Nintendo is following up Alarmo with a weird Talking Flower in March

After sharing a brief look astatine its caller Talking Flower toy during a Nintendo Direct showcase past September that generated much questions than answers, Nintendo has yet revealed much specifications astir what the interactive artifact really does. It shares immoderate functionality pinch Nintendo’s Alarmo siren clock, but the Talking Flower seems much for illustration a talkative companion for fans of Super Mario Wonder.

First and foremost, arsenic the sanction implies, the Talking Flower will conscionable randomly speak a mates of times each hr erstwhile near unsocial pinch phrases for illustration “sometimes it’s bully to abstraction out,” and “is it weird for flowers to talk?” A azygous fastener connected the artifact tin beryllium pressed to trigger random thoughts connected demand, aliases you tin property and clasp the fastener to soundlessness the Talking Flower for a while. There’s music, too, and astatine motorboat it will support 11 different languages including English, Italian, and Japanese.

You tin besides group the Talking Flower to speak astatine circumstantial times of day, specified arsenic greeting you successful the greeting aliases saying bully nighttime arsenic you caput to bed, and immoderate of its random phrases are only triggered astatine circumstantial times of the day. It’s sewage a built-in sensor truthful it tin remark connected the somesthesia successful the room, and alternatively of utilizing LEDs aliases a screen, the Talking Flower will conscionable show you erstwhile its batteries are moving low. The artifact will beryllium available for preorder today done the My Nintendo Store and different retailers, and is expected to merchandise connected March 12th, 2026.

Surprisingly, this wasn’t the only flower-related news from Nintendo today. The institution besides released an overview trailer for the upcoming Switch 2 update for Mario Wonder, and it includes a caller power-up called the “bellabel flower.” That update is retired connected March 26th.