 Today we're gonna be talking about Super Mario 3D All-Stars because it appears to be potentially on pace to be the fastest selling Nintendo Switch game of all time. I mean we're talking, you know, Animal Crossing, hitting 20 million, something like that. Now before we get into it, it's appropriate that we have news about this because we are giving away three copies of this game, potentially five. We're also giving away a Switch Lite. Now to enter these giveaways, because they're two separate giveaways, so we have one giveaway for three copies of Super Mario 3D All-Stars, then we have a second giveaway for a Switch Lite and then two second place winners get a game of choice for Switch, as I said, so potentially five copies, it will depend on what the second place winners choose. I have to let you know that there's actually one way to enter both instantly and that's if you join our Patreon. If you go to patreon.com slash Nintendo Prime for as little as $1 a month, you will get 15 entries into these giveaways. In fact, I think I might continue the Patreon entries for every giveaway, so it might be worth checking out. There's also other tiers on there beyond the $1, $5, $20 get to like on an episode of the podcast, so it's just worth checking out in general if you're interested in, you know, helping out the channel in other ways beyond just some giveaway entries for a dollar. Now, that being said, I have other ways to enter the giveaway too. So for the Switch Lite giveaway, you know, yes, I'm giving away a Switch Lite this month with two second place winners getting a game of choice. You can subscribe to the channel, like the channel, comment down below, and then hit the bell icon, all that jazz. There's also following on Twitter, joining our Discord server, everything's down in the description for that. To enter for the Super Mario 3D All-Stars game, three game giveaway beyond joining our Patreon, you can also hit the gleam.io link, so there are two separate giveaways happening simultaneously this month. For $500 with the stuff when you include shipping, pretty crazy, let's get into the news. Now, Super Mario 3D All-Stars is currently, believe it or not, the second best selling game on Amazon US for the entire year. This includes pre-orders, this includes games that are already out, Animal Crossing, as an example, New Horizons is the number one selling game on Amazon, it's also the fastest selling game, and this includes not only the pre-orders for it, but all of the sales since, yeah, Super Mario 3D All-Stars is at number two, after only being available to pre-order for four days, and it's still taking pre-orders, and yes, could easily end up at number one. By the time the game launches, gosh, what are we, eleven days away, about a week and a half away from the game launching, so by the time it comes out, it might already be the fastest selling game. Now, there are a lot of factors that are obviously in play with this, first off is the idea that the game is only going to be available to March 31st, so there's a lot of this by now mentality with this game, where the entire audience that might exist for this game could literally end up purchasing this game within the first month, because again, there's going to be a scarcity for it, it's going to be hard to get, we already know Nintendo's had shortages with game cartridges and consoles, even though they're caught up now, who knows if they're going to stay caught up with holidays around the corner, yeah, the digital version will obviously do what it's going to do, I mean remember these pre-orders do not include, you know, digital pre-orders, which happened through the eShop, these are only including physical sales, so yeah, Super Mario 3D All Stars is about to blow the hell up now for context, for context, and like the first few weeks Animal Crossing was on store shelves, or maybe it was like launch week, it sold like 12 or 13 million, it was insane, over 20 million now, so it's pretty crazy to think about what that game didn't launch and that how this game could top that, are we looking at 15 million? Now obviously this just speaks about US sales, not the total 15 million, that's for everything, but let's actually take a look at the article on Nintendo Life, because it talks, it kind of dabbles I guess on some other areas as well, other parts of the country, and how well it's doing there pre-order wise, so let's take a look here, now as you're seeing here, you know the game was announced last Thursday, four days before the article went live, it's the second best-selling game of 2020 at Amazon, so we'll open that up as well to take a look at it, but it means that on Amazon at least the game is also the last of us to Paper Mario the Origami King, as well as BD Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and the Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild, obviously Animal Crossing New Horizons as well, Amazon UK site it's already the seventh best-selling game of the year, so we'll open that up as well, Animal Crossing top set list two with last of us to a Minecraft close behind, so let's just take a look at those listings, so these are best-selling of so far, so obviously you see Animal Crossing here as the number one game, but then you kind of dabble down here, dabble down here, dabble down here, and there it is at number 14, obviously you're gonna see gaming related stuff you know in between, interestingly enough with all the Switch sales, you got the temperate glass protector, but yeah, like there it is at number 14, beating out Mario Kart 8 and stuff like that, beating out the Nintendo Switch itself, the red box version anyways, of course there's multiple versions of Switch, so all combined it probably has outsold that, so this is Amazon UK, you see number three and then scrolling on down, where is it, the last of us to, oh yeah it's number seven on this list, so here's Amazon UK, there's Animal Crossing at number one, then you have Last of Us part two, then you have Minecraft, Mario Kart 8, let's see here Pokemon Sword at number five, looks like Just Dance at number six, and then there's Super Mario All Stars at number seven, so all of this I find to be completely fascinating because Super Mario 3D All Stars, I have criticisms of the game, in fact if you go look at our latest episode on the Nintendo Prime podcast, linked up here or down in the description I guess now that I mentioned it, you'll see that I honestly kind of think it's a little bit of a lazy job by Nintendo, they just like emulator HD did, they didn't really do anything fancy or put any work in it, there's no extra content, they mess with the controls a little bit you know to make it work, obviously they don't have to change all flood works and all that, but they're just HD versions of the game, here's the thing, Nintendo's got me too because I'm gonna end up buying it because it's the highest resolution officially supported by Nintendo, 1080p with the with Sunshine and Galaxy 720p even in 4.3 with you know, Mario 64, they're the highest official resolution versions of the game, so I'm gonna end up buying it, it doesn't mean that it's that great of a value, but it's also the celebration of Mario's 35th anniversary, it is the only thing besides Mario 35 that you can play for free game-wise that's officially being like a 35th anniversary game because New Super Mario Brothers, you know, I'm sorry, Super Mario 3D World plus Bowser's Fury coming next year, while you know they're tying that into the 35th anniversary, let's just be honest it's just another port like New Super Mario Brothers U but with new content that's really really cool and I'm really excited for it, in fact it's the thing I'm most excited for, besides potentially that Mario Kart home tour live thing, that thing looks really cool, but in terms of like standard video games it's the one I'm looking forward to most because it includes new content, but again that probably was going to exist regardless of the 35th anniversary, it's potential of this collection, this 3D All Stars might not be here if it wasn't the 35th anniversary of Mario, so there's just a lot to look at this as, you're buying it for the box art, you're buying it for the cartridge that has 35th anniversary on it, you're buying it because these are three really really really good Mario games, I mean these are some of the best 3D platforming games of all time, can we just say that, you know I know there's been some jokes out there, oh it's two of the best plus Sunshine, Sunshine's fantastic, I don't think it ever got a fair shake back in the day and I'm really happy that I was gonna be tens if not 20 plus million people getting to enjoy that and that's the crazy thing we're talking about, when we're talking about a game competing up there with Animal Crossing in the US and we'll see what it does in Japan, when we're talking about it competing with Animal Crossing, we're talking about record setting sales, this game is tickling all the right juices for Nintendo right now, one it's a limited edition so you can only buy it for a short amount of time, I honestly think they're gonna make it available for more than that but neither of you know they're officially only available to March 31st of next year so there's like this limited time span to buy as many copies as you want, we've already seen scalpers listing them up before they even have the game, I don't know if it's gonna be that difficult to get at first but you know the value of it should go up if Nintendo really does cut it off on March 31st, beyond that we know that these are three of the best Mario games of all time, it's gonna itch that nostalgia factor you know with Galaxy and Sunshine and Mario 64, lots of nostalgia there, lots of people wanting to go back and replay these games in HD or have them to go on their switch officially and some of the games in the Galaxy have never been re-released, I don't think Sunshine's been re-released either so there you go Mario 64 has been brought several times a virtual console but those two games haven't been re-released let alone in HD and then two people who played Mario Odyssey remember Mario Odyssey sold 18 million copies, 18 plus million, it's probably gonna cross 20, it is by far and away one of the best selling 3D Mario platforming games of all time, some of these games did not sell that kind of crazy numbers which means, Sunshine, which means but for many Mario fans this will be the first time playing these games and they're the next 3D Mario games coming to the platform so there you go, it's got that triple whammy going on of nostalgia plus like new fans that haven't played the games plus limited and the 35th anniversary, you want to throw that on top so I don't know you guys let me know what you think about it down in the console, are you planning to get it, are you just hoping to win the giveaway what's going on, this is getting crazy around here, I'm excited for them but also kind of like wishing they did more, maybe it's just because we've known about it all year I don't know but I'll catch you guys in the next video