 Hey everyone, welcome back to Nintendo Prime. We have a third video for you. This is late night edition Prime, although maybe you're watching this in the morning or the next day. We need to make a video because Nintendo has released their actual briefing they did with investors. We obviously went over the financial results earlier, but now we know some additional information. Nintendo does actually make their first legitimate mention of a next generation platform. So that is something that we need to talk about and why they mentioned it. We also need to talk about the audience for Nintendo Switch. I've been telling you guys for a long time that Nintendo Switch is not really primarily made for kids. In fact, a majority of the audience is adults. Am I right? Or am I just some crazy mid-30s nobody that you shouldn't listen to? I mean, maybe you shouldn't listen to me anyways. I don't know, but we'll find out here because now we have updated figures on the average age groups that are playing Nintendo Switch. Yeah, and all that, we get an update on how many people are subscribed to Nintendo Switch online. So yeah, we got three really interesting things to talk about here. Before we do, I will remind you we do have a giveaway going on right now for PrimeTober. It's a Switch OLED bundle. So yes, it'll be a Switch OLED. There'll be other items in there as well. We'll announce those items as the weeks go on. To enter, all you gotta do is be subscribed. Oh, and by the way, the winner gets to choose a charity of their choice after we vet that charity to donate $100 to. Like, they don't do it. We donate $100 to that charity. So yeah, pretty, pretty cool there. Oh, by the way, smash that like button, everybody. Can we get this video to, I don't know, 500 likes? I think we can do 500, let's keep it realistic. 500 likes. I don't know what happens if we get there, but I appreciate it. All right, so first up we have this graph. Woo-hoo, look at this graph. All right, so this graph came from their briefing and this talks about the current state of Nintendo Switch and the age distribution of annual users. You will notice around the age groups of 10, 11, 12, 13. Right in there, there is a little bit of a bump, but look at the average age group around 22, 21, 22. Yeah, that is the biggest, largest group of people playing Nintendo Switch are in their college years. But if you really look at this and you go back to say, you know, 19, 18, 19, that's also a larger group than any other child group in the United States. You're legally an adult at 18. So it certainly looks like to me, 70 to 80% of Nintendo Switch players are adults, at least according to the letter of the law anyways. You'll see that, I mean, even that 10-year-old age group or I guess, I guess probably the 11-year-old age group that's the biggest for children. I mean, that doesn't get matched by adults until around age 45, 44. So the peak child group is matched by the 45-year-old. Everything from 18 to 45 is a larger audience than any child group. So yeah, I think it's pretty safe to say the Nintendo Switch audience is primarily played by adults. So take that for what you will. Nintendo did mention this to be the case back in 2018, but it hasn't been updated since. And it's interesting that Shintaro Furukawa chose to talk about the audience now. They point out that this shows a diverse audience, which it does, by the way, 18 to, what is it, all the way up to 60 for the adults is like that's a really wide range. But even when you look at the children, it really starts to take off around age eight or nine in the child sector. So it falls off a little bit in the teenage years. You guys know teenagers. We gotta play the hardcore games, call a duty on or whatever the case might be. But once they get out of those years and get more, I guess, mature, they seem to be a lot more interested in Nintendo platform. So yeah, this to me, despite Nintendo talking about how this shows a wide range of diversity, it also shows that yeah, most people that play Switch are adults. So I don't know what we're gonna do about the fact that Nintendo's reputation is that they make games for kids. I know it's mostly based on the art direction of their games, but most of the people playing those games are adults. So is art direction really an indicator of anything? I don't know. I feel like it's time to put that one to bed. Let's get to the next point that we learned here and that is how many people are subscribed to Nintendo Switch Online? I found this to be really interesting because obviously I've been really chastising Nintendo Switch Online as a service, but it's a service that isn't going to go anywhere anytime soon. There's a really long document here. Most of the stuff is just stuff that we already know about and isn't really that interesting, but I do find the total number of people subscribed interesting. So it is 32 million people to date are subscribed to Nintendo Switch Online. Although this doesn't necessarily include people that are also subscribed to the expansion pack, but the base Nintendo Switch Online service is at 32 million and continues to grow as a Switch shows. Now that makes up roughly a third of the audience that plays Nintendo Switch and that to me is rather interesting when we just consider Nintendo's first ever subscription service being Nintendo Switch Online. So I think that's interesting. Obviously they talk at length about the benefits of the service and all that. Pretty much stuff that I've been blasting over the years, but still it is growing and it isn't going to go anywhere and I do have some good news, potential good news here about the Nintendo Switch games. When you talk about the NES, the SNES, N64 Genesis and the general services of Nintendo Switch Online, there might be some good news for the future. We'll get into that in a moment because Nintendo had a graph. They threw this graph up about the future outlook and you'll see obviously they talk about the integrated hardware software of Nintendo DS and Wii conveniently that are just skipping the Wii U and the 3DS. I'm not really surprised the Wii U and 3DS happened to not be that well integrated and on top of that are the worst selling platforms in their respective space. 3DS is Nintendo's worst handheld of all time sales wise. We use the worst console of all time sales wise. Obviously virtual boy, people can make arguments for that but yeah, here's what I find interesting about this graph. First off, it mentions a next gaming system. So whatever Nintendo has coming next, their next generation system, Nintendo's working on it. It's on the graph. If it's on the graph, it's in the works. Not that we should be shocked that it is in the works, but it is and it's gonna come out before 2100 because it goes to 2000 and XX. So like obviously it's gonna come out before I die. So yeah, it's gonna be pretty cool to speculate on what that is. Nintendo doesn't talk a lot about it but what I find really interesting here is that they have the Nintendo account system going from the Switch to the next-gen platform and the value added services of that account system. So this would be like the expansion pack and all that expanding as we get to the next platform. This to me is really interesting because Nintendo doesn't go into too many details on it when I actually read their presentation. It says like we seek a virtuous cycle with our integrated hardware software business and the provisions and services of content based on Nintendo accounts in which the touch points are created with ever more consumers and strengthen with established long-term mutually positive relationships. And then they just go into basically how people can be happy with these services. But what they don't really note and I feel like this graph really illustrates is that Nintendo's planning to bring the Nintendo account and all the services forward to the next system. This suggests that we're not gonna see what happened what we've seen in the past. In the past with things like virtual console it's been reset on every system it's come out on. That appears to not be the case here. It feels like everything that they have now will still be relevant and there on the next platform. That is very, very good and does make it people probably feel more comfortable with long-term investments in Nintendo Switch online and obviously the expansion pass and whatever else comes next because you know these services are still going to be around on the next platform. Now obviously we hope these services get better and we hope that Nintendo improves on things but it does appear that like, hey, we're not gonna get like a reset on these services heading to the next system. We're gonna be there day one and they should just continue to expand. So we'll have to wait and see but I'm pretty, pretty stoked to find out what is next. So yeah folks, thank you so much for tuning in. That's the video. I needed to get this out to you guys because I feel like this is really interesting and important information about the current state and future state of Nintendo Switch and Nintendo platforms. Yeah, you guys are amazing as always. I hope to catch you guys tomorrow night. We'll be doing a live stream. We'll be another video at least tomorrow as well but I hope to catch you guys at our next live stream. It should be a good time. A nice little Friday capper tomorrow. So you guys are awesome. Stay smiling. Tell someone that you love them and have a great day.