History VideoGame / NintendoLabo

* GameMaker: The VR Plaza in the VR Kit allows the player to construct 3D objects and then use if/then statements in the same way as the Labo Garage to make simple gemes with those objects.

* AntiPoopSocking: Completing a step in the building process of any of the Toy-Cons will result in the game asking if you need to take a break before you move on to the next step.

* ProgrammingGame: "Toy-Con Garage", a feature within the main game, lets you customize how your Joy-Con and Switch touchscreen respond when interacted with using basic if/then instructions.

* MarathonLevel: The Robot Build is a fairly elaborate machine and building one can take around '''3 hours''' from start to finish. The Variety Kit's Piano, similarly, can take between two to three hours.

# '''VR Kit''' -- Players construct a series of new Toy-Con including a blaster gun, camera, bird, wind pedal, and elephant, along with a set of VR goggles to use the Toy-Con in a virtual reality experience. Releasing April 12, 2019.

The games will be packaged in kits, thus far divided into the following options:

* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioOddysey'' -- The game will be updated on April 25, 2019 with bite sized content to be used with the VR Kit.

On January 18, 2018, Creator/{{Nintendo}} sent a message out to social media telling their fans to prepare for "a new way to play" aimed for "kids and kids at heart". Later that same day, they lifted the veil on their newest entertainment project -- ''Nintendo Labo'', a franchise aimed at marrying the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch hardware with the creative freedom and imagination that comes from [[KidsPreferBoxes cardboard]].

# '''VR Kit''' -- Players construct a series of new Toy-Cons including a blaster gun, camera, bird, wind pedal, and elephant, along with a set of VR goggles to use the Toy-Cons in a virtual reality experience. Releasing April 12, 2019.

* ''Fishing Star: World Tour'' -- This former mobile game, GREE's first home console release, is set to ship with compatibility with the Variety Kit's fishing rod.

* WidgetSeries: It's safe to say that only Nintendo could have come up with a franchise such as this. In addition to the kits above, among the Toy-Con demonstrated in the trailer that don't yet have an announced game include a white bird, a camera, and something that could be a gun.

# '''VR Kit''' -- Players construct a series of new Toy-Cons including a blaster gun, camera, bird, wind pedal, and elephant, along with a set of VR goggles to use the ToyC-ons in a virtual reality experience. Releasing April 12, 2019.

* ''VideoGame/{{Deemo}}'' -- First shown off as a proof-of-concept video demo on [=YouTube=], it was later confirmed that the Switch port of ''Deemo'' will become the first third-party game to support ''Labo'', specifically the Toy-Con Piano from the Variety Kit. The update adding Labo support will be released in October 2018.

# '''Vehicle Kit''' -- Players construct a variety of vehicle controllers including a car, airplane, and submarine. Releasing on September 14, 2018.

* ''[[VideoGame/MarioKart8 Mario Kart 8 Deluxe]]'' -- On June 25, 2018, Nintendo released a free update for the game granting compatibility with the motorcycle from the Variety Kit.

''Nintendo Labo'', released on April 20, combines software playing in the Switch with props which are physically built from patterns embedded in cardboard sheets. The console's Joy-Con are placed strategically inside of the props -- playfully called Toy-Con -- so that their motion sensing technology and IR camera can be manipulated by the props' movements, affecting elements of the game whose cartridge is inserted in the system.

* DevelopersForesight: They really didn't have to, but in the build tutorials whenever there's a Joy-Con on screen, they rendered a simple version of the insides of the Joycons in case you clip inside one (circuit board and everything). The Joy-Cons are also rendered to match the colors of the Joy-Cons currently connected with the console.

* VirtualPet: Downplayed with the House in the Variety Kit. You're given a little fuzzy companion to interact with, and you can feed him, but he doesn't seem to be permanently injured by any abuse you might heap upon him.

** Given that the ''labo garage'' is basically a programming system in and of itself, people are already starting to come up with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0MtrXgvbt4 their own games and other such things]] involving it, with one player managing to recreate the first ''UsefulNotes/GameAndWatch'' game, 'ball', in it.
* DevelopersForesight: They really didn't have to, but, in the build tutorials, whenever there's a Joycon on screen, they rendered a simple version of the insides of the Joycons in case you clip inside one (circuit board and everything).

* MarathonLevel: The Robot Build is a fairly elaborate machine and building one can take around '''3 hours''' from start to finish.

* ExtremeOmnivore: The creature in the House game changes it's primary color by eating large foods. Some of them include robotic escargot that is still alive (Orange), bars of soap (Blue), bones (White), and acorns (Brown).

* WidgetSeries: It's safe to say that only Nintendo could have come up with a franchise such as this. In addition to the kits above, among the Toy-Con demonstrated in the trailer that don't yet have an announced game include a white bird, a camera, something that could be a gun, and humanoid figures.

* LaserBlade: An EasterEgg in the Joy-Con motion control demonstration menu in Variety Kit [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOewsE7NzK4 allows you to turn them into lightsabers]], complete with clashing sparks.