0:56 It isn't called alarm clock because it is not an alarm only. It can play sound and music to relax you and do other things so it is not just a alarm.
i only just found your channel recently but it’s quickly becoming a new favourite!! there’s always such a comfy chatting vibe to your videos that’s the perfect entertainment through my day :o) oh and i absolutely need that alarmo for the drowning pikmin alarm sound-
I have all the Labo sets. They’re neat to mess around with but one of the best things I remember is the build process. Everything just fits together no extra tools required. I think the VR see is the best as it’s the one I’ve went back to the most. I got it before I had any real experience with “proper” vr and it was really cool to mess with. Smash, Mario Odyssey, and Captain Toad all support it but they have their own separate modes for vr. Breath of the wild on the other hand allows you to play the ENTIRE game in “vr”. It’s more like stereoscopic 3D. I actually played through the entire great plateau and then some (in vr). It was neat but very pixelated haha
_"It’s more like stereoscopic 3D."_ ...which is the core of VR. I've been saying for almost two decades now that all that motion-sensing stuff added on top can be nice but mostly adds bulk (and cost) to the core experience. There's a reason why even within the dye-hard VR community, joypad-centered VR has become "the new thing"...
@@TechnoEstate I know that’s what it is at its core, I just meant with breath of the wild specifically you ONLY get the 3D effect and the camera is connected to your head. The in game camera is the same and turning your head only stimulates moving the right stick, which is a bit of a bummer. The other first party labo vr games experiences allow you to look around the game world in a way that’s closer to what I’d say is “traditional” vr
I got the alarms, and I happen to sleep on the floor, I put the box of it under the clock to lift it up a little so it is on the same level of my pillow, it works perfectly for me. I am the one that is easy to wake up and lays on bed for a little more time on my phone after I woke up, and the middle level intensity’s option that unlocks after logging into my NSO account works just perfect for me. I wake up easily while Zelda says “Wake up, Link”, I move a little, the music stops, and eventually every few minutes, it make some noise, I move a around a little, and 20 minutes later, I hear the guardian aiming at me, I jumped out of my bed, Link makes a spin attack, the guardian dies. Amazing experience, I won’t need to worry about staying in bed on phone for too long anymore and won’t accidentally fall asleep again while I am in bed on my phone. It is expensive, but the more time I spend with it, I think more that it worse the money.
Maybe the Switch 2 will actually just be called the 9, and have 9 stacked thin separate screens that give a 3D diorama effect to the games. The screens could even go shadow puppet mode and maybe project on the wall in front of you or the ground beneath you? Chaos is pretty good for the soul 🥰
...or they could just make the Switch 2 a 1080p tablet and release *_Labo VR 2_* along with it, which works like Labo VR, except it's 1) non-cardboard, and 2) full HD. Multiplayer Mario Kart VR anyone? 🕶
There's always that funny little twist to a normal idea, huh? the ds to 3ds "hey lets make a social minigame pack & give the devs 3d space to play with!" wii to wiiu "there's a second screen now!" Here's a gun game, but paintball and with squids!
I still remembered that "quality of life" device which was planned waaay back then. But after the Switch got huge in some interview they mentioned they are no longer pursuing that (but well... Nintendo is pretty infamous for not being truthful about hardware news in interviews lol)
I picked up the labo vr kit back in the day, i got a good couple weeks of entertainment out of the included software and i could've easily gone deeper with the game editor. Most of the other games that supported it were pretty short, but fun experiences, playing smash matches against cpus, the couple mario odyssey levels, all a good time. I would've played botw in vr, but I picked that up on wii u, so my only experience with zelda vr was when i borrowed a copy from my friend, it was a really fun time
_"Nintendo is completely unpredictable at all times."_ Tsk... amateur! How come I predicted the 3DS in 2004 -- 6 years before it was revealed? How come I predicted Labo VR over a year before anyone had it on the radar? How come I correctly predicted the "NX" would be a home/handheld hybrid? Broken clock, amirite? 😏
Just found your channel - very well done! Fully agree that Nintendo is an entity of pure chaos. You could give me 1000 chances to guess what nintendo would do next and an interactive alarm clock would not be on my list. I also didn't expect them to a mysterious online playtest program for... something? They refuse to tell us what and that's incredibly confusing to me. They asked the people who managed to sign up (in the seconds it was available) to not tell anyone about what they experience but obviously they aren't going to be able to keep 10000 people quiet? Is this some kind of reverse psychology to get people more interested in what the hell this is? In the end you just kinda have to shrug and say, Nintendo is an entity of chaos - I have no clue what they're thinking or what they're about to do. Everyone is waiting on pins and needles for the switch 2 to be announced and Nintendo just come out of nowhere and say "hey guys, we made a funny alarm clock that makes bing bang wahoo sounds" - that's incredibly funny.
I doubt it will happen, but I’d want the Pokémon Scarlet and Violet Area Zero theme leading into the final fight theme leading into the victory theme from the final fight. Honestly, those games have real potential for some good wake up sequences. I’d also like to see Zelda TOTK which could actually happen since they have BOTW on the base model.
First visit here, haven't even finished the video yet, but the vibes are so chill, I'd be down to see more of your stuff, banger portrait on the back, the room looks so chill, superficial observations aside ~ Yeah, Nintendo coming out of nowhere and announcing a smart alarm clock that observes your movement and aims to annoy you and possibly trigger PTSD with the Splatoon splatting noises is just peak Nintendo wackiness.
The labo stuff was cool. It was fun to make and play around with, but when you're done you're left with a bunch of cardboard things that take up a whole lot of space. Also, its cardboard so its not super durable and i imagine they would just fall apart after some years of even light useage. (though who would be using these for years?)
i didn't get in! so bummed!! i tried at exactly the moment it opened up and it already said they'd filled all of the positions. excited to see what it is though, sounds like the test itself is ten days away.
Great video! Happened to stumble upon this channel by accident. But it feels cozy! Subscribed instantly just for that alone. I really liked how you talked about this Alarmo feeling like something from 2014 wacky Nintendo. Truth be told, I wasnt even in a market for a clock. Waking up isnt really that hard for me. But the fact Nintendo released something wacky and surprising that nobody expected in so long is what makes Nintendo for me. It instantly sold me on it. How much use it'll get for me? I'm still not sure. It can go both ways though, might just become standard for me in my day. Wich sounds fun in it's own way 😅
What i dont get is, what extra functionality they want to give me with an alarm clock that i wouldnt get using my phone? I can use nintendo music on my phone alarm. I can add music to sleep and a timer. Why buy an extra, very expensive gadget?
Phones in your room are a bad idea since you'd be tempted and able to easily use it, hurting your sleep overall, which is why dedicated alarm clocks are still valuable today; this is incredibly common sleep advice. $100 is probably slightly overpriced, true, but I don't think this is for everyone. I could see this being for: -kids whose parents don't want them having phones nearby -people who don't want to go through with that hassle of placing said music on their alarm (as someone who has done something similar in the past with ringtones, it was easy but still too much hassle for plenty of people) -people who like the sleep tracking feature -people who like more friction to their alarm clocks (having to actually get out of bed to turn it off instead of hitting buttons and forgetting) Essentially, I don't think they're really trying to replace anyone's existing similar setup, but maybe offer an alternative like for the above options as something for a small segment of their audience. Labo sold 1 million units and won some awards, Wii Fit did well, Ring Fit Adventure did well, Game Builder Garage is solid, Lego sets and new movies and park expansions and the museum are on the way - plenty of examples of stuff that's accessible to, but not necessarily for everyone.
Of course I don't disagree that Nintendo is an entropy machine fueled by wild chaotic energy, BUT, as someone who's been following them since the SNES era in real time, they do seem to switch between two distinct modes, which I very creatively call "winning" and "losing" modes. These are somewhat predictable… if not on the WHAT they produce, at least on HOW good that "produce" is. Nintendo's biggest "winning mode" eras were during the SNES, the DS, the Wii, and now with the Switch. What has been produced in each of these eras? The SNES era gave us the N64 and the GameCube. The DS era gave us the 3DS. The Wii era gave us the WiiU. There's a pattern: when Nintendo is on "winning mode", they get coward, stop going hard on innovation, and instead make products that always follow a formula of making a new version of what's successful now, with a small twist. The N64 is "SNES, but 3D". The 3DS is "NDS, but 3D". The WiiU is a "Wii, but ~confusing~ with a tablet". This is why I can't manage to get myself super hyped on whatever the successor to the Switch turns out to be. Because I "know" it will be "Switch, but [small difference]". Nintendo's best stuff is NEVER "old thing, but [small difference]". Because Nintendo's best stuff ALWAYS comes from Nintendo on "losing mode". Nintendo's biggest "losing mode" eras were during the GameCube, the Wii U, and the early 3DS time. And what has been produced in each of these eras, might I ask? The best things Nintendo has ever put out, that's what! The three best AND most successful Nintendo machines of all time in the post-Playstation world were the Nintendo DS, the Wii, and the Switch. They were ALL greenlighted in times when Nintendo was in deep "losing mode". The Nintendo DS and the Wii were both products of the GameCube era, when Nintendo became the industry's underdog for the very first time. And the Switch is clearly addressing both the Nintendo 3DS shortcomings and, of course, the spectacular failure that was the WiiU. So, yeah, I don't know. I love Nintendo and I don't want to be right on this. I sincerely wish they break this pattern - because, if they don't, the writing is on the wall. Nintendo has inarguably been in the longest and strongest "winning mode" era they've ever been ever since the PlayStation was released. This doesn't bode well for their next machine in terms of it not being disappointing.
honestly, them in losing mode, being more conservative, is likely good for the survival of fan projects. or not. idk honestly they did that dumb shit during the wii u generation where they were not allowing any kind of videos that werent vetted by them
hey, really cool and chill video, first time watching you and i think i'm not the only one, sometimes you need to buy a 100$ alarm clock to make a really cool video
For every good thing Nintendo does... Oh wait, they haven't done anything good since 2017. Now they are just terrible people who sell overpriced clocks and threaten people with lawsuits and shut down their emulator project even when they have no legal standing to do so, but have so much money the developer couldn't possibly afford to defend themselves in a lawsuit so can get away with it.
Ok chaos object speculation. The next console will not be a mainline console ie switch 2 that won’t come out until end of 2025 or early 2026. The next console will have all pre Wii Nintendo games on it that makes you play so much time of a game in a console generation before unlocking the next generation. So you have to say beat level 1-1 of Mario on the nes before unlocking snes games.
i cant wait to wake up to the sound of a zelda botw guardian aiming a laser at me and i instantly die of cardiac arrest in bed
I didn't think of that but that is so funny and properly so worth it
0:56 It isn't called alarm clock because it is not an alarm only. It can play sound and music to relax you and do other things so it is not just a alarm.
The sleep music will be peak when that Animal Crossing drops, but people will go comatose once they unleash the power of Super Mario 64.
Two words: Aquatic Ambiance
Sleepy time: jolly Roger bay
Oh shit, I slept past my first 5 alarms and I'm late to work/school: slider
Absolutely in love with that anecdote about the Nintendo Store staff
i only just found your channel recently but it’s quickly becoming a new favourite!! there’s always such a comfy chatting vibe to your videos that’s the perfect entertainment through my day :o) oh and i absolutely need that alarmo for the drowning pikmin alarm sound-
wow this is so kind, thank you for watching!
@@itswavelengths same here, just found this vid and its just so cozy i subbed immediately, keep it up :)
I have all the Labo sets. They’re neat to mess around with but one of the best things I remember is the build process. Everything just fits together no extra tools required. I think the VR see is the best as it’s the one I’ve went back to the most. I got it before I had any real experience with “proper” vr and it was really cool to mess with. Smash, Mario Odyssey, and Captain Toad all support it but they have their own separate modes for vr. Breath of the wild on the other hand allows you to play the ENTIRE game in “vr”. It’s more like stereoscopic 3D. I actually played through the entire great plateau and then some (in vr). It was neat but very pixelated haha
_"It’s more like stereoscopic 3D."_
...which is the core of VR.
I've been saying for almost two decades now that all that motion-sensing stuff added on top can be nice but mostly adds bulk (and cost) to the core experience. There's a reason why even within the dye-hard VR community, joypad-centered VR has become "the new thing"...
@@TechnoEstate I know that’s what it is at its core, I just meant with breath of the wild specifically you ONLY get the 3D effect and the camera is connected to your head. The in game camera is the same and turning your head only stimulates moving the right stick, which is a bit of a bummer. The other first party labo vr games experiences allow you to look around the game world in a way that’s closer to what I’d say is “traditional” vr
If it didn't cost $100 and had a Super Metroid escape sequence alarm I'd consider getting it
I got the alarms, and I happen to sleep on the floor, I put the box of it under the clock to lift it up a little so it is on the same level of my pillow, it works perfectly for me. I am the one that is easy to wake up and lays on bed for a little more time on my phone after I woke up, and the middle level intensity’s option that unlocks after logging into my NSO account works just perfect for me. I wake up easily while Zelda says “Wake up, Link”, I move a little, the music stops, and eventually every few minutes, it make some noise, I move a around a little, and 20 minutes later, I hear the guardian aiming at me, I jumped out of my bed, Link makes a spin attack, the guardian dies. Amazing experience, I won’t need to worry about staying in bed on phone for too long anymore and won’t accidentally fall asleep again while I am in bed on my phone. It is expensive, but the more time I spend with it, I think more that it worse the money.
100 for it is crazy… But I still somehow want one lol.
Maybe the Switch 2 will actually just be called the 9, and have 9 stacked thin separate screens that give a 3D diorama effect to the games. The screens could even go shadow puppet mode and maybe project on the wall in front of you or the ground beneath you?
Chaos is pretty good for the soul 🥰
...or they could just make the Switch 2 a 1080p tablet and release *_Labo VR 2_* along with it, which works like Labo VR, except it's 1) non-cardboard, and 2) full HD. Multiplayer Mario Kart VR anyone? 🕶
There's always that funny little twist to a normal idea, huh? the ds to 3ds "hey lets make a social minigame pack & give the devs 3d space to play with!" wii to wiiu "there's a second screen now!" Here's a gun game, but paintball and with squids!
I still remembered that "quality of life" device which was planned waaay back then.
But after the Switch got huge in some interview they mentioned they are no longer pursuing that (but well... Nintendo is pretty infamous for not being truthful about hardware news in interviews lol)
That Breath of the Wild guardian music will definitely wake you up
another instant classic from Wavelengths to listen to while playing ufo50
which game's the go-to???
I picked up the labo vr kit back in the day, i got a good couple weeks of entertainment out of the included software and i could've easily gone deeper with the game editor. Most of the other games that supported it were pretty short, but fun experiences, playing smash matches against cpus, the couple mario odyssey levels, all a good time. I would've played botw in vr, but I picked that up on wii u, so my only experience with zelda vr was when i borrowed a copy from my friend, it was a really fun time
Using Labo VR, you can play all of *Breath of the Wild in full-3D VR.*
Just deactivate the cumbersome head tracking option, and it's amazing! 🤩
_"Nintendo is completely unpredictable at all times."_
Tsk... amateur!
How come I predicted the 3DS in 2004 -- 6 years before it was revealed? How come I predicted Labo VR over a year before anyone had it on the radar? How come I correctly predicted the "NX" would be a home/handheld hybrid? Broken clock, amirite? 😏
Japanese beds are usually on the floor, maybe that's why it isn't working great?
Good point but nah, not everyone uses futons now, but their beds are most def lower than normal ones in my experience
Just found your channel - very well done! Fully agree that Nintendo is an entity of pure chaos. You could give me 1000 chances to guess what nintendo would do next and an interactive alarm clock would not be on my list. I also didn't expect them to a mysterious online playtest program for... something? They refuse to tell us what and that's incredibly confusing to me. They asked the people who managed to sign up (in the seconds it was available) to not tell anyone about what they experience but obviously they aren't going to be able to keep 10000 people quiet? Is this some kind of reverse psychology to get people more interested in what the hell this is?
In the end you just kinda have to shrug and say, Nintendo is an entity of chaos - I have no clue what they're thinking or what they're about to do. Everyone is waiting on pins and needles for the switch 2 to be announced and Nintendo just come out of nowhere and say "hey guys, we made a funny alarm clock that makes bing bang wahoo sounds" - that's incredibly funny.
I doubt it will happen, but I’d want the Pokémon Scarlet and Violet Area Zero theme leading into the final fight theme leading into the victory theme from the final fight. Honestly, those games have real potential for some good wake up sequences. I’d also like to see Zelda TOTK which could actually happen since they have BOTW on the base model.
blasphemous 2 physical is fuckin tight
uh i guess this is how i find out about the movement detection functionality after owning the switch for years lol
I only know about it because it was a huge part of their marketing when the Switch was coming out lol.
First visit here, haven't even finished the video yet, but the vibes are so chill, I'd be down to see more of your stuff, banger portrait on the back, the room looks so chill, superficial observations aside ~
Yeah, Nintendo coming out of nowhere and announcing a smart alarm clock that observes your movement and aims to annoy you and possibly trigger PTSD with the Splatoon splatting noises is just peak Nintendo wackiness.
first video i’ve watched of yours but the commentary is topical and cozy while still being entertaining, definitely subbing man keep it up :D
This really is such a wild product and I kind of want it just to support their antics
I've been waiting for this video all day.
the chaos can't be contained
The labo stuff was cool. It was fun to make and play around with, but when you're done you're left with a bunch of cardboard things that take up a whole lot of space. Also, its cardboard so its not super durable and i imagine they would just fall apart after some years of even light useage. (though who would be using these for years?)
This video is great, I love your content, one of the best around - but I gotta know where that sweaters from
it's from gap!! i got it a few years ago and i love it.
Oh… it wasn’t a dream. I thought I was dreaming or something
Are you gonna talk about the other thing? The "secret" NSO online playtest thing they announced?
i didn't get in! so bummed!! i tried at exactly the moment it opened up and it already said they'd filled all of the positions. excited to see what it is though, sounds like the test itself is ten days away.
Great video! Happened to stumble upon this channel by accident. But it feels cozy! Subscribed instantly just for that alone. I really liked how you talked about this Alarmo feeling like something from 2014 wacky Nintendo. Truth be told, I wasnt even in a market for a clock. Waking up isnt really that hard for me. But the fact Nintendo released something wacky and surprising that nobody expected in so long is what makes Nintendo for me. It instantly sold me on it. How much use it'll get for me? I'm still not sure. It can go both ways though, might just become standard for me in my day. Wich sounds fun in it's own way 😅
I knew this alarmo thing was brendon-bait
Edit: I meant to talk about. Didn't know you would actually buy it 😂
I honest to god thought you had like over 50k subscribers because of how chill you were! I will be watching your videos in the future
Get out of bed. You are asleep and dreaming. We're waiting for you.
Really enjoy your content. Good musical taste too
much appreciated 🫡🫡🫡
What i dont get is, what extra functionality they want to give me with an alarm clock that i wouldnt get using my phone? I can use nintendo music on my phone alarm. I can add music to sleep and a timer. Why buy an extra, very expensive gadget?
Because chaos :)
Phones in your room are a bad idea since you'd be tempted and able to easily use it, hurting your sleep overall, which is why dedicated alarm clocks are still valuable today; this is incredibly common sleep advice. $100 is probably slightly overpriced, true, but I don't think this is for everyone. I could see this being for:
-kids whose parents don't want them having phones nearby
-people who don't want to go through with that hassle of placing said music on their alarm (as someone who has done something similar in the past with ringtones, it was easy but still too much hassle for plenty of people)
-people who like the sleep tracking feature
-people who like more friction to their alarm clocks (having to actually get out of bed to turn it off instead of hitting buttons and forgetting)
Essentially, I don't think they're really trying to replace anyone's existing similar setup, but maybe offer an alternative like for the above options as something for a small segment of their audience. Labo sold 1 million units and won some awards, Wii Fit did well, Ring Fit Adventure did well, Game Builder Garage is solid, Lego sets and new movies and park expansions and the museum are on the way - plenty of examples of stuff that's accessible to, but not necessarily for everyone.
Scrolling the comments trying to see if anyone is saying that you look like jack black as much as my brain thinks you do
This is so much fun
Nintendo Switch 2 will be the PS5 pro reskinned prove me wrong
Really enjoy these video essays! Can't wait for your next one!
thanks! working on a few simultaneously 🫡
underrated channel
it cost 170.63$ here in sweden! (1 699 kr) OMG......
I usually wake up at 7:30 too 😂 weird
Of course I don't disagree that Nintendo is an entropy machine fueled by wild chaotic energy, BUT, as someone who's been following them since the SNES era in real time, they do seem to switch between two distinct modes, which I very creatively call "winning" and "losing" modes. These are somewhat predictable… if not on the WHAT they produce, at least on HOW good that "produce" is.
Nintendo's biggest "winning mode" eras were during the SNES, the DS, the Wii, and now with the Switch. What has been produced in each of these eras? The SNES era gave us the N64 and the GameCube. The DS era gave us the 3DS. The Wii era gave us the WiiU. There's a pattern: when Nintendo is on "winning mode", they get coward, stop going hard on innovation, and instead make products that always follow a formula of making a new version of what's successful now, with a small twist. The N64 is "SNES, but 3D". The 3DS is "NDS, but 3D". The WiiU is a "Wii, but ~confusing~ with a tablet".
This is why I can't manage to get myself super hyped on whatever the successor to the Switch turns out to be. Because I "know" it will be "Switch, but [small difference]".
Nintendo's best stuff is NEVER "old thing, but [small difference]". Because Nintendo's best stuff ALWAYS comes from Nintendo on "losing mode".
Nintendo's biggest "losing mode" eras were during the GameCube, the Wii U, and the early 3DS time. And what has been produced in each of these eras, might I ask? The best things Nintendo has ever put out, that's what! The three best AND most successful Nintendo machines of all time in the post-Playstation world were the Nintendo DS, the Wii, and the Switch. They were ALL greenlighted in times when Nintendo was in deep "losing mode". The Nintendo DS and the Wii were both products of the GameCube era, when Nintendo became the industry's underdog for the very first time. And the Switch is clearly addressing both the Nintendo 3DS shortcomings and, of course, the spectacular failure that was the WiiU.
So, yeah, I don't know. I love Nintendo and I don't want to be right on this. I sincerely wish they break this pattern - because, if they don't, the writing is on the wall. Nintendo has inarguably been in the longest and strongest "winning mode" era they've ever been ever since the PlayStation was released. This doesn't bode well for their next machine in terms of it not being disappointing.
honestly, them in losing mode, being more conservative, is likely good for the survival of fan projects. or not. idk honestly they did that dumb shit during the wii u generation where they were not allowing any kind of videos that werent vetted by them
I honestly don’t get the controversy, if it is actually going to be sold forever then I find it a good product
hey, really cool and chill video, first time watching you and i think i'm not the only one, sometimes you need to buy a 100$ alarm clock to make a really cool video
For every good thing Nintendo does... Oh wait, they haven't done anything good since 2017. Now they are just terrible people who sell overpriced clocks and threaten people with lawsuits and shut down their emulator project even when they have no legal standing to do so, but have so much money the developer couldn't possibly afford to defend themselves in a lawsuit so can get away with it.
Alarmo would go hard with warioware ngl
It already has bugs out the box 😂
yoo i see that tatsu vinyl back there, boutta subscribe just for that
Can't wait for people to hack this to play doom.
What was the biggest chaotic-Nintendo decision going from the wii U to the switch?
Going from the gamecube to the wii,
@@L0rdOfThePies?
No Xenoblade theme 😔
Ok chaos object speculation. The next console will not be a mainline console ie switch 2 that won’t come out until end of 2025 or early 2026. The next console will have all pre Wii Nintendo games on it that makes you play so much time of a game in a console generation before unlocking the next generation. So you have to say beat level 1-1 of Mario on the nes before unlocking snes games.
i like it here. subbed !
$100 😂