Fake Nintendo Labo Kits Are Now Appearing With No Game Inside The Box

This won't last long.

They spelled Play wrong on the box? Not even trying...

Brilliant.

"There's no box in my box!"

Was there ever a game inside the box ? ….

Scammers are evolving

Basically it seems whoever the company is running this scam.. they only wanted to make it look good enough to last out a few weeks of sales before being found out. With hundreds of people reporting the lack of a game straight away, there may be many more that don't realise there's MEANT to be a game until later on.

Effectively what these scammers are doing is collecting money for selling wholesale & then changing their phone numbers/addresses when people start to notice the fakes.

If they didn't charge full price, these might serve as replacements. Otherwise it's a scam.

At 7,500 Yen for the "original" - It is a scam either way.

Car Kit down to 5K in today's Japanese chart. Not that many people to "fool" regardless.

See, now it’s just cardboard!

I'm honestly not sure most people would stop to recognize the difference, no matter what they may tell you, but I do think returning these fakes in either the EU or US wouldn't be a problem.

I'm surprised stores carry them, not that people buy them.

@Equinox Well, you kind of missed the point of this story. Nintendo are selling cardboard AND a game. These scammers are charging the same just for the cardboard alone while stealing Nintendo IP.

I'm not a LABO defender, but if you're ignoring the whole point of the story just to rag on LABO you're entering Nintendoom territory.

Nobody wants to buy these anyway

There needs to be a box inside of the box but the box says no box is inside of the box.

Scamception.

Another case of China sucking.

This is one business that will definitely fold.....😒

At a glance, they do look similar enough, or even if you've never seen the real deal, a glance makes it look legit. Of course, play spelled wrong, and lack of Nintendo's name/seal suggest something out of place.

These won't sell either

"make. paly. discover."

labo

Here's a little story. I once bought a game with no cartridge in the box. The game in question was...

That's right, an actual retail title such as Spyro Adventure (or the more elaborate Spyro: Attack Of The Rhynocs in Eagleland) was once shipped with no cartridge in sight. I was offered to swap it with another game, and that one was... if memory serves (it was 2003 after all), it was none other than Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga.
I eventually caught up with this lost gem last year, but sadly those were emulation shenanigans. It was notably about the only time I 100%'d a game via emulation. I'm currently seeking a cartridge, and what's taking me so long for the purchase to go through is the fact I prefer to have the game at a reasonable price (it'd be nice to replay it on Game Boy Player).

well didnt nintendo themselves start the craze of selling empty boxes

Whaat ?!
How DARE they create the FAKE things !!
Trust me, those phony guys will get Very Very Bad Karma for their Sins !!

Beside, Since WHEN there is a "PALY" word ???
Nice try, but i won't be fooled.
And once again, i feel ASHAMED to be a Chinese-Indonesian people to see a Scam done by Chinese peoples. I felt insulted, i mean How Dare they !!

On the contrary Scrummer, it will get worse, MUCH worse, before people really catch on, history has proven this for the past 2,000+ years !!!

Where there's a demand for a popular brand product or anything for that matter, there will ALWAYS be those who make cheap fakes and sell them as real, including money itself.

No it won't get better, as long as LABO is in demand......there will be FakeBO

@LUIGITORNADO I mean, Nintendo stuff has been made in China since the Wii.

A lot of these counterfeit places are actually the same factory selling more unofficially.

You give them the specs and they will make it.

Surprised we having seen fake Switches yet.

frankly, I may feel sorry for the 12 yr old kid that blew 3 months worth of lawn raking on a cleverly disguised and worded add only to get "Raked" himself,

but anyone 13+ I really don't feel sorry for those who chose to buy what they think is the real thing brand new (that they could get locally) from some no name seller for an unrealistic discount

there's a difference in buying generic from overseas at a ridiculously low price, you EXPECT it to be bad, but hope you may luck out, but those thinking that "the real thing" could be so inexpensive and easy from no name resellers....this is just ignorance and stupidity, it's pretty bad, especially most adults who are so pessimistic and suspicious of just about everything in real life, but somehow find ways to get so easily bent over a table

yah, in this case.......no compassion from me

actually, if anyone wants, I have "Gorgio Armoni" $3,000 brand new mens suit for sale, never worn for $400...
It really is a "Steal"

@AlexSora89

I'd say that was an upgrade.

I don't see the issue. There was never an actual game anyway lol

@saintayu don't get smart, you're too stupid to get smart...

they were talking about the "app programming cart", don't try to split hairs, it's asinine, like "Grammer Nazi's"

Empowering creativity

@saintayu You just dissed a game i thought was fun. Prepare fore a 14 paragraph essay on why you are wrong.

@jhewitt3476 if you have to reply to stupid, what does that make you?

@I_Am_A_Geek its OK. You can make me a diagram out of the cardboard and I assume your many tears.

@Franklin
Well, the game is the one that's been at the top spot in the Italian Nintendo Official Magazine's top ten ever since it was reviewed after all (and its only 10/10 until Pokémon Emerald rolled around, and even then Emerald kept the second place).
As for the former PS-only IPs, bringing Crash to GBA was a success on Vicarious Visions' part already, but what with Spyro being a free-roaming platformer I say the project was even more ambitious from the get-go even taking Spyro Season Of Ice releasing before XS/The Huge Adventure into account. And each installment improved the formula raising the stake every time, so much that, despite me preferring Season Of Flame as my favourite in the trilogy, I can still say that Adventure made it all go out with a bang.

@AlexSora89

I'd like to see Spyro on Switch, really enjoyed Crash.

Scammers never quit. Crooks like that have no soul.

who be dumb enough to buy a fake labo kit box you can always tell the difference between the real one and a fake one.

@Franklin
Of course you did. Crash is no Mario by any means, but was the "next best thing" on PS1 for a reason.

My work has tons of cardboard just lying around.

I could be rich, all I gotta do is slap the word "Nintendo" on it and tell people it's limited edition.

Labo is so fun because of the perfectly polished software. There's character in the dialog, 3d polygonal models of every scrap of cardboard that are manipulatable at 60fps, and just a really high level of care put into every aspect of it. I think Labo is Nintendo at their best!

@saintayu A 10 foot cardboard statue stating how you were wrong is on the way.

now I am happy there are people making cardboard designs and app designs of their own, that's some Indie cool

People are making fake cardboard? What ARE the chances???

Well first is first price is too good to be true then it is a fake. Also the logo and LABO name is not the same that should be obvious to buyers to do more homework and look closer to what they are buying.

@AlexSora89

Enjoyed both on the PlayStation.

@Franklin
Bears repeating, given the flack I'm getting right now: I've been a big PS fan in the PS1/early PS2 era.

@AlexSora89

Enjoyed both on the PlayStation.

@Franklin
Uhh... okay?

@AlexSora89

Just wee jape.

@Franklin
I'm still lost at the reposted sentence.