Bandai Namco has revealed a brand new product called Tori, a new way to create and customise physical toys which can interact with digital games.
The comparison to Nintendo Labo is an obvious one here; as you can see in the trailer above, small toys are crafted out of easy-to-use materials before being coloured or having stickers placed on them. From there, they can be used to interact with a selection of games available on a smartphone or tablet.
It uses a board called the 'Tori Board', other gadgets such as the 'Tori Wand' and 'Power Bar', and what Bandai Namco calls its "breakthrough Mirror Play technology" to synchronise your toy's movements with the software on-screen.
Pre-orders for an Explorer Pack have arrived on the product's official website (which also has further details on device compatibility and the software itself). Tori is aimed at "families with children from 6 to 12 and beyond", will be available on iOS and Android, and contains everything in the following image. The recommended retail price is set at £149 / $169.
The Explorer Pack will be releasing on 2nd October.
Feel free to share your initial thoughts on this one with us in the comments below. An intriguing concept? Not for you? Fire away...
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If Labo and uDraw had a baby...
I mean, I wouldn't carry it to term, but it looks like someone else has.
If it had more, maybe. In particular, a sequel to Pac-Man Rally with a customisable kart.
How does this cost more than Nintendo Labo? At least with Labo you can make your own stuff with the software (Granted you'll need to get your own cardboard, or even use it on non-carboard material and make your own things out of whatever you can imagine)
Wow I'm assuming they don't want to sell any at that price!
This should be interesting
Did they not learn from the disastrous uDraw Tablet venture?
Or maybe, they learned a lot and want to do it right?
Cool idea, but I’m never going to spend anywhere near that amount to play it.
I hope this product has an easy to learn tu-TORI-al... XD
On one hand, still cheaper than buying a switch and then labo and it uses mobile so easy access. On the other, it looks like udraw which died a painful death. I'm not sure how well this will do.
Ha! And they said Labo was expensive...
Can we 'teach' Namco how to make a new Ridge Racer?
It looks cool. Kinda surprised at the hate here for it, when Labo was praised. While I wouldn't buy either one, Tori looks a lot more interesting than Labo ever did.
If you don't have a Switch and wanted something like this, this is far cheaper since Labo has that $300 entry fee for the Switch itself, then buying the Labo kits.
Sure you need a phone/tablet for Tori, but most people have at least one (or likely more) in their household already.
@ThanosReXXX New avatar?
I don't see this as Labo, I see it more as a competitor to Cosmo and Dash, the kids STEM robot toys, which also sell in that price range.
Get a lot of uDraw vibes
You know what else Bandai Namco should announce? Some Ace Combat games for Switch!
Please? Even just a port of Assault Horizon Legacy?
Although preferably ports of 1 - 6 plus Zero: The Belkan War.
I doubt 7 is possible, but I would take that if offered.
I'm really starting to miss the days when Nintendolife only did stories directly related to Nintendo. Now we got stuff about knock-offs and whatever you call SEGA'Ss answer to the SNES Classic.
@Cotillion if we are going by that logic then Tori has a 300+ dollar entry fee. Phones and tablets are not cheap either
@PortablexombieV2 True but a lot of people already of these devices in their homes, so they wouldn’t see it as an extra device.
@PortablexombieV2 As stated in my comment, most people already have at least one phone or table that will run Tori and it wouldn't be an extra expense, if this kind of experience was all you were looking for.
It can join LABO in the sale bin.
No idea why copy something Amazon has been running a 40% off for a month now, and still nobody will buy 🙄
If have $100 to burn, Get OSMO
https://www.playosmo.com/en/
This is highly remanascent of the UDraw tablet that THQ released, only skipping the licensed exclusive titles.
bandai want to join thq with gimics and bust
@rjejr New avatar? Only if you haven't been paying attention, my friend...
Have been using it for a while now. Thought it was time for another depiction of good old Thanos. I got tired of the "real-life" dusted one.
As for my comparison to Labo: that was of course meant as sarcasm, and not really as a direct and/or correct comparison. It's mainly because of the article mentioning Labo, otherwise, I probably wouldn't have used it in the first place.
@Cotillion Man I completely missed that.
How is this like Labo?
This can be applied to switch, for disability friendly controllers.
@Silly_G uDraw was the comparison I had in mind as well. Hopefully this works out better than it did for THQ.
Toys for the children of very rich families only! You could buy 3 brand new video games for that price!
@ThanosReXXX Oh, the rest of that comment wasn't meant for you, I had actually written it first before deciding to comment on your new not new avatar. I probably should have replied to you in a different post, but I didn't.
@rjejr Ah, fair enough. I'll consider it unread, then...
Video reminds me of Microsoft's and Molyneux's blatant false advertising and promises
I wonder if they will sell a black version of Tori... It might be slightly inappropriate for kids.
Namco should be thinking of rebooting Ridge Racer, StarBlade, not this expensive waste of time that won’t sell.
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