Perhaps attempting to make up for inadequate sales, Nintendo has started to push its special cardboard (the Nintendo Labo) as an educational tool by foisting it onto elementary schools.
The Institute of Play (a New York non-profit that wants to educate through play) will be lending Nintendo a hand in this task, with the family friendly game company seeking to bring Nintendo Labo kits to about 2,000 students aged from 8 to 11 within the next year.
Nintendo will initially be targeting schools within range of the Institute of Play in the New York area and will also be providing “Nintendo Labo Teacher Guides” (free for any who want them), which possess examples of lesson plans to help teachers get a grasp on how playing with cardboard can be educational.
100 schools around the globe will then be included in the program after the New York area, with Nintendo happily providing the kits and Switches to the schools.
I read elementary school and got excited thinking of the lolis learning to use the controllers vibration. Then saw this is for ‘murican retarded landwhales…
Just give them guns. They’ll love them and the rest of the world will be grateful.
Great way to spend a school’s budget. Cardboard that won’t last two weeks with kids playing with it.
Nintendos greed is whats making the Labo sell poorly. The things should cost $30/£30 at most. It’s fucking cardboard and some interactive software for said cardboard. Come on.
They should give them cardboard layered with kevlar so they can construct blocky cardboard bulletproof vests. Or just help kids pay for lunches. Or pretty much anything else besides paying out the ass for overpriced gimmicky cardboard crap. There’s probably thousands of other constructive learning project kits that are way cheaper and more educational.
Buy our shitty overpriced cardboard please!