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Kai_Mao on 06 May 2018
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WhatATimeToBeAlive said:
Kai_Mao said:

Gimmick or not, I don’t think it’s a bad concept. It looks interesting and it’s cool to see something different than the typical gamer’s game. Nintendo has been known for this for years, decades even. This was developed by director Tsubasa Sakaguchi, the director of the original Splatoon, who wanted to do something different than the usual game development and this was what led to it.

i don’t see why we can’t be open minded of the various opportunities game development can provide for us beyond what we usually know.

Not only is it a gimmick, but it is a bad gimmick. Even though the concept is not that bad, the product itself is bad. The game/games that come with it are really shallow and low quality (5-10$ if it would be on Steam), so even children get bored with it quickly. Which makes me wonder how they can charge 70-80$ for it. But for some it seems to be okay since it's aimed at children, who don't have concept of money and whose parents have to buy what the kids want ("And it comes with software." lol).

So lets stop this "sweet talk". LABO was/is really cheap to produce and was intended to make huge profits. Imagine that LABO was created by Activision/EA so maybe you could see it "more clearly".  

Well I'm glad you provided your hands-on analysis of Labo.

It doesn't really matter who made it to me, personally, its an interesting concept nevertheless. Of course, with EA, though, I think they would have done something to screw up the concept and all and maybe use microtransactions to screw consumers. I don't think you can compare that with what Nintendo is trying to do with this product.

Whether you think its "sweet talk" or not, I don't give a rats @$&. This is what someone from Nintendo wanted to do to show the capabilities of the Joy-Cons and such. We all give praise to Sony for nurturing it's first-party studios and allowing them to do whatever they want, what's wrong with praising Nintendo in allowing one of its most promising game developers in doing something like Labo, which appeared to be a project he wanted to do?