Despite questionable early sales figures, Nintendo believes that Labo will achieve the same kind of long-term success as games like Wii Fit.
Nintendo now say that their “innovative” cardboard has not yet reached its full sales potential, believing the product will have the same kind of legs as games like Wii Fit or the DS’s Brain Age.
Nintendo executives have said that they expect Labo to appeal to a “different” audience from games such as Breath of the Wild and Super Mario Odyssey, which both saw strong sales upon release. General manager of Nintendo Entertainment Planning & Development, Shinya Takahashi, has said that the Labo will see success with “a demographic that’s not traditionally reached by games at all”, who are likely to buy games a long time after their initial release and who are not “in the loop of game news”.
Brain Age sold 19 million copies and Wii Fit sold 21 million, so Labo has quite a long way to go before it can match their commercial success.
I want some of what ever they are smoking!
Are you sure about that? It seems quite strong!
They are smoking all the leftover cardboard.
Nah, the real culprit us the glue used to keep the box together. Nintendo employees scrape and pick the glue from the seams of the boxes and then melt it with a blowtorch on an old hub cap. It then pools at the center of the hub cap and you can either sniff the fumes from the melting glue or hot inject the resulting slush.
Well it’s more than just cardboard that’s for sure & it’s Eco friendly, so who knows.
“Eco friendly”
Sarcasm or stupidity? I can’t tell. I’m a noob at text perception.
The Arduino boarding system is also great, but I do not know if kids would understand its mechanism well.
My 8yo nephew built a radio controlled card with lego and arduino kit, so I’d say it’s not impossible. The kid is not that smart…
Online tutorials can be amazing lol.
Depends on what the subject is. Would you take apart a console for the first time because you’ve seen someone else do it on Youtube? Depending on how advanced something is most people would stay the hell away regardless. One mistake and that’s your warranty fucked. I’m using consoles as an example as someone people take apart their machines to apply new thermal paste to get better cooling performance.
*Breathes in* HHAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“a demographic that’s not traditionally reached by games at all, who are likely to buy games a long time after their initial release and who are not “in the loop of game news””
Or in other words:
“This thing already flopped, but we expect it to sell really well when it´s for sale for like 10 dollars!”
Honestly Nintendo, fucking make another BrainAge or Switch Fit if you already know there is an Target audience out there waiting for it….