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

First, as its name suggests, the Talking Flower speaks randomly several times an hour when left alone, with phrases like “sometimes it’s nice to space out” and “is it weird that flowers talk?” A single button on the toy can be pressed to trigger random thoughts on demand, or you can press and hold the button to silence the talking flower for a moment. There’s also music and when it launches on March 12, it will support 11 different languages, including English, Italian and Japanese.

You can also set the talking flower to speak at specific times of the day, such as to greet you in the morning or wish you goodnight when you go to bed, and some of its random phrases are only triggered at specific times of the day. It has a built-in sensor that allows it to feedback on the temperature in the room, and instead of using LEDs or a screen, the Talking Flower will simply tell you when its batteries are low.

Surprisingly, that wasn’t the only flower news from Nintendo today. The company also released a teaser trailer for the upcoming Switch 2 update for Mario Wonderand it includes a new power-up called “bellabel flower”. This update comes out on March 26.

January 22 update: Added price and links to store pages.