Nintendo’s Showing Off A New ‘Interactive Experience’ This Morning

14 responses to “Nintendo’s Showing Off A New ‘Interactive Experience’ This Morning”

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   andy

   January 18, 2018 at 9:09 am

   Lol what a joke. I knew disappointment was coming but this is something else altogether..

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      poita

      January 18, 2018 at 9:44 am

      Something else turned out to be something awesome.

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   poita

   January 18, 2018 at 9:11 am

   Damn.

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3. 

   wilbot

   January 18, 2018 at 9:14 am

   This looks really interesting. If I had kids, we’d be so into it.

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   poita

   January 18, 2018 at 9:14 am

   Ok, I was a bit WTF at first, but I think this is very cool.

   I miss the old Atari 800/Spectrum days when you could easily, even as a kid, make stuff and interface it with your computer to tool around. This opens up a lot of fun.

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   poita

   January 18, 2018 at 9:18 am

   https://www.nintendo.co.jp/labo/index.html

   It looks incredible.
   Say what you will about Nintendo, they really are a company that isn’t scared to innovate.

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6. 

   claymore35

   January 18, 2018 at 9:22 am

   My kids are going to LOVE this!!

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   haoran

   January 18, 2018 at 9:24 am

   That’s really clever, actually. Adding peripherals to a console (think, Guitar Hero) is expensive to design, expensive to build, expensive to ship, and thus extremely expensive to buy. Being able to leverage motion control on your Joy-cons that are already an essential part of the console, and making them out of cardboard means you can now have all sorts of potential peripherals that are cheap to mass-produce, cheap to ship, and so only slightly expensive to buy lots of. Plus it taps into the whole Japanese tradition of origami.

   Plus, if your kids break it, it’s cheaper to replace.

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      andy

      January 18, 2018 at 1:09 pm

      Actually at supposedly $80 for the small pack and $90 for the back pack, its still pretty expensive to replace. Best idea for any parent is to build it and then cover the whole thing in contact paper for books. That and or water proof spray the whole thing.

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         haoran

         January 18, 2018 at 1:21 pm

         Actually, the best idea is to just hide it from the kids. If they don’t know about it, they can’t destroy it 🙂

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            andy

            January 18, 2018 at 3:21 pm

            Well yes that is an idea but seeing as my kids would be the only ones in the house that want to play with it an even better idea would be to save the money and not buy it at all 🙂

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   hansoloai

   January 18, 2018 at 9:29 am

   Can you put a sim in the swtich so you can have data anywhere you go?

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      poita

      January 18, 2018 at 9:43 am

      I just hotspot my phone and do it that way.

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9. 

   auhsor

   January 18, 2018 at 10:10 am

   Looks great however the cost is going to be prohibitive for this to really catch on.

   When I saw the cardboard I assumed it was going to be cheap but for US$70-80 it’s a non-starter for me. I know it includes software but the cardboard and stickers themselves are incredibly cheap for them to produce.

   I would love to use this with my son but I feel like it is priced about twice as much as it should be.

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