I'm interested!

Curious what the game's are going to be like.

Really? They're marrying one stupid gimmick to another?  :rolleyes:

Should make it easier for you to skip, right?

Nintendo was never going to be a source for "serious" VR.  This is exactly where they belong in the space. 

Look forward to the outcry about how there's no virtual boy ports to strap to your head, like those games were any less playable without having it right up to your face.

Yep. I just wish that companies would stop trying to make headset VR a "thing." Until we have holodeck-scale technology without bulky headgear, it's not really a viable thing.

We probably won't get there though without the steps in between.

It doesn't seem like Labo really caught on so I don't get why Nintendo is still trying to make it a thing.  There is a section of Nintendo that is still obsessed with the Wii-era novelties and gimmicks when that path sunk Nintendo big time once the fad was over and their comeback with the Switch is totally unrelated to such ideas.  Stuff like Labo and 1-2-Switch are footnotes.  The Switch matters because series like Zelda and Mario finally burst out with some big ambitious games after years of intentionally restricting themselves.  The Switch matters because the concept of a home console that is also a portable is a fantastic concept that the market was begging for.  Cardboard and motion control have no substance (and at this point VR doesn't really either) so fads are their ceiling.  The consoles that sell big and build an audience and keep them have a variety of games with substance and depth.  The Switch has that so it's a big success.

If Nintendo keeps doing the things that make the Switch a success then their systems will continue to be successful.  If they go back into Wii-era gimmicks they'll turn off the actual videogame audience and be back to Wii U levels of irrelevance.  They can release this and it probably won't really catch on and as long as they don't make stuff like this their focus the Switch will be fine.

They seem to want to make Labo into a moderate success but it doesn't seem to be a major focus for them at all.

This seems less interesting than the previous kits.

I wonder if the reason they're separating this one into a starter kit and expansions is to see what happens if they sell a kit with a lower price than the last ones. Though, things could get messy since that's 4 products they're trying to put on store shelves.

I added this to the original story, but the $20 expansion kits are only sold from Nintendo's online store. So it's just the full and starter in general availability.

...and those expansion kits are going to be collector's items someday.  Stuff that's sold online through Nintendo always ends up rare.  My Gamecube component cables are one of the most valuable retro items I own entirely because of that (and I just bought them to, you know, hook up my Cube to my new TV back in 2003 or so).  Pokémon Box is the same idea.

Ah, that makes a little more sense. I wonder if the starter kit mentions that the expansions are only online.