Nintendo Labo might not have been quite as successful in terms of sales as certain other first-party releases on the Switch, but it has certainly won plenty of awards since the original kits were launched in April last year.
Since then, it's taken home two BAFTA awards and a GDC innovation award. Now, at the 2019 Games for Change Awards, it has received the Game of the Year Award. Ubisoft has also been recognised with an industry leadership award and GRIS was acknowledged for having the best gameplay. Below is the full list of winners, courtesy of Gamasutra:
- Game of the Year Award - Nintendo Labo
- Most Innovative Game - Tendar
- Best Gameplay - GRIS
- Most Significant Impact - Unicef Kid Power
- Best Learning Game - Assassin's Creed Discovery Tour
- Best Student Game - Prism
- Best XR For Change Experience - Homestay
- People's Choice Award Winner - Assassin's Creed Discovery Tour
- Industry Leadership Award - Ubisoft
- Vanguard Award - Lindsay Grace
Nintendo most recently added the VR Kit to the Labo line and has also released multiple Toy-Con VR Goggles updates for existing games.
In June last year, Reggie Fils-Aimé said Labo had "absolutely" met Nintendo's expectations and would continue to drive user engagement with the product, much like it did with Brain Age on the DS and Wii Fit on the Wii.
Congratulations to Nintendo and all the other winners.
[source gamasutra.com, via twitter.com]
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Look at you Nintendo, impressing people with cardboard
Great Job, LABO ! 😀
Can we get next LABO Toy Cons 05 and beyond ? 😁
I also hope there will be more Labo kits.
Always good to see, all we need now is some neckbeards who this isn’t aimed at to rain on this parade.... 😄
Good for big N, I wonder how much each kit actually sales and how much money they make for it
Such a shame the Switch Mini folk won’t get to enjoy this experience...
... unless they buy extra joy-cons, padding to bulk up the Mini, and a separate charger for their new joy-cons...
i hope they dont use too much resources on labo dev, mean while games getting delayed
All the LABO sets, with the possible exception of the Robot kit, really deliver on their promises, I feel.
I'm love a fleshed out Robot Kit, where a potential new game mode was also offered as a free download to existing owners.
despite the amount of social buzz the games dont seem to have, its a very well earned award. one of the most innovative and creative use of the joycons ive ever seen, happy for labo
I haven’t bought them, but they do look interesting. They have that classic Nintendo charm, and they do seem as a good alternative to introduce people to programming with the Labo Garage.
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