Switch's eccentric new hardware is a link to Nintendo's past in the most exciting way

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In the run-up to Nintendo's announcement last night, a few of us were bandying around ideas about what it could possibly be. An Amiibo-focussed game, Nintendo's own version of Skylanders? A streaming service that brought together the best in kids TV - so you'd always have an episode of In The Night Garden to hand through your favourite Nintendo device?
How small our imaginations were, and how glorious it is to be blindsided by Nintendo again.
Labo, the bevvy of cardboard appendages that turn your Switch into a piano, a fishing rod, a doll's house and so much more, is a reminder that Nintendo remains unashamedly, unapologetically and somewhat brilliantly a toymaker at heart.
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