Nintendo is a company which is famous for swimming against the tide, confounding expectations and doing precisely the opposite of what everyone anticipates.
While rivals such as Sony and Microsoft pour millions into developing Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality for applications within the world of gaming, Nintendo seems to delight in pushing in the opposite direction.
Just as the HD revolution was beginning in the middle of the previous decade, Nintendo released a Standard Definition console which used bizarre motion controls; the Wii promptly conquered that hardware generation with over 100 million systems sold.
Going against the grain
When the shiny Sony PSP was on the horizon, Nintendo put its faith in touch control instead of powerful portable hardware, and emerged victorious with the Nintendo DS. Even earlier than that, it created a monochrome handheld in the form of the Game Boy and bested colour-screen rivals from the likes of Sega and Atari without breaking a sweat.
Fast forward to the present and we’ve just been served Nintendo’s latest curveball: Labo.
In its most basic form Labo is a series of cardboard kits which come flat-packed and have to be assembled by the player, with assistance …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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