Awarded gamesGames of the Year Division

Special AwardNintendo Labo

General Description

Title Nintendo Labo
Release 2018/4/20
Price 6,980yen(tax included)
Nintendo Labo Toy-Con 01: Variety Kit
Platform Nintendo Switch
Distributor Nintendo Co., Ltd.
Publisher Nintendo Co., Ltd.
Developer Nintendo Co., Ltd.
URL https://www.nintendo.co.jp/labo/
Copyright © 2018 Nintendo

Reason

By assembling a cardboard controller by yourself and playing with Nintendo Switch, you can understand the mechanism of the game, In addition, you can invent the game you thought about by yourself by setting a simple IO programming in the main body of Nintendo Switch. The selection committee evaluated the point of providing how to enjoy new games using the hardware function including Gyro Sensors.  Motion IR Camera, and HD vibration and “fun to make” that was never before    you can invent the game you thought about yourself by a simple input-output (IO) programming.

Work Introdution

Create, play, and understand.
“Nintendo Labo” enables a player to invent games.

By assembling a cardboard controller yourself and playing with Nintendo Switch, you can have a new experience.

You can understand the mechanism by assembling a controller by yourself and inventing a play by yourself.

In April 2019, Nintendo released Nintendo Labo 4 VR Kit to allow customers to invest more plays.

Comment of the game producer

It is a great honor to win this award. All of the development staffs would like to express my gratitude towards all customers who played Nintendo Labo.

The development of this product based on the concept of “create, play, and understand” is unknown to us and very exciting at the same time. Development members of both software/hardware filled their finding and pleasure found during the process in the moment when the software/hardware created by themselves moved for the first time. We would like those who have not done this game to have its unique experience provided only by this game.

After the sales, customers create unique “deco works” and unique plays through “Toy-Con garage” and we get much stimulated. Furthermore, we are very happy to know Nintendo Labo are used at events, educational sites, theme parks, and others not only in Japan but also in other countries in the word.

We would make efforts to use this pleasure for the future development.

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