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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Lee

The Nintendo Alarmo is so flipping annoying, and that’s kind of a good thing

I let it take over my morning routine to see if it could reliably drag me out of bed - (The Independent)

It feels like people have been waiting absolutely months for Nintendo to release new hardware. So when the gaming giant announced not a new console, but some weird, quirky new sound clock called the Nintendo Alarmo, it was as if the company was just trolling its legion of fans.

Sike. With gamers eagerly awaiting word from Nintendo amidst the buzz surrounding the heavily rumoured Switch 2 console, it’s almost hilarious that what we got instead was a motion-sensing alarm clock in an age when people don’t even buy alarm clocks anymore, relying on their smartphones or Alexa speakers. How very Nintendo.

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