 Alright folks, I have a couple things I want to talk to you here about the Legend of Zelda franchise Nintendo's treatment of it here on Nintendo Switch and obviously some conversations around like is Nintendo scamming us with these 60 dollar prices for games like I don't know Link's Awakening or in this case Skyward Sword HD. Lots of controversy surrounding the price point of 60 dollars for that game. Some understandable controversy in some light but also we need to have an honest conversation about things like perceived value. Now before we get into this I am giving away a $99 Nintendo Switch eShop card down in the description or the pinned comment or both whichever one you want to click on so go enter that and I wish all you guys luck. So first up let's get into some of the bigger news here and then we'll get into the larger conversation that is we're getting more Zelda ports this year. I think we've speculated and long assumed we were going to get more Zelda ports this year but now we basically know because two major people out there named Andy Robinson and Tom Phillips both of them professional journalist Andy Robinson for the VGC video game Chronicle and then Tom Phillips for Eurogamer so two relatively well-known big outlets. These are some journalists that I've basically put out there that we are getting the Wind Waker HD and Twilight Princess HD. So here's tweet one from Andy Robinson it says for those disappointed with the Skyward Sword remaster Wind Waker and Twilight Princess are 100% coming this year so that's at least one good 3D Zelda that's his personal opinion and then Tom Phillips in response to cheesemeister who said well look at the bright side if you already have the Wind Waker and Twilight Princess on Wii U there's no need to rebuy them again. Tom Phillips says see you in a couple months. Essentially inferring Nintendo's announcing these games and I think we've long expected Twilight Princess HD and the Wind Waker HD to Wii U games Wii U HD remasters what do we even call them to come over because we've been getting pretty much all the Wii U games on Switch which is fine. There's nothing wrong with that I mean we still need to get Star 5 Zero over here a few other games as well but I do think that it's very obvious for the Zelda's 35th anniversary which Nintendo will mention eventually even if they don't on the actual anniversary we're going to get those games. Skyward Sword HD I think was the first shoe to drop and I think what's interesting is I'm starting to think we're going to get each game individually potentially for $60 which will be interesting since it's going to be it's weird so let's talk about Skyward Sword here. So Skyward Sword HD is coming to Switch. They're charging 60 bucks you can go preorder on the eShop right now obviously you can wait and just get it in person at Walmart for 50 bucks if you want save $10 there but that's true with any game that releases we can't really consider Walmart pricing some standardized industry-wide price point that oh look it's really a $50 game not really reliant on your in-person Walmart having stock also reliant that you even have a Walmart around you that you can purchase it from also reliant that you're willing to even go to a Walmart in the middle of a pandemic so lots of things to consider though that's why nope it's a $59.99 game here's my thoughts on this so we have to first consider what are they doing with Skyward Sword HD all right they're taking a game that was originally in 480p and up resing it now we don't know for sure if that up res is 1080p docked 720p handheld but we know it's probably at least 720p since that's the maximum resolution of the actual handheld switch okay so we got 720p bare minimum right we also have a bump from 30 fps to what we presume is going to be a locked 60 fps I don't really see anything that happened in in that game there's not a billion enemies on screen so I'm pretty sure it's going to stay at a locked 60 fps which is a big improvement by the way that creates smoother more accurate gameplay we also know that the motion controls are back fully with Joy-Con also some Zelda Joy-Con to come out along with it but the point is that the Joy-Con supposedly according to what Aegeanumu stated are actually better and more accurate at motion control than the old Wii remote plus and nunchuck setup so in theory we have better motion controls in this game because this was like the game was highlighting the Wii controls it just came out so late nobody cared and then they also remapped it so you can use a pro controller use the switch light etc and basically do all the sword movements with the right stick because if you remember the original game didn't have a right stick it just had the one stick on the Joy so it was really easy to kind of take the controls and say hey look just use the right stick for it they showed you flicking at certain ways for slashes which by the way that's how the motion controls work in the game you flick your wrist you flick your risk or you just flail your arm flail your arm whatever all over the place but the point is that the right stick can basically mimic the 360 degree motion of the sword so who you want to like how are you supposed to stick your sword in the air push the stick up how you supposed to do dowsing push the stick down I mean like this is very obvious you would lift your arm up lift your put your arm down do the same thing with the right stick I don't think anyone concerned with the controls spinning to like make the eye get dizzy in one of the puzzles like I don't think you need to worry about it people have already remapped to the right stick in emulators so like Nintendo's just doing what people have already done to make this game playable so uh in in people's preferred way of playing so all right that's basically the gist of what they did you know maybe there's some more maybe there's some additional amiibo functionality they might have tossed in there uh doesn't sound like there's any new content uh potentially like maybe they're doing like a quick sale thing like they didn't win record hd where they make the loft wing be able to temporarily like fly a little faster up there since the world's a little empty up in the sky uh just like people complained about win raker that was a complaint in skyward sword so maybe they do something like that but honestly uh even if they don't I don't really think that's that big of a deal uh I think what's what's interesting is that they did all this and they're charging 60 bucks now we recently talked about this on our nintendo direct smash or past uh nintendo prime podcast episode one featuring supermental dave so if you want a much deeper in-depth conversation with multiple people other perspectives head to that podcast and watch it seriously it's an amazing episode that i'm going to probably start advertising that podcast more often I that that podcast episode is like the quintessential way I've always wanted a video game podcast to be especially in video form but here's the thing nintendo has created expectations for we you ports we ports etc zenebrate chronicles was a wee game yeah they took it over to 3ds as well the new 3ds but when they brought it to here they redid the visuals they redid the visuals and they gave us a bunch of new content look at what they did for super mario 3d world plus bowser fury they added that whole bowser fury aspect pitman 3 deluxe they added the alamar levels uh you know even captain toad they added switch specific cap you know captain toad levels to be fair they had to get rid of some of the old wee u levels but still we did get technically new content with that game uh if you look at uh i'm trying to even think back mario cardate deluxe hey look 60 bucks same game but you got all the dlc packed in to one package so it didn't feel like that bad of a deal at the time now you know in 2021 it's a little weird we're still paying that price but the game keeps selling so who can blame nintendo the point i'm making here is that nintendo saw these expectations that with pretty much every game old game anyways that they bring to switch that isn't like you know even when you look at the games they didn't do much in right mario super mario galaxy you know super mario 64 sunshine like they basically just hd the games and throw a status they packed those three games into one package so with skyward sword hd it certainly looks like they are offering you less value for the same money but here's the deal value is in the eye of the beholder to me as a fan of zelda who 100% skyward sword hasn't really touched it since the wee days uh am i interested in skyward sword hd the answer is yes for 60 bucks i will spend 60 dollars to get this game in hd and 60 fps with non-motion control options even though i really enjoy the motion controls i'm going to try it both ways and see which way i end up preferring because at the time there was an option so you had to basically like the motion controls if you really wanted to play the game uh so i that's what i did uh so my thing is does that mean the game is a 60 dollar game on the caliber of super mario 3d world with bowser's fury well let me say something here for me yeah i'm going to spend more time playing skyward sword hd than i'm going to spend playing super mario 3d world plus bowser's fury and again this can make me part of a perceived problem but i think the problem really is perception look a lot of people complaining that skyward sword hd is 60 bucks how many of you are actually planning to buy the game like how many of you at no matter at what price unless it was dirt cheap what we're going to buy the game like when they announced skyward sword hd before you even knew the price where you're thinking oh yeah i'm going to buy that game how many of you saw the 60 dollar price point said that we're going to buy the game went oh you know what 60 bucks i'm not going to nintendo i think fundamentally understands their audience at a level we don't there's those that complain on the internet about pricing and then there's those that actually buy games and for the most part nintendo has proven time and time and time again they can release these games at 60 bucks and they are going to sell i'll give you an example of a game that they brought over that did have very minimal changes and they sold it at max price they sold it actually at a more expensive price donkey kong tropical freeze and it sold it sold well that's my point nintendo knows its audience nintendo is going to sell games at a price point that they think the audience can bear and they have set expectations that every port every hd thing they do is going to be 60 dollars they have set that expectation and nobody should really expect it to be less even if you wanted to you can make an absolutely fair argument that skyward sword hd is offering you less for the same amount of money than a bunch of other games nintendo has given us at the same point hey people are going to pay it anyways because they want to play skyward sword and hd the perceived value at 60 dollars is there for enough people and let's think about why is the value there it was on nintendo we what's the big deal well to give you an idea it came out towards the end of the we life cycle and a lot of people moved on it didn't sell very well so it's not even that well known of a game for a lot of zell the players breath of the wild has since come out and moved over 20 million units which is more there's more zell the fans now than there's ever been in the history of the franchise maybe they're curious on going back and playing an older zell the game we saw what links awakening did now links awakening is a nice little argument here against skyward sword links awakening was originally a gameboy game and they kind of redid it in color a bit for the gameboy color etc we've seen it kind of reiterated and rereleased over the years but not really remade until the switch when they completely did a new engine new visuals all that jazz they did a lot they overhauled the whole game and boom sold it for 60 bucks you could argue it was worth it now look at perceived value though is links awakening on switch as valuable of a game as breath of the wild that sells at the same price i think most of us could factually say breath of the wild is a more premium game than the links awakening so why the hell are they both 60 dollars because you're gonna spend the money anyways nintendo has realized that by making the expectation that everything they release is going to be 60 dollars that consumers are conceding that if they want to play this nintendo game they're going to spend 60 bucks value is in the eye of the consumer and the consumers have been conditioned and expected to pay a certain price to play nintendo ip whether it's old or new and at the end of the day it's up to us as consumers to decide if we're okay with that am i okay that skyward store costs 60 bucks clearly because i'm going to buy it does it mean i don't understand people that refuse to buy it on principle of the pricing of course i do of course i do don't buy it then i'm not here to make your purchasing decisions to spend your money spend your money any way you even fit but me personally i'm going to buy it just like i'm probably going to end up buying the windbreaker hd and twilight princess hd all over again on switch when they inevitably release them individually for 60 bucks now where i love for them to package them together for 60 yeah i would love for them to use hey look skyward store is never been an hd that's why we're charging 60 these are two u ports we're going to bundle them together and we're going to charge you 60 and you get a bundle it's not happening does this mean there won't be a nintendo switch bundle collection this year no they could bundle the wind uh i'm not the windmaker uh i'll until i pass make a bundle ocarina of time make a bundle major is mass there's your three pack of super mario all stars or zelda all stars in this case they could bundle a lot but reality is nintendo knows what they're doing so be upset about the pricing if you want be upset about the precedent the pricing is setting but this precedent has been set with nintendo dating back to what the we days the the the game cube days like how far back do we want to go where nintendo brings old games through a new platform and charges you full price nintendo's been doing this for almost the entire existence of them as a video game company so at at some point i guess it just gets tiring i have been critical of this in the past i've was critical of it in this video and critical of it on the podcast but obviously it's still worth it to me why is it worth it to me because i just love zelda that much they could probably tell me it's a hundred bucks and i'd probably still buy it is there a price they could charge that i would avoid it absolutely they start telling me it's a hundred fifty two hundred dollars that's the only way you're getting it i'm not spending that kind of money just to play scabbard sort of hd especially when you could just freely emulate it in 4k at that but still uh i'm going to get it i want them to keep bringing back old zelda games keep hd in them or remaking them like links awakening i want to keep seeing nintendo provide lots of zelda goodness and i have a feeling we're going to get so much zelda goodness this year i'm going to end up spending three four five hundred dollars on zelda related stuff this year just because i'm a sucker for zelda i don't know if you guys can see it i have a lot of zelda stuff i'm a big zelda fan i ran zelda fansites for like nearly 20 years so i am unique i guess and that zelda is my thing and nintendo has me hook life and sinker when it comes to zelda they have the teeth in deep with me you want to talk about the one thing i'm probably a fanboy about it's zelda not nintendo on the whole zelda i can't help it it's just it it's exactly what i love to play in video games i will play zelda games probably until the day i die or the day my hands stop working or other controllers that you could use when you're disabled don't work for me anyways that's what i got for you guys uh you guys let me know your thoughts on the scabbard store pricing your thoughts on the fact that it appears that the windbreaker hg and twilight princess hg are are all but confirmed by two prominent media members as coming just you know nintendo saving it so they they've already heard they've already prepped news articles and previews and heck they might even have review copies of the game right now to drop previews because sometimes what will happen is nintendo will do like oh hey we're not seeing this today and the media does previews like the next day because they've actually had their hands on it for a while and it's easy for media to keep their mouth shut about it because we're just talking about games that have already been out right so like the previews shouldn't be anything that like shocks you the focus is always going to be on performance resolution how does the controls feel all that jazz and if they do anything new with it which i don't think they will anyways folks i'm nintendo robin jets from nintendo prime thank you so much for tuning in and i'll catch you in the next video