Dieter Bohn Nintendo <3s cardboard

For years now, I've held a grudge against Nintendo over Donkey Konga, the GameCube game that required you to buy a pair of digital bongos that could be used for literally nothing else. To me, this kind of defined Nintendo's strategy for years: get people to buy lots and lots of pointless accessories.

But Nintendo's new initiative — Nintendo Labo — feels like it's finally taken that idea someplace wonderful, with cardboard accessories you construct yourself. Sure, you have to pay extra for them, but the accessories are cheap, fun, and inventive. It might be the most clever way to expand games beyond the controller that Nintendo's thought of yet.