{"id":10578,"date":"2018-01-18T02:55:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T02:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/nintendo_will_freely_provide_cardboard_design_patterns_for_labo"},"modified":"2018-01-18T02:55:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T02:55:00","slug":"nintendo-will-freely-provide-cardboard-design-patterns-for-labo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/01\/18\/nintendo-will-freely-provide-cardboard-design-patterns-for-labo\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Will Freely Provide Cardboard Design Patterns For Labo"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Nintendo Labo\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/nintendo_will_freely_provide_cardboard_design_patterns_for_labo\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/nintendo_will_freely_provide_cardboard_design_patterns_for_labo\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"Nintendo Labo\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>It\u2019s pretty safe to say that nobody expected Nintendo\u2019s announcement today of the new <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/nintendo_labo\">Nintendo Labo<\/a><\/strong> initiative, turning the Nintendo Switch into a decidedly more toy-like piece of kit. One of the main concerns expressed after the announcement was the durability of Labo; cardboard is a rather brittle substance, and it likely won\u2019t take much to break it. Fortunately, Nintendo has thought of this, and has thought of an easy way to sidestep this problem.<\/p>\n<p>IGN France confirmed that Labo Kits won\u2019t actually be required to play Labo games, the cartridge or download will be all that you need. Cardboard design patterns for the various games will freely be provided online, meaning that you can replace or build parts with just about any material, provided you\u2019re crafty enough. Here\u2019s what was said by Nintendo:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Note that the kits will not be mandatory &#8211; although the cartridge is needed &#8211; since Nintendo plans to offer the cardboard design pattern for free for aspiring builders<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>What do you think? Will you be getting Labo? How do you think it\u2019ll do commercially? Share your thoughts in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s pretty safe to say that nobody expected Nintendo\u2019s announcement today of the new Nintendo Labo initiative, turning the Nintendo Switch into a decidedly more toy-like piece of kit. One of the main concerns expressed after the announcement was the durability of Labo; cardboard is a rather brittle substance, and it likely won\u2019t take much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}