What's stopping a 3rd party to make all the Nintendo Labo toys out of durable material?

We have 3rd party making controllers and other extras, so what's stopping someone like Hori or Razer to just make all the toys from material that won't get destroyed by humididty?

I think it's a good thing if one day, all traces of Labo are gone from this Earth. Only those of us who lived through Labo will know it's glory.

1) Retaliation by Nintendo, including revocation of existing licenses and refusal of future ones

2) Litigation, which even if undertaken solely to discourage competition, it’s costs would likely offset any potential earnings

3) Purely speculating on my part but some of the designs could possibly be protected by patent but I’d have to dig through their portfolio to find out. If they are, they’d simply file for an injunction for infringment, which again devolves into litigation

I also imagine that third parties would look at the potential market size and - if they have to split the market share with Nintendo - the split isn’t worth waging a commercial war over

Labo meets its greatest adversary... a spilled glass of water.

So much Labo butthurt on this site, it is quite incredible.

Not gonna lie, that was funny.

Cost.

@recloud: In some countries, plastic is cheaper than paper.

@Ant_17: Development cost has always been a red light to the Publishers. I think Nintendo should have done this later down the road with Switch's lifetime and maybe more 3rd party would have gotten something out of Labo if they see something worth making out of.

The fact that all the labo toys are really stupid and your kids are only gonna play with them once.

No real toy company would ever churn out that low quality toys.

And the only reason Labo is selling is because it has Nintendo logo on it, and the sad Nintendo fanboys will buy anything as long as it has Nintendo logo on it.

We normal gamers are like 'WTF is wrong with you nintendo fanboys? Why do you buy overpriced cardboard? WTF is going on in your tiny Mario brain?'

@davillain-: Honestly, i would buy Labo for the fishing and bike mini game alone, but i don't have the time to sit and build the stuff for those mini games.

I got 10 year old Lego sets that i haven't even opened.

These are big ones. Nintendo is known to do these sorts of things. It makes sense; they are a company that solely does video games.

@BenjaminBanklin: A spilled glass of water can ruin any electric device also.

You can't repair Labo though.

Touché.

Honestly the best thing about Labo is that it's cardboard, it can be tossed into the recycling bin and essentially erased from the earth (or at least turned into some other recycled paper product, like toilet paper or paper towels).

If you make them more permanent plastic toys, even like Amiibos, those junk things will be in landfills 500 years from now.