You have to take into account what the goal of each product is.

VR is about isolation & immersion.

Labo is about creation & interaction.

One is about taking yourself away from your surroundings and entering a new world while the other is about engineering your own devices and seeing what they can do.

For someone who loves to build which product is more appealing?

I think the point of LABO is to expand the market potential of the Switch. Therefore, the intended consumer base for the product only slightly overlaps with the demographic on this site. Nintendo are going after the expanded audience/blue ocean again to further increase the userbase on the Switch. Could easily see a permanent sales baseline rise WW with a product like this. My guess is, Nintendo values an expansion of its userbase more than sheer sales of this product. More HW down the line= more SW sold for Nintendo, as new customers seek to add to their Switch/LABO purchase. This also adds to the fact that the Switch somewhat advertises itself. A new Switch customer shows their LABO to friends/neighbours and it snowballs from there. Am sure there will be more casual/bridge games in the future that won't necessarily appeal to the people here but will moreso to an expanded market. So whilst LABO might not appeal here,(or games after it for that matter), it will likely foster growth for the Switch in other areas. Largely ones that don't frequent places such as this.

Yeah i really think Labo will be to Switch as Nintendogs/Brain Age, Wii Sports/Fit & Kinect were to DS, Wii & 360.

They've been pushing it like crazy?

How? When? Where?


I have seen zero advertising about it anywhere, outside of their own media channels.

If i'm honest, i think LABO will be the start. Once it is embedded in the homes of "new" consumers, then i believe at least some of the other franchises you mentioned will be resurrected. The brain age/ Wii sports crowd who grew up playing those games will now have kids of their own. They will buy LABO for their kids and then look for games for themselves, perhaps leading to more console sales, for themselves. Should they notice a "Wii series" game for example they will probably remember it with nostalgia and from there the effect will begin to take place.

I love this thread and Labo. They both really start to act as a sieve and separate people from logic. We have someone claiming that it is a VR wannabee. We have another person who claims that only hard core nerds will buy it (I'm not sure if I fulfill that definition, but I think every single one of us in this forum do to some degree and if you think that doesn't mean you, you have some small reflection to do).

The last time I saw people get this worked up about a product and its sales potential it was the Wii. Now mind you, I'm definitely not saying these pieces of cardboard have the Wii level of appeal, but just that it illicits the same emotional response.

The part I'm trying to figure out is the reason for the extra hate:

1. Nintendo is selling cardboard with their name on it and people will buy it?

2. People think that this will ruin gaming?

3. People think this will take development resources from core games?

4. People get so bothered by the concept of seeing themselves play with Labo that they cringe so deep internally it leads to nausea.

5, People initially made such harsh judgments at the reveal and placed their chips on the "this wil fail" bet and have to ride it all the way to the bank?

6. People hate the idea of other people having fun doing something that isn't "pure gaming?"

7. People think VR is just such a better alternative and they really can't understand why people would be more excited about these pieces of cardboard and a minigame collection than a truly immersive 3D experience that is the future of all gaming (and maybe even all of life.)

Feel free to add your own reason or specify if you identify with any of these reasons.

Idk, i dont see how Labo's target demographic is any narrower than any of those.

Well i hope it will flop so Nintendo can go back to the 2017 switch mind and just focus on real games like Zelda and Odyssey.

I just hope the Labo doesn’t hurt switch sales. If it hurts the Switches overall image it may impact sales.

No. It will expand the demographic and Nintendo can easily cater to all its demographics.