 So, let's get into some positives, because the June NPD just released, and some good news, relatively good news. The top Nintendo game for the month was ARMS, no surprise. That debuted at number five for the month, and it sold 256,000 units, that's combined digital and physical. That's for a brand new IP on a platform that is really hard to get your hands on right now. And very limited in install base. That's not bad, we could be talking by end of summer, we could be looking at half a million. And this is just in North America, so you look at worldwide, it could already be close to a million units sold. So definitely up to a good start, just like Splatoon was. Notably it was behind Crash Bandicoot at four, GTA V at three, Tekken 7 at one, Justice 2 GTA V Bandicoot, so it was behind all those games. But again, you're talking Tekken 7, pretty big franchise, we're talking about Injustice 2 again. The first game was great, second game was pretty good too, Grand Theft Auto V, the game that just keeps on selling, it's also a multi-platform, so that's combined sales across all platforms, so I mean, a single platform game against that. Now obviously Crash Bandicoot, that was the insane trilogy remake remaster thing, which kind of just proves that Crash Bandicoot is really, really popular and they probably should have never stopped making Crash Bandicoot games. But it is what it is, I mean Naughty Dog I think was the one who made it and they moved on, obviously they made great game sense. So what's really cool though is that Nintendo Switch itself has three Nintendo games in the top ten still. Arms was at number five, Breath of the Wild was at number six, and the estimate right now is about 190,000. They don't have any numbers listed here for Breath of the Wild, for some reason it's only got monetary, like how much money it made listed. It must be because Nintendo didn't provide enough data. But they do know that it sold 145,000 physical, but they also know that the game right behind it, Mario Kart 8, sold 180,000, so that means that it would have had to sold more than 180,000 units. So they don't know what the digital sales were, but based on the money that was reported they're guessing around 190,000 units. So, I mean still in June 190,000 units and number six, one of this game come out again March? Yeah. On a single platform? Yeah, because if you look at the list it's full of a ton of multi-platform games, except for the Nintendo ones and Crash of course. So yeah, I mean that's impressive that it's basically right on the edge of top five only kicked out by another Nintendo game. And obviously Mario Kart 8, I mentioned Deluxe, it's 180,000. And kind of to something I did mention in my notes is that PlayStation 4 was again number one hardware in June. Switch is rumored to have been number two. The exact numbers haven't been provided by Nintendo yet. And it sounds like the reason that Switch isn't number one is just because there wasn't enough hardware to actually get to number one available to purchase. Yeah, so it's not like PlayStation 4 is just running away with it. Nintendo just doesn't have enough units for people to buy to catch up. Right, and I think they've shown like a history of the sales from the early days of PS4 to Switch, you know, from exact timeline that week number 15, switch in 15th. And it's still like way ahead of PS4. Yeah, and this isn't to discredit PS4. They had their slim version come out. Their slim one terabyte apparently was like the best seller last month. And that's good. I mean, you know, they just said Crash was one of the best selling games. So obviously, you know, PlayStation 4 is selling. This isn't to discredit, you know, their sales. It shows the state that Nintendo sales likely could have been better if they could have had the units in the market. I mean, whereas there's plenty of PlayStation 4s in the market and Sony's caught up to demand a long time ago. So Nintendo's kind of strapped by how much units they can get out. And if you don't believe me, just check out the 3,000 plus people lines that are happening in Japan. That's what I was just going to say. Like going nuts, trying to get the only 250 units available but 10,000 people line up. It's like, wha? What's the plan? If you're at the end of it. No, because it's a lottery. So strange. You get a lottery number when you're in the line. So then when the time hits to sell it, they spend a thing, pull 250 numbers out, and then you get a chance to get it. So that's the point of showing up. So you don't have to actually sit in line for 18,000 hours. You can just show up two minutes beforehand and get your lottery number. OK. Yeah, nice. Well, they might cut off a lot of your numbers 15 minutes beforehand. I don't know. I don't live in Japan. The idea is that you don't have to wait all night. Interesting. Maybe people are like, oh, if I get number one, it's going to happen and that doesn't really matter. It's a lottery. I don't think number one was one of the 250. I don't know if they can leave the top 10. They have the lowest. Anyways. Yeah, because you could kind of know. Oh, wait, $16. Maybe I'm like ratio. I didn't have to. It's a lottery. And Japan's been doing this for a while. So it sounds weird because we would never do that in the United States, but it is what it is. And like, even if you're 250 units, that's the last time my local retail store had 250 units. Yeah. So Nintendo is even forgiving Japan over here. Never. Never. Yeah, usually five to 10 at most. Yeah. And I know our local GameStop, our local GameStop has had units every day for this week because they had a shipment for Splatoon 2. But apparently what I heard is that the shipment, they got all the shipment at once, but they were told by GameStop management to limit per sales per day. So they could technically have units available every day for people who really want to get a hold of Splatoon. And of course, if you want to guarantee one, you can go on their website and order the Splatoon 2 bundle unit for like $480 and get a hold of stuff you might not want. We're not going to save you any money either. No. It's not actually a deal. It's just like buying everything individually. But we make more money because we sell more product. And to be fair, one of their bundles wasn't that bad. If you don't own a Switch, one of it was like Splatoon 2, Mario Kart 8, Breath of the Wild, a Pro Controller, and the Switch. And if you don't own a Switch and you plan to buy all this stuff anyways, that's not a bad deal. No, no. But I mean, not everyone's ready to shell out $600. They might just want to get the system in one game now and get that rest of that stuff when they get more money. So it's kind of starting to favor people who have more disposable income. But again, that's what GameStop's been doing this forever with their bundles. It's funny because I'm like, oh, it's sold out everywhere. I'm like, what do you mean? I can go buy it right now on the GameStop website for like $500. You're going to spend $500, $600 on the Switch? Clearly, those bundles aren't selling that well if they're not sold out. That's kind of my point. But yeah, so anyways, just bringing up in general that the Switch is doing really, really well sales-wise still. No one, I mean, I must say no one cares about the app, but the app didn't exist for any of these sales. It's not stopping people being hyped for Splatoon 2 in Japan, obviously. Splatoon 2 is probably still going to be a killer set. Like, I think Splatoon 2 is going to end up outselling the original Splatoon by a large margin. I really hope so. It was already huge in Japan, and what's huge in Japan? Handheld gaming. Yeah. And it wasn't released on the handheld last time. So this is going to be... Yeah. It had released with so few features and had built up over time, whereas this starts with a crap ton of features. Well, if you think about it, there was 10,000 people waiting at one location just one location of several that were selling Switches this week. So 10,000 people, to be like a top five seller on their charts per week, you only need like 10,000 sales. So it's like, just by the numbers waiting in line that one against Splatoon 2, it's like, yeah, it's going to sell. It's going to sell like crazy. I wouldn't even be surprised in Japan if more, just like in the United States, what was it, worldwide, there were more copies of Breath of the Wild sold than Switches sold during launch month. I'm sure that that's probably not true anymore, but during launch month it was. I could see that being for Splatoon, like more copies of Splatoon 2 selling Japan than available Switches. I can totally see that. That really won't express me either. Because Splatoon 2 is like huge in Japan. It potentially could be as big, if not bigger than Master Hunter. It could even compete with Pokemon, if like, now that it's on a handheld, it's going to be nice. Until Pokemon comes to the Switch. And what's crazy is it's that big while being mostly a multiplayer game. Right. Yeah, that's a crazy thing. It's actually a game that, oh yeah, it's portable. I'm like, yeah, but you still need an online connection. Yeah. Granite, Japan actually has it, like online everywhere. Yeah, actually the US has some of the worst internet. Yeah, the US has the best internet. It also helps that Japan is not all that big relative to the United States. Yeah, I know. I have a lot of money over there too. Yeah. I mean, we have a lot of money here. We just wasted our things. So, like, hey, we could have had a speed train built from Chicago through Madison, Eau Claire, and up to Twin Cities. We could have been going, I could have been working down to Chicago. Yeah. And been able to just hop on a train for 20 minutes. Yeah, that's... Well, a little bit longer than 20 minutes, but it would have been less time than it takes me to drive, that's for sure. Yeah. Our governor. And that got beat all down because that's not worth spending money on, you know, public transportation to let people actually work who live in the suburbs. So, no, like, right now, if I want a good job, I got to work in Minnesota, but I can't afford to live in Minnesota, so I got to live an hour and a half away in Wisconsin. Anyways, just my own personal frustrations with what we choose to spend money on, what we don't. And then, also, people might fire back at me, oh, but they funded the Milwaukee Bucks, and you shut up. I wanted to keep the Bucks here. So, they're payable. I don't think the Milwaukee Bucks are why we don't have solar panels. And I think that they just announced that, or at least Elon Musk announced that they funded the Hyperloop from, was it DC to New York? Of course that. That's pretty sweet. Then you can go to New York and then take a day trip over to DC. That'd be amazing. Yeah, like, why don't we have this kind of public transportation everywhere? Anyways, I know we're like a bigger country and there's a lot of things to consider, but we have money. At least it seems like we have money. We pretend we have money. Yeah. I mean, I know we're trillions of hundreds of trillions of dollars in debt or whatever, and our government owes everyone, but I mean, our local states have money. The government, the federal government just doesn't have any. The federal government owes the local states all. Yeah, well. Anyways. I think everybody's accepted that they're never going to see that money anyway. I know like China. China's just going to keep putting up with the fact we owe them because we're their primary consumer base. So, anyways, I just thought that was kind of cool to talk about that the Switch had really good sales for games last month, three games specifically. You could also, Minecraft was also on the list. That's also on Switch, so Switch sales, we're going to be counted in that. So, yeah, I mean, just Nintendo, three of the top 10 with games that are single platform only is impressive. Yeah, it is. Impressive. So good on you, Nintendo, and hopefully you can get enough Switches out there. So one of these months, you'll end up number one in the hardware because you actually have enough hardware to meet them. Or is the app going to hurt the man? And now the word of mouth gets around that, hey, if you were going to buy Splatoon 2 in Moistat, you might want to skip. Hopefully, that doesn't come with it. I still think it's... People are going to... People, I think, if you want Splatoon 2, I don't think it's going to hurt at that bad just because you can still use Discord. You can still use Skype. You can still use all these other things, but... Sure, you could. But we have to remember as a general consumer, it doesn't know what Discord is. Oh, no, I don't. They might know what Skype is, maybe if they were a kind of company that uses it. Yeah. So they thought, well, let me use that for gaming. Yeah. And that's what you have to remember. People who use Discord tend to be more tech-savvy people. People who game on consoles tend to be the kind of people that don't know about the things that aren't on consoles. Yeah, very true. Or aren't on consoles by default, I should say. I think Discord is on Xbox One. I remember that.