Current Events > "Nintendo Labo is for kids or kids at heart"

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What will actually happen:
>Parent buys kid Labo
>Kid whines about not understanding the instructions and makes parents put it together for hours on end
>Kid plays with it for a few days, gets bored, goes back to playing Mario Kart
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It's only for smart kids
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It's god damn cardboard

Only Nintendo could sell cardboard at $69 on 4/20 and make money
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Do... do you not realize that parents assembling toys for their kids is normal? You just described like 99% of all toy purchases. Did you not get toys as a child?
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s0nicfan posted...

Do... do you not realize that parents assembling toys for their kids is normal? You just described like 99% of all toy purchases. Did you not get toys as a child?

all the toys I got as a kid were assembled inside the box. Even when I got something like a bike it already came in a single piece.
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ChromaticAngel posted...

s0nicfan posted...

Do... do you not realize that parents assembling toys for their kids is normal? You just described like 99% of all toy purchases. Did you not get toys as a child?

all the toys I got as a kid were assembled inside the box. Even when I got something like a bike it already came in a single piece.

So you never got LEGO?
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BlackHorse6969 posted...

It's only for smart kids

My nephew made a "robot head" out of a cardboard box once. 30 minutes later it was completely destroyed and thrown in the garbage.

He went on to play with his Legos instead because his parents aren't stupid enough to buy him $70 worth of cardboard.
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Bio1590 posted...

ChromaticAngel posted...

s0nicfan posted...

Do... do you not realize that parents assembling toys for their kids is normal? You just described like 99% of all toy purchases. Did you not get toys as a child?

all the toys I got as a kid were assembled inside the box. Even when I got something like a bike it already came in a single piece.

So you never got LEGO?

Legos are actually durable. You can run them over with a car and they'd still work fine.
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I'm kinda shocked at how triggered people are about this thing

It's a toy for kids, not everything video game related has to be for "gamers"
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s0nicfan posted...

Do... do you not realize that parents assembling toys for their kids is normal? You just described like 99% of all toy purchases. Did you not get toys as a child?

imagine not putting them together yourself

Vyrulisse posted...

I'm kinda shocked at how triggered people are about this thing

It's a toy for kids, not everything video game related has to be for "gamers"

https://twitter.com/MikeDrucker/status/953755810391384065
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Second_Chances posted...

s0nicfan posted...

Do... do you not realize that parents assembling toys for their kids is normal? You just described like 99% of all toy purchases. Did you not get toys as a child?

imagine not putting them together yourself

If the purpose of the toy is to put it together, yea. If it's a "some assembly required" and it's a toy for a toddler, then no.
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ChromaticAngel posted...

What will actually happen:
>Parent buys kid Labo
>Kid whines about not understanding the instructions and makes parents put it together for hours on end
>Kid plays with it for a few days, gets bored, goes back to playing Mario Kart

You never played with models or paper crafts?
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CM_Ponch posted...

ChromaticAngel posted...

What will actually happen:
>Parent buys kid Labo
>Kid whines about not understanding the instructions and makes parents put it together for hours on end
>Kid plays with it for a few days, gets bored, goes back to playing Mario Kart

You never played with models or paper crafts?

I suppose technically I had a throwable balsa wood plane with rubber band powered propellers and lots of kinder surprise eggs growing up but these were like 5 small pieces at most.

They were also all super cheap.
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70 for a fucking cardboard box?!?!

LOOOOOL
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alphagamble posted...

70 for a fucking cardboard box?!?!

LOOOOOL

It's not "a cardboard box"

It's several sheets of cardboard and several peripheral items. It's like a small robotics kit except you're making the robot out of cardboard, and it comes with a video game.

The giant robot kit has all kinds of fucking pulleys and ropes and shit.
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These are just like amiibos.

Also kids at heart = manchilds
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Oh no a parent has to spend time with their kid instead of the tv raising them the entire time
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DoubleDare posted...

These are just like amiibos.

Also kids at heart = manchilds

I've known a lot of mature people who are kids at heart
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ChromaticAngel posted...

s0nicfan posted...

Do... do you not realize that parents assembling toys for their kids is normal? You just described like 99% of all toy purchases. Did you not get toys as a child?

all the toys I got as a kid were assembled inside the box. Even when I got something like a bike it already came in a single piece.

Never did one of those little paper/cardboard airplane kits?
Or legos?
Imaginex?
Play doh?
Bionicle?
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pikachupwnage posted...

ChromaticAngel posted...

s0nicfan posted...

Do... do you not realize that parents assembling toys for their kids is normal? You just described like 99% of all toy purchases. Did you not get toys as a child?

all the toys I got as a kid were assembled inside the box. Even when I got something like a bike it already came in a single piece.

Never did one of those little paper/cardboard airplane kits?
Or legos?
Imaginex?
Play doh?
Bionicle?

legos and play-doh don't require assembly except for the specific lego sets and I never got any lego sets.
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LEGO is literally all about assembly. Play-doh, too
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legendarylemur posted...

LEGO is literally all about assembly. Play-doh, too

if you just have a bunch of generic lego bricks you aren't assembling any one specific thing. you are just stacking bricks on whatever the fuck you feel like and what your imagination can come up with. Same goes for playdoh but it's more like clay sculpting.

It's not the same as being given a list of specific parts that have to fit together a specific way or the object you end up with is junk.

The basic lego and playdoh paradigm is more like art and less like architecture.
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Yeah I guess those two are considerably more aimless. But at the same time, you can't exactly expect kids to build something of a Labo magnitude, where you make shit so sensors trigger the IR in the right way.

All toys are just creating an illusion of construction and stimulating the creative mind. It's supposed to be a lead up to something better in the child's future, not be the end all be all by itself.
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seriously though this thread got me thinking about how cool it would be if there was a Mr. Potato-Head style Amiibo.

Like, start with a Mii and you can pull off their hair, clothes, hat, other items, etc, and then scan them.

You can already kind of do something like that with the Monster Hunter Stories amiibo but it's less modular.

It would be super fucking cool if they found a way to make it so that the game would be able to pick up what accessories your amiibo had when it was scanned in.
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I remember there was a thing where you can build a ship and your game detects the parts somehow. I'd probably like that kinda shit
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legendarylemur posted...

I remember there was a thing where you can build a ship and your game detects the parts somehow. I'd probably like that kinda shit

we remember too, but cant remember which game it's from.
it's not lego dimensions or skylanders.

lego had the build the portal thing. other doesn't even apply.
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kingdrake2 posted...

legendarylemur posted...

I remember there was a thing where you can build a ship and your game detects the parts somehow. I'd probably like that kinda shit

we remember too, but cant remember which game it's from.
it's not lego dimensions or skylanders.

lego had the build the portal thing. other doesn't even apply.

Skylanders let you build your own but the parts were these crystal things you scanned separately.
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i still wait for the price to go down on the imaginators set. probably going to have to buy it at some point it's not going to go any lower.
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27_Sandman_40 posted...

The sad thing is TC more 25-30 year old foreveralones will buy this than actual parents for their kids.

Nintendo literally proving the age-old adage if they sold a piece of cardboard, drones would still buy it.

I don't really care how they spend their money. I just think these things have extremely complicated assembly that is going to be beyond most kids, and the assembly is the majority of the product as the games themselves likely aren't that interesting.

Like, these look roughly about the same as Ikea furniture and I wouldn't expect kids to do that either.
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Vyrulisse posted...

It's a toy for kids

imagine thinking that something made out of cardboard would still be intact after a kid plays with it for like 30 minutes.
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