Lol. I had no idea it had an embargo. Seems kind of pointless for software like that to me .

Thank god. Hope it will fail so Nintendo can stop with that blue ocean none sense.

That's unlikely too happen. Blue ocean concepts lead to their best selling homeconsoles: NES, Wii and likely NS.

Pointless? If they have any brains they should lift the embargo a year after the game releases.

Sure it's a toy, and not just in a "yeah right, anything is art, anything is a toy" kind of way.  I'd compare it to model cars or craft building.  I guess you could call it a hobby "thing" instead of a toy if it feels truer.

the only real diff is the cardboard, and my kid gets cardboar toys at Wendy's all the time.  I admit that is one weakness for Labo, at least in north america: cardboard is viewed as garbage (literally)

It's like Wii Sports. Review don't matter much at all for these kind of games. The only question that matters is "Does the consumer like or love it" which the market itself will prove or disprove.

I honestly don't have much interest in the included cardboard parts of Labo, but I AM interested in the Toy-Con Garage stuff. As a programmer, myself, I would love to sit down with my nephews and niece to work on creating our own little projects.

My niece had already been taking some after school classes about basic programming and she's VERY crafty, so I think that would be a good way for her to see the skills she's acquired be implemented in a tangible way.

I think they should work to advertise that aspect a lot more, and maybe even make that part of the software downloaded separately on the eShop

Well if you are right then I would say that is a HUGE success for Labo. It's a very niche product that obviously is not a normal product for gamers and will only appeal to kids (a very small part of Switch's userbase), people who are really into creating stuff (also probably a very small part of the userbase considering that it is still a child's toy), and children who convince their Switch owning parents to get it which is where it could possibly see decent sales from.

What’s unfortunate about it? Nintendo has done this since ROB the Robot, heck way before they started getting into video games. It’s part of their DNA. They will still have developers making the big games, but it doesn’t stop them from experimenting and finding new ways to play games.

Yep, that is the way it goes. Some would even call the Video Gaming Consoles you hold in such high esteem Toys.