 Hey guys, yeah, you got a crappy webcam viewing me for the moment There's just something we need to talk about. This is a very serious topic this is Something that we first need to have a moment of silence Mario rest in peace man It was a fun run March 31st Nintendo just decided to end your life. Please don't do this to Zelda Seriously folks, we're having some issues here with the Mario 3d All-Stars Now look it vanished. Oh, I don't know five days ago six days ago at this point Super Mario 3d All-Stars is no longer available to purchase digitally I think it was actually ended up a bit being available for an extra 24 hours digitally for some reason But maybe I was just to make sure all time zones all over the world had a fair shot at it on its final day digitally But physically Nintendo is done. They have sent out as far as we're aware They have sent out all of their remaining shipments for Super Mario 3d All-Stars now look you technically can still buy this game This is the official website. There's no way to buy it here. I talked about this before how Some retailers are gonna have digital copies still available because they pre-bought codes Other people are just gonna straight up have it available. I mean here's the best buy You know add to cart right now. I can literally buy this right now now. It's ready to pick up There's copies available at my local Best Buy in Eau Claire There's also copies that you could just get shipped to you. So technically a Best Buy right now. You can buy it for $59.99 right here on On Amazon, they do not have any available at MSRP anymore, but they do have some that are close 64.95 But the only two left in stock at that price. There's also this one here for $66 So they still technically have it available For either close to or at MSRP But that's just while supplies last of course because there aren't any more shipments coming Nintendo stop printing copies of this on March 31st, so this is it when these physical copies are gone. They're gone and We've talked about this at length before about how I don't like that the Nintendo did this I get why they did it the fear of missing out help push sales for the fiscal year And yeah, this is like the 13th best-selling game on switch at 8.32 million Back at its last update. It's probably over 10 million at this point. So here's the thing This summer we have the 35th anniversary of Zelda likely being announced at E3 And I'm definitely scared that Nintendo is gonna do something that causes this This is eBay Okay eBay What's happening now is that physical copies of Super Mario 3d all-stars are already being Scalped and already being sold at higher prices and I mean raise your hand if you did not see this coming What crickets yeah, that's what I thought everyone knew that because of this fear of missing out that Scalpers were going to have their heyday the second hand market was going to just go nuts after this game is done Now again, as I said you stole the best my listen here You could still buy the actual copy at 59 99 physically But you cannot get it after a certain amount of time I would say probably the end of April you will be hard-pressed to find a Copy of this game anywhere besides some obscure retailer near you that hasn't sold out And look at the prices being set here. We have 275 dollars here. We have 38 people watching this $275 copy Why? 80 bucks, right? 107 of them sold at $80 at $80 a hundred and seven of them sold despite You know being available at 59 and a granted by the time they bought it. It's possible. This was out of stock You know you got you know, but here's a scalper here. Look at this guy. Look how many copies this guy has You ought to talk about scalper city. I mean look at this. Look how many Nintendo you did this I'm not even blaming scalpers Nintendo you did this you see this image here. You see this Nintendo this is on you You cause this to happen You cause scalpers to buy as many copies as possible because of it going out of print and I don't know if he's gonna make his 88, you know 88 He's asking per copy with free shipping. So, you know after shipping, you know, he's probably making about 20 bucks profit I don't know, you know what he's doing here I don't know if he's gonna sell them all but he probably will he sold three in the last hour it said, you know This one 10,000 now, obviously, I think this is just someone just trying to You get some memes going this one's actually available as a used copy Actually, it's not it's bids. So it's bid it up to 52 right now. We'll see where the bids end at Let's switch it to buy and I don't like going by the bid system because whatever the bids are now has nothing to do Where it's gonna end at so let's just switch to buy it now So let's see here. So I showed the best by $80, you know, $69 $80 $70 $70 $62 a little more fair here That's barely over MSRP to be honest Almost gone though. They're $70 78 75 130 all those cuz a couple other things with it $500 75 70 70 80 $55 for this one. It's supposed to be a straight-up used copy Someone's just trying to get most the money back for my I'm not exactly sure $1,500 $162 63 15,000 for some ungodly reason 65 60 70 and yeah 45,000 I I mean come on people are only watching this 87 people watching us just to see why the hell of anyone actually spends $45,000 I'm admittedly a sealed copy because you can still buy the game for 59 on the night But here's the thing these prices are what they are now before it's sold out Once it's completely sold out, which it's going to happen That's it These prices are going to go higher and higher and higher and nintendo encouraged this then nintendo you did this to the market You made it so scalpers could have their way with this So scalpers could make lots of money you encouraged a market that is very Against consumers you did this and that sucks now granted Yeah, I know the the number one argument to not really worry about any of this is hey look We've had plenty of time to buy a copy mate. You have a copy of 3d all stars. Why do you care? I care because this isn't the only anniversary nintendo is celebrating The 35th anniversary of zelda is coming up and i'm scared. They're gonna have some sort of zelda collection pack That's also They're gonna be full mode and only available to march 31st of 2022 and they're going to do this again And you know what the problem is you know what the scary thing is We're all going to support it the mario one sold eight 10 million copies How many do you think the zelda one's going to sell probably another eight to 10 million copies? And i'm going to own one Making me part of the problem because I don't speak with my wallet and most of us don't speak with our wallet When it comes to this stuff we want it nintendo makes us want it even more by telling you that it's limited I Now look i'm not saying that limited quantity things should happen. There should be absolutely special editions collectors editions As much as they get scalped as well Hey, I get it like that's a special thing. I got a collector's edition of octopad traveler as an example I get it. That's a special thing a unique item. It's made to be collected and made to have high value I'm understanding of certain limited runs like that. I'm not understanding the limited runs of this Nintendo we've known about this for a while the decision is only more baffling the further and further out We get from it and the higher and higher these prices are are going to end up going because I mean Yeah, it looks crazy to see 1500 10 000 at 30 or 45 thousand dollar what we saw here's a 25 Like these prices sound crazy But I mean what if a day arrives that that's what they're calling you you think it's crazy There's a 10 million of them. How could they go that high? Because people might be unwilling to sell like legit consumers. I'm not going to sell it because I can't get it back 150 bucks again for three copies maybe Maybe or maybe it's just showing he's got three of them to sell um See, I'm you know, I this is actually kind of a fair price here This one's got two of them packaged together. Who's selling this one? That's no, this is fair right here I mean, I don't know if they're sealed The 3d all stars plus 3d world. That's that's fair I mean for people who think that 60 bucks is fair for those games each But I mean, you know, so again things aren't super bad right now You are seeing some price hiking, but it's not super bad yet But it's going to get worse this $100 price point might be I think right around where it's going to settle in the second hand market Once you can't buy them at retail as I said right now. I can still get it at best buy right now You can still get it on amazon at close to msrp, but once that's gone I mean, what the hell else is going to happen guys? I'm just worried about nintendo doing this again and again and again because all of us myself included supported this Why wouldn't nintendo do it again if they could FOMO anything and get 10 million in sales? And if they think it's something that won't get 10 million in sales on its own without being FOMO'd You know if you're missing out then why wouldn't they do it? Why wouldn't they they're incentivized to do it? So I don't know what the solution really is other than Hoping that nintendo isn't that big of a dick We're all gonna buy zelda if they do it We're all gonna buy donkey kong if they do something for the 40th anniversary And the thing is this isn't even the worst the worst is that we lost mario 35 nintendo switch online is worth Less today than it was a week ago. Why because they removed the game That I don't really think they ever needed to remove in super mario 35 And if they do something like that for zelda and donkey kong and then give us a limited to run for that That's also shitty and that's literal games removed. We just can't play anymore It doesn't matter if you already had the game downloaded It's online only game servers are down. You can't play it anymore I think it's just dumb. I think nintendo needs to rethink this strategy If nothing else just for my sanity not that they care about my sanity, but I wish they would Whatever at least I get to make I guess interesting videos like this where I get to bitch about it But I don't want to bitch about it. I want to praise nintendo I want to say positive things And nintendo has been doing two positive things. I'm so glad they're participating in e3. That's awesome But I'm also scared that we're going to get all these 35 zelda announcements And then some of them are going to be this limited time thing I don't think it needs to be limited time to sell well I would understand if they did something like this for like pikmin Like like I take a franchise that doesn't sell very well, right? Like do a metroid This 35th anniversary of metroid this year do a metroid collection of classic games, right? Right, you know gather up the classic metroid games now. I'm not talking about the prime trilogy I'm talking about the other metroid games gather all those up throw them in a collection with an hd widescreen resolution And fomo that I can understand doing it for a franchise that doesn't sell very well, but mario likely now zelda like I get it for ip's that don't have big sales I don't get it for ip's that are going to sell well irregardless of this now The number one argument of course is that the original mario all stars on snes was also limited And I hear you but how long ago was that who says they have to keep doing it? Only nintendo says that so anyways folks, let me know you think about this down in the comments below Let me know if you're worried about this for zelda's anniversary, and I'll catch you in the next video