 Hey everyone before we get into this we just announced our winner of the $99 Nintendo Switch eShop If our giveaway heads to the community tab to find out also I emailed the winners So they literally already have the code right now. So if it's not in your inbox, you didn't win. That's okay We're giving away another big giveaway for the month of March here We're giving away a copy of Monster Hunter Rise and To $20 Nintendo Switch eShop gift cards or PlayStation gift cards or Xbox gift cards It'll be up to the user to decide who wins. That's right. We're gonna have three winners this month of three chances to win Man, I'm excited about this one head down to the description or the pinned comment to find the entry form to enter You do have to put your email in that guarantees I can get a hold of you and then there'll be a bunch of additional ways to enter Subscribing to the channel a whole bunch of other stuff. So thank you guys so much. All right, let's get into this kind of sad news So Nintendo Warned us about this last year when they did all the big announcements for the 35th anniversary of Mario They said there were a couple games in particular that were just going to stop being sold as of March 31st Mario 35 really wasn't a game that was sold, but it's available on the Nintendo Switch online service It's really really fun seems to be based on the original concept of Tetris 99 and Nintendo's just ending it for seemingly no reason now Technically just because they're removing it from the service doesn't mean the game's gonna go away for sure What happened with Tetris 99 is while it's available on the service you can actually buy a physical copy of it separate From the actual things you don't need the online service technically to play Tetris 99 It's just a way to get it without having to buy it separately It's possible Mario 35 might end up being sold separately in the same fashion for 10 20 bucks at retail I'm not sure Nintendo hasn't promised us that that's maybe a hope But should we have that hope considering that Nintendo put out a tweet? Reminding everyone the streets in Japan right now, but I'm sure it's a little circulate around as the month goes on That hey look you want to get Super Mario 3d all-stars physically or digitally better do it now Because as of March 31st, they are done selling it now. They're done printing copies They will be printing Super Mario 3d all-stars physical copies all the way through March 31st Digital copies will be sold all the way through March 31st as of April 1st You will no longer be able to buy a digital copy of Super Mario 3d all-stars and they are no longer making physical copies So whatever physical copies they get shipped out. Yes, there will still be a shipment arriving that first week to retailers That's it That's the end of the 35th anniversary of Mario and Nintendo's ending it and what many people feel is a really dumb way in Removing content We've had temporary content before I talked about this last year actually when they were just removing that jump rope game They made during the pandemic and handed out to free and for some reason they Announced when they released it This is gonna be a limited time thing and then they stuck by their guns and it became a limited time thing and I Really didn't like it and I've really hated this practice from Nintendo in general because what they're saying is hey We're making some cool content, but Too bad so jump rope challenge. Goodbye Super Mario 35. Goodbye Super Mario 3d all-stars Hey for all the controversy that people had over did they do enough and all hey, it doesn't matter anymore You can't buy it. Goodbye now. We've had plenty of time to buy it I own a copy of Super Mario 3d all-stars I'm sure if you are interested you already own a copy as well and people thought maybe Nintendo was playing some games and maybe it was hope that Nintendo was playing games that they would that they're doing this FOMO aka Fear of missing out so Nintendo was doing this not necessarily for Mario 35 because they don't really make any money often Maybe they just did that to push the online service But because Nintendo wanted to push sales of 3d all-stars Which we know the last reported sales for Super Mario 3d all-stars Crossed 8.3 million in sales and by the time we hit the end of this month It probably is going to cross 10 million in sales But the thing is it's weird to think that we have this top-selling top 10 best-selling Switch game a 10 million plus seller, which I don't even know how long 10 million plus is going to be a top 10 selling game I'll switch anymore crazy game sales, but we have this top 10 selling game and Nintendo's just saying we're not going to sell it anymore. It's like there Nintendo's titles are so evergreen it feels weird that they just want to kind of leave future money on the table But that's a choice Nintendo's making and probably because they feel like we're not leaving money on the table We're gonna replace the sales of this with something from Zelda some sort of limited time deal with 35th anniversary for Zelda One of the biggest fears obviously is a Zelda fan is limited time offers Or limited like I'll say there's a Zelda 35 that exists like a limited time of way to play What is probably gonna end up being a lot of a Mario 35 is a blast It kind of sucks that it's just gonna kind of vanish and you're not gonna be able to play it anymore Unless they decide to sell it separately later, which I know some people feel like that's what they're gonna do a Mario 3d all-stars That's the pack later They'll split up the games and sell them individually for 30 40 50 60 bucks each because Nintendo does stuff like that sometimes Or they could just make you miss 3d all-stars for a year kind of like they did with the NES classic And then bring it back for sale again boosting sales at that time as it'll be like oh we're bringing back temporarily for one month again It's an interesting sales strategy and clearly it's working and Nintendo's making a lot of money But it's also not something that you would like it's not really pro consumer. It's pro business in a way But maybe not cuz could they get more sales if they would just have it be around all the time I don't know But this is what Nintendo is doing and of course they reminded us is coming to an end They reminded us that jump rope challenge was coming to an end last year as well And I similarly criticize Nintendo back then people kind of have this thought process that because I am Passionate about Nintendo and really gaming on the whole I mean I the PlayStation 5 Xbox Series X switch Pete gaming PC. It doesn't matter. I game on everything. I just I feel like People perceive because my channel name is Nintendo Prime because I get really excited for a lot of Nintendo games that I won't Criticize Nintendo and I feel like if you feel that way you really haven't been watching this channel very long In fact, I'm probably more critical of Nintendo than any other company out there because I have such high Expectations from a company that I'm so passionate about whereas with Sony it might feel like I'm a little critical But I mean I'm not really critical of their game decisions Because I haven't really played them yet. Anyways, I'm really curious what you guys Think about all of this and and what's happening with Nintendo? What's happening in general? With this 35th anniversary your fears for what they might do for Mario's 35th. We also have Metroid's 35th What if they try to boost Metroid sales by saying here's Metroid Prime trilogy HT 60 bucks But it's only available for six months Buy it now, you know, you'll never see it again What if they did that would you be okay? I mean, yeah, we want it to come out But would you be okay if they just made it this limited time thing and the thing is you're gonna buy it if you want it You're gonna I'm not telling you not to buy it not to take advantage of the fact It's there because reality is even if there wasn't a fear of missing out Many of us would have picked up 3d all-stars anyways at launch Many of us would have picked up a Metroid Prime trilogy at launch or whatever they decided to do for Donkey Kong Maybe they do a Donkey Kong country collectors thing We've talked in the past about oh, maybe they'll do like a Donkey Kong 40 because 40th anniversary Donkey Kong this year and hey The way they did you know Mario 35 works even better for Donkey Kong Which is a game that was built around this kind of competitive speed running. So that could be a lot of fun But also By the way, Donkey Kong got super popular with the country series. What about a country collection? There's a lot of possibilities out there, but what if Nintendo repeats that fear of missing out mantra I I'm the number one thing I hate our games available only for a temporary amount of time Technically all games are only available for a temporary amount of time, but at least Most games are available for the lifetime of a platform Nintendo has done this before guys remember Xenobite Chronicles back in the wee days Remember the og Releases you know right Chronicles when they finally brought it west and they only did it through GameStop and they only did a limited runs That's kind of like here except we know when the runs end. I'm not sure I like this I'm not sure that I want Nintendo to repeat this Yeah, I'm gonna keep buying the games if I want to play them if it's a collection I want to play or if it's a game I want to play but that's just because I would have bought the game anyways Not because Nintendo is making me feel like I need to buy it now. It's I was gonna buy it I was always gonna get Super Mario 3d all-stars. Nothing else. I just want those three games in HD Even if I don't end up beating them It's nice to know that when I do get the itch to play Mario 64 Mario Sunshine or Mario Galaxy even for small snippets then I get to play a better-looking version of it That was worth the money to me. I just I Want Nintendo to kind of rethink these practices I don't know how consumers are gonna react because clearly switches selling like gangbusters everything They release is selling like gangbusters I'm sure broadly default 2 is gonna end up being the best-selling game in the bravely default series which I think is three games now and Despite it being called to pretty sure there's three bravely default games and yeah I'm sure it might even outsell Octopath Traveler, which is made by the same team and heck You know when Monster Hunter Rise releases later this year I expect it to become quickly the best-selling Monster Hunter game ever released on a Nintendo platform And maybe the second best selling Monster Hunter game ever behind world which is on obviously the competitors platform So I don't know you guys. Let me know what you think about this down in the comments below We had obviously a lot of people were not liking this back then or being reminded today by Nintendo on March 1st That hey you have like 30 days left. Good luck And you know what else you have 30 days left on to win a copy of Monster Hunter Rise and To Nintendo switch PlayStation or Xbox $20 gift cards So enter down in the description below. I like to do these monthly giveaways. We'll see how well this one goes I have no idea what I'm actually gonna do for April at this point I mean maybe I think can a game. I'm really excited for for PlayStation 5 Comes out that month. I'm not sure about giving away game that I'm most excited for it I'm like PlayStation 5. Although I think it's coming to PlayStation 4. So maybe I don't know I like I just feel back is PlayStation 5 isn't so widely available where a switch is So I don't know maybe I end up doing another $99 card then we'll see what happens Thank you guys so much for tuning in. I'll catch you in the next one