Nintendo just revealed the real reason to buy its new game console
Pretend all you like: You've almost certainly used your phone will sitting on a toilet. Let's just be honest, folks.
And if we're being completely honest, let's take that logic a step further: You've probably spent some of that toilet-based phone time playing games. Maybe it was "Angry Birds" a few years back? Or "Flappy Bird"? Or perhaps "Super Mario Run"?
Starting in March, Nintendo's new console will enable you to play a full-on "Mario Kart" game while sitting on the porcelain throne:
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That's "Mario Kart 8 Deluxe," an updated version of the Wii U game. More importantly: Yes, that's a real Nintendo Switch advertisement prominently featuring a man playing a game while defecating.
Here's the actual ad:
The commercial comes from Nintendo's European arm (hence the bidet), which is headquartered in Germany. And this isn't some aside in a bigger commercial for the Switch, which launches on March 3 for $299 - this is the very first thing shown in a new commercial for the forthcoming console.
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Talk about brutal honesty.
The gimmick with the Switch, if you hadn't already guessed, is that it can be taken on-the-go (wherever that may be, including the bathroom). That doesn't mean it's a dedicated portable game console - it's a home console that can be turned into a handheld.
Put more simply, the Nintendo Switch is a tablet game console that can be played on a television at home or as a portable game system.
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And while much of Nintendo's advertising for the console thus far has people using it, say, while sitting in airplanes, the latest ad from Nintendo's German arm is a bit more realistic with how people will play the Switch in portable form: while sitting on the toilet.
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What a time to be alive.
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