Following the recent release of AAA Clock on Nintendo Switch, Limited Run Games has revealed that it almost made a special physical release for "Clock".
That's right, AAA Clock almost wasn't the only "completely pointless Nintendo Switch clock app" on the market. Following the app going viral, Josh Fairhurst, the owner of Limited Run Games, took to Twitter to share his team's vision of a physical release worthy of a clock app.
As reported by Nintendo Life, Josh said, "So, with "AAA Clock" up on the eShop, I feel like I'm at the point where I have to announce the thing we had to cancel before LRG3. In May, we fully developed "Clock" for the Switch - the absolute most pointless thing we could think of. We had it 100% ready for a physical release".
Josh then shared a trailer for the proposed Clock project, which has a deep serious voice talking about how inescapable time is and wondering how we can measure it. The trailer has some serious spoofing vibes and is intercut with random shots of cities, children playing, old people on a bench and, inevitably, death. It's a pretty dark trailer for a clock app, but we're into it.
After this, Josh then further detailed the lifecycle of Clock, saying, "Clock had been approved, it had an ESRB rating, and I even wasted a day making the trailer above. Unfortunately, a few days before LRG3, I received a phone call and by the end, it was clear that we needed to shelve Clock. So, Clock is permanently shelved, but at least now you can buy someone else's completely pointless Nintendo Switch clock app."
Fairhurst then shared a look at what the Clock physical release would have looked like, and it is glorious. It came with art cards, a poster, a clock pin, a soundtrack sampler and, most importantly of all, a six-inch clock. They couldn't have done a physical release without an actual clock, let's be real.
Just in case you're thinking this is some late April Fools joke that someone set the timer on their clock wrong for, Josh said, "Just reiterating that this was set to be a real thing. Not just a fake visual gag. The ESRB rating we paid for back in May will probably pop up on the ESRB site pretty soon".