 So today's been a pretty exciting day, especially our Pikmin fan and really looking forward to Pikmin 3 Deluxe on Switch. Great stuff, 60 bucks, new content, all this jazz, and there's a little pricing controversy, but it gets a little more interesting. Before I get into that though, I want to remind you to enter our giveaway for Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Remastered Edition. You can win a copy on PlayStation 4 and or Nintendo Switch. All you have to do is comment on this video, like the video, subscribe to the channel and hit the bell icon and set it to all notifications. Also we are on that road to 50k and if we hit 50,000 subscribers before the month of November, the giveaway for that month will be a PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X or a Nintendo Switch. Exciting stuff indeed. So let's get into I guess a little bit of controversy surrounding the whole Pikmin 3 Deluxe announcement today. So Wii U ended up trending for a little bit on Twitter today and I was wondering why the hell is Wii U trending? I guess Pikmin 3 was a Wii U game, came out in 2013, okay cool, maybe that's why it's getting in there because people are tagging Wii U and all of their Pikmin 3 Deluxe posts. Well yeah, that's not the case because people were wondering about the whole pricing of Pikmin 3 Deluxe because you could get Pikmin 3 for basically 20 bucks on Wii U and this is literally the price of the game in the eShop or whatever on the Wii U and it's been discounted below that at times for the physical version but yeah, it's no longer available to purchase on the Wii U eShop as of today like immediately when Pikmin 3 Deluxe was announced they removed the game from the eShop and it was weird because earlier before they removed that game they removed the DLC which is 20 bucks for Pikmin 3. So they got rid of the DLC which made people be like oh well you can still buy the game but if you want the full game you're gonna have to get the $60, nope now they removed the game entirely. So there's actually this really funny tweet out there by AK Family Home where it's like Nintendo Pikmin 3 Deluxe will be $60 everyone but it's $20 on Wii U Nintendo. You jerks had your chance to buy the game the first time and then bam they take it away and there's been a couple memes floating out there as well and it's like it's baffling to me that Nintendo made a choice like this because honestly I don't know what they're worried about. Wii U owners were not going to cannibalize Switch sales for Pikmin 3 Deluxe even though it was 20 bucks and if you want the full experience $40 because then you gotta buy the DLC. So 40 bucks for everything all together on Switch it was or on Wii U I should say it's not gonna matter for Switch because well only 13 million Wii U's even exist in the world and however many of them that have been damaged maybe whatever maybe it's more closer to like 12 or 11 million Wii U's out there. Barely anybody bought Pikmin 3 in the first place it sold you know about 1.26 million copies or so and at the end of the day I don't really know why Nintendo was worried that Wii U would cannibalize Switch. What I'm basically saying is while the pricing complaints exist and the pricing complaints have existed for every single Wii U game that's been brought over to Switch for all the way dating back to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe there's been complaints all along the way. I remember Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze me in one of the most controversial ones because that game launched at $40 on Wii U and cost 60 on Switch for Funky Kong mode right kind of weird but we've come to expect that pricing from Nintendo. So I don't know what they were worried about the pricing controversy was going to exist irregardless of what they did and I don't know why anyone who owns a Wii U needed to be not afforded the opportunity to buy this game cheaper to try to force the handful of people out there that didn't buy Pikmin 3 yet but own a Wii U and have interest in it to go buy a Nintendo Switch. Chances are they probably already own a Switch and would consider the purchase for Switch anyways. It's a weird anti-consumer move that didn't need to happen and what it's done is created extra controversy around the announcement of Pikmin 3 Deluxe and what should be a really glorious day as Nintendo fans to at least know something that's coming even though it's another Wii U port and honestly I wish Nintendo just would leave things all well alone. To be honest I don't even know why the Wii U eShop is still open and I'm not trying to like you know woe is you know eShop people or Wii U owners and I get that oftentimes last gen systems leave their online shops open for a while and it's only been a few years so I can see why it's not closed yet. I don't know why Nintendo's removing games off of it doesn't make any sense to me. I don't think that announcing Pikmin 3 Deluxe was going to suddenly lead to a surge of Pikmin 3 sales on Wii U because everyone who wanted the game already who owns a Wii U already bought the game so what are they worried about. I guess they wanted to remove the pricing controversy and try to slip it away before anybody noticed but guess what everyone already noticed so what's the big deal I don't understand and Nintendo does baffling things like this sometimes that just they don't really make any sense at all and I'm not sure what to do or what to think about any of it other than say that it's an unneeded decision by Nintendo that created an extra bit of controversy especially around the pricing of the game that didn't need to exist you know and as I've looked at comments you know you know like a lot lots of anti-consumer comments and stuff like that and how Pikmin 3 was actually one of the true masterpieces on Wii U so this is really stupid. Some people today actually asking what the hell was a Wii U because they don't even remember because you know Wii U was kind of joked around as an accessory for Wii U and it really wasn't that so there's just a lot of stuff coming up now that I just find to be utterly ridiculous and yeah right now you're seeing footage of the Wii U version of Pikmin 3 throughout this video because I want to remind people you know what the game looked like it appears like it might be slightly visually enhanced on Switch as well wasn't talked about to be honest to be visually enhanced but it I don't know they based on the one trailer it looks a little bit visually enhanced to me I don't know if it's anything most people will notice but I'm honestly Nintendo can we just stop with some of this unneeded bullshit let's just call it what it is this was an unnecessary move to the kind of throw a finger up at anyone who's still clinging to a Wii U which there might be plenty of people because we use the last system to have virtual console on it so it's kind of like throwing up a finger oh by the way Wii U also plays Wii games like another reason to own it because it can be two generations of systems in one and it's just throwing a middle finger up at at at those people for no reason it wasn't like they were gonna suddenly go buy a switch and buy Pikmin 3 anyways when they owned a Wii U in fact now they'll probably just go try to find a physical copy somewhere if they really want one for less than 60 bucks although you can't get the DLC which is another baffling thing that you remove the digital purchase and the DLC so you're just kind of screwing over everyone who owns a Wii U and that's just it's a dumb move and yeah there's still other you know Wii U games I want to see come over Star Fox Zero, Zero Play Chronicles X those are kind of the two big Nintendo ones I want to see come over still but I don't want them to come over and have Nintendo almost treat the Wii U like it doesn't exist this kind of move is like Nintendo trying to take the Wii U out to pasture where they've already abandoned it years ago and just sweeping under the rug is like a system that never existed and I get for a lot of like you if you never play Pikmin 3 never owned a Wii U be utterly excited because Pikmin 3 is mmm it's a true masterpiece from Nintendo a very under appreciated masterpiece but man show some respect Nintendo to those people that did show up those 13 million people myself included that bought a Wii U and played all these games to not do something that didn't need to be done it wasn't going to affect sales in the least bit and I don't know what marketing or what person in charge decided that oh when we announced this today we need to take down this stuff on Wii U so people can't get it for cheap or whatever I I don't I don't get it I Nintendo baffles me sometimes it's not like people can go out to stores and just readily buy a Wii U so I I don't honestly think Nintendo thought this decision all the way through and I hope that they learn from it and learn from the backlash videos like this the social media backlash that this was just an unneeded thing it was unnecessary people were gonna be critical of the price no matter what Nintendo did and they're gonna be critical until they see how much new content there is obviously if people feel like there's enough new content to bump bump it from what people think should be 40 bucks I think that's what most people want this to be so go from 40 bucks to 60 then I think that would also get rid of some of the backlash but yeah they didn't need to do this and Nintendo you're not going to explain explain why I know you we've been down this road before Nintendo you make a lot of funky decisions and not ever explain yourself but please don't do this again there was no need I mean I'm I don't want to turn around and be like oh you might as well just shut down the whole e shop on Wii U and I know that's gonna happen someday anyways but until it's shut down why can't you just leave the library intact and yeah let let people be if they end up if you end up getting a couple more Pikmin 3 sales on Wii U through the e-shop because of it oh well the chances of those converting into a $300 switch with a $60 game were pretty slim to none anyways but I don't know you guys don't know what you think about this down in the comments below again it's just a baffling decision be sure to enter our giveaway help us on our road to 50k and I'll catch you guys in the next video