Nintendo revealed the Nintendo Switch 2 yesterday, but beyond showing off the console – which I can safely describe as a bigger and presumably better Switch – it didn’t say much about what the Switch 2 can do. But there is one line in the press release about what the Switch 2 can’t do that has me … well, not worried, but perhaps a bit crestfallen. “Certain Nintendo Switch games may not be supported on or fully compatible with Nintendo Switch 2,” Nintendo says. I don’t know about you, but my immediate thought was they’re talking about Labo.

Nintendo Labo didn’t set the world on fire, but it remains one of the most fun, weird, creative, playful things Nintendo has ever done, and yes I will die on that cardboard hill. For those of you who didn’t get the pleasure of assembling a Labo kit yourselves, here’s a brief description of what it was like.

Each Labo kit was a collection of so-called “Toy-Cons,” which would be assembled out of flat-packed cardboard following an interactive instruction manual not unlike IKEA furniture. Once assembled, you’d insert the Switch Joy-Cons into your cardboard creation,........

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