so the lava reviews are in and everyone seems to think it's just
folding some cardboard but you know i don't blame the people
nintendo's marketing team over the last 10 years has been hit or miss to say the
least consider the following we fit and we fit plus combined sold over 43.8
million units that's almost half the total number of wii consoles even though
it was a mold breaking accessory for a first of its kind console everyone
understood what it was and they wanted it then the wii u was a complete
flop because basically no one knew
what it even was months after it came out i invited some
friends over and not a single one of
them understood that it was a new console before they arrived after seeing
the ads most of them thought it was just a tablet accessory and these guys are
gamers and tech heads i guess that's why
it only sold 13.6 million units then
there's the switch and instant sensation so naturally the roller coaster
department was due for a flop and labo
well i don't have sales numbers yet but i can make an educated guess that
they're not very high now to be fair it
is a bit more niche than something like a wii fit naturally but i believe the
main problem is that this guy's just pretty misunderstood if you want to know
what it's really about keep watching
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so you got me you do start with folding
cardboard but the cardboard folding experience is just teaching you the
basics in a fun creative and engaging way it's not what the whole experience
is about it's like the first mission in a game and i must add with the best
instructions of any project i've ever built hands down you'll see them through
this whole explanation the first labo project you build is a little bug car it
teaches you that vibration can make things move that you can manually
control the vibration frequency and introduces the concept that you can see
things through the ir camera especially
ir trackers the fishing game teaches you about the
physical feedback of generating resistance through the use of rubber
bands and the audible feedback from the clicking noise generated by a cardboard
tab being hit by the reel the motorbike teaches you about the use of gyroscopes
and advances on the ideas of resistance and feedback with the throttle the house
teaches you intermediate ir camera use how it responds to ir stickers and how
the stickers getting closer to the camera or turning away from the camera
etc can be registered and responded to
and finally the piano shows you that you can take these concepts much further
than you may have previously thought that you're not just limited to one or
two ir stickers or a couple basic interactions all of this is fun in games
literally and depending on the age range of the person enjoying it finishing
these projects may be the satisfying conclusion to a fun solo or group
project with great pacing but labo
is really about wait for it the lab part of the name it's about
doing things yourself and experimenting like in a lab and you do this through
toycon garage which allows you to create your own toy con projects through the
use of a basic programming interface that lets you tap into the power of the
switch and its multi-functional joy-cons that you just spent the entire cardboard
folding experience learning about and the power is real ariana grande jimmy
fallon and the roots did an astonishing performance of no tears left to cry with
just nintendo labo instruments we left out audio for copyright reasons but it
sounds incredible better than the original in my opinion go watch it now
and then come back then we have japanese researcher and
inventor kintaro yoshifuji who modded a 13 year old boy's electric wheelchair so
it could be driven around with the motorcycle toy instead of the normal
joystick for just some awesomely wholesome fun but you don't
have to go that crazy with it either i found on youtube there's people who have
recreated game and watch which is really cool there's also a bunch of different
people making like vending machines and one that i really like is you take a
container have the ir camera looking down into the container and then just
have it count how many things passes by so you can throw things and see if it
actually goes in and keep score it's cool so in conclusion then should you
buy a labo whether it's for a little kid you know or a big kid you are i think
brad on twitter actually put a little bit better than i can yes
but not for the folding cardboard it's
about the experience as a whole it's about building something with others and
empowering you to play with your own creation it works on its own but it's
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