Discussion
Nintendo's Talking Flower
airstrike: [delayed]
crims0n: One of the things I love about Nintendo is their (estimated) 1.5 trillion yen cash reserve allows them to just... do whatever they want. It frees them up to take risks and ignore market trends. More times than not, their zany ideas have worked out for them.
CoolGuySteve: The article says it starts to repeat after a few days but with flash memory prices being what they are couldn’t they have loaded something like a hundred thousand little voice clips on a $15 32GB micro sd card?Might require AI to generate them all but the device would still be offline
soared: It’s a toy. How is this making any buzz, headlines, etc. Go to any store, go to the toy aisle, and 99% of the toys are not AI generated, etc. Lazy clickbait from everyone.
skeeter2020: The "zany" idea of selling their IP for every possible product (I just saw Mario Galaxy sparkling water in the grocery store yesterday) and jacking the price of their back catalogue (some titles now cost more than what I paid for them years ago) sounds more like Disney than mad scientists ignoring trends. The make some very distinctive & cool products, but this toy doesn't seem super innovative and Nintendo is still a giant corporation run by accountants.
strogonoff: Acting amazed when “a simple $35 desk toy” sold out in a week is sloppy journalism considering that toy is merch for a product that once got Guinness World Record as best-selling video game of all time and which has such cult status that unopened copies of the game go for multiple millions of dollars in 2026.Respectfully, and not to detract from Nintendo’s chops in any way, but almost any genuinely Nintendo product that is Super Mario Bros. related is guaranteed to be sold out; the bar is very low when franchise is this well-recognized.
hmokiguess: Meanwhile Casio in Japan be like https://www.casio.com/us/moflin/
