Nintendo Raises The Price of The Switch - Kinda Funny Games Daily 08.01.25

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2:22What's up everybody? Welcome to Kinda Funny Games Daily for Friday, August 1st, 2025. I'm one of your hosts, Greg Miller, alongside Forbes 30 Under 30, a.k.a. New York Game Awards nominated, a.k.a. Perry Poppy. Blessing Eddie Oye Jr. You went with Perry Poppy today. I did. Is there a reason for that? We just did the whole thing where we were talking about games recently on one of the shows, and it came up again that you could be Perry Poppy, but you don't have to be Perry Poppy. Yeah. And so that's where I was just in my head. It is appropriate, though, because I just started playing Liza P. Overture a couple nights ago.

3:00I saw you streaming this, of course. Blessing Jr. This is the one that Andy Cortez has been really encouraging me to get to. Me and him both loved Liza P., right? Yeah. We touted it as one of those games where if we're like, yo, if you put FromSoftware on the logo of the box, people would just accept it as being a masterpiece, right? Sure, sure, sure. It's that good in our eyes. And Andy got to it first because it surprise launched during Summer Game Fest back in June. And that was the same week as Switch 2. It was the same week as Death Stranding 2 review code. There's a few things going on, yeah.

3:27So I was like, there's no way I'm going to get to this. But Andy keeps speaking the gospel to me of like, yo, you got to play it. You got to play it. And so finally got around to it. I've gotten past the first mini boss and the first boss, which is funny because the mini boss was way tougher than the actual boss. Okay. But I'm enjoying it so far. I love that. I'm having such a blast. And so between that and then also Evo this weekend, I am feeling in the Perry Poppy mood. I'm in the peri poppy energy right now. Yeah. For you, Evo, you're a big fighting game fan. Obviously you're a big fighting game competitor.

3:56Evo, what does that look like for you this weekend? Are you like not going out, not doing anything? You're just dialed in. You're watching this. I'll have it on in the background. It's like the tough thing of last year. I was so energized off of Evo to the point where I was like, I'm going to go to Evo every single year. And then this year, like barreling towards the summer, like shit just got busy as far as like traveling plans and different things. And even this weekend, And I originally had plans to fly to Seattle to hang out with family because they're all gathered there. And I fucked up the flight.

4:23And so that's not happening. But I also have a barbecue. What does it mean you fucked up? You booked for the wrong day? I booked for the wrong month. I meant to book. And I learned this at the top of this week. Oh, man. Okay. It was going to be like a thing where I finish work. Like I leave from here at like 5 and then go straight to the airport and then like be in Seattle up until like Sunday evening. and then fly back and be back for work on monday yeah and the at the top of this week i get a text from somebody that like i had sent my flight information to and they're like i don't want to burst your bubble i don't want to ruin your day however you booked for the last weekend of august instead of the last weekend of july and i was like fuck and i started looking at flights and i was like yeah there's no way i'm paying like 700 800 for a weekend trip to seattle yeah and so it's fine i canceled it i'm going to seattle in a month anyway i'm gonna be at pax west i'm gonna be hanging out for the week there um and so it's not like the biggest loss right but like i was looking forward to that but now instead i have friends that are doing like a um a barbecue on saturday like a potluck barbecue and so i'm gonna go to that and then between that bear's going to between that there's also summer slam oh yeah which we're gonna have on in the background and like everything is just conflicting with each other okay and so it's the conversation of being at the barbecue tomorrow what do we put on the tv there's like four of us that are into wrestling and so and like i'm the only person i think who's going no maybe me and one other person might be into evo yeah and so like we're probably gonna love the ipad put the ipad up for yeah we're probably gonna lobby to have like the big tv be wrestling and then you know maybe on my phone i'll check in with evo but sunday is the big day yeah and it's the tough thing of do i want to watch John Cena versus Cody Rhodes or do I want to watch the Street Fighter finale?

6:08Can I just watch both those at the same time? Probably. I'll figure it out. Okay, good. But I'm going to tune in because Evo is always a fun time, especially on Sunday. Okay, fair enough. What you got going on this weekend? This is my final day in the office for two weeks, everybody. I'll be gone for the next 10 business days. It is a few different things. Of course, Lucy James, godmother to my child. It's her birthday this weekend. So we're doing a family outing tomorrow with her, which would be nice. And then, yeah, we're going to push off, go off on a little summer vacation, come back. I'm trying to weasel my way in, of course, to this Pokemon thing.

6:40What did they call it? The Pokemon Worlds? That's right, Pokemon Worlds. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because if I can go compete, then I can review Zah is what we've decided. Yes. That's the rule we've decided. And you're going to compete. That's what we decided. We said it here on the show. Everybody said, okay, it was unanimous. I'm in on this because there's no way he's going to compete. There's absolutely no way he makes this happen. You'll be surprised what Greg Miller can do. Are you training? I've been playing Violet. Are you in competitive shape for Pokemon? I have like a level 63 belly bolt. All right, I'm ready to go.

7:11Okay, okay. Yeah, I'm ready to go. I can get out there. I can start some shit. I don't know what competitive shape for Pokemon looks like. It's probably not that. I was going to say, I don't know if level 63 is. I highly doubt it's that, but we'll see. Good luck to you if you end up going. I'm there rooting for you. I appreciate that. I appreciate that. I hope you win. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, yeah, closing up a bunch of stuff like that. I Greg way today is me talking at least at the start about my vacation plans. Right. And I'm just tossing the switch in and I'm just talking, tossing in the expanse book that Tim gave me yesterday.

7:39Nice. So that's it. But now I have this, I have a crazy wild card that's popped up here. You know, shit's fucking fire when Janet Garcia texts you. Yeah. And she texted me last night and was like, have you, have you played and Roger? And first off, I was putting, I was putting Ben to sleep when she was doing it. But I thought she had said, have you and Roger played this? and I was like, what are you talking about? It bends on my chest. She's like, no, idiot, the game and Roger. It's apparently only an hour long and she says it's so my shit. The Steam description reads, it was a morning like all others until she realized her dad wasn't home.

8:14In his place, a stranger who speaks nonsense and insists she, quote, takes her medicine. Who is he? Where is dad? Only an hour long? I'm like, I fucking gotta play this as soon as possible. This is cool. This came out like only a week and a half ago. a week ago it's 399 right now on steam if janet garcia says it's great it's probably great jump on this too this looks cool i'm hoping i can knock it out um uh maybe today before i leave the office and maybe this downtime we're about to have and maybe this could be my second part of my greg way which i'll talk about when i get to the housekeeping things but i'm looking forward to this and i don't want to see too much since it's so short did i ever tell you that we mean you have beef based off of a conversation i had with janet garcia no but i know janet does that where she starts shit between people and me the bear was there too where we were having a conversation it was like one of those drunk conversations.

8:57She was in town a few weeks ago and we're drinking and we were talking about like, we're talking about PS. I love you, right? We're reminiscing. XOXO. Yeah. And she, I forget how it came up. I think she was like referencing another thing of like, when you feel like the third wheel, I think it was like a third wheel conversation, right? And I think she was like, do you ever feel like that with PS? I love you where Greg would always be like, yeah, man, me and Janet got the same taste talking about narrative games. And I looked at Janet. Oh, this is why she texted me. She texted me. She's like, is blessing a narrative gamer?

9:25and I was like it's not his first thing but he likes narrative games but I was like he doesn't like them like you and me like them yes and that's where the beef comes in because I was telling Janet I was like I don't think Greg understands that I really do like narrative games but you would always I know you do I'm well aware you do but I feel like if there's a narrative game and a perry poppy a fighting game or whatever you're gonna go that way rather than narrative that's what I meant and you know what that's fair that's fair but I'm also it was always the thing of like it was always you and Janet talking about some specific game it would be like not Life is Strange but something maybe one step that one life is strange no that one i'd say one step behind what's the one her and i always talk about the game we didn't like but we always talk about she brought this one up jeff the far sore no jesus christ no there i know exactly because jayna brought this up i was like bless you wouldn't play that game and then i was like you know what fair that's what it was that's the one that's the thing blessing wanted to rebrand to you know being a smart gamer and so this is where this post comes from where it's our post back to back blessing asking what's a video game smart that smart people like and then I quoted Janet from that night.

10:25You can't be smart and like Sonic. Which fair but that's also not the law. You know what I mean? It's a general thing that tends to work out that way but it's not the law. You can be smart and like Sonic. I don't know if that's true. You can Bagman brings up We Are OFK. No. It's on the tip of my tongue. This is one of those. Okay. Record your message. When you have finished recording you may hang up. Janet, it's Greg Miller. Blessings trying to call me out, but I've just knocked his ass out with apparently the exact same example you used. What's the game we didn't like, but we played and then we can't stop talking about it?

11:02Where we were fucking in the small town, bopping around. What was it? We had our brother minimal ourselves. I want to say he who remains, but that shit ain't it. Let me call me back. He who remains. Something about seasons in there. Like a Loki season finale. Let me know. Bye. If you didn't know, everybody, this is kind of a funny game. What do you got? No, no, because I'm looking at the chat. I'm like, somebody mentioned season, right? Which is not what you're mentioning. No, no. But the fact that I'm a season enjoyer. Don't try. I feel like that puts me in the same category as you two. You know what I mean?

11:29I'm a season enjoyer. You know what I mean? I just, there's, if anything. I'd be on the live stream. Jaden and I are S-rank narrative gamers. You're A-rank. Just give us that. What makes you S-rank? You didn't play the fucking game we're talking about. Did you play We Are Of K? Did you play that? To completion? Did you play Erica? Thank you. Did you play the. Yeah, I did. Did you play Erica with the fucking key trying to turn this shit? Yeah, I remember Erica. I didn't like Erica. No, it wasn't good. Did you play Bloodshore? How many whales interactive games do you play? Okay, because I'm beyond that shit.

11:56Yeah, every single time I'm playing the whales interactive games. And if somebody was like, hey, is Blessing an FMV game? I'm like, fuck yeah. Okay, you know what? This kid's all about it. But that's narrative too. Did you ever beat Oxenfree too? You know, I've always wanted to play Oxenfree. Shut the fuck up. What's every one of the kind of funny games daily? Each and every weekday, we run you through the nerdy video game news you need to know about live on Twitch on Kind of Funny YouTube. Of course, you get on podcast services around the globe. No matter where you get the show, please like, subscribe, share, tell a friend, ring a bell.

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14:13Barrett? I don't know who that celebrity was either, but I saw Lisa Wallen's post that apparently Travis Barker was at this event. I saw that too. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Freaking Danny Penney and Khalif Adams got a picture with Lupe Fiasco. What the fuck? This is the second gaming event I've seen Lupe Fiasco at in like the last two months. Let's call him. You got his number? Lupe Fiasco? No, I don't have Lupe Fiasco's number. I wish I did. We'll try. We'll get him. of course after the games cast is going to be game showdown 90s action trivia of course with nick scarpino this is our final matchup to see who goes to the finals to fight me in the finals of nick's game uh showdown and andy how has it been no and me just andy's never won a game showdown in his life it's not a real well he won one to get to the finale you know yes because he had a bunch of scrubs in there how does it feel to see nick run in your show feels good it feels like it's a nice vacation for me.

15:03It's the thing where I imagine you feel with the company as a whole when you see like Mike and Roger go off and like make things and it's like, oh damn, they really put their full effort into this and they can take it. Yeah, they can take it and run with it. Yeah. Seeing Nick Scarpino flourish. There's nothing like it. It's nice. It's nice. He's been under your wing for so long. Yeah, when you train somebody up and they're able to like, you know, make it their own special. I appreciate that. And then after that will be the stream. It's going to be blessed playing Dead Take, which I'm very excited it also to jump into later on.

15:32A narrative game. A narrative game, yes, of course. I think. FMV video. FMV video. I do love FMV. I'm down to make FMV my thing. Okay, take it. Let's do it. The FMV Poppy. Fair enough. If you're a Kind of Funny member, today's Greg way is in two parts. The first is Greg's summer vacation plan. The second? Well, you'll have to tune in to find out. Thank you to our Patreon producers, Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster, and Delaney the Psalm Twining. Today we're brought to you by Mood Factor and the Kind of Funny Survey. We'll tell you about that later. For now, let's begin the show with what is and forever will be the roper report time for some news six items on the roper report a baker's dozen this conversation just reminded me of a text that i drafted to you that i didn't send because janet didn't want janet for some reason so it was a drink so i think we're just half drunk was the thing janet for some reason didn't want me to let you know that she had asked you that question because we're having this conversation but i had i was ready i was like my finger was over send i think the text was quote you don't know me at all you phony i had my thumb on the thing and janet was like no no don't text it you know i don't want it to seem like you know we're talking about behind this back even though we're talking about you behind your back july i'm used to the world doing that july 17th 9 22 p.m janet texts me does blessing like narrative games?

16:52And I say, yes. Separate text. Like we like them? No. Separate text. But Bless likes them. And she goes, okay, yeah, that's what I thought. Because he was on the Life is Strange spoiler cast and stuff. She tried to deflect it. Then dead. I was like, alright. I assumed it was a min-max podcast or something. I don't know. I fucking know you. You Sonic sicko. Number one on the Roper Report. Nintendo Switch prices are going up after this weekend. This is Emma Roth at the verge. Nintendo is raising the price of the original Switch family of systems and products the company announced on Friday. Along with the first generation Nintendo Switch, the price change also affects the Nintendo Switch OLED, Switch Lite, and select accessories.

17:35Nintendo hasn't confirmed what the new prices are, but updated listings on Target's website, pointed out by Wario64, show a $40 price increase for the original Switch, putting it at $340. The site lists the Switch OLED getting a$50 more expensive version at$400, while the Switch Lite is priced at$230, a$30 increase. A previously announced price hike for Switch 1 systems in Canada just took effect today, bumping the original Switch and Switch Lite prices by$20 Canadian to$420 and$280 respectively. The Switch 1 OLED price went up$40 Canadian to$420. the announcement says that Nintendo is going to the announcement says that Nintendo is also raising the price of some Switch 2 accessories certain Amiibo and the Alarmo the prices of Switch 2 consoles as well as Switch and Switch 2 games both physical and digital aren't changing Nintendo says it's making the change quote based on market conditions end quote the move comes just after President Donald Trump signed an executive order that will bombard more countries with tariffs In 2019, Nintendo transferred most of its production away from China and into Vietnam to avoid tariffs, as noted by the New York Times.

18:51But now Trump's new round of levies will extend to Vietnam, too, with goods imported from the country facing a 20 % fee. This is good, right, Bloss? Oh, this is wonderful. Yeah, all the jobs are going to come here. We're going to open up more production lines. We're all going to make switches with our hands, get paid. Money's going to come in. Get paid. money's coming in we're doing it this is what we all voted for yeah yeah yeah obviously this sucks um i my thing is where do we take this conversation because my brain automatically wants to take it to the place of when does the switch to go up in price yeah is that a is that a when not if situation greg 100 100 i hate that i do too i think you know i mean like this is obviously as you all know shifting all the time this is not something no one can predict what this administration is going to do because they don't know what the fuck they're going to do and so as this continues to shift change him back down the taco stuff like where it's going to net out you remember the one this is a big thing was this like the like the taco stuff from 2016 no taco stuff this year trump always chickens out that was a big thing they were trying to push they were trying to get going it's an acronym trump always gotcha because he would he would get all tough about this and say like you know 125 and then they're like well fuck you and then everything would fall apart that's so funny um so who knows where it's gonna net out and what's gonna happen but yeah like you know nintendo was i thought chillingly direct when they were like cool we're not raising the price of the switch for now like for for switch to like this is what the price is for now like when they came back and were like reconfirmed the price of the switch to at launch they were like this is what it is now like i think it's going to change i think it's going to continue to change i think again this is the kind of stuff that once it goes up will you see it come back down where you know even if this ever gets settled if these tariffs don't stick if they stick this entire time but then get backed off hopefully in the next administration where does this all go yeah my like i agree wholeheartedly with you like my one little bit of copium in there is like the it feels like nintendo this whole time has been so resistant right like they've taken the steps they were getting out of the place that they thought that were getting tariff they thought were getting tariff to try and manufacture in other countries and now those countries are being tariff as well right like they're playing this tom and jerry race of like where can we manufacture these things so that we're so that we're not doing this and how do we not manufacture it in the u.s because obviously that's what the government wants but obviously that's not going to happen because we don't have the infrastructure for that um so like i think between that and also a bit of story number two as far as how well the switch two is doing already i wonder if there's a conversation as far as can we raise the price of everything except for the switch to so we can continue to um accelerate the number the number of sales on that hardware because pushing that hardware allows us to push the software and that ultimately is what's going to bring in a lot of money for us that's my the bit of coping i have with it right of like man maybe that keeps the switch to to the price that it is but yeah i lean towards what you're saying where i feel like i think it's going to go up too i feel like it's honestly like dominoes or the titanic with the bulkheads or whatever where it goes over this you know i think it's one of those like that is the last thing they want to do they want to hold off on that as long as possible so i think you do this hope that you know this nets out okay with your profit margins or whatever but again when these you've i would assume it's if if anything with the switch to you are holding on to get through the holiday season let's just let's raise the prices here and like 2026 that super sucks but when someone go if a kid is asking for an oled they are asking for a switch one they go to that store and they see that now even more the margin between the switch two and the switch one isn't dramatic and somebody's there to be like well it's actually the better system maybe that gets you into that ecosystem the switch two you get to 2026 and that's where like okay cool we've done it we've pushed it and now we've eaten as long as we want to eat it for and push it up yeah because you imagine this has to do something for like the psychology of the the market for the switch two where so many people are going to be like fuck they're raising the prices of all the hardware like if i'm going to get a switch to you i got to get it now before the price goes up so yeah to your point they could hold till 2026 right right through the holiday and then be like all right time's up we're raising the price on this thing and that becomes the new normal yeah i could see that you have a you would assume what not a calendar year but like when we get to the other side of the switch when we talk about switch next year and i we i'm trying to think of what the big games could be right like but you've theoretically air riders is out this year right haven't said as much right yeah theoretically metroid's out this year like we fire on off all these things and then next year you get to you raise the price i would think are you there's got to be an animal crossing update nintendo switch 2 version of software i think you're i think you're talking about the new generation of pokemon like the brand new all the way pokemon so my but i'm sorry the point i was making is you get into the new year next year raise the prices there get everybody mad because are going to be mad but it is what it is then a couple months later hopefully put out the animal crossing update i was talking about this in a greg way recently of like you know march uh this year will be the six-year anniversary like time it out for that six-year anniversary of animal crossing here's this thing with all this new content that softens the blow or people get distracted from the switch now costs more after three months and then yeah you ride out that entire year of people being mad whatever it's going to be and then get to the new generation of pokemon yeah get to new pokemon gets you like you'd hope that either you have like a big new zelda thing or yeah a 3d mario thing even though bananas just came out so maybe chances of that are a little bit more slim but you're gonna have as nintendo based off of what we've gotten this year already i expect a banger year for next year as well i'm saying that early but i think this early on in the generation nintendo very much is the kind of company to keep things in their bag and like wait for the time to be right like they're they have more um priority to push big new software on new consoles as opposed to like when you're toward the end of the switch one generation and it's like wow we're getting some years where it's not feeling like you know it's bang after banger anymore but that's because hey we have everybody cooking for switch too yeah of course i think there's so many meals ready to keep with the metaphor of that um to come out in uh next year at least i would hope you would hope so yeah for sure uh so yeah i think that this sucks for a number of reasons and it is you know one of the chief among them right it's just the idea that like this is inevitable for to get to switch to and everything else you care about yeah dude the So Switch coming out, the Switch 1 coming out in 2017 for$300, and now in 2025 being$340?

25:27Yeah. That's insane. That never happens. That never happens. We're in unprecedented times, as always, which is pretty awful. Yeah. If you didn't know, of course, I'm Greg Miller, and I hate this administration. I think they're doing a bunch of bad stuff. of course if you didn't know they won't release the epstein files i wonder why and what they're terrified about that but since that's happened there's been a whole bunch of scuttlebutt of other things and red herrings and let's change the names of sports teams and let's go talk about fire stephen colbert let's talk let's fire stephen colbert and let's talk about taking away rosie o'donnell's citizenship because she's horrible something's getting lost in all this that i do want to call out a little bit that's actually having real repercussions already i'm going to read just a couple graphs here from the guardian this is from june 26 so more than a month ago cancer experts alarmed over gut-wrenching trump plan to cut research spending by billions more people will die to do the white house's plans to slash nearly 2.7 billion dollars from the national cancer cancer institute workers warn more patients may die as a result of plans drawn up by the trump administration to cut billions of dollars from the national cancer institute the veteran federal federal government workers and experts have warned nearly 2.7 billion dollars would be cut from the agency, which is the largest funder of cancer research in the world, a decline of 37.2 % from the previous year under a budget proposal for 2026 in the latest effort to cut staff and funding.

26:50These cuts are absolutely gut-wrenching, Eric Levick, former Deputy Director and Chief Technological Officer at NCI's Division of Cancer Prevention, told The Guardian. You then follow up with, just this week, I am now at statnews.com, NIH is shrinking the number of research projects funds due to a trump policy uh the national institutes of health plans to shrink and shrink the share of grant applications it will award for the remaining two months of the fiscal year due to a new trump administration policy in some cases more than half compared to the previous year the national cancer institute for example informed scientists last week that it expected to be able to fund just four percent of grant applications down from nine The policy change affecting multiple branches of NIH will ratchet up competition for grants to an unprecedented level.

27:38And unless Congress steps in, the more restrictive policy will continue in the budget year starting October 1. Again, there is so much bullshit that gets said every fucking day that we want to get more and more caught up in his response to fucking something happening at South Park. When in reality, we are fucking up this country for generations to come. and I understand that I'm not saying anything you don't know and that isn't new but I do feel that there is a lot of steak that doesn't sizzle and we get really caught up on worrying about the mashed potatoes and the parsley here and I'm not saying the video game stuff doesn't matter or anything like that, we're a video game show and all this stuff, I just want to point out how fucked we are right now and how you gotta pay attention and you gotta be vocal and you gotta tell your MAGA family to fuck off about this shit I don't want to hear this isn't what they fucking voted for this is what they voted for Do they not know anyone who had cancer?

28:30Have they not had cancer? How can you be this fucking stupid? Barrett to quote and or the pace of oppression outstrips our ability to understand it. And that is the real trick of the imperial thought machine. There's so much more going on. And even with video games and art, you know, with the was that the religious groups that are trying to censor fucking video games right now? Like it's all happening constantly. but don't lose sight of the bigger picture and keep talking about the things that are important here here we will move on to story number two which is still in Nintendo vein Nintendo has sold 6 million Switch 2 consoles in almost the same number of Mario Kart World, this is Andy Robinson at BGC Nintendo Switch 2 sold more than 6 million units in its first 7 weeks on sale Nintendo has announced the company released its latest financial results on Friday, which cover the three months ended June 30, and are the first to include Switch 2 sales.

29:27Switch 2's big launch game, Mario Kart World, sold nearly as many copies as the console during its first month at 5.63 million copies. Switch 2 sold 5.28 million units in June, and 8.67 million games. Despite being a launch title and being constrained by its user base, Mario Kart World is the series' second biggest launch behind Mario Kart Wii. That's fucking crazy. Yeah, dude. Mario Kart World was available as part of a hardware bundle, but Nintendo's figures suggest that a number of players bought the standalone Switch 2 console and bought Mario Kart World separately, bringing the game's total attach rate to 96.7%.

30:0996.7 % as the attach rate. That's crazy. The Switch 2 sales figures mark a console launch record. In comparison, and PlayStation 5 shipped, not sold, 3.4 million units in its first four weeks on sale, and 4.5 million in its first seven weeks. Though, Sony's consoles suffered from significant stock shortages. I think it's always worth, when we're talking about this stuff, not that these numbers are not impressive as fuck. Bringing in Matt Piscitella, who's like, remember, launch sales of any console are really a supply issue, usually. What we're seeing with PS5, what we saw with PS2, right? There's always that thing in the black market and all that stuff, whereas like switch two has been available which has been awesome which you've actually see these numbers and see people but again back to goddamn mario kart i do want to shout out there's another quote from matt piscatella i think in the same vein he was talking to ign for a quote right and one of the things he mentioned too is like the fact that also nintendo decided to manufacture this many switches does also speak volumes to like how confident they were in the launch of this thing right and how well they expect this thing to do um in the long term 96.7 percent of an attachment rate for Mario Kart World to the Switch 2, that's something that only Nintendo can do.

31:23Nobody else can do that. Like, nobody else has that ability. And also, it comes back to... A new PlayStation and an infamous game? Come on. Oh, yes. You put out an infamous cart? Oh, my gosh. Put out a Vita 2 and a Patapon? We're all set. That's an interesting thought process of, like, you launch a new PlayStation console. What is the game that would have the most attachment rate? Is it just Spider-Man? they did i mean they did that with ps5 miles yeah we did the miles yeah yeah yeah but like i feel like it was like a spider-man 2 like it was a spider-man numbered game yeah yeah this is a this is i'm putting this the games cast topic this is a good one yeah um but either way right like there's a power to nintendo ip there's there's a power to mario kart there's a mario kart especially right like part of me wants to even say like animal crossing would probably do similar but i don't think it would i think animal crossing would do amazing don't get me wrong but there's something about mario kart that appeals to anyone anyone who's buying a switch is going to buy mario kart and that is not a exaggeration because we have the numbers like anybody who's buying a switch will buy mario kart i don't think that's true for animal crossing necessarily even though i do think most people that buy a switch would buy animal crossing you're i i think you are right that animal crossing wouldn't have the same attach rate for sure but it's going to be interesting what that attach rate is whenever they do a new one especially after how we this fan base exploded for 2020 and if you know how many of those people come back when they have a life now they don't they aren't locked in their room anymore for covet or whatever yeah it's the thing where it's like i'll put bring pokemon to the conversation as well of like a crazy selling ip but like there's something about how mario kart world is just for everybody right pokemon is for so many people animal crossing is for so many people but i think you're selling those to those and this is an interesting point that i don't want to get lost especially in the annals of history here nitrogen mustard in the chat says to be honest if i ever buy a switch mario kart isn't my first buy and i totally get that especially as you talk about now from from here on out i mean now you got bonanza you're gonna have a new pokemon even though it'd be whatever but like that the reason it's like this is because it was the only big first party nintendo game that wasn't an update it wasn't you know what i mean no you know they did stuff for tears and for breath of course but like this was the brand new thing this was the hotness this was like the launch game and again this is the power of scarcity i guess not in the usual way we talk about nintendo scarcity but in terms of a launch lineup in terms of we don't have every third party supporting us because i think that's a big important thing about what could playstation do what could xbox do whatever if you're launching a new thing is it spider-man 3 or whatever Well, maybe, but you also, if you're doing a PlayStation, know that Ubisoft's going to have an Assassin's Creed lined up.

34:11There's going to be a Call of Duty with updates. There's going to be a Madden. Even as PlayStation, you had Demon's Souls and Astro's Playroom and the Little Big Planet game that wasn't called Little Big Planet. Sackboy's Big Adventure. Sackboy's Big Adventure. Yeah, you have a slate as PlayStation because you're looking at your different audiences and going, all right, we need something for the hardcore. That's demons. We need something for... Hardcore gamers love demons. Yeah, Demon's Souls. but like you know we need something for the like the broad playstation fan all right spider-man we need something for kids all right that is um both the astros playroom and then also sackboy big adventure right like yeah they're looking those different demographics and wanted to hit all of the launch whereas nintendo doesn't really need to do that like nintendo puts out one game and they're like this is for every demographic like hardcore nintendo fans like mario kart kids like mario kart the broad nintendo fan likes mario kart everybody likes likes mario kart which i think makes it to your point you're right about the scarcity and this goes back to why i think they made the right decision would i have loved more software would i have loved a better launch lineup yes of course of course but from the nintendo side of things yes i understand why they only as a first party thing mainly only launched with mario kart and then the fucking um tech demo thing that cost ten dollars yeah yeah yeah so now there's two interesting conversation threads i don't want to lose by my own stupid memory all right and i want to talk about mario kart but i I also want to talk about Metroid, and I want to talk about those after I talk about, of course, the Kind of Funny membership.

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38:40And we're back. Wow. well before we get to metroid carlis taking his side i want you to know and i don't think i've told you but i've talked to somebody lately about it yeah i know it was um if i told you let's listen to the sonic the hedgehog 3 song what song would you play like the hedgehog 3 song from the movie yeah um