 Hey everyone, we're going to be talking about that 3D All-Star collection. Yeah, it's a thing. But before I can even talk about it, I got to mention we're actually giving away three, that's right, three copies of Super Mario 3D All-Stars. All you have to do to enter is go to the Gleam.io link down in the description. And yeah, enjoy that. Also, if you join our Patreon at patreon.com slash Nintendo Prime for just $1, you get an additional 15 entries. That also gets you an additional 15 entries and do our other giveaway for the month of September. And that is for a Nintendo Switch Lite and or if you get second place, we have two second place prizes, a Nintendo Switch game of choice. So to enter that one, also check out the description. It has a different entry method than the Gleam.io link. So things like subscribe to the channel, follow on Twitter, join the Discord server, all that jazz, comment, like the video. You guys know the drill, but check the description to make sure you get every single box to maximize your entries. Good luck. Now, this is a thing that was announced today. We've talked about it, we've got two videos focusing on it. But this time around, I need to mention that something is a little off about this entire endeavor. And that is that with they didn't really announce it clearly in the direct they did technically announce it if you go back and watch the Mario 3D All Star Collection is well it's a limited release. What that means is it's only going to be available from September 18 through March 31. And we're not just talking about a limited physical release, which that happens with games that Nintendo thinks isn't going to sell or other companies think isn't going to sell well physically. We're talking a limited physical and digital meaning as of as far as we're aware after March 31 of 2021, you will not be able to buy this game brand new anywhere, unless for extra copies that are still on store shelves that haven't sold. So this is a very interesting announcement because when they announced this whole thing, they did it inferring that it was just about the Super Mario 35, which is that Tetris attack style Mario game. So it was kind of inferred here that this was not going to happen to this game. This would just be a standard game release like it seems that you know 3D world with the Bowser stuff Bowser's Fury. It felt like it was supposed to be like that. It's just another game coming to switch another collection coming to switch. But that's not the case. It's limited. Now this is obviously sent some confusion because it didn't really make that clear in the direct. But if you check out the website and you check out Nintendo's email they sent out to consumers and press about it, it specifically mentions that this game, the Super Mario 3D All Stars game is a limited run game. And that's worrying because it shouldn't be a limited run game. Now I have a couple of theories, a couple of pros and a couple of cons for Nintendo and for consumers. And one of those pros, one of these things that makes me not as concerned about this as maybe some others are, I've seen some concerns in the comments about it, is that Nintendo has done these limited things before and then just totally had them last a lot longer. Hello classic systems. SNES, NES Classic, we're only supposed to be around for like a couple months. We had the NES Classic around for years. Why? Because of demand. So it's one of those things that if these games between September 18th and March 31st sell five, six, seven, eight, 10 plus million copies, Nintendo doesn't really have an incentive to not keep making more of them because the demand could still be incredibly high. So if it keeps being sold out all the way through March 31st, even if it's just because they're only doing limiting, you know, amounts of them at a time, that's going to make Nintendo realize we need to keep making more. So even though that is the current plan for Nintendo plans change, that's what I'm kind of throwing out there. So don't panic too much about it yet. We've also seen, however, where Nintendo has done these limited runs, like with Xenoblade Chronicles back on the Wii where they only used GameStop and only had like one limited run that they didn't end up reprinting. And that was it. And there is a reason that Nintendo might do this. And that is because they could release each of these games individually, digitally, and make more money. So you could release this, you know, HD version of Super Mario 64 for 40 bucks. You could do the same thing for Galaxy, the same thing for Sunshine. So they could end up making more profits overall by releasing the games individually instead of on the collection bag. Again, it was strange to see them gather these games together. But what makes it not as strange is also something that has frustrated some people. And I think a lot of this is because we've been building up hype for this collection pack since March when the rumors first landed. And then Nintendo's lack of announcements all year along has just led the hype being higher and higher and higher, because this is the big game from Nintendo. And it's that they didn't do much at all. Like Sunshine probably has the biggest change to it, because not only is it in HD, full 1080p docked by the way, we now have the full resolutions Galaxy and Galaxy and Sunshine are going to run at 1080p docked 720p handheld, whereas the, you know, the what should I call it, the Super Mario 64 I don't know why I was drawing a blank is only going to run at 720p docked or handheld doesn't really make much sense. And it does you consider the fact that they didn't add a 16 by nine aspect ratio to it. That's the thing. Sunshine is going to have the biggest change because it goes from this to this. And then it also becomes 1080p. So that's going to be a nice little upgrade. But even then, they didn't redo textures, they didn't do any special new age effects to it, you know, like if you look at other remakes, Nintendo's done like the Winmaker HD added more bloom, and they didn't change the fundamental art style, they added things to it. There's no new content, there's no new features. It's just, hey, it's an HD enjoy. And for Galaxy, I feel like, you know, that's a more acceptable game to maybe do that with. Just like, you know, if Nintendo did that with Skyward Sword HD next year, I think that's a more acceptable way a game to try to do that with. But when you see Mario 64, just up rest, not even put into widescreen, which has been done with emulators. That to me is a little lazy. Now, I'm still picking this up. I'm still excited for it. And it's the best looking official copies of these games that exist. And I know that over the years, we've seen a lot of Unreal Engine 4 remasters. And we've seen a lot of just a lot of different things in general, if we're completely honest, when it comes to these games. And Nintendo is taking down fan games and all that. But I have to admit, it's a little bit underwhelming that we had almost a year build up. Remember, not Nintendo's fault that we had this long build up. Kind of. I guess if they had other announcements along the way with COVID, trying to be understanding here is not technically their fault. This year was supposed to be different for them. This was supposed to be an E3 thing. Anyways, the point is that the games aren't that impressive on their own. But it's still a nice collection pack. I still think it's worth 60 bucks personally just to have them up resed. So I am going to pick it up and I'm going to thoroughly enjoy it. And it's going to be a nice part of my collection. And it being a limited run, I guess makes it a more collectible game. But again, if it's selling like game busters, and the demand is really high, Nintendo's not going to stop making them. I think this is more of a, hey, if it's not popular, we have a cut off date and it becomes a collector's item. I think that's kind of the way Nintendo is positioning it. Whereas they have a feeling that 3D world is going to sell 4 or 5 million. I don't think Nintendo actually has high expectations for the sales of this game, which I do think is another case of Nintendo underselling how well this game is going to sell. I think this collection pack could outsell Super Mario 3D world even with the new Bowser content. I think it could outsell it even though that's a better port, or a better whatever, just because it adds brand new content. So yeah, that's kind of my take on that. But remember, for now, officially it is a limited run from September 18th to March 31st. So if this is one of those games, oh, I'm going to wait for it to be discounted. I'm going to wait. There's no reason to wait. You're going to wait and then you won't be able to get a new copy anymore. So if you want a new sealed copy, especially or even if you want it digitally, you got to buy it before the 31st of next year. Doesn't mean you got to get it now. You don't have to get a day one. You can wait. It'll be available for digital sales. There won't be like, oh my gosh, they ran out of digital copies. They'll keep doing it until March 31st. Anyways, thank you guys so much for tuning in. Remember to enter those giveaways. I just wanted to clarify this because there has been confusion over it. And I'll catch you guys in the next video.