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German Ratings Board Almost Threw Nintendo Labo In The Trash
The other day, Nintendo introduced their Labo initiative, various kits that let children make toys from pre-cut cardboard and various permutations of the Switch's three pieces. Before it was revealed to the world, however, the German ratings board nearly accidentally threw it away.
Unterhaltungssoftware Selbstkontrolle (Entertainment Software Self-Regulation), commonly shortened to USK, is the ratings board for software in Germany. Today, the group tweeted a story about how they received Nintendo's new cardboard peripheral in the mail and weren't quite sure what to make of it.
"Finally we can tell the story, when we had the latest Nintendo hardware, it was almost dumped by the cleaning crew as waste paper," the tweet said when translated to English. "In the past no one would have believed this story, anyway."
There you go, Nintendo was one custodial mistake away from not understanding why Labo wasn't rated in Germany. Labo is releasing for the Switch on April 20 in Variety and Giant Robot packages. We also collected some of the internet's reactions to Nintendo's new project.
(Thank you to @TheYremaster for aiding the translation.)
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