1-2-Switch
A Nintendo gamer, left, and a Vwermont dairy farmer go head to head milking a cow in “1-2-Switch.” (Nintendo of America Photo)

We could watch this until the cows come home!

A dairy farm in Vermont was so confident in the milking skills of its farmers, that it challenged Nintendo of America to a competition. But instead of real cows, gamers from Nintendo took on the farmers in “1-2-Switch” on the new game console.

“1-2-Switch” lets competitors face each other instead of the television in activities such as a Wild West shootout, a dance competition and cow milking. At Billings Farm & Museum in Woodstock, Vt., someone thought real farmers could get the best of real gamers.

With Joy-Con controllers in hand, the competitors mimicked the real action of milking a cow. HD Rumble in the controller makes the actions feel even more realistic, like the cows are reacting to having their udders yanked. With a Switch system and TV placed in the middle of a barn, milk flowed from the animated cows on the screen.

Real cows in the background didn’t seem particularly mooved. Check it out:

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