Topic: Nintendo Labo

@Anti-Matter Provided the keys are the same shape, it doesn't matter where you put them. The IR camera only detects the reflective sticker. So if you only put one key in, you can only produce one tone.

If you replace the cardboard with plastic, I'm pretty sure it'll explode.

I just want somebody to play the Peanuts theme song on the Labo piano...what, am I the only person that thought of Schroeder when looking at this?

@Octane
Hooshaa... !
I believe my Right Joy Cons will not angry to me & explode if i replace the cardboxes with plastic.

@Ryu_Niiyama
Ooh..
How about Revolutionary by Chopin or Mad Moon Sonata by Beethoven ?

Dude you got to get off this childish reaction of getting bent out of shape because people have an opinion not in line with yours. It's a forum, giving opinions and discussing is literally what it's for.

@Octane @Anti-Matter depending on the reflectiveness plastic, it may interfere with the camera. You'd need to paint or line the interior with something else.

@Ryu_Niiyama Haha, playing the Peanut's theme on that piano is EXACTLY what I want to do with it, so much so that I went ahead to watch a video about someone playing the theme on a piano. It's probably going to be a bit more difficult, seeing as the Labo piano only has 13 keys (and the piano in the video was a standard one), but I'm pretty sure it can be done.

I think I should also mention that I can't play the piano, but a guy can dream.

@Vee_Flames Good reason to learn right? And games can lead to real instruments. If somebody told me I would actually end up playing taiko and performing on stage with a troupe after liking the Taiko no Tatsujin series I would have laughed. Yet I've been playing for 4 years. Do it...live out your Peanuts Theme dreams!

As long as Labo remains its own distinct thing and they don't start shoehorning it into regular Switch games, then I guess it's fine. The Switch has such a clean and elegant concept/message, I don't think it's wise to muddy it so soon with all this crude cardboard stuff. Hopefully it can act as a vessel to channel all their gimmickyness into and leave the core system/library relatively unscathed.

They won't have you build shoes and gloves out of carboard to move Mario in the next game, don't worry.

This has the potential to be huge come Christmas. It’s a perfect present.

I think many of the naysayers honestly don’t realise just how big “making” is (or how expensive).

From a marketing perspective it’s a masterstroke from Nintendo. It positions Switch as a real family console - and one that’s genuinely “wholesome”. Plus it’s not outwardly childish either. It’s sedate and clever enough to appeal to a much older demographic.

It’s also strange enough to demand loads of attention from the mainstream media reaching places even the best video games can’t reach.

I’m predicting it now - Mario and Zelda Labo kits down the line. Just like the way that Lego make licensed sets.

@Meowpheel Inb4 the physical loot boxes.

@Meowpheel But they could put a blueprint for a steering wheel online so you could make your own cardboard steering wheel for Mario Kart 8 (and maybe other racing games?). Other games could follow the same idea. In a way this could lead to people using their own creativeness to make cardboard peripherals for existing games, and then putting the blueprints online for others to enjoy.

Also, while Nintendo is using cardboard here, it doesn't exclude other materials. What if you have a 3D printer? Print your own peripherals! Or maybe you have some Legos lying around? Build a Lego peripheral!

While I'm personally only mildly interested in this, I definitely like the idea behind it, where parents can have fun with their kids making these peripherals, whether it is for the games included in Nintendo Labo, or potentially other games. It could also potentially be interesting for those in education, particularly in STEM classes.

@OfNullAndVoid "Your own peripherals" doesn't make Nintendo any money though

If anything this is a good reason for Nintendo to say "Get your kids their own Switch so they can get creative with this, while you buy yours"

@Octane Nintendo Labo Mario Kit, includes different Mario powerups which without the Labo kit you are small Mario for the entirety of the new 2D game, New Super Mario Bros. Switch: Dark Souls edition

@OfNullAndVoid except this is not just a simple accessory for the controller. These are part of the game itself.

If you want to print or build a steering wheel, you can do that right now and use it with Mario kart without compatibility issues or needing permission from Nintendo.

Labo toys are be made out of cardboard, but that doesn't mean that everything made out of cardboard is suddenly now a Labo toy.

@MFD I have a feeling that's exactly what Nintendo is hoping, and probably win some parents over to get a Switch for their kid.

@Grumblevolcano How about a Dark Souls: Labo (Torture) edition - And you thought this game was tough enough already

Yeah, the difference is that nobody is stopping you from making all kinds of cardboard crap to glue to your Joy-Con, but Labo doesn't work without the cardboard. You need the piano to play the music game. Unless you stick the reflective stickers on your fingers and you somehow manipulate the game using your hands...

I love arts and crafts, and I enjoy doing silly things. I wouldn't mind messing around with this stuff in the future. A bit of child-like fun in my life every once in a while is good.

Just speculation but with the robo game are people expecting a fully fledged game with a storycampaign or a mini-games/arcade type game?