 So Nintendo is going to kill it this holiday. I think we all can see this coming, not just because AJ Calamity is coming out as their big holiday title and is looking to be pretty hype right now with that free demo, which you know what, maybe I'll do some demo impressions of that here over the weekend once I get clear of some college work. But I think the bigger issue for Nintendo this holiday isn't even the PlayStation 5 or the Xbox Series X. It's that this is the third holiday period for Switch really. I mean maybe fourth I suppose because you think 2017, 2018. Yeah, so I guess this is the fourth holiday period for Nintendo. And here we are in this period and Nintendo is basically giving us the same bundle again. Now we've been waiting for Nintendo to do a price drop or at least offer a different game bundle or a game bundle that's at least of a current gen game. But that's not what Nintendo is doing. Instead, Best Buy has a section of their website open now for their Nintendo Switch Black Friday bundle deal. And we now know what Nintendo's plan is for this holiday. They're not giving you Odyssey or Breath of the Wild or any of those old games like that. They're also not going to give you anything newer like Mario Party or Animal Crossing. You know maybe taking the Animal Crossing Switch and throwing a game in with it, you know, instead of just selling it on its own. No. What Nintendo has given us for this holiday is the Neon Red and Blue Mario Kart 8 Deluxe plus three months of the Nintendo Switch Online Membership bundle. That's it. So they've sweetened the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe bundle with Switch by including three months of online, which by the way is like less than $5 in value. So they're not really giving you much additional value anyways. Plus you already get a free week trial of Nintendo Switch Online anyways. So I think this is kind of sad. Not because they're not doing a price drop. I don't think anyone expected a price drop now. I think next holiday when there's not going to be as many shortages on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and demand of Switch might start to dwindle, we'll see. We don't know. There could be a new model of Switch by then. Lots of stuff can happen between now and 2021 holiday. Hopefully we're out of a pandemic by then too. So that's a thing. I think Nintendo was going to price drop this holiday. You know every other system out there is more expensive than theirs except for the Xbox Series S and even then Switch has a light offering that's cheaper than that. So Nintendo didn't need to price drop this holiday, but it would have been nice to see some better bundles. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe was a fine bundle for a single holiday. I think early on 2017-2018, I think you could get away with the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe bundle. It's like the best selling game on Switch. It makes a lot of sense. But the thing is Mario Kart 8 is a Wii U game. It's a really really old game. Fantastic game. We just did a Mario Kart 8 Deluxe tournament on Twitch the other day and continued a little bit on YouTube. It's a great game. It's still a lot of fun. I still really enjoyed it and I enjoyed playing it with the 30, 40, 50 plus U that participated in that tournament. But the thing is that bundling this in this late in the game and not considering doing other holiday bundles is baffling. Like you could have even kept the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe bundle but through Mario Odyssey in or something. Like why is Nintendo for the holidays so adamant that we can only do the one bundle? Now you're going to see GameStop and other companies bundle in some accessories in other games that they can't get rid of for cheap for the holidays. But these are not Nintendo officially supported bundles. Those are retailer bundles that are just clearing out inventory. I want to see Nintendo release an official holiday bundle that is something significant. It's just like 1-2 Switch how that probably should have been a packing game with Switch like Wii Sports was. We got to start seeing Nintendo do something different with the holidays. The thing is it's not going to impact their sales. The Switch is probably going to sell out this holiday anyways. Nintendo is probably about to report 70, 80 plus million units. Maybe close to I don't know 100 but probably 70 to 80 million by the end of this fiscal year and Nintendo is going to be sitting pretty and this is the best sales year of Switch yet. So again this isn't that big of a deal and it's kind of a nitpicking thing to even mention it but I bring it up because I'm just kind of tired of this bundle. Nintendo is a company that can create custom consoles like they've partnered with Epic Games for the Fortnite console which by the way even if you don't like Fortnite the Fortnite console for Switch actually looks really really cool. They've also partnered with Capcom in the past for a Monster Hunter console. We're seeing an Animal Crossing console this year. Like they have these really cool custom consoles but why can't we get like a better bundled package? Why at this point are we getting the same bundle? Like even if you can argue oh Nintendo would never bundle in two or three games fine. Don't bundle in two or three games. How about for one holiday season we get a Mario 3D All-Stars bundle. So for people who don't own 3D All-Stars still are interested in it. Want a physical copy which by the way they're just going to give you a digital code anyways but whatever they want to copy the game and a Switch. Hey look at that. Cool. An incentive to buy it. What about a Zelda bundle? Right. Hyrule Warriors. Age of Calamity is coming out. I'm not saying bundle that game in but you know it would be a perfect bundle with Age of Calamity a prequel coming out. How about a Breath of the Wild Nintendo Switch bundle. And again that's a game that came out almost four years ago at this point. This is the baffling aspect of Nintendo. Is when they just continue to milk the same thing over and over again and I understand Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is the most popular game on the platform. Animal Crossing may be passed by now I'm not sure but I understand having this bundle still exists. I'm not saying that we can't have Mario Kart 8 bundles. It just shouldn't be the leading bundle for this holiday period. Again Age of Calamity is coming out. Perfect time to give a Breath of the Wild bundle that's just for the holidays. It doesn't even need to be around all year. It could just be around for you know November and December and call it a day. But Nintendo doesn't do it and I don't I don't understand the reason their choices behind this. Obviously the Mario Kart 8 bundle does sell decent every year otherwise they wouldn't keep putting it out. But I think they could sell even more bundles if they would just release smarter more intelligible bundles that can read the market. Heck you know what a Breath of the Wild bundle does. It pushes sales of Hyrule Warriors Age of Calamity. Which is a brand new game in fact you know what you could advertise in a Breath of the Wild bundle. Hey includes Breath of the Wild and a demo of Hyrule Warriors Age of Calamity even though we know that demo is free to download off the eShop having an advertisement for that demo is going to create interest and potentially parents going oh wait there's another Zelda game like that maybe we should pick up the system plus a copy of Age of Calamity. Like there's such an opportunity here for Nintendo to increase sales even more. And again Nintendo is probably not worried about it because they're going to sell out of every unit they have. I think I'm more looking at this from the consumer side where it's just time it's just time for something different from Nintendo. When it comes to their treatment of the holidays. So I don't know I know it's kind of nitpicky and I'm loving my switch and I love you know I've been playing some control lately over the cloud. I'm liking the addition of the cloud even though I wish Nintendo would go to a subscription model with it we'll see. Maybe that's something in the pipeline for down the road maybe right now they're just getting it out there and then they'll play around with this at a later date. I just want to see Nintendo put their best foot forward at a time when the competition is obviously out there trying to gain a lot of goodwill with their next gen launches. And yeah Xbox has been ticking all the boxes except for the issues with Halo Infinite. In fact they just lost the director of Halo Infinite again after the most recent delay which and reaction from fans and there's obviously some development hell going on a little bit with that game. And obviously we've seen a little bit of controversy with PlayStation 5 but for the most part people are excited about that system as well and obviously it has a killer launch game with you know people are going to probably buy Miles Morales a little more to be honest but I think Demon's Souls that's like the exclusive it has that's that's the game that's really going to push sales there. People are all excited to actually get platforms that put out put out games at 4k and take your old games and give you 120 FPS. People that have been getting 4k televisions you know my 4k television I've finally confirmed it going through some settings it's only 60 Hertz it does have HDR it's got everything so I'm really gonna get 120 FPS gaming there although I can get 120 FPS on my giant monitor here but it's not it's only a 1080p panel so I'm not gonna I'm not gonna be able to get you know crazy resolutions or anything but whatever. Maybe I just hook up the series S to my monitor here and enjoy that 120 FPS glory while I play it in 4k on the TV I don't know there's a lot to things to consider here but I personally am just frustrated that Nintendo continues to just melt the same bundle one of there's so much more they could do that could create even more interest in other games beyond Mario Kart but hey what do I know I'm just little old Nintendo Prime sitting in his home studio you know just wishing Nintendo gave a different bundle when I wasn't gonna buy any of the bundles anyways at least not for myself maybe for my kids what about a switch light bundle like how about something like that like for you know you always talk about how or people always sort of add like switches for kids but you know what the the perfect kid version of the system is the light like how about some bundles with that throw a game with the light no not still pushing the big switch still pushing it with a Wii U game a Wii U port I think it's just time for Nintendo to give us a little something more enticing for the holidays heck what about a custom holiday specific system I don't know maybe something age or calamity theme I don't know I'm gonna exile the guy so I have a little bias towards that but anyways I'm Nintendo Robert Jets from Nintendo Prime thank you so much for tuning in and I'll catch you in the next video