I’m gonna guess the answer to “How does this work” is going to be “Not very well”

I totally get what you mean, and I just turned thirty :P It’s a cool idea, a neat concept, and I can see how some people - kids particularly - would be all over this.

But it’s also a gimmick. The games might be fun, but they’re not likely to be “spend forty hours playing this” fun, it’s more likely they’ll be sort of…

I very much feel you, as much as this is wild and cool and it excites me, it’s just not for me. It’s got nothing to do with our age, I think - it’s just what we’re willing to spend time on, or what counts as “fun” for us. I know a couple of guys that go to the local Lego Club every month and that will be pre-buying…

I don’t know, I don’t see anything about some arcane ritual to include online play for this stuff. That would make it peak Nintendo.

Considering they started as a playing card company I feel like they’re embracing their roots!

I’m hoping this leads to a ‘maker space’ for players, where they can (working under Nintendo’s manufacturing parameters) design cardboard peripherals as well as games to accompany them... but who knows. Even if Nintendo keeps it in-house, but expands the program, I see a lot of future ‘makers’ falling in love with…

How were we supposed to know that the bingo board itself would transform into the new Nintendo accessory?

Pretty snazzy, basically a step up from Google Cardboard which surprisingly sold very well:

The most Nintendo thing Nintendo has ever Nintendone.

Sounds like you’ve reached the upper limit for the age of fun

This looks like one of those things that every reviewer will be gushing over and it will be forgotten in a few months.

Watch, there’ll be a worldwide cardboard shortage for months after the release.

I think this will be amazing. Not for me personally, but for my kids and as something for me to do with them.

This seems like an insanely cool idea that I, as an individual, will probably never use.

That’s not meant to be a dig at all. I’m rapidly approaching my forties, and I’ve hit that stage in my life where I’d rather game in a way that is comfortable to me, rather than having to build a bunch of shit (really, insert tab A…

Some assembly required

What sort of magic is this? How is it done? Is the motion detection on the controllers really that precise? I’m really amazed if it is.

Weirdly, I don’t think it’s actually doomed to fail.

Love it or hate it, you can honestly say that this wasn’t anywhere on anyone’s “Nintendo Announcement” bingo board.

This is the weirdest, coolest, most doomed-to-fail thing I’ve seen in a long time.

“Build your own damn peripherals.” - Nintendo