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Nintendo is going low-tech for its newest line of video game accessories.
The Japanese company has unveiled a series of DIY cardboard toys for its wildly popular Switch gaming console.

Assembled from sheets of cardboard, the accessories are designed to interact with the Switch and its Joy-Con controllers in a variety of ways.

For example, one toy is a 13-key cardboard piano that the console and controllers slot into. After putting it together, users can press the cardboard keys, and musical notes come out of the console.
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Another kit builds an interactive robot suit with a visor, backpack and straps for the user's hands and feet. When a person wears it, a giant robot on the screen mimics her moves. Nintendo calls the line of cardboard products "Toy-Cons." They go on sale April 20.

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"It is an exciting evolution of the Nintendo Switch platform -- one designed to inspire curiosity, creativity and imagination in people of all ages," Nintendo America president Reggie Fils-Aime said in a statement Wednesday.

Serkan Toto, CEO of game industry consultancy Kantan Games, called the announcement "surprising and positive."

"It shows that Nintendo is, at its core, a toy maker," Toto said.
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