WEBVTT 1 00:00:23.879 --> 00:00:27.559 Hey, everybody, welcome to game Breaking News with me Jeff Grubb, 2 00:00:27.640 --> 00:00:29.640 your host from giant bomb dot com. 3 00:00:29.640 --> 00:00:31.160 Thank you for tuning in. Tuning in. 4 00:00:31.160 --> 00:00:33.840 In this episode, we're gonna be talking about Nintendo raising prices, 5 00:00:34.039 --> 00:00:37.119 but not for switch to hardware as pre order information 6 00:00:37.280 --> 00:00:38.119 re emerges. 7 00:00:38.560 --> 00:00:40.359 It's gonna be a good one because we have two more. 8 00:00:40.399 --> 00:00:42.320 Who's saying on the show, Tam, how are you doing? 9 00:00:43.320 --> 00:00:47.119 I'm okay, you know, I'm alive. I'm living, I am 10 00:00:47.200 --> 00:00:51.600 make it. It's Friday. It's Friday. I've I was mentioning 11 00:00:51.600 --> 00:00:56.560 to you how my Amazon delivery package driver thingy man, 12 00:00:57.119 --> 00:00:59.759 whoever it is, she is straight up lying to me 13 00:00:59.799 --> 00:01:02.200 and in app you know, caught in four K on 14 00:01:02.240 --> 00:01:05.000 my iPhone, She's being like, oh I left, there's my door, 15 00:01:05.079 --> 00:01:07.480 And I'm like, now, you fucking yeah. 16 00:01:07.719 --> 00:01:12.719 It's it's typically before brother, like they say they delivered 17 00:01:12.719 --> 00:01:14.560 it and then it will still then show up a 18 00:01:14.560 --> 00:01:15.400 couple days later. 19 00:01:15.640 --> 00:01:17.000 What is I wonder what happens there? 20 00:01:17.079 --> 00:01:22.079 Like I'm doing to counteract that, I've started immediately requesting 21 00:01:22.120 --> 00:01:22.799 a replacement. 22 00:01:23.280 --> 00:01:25.519 Yeah, that's a good call, as soon as if. 23 00:01:25.359 --> 00:01:27.280 It's not there the time they say it and I 24 00:01:27.319 --> 00:01:28.760 don't care about that. It will show up in a 25 00:01:28.799 --> 00:01:30.159 couple of days. I'm like, no, I need this, NOUG 26 00:01:30.319 --> 00:01:32.760 send me a replacement. Then I have two of the item. 27 00:01:33.280 --> 00:01:33.760 There you go. 28 00:01:34.159 --> 00:01:37.359 I am actively defrauding Jeff Bezos, which makes me a 29 00:01:37.359 --> 00:01:38.319 good person, I think. 30 00:01:38.640 --> 00:01:41.319 Yeah, I mean, you know he's defrauded, defrauding you, right. 31 00:01:41.400 --> 00:01:43.040 They just said it was delivering and it hasn't been. 32 00:01:43.519 --> 00:01:45.560 He can't get his package to me, but he can 33 00:01:45.599 --> 00:01:48.079 send a bunch of annoying ladies into space. 34 00:01:47.920 --> 00:01:48.799 And he can do that. 35 00:01:48.920 --> 00:01:51.359 You're doing, Why does care your parent need to be 36 00:01:51.439 --> 00:01:52.319 up there, Tam. 37 00:01:52.400 --> 00:01:54.359 I'm refusing to keep up with this. I'm sorry, I 38 00:01:54.359 --> 00:01:57.159 don't show up there. I don't know. I I it 39 00:01:57.239 --> 00:01:59.480 seems to be like a publicity stunt. And that's as 40 00:01:59.560 --> 00:02:00.799 much as I know about it. And I'm like, I 41 00:02:00.799 --> 00:02:03.159 don't are you getting out of Katy Perry? 42 00:02:03.560 --> 00:02:04.120 I don't know. 43 00:02:04.519 --> 00:02:07.760 Yeah, I want to have an opinion on this one. 44 00:02:07.799 --> 00:02:09.879 I want to just go away. 45 00:02:10.520 --> 00:02:14.800 She's been washed, dried, and re washed. Yeah, that is crazy. 46 00:02:16.240 --> 00:02:18.520 You know what of all the times I wouldn't have 47 00:02:18.599 --> 00:02:21.919 minded it if like some sort of horrible alien space 48 00:02:22.479 --> 00:02:25.680 kind of like situation unfolded, that's the movie we should 49 00:02:25.680 --> 00:02:28.000 write and make jan this is how we get our 50 00:02:28.879 --> 00:02:29.840 Was it an Emmy or an Oscar? 51 00:02:29.879 --> 00:02:30.240 You wanted? 52 00:02:30.599 --> 00:02:34.840 We want the gat you I'm going for an Oscar. Okay, 53 00:02:35.719 --> 00:02:40.240 it's time for annoying celebrities go to space and then 54 00:02:40.360 --> 00:02:45.080 alien happens. Isn't that just fantastic for no, because the 55 00:02:45.199 --> 00:02:47.360 fantastic for America's first family. 56 00:02:47.560 --> 00:02:49.240 They okay, they're not annoying. 57 00:02:49.719 --> 00:02:54.879 Yeah, okay, it has to be like Katy Perry and 58 00:02:55.280 --> 00:02:58.840 a bunch of equivalents, you know, not actually Kate Perry. 59 00:02:58.840 --> 00:03:01.879 You know someone who's like Kate Katy Perry, and you 60 00:03:01.919 --> 00:03:07.240 know who's who else is annoying. I can't think of 61 00:03:07.240 --> 00:03:10.479 any annoying The only annoying person that is only one 62 00:03:10.520 --> 00:03:15.520 annoying celebrity. It's Katy Perry. Ship Katy Perry. Riff Raff 63 00:03:15.639 --> 00:03:16.680 can go up there as well. 64 00:03:16.759 --> 00:03:18.120 Okay, sure, yeah. 65 00:03:18.400 --> 00:03:24.479 Hulk Hogan, you'll constantly be like coming in like tearing 66 00:03:24.479 --> 00:03:26.759 his shirt off, and same brother, and he'll be the 67 00:03:26.800 --> 00:03:30.120 first to die whatever the xenimal is in our thing. 68 00:03:30.479 --> 00:03:33.240 I think what would happen is he would be these 69 00:03:33.280 --> 00:03:36.919 animal equivalent would kill him and then in the next 70 00:03:36.919 --> 00:03:40.479 scene reappair wearing his bandanna, and then for the rest 71 00:03:40.479 --> 00:03:42.919 of the movie he's wearing that bandanna and it's just like, 72 00:03:42.960 --> 00:03:44.360 oh damn, they killed. 73 00:03:44.800 --> 00:03:49.919 Killed thenomorpho Mania, it's gonna run wild on you, brother, Yeah, okay, and. 74 00:03:49.879 --> 00:03:51.960 This animal will specifically be like your a racist. IM 75 00:03:52.039 --> 00:03:53.520 killing you for that reason only. 76 00:03:54.360 --> 00:03:56.479 Like it just says that in perfect like English to 77 00:03:56.599 --> 00:04:02.240 everyone understands you are a racist, that I'm killing you. 78 00:04:02.159 --> 00:04:04.599 You are a racist, that I am gonna eat your 79 00:04:04.639 --> 00:04:07.919 ass if I make it play the spaghetti I'm coming 80 00:04:07.919 --> 00:04:11.240 for your family. Yeah, all right, well I want to 81 00:04:11.280 --> 00:04:14.400 watch this. Sounds delightful. It's what we need right now. 82 00:04:14.800 --> 00:04:15.039 Uh. 83 00:04:15.719 --> 00:04:20.360 Also, speaking of racist wrestlers, every wrestler is just saying 84 00:04:20.560 --> 00:04:23.439 dumb stuff, and more so than usual, they're having a week. 85 00:04:23.959 --> 00:04:25.639 John Cena is like, I don't you know, I get 86 00:04:25.680 --> 00:04:29.160 the allegations, but I love I love Vince McMahon. 87 00:04:29.160 --> 00:04:30.959 It's like, you know, one, you don't have to say that, 88 00:04:31.480 --> 00:04:32.000 just lie. 89 00:04:32.240 --> 00:04:36.240 Listen, right, Who amongst us genuinely believed that John Cena 90 00:04:36.319 --> 00:04:37.120 is a good dude? 91 00:04:37.720 --> 00:04:40.560 No, yeah, I mean listen, I know what it takes 92 00:04:40.600 --> 00:04:43.519 to be like in that role at w w E, 93 00:04:43.639 --> 00:04:48.360 especially at that time. And yes, uh, I believe he's 94 00:04:48.360 --> 00:04:50.839 a little bit of a psychopath, like a low key one. 95 00:04:51.079 --> 00:04:54.000 He's a likable dude, which is the difference between him 96 00:04:54.000 --> 00:04:58.319 and like a hog Hogan. He's he's more charismatic. There's 97 00:04:58.399 --> 00:05:02.120 no way that goes a person who goes that America 98 00:05:02.800 --> 00:05:07.680 during his act is like a normal human being. Isn't 99 00:05:07.680 --> 00:05:10.279 he the one who like appeared and was like, ladies 100 00:05:10.319 --> 00:05:15.759 and gentlemen, we have permanently, we have compromised somebody discontinued 101 00:05:15.879 --> 00:05:16.800 Osama bin Laden. 102 00:05:16.959 --> 00:05:18.800 Someone has been compromised to a permanent And. 103 00:05:19.639 --> 00:05:22.040 The look at his eyes when he says that that's 104 00:05:22.120 --> 00:05:23.439 not a normal human being. 105 00:05:23.519 --> 00:05:26.800 Okay, no, no, okay, that's not a whole movie. I 106 00:05:26.839 --> 00:05:30.040 would have preferred if he did that message delivery instead 107 00:05:30.040 --> 00:05:32.800 of doing his like I'm an American Patriot mode, if 108 00:05:32.839 --> 00:05:34.959 he was in his Yukon see me, I'm a white 109 00:05:35.000 --> 00:05:37.839 wrapper mode. Yeah, that would have been way funnier. That 110 00:05:37.839 --> 00:05:39.279 would have been so much better. 111 00:05:40.040 --> 00:05:43.360 Yeah, professor of a Seal Team six anomics, I think 112 00:05:43.480 --> 00:05:46.079 is what his character was at the time. All right, 113 00:05:46.120 --> 00:05:48.720 let's explain ourselves most weekdays, IGFR, I will help peace 114 00:05:48.720 --> 00:05:51.199 your gaming life back together. That includes breaking news and 115 00:05:51.240 --> 00:05:54.480 maybe even some of our own original reporting. For all 116 00:05:54.480 --> 00:05:56.519 these topics, I'll get the input of a bona fide 117 00:05:56.519 --> 00:05:58.319 expert who will make me look smart. If you were 118 00:05:58.360 --> 00:06:01.600 watching live on twitch, welcome. You can always listen to 119 00:06:01.680 --> 00:06:03.920 the show later on podcast feeds by searching for game 120 00:06:03.920 --> 00:06:07.720 breaking news, or find the RSS on giant bomb dot com. 121 00:06:07.800 --> 00:06:12.439 You can also catch the show later on YouTube. Hello YouTube. 122 00:06:12.519 --> 00:06:13.920 All right, we have a lot to get into, so 123 00:06:14.000 --> 00:06:18.759 let's start the show with Nintendo maintains Nintendo switch To 124 00:06:18.920 --> 00:06:22.279 pricing retail preorders to begin on April twenty fourth in 125 00:06:22.319 --> 00:06:26.079 the United States. This does come directly from Nintendo retail 126 00:06:26.120 --> 00:06:29.079 preorder I know, right, I mean, but that's that's where 127 00:06:29.120 --> 00:06:31.639 they have us, right. They're like, yeah, they're giving us 128 00:06:31.639 --> 00:06:34.800 the price that we were already complaining about. It's not 129 00:06:34.839 --> 00:06:36.879 going up, and we're excited as well. 130 00:06:36.959 --> 00:06:40.319 Yeah yeah, And everyone thinks to heroes because they didn't change. 131 00:06:40.120 --> 00:06:42.920 The price exactly, you nailed it. Retail pre orders for 132 00:06:43.000 --> 00:06:45.600 Nintendo switch To will begin on April twenty fourth, twenty 133 00:06:45.639 --> 00:06:46.199 twenty five. 134 00:06:46.600 --> 00:06:47.120 At launch. 135 00:06:47.160 --> 00:06:49.600 The price for Nintendo switch To in the United States 136 00:06:49.600 --> 00:06:53.399 will remain and as announced on April second, at four 137 00:06:53.399 --> 00:06:55.399 to four as it was announced on April second, excuse 138 00:06:55.439 --> 00:06:58.519 me at four hundred and fifty dollars, and the Nintendo 139 00:06:58.560 --> 00:07:01.279 Switch To Plus Mario Kart World Bundle will remain as 140 00:07:01.360 --> 00:07:04.839 announced at five hundred dollars. Pricing for both physical and 141 00:07:04.879 --> 00:07:08.000 digital versions of Mario Kart World and Donkey Kong Bonanza 142 00:07:08.279 --> 00:07:11.240 will remain unchanged as well. They are eighty dollars and 143 00:07:11.279 --> 00:07:15.839 seventy dollars respectively. However, Nintendo Switch To accessories will experience 144 00:07:15.879 --> 00:07:19.160 price adjustments from those announced on April second due to 145 00:07:19.240 --> 00:07:22.480 changes in market conditions. Other adjustments to the price of 146 00:07:22.560 --> 00:07:26.160 any Nintendo products are also possible in the future, depending 147 00:07:26.199 --> 00:07:27.199 on market conditions. 148 00:07:27.240 --> 00:07:28.839 So Tam, you know we'll get into. 149 00:07:28.720 --> 00:07:31.600 The prices, have the right to rob you at any moment, right, 150 00:07:31.720 --> 00:07:34.720 Except that's true, right first of all, like they are 151 00:07:34.759 --> 00:07:36.160 going to be able to get away with this price, 152 00:07:36.199 --> 00:07:38.120 I think to themselves by saying, well, we've got a 153 00:07:38.120 --> 00:07:40.519 ton of switches already in the country, will sell those 154 00:07:40.560 --> 00:07:42.439 and if things go sideways, we could always raise the 155 00:07:42.480 --> 00:07:45.879 price later on the new imports. But you know, I 156 00:07:45.920 --> 00:07:50.079 think by raising the prices on the accessories, that's their 157 00:07:50.120 --> 00:07:52.959 way of being like let's put a nerd tax on this, 158 00:07:53.399 --> 00:07:55.519 the one the people who are most likely to spend 159 00:07:55.560 --> 00:07:57.560 the most amount of money on our stuff, like the 160 00:07:57.600 --> 00:07:59.920 ones that are the most down bad, the ones that 161 00:08:00.079 --> 00:08:01.920 like are just gonna buy the stuff no matter what 162 00:08:01.959 --> 00:08:04.040 we price it at. They're the ones that will be 163 00:08:04.319 --> 00:08:07.000 disproportionately hit by the accessory pricing because they're the ones 164 00:08:07.040 --> 00:08:09.720 most likely to buy five accessories with their switch to 165 00:08:09.759 --> 00:08:12.360 because they're so excited, and so we'll have them sort 166 00:08:12.399 --> 00:08:15.959 of supplement the cost of everything else going up in 167 00:08:16.040 --> 00:08:18.639 terms of our costs. I think that's the move here. 168 00:08:19.480 --> 00:08:21.839 You know, it's not the worst case scenario, but it 169 00:08:21.920 --> 00:08:22.519 still stinks. 170 00:08:23.240 --> 00:08:26.000 Yeah, you're either you're taxing the nerds who are gonna 171 00:08:26.360 --> 00:08:28.279 people like us who are gonna buy that stuff anyway. 172 00:08:28.319 --> 00:08:31.959 That's right, Listen, I am, I am A I think 173 00:08:31.959 --> 00:08:35.759 I'm reasonably intelligent, right, I think I can make you 174 00:08:35.799 --> 00:08:39.320 think you're very decently good decisions. I'm gonna buy that 175 00:08:39.480 --> 00:08:42.320 busted ass camera the moment I get an opportunity, I 176 00:08:42.399 --> 00:08:45.120 know that thing is gonna be for AEP and just 177 00:08:45.200 --> 00:08:49.000 be the dog shit. It's on like a giant telescopic stand. 178 00:08:49.039 --> 00:08:54.240 It looks awful I'm having that. I need that. I 179 00:08:54.320 --> 00:08:56.480 need that thing, and you know, when you plug in 180 00:08:56.480 --> 00:08:58.559 a normal camera into that switch, is gonna be like, oh, 181 00:08:58.600 --> 00:09:01.600 I don't know what this is. This isn't a normal camera. 182 00:09:01.679 --> 00:09:05.559 We need our special camera, which is annoying as hell 183 00:09:05.600 --> 00:09:07.480 because I've got like one hundred USB. 184 00:09:07.559 --> 00:09:11.080 Well I think those USB cameras might work. That's the thing. Really, Yeah, 185 00:09:11.200 --> 00:09:12.879 it's okay. 186 00:09:12.960 --> 00:09:15.600 Now now I feel even more stupid when I buy 187 00:09:15.600 --> 00:09:16.440 that thing and I'm like. 188 00:09:18.080 --> 00:09:20.000 That's right, you know, I know that too, and I'm like, 189 00:09:20.000 --> 00:09:21.720 I'm still probably gonna get that camera. 190 00:09:21.799 --> 00:09:22.279 What the hell? 191 00:09:22.440 --> 00:09:24.399 Yeah? Yeah exactly. So those are the people are going 192 00:09:24.480 --> 00:09:26.360 to get punished, and the other people are going to 193 00:09:26.399 --> 00:09:29.799 get punished are the people who are like parents or 194 00:09:29.919 --> 00:09:33.799 like buying this switch thing because they watched the Ordly 195 00:09:33.919 --> 00:09:35.600 Market and are like, oh, I can get my I 196 00:09:35.639 --> 00:09:40.559 can play this with my family members or friends. Right, Oh, 197 00:09:40.559 --> 00:09:42.120 these control is two hundred dollars. 198 00:09:42.159 --> 00:09:44.360 What well, let's let's get into that. 199 00:09:44.519 --> 00:09:47.960 So the switch to four fifty, the bundle with Mario 200 00:09:48.039 --> 00:09:51.320 Kart World five hundred, Mario Kart World eight or yeah, 201 00:09:51.320 --> 00:09:54.360 eighty dollars, Donkey Kung Bonanza seventy dollars. All those are 202 00:09:54.399 --> 00:09:57.120 the prices that were announced on April. Second, let's get 203 00:09:57.159 --> 00:09:59.000 into all the things that have now gone up in price. 204 00:10:00.679 --> 00:10:04.919 Nintendo switch to Pro controller eighty five dollars, JOYCN two 205 00:10:06.559 --> 00:10:08.399 like you know, the Joycon two pair is what they 206 00:10:08.399 --> 00:10:10.559 call it here, but it's just basically a new set 207 00:10:10.600 --> 00:10:16.080 of Joycon ninety five dollars, the charging grip forty dollars, 208 00:10:16.120 --> 00:10:21.039 the strap fourteen dollars, JOYCN two wheel set like the 209 00:10:21.080 --> 00:10:22.399 thing that I think you put the controller in for 210 00:10:22.480 --> 00:10:25.320 Mario Kart twenty five dollars. The switch to camera is 211 00:10:25.360 --> 00:10:28.960 fifty five dollars. Now, the dock set so I guess 212 00:10:28.960 --> 00:10:31.600 this is a separate doc one hundred and twenty dollars. 213 00:10:31.840 --> 00:10:35.799 Nintendo switch to carrying case and screen protector forty dollars, 214 00:10:35.840 --> 00:10:39.559 the all in one carrying case eighty five dollars. The 215 00:10:39.600 --> 00:10:42.360 switch to AC adapter is now thirty five dollars. That 216 00:10:42.519 --> 00:10:46.000 is actually not the worst price. I thought that, honestly, 217 00:10:46.080 --> 00:10:47.840 I feel like they would have charged more for that. 218 00:10:48.440 --> 00:10:50.879 And then the Samsung Micro US the express card two 219 00:10:51.000 --> 00:10:53.679 hundred and fifty six gigabytes for Nintendo switch to is 220 00:10:53.759 --> 00:10:58.399 sixty dollars TAM's holding up a yes, the eight bit 221 00:10:58.440 --> 00:11:02.159 dough all, it's just the year two fifty dollars. 222 00:11:02.600 --> 00:11:05.159 Yep, this is the brand new one. I mean it's 223 00:11:05.159 --> 00:11:09.559 a work I imagine on your whatever, your switches, your new switches. 224 00:11:09.879 --> 00:11:13.480 I surely unless they actively block Bluetooth devices from working, 225 00:11:13.879 --> 00:11:19.799 that work one. Just make sure if normal controllers work 226 00:11:19.840 --> 00:11:22.879 on it. Just buy something else, man like and then 227 00:11:22.919 --> 00:11:26.639 also don't buy that stupid shit like the wheel. I 228 00:11:26.679 --> 00:11:29.720 have like nightmares about that plastic wheel from the Wei 229 00:11:29.879 --> 00:11:33.120 era that people bought for Mario car It is the 230 00:11:33.240 --> 00:11:35.440 dumbest thing I have. I looked at it and I 231 00:11:35.480 --> 00:11:37.480 was like, I cannot believe people are buying this for 232 00:11:37.600 --> 00:11:40.279 like it was like thirty dollars or something like that. 233 00:11:40.360 --> 00:11:43.320 It was unreal. I was like, this is just a awful, 234 00:11:43.559 --> 00:11:47.399 gross plastic. It's pure white. The moment your hands touch it, 235 00:11:47.720 --> 00:11:51.039 every bit of grime you're bustard ass has been collecting 236 00:11:51.039 --> 00:11:53.519 on your hand is going to be visible. Like, just 237 00:11:53.559 --> 00:11:57.000 don't do it, man, just you don't need most of 238 00:11:57.039 --> 00:12:02.799 this stuff. Like, let's obviously I'm a Nintendo enjoyer. I'll 239 00:12:02.799 --> 00:12:06.519 never be pro corporation. But like sometimes you go to 240 00:12:06.600 --> 00:12:09.440 vote with your money, man, and it might be time 241 00:12:09.519 --> 00:12:12.039 like this is there's more egregious things that could you 242 00:12:12.039 --> 00:12:13.720 could be worrying about in terms of money. But like 243 00:12:14.159 --> 00:12:15.960 I'm of the opinion I was one of those people 244 00:12:15.960 --> 00:12:18.200 who when work in retail, people be like I want 245 00:12:18.240 --> 00:12:22.120 the plastic wheel thing, and I'd be like, no, you don't, man, 246 00:12:22.240 --> 00:12:24.600 No you don't. Like, well, why I want? My kid? 247 00:12:24.679 --> 00:12:26.519 I was like, you could buy this for thirty dollars, 248 00:12:26.559 --> 00:12:29.679 or you could buy another game about that, and the 249 00:12:29.759 --> 00:12:31.559 kid will be like, I want the extra game, and 250 00:12:31.600 --> 00:12:33.679 I'd be like, this is why you're a kid, You're dumb. 251 00:12:33.759 --> 00:12:36.759 Get out, yeah, and why I'm this is why I'm 252 00:12:36.759 --> 00:12:38.159 earning minimum wage and you're. 253 00:12:38.039 --> 00:12:40.600 A child exactly. That's exactly right. 254 00:12:40.679 --> 00:12:44.879 Yeah, I I am with you where it's like I 255 00:12:44.960 --> 00:12:47.559 probably will just not get one of the successories that 256 00:12:47.600 --> 00:12:50.200 I might have otherwise. You know, the prices have gone 257 00:12:50.279 --> 00:12:53.519 up here. It's not like they're going up commiserates the 258 00:12:53.639 --> 00:12:57.240 right word. With the tariffs, they're going up like five 259 00:12:57.320 --> 00:13:01.600 dollars each. The switched Juo pro controller was eighty bucks. 260 00:13:01.639 --> 00:13:04.919 Now it's it's eighty five. The joy Con two set 261 00:13:05.480 --> 00:13:08.639 they were ninety dollars now it's ninety five, so it's 262 00:13:08.720 --> 00:13:10.919 you know, not some steep. 263 00:13:10.960 --> 00:13:13.480 Increase, but any increase is going to hurt. 264 00:13:13.519 --> 00:13:15.639 And this is this is curly Nintendo just being like, 265 00:13:15.799 --> 00:13:17.879 let's get a little extra on top. We feel like 266 00:13:17.919 --> 00:13:19.759 the accessories will be easier to get away with. The 267 00:13:19.759 --> 00:13:21.919 headline will be the switch to is the same price, 268 00:13:22.840 --> 00:13:24.759 and we can and we need to get away with 269 00:13:24.840 --> 00:13:28.759 something here, And so that's that's the move. I you know, 270 00:13:29.000 --> 00:13:30.879 are you surprised that they didn't raise the price of 271 00:13:30.919 --> 00:13:32.519 the switch to, Like I know that was kind of 272 00:13:32.559 --> 00:13:34.240 your your call. I think you were probably right on 273 00:13:34.279 --> 00:13:35.879 the money on that, but you're like, this is their 274 00:13:35.919 --> 00:13:37.840 moment where they probably could have got away with something 275 00:13:37.879 --> 00:13:38.320 and they didn't. 276 00:13:38.360 --> 00:13:41.679 Cake of, yeah, they could have. I think that raising 277 00:13:41.720 --> 00:13:45.519 the price right now would really hurt whatever momentum they've 278 00:13:45.519 --> 00:13:50.200 built into marketing the switch to currently, which as it 279 00:13:50.279 --> 00:13:53.000 goes into like the launch period and as we approach 280 00:13:53.120 --> 00:13:55.320 like the holiday period, where people are more inclined to 281 00:13:55.399 --> 00:13:58.639 spend money to buy these kind of devices and like 282 00:13:59.600 --> 00:14:02.039 even do it to the detriment of their own kind 283 00:14:02.080 --> 00:14:06.000 of like financial stability to a degree. Like this is 284 00:14:06.000 --> 00:14:08.440 around time like Christmas time, people are like, I have 285 00:14:08.519 --> 00:14:11.200 to do this. I you know, I know, I've got 286 00:14:11.559 --> 00:14:13.159 a bunch of bills to pay, but I got to 287 00:14:13.200 --> 00:14:14.919 do this. This is the thing. Like you don't want 288 00:14:14.960 --> 00:14:16.720 to risk any of that, and like jacking up the 289 00:14:16.720 --> 00:14:19.279 price could be the thing that pushes people off the 290 00:14:19.279 --> 00:14:21.519 fence and just be like, nah, I'm not doing that 291 00:14:21.639 --> 00:14:23.720 too much. I think it actually works out in their 292 00:14:23.759 --> 00:14:26.039 favor to do it on the peripherals, because I believe 293 00:14:26.080 --> 00:14:29.600 the kind of markup on that is already pretty high. 294 00:14:30.919 --> 00:14:34.919 They're making their money traditionally. That's how unless it's changed 295 00:14:34.960 --> 00:14:37.639 in recent times and I haven't noticed it, but like 296 00:14:38.120 --> 00:14:40.559 consoles are sold at a loss, where that. 297 00:14:40.639 --> 00:14:43.240 Is usually do that not the last few generations, but 298 00:14:43.240 --> 00:14:46.679 you're right, that's still that is how it works with others. 299 00:14:47.320 --> 00:14:50.399 But the kind of benefit of that where you make 300 00:14:50.480 --> 00:14:54.080 up or the kind of a symptom and the result 301 00:14:54.080 --> 00:14:55.960 of that where you make up extra money on games 302 00:14:55.960 --> 00:14:58.720 and peripherals, it applies to Nintendo in the same way. 303 00:14:58.720 --> 00:15:02.919 They're still making more money peripherals and games even if 304 00:15:02.919 --> 00:15:05.759 they're not selling the console at a loss, which means 305 00:15:05.799 --> 00:15:08.279 if they're able to crank up the price slightly on 306 00:15:08.360 --> 00:15:12.000 those same things. It means that they're making more money 307 00:15:12.039 --> 00:15:14.960 than they probably would have if they had jacked up 308 00:15:14.960 --> 00:15:17.720 the price of the console itself. So I think it's 309 00:15:17.759 --> 00:15:23.480 a very shrewd, very smart move on their part. I 310 00:15:23.480 --> 00:15:25.799 think I'm hoping that consumers are a little more savvy, 311 00:15:25.799 --> 00:15:26.960 but also like, I don't care if you want to 312 00:15:27.000 --> 00:15:29.200 spend your money, do what you want, Like I'm gonna 313 00:15:29.200 --> 00:15:31.720 buy I'm being hypocritical because I'm probably gonna end up 314 00:15:31.720 --> 00:15:33.879 buying a couple of these things, but just a matter 315 00:15:33.919 --> 00:15:36.879 of like, hey, if you have the disposable income and 316 00:15:36.919 --> 00:15:38.759 you're in a position to do it, and you need 317 00:15:38.840 --> 00:15:41.080 to do it for me, I'd be like, I kind 318 00:15:41.080 --> 00:15:42.360 of need to do it because I've got to like 319 00:15:42.440 --> 00:15:44.799 play these games and test them and that kind of stuff. 320 00:15:45.279 --> 00:15:49.120 But like, don't be I think there's enough alternatives out 321 00:15:49.159 --> 00:15:51.639 there now that you can find a cost effective way 322 00:15:51.919 --> 00:15:54.000 of getting what you want out of your switch, which 323 00:15:54.039 --> 00:15:55.720 primarily for most people are going to be like I 324 00:15:55.720 --> 00:15:57.279 want a few people to be able to play this. 325 00:15:57.720 --> 00:15:59.879 There's probably more cost effective ways for you to do 326 00:15:59.919 --> 00:16:02.320 that beyond the simple and easy thing, which is just 327 00:16:02.440 --> 00:16:04.879 order a bunch of Nintendo's peripherals, which is gonna cost 328 00:16:04.879 --> 00:16:06.360 you a lot more money. 329 00:16:06.440 --> 00:16:06.720 Yep. 330 00:16:06.960 --> 00:16:09.759 Yeah, and you're right, definitely right that like Nintendo, it 331 00:16:09.840 --> 00:16:13.000 makes a high margin on those successories. So that's one 332 00:16:13.039 --> 00:16:14.440 of the reasons they do it in the first place. 333 00:16:14.879 --> 00:16:17.360 And part of this raising the prices is like, you know, 334 00:16:17.480 --> 00:16:19.919 that business, we don't care about being in that business 335 00:16:20.000 --> 00:16:22.960 unless it's making us high margins. So returning and like 336 00:16:23.039 --> 00:16:24.799 kind of reclaiming those margins is a big part of 337 00:16:24.799 --> 00:16:27.600 that commensurate commensurate That's what I was trying to say. 338 00:16:27.720 --> 00:16:29.440 I knew, like I knew, commiserate wasn't right. I'm like, 339 00:16:29.440 --> 00:16:30.840 that didn't sound right, but. 340 00:16:30.840 --> 00:16:32.399 It was a right kind of also works as well 341 00:16:32.440 --> 00:16:36.080 because no one's yeah, yes, no one less improving. No 342 00:16:36.120 --> 00:16:38.039 one's getting more money for the work they do, you know, 343 00:16:38.120 --> 00:16:41.159 so I'm commiserate. All right. 344 00:16:41.600 --> 00:16:43.840 Let's see here, Jamie h just has a little no here. 345 00:16:43.879 --> 00:16:46.759 Estimates on the profit margins of the og JOYCN was 346 00:16:46.799 --> 00:16:49.080 around forty two percent. So it's definitely smart business to 347 00:16:49.120 --> 00:16:50.799 increase accessories over console. 348 00:16:50.879 --> 00:16:53.559 Yeah, that's what I said. Yep, they know what they're doing. 349 00:16:53.840 --> 00:16:57.120 You know what they're doing, all right. I have said 350 00:16:57.120 --> 00:16:59.960 that if they released some sort of Donkey Kongo peripher 351 00:17:00.039 --> 00:17:04.200 or if they release an arm cannon for Metroid, I'm 352 00:17:04.240 --> 00:17:05.680 buying that. I don't care how much it costs. 353 00:17:05.759 --> 00:17:09.519 Yeah, okay, I give it to I know, I'm like 354 00:17:09.599 --> 00:17:10.960 very excited about Metroid stuff. 355 00:17:10.960 --> 00:17:12.599 So anything they kind of give me Metroid right now, 356 00:17:12.640 --> 00:17:13.519 I'll be all over it. 357 00:17:13.799 --> 00:17:16.079 Yeah, I guess. You know the other side of this 358 00:17:16.200 --> 00:17:18.279 that we you know, we talked about the price. Pre 359 00:17:18.359 --> 00:17:21.640 orders do begin April twenty fourth in the United States. 360 00:17:21.880 --> 00:17:25.119 That's the you know next what we'll see here? Today's 361 00:17:25.240 --> 00:17:29.640 next Thursday. Yes, next Thursday. So now we have that day. 362 00:17:30.160 --> 00:17:32.680 Should we have a pre order stream party? I think 363 00:17:32.720 --> 00:17:35.279 so we all just get on stream and try and 364 00:17:35.319 --> 00:17:36.599 pre order the console together. 365 00:17:36.920 --> 00:17:39.039 Yes? Did they? Did they give us the time of day? Chat? 366 00:17:39.359 --> 00:17:39.880 Let us know. 367 00:17:40.640 --> 00:17:44.759 We did that during the PS five release where we 368 00:17:44.759 --> 00:17:46.960 were in a meeting. It was like me, Lucy and 369 00:17:47.000 --> 00:17:50.079 I can't remember who also, it was maybe Jordan, and 370 00:17:50.359 --> 00:17:54.039 we're like mid meeting, stopped to like just all coordinate 371 00:17:54.119 --> 00:17:56.880 on pre ordering the PS five. It was so funny 372 00:17:57.000 --> 00:17:59.400 and it kind of was like fun and I think, 373 00:17:59.440 --> 00:18:01.640 like that's the chance we have of get of dos 374 00:18:01.720 --> 00:18:02.480 and Mitch. 375 00:18:03.759 --> 00:18:06.960 You know you mean doxy Mitch again. He's already done 376 00:18:06.960 --> 00:18:08.119 that on Blake Club once. 377 00:18:08.240 --> 00:18:10.799 So there. Yeah, that's been scribbed. 378 00:18:10.799 --> 00:18:14.720 Everybody, don't go looking for it. Yeah, it's okay, Marino, 379 00:18:14.839 --> 00:18:16.720 thank you very much as saying it. He thinks it's 380 00:18:16.759 --> 00:18:19.279 up to the retailer. Like win on April twenty fourth, 381 00:18:19.359 --> 00:18:22.119 could be midnight, so we'll see. If it's a midnight 382 00:18:22.160 --> 00:18:23.559 maybe a stream will be difficult, but. 383 00:18:25.119 --> 00:18:27.720 The stream won't be difficult. It's your commitment, is the. 384 00:18:27.720 --> 00:18:28.680 Question, right? Yeah? 385 00:18:28.880 --> 00:18:31.920 Do I have the internal fortitude to stream myself at 386 00:18:31.920 --> 00:18:35.279 midnight trying to get it? And I do so, Yeah, 387 00:18:35.279 --> 00:18:37.799 I very much want to like get us together and 388 00:18:37.839 --> 00:18:40.680 it's like share tips and everybody like it's working over here. 389 00:18:40.759 --> 00:18:43.480 I got by you can go now. So that sounds 390 00:18:43.480 --> 00:18:44.880 funnyonic that happening? 391 00:18:45.799 --> 00:18:49.000 All right, let's see here. Mario Kart World switch to 392 00:18:49.079 --> 00:18:52.279 bundle will be discontinued this fall. This is from Steven 393 00:18:52.279 --> 00:18:56.720 Petite at game Spot during the During this week's Mario 394 00:18:56.759 --> 00:18:59.839 Kart World focused live stream, Nintendo reiterated and important fact 395 00:19:00.160 --> 00:19:03.359 switch to console bundle that comes with the game. It 396 00:19:03.359 --> 00:19:06.279 will only be available until fall twenty twenty five. Nintendo 397 00:19:06.279 --> 00:19:09.359 originally announce the bundle's limited availability during the switch to 398 00:19:09.480 --> 00:19:12.079 Direct earlier this month, but with pre order delays and 399 00:19:12.119 --> 00:19:15.640 controversy around the game's price, this key detail has flown 400 00:19:15.720 --> 00:19:18.000 a bit under the radar. But now during that direct 401 00:19:18.079 --> 00:19:21.599