seriously how are these man baby trolls so trollable

in the age of the internet you can find somebody who will complain about anything

its too late for Switch to be a disaster - its already a huge success in comparison to the wii u and thats before pokemon, animal crossing, smash etc. its selling like crazy and that won't stop any time soon. Labo can only help that momentum and i think by next christmas if it lives up to the video and they keep developing it then it'll be doing insane numbers.

Switch has already outsold the Wii u in less than a year iirc

current positive or negative reaction to Labo is the 100% foolproof test for whether you're a human with a soul or a heartless dead zombie with no passion or joy in your life

I do wish there was a Big Deal game on the release schedule in the next 6 months though, there's lots of good ports coming but ports and Kirby and Mario tennis aren't what's going to carry the momentum from last year's big games

xpost No, I know, Switch has done really well, and the fact that they are even bothering with stuff like Doom or Dark Souls and have all sort of other popular Nintendo titles no doubt coming down the pipe means it will continue to do well. Labo just seems like a different experience entirely, but if Nintendo is going to gamble I can't think of a smarter or more inventive way for them to do so. Like, not only did no one see this coming, there is no way anyone would have ever seen this coming.

I think of Labo as a cool detour, which is very game-esque. You can use your Switch to do the thing ... *or* you can take this other path and use it to do this other thing. And so cool to see this novel, high-tech console used as a sort a driver for cardboard projects. Only potential concern I have with Labo I guess is durability.

I can see the durability being an issue but I also can imagine being bored with my cardboard piano by the time it takes for my cardboard piano to fall apart

They are giving the plans for kits away for free apparently so durability not a huge issue, just build another one? If you order via Amazon you get free building material with every order.

what's the durability on a piece of plastic you break? once it's broken it's broken. throw the whole thing away. buy a whole new thing.

at least with cardboard you always have access to cheap materials. so if you need to replace one side of the piano just remake that one piece. and you can recycle too! and fold them up when done!

yeah, storage is a huge plus on this says the guy who has a crate of old systems and joysticks in the basement
i mean i know i am literally thanking nintendo for selling me cardboard but those four guitar hero peripherals are heartbreakers

cardboard makes the flimsiness of ones guitar hero ignited dreams more explicit

People are pretty excited about Darkest Dungeon. What's its deal? Don't really know what they mean by "turn-based," is that like D&D?

nah more like RTS
Darkest Dungeon was fun up until the point where it pushed against my OCD. just not for me.

Kotaku called it an "upsetting medieval stress management sim" which is enough to tell me to steer clear.

Darkest Dungeon is def not an RTS. It's turn based which means that you have all the time you want to choose your action. It's like the Final Fantasy games.

So when people talk about XCom or Mario/Rabbids, that is ... turn-based?

All this terminology, I've generally been googling as I encounter them, but is there a one-stop game slang lexicon?

sorry, my bad, no idea why i said RTS. The opposite of RTS.