This Nintendo-themed Masking Tape Will Keep Your Labo Stuck On-Brand

Ooh, hype!

So am I right in thinking that these are physical rewards available through Japanese My Nintendo? That would be so cool. Finally the 1st steps in being an able replacement for Club Nintendo

Compared to the Wii U era, new Nintendo are marketing geniuses by comparison. Can't believe I'm actually about to preorder masking tape... lol

@G0dlike please say that is true AND it come of the rest of the world

@BonafideInfidel You make me feel better since I'm going to do the exact same thing...

Nintendo can sell people anything.

@RainbowGazelle What about the Virtual Boy, the N64, the Gamecube and the Wii-U? :B

Cya
Raziel-chan

Hm... I remember the Power Supplies Catalog back in the day having all kinds of Nintendo themed merchandise... But actually marketing and selling masking tape for relatively cheaply constructed cardboard constructs? The closest thing Nintendo used to offer to this type of product were magazine and player's guide organizers, which used a sort of corrugated "plasticboard" instead of cardboard. A half-dozen pack of those was worth somewhere between $15-20, if I remember correctly. Given their height and width, I would say that provided the buyer with more material than a basic Labo kit will in this case. (Though it still fell apart eventually, because... well, single wall corrugated material bends a little too easily.)

I think it's concerning that a relatively expensive base product would need a reinforcement material to begin with. (Which this fun themed masking tape is meant to perform, while cleverly being sold as mere thematic skin.) Nothing wrong with arts and crafts per se, but this isn't what I would expect from a wealthy multi-billion dollar corporation. I would typically only expect cardboard to be associated with the direct handling and use of electronic products for cheapo $5 junk. I'd rather limit the paper/cardboard to game/system container boxes.

New overview video is up to....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4v_LcHnDbs

The vanilla masking tape will do me fine. Appreciate the graphics, but its stickiness per metre that really matters. If Nintendo can hit that SPM sweetspot, then I'm all in. Will wait for the stationary foundary video before biting.

Clearly a cash grab / marketinv ploy but hey thats what companies do. Plus it does look cool.

I say Nintendo UK Store should acquire some and use it to seal up its packages.

I may not want to beak the seals!

Can it be used to mend broken games like Star Fox Zero?

@G0dlike Nope. That is just Japan’s official store.

Me: American My Nintendo physical rewards when?

Nintendo: laughing

@Shellcore hilarious! For me it’s about fixes per second though! Gotta got 60FPS or I’m not buying

I want this tape, but not for stupid Labo. lol

For those of you w/o any experience around kids - colored masking tape is sold as kids toys. Books, lockers, crafts, tape sticks everywhere, b/c it's tape.

I'm not fond of their bundling choice however, I can imagine they'll never make enough of that red & yellow pack while the blue & black will be filling up store shelves, they should have mixed them.

"Well, that's Christmas sorted"

More like "summer vacation sorted". By the time Christmas rolls around Labo will be in the rear view mirror of most homes. These are destined to be all the rage this summer, something to build and play w/ outside, but they'll fade once school starts back up again.

Not that they'll go away entirely, think of it like Pokemon Go! That's still around, but it being "all the rage" really only lasted a summer.

@PlywoodStick I know I tried to get people to think about how much the cardboard would cost, add to shipping, shelf space, etc. But it was always a smaller portion of the price with the engineering, design, care at which the instructions and discovery for builders seemed to be handled in the brief glimpses of software we saw.

The glimpses of games were a bit brief, then, but now that more has been shown of the software, the material part of the cost is even less of a story (and the reactions of "$70 for cardboard!" ring even more hollow.) I was already excited to pre-order, but now I see I underestimated how far the software went.

Scanning cardboard cutouts of waveforms to create your own piano sounds, constructing your own tracks in the motorcycle game, the piano alone is full on Mario Paint for music (you can even conduct your own music a la Wii Music).

Anyway, tape is just colorful patterned additions that have been selling for a great margin for years now. There was the wave of duct tape construction that came about in the US at least, for instance, but decoration stuff, particularly with high-quality printed patterns sells but is entirely optional and subjective and nothing to worry about.

@rjejr I'm pretty sure Nintendo will be milking this through Christmas. If not a 3rd Labo set, people will begin to see these in schools here and there in the Fall, I think, and the need for an additional Switch in the family may be increased, as well.

But I think you're right that the initial wave of interest will probably peak in the US during July and August. A great non-zombie activity.

@rjejr "something to build and play w/ outside, "

Cardboard toys are to be played with outside? With little parts to lose? I understand the 21st century less by the day. They won't LAST a day! Besides, I didn't think modern iPad infused kids even WENT outside anymore....

I mean everything Labo screams Christmas to me in every way. And it's awesome in that light. I never thought "summer outdoor toy" for a moment. I have a feeling your kids are more on the "latest trend when it happens" wagon because of who (ahem) influences them Kids without parents hanging out daily on video game forums might be a few months behind that curve when the holiday marketing kicks up.

@aaronsullivan It will be interesting to see what other sets they come out w/ and how they space and price them between April and Christmas to keep things going. I'll admit I forgot about that. Guess for myself I was hoping after this blew over in the spring & summer a new Ntinedo Direct and E3 would give my family some actual games to look forward to for the holidays. But yes, families with smaller children could see this as a big fun Christmas if a couple more cheaper priced kits release in the fall.

I'm still not sold on the robot but the variety pack is a given. Probably wont' get it until summer though, Spring break is first week of April then kids have 11 straight weeks of school (I checked) w/ finals mid June, and it's getting difficult for both of them to maintain their over 95 averages and remain on the Principals list. Maybe Nintendo will push this as a Father's Day and graduation gift ideas?

Oh, I replied to your earlier comment just before this, so already mentioned Switch Labo Ed. which I know you don't need but I think Nitnedo does. Everybody on here complaining about the $70 price of cardboard, but I haven't seen 1, NOT ONE, person mention the $300 cost of the system before buying the cardboard. Yes Ntineod has sold 15m Switch worldwide, but mostly to gamers wanting to play Zelda, but I can imagine this being more of a mainstream thing for parents and kids who don't own a Switch yet, and for that schools and camps will need a Switch, and $300 > $70.

No matter WHAT the cardboard cost, $60, $70, $80, nobody is going to buy Labo if they don't already have a Switch. And $300 for a system w/ a dock, but oh the variety pack can NOT use the dock. I think that's a bit of a harder sell to parents than $199 would be. Just saying.

...how much is it going to cost me to import tape?

@NEStalgia No, sorry, you're wrong on this one. Well I'm pretty sure you are at least anyway.

Nintendo choose April, spring, nice weather, arts & crafts time. Sure, the general consumer doens't know about this now, but it isn't even OUT YET for OVER 2 more months. April 27. Wait until April, you'll see the marketing. And when I say outside I don't mean at the beach or the park, I mean backyard decks, porches, patios, whatever you want to call them. Ever notice how many commercials feature white people in middle class neighborhoods w/ white picket fences having parties in their back yards? Heck, remember the Switch unveil, people outside on a roof at party w/ the Switch? Those kids playing multiplayer basketball outside. The Switch has been marketed as an outdoor system since the start. Even those guys in the garage had the door open, they were half-way outside.

Just wait, when these commercials start rolling out, I'm expecting at least 3, 2 of those will be on a deck, patio or porch. There's no reason to be inside, the variety pack can NOT be used w/ a TV. Robot probably works better w/ a TV than in tabletop mode, but that will either be a very small part of those commercials or have it's own indoors.

Sure, thsi may get a big push this holiday, maybe some more Toycon will release in the fall, maybe even some smaller $30 or $40 ones. That's when all of the stickers and tape will be heavily promoted. Btu this spring, I'm expecting a lot of nice warm sunny - breeze free - days of kids building and playing with these outdoors.

Expect them to look a lot like this. B/c everybody can play w/ a deck of cards outside w/o any of them blowing away.

@rjejr I don't mind Switch outdoors. Heck I've used mine outdoors TONS....it's even had some light rain pelting the screen (same for my 3DS's)....got caught in a downpour once...that was slightly terrifying. My Gameboy was outdoors with me back in the yesteryear too. I don't mind electronics outside, even for kids. But cardboard where you're going to be sprawling it on the ground or table to assemble with little rubber washers and things to lose in the grass, it's going to get filthy, wet, scraped up......nonono, heck no. I wouldn't let MYSELF do that as a kid I wouldn't even let myself do that as an adult! Moist soil, bbq grease, bird guano, and dry cardboard don't mix at any age.

@NEStalgia Porches, patios, decks. Nobody said anything about grass. Actually probably not porches, too small to film a commercial on, just some big decks and even bigger patios.

Wait a couple of months, you'll see. No backyards w/ pools though. If we had a pool the Toycons would be in the house, But we don't, we have a deck, a table, and some chairs, and come this summer we'll be out there building Labo. See all that extra cardboard around the pieces, will be great for starting fires in our little wood fire pit. Bonus.

@NEStalgia PS - Oh, guess what, if we lose a piece of cardboard or a washer or a piece of string in the yard, we have plenty of that stuff laying around the house. It's not like we're out there building a Raspberry pi or $350 Lego Mindstorm, it's cardboard, string and washers. My kids can lose, break or destroy whatever cheap household items they want, I'll fix it, I'm a dad.

@NEStalgia I had many a fort and suit of cardboard armor outside. (not kidding I made a full body suit of samurai armor out of cardboard and yarn when I was 12...granted it was for a class but I used it afterwards to play). Cardboard is more durable than you might think.

I'm calling it now: Nintendo PuPu, toilet paper with Goombas on it.

@rjejr Spoiled, spoiled, spoiled.

Decks still hold moisture....and moss....and buckets of bird droppings. I mean even to this day I have to put out tarps or something to work on something that shouldn't get dirty...even assembling a weed wacker or something (Why do I have to assemble the freaking weedwacker?! Shouldn't it be pre-assembled?!)

Of course the commercials always assume we live in some $500,000 McMansion with premium tropical patterned hardwood decks in unique rounded arch designs or something...always in SoCal where it never rains (except when it floods.)

" See all that extra cardboard around the pieces, will be great for starting fires in our little wood fire pit. Bonus"

The true meaning of Labo right there.
"It burns money!"

@Ryu_Niiyama Samurai body suit of cardboard....and the amazing thing is does doesn't even slightly surprise me

I don't know, all the cardboard I get from Amazon doesn't look so indestructible by the time their delivery guys get it there. Seriously though if I got water stains or dirt on my cardboard plaything I'd be devastated. "It's ruined!"....I'm weeping for my childhood self already.

@NEStalgia "The true meaning of Labo right there.
"It burns money!"

Maybe they can start a new business, Labo Fire starters.

This box of what is basically wood chips and kindling cost $39.95.

It must kill you to spend money on gift wrapping paper, watching people tear it up and throw it away.

@NEStalgia LOL, I don't know how I feel about you not being surprised. Are you commenting on my creativity or affinity for Japanese culture, LOL? (I don't do the emojis ...I'm not offended)

Also, I had the highest grade in the class thank you very much. My mother sorta wished she had a kid that DIDN'T like education so much during project season though (I always had the most elaborate projects...don't get me started on science projects). Granted I did that armor mostly by myself...mom just helped me fit it properly.

I'm just glad I didn't have to make my Confucius costume for that class. (Mom made a classic old Chinese man beard for me to wear using fabric, glue, yarn and some wigs.) I just had to write the paper and draw the pictures lolol. Oh and I taught myself enough Chinese to do an introduction and a few of Confucius quotes. My world history teacher signed the heck out of my yearbook when I graduated, lol.

But my father was a dye specialist in a box making company so I just had to tell him what I was making and he would pick out the boxes and bring them home. So I have a slight in for that situation. Made childhood very fun though.

@rjejr At least you get honest to goodness wood for $49.95. Well, no, you get honest to goodness wood for $19.99. You get a Plow & Hearth logo for the other $29.96.

Wrapping paper, lol. I get that on clearance in February. I have like 300 years worth stockpiled for the cost of peanuts. I don't wrap gifts outdoors either

@ryu_niiyama it's the whole package....Japanese, check. A little more than slightly OCD attention to detail at a disturbingly young age, check. Cardboard, check.

It sounds like your childhood was actually spent IN Yoshi's Wooly World! I on the other hand don't have a creative bone in my body. Not artistically anyway. I'd be lying if I said I didn't have fun with cardboard boxes....but....I kind of used them as is and imagined them being something else because....not creative.... And I would have injured myself too easily with scissors....

@NEStalgia "I don't wrap gifts outdoors either"

I wrap all my holiday gifts outdoors in the ice and snow and I keep myself warm by burning the cardboard tubes that the paper is wrapped around in my fire pit.

@Razzy OK, almost anything.

@RainbowGazelle A fool and his money are easily parted

@NEStalgia More like Toy Story. I will admit the hand crafty nature is what got me to buy Yoshi WW. I don't normally buy yoshi games. (I find him annoying. Blame my cousin beating me in Yoshi's cookie all the time. My NES days were my "bitter, grudge holding gamer" days...granted that was the ages of 3-6 so take that as you will. I was a mellow kid...mellow woman now so not much has changed. I find being angry exhausting... Like "I'm going to go take a nap now" exhausting.)

Don't get wrapped up in this. 🤷🏼‍♀️

I called this four weeks ago on NintendoLife.

Sign me up Nintendo !

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2018/01/random_cleaner_at_german_video_game_age_ratings_firm_almost_mistook_nintendo_labo_for_trash#comment4308102

"Small print on Labo box will reveal - "Ripping cardboard will void warranty".

But the real money will be in Nintendo branded duct-tape for officially patching to make it "more stable".

It will be called - Mario Brothers Plumbers Tape (tm)."

@rjejr That sounds preferable to being inside while the kids break their cardboard toys

@Ryu_Niiyama "I don't normally buy yoshi games. (I find him annoying."

That's just....just what kind of monster are you?? 😲

@NEStalgia ...A dragon...

He is a high pitched, egg dropping glutton and jump boost. Give Mario a horse. Kirby is the only glutton they need. The only thing cute about Yoshi is that he is green.

@Ryu_Niiyama But, but, he's even cuter than Pikachu! And he's always so happy and seems to try so hard. He's like a walking "do your best" Japanese bumper sticker!

@NEStalgia So which of these low cost toys will you be buying for the kids in your life this holiday instead of the $70 cardboard Labo kit?

The $130 stuffed Chewbacca - b/c all stuffed animals should cost well over $100 - the $199 Nerf gun - I think I have a bunch of $20 Nerf guns laying around - or the $120 Hot Wheels set - I'm pretty sure Hot Wheels are supposed to be the cheap kids gift aren't they? $70 cardboard is looking better and better.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/19/the-hottest-toys-from-the-new-york-toy-fair-2018.html

I bought PSVR yesterday for $200. That $200 Nerf gun is making me feel a whole lot better about that poor decision.

@rjejr Who buys a freaking $130 stuffed Chewbacca......no, not children....."collectors" I mean, it's Star Wars after all. 20 will sell to children. 20,000 will arrive at San Diego Comic Con. You know it's true....

I can understand that one easy. SW will do that. Look at what EA gets away with. SW stuff was always pricy, even in my day (back when we had to walk 20 miles to school, up-hill, both ways.)

That Nerf.....holy geeze where I I even begin? Beyond the obvious "EPIC FAIL" gif I won't even waste forum space on. $200 for a high RoF, extended clip foam pellet gun. How will this not get backlash as the "my first school shooting training kit?" among parents. WTF is Hasbro thinking even releasing that thing? I'd be stunned if it's even for sale in 6 months. Even outside the timely politics, there's the even more important, timeless problem:

Screw the kids...that's going to be showing up in IT offices nationwide and someone's gonna' get sued.

Hot Wheels, on the other hand, $120 kind of makes sense.....I mean it's AR Mario Kart.... So it's an AR game and a physical toy (that needs to operate at speed)....and includes rechargeable batteries, a power supply, and plastic track. I.E. not cardboard In 12 months the hot wheels still exists. Not so for cardboard. From my perspective that's a more "safe" investment in a toy (and doesn't require a Switch as well for those that don't own it, just a smart device they likely already have.) Assuming the kid likes physical track AR Mario Kart.

Heck that inspires me to buy a NASCAR license and just make the IRL version. Track goers can see the bananna peel in front of Danica's Daytona wipeout....

I wouldn't have pegged your for the PSVR type! Welcome to the club! Did you get a kit with Move and a game for $200 or just the hardware? I haven't been using mine recently due to getting hooked into other backlog, but have to admit it's really pretty cool. Might dip back in when Moss comes out in a few weeks.

@NEStalgia "Did you get a kit with Move and a game for $200 or just the hardware?"

It's the old model headset, Gran Turismo Sport in a sealed retail box, which I'll likely be trading in next week b/c we don't race except Mario Kart, and the camera. Camera is still selling for $60 at Target, though $45 closer to retail these days, and GT Sport is a $60 download but I think $35 for the disc. So I sort of feel like I got the headset, which was $399 two years ago, for about $120. I couldn't pass it up. So far I watched an interactive movie - Invasion - which was cute - and got nausea playing the TrackManiaTurbo demo. I think I got sick b/c in a 30 second lap it swaps between first and 3rd person 2x. It was too much.

The bundle also came w/ VR demo 2, which I had already downloaded this morning and I've also downloaded about 30 other demos, so I'm good to go for awhile w/o ever actually playing a game in it. Which I'm honestly not sure if I can. I think 20 minutes or so is all I can take at a time, ti's very claustrophobic in there.

My son played Playroom VR a bit, and the camera only Playroom before that - we only got the camera today in the bundle - and it was good enough for free.

I Also got my new cable modem in the mail today, my cabel company started charging me $10 per month rental fee, so I bought an open box one for $18.99. So far ti's working, 100Mbps. Well see how long it holds up. 2 months or more and I've made my money back.

Gotta go, my kid is waiting, we'll discuss overpriced toys and collectibles later. I bought Mr. Ressetti amiibo today for $2.68, he's the only AC character that isn't obnoxiously cute.

@NEStalgia $200 Nerf gun

I think about shootings and Nerf guns all the time, they are such a big part of boys growing up. Nerf, BB, paintball, pellet, laser tag. And then of course FPS video games.

But as much as I'd like to see less mass killings in the US - I'm pretty sure white guys w/ semi-automatic weapons do more damage in the US than all of Saddam Husseins WMD's ever did - I also don't like to get hysterical and go all anti toys and games. Toys and video games don't kill people, guns do. Guns and crazy people. But those people were crazy before the toys and games, not the other way around, correlation, not causality.

So while I think it's nuts to spend $200 on a Nerf gun, and I can easily imagine parents getting riled up over a gun that shoots 8 balls per second, to me it's still a toy. A very overpriced and unnecessary toy, but I'm not blaming the downfall of civilization on a toy.

@rjejr Nice. So that's the kit without the Move controllers....yeah the price makes more sense then. GT Sport, I haven't opened myself (got it cheap Black Friday along with like a dozen VR games), the weird thing with it is it's not even a VR game...it has a VR mode, that supposedly is good, but it's actually the normal 2D game mostly. That was a good deal, they were selling it a bit more even at black friday.

Yeah that demo disc is fun. If you can get Worlds super cheap, there's some fun in that...as well as Batman...very short tech demos but it's like ViewMaster 2.0. I did use Move for both which was cool, but also frustrating. The experience is neat but it's infuriating when you end up needing to do something and the camera doesn't see the controller there.

Shame the VR affects you....that's the thing with VR that will keep it from ever being mainstream. I can hide in there for hours without noticing. On occasion I feel the strain on my eyes though. Probably not good to spend too long in there...so I haven't really done so. Maybe an hour and a half tops.

Wow you mean the cable company DIDN'T charge monthly for the modem before on a lease? Wow, that was generous. I always buy up front....the leasing costs far too much. Heck I still had a trimline phone from back in the Ma Bell leasing days forever until they finally lost the ability to actually charge for it You think the Note 8 is expensive....the leas on that Trimline predated me...thing probably cost $2500 over the decades. Eat THAT, Apple!

@rjejr Nerf guns....yeah, I certainly agree....at the risk of derailing into political toxicity, I'll at least say I agree, and cringe for the gaming industry every time these events happen....somebody will blame guns, someone will blame games, someone will blame crazies.....and everyone seems to miss that in the absence of guns the crazies would just use other, possibly even worse things. Other countries have guns and don't do this. Other countries have crazies, and video games. And guns aren't even the #1 weapon used in homicides in the US...we have more people using hammers and, I believe screwdrivers was #2 (oddly nobody wants to ban those).....every other country has those and doesn't have the problem. Clearly we have a waaaaaay more serious CULTURE problem that goes beyond the existence of weapons OR crazies. And nobody wants to fix that because everybody in a position to are the people benefiting the most from this culture. Let alone that the majority of murders is gang/drug industry related and throws statistics heavily and it gets even worse. We have a culture that either loves murder, or have enough people that feel like cornered animals and are ready to go manic at a moment....but nobody wants to find out why that's so. So they'll move to get rid of all guns and then seem amazed when explosives (worst school attack in the US so far was in the 1920s....kid used mining charges....) , vehicles, and chemical weapons replace them (Fun fact, you already have in your possession, almost certainly, the materials to make a large scale chemical attack that would make the dude with a rifle seem like a teletubby....most everyone does.....might be safer to keep the guns and let the crazies think that's the best tool until we solve the culture problem which seems on course to get much worse and never better.)

That said I still hate the nerf gun at any price. Aside from the disastrous PR of the thing (really, did nobody in PR think anything at all about it?) The darts are bad enough. Kids are going to lose eyes. Adults in the tech industry are going to lose eyes. Maybe eardrums. Hasbro will lose lawyers. No good can come from that device. Smart money says recall it before shipping it.

@NEStalgia ViewMaster 2.0

I've always thought of PSVR as a fad, not a gaming system, I just called it a Chia pet in the PSVR forums, but I like the correlation comparison to Viewmaster, thats really good, might have to steal that. But does anybody beside us know what a Viewmaster was? I know they sell a new VR model but that doesn't count. I actually have the old slides from The Poseidon Adventure but no Viewmaster, hard to look at them that way.

I'm still planning on opening GT Sport before trading it in, mostly b/c I can't trade it in wrapped, it says "Not for Resale" where the barcode is supposed to be. And that would be wrong. I'll probably give the complete game a spin but realistic, whatever they call it, simulation, racing isn't my thing. I own a car. I drive it every day. Videogames should be different than that.

As it turns out VR Worlds is part of this weeks PSN sale. Good weekly sale, not like Ntineod's sales, for $6, so we'll probably pick it up.

https://store.playstation.com/en-us/product/UP9000-CUSA05202_00-EVT1100000000000?smcid=psblog%3Ablognav%3A%3Aps-blog-blog.us.playstation.com

So, did you see Sony copy Nintneod again, blatantly copy Ninteod again, with "My Playstation"? I really wish I was making that up.

https://blog.us.playstation.com/2018/02/21/introducing-my-playstation-a-new-social-destination-on-the-web/

I gotta go cook dinner, I'll get to the other post later. I'm busy when my kids are home form school. Winter Break.

@NEStalgia Nobody is recalling any toy that sells for $200 if it sells.

I'm just waiting for the first person to burn their house down w/ Labo for that to be recalled and banned.

@rjejr VR's current form is...I was going to say fad...but it's not really even a fad, as a fad requires becoming a mainstream phenomenon. I think it's established itself as a firm but small niche. I suspect it will remain there for quite a long time. But it's a neat little niche. I don't think it will be mainstream for a very long time but is a neat experience for the nerds among us. I'm a Virtual Boy owner...still have it....I was bit by the VR allure back in the day. Remember Dactyl Nightmare on Virtuality 1000CS? Got to play that at a convention back then.... only like 200lb of equipment and 8 minutes to suit up for 3 minutes of gameplay But even today I don't think it's "the upcoming thing"....but it's nice to have that niche as a real thing.

I have some truly old ViewMaster slides around....they were somehow eerie and creepy. Something about the non moving world....but they were addictive in a soul sucking sort of way.

Yeah there's a lot of VR stuff on this week's sale. Worlds is really good (some of it requires Move though IIRC), it's very short but there's some slick stuff. The diving is just a passive movie, but the heist is, while very short, a cool experience. Best with Move by far, but worthwhile even without it (and tbh it's one of only 2 things Move really seems useful for.) Luge is terrifying but great.

Eagle Flight is on sale.....it's a low budget game, and will probably make anyone queasy with REALLY high speed flight through tight spaces. Simple...but I smiled through the whole thing to the end credits. Mostly ground/tunnel hugging races. Brutally hard. I'm, apparently, ranked in the top 7 in the world in nearly every event (or was in December) and top 2 in many. Which is sad since I 1-starred most of the events and missed most shortcuts

Batman Arkham is a cool interactive movie, but short....beautiful though. Skyrim is Skyrim....amazingly cool to be "IN" that world. But if you get nauseous, an 800 hour RPG is probably not where you want to go.

I think Starblood Arena is this months' PSVR PSN freebie again. I haven't played it yet but I got it on disc only to get it for free anyway. Thumper is $8 I think, tied with the cheapest I've seen it. I find it's easier to play on VR than Switch due to the intense focus required. Not to say it's easy.

"My Playstation"? Really? I get the feeling they choose these names because of how the kanji looks rather than how it actually reads, sometimes. I try to put my Japanese thinking cap on for these things, but it just hurts too much.

Winter break in February? Always thought that was in March these days.

$200 toys may be profitable but $2B in litigation isn't worth it

@NEStalgia "$200 toys may be profitable but $2B in litigation isn't worth it"

They can just ask the NRA for the coins in it's sofa. (I still plan on replying to your gun rant comment once I refine the rant comment in my head)

We own 2 Move, which both seem to be working. It's one of the reasons I decided to buy a headset for $200 since those 2 have been collecting dust since Wonderbook Harry Potter and I wanted to put them to use.

Most of those games you mentioned don't sound like us b/c you said "hard". Starblood Arena looks like Descent so that's a plus, and I do think I downloaded it the other day. We will probably buy Worlds for $6. Well my kid will, I'm tapped out. Dont' feel like spending any more b/c I have 30 demos to play through and that will take me weeks, and I buy PS+ for $40 a year so I dont' have to buy any more games the rest of the year. It really looks to me like they are promoting VR w/ PS+ so I'm expecting 1 a month. Maybe not a good one, but I'm just playing for the experience anyway.

@rjejr Hey, be fair, it's a culture rant, not a gun rant

Ahh, if you do have the Move, I'd definitely recommend playing VR Heist with them.....it's a whole other experience. There aren't too many VR games that really benefit from them, IMO. That one, Batman, and that demo disc shooter...forget what it's called but it reminds me of T2: The Arcade Game really are best with them.

Haha, I don't know where hard is defined. You have the Thumper demo already that has level 1. It's a rhythm game....built on arrhythmic mind games, on a roller coaster track. That's kind of hard (but then rhythm is always hard to me.) Eagle Flight....winning is kind of hard....but.....you control the entire game by tilting your head. No controller at all. So it may appeal to your lazy streak It also has a free flight mode. No races...just flying around collecting feathers.

Yeah Starblood is very Descent-ish I gather. Haven't run it yet but I've heard it's good.

Pretty sure they do 1 PSVR a month but the last 2 months have both been Starblood Arena....I guess not much to go around with VR.

@NEStalgia "But even today I don't think it's "the upcoming thing"....but it's nice to have that niche as a real thing."

Oh wait, wanted t cover that too.

You're right about VR not being big enough to be a fad yet, it really hasn't caught on, I'd say due mostly to the price, can't compete w/ $5 fidget spinners or eating Tide Pods.

But, I do think it's here to stay. It might actually benefit it not being a fad that's cheap and fades away, but more like a slow growing new tech, like Roomba vacuum robots. I do think most people will have VR headsets in the future. VR or AR, but that's the future. VR isnt' Wiimotes, Move or Wonderbook, or even 3D, it's immersive and enveloping. It has uses in education, exploration and discovery. Just not videogames. I still think it's a fad in video games. Too much work, too expensive and geared too much towards FP view which nto everyone likes.

But there will be PSVR 2, and the tech will keep getting better and cheaper. And everybody will want to "try it" at least for a little while. Maybe when the screen res gets higher people will stop getting so sick. Though I'm looking forward to getting more sick in 1 of these.

You ever see "The Last Starfighter"?

@rjejr "or eating Tide Pods. "
It's hard to say wheth....wait...what? Please tell me that's a typo and that I'm not missing something about edible surfactants?

Roomba still sucks though. Fun toy, but doesn't work. I mean if you have one of those rooms that Nintendo does their commercials in that has nothing in it but a sofa and a a TV I guess it works....but in rooms with all kinds of everything everywhere....they're awful

I do think FP view is really the whole key of what VR is about though. It's cool for everything, sure, but that's kind of the whole point of the immersion is to "be there." Not much point watching in 3D space from awkward cinematographic camera angles Though dioramas can work for gaming. (Moss)

Sickness is more about 3 things: Framerate, insufficient blur (motion without sensation of motion), and too wide an FoV (the brain detects something "wrong" about what you're seeing.) The screendoor resolution is just annoying though. I believe PSVR mandates 90fps MINIMUM for VR. 120 is more ideal.

@NEStalgia The best PSVR game to me, by far, is Blood Rush. It's pretty much perfect. My only problem is I'm scared to death inside of it I can't enjoy it. I had my wife sitting next to me watching the whole time on the TV in the well lit room and even she was afraid. I told her to let me know if she saw anything.

But my wussiness aside, it's a great game. I've been on those haunted house shoot-em ups before, and it was the real deal. Oh sure, the low res is a bit much on the barker, but they really got the ride down, even putting the scoring in the car, and my feet on the floor. I swear when we hit the roller coaster section I was moving up and down in my seat. Combination brain manipulation and the rumble, but it was great.

I only did the first level b/c the fear was giving me a heart attack, but I expect to finish it, 1 level every few days. Now that I know what it's like it really wasn't that scary so I think I'll be able to better enjoy the rest.

Is the Heist part of World? Still need to get that, maybe before company gets here on Saturday. Free flight eagle sounds better than racing eagle, but as I said before there's already so much as it is considering I can only do about 30 minutes at a time before the headache kicks in.

@NEStalgia You mean you haven't been sampling your laundry detergent? What's wrong with you? You need less NL, more social media.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/01/13/teens-are-daring-each-other-to-eat-tide-pods-we-dont-need-to-tell-you-thats-a-bad-idea/?utm_term=.5a584f4dca93

@rjejr Yeah, I don't do horror. Like, at all. Which is troublesome for VR. DOOM is about as horror as I go Way wussier than you.

Yeah, Heist is part of world. There's not too much to world. Heist is a short interactive novel but it's arguably the most immersive thing around (you can interact with things that aren't required by the story, and it can even trigger different reactions.) It's very much a tech demo but it's a cool one. Worlds also includes a kind of lame ping pong type thing, a non-interactive deep sea diving thing, a luge game (I thought it was very arcade, roller-luging down a highway with cars, construction CATs etc in your way.....then I saw during Olympic coverage an actual luger actually training that way....including going under the CAT between the treads....which after experiencing the VR version I can say for certain these people are nucking futs. ) So it's VR Olympic Luge training. Kinda cool if not for being terrifying.

I think there was some other throwaway game in there, plus a larger pretty cool game that took an hour or two....a sci-fi space opera shooter where you pilot a spider-tank thing...more of a "proper" game. The whole thing is a tech demo but for $8 it's a steal.

If you ever see Batman (it's not on this sale I don't think) and like immersive interactive novels, even if you're not a batman fan, it's pretty cool as a demo (ok, the morgue part is creepy...but it's batman so it doesn't go for scary, just ooky. Again very short but the great graphics make it very immersive.)

Tide pods....uhm....just....I mean....like...how....why....I mean...just.....what the....like....why.....

I mean I can get how little kids might think something colorful is food....keep them out of reach etc. etc. Same as anything else. But....high school and college kids....I just.....not at any age in my life have I ever opened a bottle of tide and thought "I wonder what this takes like?" I already know what it tastes like....it takes like freaking laundry detergent....why would I want to taste it? Even at 5 I had that part all worked out.

NL is as "social media" as I go.

@NEStalgia I hope that luge game lives up to your hype, I recall one of the first Move games was riding down a street on an office chair, it looked so bad. "Kung Fu Rider". I've never even played it, I have my limits.

Went to see Black Panther today, it was pretty good, no complaints except it's removed from the rest of the movies, after Civil War I was expecting a huge crossover but there's none. Mostly my fault, too many Avengers Infinity Wars trailers.

Busy weekend ahead, probably no VR until Monday.

@rjejr not too much hype really. It's short, just 4 tracks i think. Just a cool experience. Imo the World's standouts are still heist and the space tank "traditional" game. Plus the deep sea diving but it's more a movie than a game.

I'm not usually one for vfx heavy super hero movies but that looks different enough to be cool. I'll wait for gone video though. Haven't been to the theater in years, and all my theater are now dinner theatres... Yuck.

@NEStalgia I played a bunch VR of demos last night - Battlezone, Moss, Star Child, GT Sport, which only let me play looking backwards at my body w/o a head, that was weird, Ocean Deep in VR World.

Those 3rd person "diorama games" I've heard them called, are weird. Besides being way too blurry I don't see the point. Moss is by far the better experience, its 3D vs Star Child 2D, but Id' rather just play them both w/o the headset on, just Move and camera.

Battlezone lived up to the hype. I only did the first level and couldn't find the machine gun button but it does a great job of putting you in the action. Was getting a bit nausea playing that one as well, probably couldn't play it for too long.

Deep Ocean was a nice movie, I liked the manta rays. Wish it gave me hands w/ the Move but it's still pretty cool but a bit short.