 Hey everyone! How's it going? Hopefully my color is back in my face. I realized when I did Prime News the other day that I looked a little pale. I had a lot to do with the camera settings. I actually just messed with the settings and now I think things look better. I don't think I look as blue as I usually do and stuff like that and things look more natural in color, not so saturated. I think that's really what it was. It was oversaturated and it led to colors not looking exactly true to life. Like I'm looking at the screen right now and just looking at the things in the background. That's exactly how it looks to me in real life whereas before that's a little faded or a little I don't know sickly. Almost like there was like this film grain over the camera so hopefully I'm getting better at this and I picked the right setting. This is just one of the automatic settings on the camera. Hopefully I picked the right one. I don't really know. I turned a dial. Things happen but what I do know is that I'm going to talk to you about the Nintendo Switch today and some opinions that are going around about the Switch's library and the Switch's success because as it's noted here as you'll see on Reset Error says CNN is reporting that the Switch is a big winner on Black Friday. I read the whole CNN article and the general gist of the CNN article is that the Switch dominated on Black Friday. It was the best-selling video game platform by far wasn't even close and this is despite having things like a PlayStation 4 bundle for 200 bucks that had like the last of us part two and Spider-Man and something else bundled in as well. So yes Switch had an amazing Black Friday. We don't know Cyber Monday yet but even Benji sales on Twitter is out there saying like this is record-breaking for Nintendo. And you remember the third quarter last year they sold almost 10 million units while apparently they're shattering those sales this year. Not a surprise. Pokemon Switch Lite. It does appear that the red you know new model of Switch is actually outselling the Switch Lite by a significant margin. It turns out the Switch Lite isn't maybe as popular as Nintendo thought it might be. It's almost doing that 2DS thing where the 2DS is the thing that sold but the 3DS was always selling better. Nintendo maybe oversold how well the light would do but that's that's a conversation for another day. What's important today is that the Switch is killing it this holiday and we're about to get some record numbers from Nintendo reported here in a month or two. Now what I thought was interesting going through this thread because I do this right I'm a video game fan I read comments I read comments on videos I read comments on forums and I know not everyone likes reset era and that's okay I'm actually banned at reset era so if I go to log in then I can't even look at anything I think it's weird that you can log out and look at things we've logged in you can't like you could just make it so I can't post but whatever it is what it is I only say that because I usually I use the dark version of their layout but I can't so everything's going along just fine people are just wondering you know about about the sales and they're just discussing it but I was looking at the at the last page and some stuff has come up in this last page that's that's interesting this guy right here let me just go to his post there it is so I guess this is back on page 10 I'm gonna scroll up quick and just make sure cuz like I'm just gonna go through some of this stuff and and respond to it and get your guys's thoughts on this stuff because a lot of the sentiments I'm reading in here I've actually seen it quite a bit on YouTube and Twitter and Facebook and I realized that you know us on the internet sometimes overblow our importance when it comes to overall sales this is why I like Pokemon Sword and Shield is exploding in sales even though on the internet if you were just someone on the internet you would believe these games are terrible and you shouldn't buy them but the general consumer disagrees so let's just go down you know like this doesn't mean anything though the family like nature the switch means that developers are not going to be interested in putting their core titles on it the ps4 will have sold better without attempting to families and a true head-to-head fight without gimmicks Nintendo loses every time the N64 Nintendo GameCube Wii U it's only when they decide to sell to a younger audience that they can even hope of reaching Sony yeah developers are interested in putting core titles on Switch except Assassin's Creed Overwatch Skyrim Witcher 3 Doom Doom Eternal Diablo 3 how about Mortal Kombat 11 that was day and date the list goes on and on and on NBA 2k has been here every year it's it's interesting to see what people actually think who aren't fans of Switch or aren't fans of Nintendo or or don't own the Nintendo products how they think that that the Nintendo's success with Switch is built upon this notion that they are appealing to children and when they appeal to children that is the only time they find the kind of success that Sony gets with PlayStation 1 2 3 and 4 now to be fair PlayStation has just been entered into the Guinness World Record books by the way for for being the best-selling home consoles of all time like the combined sales of all of the Sony home consoles are now the best of all time at 450 million plus Nintendo systems even though they've been around longer are only about 323 million or so I give or take obviously we have to see how the rest of the Switch generation plays out because Nintendo is calling it a home console anyway so it would count for the Guinness World Records but yeah Sony's been massively successful there's no denying the success of PlayStation 1 2 3 and 4 and likely the success of PlayStation 5 there's no denying that Sony has found the right niche with teenagers and up in terms of how they target their exclusives and the deals they locked on with third parties and plus how they build the platforms out and build the hype for those platforms I mean we all remember how they crapped on Xbox by talking about this is how you share games and then handed a game over so we all know that Sony's been really good at marketing the one flub was obviously the very beginning of the PlayStation 3 era with the pricing and the cockiness and then they ended up making up for it anyways PlayStation 3 is still to date the only home console they have sold that has not sold at least a hundred million units so that is obviously a testament to how amazingly popular Sony's brand is and Sony's PlayStation system is their platform so there's nothing to deny how awesome Sony does at targeting their marketing knowing who their market is and going after it they've made mistakes along the way they made mistakes this generation but overall they do a really good job in marketing they produce a lot of really good exclusive games and they target the audience well Nintendo is is a little strange because they have a reputation that doesn't match the player base Nintendo has a reputation of because their games are cartoony because their games are often rated under you know rated e or e10 plus you do have some that are rated t14 you know like a like a Twilight Princess or something but most of the games are e or e10 plus they get this reputation that because parents would genuinely be okay with their children playing a Mario game or a Zelda game or even a Metroid game right parents would generally be okay with that that their systems for kids you see that there's this general reputation of how what games are rated the art style those games take the amount of violence and vulgar language determines who should be playing these games and it's strange because in the world we live in having been a after-school teacher of elementary kids a lot of them had no interest in Nintendo games they were playing Call of Duty they were playing Red Dead Redemption they were playing games that they are not even remotely close I mean these kids aren't even 10 and they're playing these games that are hyper violent hyper vulgar and you know they're just not something that I find okay for my kids I won't even let my daughter who's turning nine years old this month play Fortnite but Nintendo has this reputation where everything they makes for kids and my kids by the way I'm a Nintendo gamer so of course my kids love Mario they love Donkey Kong you know I got the Super Nintendo classic system sitting right here my kids were just playing at the other day they love all those old school games they love the new school games they love anything those platoon and Mario Party heck they they're starting to get into breath of the wild a little bit like my kids like Nintendo games because I'm growing them up with those Nintendo games but they also like seeing some of the other games the Madden's of the world and the Call of Duty's and my daughter has watched me play Fortnite and stuff before an overwatch and I don't want to she watches but I want her to understand the context of what I'm doing and that just because you're shooting someone in the game it's not real like this isn't what shooting a real weapon is like you know I'll take her to a gun range sometimes she really wants to understand because it's a lot more scary than then clicking a button on on a controller or something but the thing is Nintendo's reputation is preceding them in in arguments like this because I find and this is just through my own research Nintendo's published something on this back in 2017 as well but I have found that very few children I meet own a switch some of them want one but they don't really own one I find a majority of the people I bump into and I am an adult so of course I bump into a lot of adults our adults at play switch I have a social media profile on Facebook where of the 300 plus friends on my Facebook thing over 150 of them all adults own switches Nintendo published data back in 2017 that said 92% of the switches audience is over 18 so I don't know how those numbers have changed now because kids always want the cool hip things that adults are playing it's obviously kids want to switch because adults are playing and they see it's really cool and they're hearing good things about it but this idea that Nintendo can only compete with Sony by appealing to children is so strange to me because switch is doing the exact opposite I think is one of the best games this year on switch astral chain is that is that a game for kids that doesn't seem like a what one of those games targeted towards children how about even even Mario maker to right like okay you can argue well yeah kids could play it yeah but the people that play at the most are adults or teens that are using their creativity to create and play amazing levels that are well beyond what most children can even conceptualize that's what makes Mario maker to have such a lasting power now we got that 2.0 update coming out that literally lets you play as link which is just really cool like not just a costume like you actually are link I think it's really cool and that's gonna add a lot of creativity to to the level designs and you see that and that's like that appeals to adults you know you see games like fire m1 3 houses literally rated teen and up like it's not intended to be played by little kids so we have that that's one of the biggest actually that I think the highest rated game on switch this year and then obviously a Pokemon sword shield we can argue to the house come home that that does target children because clearly there are a lot of children that enjoy Pokemon from the anime to the movies to to the toys to the Pokemon cards so everything in between right like there's a lot of kids that do enjoy Pokemon but that's not to dismiss the fact that it does appear based on the Pokemon company's own statistics that over 60% of the Pokemon audience is over the age of 18 so it's people who grew up with Pokemon and they stayed Pokemon fans as adults so again even though Pokemon is probably the biggest argument you could make for appealing to to a younger audience it also appeals to adults and it appeals to a lot of adults as do a lot of the games coming out on switch like what did Mortal Kombat 11 and exploding and sales on switch what did that have to do with kids that's rated M according to people like this those kind of games you know don't sell as which switch is only selling because it appeals to kids and that's just it happens to not be the case switch is selling for reasons that Sony platforms have sold for in the past I've talked about this in another video but I'm also bringing up again the Nintendo switch is a system that that the corrects Nintendo's mistakes with Wii U and what do I mean by that I mean that there are multiple ways to make a system sell regardless of what that system is but when you have all of those factors combined that's when you have a hit so one way to make a system sell is obviously having the platform itself irregardless of the games be appealing something about that platform needs to be appealing and this is the switch right here without the joy cons attached but as you can tell it is a tablet okay tablets are easily understood it because it's a tablet it automatically makes it look like a more adult thing it's not like one of those nabby tablets that have you know the big giant bumpers on it this is the switch and then you attach some controllers to the side that is an appealing look for a platform an adult would like to play in because it looks a lot like we're playing on our phones with controllers so adults are okay being seen in public with that kind of device it has a certain I don't want to say sex appeal but adult like attractivity to the actual design of the product in addition it's a video game platform you can play on the go but dock with your TV really easily again these are concepts these are designs these are looks that makes switch appealing as a platform and a system this is before we get to games UI or anything else it's just appealing on the front facing look of it and that does matter unlike you know don't judge a book by its covers a lot of people a lot of consumers do judge video game platforms on the cover I'll give you an example from this generation there's the Xbox one versus the PlayStation 4 which system at launch the launch platforms looked better did the vcr look in giant xbox one look better or did the sleek with with with with weird angles and slimmer PlayStation 4 that was also cheaper by the way look better I think we both know the answer to that one PlayStation 4 had an appeal to it an appeal to it that we you with the giant Fisher price-looking tablet at the forefront of all of the advertising didn't have and what the Xbox one which was a hundred dollars more at launch because they bundled in connect that nobody really wanted and made a vcr looking standard pc case box made people not really like it they like the slimmer sleeker design of PlayStation 4 and it just so happened PlayStation 4 actually was a more powerful platform at that time so there's a lot that can go into it like that the other way to appeals obviously launch lineup and games Nintendo used maybe their most broad appealing to teens and adult game they could and the legend is all the breath of the wild to launch the platform obviously they've been killing it with excuses or since 2018 was a bit of a down year but they bounce back here in 2019 and the products just full of a ton of excuses now whether you think those games are good or not that's up to the other beholder but every game they've released is essentially had this appeal to adults and you see this when you go to events like e3 which I have been to e3 three of the last four years and when you go there you'll notice obviously that everyone at e3 has to be over the age I think of 17 or 18 I can't remember but yet basically have to be an adult to be at e3 so you're only interacting with fellow adults and you'll notice that Nintendo games whether it's Fire Emblem whether it's Mario Tennis has the longest lines of anyone at the show longer than that than Sony who wasn't there last year longer than Xbox at Microsoft's Theater and they do it at now longer than any of the third-party companies with those more mature games you know like like Doom oh everyone wants to line up for Doom like I was there Doom Eternal did not have like this super long line not like Nintendo Nintendo's booth you could literally wait three four five hours to get into one time and why is that because adults love Nintendo Nintendo's main audience is actually people who grew up with Nintendo and those people are now all adults so to act like switch is this system that can only compete with Sony when they appeal to children is a bit of a misnomer and it's a misnomer because the only you know other time they did that was with Wii and we did explode due to its popularity with families there were sure there's plenty of adults and core gamers that enjoyed it but in general we appeal to children and families and moms and dads so yes we competed by appealing to a broader audience but switch is competing at a more expensive price by the way this holiday with like no games bundled in except unless you got the Mario Kart 8 bundle they're competing with much cheaper systems that are more powerful from the competitors with you know quote-unquote better games because adults want the new hot device and they want the latest and greatest Nintendo games that they keep hearing all these good things about so switch is got kind of the double whammy of the games and the sex appeal and beyond that I guess just the whole idea that it's got a lot of positive momentum a lot of positive word of mouth is going around with such despite the the joycon drifting and bang gate and you know whatever you know issues you want to throw out there that are real and do exist switch is navigating through all those waters because there's just more positive reception than there is negative I think a vast majority of people that get joycon drift don't even say anything to anyone they just buy a new pair of joycons because that's what like we're accustomed to as consumers oh phone breaks get a new phone oh your controller breaks just go buy another controller like people don't think much of it and because the switch is modular you know unless the actual tablet breaks they don't really have a lot to complain about most consumers I think obviously we've seen the complaints on the internet but it is what it is so now we're gonna get to the post that I actually was here for and then we'll we'll kind of wrap this up I know it's a longer longer form discussion video so we'll see how this does view wise but this guy jcs whoever he is says it's generally funny that you're deluded in thinking Nintendo is putting out triple a games this past year you know when you think about nintendo's published games from like astral chain super mind maker 2 yoshi's craft world I guess I can understand why you might not label that as a triple a game but you know you have fire them on three houses pokemon sword and shield I can understand an argument why maybe it's more of a b tier than triple a but still there's obviously some triple a output from nintendo this year but anyways it says you're deluding the thing in terms of putting out quality triple a games this past year they put out a few titles in their key franchises but most of them aren't so great if I don't want three houses by the way has a meta critic rating of 91 I don't know people know that it's like one of the highest rated games like the second or third highest rating game to release this year just throwing that out there is I know some people don't care about meta critic and the critic ratings but I mean that's a good barometer to see what the general populace thinks of a game for that given year anyways I get that people like nintendo but no matter what you say my switch isn't being played because the content isn't there when it is it's too expensive for what it is and nintendo are too arrogant to put it on sale regularly like everyone else now to respond to that point this isn't too too kind of defense force nintendo the rest of the industry does do rapid price dropping on their games nintendo doesn't because their games keep selling most companies would not rapid price drop their games if they kept selling the way nintendo's games do so what nintendo has done is games used to not rapid price drop by the way they used to never be the case and what nintendo did is they said why are we going to change our strategy that we used you know in the n64 era games didn't rapid price drop them why would we wrap it rapid price drop with the game cube and the we and the we you and the switch like why would we rapid price drop we think our games are worth the money years later like is breath of the wild today still worth 60 bucks to some people would say no it's an older game other people say have you played breath of the wild hell yeah it's worth 60 bucks some of us would spend you know 200 bucks again on the master edition or the special edition that comes with a little master sword trophy like like people would still maybe pay that even to this day so people are paying more than that actually to get get their hands on sealed copies of those now so it's one of those situations where i don't i i get why the rest of the industry rapidly price drops especially when we have so many annualized franchise at call of duty it has to rapidly price drop madden has to rapidly pressure mba has to matter because there's a new one coming out every year you're not going to keep selling and selling and selling that game at 60 bucks a pop when people know oh if i just wait seven months i just wait eight months there's going to be a new one um but nintendo's games are generally pretty evergreen so odyssey and breath of the wild and mario kart and all these games they just keep selling so nintendo isn't given a reason to lower the price that being said um we saw this holiday season that nintendo did lower the price um while you've been able to get breath of the wild for 45 bucks or so on amazon for actually quite some time that was just amazon dropping the price breath of the wild was 40 bucks everywhere um i get i get that it's 2017 but it was 40 bucks everywhere so it was odyssey um we saw you know mario plus travis kingdom medal that's one of the best games on switch 15 bucks we saw starling battle for atlas which i know the multi platform third party game going for five bucks with that with the with the starter pack so we were seeing high quality games on switch going for rather cheap some from nintendo some from third parties this this holiday season so while nintendo doesn't put their games on sale regularly they don't because they don't have to it's not about them being arrogant um it's about them being smart business wise i as a consumer i wish they would lower their prices like everyone else does but i also know as a consumer their games keep selling and as long as people keep buying the games at those prices why would nintendo drop the price sony wouldn't drop it either if they could these other companies are actually probably jealous that nintendo's games can keep selling at 60 bucks a pop that their games can be that evergreen like everyone's trying to be the next fortnight well nintendo does that with like every release where the game keep being popular all like mario kart i mean mario kart 8 deluxe is a we you game guys and that thing is exploding still years and years and years later because that that's just what nintendo ips do they have this innate selling power for you i mean breath of the wild is sold over a million copies this year in 2019 it's sold over a million copies you know when he franchises wish they could do that two three years later still sell a million copies that's 60 bucks a pop you're not not not because it reduced it to five dollars at 60 dollars a pop it sold more more than a million units this year it's before the holidays might be at 1.5 to 2 million now isn't that crazy so it's not about arrogance it's about smart business move it's business savvy they know they have games they're going to keep selling so why lower the price everyone else lowers the price because the game stops selling i i think that's the disconnect between consumers and the way that sony and microsoft or all these ea and all these companies handle things and then nintendo because nintendo just doesn't have a the same reason to reduce the price as these other companies do and the other companies are we sell a bunch in the first week and then people stop buying and that's why the prices go down which also can make people who bought it at 60 bucks feel like a sucker when a month later it's only 30 but let's send the winner there i want to use my switch but i don't because there isn't enough content i want to play and that's fair anyone can anyone can have that opinion any system you buy could have content you don't want to play without triple a third party support you have to like lump four to five triple a s nintendo titles that they graciously bestow upon you it's funny because no one says that about sony or microsoft oh they graciously just dropped some triple a s games on us it's like no they're a video game company they always make games they've been making games for 30 30 years more than 30 years really that's just from a nest like they were making games before the nest even existed so i this is just someone who's sour with nintendo and triple a third party content is important it is and switch does have some of it they don't have it as much as i would like them to have if you can't acknowledge that the switch library is anemic compared to other systems and this year's titles aren't all that great then we're not in the same planet the switches library isn't anemic but if you are into triple a third party plot the games then you probably should be playing you know on pc or xbox or or playstation or something that's definitely true if you if you love triple a third party multi-platform games then you should be playing them on the platforms that get those games and get them day and date and get the best versions of the best frame rate and the best performance and the best resolution yes absolutely go for that there's nothing wrong with that switch isn't going to get them or the ones it does get they're going to get years later and that's just the way switch is and they're going to not perform the greatest because the switch factually is not as powerful as those platforms so i think this comment among others just shows the massive disconnect between gamers consumers and people who are actually buying things i think that there is a big disconnect in general with how people treat nintendo i made a video on this a long time ago but nintendo isn't for kids kids are welcome into the nintendo family but nintendo is now more than it's probably ever been in the history of the company for adults because this platform this switch is the most adult platform nintendo has maybe ever made um and that's saying something for a company that's been making platforms for a long time i know there's this theory that oh nintendo was making an adult platform with a game cube were they it was it looked like a lunchbox with a handle so it was like a purple lunchbox did that scream appeal to adult to you did uh the we scream that the the we you you know you could argue the nes maybe back in the day but again adults didn't really play it it was mostly for kids back then so this is like the first platform nintendo is generally put together that has appeal to adults i mean heck people are already talking like oh what do they got to do with the next one just get rid of the bezels be more like our smartphones have no bezels like anyways folks um you guys let me know what you think about the the sales of switch this holiday what you think about uh some of these commenters on reset era and just in general some of the general opinions that are still going around to this day the nintendo games are for kids they're not high quality um they're just that the nintendo makes systems for kids and that's the only way they're successful i just i want to have this conversation and debate down in the comments anyways thank you guys so much for tuning in i am Nathaniel Robeljens from nintendo prime sorry this video is so long but you guys know i love talking about stuff and uh this felt like a great topic i was going to stream it but i decided a standalone video might be best for this one uh we can we can address maybe this further in a future live stream later this week all right folks i'll catch you in the next video like subscribe see you later