Nintendo has a new piece of game hardware coming in 2024. It’s not the Switch 2, it’s the Nintendo Sound Clock: Alarmo, a new motion-sensing alarm

Nintendo announces new game hardware: an alarm clock!

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2024-10-09 18:00:15

Nintendo has a new piece of game hardware coming in 2024. It’s not the Switch 2, it’s the Nintendo Sound Clock: Alarmo, a new motion-sensing alarm clock that will rouse you from sleep with the sounds of video games like Super Mario Odyssey, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and more.

The $99.99 alarm clock includes 35 wake-up “scenes” from Nintendo Switch games. Users will “experience immersive sounds and music’” from those scenes, which are styled to match Nintendo’s franchises. Alarmo will also track users’ sleep and motion; Records will keep track of how much you move around, similar to the Pokémon Go Plus Plus sleep tracker that Nintendo released for Pokémon Go/Pokémon Sleep (and the long-promised, but seemingly abandoned QOL project).

Nintendo Sound Clock: Alarmo will feature various alarm settings, Nintendo said in a news release. The clock’s Steady Mode features an alarm that will gradually get more intense the longer you stay in bed. Gentle Mode offers “a more consistent intensity level.” And Button Mode is a classic snooze button mode, where you’ve gotta smack Alarmo to shut it up. Nintendo’s new interactive, motion-sensing alarm clock also features “sleepy sounds” — soothing music that will hopefully lull you to sleep at night.