Nintendo has finally pulled back the curtain on its Talking Flower toy, and honestly, I’m not sure if this is genius or if someone at Nintendo lost a bet. After teasing the thing during a Nintendo Direct last September, we now know exactly what this interactive flower does. Spoiler alert: it talks. A lot. Randomly.
The Talking Flower will spontaneously speak a couple times every hour with existential musings like “is it weird for flowers to talk?” which is honestly the kind of self-awareness I didn’t expect from a plastic toy based on Super Mario Bros. Wonder. There’s a button you can press for on-demand thoughts, or hold down if you need the flower to shut up for a while. That last feature might be the most important one.
Temperature Sensors and Low Battery Warnings
Here’s where things get oddly specific. The toy has a built-in sensor that lets it comment on the room temperature. I’m trying to imagine waking up to a flower telling me it’s cold in here, and I can’t decide if that’s helpful or deeply unsettling. It can also greet you in the morning or say goodnight, because apparently Nintendo looked at Alarmo and thought “what if we made something even more talkative?”
Instead of using LEDs or a display, the Talking Flower just tells you verbally when its batteries are dying. This feels very on-brand for Nintendo’s approach to Technology, which often involves doing things in the most Nintendo way possible regardless of industry standards.
Multilingual Chatter and Launch Details
The toy supports 11 languages at launch including English, Italian, and Japanese. It also has time-specific phrases that only trigger at certain hours, which means this thing has an internal clock and a personality schedule. That’s either attention to detail or overengineering a talking plant toy, depending on your perspective.
Preorders open today through the My Nintendo Store and other retailers, with an official launch set for March 12th, 2026. The pricing wasn’t mentioned in the announcement, which usually means it’s going to be one of those “if you have to ask” situations.
More Flower Content Coming
Nintendo apparently decided one flower announcement wasn’t enough for today. They also dropped an overview trailer for the Switch 2 update to Mario Wonder, which includes a new power-up called the “bellabel flower.” That update hits on March 26th, giving fans even more botanical content to look forward to in the gaming world.
The Talking Flower sits in a weird space between collectible figure and actual functional device. It shares some DNA with Alarmo but seems more focused on being an ambient companion that occasionally makes you question your life choices. Whether that’s worth whatever Nintendo charges for it probably depends on how much you enjoyed those chatty flowers in Super Mario Bros. Wonder.
The real question is whether people actually want a device that randomly talks to them throughout the day, or if this is going to end up in a drawer after the novelty wears off in about three days.