Cerebralbore101 said:
This entire thing is Myamoto's brainchild.I guarantee it. Nintendo was a toy company in the 70's when Myamoto was hired. He graduated from Kanazawa Municipal College of Industrial Arts with a degree in industrial design. In other words this is the sort of stuff Mario's creator went to school to do.
And for the detractors...
1. Kits are free online.
2. $60 is not too much to pay for a videogame.
3. $10-20 is not too much to pay for a cardboard kit. Remember these things are free online anyway. Consider those $80 versions with the kits and the game included to be like collector's editions.
4. If it breaks remember that kits are free online. Glue/Tape is free too.
5. Kids aged 8 to 12 are waaaaaaaaaaayyyyy more protective of stuff than you people give them credit for. Especially when they built it themselves. Go tear up your kid's favorite drawing that he worked on for hours, and see how he reacts. It'll be the same with these things.
6. What's that it's too expensive to sell? Just like the Switch was too expensive at $300? Or how the Pro controller was too expensive at $70?
Final thoughts: If Nintendo and Lego can collaborate on this somehow, it'll sell like gangbusters. I imagine this will already sell pretty well, and give Nintendo a bunch of free PR. This is the sort of thing that shows up on those morning talkshows like The Today Show.
P.S. This is pretty dang genius. I'm impressed.
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What about the detracting argument that the people this is actually for are just not interested in cardboard based toys?
Sure, some people and parents will buy it but I doubt there is anything there after the first 1 or 2 builds. But maybe that's the plan. I mean once the game is sold Nintendo got the money. And it will definitely sell due to its novelty.
