 Hey everyone welcome to another episode of prime comments and before I jump into your comments today I just want to give a big thanks to all of you guys There were thousands and thousands of comments made on our videos this past week There were a lot of very good discussion points even people that were Disagreeing with me were at least presenting extremely solid information Although I think some Pokemon fans aren't too happy with me, but it is what it is I just want to say thank you. It was very hard. This is the most difficult week I have had choosing which comments to respond to since I have to limit it in order to make sure this episode stays at a reasonable length But yeah Speaking of reasonable length or unreasonable in this case our first comment Comes from our Nintendo will continue to support 3ds And they're completely unsure of their future platform video And the reason that I say that this is a bit weird is this is the longest comment We have ever featured on the show Let's get right into it. This comment comes from random Conan and he says Nintendo Prime As you know switch has been selling very well this past Viscule he meant fiscal year along with huge praise from critics when it comes to their game library The concept I am trying to put forward today is the idea of a more powerful console only version of the switch which would Exclamation point exclamation point exclamation point Why did you I think he meant himself just right in capital letters you may ask I did this So you wouldn't be confused with how it would be executed like you do with my previous posts So without further ado, let's begin number one now how it would work business-wise the Nintendo might Yes, let's just call it the might for now would be advertised as a more powerful console that plays switch games and High settings and the normal switch would be advertised as a low-end portable that can happen to turn into a console This would not cannibalize either one because if the power of the consumer prefers power They might buy the might but if the consumer wants a cheaper portable that plays new games They buy a switch you see it would balance both target demographics and give Nintendo that extra mula cash money Number two third-party triple-aid that work only on might every other Platform except switch to appease the so-called core gamers Basically graphically intensive games that would never run on switch as an example Star Wars Battlefront 2 could instead be ported to the might What this would do is interest those who play on platforms like Xbox or PlayStation as it would be a system that not only plays the triple-aid Nintendo games, but also the triple-aid third-party games at high settings example Mario Odyssey and doom at 4k 60 FPS this would reintroduce or even introduce people to Nintendo's amazing game library This would be a great selling point to gamers who love graphics But never picked up a Nintendo system because they were weak think about the amount of players at your school Who would pick it up number three the specs as said earlier? The system would be identical to those of a PlayStation 4 But instead it uses an AMD graphics card like the RX 480 which has a 2 gigabyte VRAM version Because it is a console only it would come with the formerly known as switch pro controller as the main controller The CPU would be a Tegra x2 which is much more power efficient than the first one First off, I want to thank you random Koenig and I chose your comic a lot of people said well You know how about this instead of Nintendo releasing a 3ds successor They treat switches the 3ds successor and then come up with the standard console There's a lot of people I know out there that don't really like the switch They want a standard under TV console that's super powerful It's probably been something that people have been demanding since the Wii era to be honest but Let me just address each of your points. How it would work business wise you talk about how the might could have You know Nintendo games at higher fidelity 4k 60 FPS in your example and People want to achieve a portable and they all can play like the same games is essentially what you're saying that Nintendo switch would still have their games Nintendo might would have switch games and it all be cross compatible That sounds fine in I guess in hindsight I actually would love a more powerful under box TV a more powerful under box switch even or whatever the case may be But here is my issue The Nintendo switch is going to cannibalize the might sales for Nintendo fans Nintendo fans are not going to see a reason to pick up a might and Own a switch because if they both play the same Nintendo games You're going to go with the cheaper of the two options And you're going to go with the option that still works with your TV while taking it on the go the problem that we run into here is This is going to be a problem in general with an under box console no matter what is that the Nintendo switch is a hybrid system That's being advertised as a home console if they release a home console. That's not hybrid that You know is most definitely a home console not not a hybrid console not portable Not only does it kill their entire marketing plan for switch which has been that switch is a portable home Console from day one. That's been Nintendo's market Not only does it go to a blatantly against that marketing which is why Nintendo is not going to do it and if they did it would be stupid It's that How I'm trying to find a succinct way to put this because I'm not trying to insult the idea I understand why this demand exists I just don't think the Nintendo might Competing against like the reason 3ds and we you if it sold well or like the reason DS and we Worked well together as as complementary systems to each other is because they couldn't play the same games We was entirely focused on the motion controls and it was more powerful than a DS DS was focused on touch controls and Two-screen experiences so like they were both creating games that really couldn't be done on each other's systems So that is why those systems worked so well in tandem Same as even true when you start talking about the Game Boy and all that stuff and it laughs into your generation The home console the home console games couldn't really work on a Game Boy So it worked well in tandem because you have what was like a mini a mini portable gaming experience But when you were at home you would get the vastly superior gaming experience with the SNES and the N64 and the GameCube and all that stuff so Having the exact same games be playable on switch as are on what you called the Nintendo might To me is just a bad idea The only way it's gonna work is if the Nintendo might has different games than the Nintendo switch, but then at that point What's the Nintendo gonna do because Nintendo switch has the power for console like games and now all they're making are console like games for two platforms, so then you run into the issue of Game droughts again from Nintendo So I Again, that's just my personal opinion. We're just having a conversation here Feel free to respond and maybe I'll hit you back up in the comment section Your second point is that third-party triple-a's there will be third-party triple-a games that would only work on the might so they could appease the so-called core gamers and I mean, I get what you're saying I'm not gonna go back over that comment too much All I can say is why would people who are interested in those games ditched to the PlayStation 4 and Xbox ones to come to Nintendo just because they can play Nintendo games if they wanted to do that they would already buy a switch There I think people confuse that there's a very little crowd of people that want all these 4k 60 FPS Triple-a games in addition to 4k triple-a Nintendo games on a Nintendo platform using the Nintendo ecosystem Using Nintendo's, you know flubbed online system You gotta remember there's a lot more that go into PlayStation 4 and Xbox one than just the visuals and the raw power of the platforms There is an entire ecosystem built around it. Nintendo's ecosystem has been behind the 8-ball for years I don't think anyone wants to abandon ecosystems that they have fully invested a ton of money into to join a inferior ecosystem You know just to just to play Nintendo games in addition to the games They already play and love plus if they own a PlayStation 4 They're probably heavily invested in PlayStation 4 exclusives Xbox one Invested in Xbox one exclusives PC invested in PC exclusive It's asking a lot to cannibalize the current market from other companies This only really would work at the start of a new generation So say when PlayStation 5 launches Xbox 2 or whatever they call it launches Maybe a Nintendo might come out at that time and maybe cannibalize into some of PlayStation 4's audience as we're kicking off a new generation But again, I just think that PlayStation and Microsoft are just going to do it better Because that all they have done since they came into the market is do it like this more powerful console online Ecosystem stuff better than Nintendo. It's why Nintendo has had to do all these crazy different things because believe it or not Nintendo at one point was one of the more powerful dogs in the industry as soon as Xbox and PlayStation started pushing power That was kind of it for Nintendo in the power game because they're not as good at it as that your last point It's obviously on the specs for starters if we're talking 4k 60 FPS. It's not a Tegra X2. I'm sorry You don't use mobile processors in a game console that sits under your TV That would be a terrible decision if nothing else They would use one of the cheaper Ryzen ones that you can get for under a hundred bucks from AMD if they went with the AMD partnership and obviously the Tegra is a Nvidia thing and here you have an AMD graphics card with a Tegra X2 processor So now you're talking about cross, you know, basically taking two massively competitive companies that are going to be looking for a console exclusive contracts here and having Nvidia and AMD working in the exact same system on top of that an RX 480 can't do 4k in the first place So There's that Yeah, so I understand, you know, you're picking parts that are cost effective I assume actually we don't actually know the Tegra X2 for all we know to be really expensive But the Tegra X2 is also not a good choice here because the Tegra X2 is not just a processor. It's an APU It's an all-in-one. It's a processor and GPU and one So that would just be a bad choice if you're gonna have a dedicated graphics card You don't buy a processor that also has dedicated graphics Not ones that are especially like Tegra X2 where they're not just like a throwaway Oh, we just have this so you can run a monitor. No, they have it so they can run games So they're a significant price point of the X2 is for the ability to play games and stuff So like you would you wouldn't use that you would use something cheap from from AMD If you were somehow able to work that out or what's more likely is something cheap from Intel Intel has a lot of cheap options out there Or heck, maybe, you know for all we know Nvidia Maybe has their own own processor that you could use or in this case AMD like if you use an AMD graphics card You would use are an AMD processor, but it is what it is We also can't throw out the fact that it could be an integrated and custom chip Who knows But yeah, I don't think that the specs you're using work for what you're hoping and I don't think that anyone I might say no one wants this system because I would like one I just don't think people like me and you and others are big enough piece of the market for Nintendo to invest a lot of money If you want to look at you know 4k 60 FPS The Xbox one X is a 4k system that most of the games can't even run at native 4k And most of the games can't run at 60 FPS. So That's the Xbox one X and that's a $500 system. Are we talking about the Nintendo might be in the 600 700 $800 system Hit 4k 60 FPS to do what PCs do Yeah, I think your people's expectations here are a little unrealistic for something like this Anyways, thank you for your comment. I really appreciate some alternative opinions to my own even though I actually really want this. I don't see a market for it personally, but you know what? I don't work in marketing So maybe I'm completely off base The next comment we have comes from the my Nintendo gold points can be used on the switch eShop to make Purchases and this one comes from WoW's nav and they say I'm I'm just a bit concerned that there are adults more like man children who care this much about children's toys and The meaningless points accrued on them if you're in your 30s and still playing video games instead of raising a family You could at least be doing that on PC instead of a game console, especially a Nintendo one Now, obviously this person's using the troll face for their icon. So my initial reaction was Obviously a troll, but then I look at how they articulate this and it makes me think that there's more to it here than just Trolling that this person actually believes some of this stuff and I'm not gonna sit here and Defend Myself Too much. I mean, you know, he talks about you know, because I'm I'm literally what he's describing You know, he says, you know, you're in your 30s and still playing video games instead of raising a family I'm like, no the thing is I'm in my 30s. I'm playing video games and I'm raising my family In fact video games are now a part of how I make money hence video games are actually helping support my family, but that's a I Guess a different conversation for another day. And then, you know, it's saying that you could at least do it on PC I think here's the thing. This is a prime example of fanboys and fan wars and Culture on the whole because I think gaming in general While it is more popular and more widespread than it's ever been I still think it's widely frowned upon And I say that not just because of wowsers here who potentially could be trolling but because I even you know If I just look at closer to home My family and my fiance's family don't understand what I do as a youtuber They don't understand how I make money. They don't understand the culture of gaming They don't understand the passion the love I have for this industry and for Nintendo They always view what I did is this is a hobby. This is a hobby You're always going to graduate college, which I am working on And once you do that, you're gonna go out there and get that real job And give up on your dreams and grow up It's something it's a criticism I get from people. I'm surrounded with not necessarily in my home But you know it's surrounded within my family. My friends are actually a little more understanding of what I do, but it's The thing is is what I do isn't normal And when they're anytime you do something normal That isn't normal. There's tend to be people who consider themselves to be normal That don't understand it My parents have no idea how you make money off of YouTube They have no idea about super chats and donations and and why people would even do that Why would people give me money during a live stream to do a shot of alcohol? You know, they pay me five dollars to do a shot of rum chata when that rum chata shot probably only cost me a dollar But the grander point isn't so much, you know of what the alcohol costs. It's about showing support to a creator And my parents don't get that because they don't watch YouTube videos and People just don't understand This lifestyle and they don't understand this passion unless you live it and a lot of my audience is younger than me Um, you know, I had this conversation with fiance the other day, you know, when you're 50 You know, how are you going to feel when you're making YouTube videos that are being watched by 10 year olds? And first off I my my only response as well if it's ad revenue What do I care if people are 10 or if they're 50 I mean, what's it matter to me if a 10 year old wants to watch a 50 year old talk about video games That's on them man. That ain't got nothing to do with me But most of my audience is between the ages of 18 and 20 or I'm sorry 18 and 35 Which is a little bit older than me But a larger chunk of my audience is between 18 and 30 Which is younger than me and I can't tell you guys why you watch me but all I can say is that You guys understand What other people don't and while I was here, you know, he doesn't understand why you know Someone in their 30s can play a nintendo system one. That's still obviously the general reputation of nintendo being kitty That calling it a toy Nintendo would agree with them that switches a toy But that's the all video games are a toy like when you play when you talk about playing games on your pc Guess what your pc is a toy Unless you use it for work, it's literally a toy Your phone unless you're using it for Contacting family members or work everything else you do on your phone. You're using it as a toy. You're using it for entertainment so That's just kind of the way I feel You guys let me know your opinions on this because I think we can have a deeper conversation about the general opinion of youtubers the general opinion of video games and How this affects you as you get older because obviously six years ago people didn't really look down on me including my family Here I am, you know in my 30s early 30s and I'm actually doing better As a youtube content creator than I've ever done before I don't know. I guess What's your feeling like my dream is to do do this nintendo prime content creation thing for the rest of my life Um, eventually make enough money that I can start investing in in 401ks and retirement accounts and all that stuff Because obviously I have to have a retirement I don't plan enough to make my kids take care of me when i'm older But I don't know you guys let me know if you think about all this I think it's a very interesting conversation and I'm on this side of the camera You guys are on the other side So let me know what you think Um and and where we stand culturally with this youtube and gaming stick as we get older Maybe some of you guys even know because you get frowned upon as you as you're older in the game um moving on Whoo our third comment this because or what do you want pokemon on switch to be Lots of people mad at me on this one I can't tell you how many times I was called a gen one or even though I clearly said I was done after gen two But whatever I guess I'd still people lump you in with gen one and then I wasn't even whining about pokemon being worse Never came out of my mouth pokemon is probably by and large better today than it was when I was a kid And I said that in the video, but whatever Uh, and this one is from anon nimus Uh, he says dude, I love you. I really do. Oh, thanks, man I am in no way faulting you for being away from the franchise for subjective reasons But I really couldn't stand this video. You literally sound like an old man saying well back in my day Uh, like I get it. You're out of the loop. This isn't the issue But you're advocating backwards stepping you sound cranky and frustrated It's cringy and not something I really want to see more of as far as your content goes I'm not trying to bash you. I love your channel and I watch every update But this is a weak moment, but I'll be a devil's advocate I get why you feel the way you do and said what you said I just think you could have better articulated yourself. Maybe script improve free before you upload it So here's one thing on the final mark. I don't actually script most of my videos Uh, most of my videos are raw and uh from me now There's there's multiple takes at times or like one long continuous take where I cut out bits because I know I kind of messed up So like I redo it and then I cut it out and it's edited all together and hopefully you guys Don't notice that much because I try to make it sound like a smooth transition But obviously when I'm talking about something like pokemon where I openly and freely admit that I'm way out of the loop with the franchise um, I try to I don't think Here's the problem I have with this and a lot of people who commented Uh, they're trying to shut me down like my opinion shouldn't matter just because I haven't played pokemon extensively since silver and gold and I don't think that's right Uh, I don't think Now you can almost argue it's a little elitist to say just because you've been playing more pokemon games And I haven't been playing them longer that your voice should matter more than mine I'm not gonna say that your voice isn't important. I think our voices are equal I think I have just as much a right to talk about the future of the pokemon series as you guys do They have more experience it's just as long as you clarify where your experience with the series comes from And I clarify where my experience with the series comes from before we talk about it and I did that So I'm not I don't feel bad about anything that I said. There were even some people that said, hey, you know I thought you were just going to wind the whole video, but your ideas are actually good And I played pokemon all these years. I'm like that's that's great I'm not saying that you have to agree with my ideas. It's just I feel like it's important to have this conversation because how many are like me In the comments, how many people essentially admitted that they were gen oneers Or that they fell out of pokemon after it expanded beyond 151 A lot of people and I don't like it what sucks about it What makes it so hard to get back into pokemon is the community The community really pushes back against people who haven't played pokemon in a long time Because they're just going to call them irrelevant. You don't matter pokemon's not for you Pokémons built for the competitive community Even though the competitive community as big as it is for pokemon is a very tiny fraction of the total sales of pokemon So I don't actually think the competitive community is the focal point of pokemon Just throwing that out there. I know I admitted were more of my stances But I've been paying attention to the competitive sea for a long time of pokemon And yeah, the sales of pokemon massively outweigh the actual size of the competitive scene, but it is what it is The fact the competitive scene is as healthy as it is is a testament to how popular pokemon is in the first place So This is uh, it's just a weird conversation to have You know, there's only so far I could talk about with pokemon and I openly in that video asked people That are more experienced to come into the comment section And tell me about all the new things that have happened since gen one and gen two Uh, I I openly wanted people to tell me because I'm honestly curious and I know a lot of people said Oh, you should do more like I think one of the top comments was uh, you should do more research when you talk about pokemon I'm not going to because The research that I feel is required Doesn't involve google It involves playing the games when I'm asking for people to tell me what has changed in the game I'm asking them to tell me from their own experiences I'm not asking them to go into google and let me google that for you and look up all the changes No, I want people to tell me their experiences with this stuff And for me to do research on pokemon would require I go back and play What is it seven six generations of pokemon now something like that because I think we're a gen eight or gen nine I can't I can't even remember exactly I think I think the switch game is gen eight If I recall because I know that some of the games were also like remasters of old games And then like black two white two might not be considered a new generation more like a 0.5 generation Something like that. Um, I don't know you guys know again a lot more about that than I do But I I feel like the only way I can get that experience is to play the games myself And I don't think that I have the time to do that unfortunately So I am getting back into the pokemon series With pokemon on switch and I feel like my perspective even if it's not your perspective on pokemon Is important because there's a lot of people that are in my shoes where we grew up with it when we were kids And then we just stopped playing for whatever reasons and now we might be interested in getting back into it with pokemon on switch So my experience with that game and how I feel about it could massively impact a lot of people that feel the same way And just because you feel differently Shouldn't diminish what I have to say it might not it might mean what I have to say Means less to you and that's fine But what you have to say is someone more experienced could arguably mean less to me as well So we have to treat each other's opinions as equals here And kind of cut out the elitism if there's one thing I hate in the video game community More than trolls and all that stuff and more than fanboys. It's elitism elitism and it exists everywhere And it's always going to exist, but You know your opinions are just as valid as my opinions You're just more knowledgeable about the recent on goings in the games than I am and you know what that's okay I'm okay with that. I hope you're okay with me not being as knowledgeable about the topic But still wanting to talk about it because we are getting a new game on switch So if I'm excited for the new game on switch, shouldn't I be able to talk about what I hope that game is? It's just like when you review a game Like like if I end up reviewing pokemon on switch That doesn't mean that I need to have played all the prior pokemon games, right? No, I'm reviewing pokemon on switch. I'm not reviewing Ultra sun ultra moon and all that stuff like I'm looking at that singular game on its own outside of the grander franchise And some of the things I might praise might be things that are in the prior games And maybe to you they're done worse in pokemon on switch, but maybe to me. I think they're done better I Will cross that bridge when we get there But I'm going to continue to talk about pokemon on switch is one of my most anticipated titles that sounds like it's coming this year Especially with recent report that they're localizing the game. So I'm excited for it. I'm going to continue to talk about it What I can promise is if we have a topic on it in the future on the podcast I'll be sure to include some people that are a little more knowledgeable than me Which isn't that hard a lot of our audience is more knowledgeable than me Um, so bring them in and let them kind of take the floor and I can even ask them questions And it might be an interesting conversation to have like here's a gen one or as people call me compared You know to a veteran and having these conversations about pokemon on switch and Asking questions and getting answers without people being snarky back towards me, I suppose Help me don't insult. It doesn't get you anywhere All right, moving on the final comment we're going to talk about this week comes from our sorry extra credits triple a games Shouldn't be more than 60 dollars lots of love and hate on this one But this one the comment we're going to talk about comes from gazenja fox They say oh There's one point that rarely comes up in a discussion on game pricing The amount of money that goes to publishers from purchases has increased Including in the us even ignoring micro transactions dlc and so forth Most industries as the cost double at each step of the supply chain for physical goods I can't speak to gaming. Uh, I think you've mentioned you've worked in a mom and pop store before So you may have more info on if this applies to games So if the manufacturer of a product sells it if the distributor for ten dollars The distributor then sells it to the stores for twenty dollars Which then sells it to consumers for forty to eighty dollars if there's a wholesaler step in between distributor and store Some industries have that added layer others don't and some don't have a distributor layer only having manufacturers of publisher wholesaler and store digital distribution again Not in the same not in the games industry so no actual figures But you do hear of 80 percent returns if these numbers are accurate for gaming as far as budgets are concerned That 60 dollar purchase on steam is worth 48 dollars verse 15 from gamestop Even if steam is stingy with its returns, you're still likely looking at 30 dollars worth 15 going to the publisher The larger a percentage buy from steam the nintendo e shop etc The more the effective cost of games is increased as far as bottom lines of publishers are concerned And if it reaches 100 as many parts of the industry seems to wish it to the effective price essentially will have risen from 60 To between 120 and 192 dollars um, so just speaking from personal experience, uh, the margins at retailers for Video games is pretty razor thin. It's it's under 10 bucks most games that you get from a triple a studio 60 dollar package game your profit margins under 10 sometimes your profit margins under five dollars This is why mom and pop shots and gamestop and stuff rely so much on used game sales because the profit margins are Massive and enough to actually sustain the company Whereas profit margins on new games unless everybody's coming to your store to buy every new game that comes out are too thin for a single video game store Walmart can have that kind of stuff because they sell a ton of products Whether the thin margins or big margins But at just a video game specific store, it's almost impossible to survive on just new game sales Just don't make enough money to even pay the bills let alone pay yourself and other employees now that being said um Video game as far as i'm aware. I obviously worked on the retail end So I can't tell you much about the insider trends But for what I have heard from breakdowns from michael packter and other people that have More access to how video games are made and even there was an episode of extra credits On where the where your 60 dollars goes to and and there's the manufacturing costs and the distribution and packaging and blah blah um It sounds like that generally over half the cost of a game is profits to the Creator of the game to the publisher So if a game sells at 60 bucks something like 30 to 35 dollars of that is quote unquote profits Obviously, you don't actually reach profitability until you make over the cost of development back But per unit sold 35 dollars gets kicked back now Here's the thing is like this is all made before the game is sold at retail So like when I buy that 60 dollar game at game stop, nintendo has already made the money on that 60 dollar game Because it's at game stop already and it was paid for by the sellers, but Nintendo obviously wants more and more orders of those games So if I don't buy that game well, they've already made the money on that game if they don't order any more copies of the game They don't make any more money So you buy in the game actually helps their future profits more than their current profits That might not be something a lot of consumers are aware of But yeah, nintendo basically sells the products in bulk to retailers and the retailers Distribute them and if they don't order more of it nintendo doesn't distribute any more of it nintendo doesn't make any money nintendo makes money This is the whole you know sold through which means sold through to consumers and just shipped Shipped equals these are the amount of games that nintendo has already made money on So nintendo cares more about the shipped numbers than the sold through because the ship numbers are you know, that's That's the you made money on those copies already So like when you see amazon or game stop or something like if they quickly discount a game from 60 dollars to 10 dollars That's because they bought a ton of games from a company and they're not selling So they're cutting their own losses on it and just trying to get get the inventory out the door for cheap And that actually does hurt the people who made the game too because while they made a higher profit margin on those They're not going to get any more orders and it could affect your potential for new games and future orders Etc. You become less trustworthy Uh, you know if game stop expects to sell Say four million units of super mario odyssey and they only sell 1.5 That might make them more tepid on the next zelda game or mario game that nintendo tries to bring out And thus they might order fewer and fewer copies and that makes games harder and harder to find I think if game stop would have ordered a lot more copies of zeno blake chronicles 2 or zeno blake chronicles That for we when it first came out and they were the only uh retailer It would have sold even better But they didn't order enough copies and they kept it rare and game stop started really abusing the second hand market for it Selling it for $200 in their own store very rare that you see game stop up charge a game for more than its base retail price But they did that with with zeno blade And i'm sure they're going to do it in the future because it went to games rare Even if it's made rare because of game stops own handling of the game It is what it is so Yeah, uh as for digital obviously digital is uh companies love digital because they have found a way to Essentially charge us the same money they charge us at retail, but they make way bigger margins 80 percent pretty accurate with the margins there the only percent that's taken out is uh Obviously there's taxes although those usually show up as extra charges anyways So besides taxes, uh, you usually have the platform holder fee the royalty fee from the platform holder In the nintendo's case obviously they don't pay a royalty fee because it's their System so nintendo's own margins on switch are probably closer to like 95 percent The only five percent i say take out is the cost to you know distribute that game to them You know basically the bandwidth it takes for the users to download that game might have cost a nintendo anywhere between You know two to five bucks or something like that But if they bought a 60 dollar game and it cost two to five bucks to download that game could say it's like 30 gigs Well, that's not a big deal because the nintendo made a 55 dollar profit Um kind of insane when you think about it like that. Uh, it's a little different obviously for third parties That's where the 80 percent comes in because usually there's like a 15 to 20 sometimes 30 percent royalty fee I think steams royalty fee is 30 percent and some people scoffed at that when that came out like last year But that's actually really common. I think xbox and playstations is also 30 percent I think nintendo's might be 30 as well, but they haven't actually talked about it publicly So maybe it's 20, but either way it's still a lot higher margin than you get selling a game at retail Especially because royalty fees also come into play for retail games So say matting comes out and comes to xbox one or whatever Not only is that they have the same pricing breakdown as say a first party game They also additionally have to cut into their profits per game for the royalty fee They have to pay to microsoft for the right to publish that game on their platform That's why platform holders Like sony and nintendo that makes so many exclusive games or fund so many exclusive games They do it because they make huge huge margins on those games both at retail and obviously digitally So yeah, and the cost of games obviously jumping to a hundred twenty hundred ninety two dollars with inflation and everything else And then it's possible. That's where games should cost But because they are making more money today per unit sold than they were way back when I think that They're in a good place nintendo has consistently shown digital growing for them So digital sales are huge and if if for anyone who cares about nintendo's viability Indie games selling really really well matters for nintendo too because they get a royalty fee off every sale on the e-shop So say you have Street Fighter 2 sold You know a million copies on the e-shop Nintendo will get a cut out of each of those million copies The cut could be as much as two or three bucks Million copies that's two or three million dollars in nintendo's pocket for just okaying the game Just allowing that game to be on their platform That's the benefit of being a platform holder Steam does the same stuff even though the platform is pc and and mac they own the distribution platform for those games Obviously the cuts can change The origin might have a lower royalty fee than steam as an example That's just a competitive thing but it is what it is Anyways, this is a really long episode of prime comments because you guys had a lot to say and I had a lot to say in response But I am Nathaniel of a chance from nintendo prime and if you like this video You know what to do smash that like button hit the subscribe hit the bell icon So you notified of every video and livestream we do I really appreciate your guys's support so much so that you guys can head on over to patreon.com Slash nintendo prime and support us for as little as one dollar a month We are a little bit short of our 300 dollar goal if we hit 300 dollars this month We will be reviewing a brand new game next month And we know there's a couple big games coming out here that you guys might want to see me review If you're interested if you like my reviews I'll also have a link to down in the description if you haven't checked it out I will link to my prior two reviews I've done on this channel for tiny metal for nintendo switch and maria plus ravins kingdom metal I again will link those to the bottom if you want to see is it worth giving Nate money to get a review done If I don't like his style or reviews well go check it out and then you'll know Anyways, you know what folks Think that's it. 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