Nintendo Labo review: Newest Switch accessory shows that the company might have cracked the future of fun

Nintendo has a history of making people ask why. Why make a console that can come apart and plug into a TV; why did it soldier on for so long with cartridges for games; why is Mario a plumber and wear a corresponding outfit despite not apparently having done it for decades; why the Wii U? It has never stopped, all the way up to its latest release: the Switch, which came at a risky time for the company but helped them pull off exactly what it needed. The company's newest product, Labo, is marketed as an accessory for that console but is actually a huge box full of pieces of perforated cardboard that can be popped out, folded and assembled into a variety of accessories: everything from a small remote control car that drives around using vibration to an entire robot suit that can be strapped on to operate a virtual version of the same robot in a game. It is perhaps the company's most why-inducing release yet. But the answer has, for the most part, always been the same. And it is the same this time, too.