Nintendo Labo - You Missed the Point!
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2019-05-06
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1,316 words · ~6 min read
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so the lava reviews are in and everyone seems to think it's just
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folding some cardboard but you know i don't blame the people
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nintendo's marketing team over the last 10 years has been hit or miss to say the
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least consider the following we fit and we fit plus combined sold over 43.8
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million units that's almost half the total number of wii consoles even though
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it was a mold breaking accessory for a first of its kind console everyone
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understood what it was and they wanted it then the wii u was a complete
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flop because basically no one knew
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what it even was months after it came out i invited some
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friends over and not a single one of
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them understood that it was a new console before they arrived after seeing
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the ads most of them thought it was just a tablet accessory and these guys are
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gamers and tech heads i guess that's why
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it only sold 13.6 million units then
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there's the switch and instant sensation so naturally the roller coaster
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department was due for a flop and labo
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well i don't have sales numbers yet but i can make an educated guess that
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they're not very high now to be fair it
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is a bit more niche than something like a wii fit naturally but i believe the
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main problem is that this guy's just pretty misunderstood if you want to know
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so you got me you do start with folding
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cardboard but the cardboard folding experience is just teaching you the
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basics in a fun creative and engaging way it's not what the whole experience
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is about it's like the first mission in a game and i must add with the best
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instructions of any project i've ever built hands down you'll see them through
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this whole explanation the first labo project you build is a little bug car it
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teaches you that vibration can make things move that you can manually
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control the vibration frequency and introduces the concept that you can see
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things through the ir camera especially
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ir trackers the fishing game teaches you about the
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physical feedback of generating resistance through the use of rubber
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bands and the audible feedback from the clicking noise generated by a cardboard
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tab being hit by the reel the motorbike teaches you about the use of gyroscopes
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and advances on the ideas of resistance and feedback with the throttle the house
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teaches you intermediate ir camera use how it responds to ir stickers and how
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the stickers getting closer to the camera or turning away from the camera
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etc can be registered and responded to
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and finally the piano shows you that you can take these concepts much further
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than you may have previously thought that you're not just limited to one or
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two ir stickers or a couple basic interactions all of this is fun in games
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literally and depending on the age range of the person enjoying it finishing
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these projects may be the satisfying conclusion to a fun solo or group
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project with great pacing but labo
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is really about wait for it the lab part of the name it's about
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doing things yourself and experimenting like in a lab and you do this through
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toycon garage which allows you to create your own toy con projects through the
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use of a basic programming interface that lets you tap into the power of the
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switch and its multi-functional joy-cons that you just spent the entire cardboard
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folding experience learning about and the power is real ariana grande jimmy
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fallon and the roots did an astonishing performance of no tears left to cry with
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just nintendo labo instruments we left out audio for copyright reasons but it
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sounds incredible better than the original in my opinion go watch it now
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and then come back then we have japanese researcher and
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inventor kintaro yoshifuji who modded a 13 year old boy's electric wheelchair so
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it could be driven around with the motorcycle toy instead of the normal
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joystick for just some awesomely wholesome fun but you don't
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have to go that crazy with it either i found on youtube there's people who have
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recreated game and watch which is really cool there's also a bunch of different
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people making like vending machines and one that i really like is you take a
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container have the ir camera looking down into the container and then just
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have it count how many things passes by so you can throw things and see if it
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actually goes in and keep score it's cool so in conclusion then should you
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buy a labo whether it's for a little kid you know or a big kid you are i think
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brad on twitter actually put a little bit better than i can yes
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but not for the folding cardboard it's
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about the experience as a whole it's about building something with others and
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empowering you to play with your own creation it works on its own but it's
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best enjoyed as a social creative thing like building ikea furniture except fun
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