 Hey everyone, good morning or afternoon, whatever time it is for you. It is Monday, the 13th of September, and I hope I got your attention because we got two big stories to talk about for you guys today in regards to Nintendo and the Nintendo Switch. We got obviously another Wii U game maybe coming to Nintendo Switch. At least someone wants to bring it over. Oh, and by the way, yeah, remember last week when we talked about the rumored, I'm air-coding that rumored price drop happening to Nintendo Switch today? It happened. Seriously, let's talk about it. Before we do, though, hey, we are giving away a Nintendo Switch. Oh, that's right. We were giving away a white edition Nintendo Switch OLED. All you have to do to enter to win is hit that subscribe button and then show up to a live stream we were doing in early October. In fact, I think I'll finally get that stream set up this week. I know I was going to do it last week, but I actually almost had the thumbnail and stuff ready to go for it. So, yeah, tune into that stream. But first off, be subscribed for your chance to win a Switch OLED. Also, by the way, being subscribed is like a minimum entry point for pretty much every giveaway we do. So even if you're not interested in a Switch OLED, we have other giveaways coming every single month, so stay tuned. We have quite a few big ones. In fact, if we somehow had 100,000 subscribers at some point in this channel's life, there's going to be a massive celebratory live stream giveaway spree. I can't wait for that, but we'll worry about that when we get to 100K. All right, so our first story has to do with this game you see back there. I'm sure you guessed it because of what was back there. Platinum Games was actually the lead developer behind Star Fox Zero, although Miyamoto was the lead producer. There was two producers and two directors. Miyamoto was one of the producers. But you'll see here that it's very clear Miyamoto had a major influence on that game. And we knew this back then through developer interviews. But what's interesting is that video game chronicles sat down with what was it? Platinum's, you know, the head of Platinum Games, Atushi Anaba, and asked him about bringing Star Fox Zero over to Switch. And here's what he said. It's not cool that people aren't able to play older games and that they're locked out of the platform. So of course, if anything was possible, we'd like to bring over any of those older titles to newer platforms. Kind of depends on what's in the realm of actual possibility. But yeah, if the chance came up, it's definitely something we'd like to think about. So let's just talk about thinking about bringing over Star Fox Zero along with any other games. But they were pressed on it a little bit and talked about if it did come over, you know, video game chronicles like, okay, but if you bring Star Fox Zero over, there's actually Wii U exclusive like stuff in the game. So like, how would that be handled? And he said, the important thing to remember there is that because it's Nintendo's IP, the ideas are coming from Miyamoto's son himself. If the opportunity came up to bring over Star Fox Zero to the Switch, again, it would be more of a question of what he would like to do in that opportunity. And of course, we would respect that again. So it's one of those, yeah, they want to bring it over. Yeah, Miyamoto has these unique ideas in there. We'd have to get approval by him on any change that we have to make. Remember, Star Fox Zero was kind of the poster child for Nintendo where they told Miyamoto to, because for those who don't know, Wii U was entirely sugar on Miyamoto's idea. He was the one who pitched it and got it approved. And yet nothing really came out that really fully took advantage of that game pad until Star Fox Zero. But then Star Fox Zero was not a commercial success and maybe even ushered in the speedy sendoff of the Wii U itself. Even though I think Star Fox Zero is misunderstood and actually a lot of fun in a lot of different ways, obviously there's a lot of these little quirks about it that would need to be updated for Switch and might even make it a better experience for many people. Think how some people didn't like motion controls in Skyward Sword and now they think Skyward Sword is much better on Switch. Something like that could happen here as well. But again, it's one of those situations where Nintendo has to want it to happen first before Platinum Games could do it. But it does sound like if Nintendo went to Platinum Games and said, hey, we really want you guys to bring Star Fox Zero over to Switch. They are a-okay with doing it. They just need Nintendo to tell them to do it because Platinum Games can't make that decision on their own just like they want to show us Bayonetta 3 and they can't. So that's just the unfortunate situation of waiting for the parent company to decide when it's time. Obviously, I hope we do get Star Fox Zero eventually just like I hope we get Twilight Princess and the Wind Waker HD eventually. I don't think any Nintendo controlled IPs that are exclusive to Wii U should stay there beyond a select few like the original Splatoon maybe stay there because we have Splatoon 2 and now Splatoon 3 coming. But yeah, I don't know. That's just my take on that. Let me know your guys take on this as well. Is Star Fox Zero something you even want to see on Switch or are you just hoping that if they do get Star Fox it's something new and not like the N64 game rebooted again for like the third time. All right, next up, we talked last week about a price drop. Nintendo Alerts basically told us people are going to get a 30 to 60 euro price drop for the Nintendo Switch in France. Starting this week and we talked about how that might apply to a more worldwide price drop. That's a pretty big price drop to be just for a single region and turns out it was right to an extent. All of Nintendo of Europe has now done a major price drop on Switch creating a bigger gap between what they're charging for the Switch OLED versus what is being charged for the base Nintendo Switch. Now we have a lot to go over here. This price drop has not happened outside of Europe hasn't happened in Japan or the US yet although I feel like if it happened in Japan or the US we would get a warning about it first. Maybe an announcement in a potential Nintendo Direct but it's interesting because the price drop is still technically more expensive than what Switch costs here in the US but clearly exists for the Switch OLED. So here are the prices as we could find here. Nintendo of Europe is charging 259 pounds in the UK on their official website because they do sell switches directly and that's down from 279 pounds. That was just priced yesterday and has been the price since launch in the UK because the UK does use pounds now in all territories that use euros. Nintendo of Europe is now charging 299 euros instead of the 329 euros they have used since launch for us in the US that launch price would have been $387 USD comparatively and after the price drop it's $352 USD so we have an idea of what they have to pay for Switch over there and that 352 bucks is obviously what we pay for OLED although of note that pricing in Europe typically includes taxes whereas taxes are an add-on here per state so it's still probably cheaper than we pay for Switch anyways. I don't think it's $350 with taxes here but that's either here nor there. Many retails are actually undercutting Nintendo's price drop. In France they are actually selling switches for 270 to 280 euros depending on the retailer. Other countries are sometimes seeing the same discount sometimes even more. Now Nintendo of Europe does list the Switch OLED for 349 euros however in France and some other countries they are selling it for 329 euros with a select few dropping it to as low as 309 euros. Why is pricing all over the place in Europe? That's something that most of us in the US don't understand how can pricing for this electronic be so different when here it's pretty much the same everywhere. It's very rare to see one retailer discount electronic that doesn't exist at all retailers and have it be the same discount. Holidays notwithstanding of course we do get holiday sales and here's really what happens. Nintendo does have a set price in Europe and here we call that the MSRP the suggested retail price but that's because Europe is actually different than the United States. Here the companies producing the products set the baseline pricing. In Europe it's actually set by the distributors. So while yes Nintendo might have a price they can set for retailers to order each system like it's going to cost you know Game UK X amount of money to purchase one Switch to sell. The final retail price is set by the actual retailers themselves. Profit margins are actually far greater for retailers of electronic devices in Europe compared to here. A large part of this is due to the exchange rates but also because they are much closer to where the products are made making shipping much cheaper. As such retailers are sometimes making 100 euros of profit on Switch compared to usually just 20 bucks here in the United States. This gives retailers a lot more room to play with pricing to still be profitable but drive consumer interest. Naturally they presume kind of like the Walmart model that if you can get them to your outlet to buy a super cheap Switch you are more likely to buy other products from them from them as well. That's Walmart strategy. They'll get you in for the one thing and hope you're just going to buy other things along the way. Innoe's official response to all of this has been related to confirming a big factor in the price drop is creating a wide enough gap with the upcoming Switch OLED release which again they didn't think a 20 euro gap was quite big enough even though that's roughly after conversions pretty close to the gap we have here in the United States. Well obviously this is good news for you know Nintendo fans in Europe who are looking to buy a Switch or get a second Switch for a partner or a brother, a sister, parents, their children. It's another thing to realize obviously in the United States that it's still cheaper to get them here compared to there but hey this is good news for Europe and could suggest a price drop is about to happen elsewhere. Now here we kind of figure a $50 price difference is big enough but also maybe not and the thing is if Nintendo Switch does drop the $250 USD here to match a similar price drop to Nintendo of Europe it would create a $100 gap between our price and the price of the OLED which does make the OLED seem like not as great of a value. If I had to guess with how hard it is to get Nintendo Switches in fact last time I went to Walmart in my area again my area is not representative of the whole of the United States but it is a good representative of I live in a relatively small town if we have a hard time with stock here I assume the cities might have a harder time with stock. There was a single red box Nintendo Switch available there were no switch lights in fact the red box switch was the only game console available even the arcade one-ups were sold out so like the arcade one-ups were sold out the PlayStation were obviously sold out the Xboxes are sold out and obviously now the Switches besides that one unit so I find it really fascinating to examine the overall market in that way and realize Nintendo probably doesn't have to drop the price of the Switch this holiday in the United States anyways to maintain sales but it would be interesting to see them do it anyways to match the major price drops happening in Europe. Again, Nintendo is like most companies that cares about money money money money money and since the exchange rates still show that it's slightly cheaper to get a Switch here even after the price drop it more so seems like it's making Europe more price competitive with the United States but again their profit margins are much larger it's much cheaper to get the systems so it's kind of a tit for tat situation we'll have to wait and see if this ends up being applied here again I always felt like if there was going to be a price drop in the United States and Japan that would get a pre announcement not just randomly happen so again the next direct might have it in there or we might not get a price drop at all but our friends out in Europe you know that are looking to buy extra Switches hey man enjoy your discount obviously find the retailer a legit retailer who's giving you the best deal because the prices are going to vary retailer to retailer obviously if you want to have 100% faith you can just buy directly from Nintendo but you will be paying the most expensive list price so keep that in mind obviously unless you get a used system and I'm not even sure what they're going for used off the top of my head but anyways this is really great news obviously and we'll have to wait and see what happens to the rest of the world because all of us would love to see the OG Nintendo Switch finally drop in price which could eventually lead maybe to the switch light dropping in price which of note switch light is not dropping in price in Europe at least right now I'll have to see if that changes next year I always felt that the price drop for the current switch model would happen next year after the holidays at least here in the US because I don't think they're going to consider a price drop for Switch OLED until next holiday when they are fully in stock and I think not even making the current switch anymore but that's that's just that's just what I think maybe I'm maybe I'm going crazy over here maybe my logic is flawed you guys let me know what you think about this down in the comments below I am Nathaniel Roblojads from Nintendo Prime whoo can't wait man I probably have at least one more video coming today if not we're probably going to be live streaming tonight my fiance is back to her normal full-time work schedule now she has her restrictions her lifting restrictions after her gallbladder surgery lifted so she's back to normal full-time which means we're probably going to be back to a semi-regular nighttime streaming schedule we'll have to wait and see if I keep it that way so we probably will be streaming tonight and the cool thing is we have some brand new Nintendo Prime merch to debut for you you can actually purchase the merch already at the very top link down in the description but you know purchasing something you haven't even seen even on camera right you just see it on a website it's far different so I'd like to show off some of that merch for you guys start wearing it in some future videos we got we had a few different styles a few different things happening with that and I'm actually looking into launching another new piece of merch we've been talking about it for a long time since E3 really the hype responsibly still working out a perfect design for that text and getting that on a shirt stay tuned for that as well anyways folks I am the Thunder RoboJazz from Nintendo Prime I'll catch you in the next video