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Tim Gettys
This episode is brought to you by Universal Pictures. Today's the day.
Greg Miller
From Universal Pictures and Blumhouse come a storm of terror. From the director of the Shallows. The Woman in the Yard. Don't let her in. Where does she come from?
Tim Gettys
What does she want?
Greg Miller
When will she leave? The Woman in the Yard in theaters now.
Tim Gettys
What's up and welcome to the Kind of Funny Games cast for Friday, March 28, 2025. Of course. I am your host, Tim Gettys. I am joined today by blessing. Adio Ye junior.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Good day, Tim.
Tim Gettys
Greg Miller.
Greg Miller
Good day, Tim.
Tim Gettys
And Andy Cortez.
Andy Cortez
Happy birthday, Kevin Coelho.
Tim Gettys
No happy birthday. 10 years of Kevin Coelho working here. Our first congratulations to Kevin, everyone. Please go any social media. He's on Kind of funny today too.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
I was like, I don't know.
Tim Gettys
Find him wherever Kevin's doing stuff, he's out there. Congratulate him. Show him all the love that he deserves.
Andy Cortez
I think we saw each other blocked. I'm not sure.
Tim Gettys
You know what? People show love in different ways. Yeah, you know. Remember though, this is the kind of Funny Games cast. Each and every weekday we get together to talk about the biggest reviews, previews and topics in video games live on YouTube, Twitch and podcast services around the globe. If you love what we do, please support us with the Kinda funny membership on Patreon, YouTube, Spotify or Apple podcasts to get all of our shows ad free, watch us record them live and get a daily exclusive show. I haven't thanked y'all in a while, so I'm gonna do it right now. Thank you so much for your support on Spotify. We added video a couple months ago. Y'all have been showing up. Y'all are watching a lot and it's been really, really cool. It's been getting us a lot of awesome opportunities. Spotify keeps hitting us up, being like, yalls numbers are like very impressive compared to other people. And I'm like, that makes me so happy because we never hear that.
Andy Cortez
Yeah.
Greg Miller
You know what I mean?
Tim Gettys
That's because of y. So thank you. Thank you so much. I am. I'm hoping that that can continue and I can only continue thanks to you for a chance to be part of this show though. Submit your thoughts and opinions as YouTube super chats as we go. A little housekeeping for you. You already had an amazing episode of Kind of Funny Games Daily with Greg Miller reuniting with Mike Drucker. How was that?
Greg Miller
Awesome. You know how much I love Drucker. Of course, if you don't know Mike Drucker and I met when we hired him to be the writer of up at Noon. And then he left us to go write for the Tonight show and then he's written for Samantha Bean. He's been nominated for Emmys. He's got a new book coming out. You can pick it up kindafunny.com drucker it's a memoir about his life in video games called no Good Game, no Rematch. I want to make sure I didn't screw up. Good game, no rematch.
Tim Gettys
Kind of funny.com drucker and then after this we have a kind of funny game showdown that I am totally totally not scared about at all. I don't know why because the whole freaking farewell tour. Greg, you've been terrorizing me for the last couple days. At any moment I don't know what's going to happen. Yesterday we were doing in review. Kevin fucked up something in the control room of the phone started ringing and I thought it was Greg. No, Kevin made a mistake in the video.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
So it's only one a day.
Tim Gettys
You know what I mean?
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
You know?
Tim Gettys
God. But here we are. What's going to happen today? Who knows? I don't know and I'm not happy about it.
Greg Miller
These are nice things.
Tim Gettys
Anyways then after this no stream or after that no stream because we are celebrating Kevin's 10 year anniversary here at Kind of Funny. We're about to go get lunch and I'm very very excited. It's one of my favorite restaurants and I think you guys are really going to thank you to our Patreon producers Whining Carl Jacobs and Omega Buster. We do have a Greg Way. What is it today, Greg?
Greg Miller
Today's Greg way is about 12 minutes of me talking about the Tim Gettys farewell tour. Thank you Tim for that amazing transition. Of course, as everybody knows God the music has I have Stars in the bank blessing. Explain to them what that means before.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
The season of the bank. No.
Greg Miller
You made this up, don't you?
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Before this. You don't have to give me the microphone. I have a microphone.
Greg Miller
I'm a consummate professional. I am Mr. Stars in the bank, sir.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Greg won a tournament getting him the briefcase. He gets the cash in this briefcase whenever he wants to. To steal at least one of Tim's. I don't. The rules are shady.
Greg Miller
Carl Jacobs said that it was three and you didn't fight.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Carl Jacobs doesn't make the rules. I make the rules.
Greg Miller
Were on the show and you had uh huh. And you nodded.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
I said huh before you said the thing and he just gave me like a look.
Greg Miller
You know what? We'll figure that out when you give me the three stars. Maybe it goes up to four. I appreciate it, but I am cashing this beautiful briefcase in. I'm the only person ever held it. Andy.
Andy Cortez
Nice.
Greg Miller
Big deal. I don't have the ability to edit a Wikipedia page, but if somebody wants to add that to mine, I'd appreciate it. I'm cashing this in on Wednesday during the Switch 2 reveal event. I want to ruin Tim's perfect day by making it my perfect day. Of course I'll get these three stars. Everything will be fantastic. In the run up to this, I've given you a week of good things. It's the farewell tour. All right. I've given. Yesterday was the gift of honesty.
Andy Cortez
It was a good week.
Greg Miller
The first day was the gift of cake.
Tim Gettys
The gift of honesty. Oh, you tell me all the things Nintendo's done wrong over the years and.
Greg Miller
I farted your car. I told you that I was honest.
Tim Gettys
Okay, you're right.
Greg Miller
Today's gift is a gift for the audience. But of course, it's a gift for y'all too. So let me bust it on out here. All right? What you're all gonna be getting is something that I think is pretty special. If you didn't know. If you didn't know. Game Showdown is a very successful, popular game show here on Kinda funny. However, it has no merch. And I said that can no longer stand when you are Mr. Stars in the Bank. So I'm happy to report that right now on kindafunny.com store. You can go get your Tim Gettys Farewell Tour, of course. Designed by the immaculate Campfire Designs. You see the detail in.
Tim Gettys
You're my boy. Okay.
Greg Miller
Okay.
Tim Gettys
Why would you do this to me?
Greg Miller
What I love about it, of course, is it's honestly the best looking shirt we've ever done. Everybody wants Tim to go away, so it's fun to have that. And we're future proofing. Of course, it's got the date of the Switch 2 reveal on it, so of course everyone will know when you were there. And he put the three stars in tour again just to call it out. I'm not calling you. I don't want. I don't want you. I've done this a long time.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Sure.
Greg Miller
And a lot of you know, I'm Batman, you're Robin. Maybe you're Nightwing at this point. You know what I mean? But you've learned a lot from me and One of the things is, oh, these audiences on the Internet, they get mad when you lie to them.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
They do.
Greg Miller
So if you lied to them about the three stars, I can only protect you for so long, you know what I mean? And I got these fat fingers and I. I publish phone numbers real quick. I. I don't mean to.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
I don't know.
Greg Miller
Anything can happen on the Internet. All right? So I want you all to know that I have used the company card. I bought all three of you shirts already. So they'll be coming. You can go get your shirt. Kind of funny.com store. What's that? Yeah, Barrett, I bought you one too. Don't worry about it. Great at it.
Tim Gettys
Yesterday, Greg, many years ago we started this company. You know, it was about 10 years ago, about the time that Kevin first started. Yes, Right. We put out a shirt that I'm pretty sure to this day is our lowest selling shirt of all time. The Sean Finnegan likes hiking shirt likes a party. And Kevin Koala likes to party behind that. Why would anyone want to buy this, you know what I mean, saying they've already bought this? No, I don't think anyone's gonna buy this. I don't think a single person you're gonna want to support this nonsense.
Greg Miller
Sweet or blue Skeet, your confirmation of the order at. Let's see.
Tim Gettys
Please do not do that. Tim doesn't buy this.
Greg Miller
Tim doesn't understand.
Tim Gettys
Do not tweet at me.
Greg Miller
Tim doesn't understand that we're supporting him. This is support right here. You know what I mean? Farewell to the stars. And I also like, you know, there's just so much going on in this shirt. If we could. Oh, no, leave it up. We don't need to talk about Switch two. The Easter egg. What I love about this.
Tim Gettys
Yeah.
Greg Miller
Do you notice anything special about the farewell?
Andy Cortez
It's split in half.
Greg Miller
Why would it be split in half?
Andy Cortez
I don't know.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Shing.
Greg Miller
Finally we know what the sword sound is in Game Showdown. It's cutting Tim's dreams in half.
Tim Gettys
I see.
Andy Cortez
I like that. That's really nice.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
I've always wanted Game Showdown merch. I didn't know.
Greg Miller
Here it is.
Andy Cortez
The handle of the briefcase. Oh.
Greg Miller
Got a CM Punk vibe to it.
Andy Cortez
I love it.
Greg Miller
Oh, Tim.
Andy Cortez
Campfire kills.
Greg Miller
It's hard to recycle when you do that.
Tim Gettys
Well, everybody, today we're brought to you by Stash and apparently the Tim Getty's Farewell tour merch@kindafunny.com store.
Greg Miller
Can you imagine if I had an ad that you didn't know about. They would have ran. That would have been awesome.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Bear.
Greg Miller
Remember that for next time.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Yeah.
Greg Miller
I'm gonna win Stars in the bank again.
Kevin Coelho
Yeah.
Andy Cortez
Holy crap. A massive super chat from Jessica Hinkle.
Tim Gettys
Jessica hinkle saying, Happy 10 year anniversary, Kev dog. We love you. Thank you so much, Jessica.
Greg Miller
Jessica, that's very sweet, but this was kind of my moment. It was kind of about the shirt and the farewell tours. That's kind of up.
Andy Cortez
Thank you, Jessica.
Tim Gettys
Thank you, Jessica. Oh, my God. BJ Bernardo super chats in saying, I can't wait for Gray to actually steal Tim Stars and still lose the season at the end of the year. I believe in Tim Gettys. Thank you so much. That won't happen exactly that way. I will win, but I will not be stolen from.
Andy Cortez
I love that I'm just an audience member on game showdown.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
I just get to watch it all go down.
Andy Cortez
I get to just watch it all go down. I would say the other day I.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Was like, you might win for you.
Kevin Coelho
Every once in a while.
Andy Cortez
I was saying the other day when it was only kind of feudy, I was really good. I was like, really good. I love, I love it. Something's really good.
Tim Gettys
Get Eddie the stats. Let's see.
Andy Cortez
Yeah, give me the stats.
Tim Gettys
Topic of the show, everybody. It's toss, toss, toss, toss. It's the official final Nintendo Switch 2 predictions. Bless. It seems like every couple days we have predicted this Nintendo Switch 2 event for the last two years, you know, but here we are days away from this event actually happening. So for one last time, I wanted to get the four of us together to talk about all the things that we expect to see, what we don't expect to be there. All of it for the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct coming next week. That, of course, we will be live reacting to right here. Twitch TV, slash kind of funny games. YouTube.com/kind of funny games. And then you can get all of the coverage later on podcast services. But.
Greg Miller
But you want to be there live for when I get these stars, don't you?
Tim Gettys
You're going to want to be live. You're going to want to hang out with us, obviously, all day on Wednesday. We have a fun day of content planned even beyond the Nintendo Switch to direct itself. The Gamescast breakdown. We have some fun things after that.
Greg Miller
I think it's worth pointing out we haven't said this, we haven't publicly confirmed it, but the one, the only Cat Bailey going to be joining us, former NBC member, of course, formerly at ign of course. Cat Bailey knows a lot about Nintendo.
Tim Gettys
She does.
Greg Miller
She'll be hanging out with us for the Nintendo Switch.
Tim Gettys
Very excited about this. I was talking to her at gdc. She's very excited to be here reacting to Nintendo. So y'all should be hyped about that. But I came up with just a list of questions for us to kind of go through. And I. I was debating how to handle this episode the way I think because we talked so much about predictions. I didn't. I don't think we're going to need to do the lock in our. Our predictions and all that stuff. If we have pizza bets we want to make. If we have bets we want to make. If we get heated at each other, we'll call that out individually. Otherwise, it's more of a discussion in us saying what we think you get. I'm saying I like it. Cool. I want to start with the most important thing. Will the snap be replaced by a clap?
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Yes.
Andy Cortez
Yes.
Tim Gettys
And we know what already has. Sound wise. But visually, yes.
Andy Cortez
Oh.
Tim Gettys
Because we have the. In the transition. They always do the snap when we have this man in the direct.
Greg Miller
What's it gonna do, man?
Tim Gettys
What man's it gonna be? I don't even know.
Andy Cortez
I don't. Oh, okay. I see what you're saying. The sound effect. Yes. But I don't think that. I think they still visualize it with the snap.
Kevin Coelho
Do you think they teased it yesterday with Miyamoto going direct?
Tim Gettys
Well, they always do.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
That was the old ignor I. I come down on. Yes. I think it's going to be a clap, mainly for how the joy cons are going to attach this time around.
Tim Gettys
Right. We're.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
It's magnets, Tim.
Tim Gettys
Like, we're going magnets.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
And so they're going to clap onto that thing. We've heard the sound. Like it is a clap sound. I think that. I think they're going to want to drive that home with, like, how they brand it.
Tim Gettys
Right.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
How they visualize it. I think it does make sense to go from that to I'm team clap. Yeah. Clap it.
Tim Gettys
I think that these men are going to clap. Andy.
Andy Cortez
I think it's too far.
Tim Gettys
It's Nintendo.
Andy Cortez
I.
Greg Miller
That's the. That's.
Tim Gettys
That's.
Greg Miller
The problem is that I'm not trying to be spicy here, but I'm locking in. They snay with the snap.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Oh.
Greg Miller
And it's just because I just don't. I think that is good. This I don't like. I don't like this. I don't like, they're gonna get used to it.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
You like the snap at first.
Tim Gettys
We all make fun of.
Greg Miller
We all make fun of it.
Tim Gettys
Yeah, but.
Andy Cortez
Okay, but, like, I think it's rare that anybody does a Snap. And that to us is so Nintendo. If somebody just does this, that, like, that just signifies somebody smashing their hands together. And I don't know. I just don't feel right about it.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Think about them doing it. Think about them doing it in a Nintendo way, though, because they're gonna emphasize it and just. It's gonna be. It's gonna be. It's gonna be that. And we're gonna be like, all right, that's kind of weird. But then two directs later, we're gonna be like, I kind of with that.
Tim Gettys
Yeah, lock it in, everybody. I'm with. Bless. It's happening.
Andy Cortez
No team clap. It's a snap. It's just gonna sound cooler. It's gonna.
Greg Miller
You don't want to throw away. People get confused. They all know the switch is such a big success because of the snap. They don't want to throw. And the sound is similar. It's not the same. Similar.
Tim Gettys
Not the same, similar one.
Andy Cortez
Sounds like snap.
Tim Gettys
Yeah, sounds like. Real quick.
Andy Cortez
I love this super chat from Snugs. He's got my shirt. Cat Belly's gonna react to Tim losing his three stars. Give the sexual money to Kev. I don't. I don't. You know, Julie, should we prep Cat Bailey on?
Greg Miller
Oh, she watches all this, I'm sure.
Andy Cortez
Okay.
Tim Gettys
She watches all of it, I'm sure. All right, let's get into the meat of the system itself. I have a couple questions that I want us to go through. I'm going to say all of them right now for us to think about in case we want to, like, combine. All right?
Greg Miller
Okay.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Nick Schaer makes a good point. What if it's. Why not two snaps? What if we're snapping both fingers at the same time for the Switch 2, and that's how you get that amplified snap sound. Oh.
Andy Cortez
Cuz it does sound like a snap in stereo.
Tim Gettys
Yes. You know, it sounds like a clap of the magnet sucking them things to the switch to everybody.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Hold on, I'm trying to find it.
Tim Gettys
Here we go.
Greg Miller
Here we go.
Andy Cortez
It's definitely such a clap.
Tim Gettys
It's just everyone.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
That's a clap.
Tim Gettys
That's a clap.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Andy, you've been in FL Studio Club. Like, you've used, like.
Andy Cortez
That's a different scenario.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
That's a clap. That's not a snare. That's not A like, that's a clap right there. Yeah.
Tim Gettys
Think about it. System questions, release date, price, amount of SKUs. Will it be OLED? Will it have HDR? And what does the C button do?
Andy Cortez
It will have hdr.
Tim Gettys
Oh, changing your tune now.
Andy Cortez
I'm changing my tune, but by accident. I don't know if they'll announce it. I don't think that they're gonna, like, really focus on. There's gonna be like, oh, we shipped. Oh, nice. Good job. You guys got hdr.
Greg Miller
Yeah, that slipped in.
Andy Cortez
What's hdr, by the way? Like, they don't know. They don't have no idea what it is. But there will be absolutely no oled. That is like a pizza bed. I am willing to die on. Feed me pizza until I. My corpse is just bloated, you know?
Tim Gettys
So let's continue with the HDR conversation.
Greg Miller
Who are you betting against, though?
Andy Cortez
Because Tim is, like, so set on.
Tim Gettys
So I guess I'll jump here. I'm making a pizza. Bet on this. I'm not making a pizza.
Andy Cortez
Tim is so set that I feel so confident in this, and it feels that you're coming at me and my beliefs.
Tim Gettys
I'm coming.
Andy Cortez
No, but even the OLED thing.
Tim Gettys
No, no. The OLED tapes back.
Andy Cortez
I don't know what games cast. We were on the OLED thing. You were like, how are you so sure about this?
Tim Gettys
No, well, sure about that. I'm still there because I'm not sure. I'm still believing. I know I'm being stupid. I know that there's just a lot of hope in me, but, like, I'm not convinced there's no oled. I also think there will be a LED version, but I'm not convinced there's not an OLED version. But I'm not saying there will be. You know what I'm saying?
Andy Cortez
I'm kind of sitting on a fence right here.
Tim Gettys
We were arguing about the hdr. There will be hdr.
Andy Cortez
The HDR was like a. Like, mainly like a kind of a goof, just because they, you know, Nintendo rarely gives a. About anything modern. But the OLED thing, you know, you sound like it's more of a. If it happens, that's amazing for me. But I. You know, I'm not so sure.
Tim Gettys
More than that, though, that is. That's obvious. Of course I want. I'm gonna be so pissed if there's not an oled.
Andy Cortez
Yeah, there will not be.
Greg Miller
No, there will not be.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
No, there will not be an oled.
Tim Gettys
Here's my thing. I think that There's a chance that there is. I really do think that there's a chance that.
Andy Cortez
I think there's a chance tomorrow, two.
Tim Gettys
SKUs, you know, hear me out. But I think it's higher than that because this is them that so far Nintendo have been making what I think are the right choices. Call it the switch 2. Just do more of what the Switch already did. I think they're in a unique position right now to put out the two skus, act more like everyone else is acting in this tech gaming space of putting out multiple versions of the things. Put it out for $100 more and dumb asses like me, not dumbasses, it's fucking worth it. I think that there is a chance. I wouldn't bet on it. No pizza bet. Wouldn't bet on it. But I do think that it is like not. It's not like, oh, there's a chance we're all going to get struck by lightning. I do think that there is a, a fair chance, I would say a 30% chance, okay, that there'll be two SKUs and the Switch 2 will be 400 and the OLED Switch will be 500. And that just makes sense. They'll make hella money.
Andy Cortez
I hope it happens simply from the standpoint of executives at Nintendo who are people, higher ups at Nintendo that are playing games and enjoy and being like, are you serious? We're not gonna have what? Like this little OLED device is so nice to look at. And now you're taking that away from me. And I hope that that's like the main reason. The main drive, you know.
Tim Gettys
Yeah. With the hdr, the one thing for me is I'm not sure that the Switch, if it's not oled, like the Switch itself. I don't know if there'll be HDR necessarily on the portable, but there will be hdr.
Greg Miller
When you dock it, you gotta have hdr, right? Like, I feel like you gotta have HDR at this point.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
I mean, do you gotta.
Greg Miller
No, you're Nintendo. But I feel like you gotta have it at this point.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
I think it'll be there.
Tim Gettys
Yeah.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Again, this comes back to like the argument that I made when I think, I think it was like the Mario Hopes and Dreams games cast maybe when we were talking about this where I was like, because they get their parts from Nvidia.
Tim Gettys
Yeah.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
They get their ship sent from Nvidia. And I'm like, yo, if I'm the Nvidia salesman, I'm like, yo, we just baked this shit in. We don't even make them without HDR anymore. You got to get the hdr.
Andy Cortez
I think the reason why I was less like, hopeful is I'm still surprised by the amount of PC games I play nowadays that don't have an HDR function where you just go to display and there's just no way. And you're like, oh, okay. And I'm just so kind of used to that. I'm not. I'm no longer surprised when a game doesn't have HDR built into the menus because it feels like it's more and more of a. Of a common thing nowadays. Like, I wouldn't say common, but at least 30 to 40% of games that I'm playing nowadays don't have an option.
Tim Gettys
Ironically, kind of crazy.
Greg Miller
There's no uniformity to these PC games.
Tim Gettys
But I mean that's the thing is that I do think that as advanced microphone advances, as advanced as PC gaming is, I do think because it is not a uniform thing like on console games or on PS5 and Xbox, it's like you just set the base system to HDR and it does like auto HDR and it like fakes it and all that stuff. PC can do that, but it never works nearly as well as the uniformity. And because of that, Nintendo's trying to get uniform with the other console guys. I really, I truly believe there's no chance that there's. They don't have HDR.
Greg Miller
Interesting.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
So the switch at launch only launched with one SKU for 300. The Wii U launched with two SKUs for 300 and 350 respectively. Do you know what the difference between those SKUs were for the Wii U?
Tim Gettys
It was a storage space and the color. The Wii U was white or the nicer one was black.
Greg Miller
Black.
Tim Gettys
And the Switch 2 or Switch 1 had the two SKUs that were just.
Andy Cortez
Gray and the color.
Tim Gettys
The gray are the color Joy Cons.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
I think as far as oled, the reason why I lean towards no OLED is because I. It's hard for me to imagine Nintendo wanting to have a SKU that is out. That is, that costs too much. Because already I think as far as price, we're probably talking about 350 to 400. I'll think like if it's one SKU, I'll think 400. If it's two SKUs, I think you figure out a way to have one of those SKUs be 350 by either getting storage down or figuring out something. But I feel like an OLED switch or an OLED, switch two, we're talking 500, like six. I feel like that's way too much.
Tim Gettys
No, not, I mean, that's the thing. The OLED, not that much more expensive. Like OLED's pricing has dropped significantly in the last couple years. Like these things, especially for small screens. But that's the thing. There's all this stuff. I, I think that the Switch 2, no matter what, is $400. So let's imagine those ones.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
I'll say $400.
Greg Miller
Yeah. 399.
Andy Cortez
I don't think. Yeah, I don't think it'll be cheaper than that. I would be really shocked if they went with anything cheaper than 400.
Tim Gettys
Yeah, I don't think they.
Andy Cortez
I could see it'd be more expensive.
Tim Gettys
I can't without OLED, I, I can. What do you think?
Andy Cortez
Minimum 450.
Tim Gettys
It's crazy.
Andy Cortez
It's crazy in that it's not round even looking numbers. But that's the only thing. Like, I just, I feel like the country has been prepped for things to become more and more expensive over the last several months of all this tariff talk. And people are getting primed for that. And I don't think that it will come as a shock to anybody if something is more expensive. And I think you could take advantage of that as a, as a large company.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
And I think it comes back to the conversation of who is the switch 2 for? You look at the way they've marketed already and you look at like just the design of it and it has more of a mature, sleeker feel and it doesn't look like that kid's product anymore.
Tim Gettys
Right.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Because they already know that they've sold so many Switch ones to families, so many people already own that. And there's going to be such crossover as far as like, hey, this is still the Switch family of systems. Those first users that are going to show up day one to buy the Switch 2, they're going to be the people with disposable income. They're going to be the people that, you know, want to make that jump. They're not necessarily going to be the kids, they're not necessarily going to be the families. Of course they're going to be there. Right? But I think starting off with the Switch too, you can have it land at that 400 sweet spot and have it be a thing of, hey, those who are here for it are going to buy it and then over time we'll drip free to drip feed it to the rest.
Greg Miller
Well, that's when you get into how they'll revise it where of course I think you'll see I I like 399, 400 because then I think that gives you the wiggle room of when you do do the OLED version in X amount of years you go up to 450, 500. Right. And then when you do the version for kids again, that's the what they call the light. Right. Where it's locked in and you can't take the joy cons off. You go down or stay at that thing.
Tim Gettys
Right.
Greg Miller
Stay at 399 or go to 350. But I think they're anticipating. Yeah, I I well it's probably in your questions. I don't want to get ahead of it. Right. But like we're anticipating this being hard. Right. To get this being a pre order situation where we're all scrambling and we're all awake on Amazon and we're just pre ordering them and then giving out the pre orders to our friends and family. Right.
Tim Gettys
Everything that we've heard is Nintendo is more prepared for this than any launch they've ever had. Yeah. Having said that, 100 yeah. It's gonna be very difficult because I.
Greg Miller
Feel like it's gonna be scalp essential for sure. But I do think you might be blessed underestimating the mainstream's desire for this because the Switch has been so crazy successful that there are so many kids who I think came up with the Switch that are now into their teens and the parents who would want to be there for them, let alone the kids who are saving their money, let alone it's just such a mainstream device that I think it is going to be a bit of a crowded pool again, not 9:01 Eastern Time when we're all like awake doing it. But there's going to be so many people flooding trying to get this thing.
Tim Gettys
I think Nintendo's goal is to get as many of these into houses as quickly as possible because they I don't think it's a guarantee that people upgrade from the Switch one to the Switch two. And I think that where this direct is going to be incredibly important for Nintendo to convince people that bought the switch in 2017 and have not played a game since Mario Kart to hey, this is why you need to get in here. And that that is why I'm still leaning on I despite the rumors all talking about only having an LED model I do see them like trying to potentially have the option of the two SKUs to just maximize like and to get that and he's Saying, like, even if the prices are higher, it's like people would be willing to spend a hundred dollars more for the OLED because they're used to it, because they want it.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
What is the audience for the OLED though, right? I look at the OLED audience as like a significant audience, but also not part of that first wave of like, people we need to hit for that launch time.
Tim Gettys
Right?
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
I see OLED as year two, year three. Like, all right, cool. Now let's put out the fancy version of this thing.
Tim Gettys
That's the thing is OLED is like, I know that's what they did for the switch. Where we're at now, like the OLED model coming out years later I think is already an antiquated idea. They could do it. And sure, they've done things and even Steam Deck did that. But I think that going forward, it's more and more like, look at all the new handhelds coming out. Like, most of them are coming out with OLED as like a standard.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Even those though, I would say something like a Steam Deck that still speaks to hardcore gamers in a way where if I go to my mom or my sister who has kids, right, and be like, yo, there's new Switch coming out. Which. And she's asked me which one should I get? I would have to tell her, explain to her what OLED is, and at the end of the day she's not going to care.
Tim Gettys
But that's the thing is like, I also think that it's an easier sell than of like, oh, I'll just get the $400 version then. Yeah, like it's. I don't think it needs to be for everybody, but like, it's also not just for tech heads. Like, it is definitely for like, I'd say the majority of people listening to the show would buy the OLED version over the other version because they care about gaming. I think the care about portable nintend all. If they're just gonna play on their dock, it doesn't matter.
Andy Cortez
Yeah, I. I think also the past three to four to five Black Friday sales for just the general public have made OLED a lot more common to like just the normal family. Who is sure the Again, TVs used to be so expensive and now it's like, I can buy this Sony OLED for $400. Whoa, cool. Oh, and it looks a lot better. I think it's. I think Eloyed is no longer that weird tech that I had to like, explain to people at Best Buy and be like, well, you Know when I'm selling in the new iPhone or whatever the hell or the new Samsung phone, I think OLED is just becoming kind of a, a newer, more common thing that is no longer. You only get this if you're super rich and care about tech or whatever, you know.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Is it the most vital thing though, when we're Talking about Switch 2 and pricing it and trying to figure out how to get into Mill's hands?
Tim Gettys
I think I, I, I, the last thing I want to say on this, because I don't want to like go too long on this. I know that I, I'm already being annoying because like the chances of this, I'm saying, but the chances of this actually happening are slim. You know, I'm saying I, I'm not saying I think this is going to happen. I am saying though, business wise, I think that they can get more money launching it now as an extra skew of getting that extra hundred from people as opposed to waiting a year or two or whatever it is and then putting it out at a $50 increase or whatever it is down the line. And the concept of like, oh, we're going to sell an extra Switch and then you give your Switch to, to someone else. Like they've already kind of built that line with all the Switch 1 products and I do not expect Nintendo, as they showed yesterday, to give up on Switch 1 games for a while. So I think they've been building to this. The other thing is LED technology has gotten so much better. Look at the PlayStation Portal screen. That thing is beautiful. I'm still mad it's not oled, but like, honestly it's very, very, very good. So I expect that, I hope that this Switch LED screen is as good as that portal screen.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
My, my other question with this is what are the other ways we can see multiple SKUs happening? Because we talking about the Wii U, right. It was storage. How much of that is still a conversation nowadays? As far as I forget what the storage was for the Switch at launch, but I feel like it was not that much.
Tim Gettys
I don't think it matters because the SD cards, Micro sd.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
True. Yeah.
Tim Gettys
Like those are so ubiquitous at this point and you can, I think they'll be the same thing as the Switch, so I feel like onboard memory is not as big of a factor.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Yeah. So is there anything else that would lead to more SKUs aside from joy Con colors?
Greg Miller
Color schemes? Right. Yeah, yeah.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
But you would like charge the same for those? Yeah, I'm thinking of like if you were to go for multiple Prices.
Tim Gettys
I doubt it. Yeah, doubt it. Yeah.
Greg Miller
Interrupt. Sorry. Real quick. Joey shared a link where I can live track all the orders of the Tim Getty's Farewell tour shirt. So I want to thank the 32 orders that that have already come in since we launched this show. She also pointed out that when a sale happens now, this lights up and does fireworks. So I will call it out as it happens throughout the show. I want to thank Washington, New Jersey, Ontario, Canada, Indiana, Nevada, Wisconsin. Thank you all for picking up this shirt to celebrate Tim and his amazing run ending on kind of funny game showdown. Thank you so much.
Tim Gettys
All right, so we talked about price. I feel like we're all kind of in alignment there and all that stuff. Release date. Bless.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Ooh, I gotta pull up the calendar. I mean, I firmly believe June.
Greg Miller
Do you believe that because of the rumors or you just that's where you would have been to begin with?
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
I believe it because of the rumors. It was where I would have been to begin with. And also like even for me individually talking to people within the industry, it sounds like I've gotten the impression of June.
Greg Miller
Thank you to Texas.
Andy Cortez
Thank you, Texas.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Thank you, Texas. Well, I don't know actually, I take that back. I'm not thinking Texas for shit.
Greg Miller
I bought this shirt.
Tim Gettys
Andy.
Andy Cortez
I firmly believe the rumors that mid June, June 15 or whatever that that date was. Oh, a couple more fireworks.
Greg Miller
West Virginia.
Andy Cortez
West Virginia. Nice.
Tim Gettys
From what I remember. I don't. And I could be wrong about this. May 15th was the actual date with the rumor. June didn't have a date. But June seems like the more likely people in the know actually talking about it.
Greg Miller
Yeah, Minnesota.
Andy Cortez
As long as it's before summer Game Game Fest. I mean that would just be ideal.
Greg Miller
Just so we can have it. We gotta take a flight.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
We gotta be coverage wise. We want it after. Right. That'll be really good for numbers. If we can go for summer Game fest into then Switch.
Greg Miller
Because when is SGF is?
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
6 June.
Greg Miller
Okay. Okay.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
So like if we can get it coming out like the 13th.
Greg Miller
I don't know if that's confirmed.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
I'm retired that week. Release of the 20th. I'm going to say 20th just for my Friday.
Tim Gettys
The 20th.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Yeah.
Tim Gettys
All right.
Greg Miller
When is Indiana?
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
When is Juneteenth actually? Because then I'll probably get that next Monday off. We'll figure it out. I'll talk to Nintendo.
Greg Miller
Yeah, this is one of those where June makes sense to me for sure. You know, hey, we're doing this at the start of April, right? Then you have two months to build up hype and go through the thing. I don't have it available. I would love to look on Google Chrome right now, but I got to keep my eye on these sales, you know what I mean? But what are the dates for all the Nintendo.
Tim Gettys
This Friday, March 3rd, was when 2017 is when Switch 1 came out.
Greg Miller
No, no, no. I'm sorry, no, but remember, they did like we're doing a tour or whatever.
Tim Gettys
Like that's coming up, right? It's about to happen.
Greg Miller
Yes, but they had multiple dates. I remember when they did it. What's the last date in there?
Tim Gettys
I think it's around May 15th.
Greg Miller
Okay. See? Yeah.
Tim Gettys
Nintendo World Store is opening May 15th.
Greg Miller
Yeah. So June makes a lot of sense. England.
Tim Gettys
Woo.
Greg Miller
Governor. Yeah, that would make a lot of sense to me. Then you have that tour, you have this hype thing, you build it up. You don't want it to be too long, right? You want to just stay forever. So this is a great one. And what the rumor also is that pre orders might go live on Direct Day as well.
Tim Gettys
Yeah, okay.
Greg Miller
Yeah, that'll. That all tracks for me.
Tim Gettys
It does.
Greg Miller
Ohio. Oh, there it is.
Tim Gettys
I'm sticking with the prediction I made. Despite all the rumors and leaks and stuff and people talking. I. People taught me a GDC as well. Definitely made me think June. But I'm sticking with my July 11th. Friday, July 11th.
Greg Miller
Oh, okay.
Tim Gettys
When I did my Nintendo predictions a couple months ago, I said that. And when I look back at how Switch 1 did its announcements, did its pre orders, like the Gap, everything about that Switch 1 presentation, there was something a little weird about it going into it. It's like, all right, cool. Well, Mario Kart's gonna be a launch game. And it wasn't. It was the month after. You know, it's like, oh, cool. Well, this. In January, we're getting this thing. That means we're probably gonna get the. The. The pre orders. And all this stuff is gonna be for next month. And it was March. Everything's just a little further than we expect. So July 11th.
Greg Miller
New Hampshire, Washington, Illinois, North Carolina, Scotland.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Wow.
Greg Miller
Kansas. Please refund your purchase.
Andy Cortez
Skull.
Tim Gettys
And yeah, let's move into accessories.
Andy Cortez
You could change your feet.
Tim Gettys
Joy Con Colors. Will there be a new Pro Controller and any other new accessories?
Greg Miller
I'd like to jump to Pro Con. Pro Controller after that.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Yeah.
Greg Miller
Fuck yeah, there'll be a new. I don't think it's gonna be radically different, but they're not gonna miss the opportunity. I expected to work with My old pro controller as well. But they will do this and you assume it's gonna have that C button on there which will be the push of like, oh, you should probably get it. You know what I mean?
Tim Gettys
Oh, sorry. We didn't even talk about the C but button. What do we think the C button is, man? Because one of the rumors is or one of the not rumors. One of the like theories is mouse mode. Right. And if that's the case, I don't.
Andy Cortez
Think we were talking about that a.
Kevin Coelho
Lot yesterday on games.
Greg Miller
Interesting.
Tim Gettys
I don't think they put that on there.
Greg Miller
That's a great call. Yeah. Yeah. Well maybe you would. Then you do the gyros of the controller.
Tim Gettys
That's a gyro though, right?
Greg Miller
Like that's trying to think of some.
Andy Cortez
Some G button there. The G spot.
Greg Miller
That's what they call it. That's what they call it.
Tim Gettys
There's still the theory of it's the cast.
Greg Miller
But Jen must be know a lot about Switch too because she's always calling.
Andy Cortez
Embargo.
Tim Gettys
But yeah, I. I feel like there's a lot of too much evidence towards the mouse thing that I think the C button is a mouse. Just because the Switch to trailer showing them fucking drifting around and stuff like that. That doesn't seem the type of cute Nintendo is. This seems more like a teaser.
Greg Miller
So you think I hit C, I take them off, hit C and that's when it goes bloop, bloop.
Tim Gettys
Mm.
Andy Cortez
And it also seems like way less of a pain in the ass to need that to be dedicated to a software sort of Switch button thingy. Like it's already kind of a pain in the ass pairing multiple controllers. And I feel like just having a hardware toggle to say now you're in cursor mode feels a lot easier and less. Less annoying.
Tim Gettys
Plus, any thoughts?
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
I mean cursor does sound like it makes sense. That's the thing is I. It's tough. I go back to the Roger. The Roger Damas thing, right. Of like, all right, this is to cast to your Nintendo Switch dock or whatever, which I think would be a genius idea. But yeah, I don't really have any concrete predictions. I'll say cursor.
Greg Miller
My. That's my thing with the casting is that I've gone when that I was like, yeah, that makes so much sense. And then it's like, wait, does that make any sense? Because you're just put it in the dock like it's. You know what I mean? Even if I'm casting to A TV without the dock. I mean if you're doing latency and shit, like, why would I want that?
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Maybe it's a dual screen experience kind of thing. But then like we start to get so many steps removed from what I even think they would do with the Switch too. I don't think they're trying to make like another 3ds.
Greg Miller
Yeah, yeah, 100. How many games would take advantage of that? True advantage of it.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Exactly.
Kevin Coelho
Roger was claiming laziness. So just like, ah, you just want to be on the couch and then you hit C and then you cast to the thing.
Greg Miller
But yeah, but that's just what I love personally.
Tim Gettys
I think, I think that the latency and all that stuff like, like those problems are solved for the type of. We're not playing Valorant. You know what I mean?
Kevin Coelho
The thing with casting is that casting in and of itself, the experiences I've had of casting from my phone to a TV or laptop to a tv, it's like, it's always a pain in the ass. Why would I go through those steps, especially with Nintendo hardware, trying to communicate with a different brand of hardware. I can just bloop and then it's on the tv.
Tim Gettys
You know, in my experience, the casting has been great. I don't think he needs a dedicated button. Yeah, like I think that, that, that is very much a software go in, click a thing and it's done.
Andy Cortez
But I also think Nintendo's weird and sometimes dumb enough to just do shit like that anyway.
Tim Gettys
Yeah.
Andy Cortez
So like I, I. Even if something doesn't work great, I don't think that Nintendo would be, you know, trying to avoid something that didn't work good. Because we've seen them do shit in the past.
Tim Gettys
That's why.
Kevin Coelho
The other instinct that I also have is like, if you're playing with the Joy Cons and like the little like doggy controller form, right. Like why would they make a button that essentially becomes useless if you don't have like the actual pad in there, you know?
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
You know what I'm saying?
Greg Miller
Yeah, I'm following you. Yeah. I don't like casting. I've cooled on casting for that. What the button is cursor mode. Makes sense of do it. But even then it's like it's only.
Tim Gettys
On one of them, which makes it interesting. But like I don't think that necessarily dual cursors.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Because I was gonna say are you always. Is the right Joy Con always gonna be the mouse one? Because it's config. Yeah. That would actually make sense.
Tim Gettys
Both of them are drifting in the video. That's my only thing against that. But like, I also don't think. Yeah, it's gonna be a weird. You're right about two mouse situation.
Greg Miller
Because it could be games though, for two players, right?
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Yeah.
Greg Miller
I guess we're doing some kind of thing where it's where you can locally play. So you hit it and they both go into cursor mode so that you're both drawing on the table, doing whatever.
Tim Gettys
Yeah, yeah.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
I guess in my brain, right. Like the way that a right Joy Con is already configured with how the bumper is on the left click. Right. And then the triggers on the right click. It feels a bit more natural than if I already be using the left Joy Con. That's such a in the weeds thing that I'm like, if you're doing it for a Mario Party minigame or some and you don't even need to like click like that, then maybe I should see it.
Andy Cortez
Do they call it something cute like cursor fun or, you know, some cursor new character?
Tim Gettys
I haven't heard cursor mode, like, until Barrett said that. Like, that's. I think that's it. Like, that makes sense. Yeah, yeah.
Andy Cortez
Instead of mouse mode or whatever.
Greg Miller
Yeah.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Maybe clippy, clicky, click, click, click. Tendo.
Andy Cortez
Oh.
Greg Miller
Three purchases from New York, one from Colorado.
Tim Gettys
Great.
Andy Cortez
Thank you.
Greg Miller
I don't want to thank you all should have got together. It was send them to one place in New York.
Tim Gettys
All right. Accessories, Joy Con controllers. New Pro controller, other accessories. So, yeah, new Pro controller. I think there will be great. I don't think it's going to be too crazy. We already saw the Joy Con grip, but there's a new one. Okay. Like. Yeah, right there.
Greg Miller
Oh, that thing. Yeah.
Tim Gettys
Yeah. Do you. Obviously we're getting the. The black with the classic switch inspired inner colors. If there's an oled.
Andy Cortez
Because that everyone's white with that classic switch to. Ah.
Greg Miller
But it harkens back.
Andy Cortez
I just want it to be red. I want it to be more red, more neon. It's coral.
Greg Miller
Coral, Colorado, Back at it.
Tim Gettys
Do you guys think there's gonna be any other JoyCon? The new Joy Con colorways shown on Wednesday?
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Yes, I hope so.
Greg Miller
I think there's at least one more where it's just like, hey, because they want you're. It's the excitement of buying a new console. We all buy a bunch of dumb shit we don't need. And so it is. Hey, here they are all in black. And here it is. The.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
I mean, I don't think you purple.
Greg Miller
I. Which would be amazing. Atomic Purple.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
See, I think classic.
Greg Miller
Yeah.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Yeah.
Greg Miller
Yes. Gray.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Well, no, when I say classic, I mean just the switch one colors. Right? Like the red.
Greg Miller
Red and blue.
Tim Gettys
I think they want to differentiate.
Greg Miller
That's my thing.
Tim Gettys
I think that the, like the toning it differently if they want.
Greg Miller
These things are gonna look so hot when they're all gray. And you got the atomic purple from SNES on there.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
When I say red and blue, I'm also talking about the same like bear if you want to bring that picture up. I'm talking about the same shades that we're seeing, like more of the Sammy. Because I think that is how, if they want to differentiate, these wouldn't be like the accent colors on this controller. Right. So I think they're still sticking with it. I think these are just part of the switch ethos. So I think you flip it for whatever the other color scheme is.
Andy Cortez
I would be so shocked if this is the only colorway or any or just Joy Cons that we see, period. Because the markup on the accessories is so high and man, they make so much money on those things.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Well, that's, that's my thing is I think you get, get the, the reverse of these colors and then literally I give it four months before we start getting like, all right, here's yellow, here's. Yeah.
Greg Miller
So for Switch 1, we've talked about it, obviously, the all gray and then the red and the blue. How long was it till we got another pair of Joy Cons?
Tim Gettys
They also released like the blue on the other side. The red on the other side, like, because exactly.
Andy Cortez
Do we. Okay, well, probably not for the actual video or the day that we're getting this whole big premiere event or whatever, but what do we think the first game is like a Joy Con tie in Metroid Prime.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Come on.
Andy Cortez
Metroid prime with the purple and something like that.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Yes.
Kevin Coelho
Or the red and black from the trailer.
Andy Cortez
That would be sick.
Tim Gettys
That's interesting. Yeah.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Orange or purple, it's gonna be ugly.
Tim Gettys
Is there gonna be any other accessory?
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Oh, handcuffs.
Tim Gettys
Because the one thing, I mean we see that there's like this, this new like 4 cursor mode. Maybe like the sleevy type thing that goes on the bottom of the Joy Cons. I imagine those come with the Joy Cons, but I wonder if there's like other versions of that or something like expanded on, like even more cursor mode thing. But a mouse, maybe that comes later. You know, I don't know, L.A. i don't necessarily expect that there will be.
Kevin Coelho
Mousepad is great.
Tim Gettys
Yeah, I still have my SNES Mario Paint one.
Greg Miller
I mean I'm crazy, but like we know that headset. I what are we doing with online? What are we doing? Oh yeah, just a Bluetooth earpiece connect. You know something there an officially branded one.
Tim Gettys
Are we.
Greg Miller
Of course I know Switch 1's been the app and all that jazz, but are we moving away from that with Switch two and actually putting on. We got that USB C. We got that sexy USB C. Could put anything in there.
Tim Gettys
True.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Nintendo doesn't believe in voice chat.
Greg Miller
I know.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Like baked in.
Greg Miller
They gotta protect those kids.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Yeah. A party system. No, absolutely not.
Tim Gettys
Everyone. We're going to move on to the software side of things, both games and Nintendo Switch Online after a quick word from our sponsor.
Greg Miller
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Tim Gettys
So Nintendo Switch Online. We have a couple questions here. There's. I'll put it into 3D, different categories. One is are we getting new systems, GameCube DS, things like that. Second would be will they announce any DLC expansion for a previously existing game? And then the third would be how do Nintendo Switch to Edition games work? We now officially as of yesterday, from the the articles that Nintendo or not articles, the web pages and stuff, the PR stuff from Nintendo. They said Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive games and Nintendo Switch 2 Edition games is what they're calling them. So it does imply that Switch games will have Switch two editions.
Greg Miller
Interesting.
Tim Gettys
Does that work?
Andy Cortez
If yesterday's virtual cartridge explanation was any indication of how they're gonna explain this whole Switch to exclusive conundrum it's gonna be confusing and we're not gonna be fully clear on it until a press release after the fact. I don't, I don't trust that it'll be clear at all. I, I do imagine I'll be kind of annoyed and frustrated by whatever the result is because it's going to be something that you just, you know, us knowing that Xenoblade Chronicles x has this 60 frames per second mode that is kind of hidden within like the actual software or whatever. And you kind of put two and two together and you're like, oh, that's probably like a sort of Switch to Edition mode or whatever. But it just seems like something that could be kind of like switched and snapped on. But it's going to be really annoying how we get those things, you know, but.
Tim Gettys
So what's your prediction? Like how do we get those things? Because my prediction is it's going to be tied to Switch online.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Yeah, I think it's gonna be.
Tim Gettys
Which I don't think is bad at all. Like, I think that they're trying to push this thing that has value. And a way to add even more value is you get the Switch 2 editions, like the patch or whatever that is to play your old games, which I think is way better than having to buy a brand new full price game.
Andy Cortez
Do you, do you think that there will be an option at all to buy it separately in the way that when you want to upgrade the Horizon Forbidden west to the PS5 version, you pay $10 extra if you already own the game? Do you think if you go to the store and it recognizes you own this game in our library, but pay $10 extra, you get the Switch 2 version?
Tim Gettys
No, I don't know. Yeah, I. Probably not. But then saying Nintendo Switch to Edition, it does kind of like break my prediction a bit because I do think that sounds more like it's a different skew itself.
Andy Cortez
Yeah.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Because what's. What games do you think that would be for? Obviously most of the games that I think are big enough of a splash on the Switch to splash to like, you know, get something like. Or that would be a. Oh, this is substantial that this is getting this are Nintendo games. So they have a lot of control over. All right, cool. We're going to give Mario Odyssey a Switch to Edition. We're going to give Zelda Tears the Kingdom a Switch to Edition. Where do you think that buck stops? Do you think that is the top 10 games on the, on the switch one? Get that. Do you think it is going to be the vast majority of Nintendo games.
Tim Gettys
No, I think it's going to be a slow drip feed. I think we're going to see Breath of the Wild and we're not going to see Tears of the Kingdom.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Slow drip feed.
Greg Miller
I think that's my answer to all these questions. I think they're all slow drip feed.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Yes.
Greg Miller
Which is like a great future but like Wind Waker.
Tim Gettys
Where the fuck are those? You know what I mean?
Greg Miller
Like GameCube and DS and all this stuff. Like yeah, it's going to come to virtual. Virtual or Nintendo Switch Online. But it's like not in this direct. Not in this thing which is like ah. But it's like the, the console itself is exciting enough.
Andy Cortez
I, the, the more and more I talk myself through it for some reason I feel like they are weird enough to do. I don't know what games granted like I think blessing talking about like what get. You know, do they just look at their top 30 selling list or whatever and assume people would want to upgrade these video games. But I, I feel more and more confident in myself for no reason at all really. Just pure gut feeling that it'll be an either or situation. You could get these upgrades to the 60 frames per second switch two versions. If you have Nintendo Switch Online. If you remember you're paying monthly, blah blah blah. Or if you don't want to do that you can pay separately. Yeah, I feel like they'll do an either or situation.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
I think you had to put out like ski like the Skus for buying individually. I think they're gonna be full price.
Tim Gettys
Well here's my thing.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
I think it'll be $60.
Tim Gettys
I, I don't know the answer to this. Is there a way to buy The Mario Kart 8 booster course pack thing without the Switch Online expansion pack or is that the only way to get it? I'm not because whatever that does, I think it's going to follow that logic.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Yeah, you must be able to buy that separately from the Switch Online thing. Right? Chat. Yeah, people are saying absolutely, yeah.
Tim Gettys
Cool then yeah, I think that there will be a way to buy it.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Separately and I think that's, that's, I think that's a win. Like I think it still sucks of you know I think across all these console generation jumps we. There should be a built in way to do the Xbox. What's happening?
Greg Miller
I opened up the my Nintendo store and started scrolling down and Andy reached over silently and points up and I scroll back up and he just points at the alarm mode. And gives me a thumbs up.
Andy Cortez
And that's your car, man. I mean, Ben was like, dude, oh my God, Xbox.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Smart delivery should be the bar for how this shit should work, right? I'm very much tired of generation to generation having to figure out, okay, I own this thing that I. That I bought a couple years ago. Okay, cool. Now that I'm on a new console, generation is now getting outdated or I'm not getting like, you know, the update that's bringing it forward. I understand, like, Xbox kind of move the needle forward from where things have been typically, but I think that's a suit that should be followed. But also, that is the very. That's a very non Nintendo way to go about things.
Andy Cortez
Yeah.
Tim Gettys
Yeah, that's so. Right. Yeah.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
But yeah, that. That said, right? Like, if we can have it be that Zelda Tears of the Kingdom. Switch to version.
Tim Gettys
All right.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
You want to buy it for $60, and then if you have Switch online, then you get it for free. Sure, why not? Like, not the best solution for that. It kind of makes me roll my eyes a little bit. But also, I guess it is better if most people, I think, have Switch online already if you're. If you're a big Switch user. So it's nice to have that as an option to play those games. So that's my prediction.
Andy Cortez
I think Xbox is the most pro consumer of the three. And that's, you know, obviously that sounds like I'm showering them with praise, but they're just like, they're the least shitty about doing, like, you know, money making sort of decisions.
Greg Miller
Yeah.
Andy Cortez
And Nintendo's a company that puts out Mario 30th anniversary edition and then takes it off the shelves and says, you can only buy it for a month or whatever.
Greg Miller
Like, it's going back.
Andy Cortez
They're weird as. And I could totally see them saying, yeah, but we don't give a fuck about, you know, we'll make money. Who cares? People will buy it.
Tim Gettys
I also don't think we'll see GameCube or DS or any of that stuff one day, though. One day. I do think one day.
Greg Miller
I agree.
Tim Gettys
I don't think it'll be this day.
Greg Miller
Yeah, again, like, there's no. You don't need to do that now. This isn't a mea culpa. This isn't. We're coming. Oh, man. We're coming off the Wii U. And it was. We're in a dire straight, like, no, you're king of the mountain. This thing sold so well. This next one is Going to sell so well, you don't have to even announce games. You could just put it up for pre order. We're all gonna buy it. So it's like, no, you don't need to come out and wow us with something you can do way later on.
Tim Gettys
I want to get into games. I have to separate into first party and then third party. I don't have too many third parties. So if you guys want to add stuff, we can go through it. I don't want to say this is a lightning round, but this is more just like a quick gut instinct. Yes or no? Give me your answers to where we're at. Okay. Does Mario Kart appear? What's it called and when does it launch?
Greg Miller
Mario Kart does appear. It is a launch game and it's. Let me get back down to name.
Andy Cortez
Mario Kart Super Circuit.
Greg Miller
That's not bad, Greg.
Andy Cortez
Isn't the DS one.
Tim Gettys
That's the Game Boy advance one?
Andy Cortez
No, but is it Super Circuit?
Tim Gettys
Yeah.
Andy Cortez
Oh, I thought it was something else. Circuit.
Kevin Coelho
Okay, let me whisper in your ear, Greg.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
I'm gonna. It'll just be called Mario Kart.
Greg Miller
You think so? You think so?
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
I'm gonna say, I mean, yes, it does appear Mario Kart X, which I think I might have stole from you.
Tim Gettys
Yeah.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Here's the thing is, I want to.
Greg Miller
Say to Mario Kart Cross country. Sorry.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
There you go. Mario Kart World Cross country.
Greg Miller
Remember they went by the gas stations and stuff? Like, it looked like. It's more.
Andy Cortez
It looks like a Forza kind of open world thing.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Mario Kart Crossroads. I changed my aim.
Greg Miller
That was my other one I was tinkering with.
Andy Cortez
That sounds like a game about, like, you dealing with like a death of a family member and you're just like discovering yourself, you know?
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Yeah.
Tim Gettys
Sonic racing, crossworlds is already happening.
Andy Cortez
Yeah, but he said Crossroads.
Tim Gettys
Crossroads. Yeah.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Yeah. Which would be unfortunate, but honestly, it'd probably be more unfortunate for Sonic than anything like Nintendo probably like, oh, that's close. We don't give a. Yeah.
Andy Cortez
Mario Kart 2.
Tim Gettys
So. But because I'm with you, because my prediction before was just straight up Mario Kart X or Crossroads. But I changed that because of.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Because of Crossroads.
Tim Gettys
Yeah, exactly.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
That makes sense.
Tim Gettys
I also, also don't think they. They give a. But I still, I'm. I'm sticking with the X. And the X can be Mario Kart 10, but also Mario Mario Kart and X. But when does it launch?
Andy Cortez
Cross country is good, bro.
Tim Gettys
I. I'm sticking with. And I, I definitely. I Understand can be a launch title. I still think it's the month after.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
See that? And that's where I want to go. Except Metroid Prime 4 appearing at yesterday's Direct throws me the off Me too. Because they're, they're like presenting it as a Switch 1 game and I'm like.
Tim Gettys
Oh, then I guess we need Mario Kart at launch. Yeah.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
If it. Because Metroid Prime 4, I think would be a slam dunk launch game. Right. Like, hey, people are going to, people are going to buy the Switch 2 anyway. And you have Switch. You have a Mario Kart there on month two to like, keep the momentum going and Metroid Prime 4 there to force anybody who buys the Switch to have to play and have to buy Metroid Prime 4. It's the perfect heist.
Andy Cortez
It really kind of. You talking about a heist is so perfect because it, it really is them saying like, hey, whatever, two games we're selling today, one of them is Metroid Prime 4. And like the add on. What's the, what's the retail term for it? Like just the, the package. Yeah, like, like packaging it in there. Yeah. I, I feel like that's their. This is their chance to make Metroid the biggest selling Metroid of all time.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Yeah. Somebody. Somebody in chat says people will buy Mario Kart. Bless. It's the best selling game. I'm saying that people will buy Mario Kart. Like, Mario Kart is a. Something that will help no brain.
Tim Gettys
Yeah.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
That'll move units. Units, I think at launch to have Metroid Prime 4, which is something that, even though I know people are excited for it, I don't think it moves units in a way that a Mario Kart does. Having that be the launch thing, I think would be so smart, but with them presenting it in a way where I'm like, CEO G believe this is a Switch two thing. I'm like, I don't know, man. I could see it being Mario Kart at launch and then Metroid Prime 4 later on. What's up, CEO?
Greg Miller
Nothing. I saw you come up here tapping your temple. What do you got for me?
Kevin Coelho
I'm thinking because, yeah, they're, they're trying to, you know, push as much as they can. Metroid it not being like the biggest seller in the past, which, as Tim has pointed out, was much like Zelda before the Switch one.
Andy Cortez
Right.
Kevin Coelho
I think the way to do it is to not launch Metroid prime on launch day. You launch Mario Kart launch day, you wait to do Metroid a month in, you make Metroid this month 2 game because by then people have been Mario Karted out. That's the game that they focus on and then they're looking for other first party Nintendo games to play. And then it's also available on Switch 1 for people who haven't adopted yet.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
See, I don't know if you are going to get Mario Karted out. Like that's such a evergreen. Like we're going to spend our time playing this. We're going to give it updates.
Kevin Coelho
Like, my counterpoint to that is that even though, you know, Switch 1 launched with breath of the Wild, those early months of the Switch people were hungry for everything. Right. And so I think like that's why.
Andy Cortez
The store, that's why the eShop was popping off with any indie game possible.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Yeah, I guess my thing is like people are at their hungriest at the launch of the Switch. You know, like when you're looking at.
Andy Cortez
That shopping cart bless. When you're looking at like what else to add to your cart, you're just like, yeah, like what's the. You're in a mode where you're like, no money matters right now. I'm just buying stuff.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Switch to a song selling out regardless. Like, you don't need Mario Kart.
Tim Gettys
That is a factor with this all. I feel like it's a bad idea for them to put Metroid and Mario Kart out on the same day.
Greg Miller
I agree with that.
Tim Gettys
And so I. That is my one thing. I think yesterday's showcase is what's throwing me off of the order, but I do not think it'll be the same day.
Greg Miller
I also think we're overlooking a little bit in the conversation what you're talking about of going to the Switch store. Because if you buy Switch two and you go to the Switch store and they're like, here's all the old Switch games that have updates for it. Right. Like, I feel like that's going to open. That kind of cracks it open in a brand new way of people who have heard great things about this game but never actually played it. I know Nintendo has a pretty great attach rate but I still think there'd be enough stuff of there of like, oh, I got my Switch late and I never did this. But now they're promoting that Mario Odyssey is new. They've done something nice to it to.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Tim's drip feed thing. Right. Like, what if it is only. All right, the games that are upgraded are Zelda, Tears of the Kingdom and just that for month one.
Tim Gettys
I mean I'm telling You like? The one thing that I'm latching onto is we're not getting Tears of the Kingdom. Kingdom for.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Wait for the upgrade.
Greg Miller
Yeah, he said Breath of the Wild.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Oh, he said Breath of.
Andy Cortez
Yeah.
Tim Gettys
I'm telling you, it's gonna be Breath of the Wild.
Andy Cortez
I could see it.
Tim Gettys
Here's the kingdom. Like, it will eventually happen. I do not think that we get it now. I want it, but I don't think we're gonna get it now.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Don't do that to me. It hurt.
Tim Gettys
It hurts.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Don't do that to me.
Kevin Coelho
But I said I could see it.
Tim Gettys
Does Pokemon Legend Za appear and when does it launch? So far we've just been getting 2025s. We saw yesterday.
Greg Miller
I forget what did somebody predicted or did they say late? 2025?
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
They said late.
Tim Gettys
Well, they said 2025. I don't think said late. Or have they.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
I thought they did, but I might be misremembering.
Tim Gettys
I mean, either way, like, we don't have a late.
Andy Cortez
Yeah, I mean, I could see both sides of any sort of 2025.
Greg Miller
They have confirmed in their press release.
Andy Cortez
Yeah. I could see both sides of any argument here saying, why show them? We've showed it enough already. We've showed it twice already. But then it's also like, this is your huge day. Why not?
Greg Miller
I, I, I think they do show it. I think it's confirmed to have some kind of switch to upgrade whatever the hell this whole thing is. And I say they don't date it here. But I would say my prediction for a date would probably be November is.
Andy Cortez
Okay. The way that they show off what games will be Switch to Able. That's what they're gonna call it. Do we think that that's going to be in some little, you know, montage.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
See, and that's where I'm coming from with it, where I, I think it depends on how they release Pokemon's. All right. If, if there's a native switch 2 SKU, then I think we get a trailer and get the release date and all that stuff. If it is just the Switch one version, even if it's booster or whatever, I think it's in a montage.
Andy Cortez
Okay.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Or I think it's just a screen of like Pokemon's.
Tim Gettys
Yeah.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Also.
Greg Miller
Yeah.
Tim Gettys
The thing I'm most excited about learning is how the, the Switch one, Switch two stuff's gonna work. Yeah, that's gonna be, be. So once we know that, it's going to be so easy to predict so many different things. But right now it's just hard because it's like, if this, then that. Then we'll see. Yeah. For me, Pokemon Legends, I think if we see it, I do think we get a release date.
Greg Miller
I hope so.
Andy Cortez
$2 super drive from CJ splits and ask. Will game be. Will games be $70? Absolutely.
Tim Gettys
I think so. Yeah.
Andy Cortez
Tears of the Kingdom already was.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
I think the biggest ones are.
Greg Miller
Yeah. I think they explore the scale, but.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
I don't think you make a. You can put out a Pikmin 5 for $70.
Tim Gettys
I think it's standard. Yeah. Guy.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Oh, man.
Tim Gettys
Yeah.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Oh, man.
Greg Miller
Whatever.
Tim Gettys
Their new Everything's. Everything's gonna be. It's. They're gonna function like. Like, it's the same thing with, like. I don't know What a Pikmin 4 equivalent is on PlayStation, but, like, Astrobot, that was cheaper, right?
Greg Miller
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Tim Gettys
So some things might be cheaper.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
I know, but, like, I mean, I'm.
Tim Gettys
Talking about 70 examples. Like, there's a ton of 70 games that are Pikmin 4 level.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Like, I don't know, man. We're at six ray tracing and, like, you know, a lot of FPS on there.
Greg Miller
We're one order away. Everybody from just in this show. Orders of the Tim, farewell. Thank you. Thank you, Texas. Thank you, Illinois. Thank you, California. Thank you, Illinois. Thank you, Western Australia. Where when they ordered, it was like, five, eight, five. It was about to be 6:00am Their time. I love you, Missouri. You're out there. Utah. New York again, Louisiana. Y'all. Killing it.
Tim Gettys
Does 3D Mario appear? What's it called? And when does it launch?
Greg Miller
Oh.
Tim Gettys
Yes, it appears. And it is a crossover game with Donkey Kong. And it'll come out in. What did I say last time? Because I'm sticking with that. I think I said October. No, I didn't. I said November. I think it's November.
Andy Cortez
Are Chris Pratt and Seth Rogen playing in the commercial? Playing the game?
Greg Miller
Yes.
Tim Gettys
In the commercial. Down the line, perhaps.
Greg Miller
New Jersey just pushed us to 69.
Andy Cortez
New Jersey gym, tan, laundry.
Kevin Coelho
I think it'll come October because Pokemon, I feel like, is usually the typical November thing. Thing.
Tim Gettys
I mean, they switch. Like, that's. That's the thing is, like, I feel like there's not enough consistency. One's October, one's November. Yep.
Greg Miller
Yeah, I think. Yeah, I think it's shown. I think. Yeah, it comes out. I was just gonna say back half of 2025, but I'll say October. Sure. I'll stick with my November being the Pokemon.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
I'm gonna say yes, it shows up and I also say October. I don't know what it's called.
Tim Gettys
Then next up we got Splatoon here. What's it called? When's it launch? Squid.
Kevin Coelho
Cool.
Tim Gettys
It's a weird one where I feel like all of us are like oh we just got one. But that's always the case.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Yeah.
Tim Gettys
And it's always. It's also been a while. And when they like Switch or Splatoon 2 and 3 did feel like they came out pretty close together. But Nintendo seemed to desperately want a Splatoon first year of the Switch one. I can see them on that again. So I wouldn't be surprised to see Splatoon 4 at this event.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
That I agree.
Andy Cortez
I totally agree. I think with how with the numbers it does in Japan. Like it just seems like a no brainer.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
It'll be Splatoon but the A is a four.
Tim Gettys
Oh yeah.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Spl Fortune.
Tim Gettys
Does Zelda appear? What's it called and when does it launch?
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Yes, it's called Twilight Princess plus Wind Waker hd.
Tim Gettys
I think there's not a chance that shows up here.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
This is not the fact that it wasn't there yesterday.
Tim Gettys
It should have been. I mean that's a yesterday like type of thing. These are Switch 1 games.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Here's my thing.
Tim Gettys
Yes.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Yeah. I mean they're Switch 1 games but in that same screen where you see Pokemon Zaw. That's how they announce it. Pokemon Zone, Wind Waker and Twilight Princess HD are also coming to Switch.
Tim Gettys
The thing is I feel like those games just don't need the switch to enhancements. Those games run the way that they are supposed to.
Kevin Coelho
But I think it's also like one of those. They've been sitting on it for so long why type of things. Right. And if you. I think for a big exciting event, I think that would be a nice pop up for people who've been waiting for it for such a long time. Especially with like a new Zelda coming out last year. Right. Tears of the Kingdom coming out a couple years ago. I think it's now. We're now in the cycle of HD ports to let the new games cook a little bit.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
You know, I just think you need a Zelda something.
Andy Cortez
It's a Zelda remix remake. I think it's an Ocarina remake or some remake.
Tim Gettys
I. I still am sticking to what I predicted a long time ago. I think we get a tease. I don't think it's going to be explicitly clear what it is.
Andy Cortez
Yeah.
Tim Gettys
I don't think it's anytime imminent necessarily. But I do think similar to the Wii U tech demo thing we saw, I think we're gonna get a glimpse of something and it's gonna be an Ocarina remake.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Yeah, I don't think there's any way in hell though. There's not a Zelda thing next week. That's one of your staples.
Andy Cortez
You're definitely not get the like Aonuma led.
Greg Miller
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Tim Gettys
And the other thing about you saying there's definitely gonna be Zelda, the one X factor is Breath of the Wild and how much they focus on that being the hey, look at what the Switch 2 can do for one of the best selling games or whatever. And that just might count for the Zelda.
Greg Miller
And again, that's why the double dip, right. It makes a big deal out of it. It makes people excited about it to go back to that game, get something out of their old game, have fun. See what the Switch 2 can make games look like.
Andy Cortez
God, it's gonna feel so bizarre to see any sort of before and after thing like that. Just does not feel like it. That feels like a digital foundry. I'm here to watch tech differences. It's gonna be so crazy to be like, look at the draw distance. Like they're not. They're not gonna use those terms.
Tim Gettys
Yeah.
Andy Cortez
Like, you know, I'm just gonna be so weirded out to see like this is what it looked like there. This is what it looks like now sort of thing with better lighting or whatever. How nerdy do they get with the terms?
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
I don't think so.
Tim Gettys
Yeah, I think it's gonna be very.
Greg Miller
We're gonna leave with a lot of questions.
Andy Cortez
If you notice the Switch 2 version is prettier.
Tim Gettys
I think so. I think I honestly feel like I'm saying is going to be like the, the thing. It's like, oh yeah, it's 4k now. It's prettier now. It's better now.
Andy Cortez
It's 3840 by 2160.
Tim Gettys
Does animal crossing appear?
Greg Miller
No. And it breaks my heart. The only reason Animal Crossing would appear here is if it's the. These games are all Switch 2. You can look at this. It runs better. Load times are faster or something like that, right?
Tim Gettys
God, how not I. None of us assume this is the case, but how nice would it be if it was like Xbox of just hey, man.
Greg Miller
Yeah.
Tim Gettys
All the games, they're just better now.
Greg Miller
Yeah.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
I mean, I think Animal Crossing has to be here. It could be in the way that Greg's talking about. But I wouldn't be surprised if there was like just an Animal Crossing thing that we're not thinking about. Not necessarily the next big Animal Crossing New Horizons type game, but the next.
Kevin Coelho
Animal Crossing mobile game.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
I mean, it's going to be something, right? This is, you're revealing the switch to. You have to have your biggest franchises there. That is Mario, that is Zelda, that is Animal Crossing. They have to be there in a big enough way to make people go, oh, I need to buy this thing. You don't know.
Greg Miller
I wait, you and me want to plan a banger? Yeah, that's what we would do. But I really think Nintendo is like.
Tim Gettys
They don't do that.
Greg Miller
This thing can just be a picture of the fucking handheld and it's gonna sell. Like, I really think that's where they're at. And they're like, why, why do these teases when we don't need to, when we know that you know, know we all know what we're buying. We're buying into a at least 10 year long relationship with this thing that will have Zelda and have Animal Crossing and have Mario Kart and have Luigi's mansion. Like they don't need to explicitly tell you, show you, tease you with that.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
I think personally, I just don't. I just think those IPS need to be there. Like, even when I think back to Switch one, obviously, like we knew that we were going to get Breath of the Wild, they had a new Mario game that was coming out that year. Right. But still you have to have Mario and Zelda in there, you have to have Mario, you have to have Pokemon in there. Right. I think there are certain IPS that are, are all right. This is Nintendo and like these are what represent Nintendo. All the things that represent Nintendo have to be present. Even if it's not the next big title. Even if it is like, I don't know, here's that Animal Crossing theme park that's coming out. Like, you have to have something.
Tim Gettys
This is a Switch to thing. Like they're gonna focus on Switch two. And because of that, I think that also means Switch one because of like just how this works. I don't think we're getting theme park stuff. I don't think we're getting motion games. I don't think we're getting any of that stuff. But I do think that to, to the points being made here, like Breath of the Wild and Animal Crossing, New Horizons are two games that I do think get the 4K or the Switch 2 treatment.
Greg Miller
My question for you, Tim and everybody, but I know Tim lives and breathes all this. For Switch one, did they do what we're talking or did they show Pokemon? Did they show.
Tim Gettys
That's the thing. No. And for Switch one, when we sat at the old desk and predicted, we were predicting like we're predicting now of just like, they have to do this, they have to have all this stuff. And then they straight up just didn't do that shit. The presentation is like, here's 1, 2, switch, switch. And here's Octopath Traveler. And here's all the stuff. Here's Breath of the Wild. We already knew about Breath of the Wild. One of the best game trailers of all time. Launch date, all that stuff. Excitement Teaser or Mario Odyssey. So it's like cool, we have that, but otherwise we didn't get all of the things right. We're in a different time now, though. We are in the. We're not in the Nintendo. Still figuring it out. And can they pull off the Switch? They've pulled the Switch off. They need to continue that momentum. So I do lean a little bit more with what Bless is saying of like, I think that this there is a little bit more of like there has to be you, anybody tuning in. You need to convince the people why they need to buy a Switch too. Like, not us, we're all buying one. The random people that only play Animal Crossing in Mario Kart.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
And one more thing I'll throw in there too, is that I think Animal Crossing, right today is way different from animal crossing in 2017 towards the launch.
Greg Miller
Oh, yeah, A thousand percent.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Yeah. Let's say I can. Sorry.
Greg Miller
So is Zelda.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Oh, and so is Zelda. Right. And I think Animal Crossing is one of those things where to our conversation that we had that we've had before about unicorn games or games to throw out there as far as, hey, we are working on this thing. We don't have a date for you. We don't have anything. But here's a tease of what's to come. I think Animal Crossing is now one of those franchises. It was the second best selling game on the Switch. I think that is one of those carrots on the stick to make people go, oh, I need to buy this console. Even though I know Animal Crossing is not coming out for two years. Even if it's a tease, even if it's a remake of somebody said new leaf. Right. Like, there's got to be something.
Greg Miller
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Tim Gettys
There's something I think can just be The.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Yeah. And it could be the Switch, which I think would.
Tim Gettys
That. That's all they need to do. I think that would get the group that we're talking about. That will satiate them. They want more, of course, but I think that they'd be happy.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Is there. Is there any way we get an update to it?
Greg Miller
God.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
And that'd be so new content.
Greg Miller
Awesome. Yeah. Yeah.
Tim Gettys
And then speaking of that, we're doing.
Greg Miller
A new season thing.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Yeah.
Tim Gettys
Does Smash Brothers appear? No, because you talking about the unicorn thing. Smash is the one franchise that. For the Wii. For the Wii U and for the Switch. I guess not the Switch. The Switch had the formal announ announcement. But the Wii and the Wii U both had a Smash Brothers game is being worked on, period. You know what I mean?
Greg Miller
If you count that, then, yeah, I think you probably get that.
Tim Gettys
Yeah.
Greg Miller
Right. What do you think you're the.
Tim Gettys
I don't know. The. Sakurai did the little eyeball emoji thing towards the direct, but then he also did something similar for yesterday's direct and then put out a tweet that was just like.
Greg Miller
He responded to a Wendy's tweet.
Tim Gettys
He then put out tweets just being like, hey, I gotta be more responsible. Responsible tweeting. Like, I didn't mean to say anything, so. But also, he's a tricky little mother. Yeah.
Andy Cortez
He put out the. His messaging was basically like, I. I gotta understand that people take things out of context when I just, like, I'm excited about something, they think that I have something to do with it.
Tim Gettys
Yeah.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
I think there's a higher chance of a Kid Icarus remaster than there is when you Smash.
Tim Gettys
And I. I think. I think Kid Icarus is. It's gonna happen eventually. I don't know if next week's the time, but I. I wouldn't be surprised if we see Sakurai. Whatever Sakurai is working on, I think we'll be there on next week.
Greg Miller
Roger cut the ad of the shirt. I'm putting it up on Instagram for you. Don't worry.
Tim Gettys
Awesome.
Greg Miller
Thank you.
Tim Gettys
I appreciate that.
Andy Cortez
72 orders.
Tim Gettys
And the other thing about Smash Brothers is Florida, Ohio, talking about Breath of the Wild and Animal Crossing. It's like we already have Ultimate. What. How does that translate to Switch to.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Yeah.
Tim Gettys
So questions? We'll find out next week. Kirby. I mean, I don't think so.
Andy Cortez
So.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Oh, you don't think a Kirby appears?
Tim Gettys
I mean, a new Kirby game. Because I think we're going to get a Forgotten Land sequel, but I think that's A next year January direct.
Andy Cortez
Do we know how many, how much that sold?
Tim Gettys
Sold well, but not like, like 2 million.
Andy Cortez
Maybe 2.
Tim Gettys
I think more than that.
Andy Cortez
Huh.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Was there a Kirby thing at the, at the Switch 1 presentation? I guess not. I'll say no.
Andy Cortez
Shout out to Daniel Z for letting me know that the Kirby soundtrack is was available on the Switch. I finally downloaded the Switch music app because it has that one winter theme song. So good.
Greg Miller
Did you get the news app yet?
Andy Cortez
I, I, I did download it. I haven't logged in yet. I know it crashed this morning.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Where is Planet Robo? Robo Bot Remaster so that I'm shocked.
Tim Gettys
That wasn't there yesterday. Yeah, that will not be there next week, but I'm shocked that wasn't there yesterday. 7.5 million. Holy. Yeah.
Andy Cortez
Whoa.
Tim Gettys
Yeah.
Andy Cortez
That's really impressive. Good.
Tim Gettys
Does Mother appear?
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
No.
Tim Gettys
Does Pikmin appear?
Andy Cortez
No.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Maybe.
Tim Gettys
No. Does Fire Emblem appear?
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Yes.
Tim Gettys
Yeah.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Yeah, I think so. Fireman was at the Switch one thing.
Tim Gettys
Well, I guess that came out. They teased the crossover. You won. But it wasn't like a main one.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Gotcha.
Tim Gettys
I don't even know if that one ended up happening at all.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
I'm gonna say yes.
Tim Gettys
I don't think so. Because like all the rumors are Fire Emblem4 genealogy of the Holy War. One of my favorite things to say, Andy the good is what's coming next. And again, that's a, that's a Yesterday announcement. That's not a, that's a Switch one announcement.
Andy Cortez
Do we have a game announcement tomorrow that is super like revolving around the mouse cursor stuff?
Greg Miller
Yes, yes.
Tim Gettys
Metroid Prime.
Andy Cortez
No, but like I'm thinking more of a 1,2 switch snipper clips type deal.
Greg Miller
1000%.
Andy Cortez
This is the gimmick, you know?
Tim Gettys
Yeah, I think so.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
So Luigi paint Mouse Rio.
Tim Gettys
I mean, honestly. Yeah, you're right.
Andy Cortez
Paint the Streets CEO Blood Mario Paint.
Tim Gettys
Is a good, good poll. Wario paint made by the Mario Maker. That could be interesting.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
I don't know why Wario Paint makes so much sense to me, but it does, it does.
Tim Gettys
Some type of maker potentially, you know. And just think about the cursor. Yeah, exactly. I think, I think it's going to be a maker game.
Andy Cortez
That's crazy cool. That would be awesome. Awesome.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
And so they bring back Mother.
Tim Gettys
Yes.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Mother Maker.
Tim Gettys
And then let's move to third party games.
Andy Cortez
Do they sell lap tables to use a mouse house? Roger Recording. I did mention a mouse pad. I do. I would expect to see some sort of, you know, Nintendo branded little thing to Use for the mouse lap table's.
Greg Miller
Not a bad idea though. That is the kind of stuff you would need to figure out. Right? For people on their couches.
Tim Gettys
Third party games. I have a couple things written here. I'm going to say them all and then we'll have the discussion. Elden Ring, Xbox Games, Final Fantasy 7.
Andy Cortez
Silksong I think with them mentioning or was it mentioned or was it rumored that this will not really be third party focused. I. I thought they were the three phase rollout.
Tim Gettys
Oh well, they weren't talking about this event. That's just more for like. For the release.
Andy Cortez
Yeah, for the releases. Okay. It wasn't for announcements because that was.
Tim Gettys
That's one of my least favorite freaking articles that have come out in the last year. Get the hell out of here. Christmas is Christmas time. That's all they're saying.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
But now, you know, the first few months are going to be the first parties and then when we get a little bit further, it's going to be the third parties. They're coming in waves. But that's not like even with that article, right? Like that's not referring to every third party. It seems like it's just. Oh, there's a certain amount of third parties that just don't have the dev kits yet. But yeah, I think Elden Ring would be such a slam dunk of a third party to lead off with. To show off like how third parties can run on the switch too. So I'm gonna say yeah, yeah.
Greg Miller
Elden Ring I think makes so much sense. I think that's there.
Tim Gettys
I will be shocked. Development's not there. That's why since day one I've been saying that is going to be their Skyrim for this. Of like, hey, we got this. And I also think it's going to be a statement to people of like look at the power we have. This is what the type of game that can run. We're in the game again.
Andy Cortez
Switch to exclusive.
Kevin Coelho
I think the Skyrim of this will be Skyrim.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Skyrim will be there.
Tim Gettys
Yeah. Do you really think Skyrim will be there? I don't.
Greg Miller
Maybe Starfish Field.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
See, I was gonna say GTA 5.
Tim Gettys
Do. Do you think GTA 5?
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Yeah.
Tim Gettys
Yeah.
Greg Miller
I don't.
Tim Gettys
I don't. But I like that.
Andy Cortez
I like that a lot.
Greg Miller
Yeah.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
I say GTA 5 cuz I do.
Tim Gettys
I do think that fits into like what they're trying to say. Like take this system seriously. Which I know that GTA 5 like sounds like a weird thing, but that is Nintendo being Like, I. I just. I play multiplatform games.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
History repeats itself enough in certain ways where it is like. Like I go back to the Wii U as far as the game. The games that they're launching with on that thing of. All right, what are the games of the moment? Watchdogs. Sure. Like, let's. Let's bring it out. Bring out these things. Resident Evil, Skyrim and GTA 5 are the games that like these. The game that these companies always had to like, show out as far as. Oh yeah, we got the stuff. We can do this technically. And also these companies want to reach more people with their most popular games. And so I think any number of those three can show up.
Greg Miller
Up.
Andy Cortez
Twitch chat, calling out the Oblivion remake. That's good.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
I like that.
Greg Miller
That's good.
Andy Cortez
Chad, you got a tip of the hat for me.
Tim Gettys
Do you think Elden Ring, Andy?
Andy Cortez
I think Elden Ring, yes. But I'm more. I'm mainly thinking about multiplatform multiplayer games. What is the. If any, the one like Call of Duty or FIFA or. Or FC or whatever the hell? Like, I think there. I think there has to be a sports game there.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
FIFA historically has been very bad on Switch. Like they've just. They've not even touching.
Andy Cortez
Not anymore.
Greg Miller
We heard you talk about it and how garbage it is, but here it is.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
FIFA every year is basically the same game, but they just like, they do. They do nothing to it.
Greg Miller
Baldur's Gate 3?
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Yeah, I was gonna say Baldur's Gate 3 and then also Cyberpunk.
Andy Cortez
Oh, dude. With the mouse control on Baldur's Gate 3.
Tim Gettys
I think we get Baldur's Gate 3. I Think we get Star Wars, Jedi Survivor, and I think we get Ukulele with the release date. UK with the release date. That will be the launch state of whatever.
Andy Cortez
What about Nico de Rico?
Tim Gettys
Nico de Rico, the Magical World Definitive Edition? Probably not. It won't be Ricky Stanicki Silk Song. I don't think so, no. Final Fantasy 7? I also don't think so. I think. I think we'll hear about that at Xbox first at some point. And speaking of Xbox, do any Xbox games appear? I think so, yeah.
Greg Miller
How long was Switch one's direction? Ish.
Tim Gettys
It wasn't a direction. That's the difference.
Greg Miller
I just feel like we're getting so in the weeds and I just don't feel like that's what this is going to be that way. I think it's going to be very much. This is the system. Here's what it does Here are the games Nintendo is making for it. And we have a screenshot of all these third party partners that have agreed to make stuff.
Tim Gettys
They already did that.
Greg Miller
I know, I know.
Tim Gettys
I think it's a montage. Okay, so that's the thing is like it was an hour seven minutes. But yeah, I'm with you Greg. But I think that a lot of what we're saying can just be like.
Greg Miller
Yeah, this is here.
Tim Gettys
Especially if it's known quantity games like Jedi Survivor and things like that.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
What PlayStation Japan studio game is going to be in development by Bandai Namco that they're bringing back.
Greg Miller
Shadow Colossus Rocket Guardian pops up with south of Midnight. Question mark. That'd be interesting Avowed if that was part of the Xbox stuff.
Tim Gettys
Yeah, I mean south of Midnight is not on PlayStation so I don't think so.
Greg Miller
I know, but I mean like this could be the part where you. I'm not saying it's. That wouldn't be today. I mean know Forza.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Hellblade.
Tim Gettys
Yeah. All right, let's. I'm gonna get into some super chats. This will be lightning mode before we head out into games showdown. The house has spoken. Says my out of left field. Never gonna happen. Prediction Smash. But with licensed characters Goku and Smash. It's time. One day Goku will end up in Smash. We got Sora. We're gonna get Goku.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
This is very different characters.
Tim Gettys
Today's not the day.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Very different characters.
Tim Gettys
All right guys, say whatever you want. Sora is in Smash.
Andy Cortez
Brothers CJ clocks in this the Dark Ages. That's a good call.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Yeah.
Tim Gettys
One of your favorite video games last year.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
What was one? Oh, okay.
Tim Gettys
Well, Cody Boone writes in, says shout out to the boys at co op 64. Doing a subathon. Shout out to co op 64. Awesome stuff. Go support the homies. Chrono Rig says, hey guys, what accessories are you going to try to get for the launch? How many games do you think you'll get day one? We'll have to see what they. What they end up being. But I. I like showing up. I like getting all the fun stuff. Console comes out. BJ Bernardo says, I can't wait for Gray to actually steal Tim Stars and still lose the season at the end of the year. I already read that one, but nice to read again. Koba says, if I wrote you all cards and gave them to Greg at the meet, would you actually take them? I promise, no Anthrax.
Greg Miller
Yeah, of course. Yeah. Chicago. Come see me perform live in Lyle. Yeah, Lyle, Illinois. I'LL do it.
Tim Gettys
Snug says, got my shirts. Ah, Snugs. Cat Bailey's going to react to Tim losing his three stars. Give this extra money to Kev. Happy anniversary again. Big Dog Demon Hacker says Switch to release date will be on the new Nintendo app the next day. You got. I can't believe the Nintendo app dropped the Zelda movie. Good for them.
Greg Miller
You got me to download it. I'm like I gotta be in the new condition, man.
Tim Gettys
16 bit Otaku says it's not a clap but a clank of two magnets joining. I know, but how do you show a Clank in human form? That's the problem.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
You get clank from Ratchet and Clank and have him clap.
Tim Gettys
Gene Freak says will it compare to the base Steam deck power wise?
Greg Miller
Absolutely not.
Tim Gettys
I think it's going to be similar but just different because of the tech architecture and all that stuff. But I think it's going to be able to run like everyone's been saying, like PS4 Pro. Ish ish level games. CJ split son says Nintendo Switch 1 games dated into 2026 already. I think Switch 2 will be a bit more expensive with cross gen in mind. Mind 300. 350.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
450.
Tim Gettys
300. No way.
Andy Cortez
No way.
Tim Gettys
I mean there's no way. There's no way that it's not $400.
Andy Cortez
At least you're gonna get dirt.
Tim Gettys
Shaggy Sasquatch says Nintendo don't lose money on consoles and tech costs under 450 are already having guts that don't perform. OLED would be 600. Not out of the realm possibility. I just don't. I think that's a little high. Logan Jensen says here's the important question. Will these cartridges taste the same or worse than the current ones? Hasht worse. And we've asked Ben Star. Ben Star's licking everything, man. It's crazy. You guys hear about this? Ben Star used to lick batteries.
Greg Miller
Yeah, I did hear about it actually.
Tim Gettys
Crazy, man.
Andy Cortez
Oh, because they shock your tongue, right?
Tim Gettys
He liked it.
Andy Cortez
It's cool.
Kevin Coelho
He asked what flavor it was and I said electricity.
Tim Gettys
Yep. Optimistic 92 says about a Tim's fur all tour shirts. You can all afford noled Switch too.
Greg Miller
Thank you.
Tim Gettys
Thank you very much for that. Jean Freak says blessing Juneteenth a national holiday celebrate the end of slavery in.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
The U.S. i didn't ask what I said.
Tim Gettys
Well, that's.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
But thank you for explaining Juneteenth for me.
Tim Gettys
Explain 4th of July next D149 says colors are Weirdly, one of the things I'm most curious about. The way the red and blue are set up on Switch 2 makes me wonder about what's to come. Yep, very interesting. I so I'm interested in how it feels. You know what I mean? They're bigger, but are they big enough?
Greg Miller
Yeah. You're such a. I need my big face buttons. Goldilocks about hey, how does this feel? I'm very interested for you to eventually get hands on with this thing.
Tim Gettys
Demon Hacker says we'll Nintendo make you pay for Switch 2 enhancements. Yes. It's just a matter of how melodic. Quest says are we getting themes back? Very doubtful.
Greg Miller
No happening.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
I don't know if we ever had them.
Tim Gettys
Jean Free says Tim's reign of terror is finally coming to an end. We'll see. Ian says my prediction Greg makes it chaotic and I can't wait. But for real, just give me. Give us the Zelda ports. C splits on says will games be 70 vouchers don't work now. Talked about that, Colin. Barry says I was the 69th order. It was a birthday gift to myself. Happy birthday, Colin.
Greg Miller
We're up to 74 right now. If you can get it to 100 before we sign off I'll put this logo on the stupidest thing we can possibly put on the store. You have to buy it again.
Tim Gettys
But Ltd says my bet is the virtual cartridge stops leading to send your Switch 1 cartridge to the Switch 2 for X amount and it becomes the Switch 2 version. God, that's complicated. But it's very Nintendo. Valentine says just tuning in. Who's hyped for the Zelda live action movie they announced in the app? I am.
Greg Miller
We talked about on Games Daily with Drucker. Yeah, a lot of I. I'm cautiously optimistic.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
I'm looking forward to it.
Tim Gettys
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes kicks ass. Just do that with Zelda and you gotta win.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Cast Timothy. You know the one.
Tim Gettys
You know the one. Scott says. Tim bless Greg. Andy, before you go would like. Would you like to take a break from looking forward and look back at Kind of Funny Live and how I convinced my local news station that telling my embarrassing experience at KFL2 was news.
Greg Miller
Yeah.
Tim Gettys
Interesting. Robbie. Rob says what about the T Sakurai game from his videos? I. I think we'll see Sakurai there or hear about the project at least. Joey Ratson says SIP7 to show off cursor mode. Civ 7's already on Switch 1, which blows my mind. So. Whoa.
Blessing Adio Ye Jr.
Does it work?
Greg Miller
I don't know.
Tim Gettys
Wilfredo says we all be reacting at 6am yes, we will.
Greg Miller
We will be live. Live, live. And I stars in the bank. We're probably going live. What? At 5:45 in the morning our time.
Tim Gettys
Yep, yep. And there we go everybody. That is our Nintendo Switch to direct predictions. Like I was saying, hang out with us next week. We'll be live all day starting just a little bit before 6am 5:45. Doing our final last minute stuff before we get into it. And hopefully our minds are blown. We're about to do game showdown. Stay tuned till next time. Love you all. Bye.
Greg Miller
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Summary of "OFFICIAL FINAL Nintendo Switch 2 Predictions" - Kinda Funny Gamescast
Release Date: March 29, 2025
In the March 29, 2025 episode of the Kinda Funny Gamescast, hosts Tim Gettys, Greg “GameOverGreggy” Miller, Blessing Adeoye Jr., and Andy Cortez engage in an in-depth discussion about their final predictions for the highly anticipated Nintendo Switch 2. The episode is packed with insights on potential features, pricing, release dates, anticipated games, and accessories, providing listeners with a comprehensive overview of what to expect from Nintendo's next major console.
The episode kicks off with the hosts expressing excitement about discussing their predictions for the Nintendo Switch 2. They emphasize the significance of this console in shaping the future of gaming and set the stage for a detailed analysis of various aspects related to its release.
Snap vs. Clap Mechanism
A central topic is whether Nintendo will replace the iconic "snap" sound with a "clap" to signify docking the Switch 2.
Blessing Adeoye Jr. confidently predicts the change:
"Yes." ([11:09])
Greg Miller remains skeptical, preferring to retain the original snap:
"I'm locking in. They snay with the snap." ([12:11])
Andy Cortez supports the clap prediction:
"Yes." ([11:09])
Technical Speculations: HDR and OLED Displays
The hosts debate the inclusion of HDR and OLED displays in the Switch 2.
Tim Gettys expresses a 30% confidence in dual SKUs (standard LED and OLED) priced around $400 and $500:
"I think that it is higher than that because this is them that so far Nintendo have been making what I think are the right choices." ([16:31])
Blessing Adeoye Jr. leans towards no OLED in the initial release due to cost concerns:
"I lean towards no OLED because it's hard for me to imagine Nintendo wanting to have a SKU that costs too much." ([19:35])
Andy Cortez believes OLED will become standard in future iterations:
"OLED is becoming a more common thing that is no longer only for the super rich and tech enthusiasts." ([25:16])
The hosts offer varying predictions for the Switch 2 release date based on industry rumors and past Nintendo launch patterns.
Blessing Adeoye Jr. suggests a mid-June release:
"I believe it because of the rumors." ([29:13])
Tim Gettys favors a later date, recalling past Switch launches:
"July 11th." ([31:46])
Greg Miller aligns with Blessing's mid-June speculation:
"June makes a lot of sense to me." ([30:55])
The discussion extends to expected new accessories accompanying the Switch 2.
New Pro Controllers: Anticipated to include a C button dedicated to cursor or mouse modes.
"There'll be a new Pro Controller after that." ([32:37])
Joy Cons Colorways: Predictions include new colors and potential tie-ins with popular franchises like Metroid Prime.
"I think there’s at least one more where it's just like, hey, because they want excitement of buying a new console." ([38:35])
A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to forecasting the game lineup for the Switch 2.
Launch Titles:
Mario Kart X / Crossroads: Expected as a crucial launch title driving console sales.
"I think Mario Kart appears. It is a launch game." ([50:04])
Metroid Prime 4: Anticipated shortly after launch to maintain momentum.
"I think Metroid Prime 4 appearing at yesterday's Direct throws me off." ([50:37])
Splatoon 4: Considered due to the franchise’s popularity, especially in Japan.
"I think that’s, I think maybe, we get a glimpse of something and it’s gonna be an Ocarina remake." ([57:33])
Ports and Remasters:
Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom HD and Breath of the Wild upgrades for Switch 2.
"There's something to come. Even if it’s a remake, we have to have it." ([60:44])
Animal Crossing: Speculated to receive updates or tie-ins to boost console appeal.
"Animal Crossing is one of those franchises. It was the second best-selling game on the Switch." ([64:56])
Third-Party Titles:
Elden Ring: Seen as a potential marquee third-party game to demonstrate Switch 2’s capabilities.
"I think Elden Ring makes so much sense." ([72:32])
Final Fantasy 7 and other multiplatform games: Expected to see enhanced versions.
"I think Final Fantasy 7? I also don't think so." ([73:05])
Throughout the episode, the hosts engage with listeners through Super Chats, addressing questions and comments that add depth to the discussion.
Gene Freak at [77:55] asks:
"Will games be $70?"
Logan Jensen shares concerns about cartridge quality:
"Hasht worse." ([78:26])
Valentine expresses excitement for upcoming Zelda movie announcements:
"Just tuning in. Who's hyped for the Zelda live-action movie they announced in the app?" ([80:49])
As the episode wraps up, the hosts reiterate their excitement for the Switch 2 and emphasize the importance of flagship franchises in ensuring the console's success. They encourage listeners to stay tuned for the upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 Direct, where they will provide live reactions and further coverage.
"We're about to do game showdown. Stay tuned till next time. Love you all. Bye." ([81:42])
Blessing Adeoye Jr.:
"I think they're going to clap onto that thing. We've heard the sound." — [11:09]
Greg Miller:
"I don’t think there will be an OLED version. That is like a pizza bed." — [22:44]
Andy Cortez:
"I think there will be so much stuff on this like they've done something nice to it." — [38:35]
Tim Gettys:
"I think it's going to be a slow drip feed." — [45:03]
The Kinda Funny Gamescast hosts provide a thoughtful and engaging exploration of what the Nintendo Switch 2 might entail. Their predictions, while speculative, are grounded in industry trends and past Nintendo behaviors. By incorporating listener interactions and maintaining a balanced discussion, the episode offers valuable perspectives for gamers eagerly awaiting Nintendo's next innovation.