Let's Geek Out Over Switch Software Sales

[@pierre485_]

Thank you so much for the shout-out and positive feedback on the charts. Glad you appreciate it :)

[@AndyTheWatchdog]

Thank you so much for your hard work and for sharing it with us!! It's really appreciated :D

[@kclem7]

Really amazing data. Thank you for these charts!

[@jakemana]

amazing work!!!

[@TheLastZonai]

Dude, you made an amazing job here. Congrats 🎉

[@huckahuck]

TopicArlo should collab with Arlo I think they would get along well

[@dawnrigel4255]

Wait a minute.... Is TopicArlo just alternate reality Arlo???

[@mystraunt2705]

Nah they would hate each other

[@Vsirugo13]

@@mystraunt2705 They ARE sharing the same real estate…

[@hotwetsoup3565]

Who’s Arlo?

[@LostSoulSilver]

I mean, we've never seen them in a room together at once... do you think...?

[@ryanhodgson8676]

Dude I cannot get over how much I love this side channel content. First of all, numbers. Second of all, just zooming in on a bug on the desk. I could watch this content livestreamed 24/7.

[@StellarSpacey]

Topicarlo is truly a gift. The near daily videos of you just talking about random stuff is a nice thing to look forward to!

[@giulytsme]

100% agree ♡

[@Filon73]

@@giulytsme salve

[@giulytsme]

@@Filon73 henlo!

[@Davey_Cakes]

Donkey Kong deserves his Odyssey/Forgotten Land moment, dang it.

[@sonicjboom6967]

Yes please! I would just a donkey kong game period at this point.

[@notgeneralsnaz]

It's definitely coming. It's probably coming. It might be coming. There's a chance its coming... Right?

[@BarrilBuzz]

Yoshi: Am I a joke to you?

[@dysr]

Maybe after Retro finishes Metroid Prime 4 lol.

[@aturchomicz821]

So Tropical freeze?

[@WhyYouWahYoo]

That bug was just really excited about Pikmin 4 sales

[@tomhank896]

Arlo interviewing bugs is something i didnt know i needed

[@shareef3.14]

Still hoping the TTYD remake outsells Origami King. EDIT: I don't actually hate Origami King; in fact, I enjoy it, despite its flaws. But I still prefer the gameplay and combat style of 64 and TTYD, and I'm willing to bet that the TTYD remake outselling TOK would mean to Nintendo that the old Paper Mario style is more profitable, hence we'd more likely get a brand new Paper Mario in 4 years (the series has had a new entry every 4 years since Sticker Star) that's like 64 and TTYD. Also, even if I did hate TOK, who cares? It's just a video game, not an actual person.

[@istealpopularnamesforlikes3340]

I’ll be buying 5 million copies myself

[@Oscar-Guzman]

I’ll be shocked if it doesn’t.

[@crumpchump]

I'm confident it will

[@Creonea_]

I'm contributing to it

[@honey3762]

It will

[@christianstenger7280]

Arlo talking to that bug was like maybe the cutest thing ever. So gentle 🥺

[@gentlydown41]

A very Pacific Northwest moment

[@justingiesbrecht6969]

Weevil time

[@dairok9446]

Do we know what type of bug that is? Any bug enthusiast in the comments?

[@jaimiebarnes3199]

@@dairok9446 I'm a bug enthusiast (entomology PhD student UK based). It's definitely a beetle. I'm unsure of where this is located and key ID features aren't present in the video so I can't ID the species or genus. But looks to me like a weevil (Curculionidae family) as it appears to have the distinctive snout from a certain camera angle and the general appearance. With over 400000 beetle species worldwide it's not that easy to know for sure though.

[@darcidious99]

​@@jaimiebarnes3199actually my uncle is an entomologist and he says that its definitely 100% a shih-tzu, so youre wrong

[@frankclark2208]

Interview of the century starts at 18:10

[@fredrickum5474]

It’s insane how almost every single Nintendo franchise has its best selling game on the Switch

[@King_Kaiju32]

Arlo showing his true love for Pikmin by talking to the lovely Bug gentlemen who landed on his desk in the middle of his video.

[@jorgereyes1991]

I mean. He did say eeewww a few times

[@animejerk05]

Nintendo 90s franchises on ps3 level hardware what’s not to love

[@ChaloopaJoe]

Shout-out to Arlo somehow always posting when I sit down to eat so I have something to watch ❤

[@dawnrigel4255]

Yeah it was fun when I first discovered Arlo. His channel had already been out for a couple of years. Loved sitting down to watch a new-to-me video everyday. I think his Mario Rabbids review was the first video I watched, and what convinced me to buy that game (plus, the game + DK dlc happened to be on sale for like 15 bucks lol)

[@ChaloopaJoe]

@@dawnrigel4255 yeahhh! That's awesome :)

[@thespeedyyoshi]

Sameeeee

[@BagMonster]

12:17 I'd like to note that Red/Blue/Green's sales are not being inflated by "a million different versions". Remakes like Fire Red/Leaf Green and Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee are counted seperately.

[@jasond.b-w]

I think he means just iterations of the Gen I versions, since there are 4 as opposed to the normal 2-3.

[@vanishing_girl]

@@jasond.b-w they're three? Red/Blue/Yellow?

[@heroofflames3508]

​@@vanishing_girl Actually, you're both kinda right. There are four gen 1 games, but only Red, Blue, and the Japanese only Green were counted together. Yellow was its own entry.

[@vanishing_girl]

@@heroofflames3508 I'm taking it as my "win" then lol, the main point is there were 3 games

[@heroofflames3508]

@@vanishing_girl You also got the games wrong, though.

[@uberanne8645]

Really digging the surprise new cohost. He had a lot of insightful things to say.

[@MaxM210]

Some interesting context for TOTK sales: Botw 's lifetime sales of 33 million units took between six to seven years to achieve, Totk's current sales of 20 million took ONE year to achieve. Additionally, if you add up the sales of all previous 3d games and all previous 2D games, you get about 45 million for 5 3D games and about 49 million for 11 2D games. Botw and Totk, the two newest and youngest games have a collected sales total of around 54 million units for 2 games. Between the 2 games, Botw and Totk have collectively outsold the ENTIRE previous 3d catalogue combined and the ENTIRE 2d catalogue combined, and that's including remakes and remasters.

[@MasonOfLife]

It’s good to see Zelda doing well, even if I prefer the old games

[@meee_5155]

But not both combined lol. If they made a OoT remake on switch I think it would sell 10mil easy

[@Iffondrel]

I'm hoping this has more to do with a heightened interest in the series from fans, since we're seeing other series take off more than they have in previous iterations. I want every 3d Zelda to do well like this, even if the world is smaller and the concept not as groundbreaking, so long as it retains the Nintendo seal of quality.

[@Descriptor413]

It's wild to me that OOT, one of those games that feels like a tentpole of everyone's childhoods, only sold like 5 million units, total. And that's counting later remakes. Weird.

[@MasonOfLife]

@@Descriptor413 I’m pretty sure it sold more than that 😂 Near 14 million

[@inquisitivemind8061]

Good on you Pierre485! Thank you for putting this together and Thank you Arlo for putting out the video and shouting out their work. It's good to see Nintendo's Numbers.

[@PixelPikmin]

I’m so happy Pikmin 4 is at 3.3 million! Finally my favorite franchise is getting love

[@mrjack3855]

For every million sales pikmin 5 is one month closer!

[@tabm8523]

​@@mrjack3855*sets alarms for 2033

[@BoxoSpoons]

It'll be interesting to see what all happens with Pikmin next generation now that it's finally earnest it's spot at Nintendo's big kids table.

[@aquagrunty101]

I hope they make another one! And I hope it’s the same but with more everything. God that game is Zen incarnate

[@PixelPikmin]

@@aquagrunty101 I hope we get a true sequel to 3. Pikmin 4 felt like a sequel to 2, like 3 was a sequel to 1. I want another more story driven game

[@sermartinlaw]

Fire Emblem Three Houses is around 4million+ right now. It became the best selling SRPG of all time! FE Engage has about half of that I believe. Definitely smaller numbers but still good for that franchise. 2 million is around what Awakening sold too. Excellent numbers for a series that had never broken 1million before 2013.

[@fluffystagbeetle4526]

Engage was also more of a veteran and anniversary focused game anyways. There was definitely different audiences they were aiming for.

[@OhsoWoobie]

i've been loving this channel. I love hearing arlo talk about anything and love this channel where he gets to talk about WHATEVER he wants.

[@MrGuy__]

the thing about pikmin 4 is that it's a pretty dang great success in japan alone, selling about 1.87 million copies over there

[@ausgod538]

Japan carried it a lot yeah. In the west unfortunately it's still very niche

[@Hey-Its-Dingo]

​​@@ausgod538 Yeah, there was a solid week where Pikmin 4 was outselling FF16 in Japan. Lol (It was eventually overtaken, but it did happen)

[@user-be3qc7re9o]

​@@Hey-Its-Dingo Actually, Pikmin 4 is still outselling FF 16 in Japan by a landslide.

[@RaysNintendoTalk]

You are the reason I love looking at these sales numbers and why I made the Switch Effect video! Thanks Arlo!

[@2mista]

I miss when you did this on the main channel. Really glad Topi Carlo exists.

[@wolfybuilder]

Switch sales charts, Arlo's excited-ness, and guest appearance by a bug. Easily a top 10 Arlo video

[@KirbyLinkACW]

I'm just gonna assume this is your main channel now.

[@ElSersh01]

This is the bug's channel now

[@EnigmaticGentleman]

I'm just really happy to see Forgotten Land do so well. Its been so long since we've seen a short big budget game that lets the gameplay speak for itself (instead of shoving in big action setpeices and a focus tested story).

[@kohiek]

The sheer volume of switch consoles is really high, but the software sales are just unheard of. I think this is proof that backwards compatibility is the smart move. People buy a Switch and then they keep buying games. And games that mostly stay at full price. These old games still being available shouldn't hurt new games if this trend continues. No other console has had this level of game sales.

[@tulip811]

I think most people just bought the switch and 2,3 games for their children and that's it. Also because the games are expensive

[@tylerdaniel8956]

@@tulip811 But that decidedly isn’t what is happening. Software sales are extremely high for this late in a lifecycle. The attach rate keeps going up. Clearly people aren’t just buying a few games when they buy the console and that’s it.

[@Gengar-Gang]

big fan of the casual air of TopicArlo. Also love the guest for this episode. He seemed shy but he really stole the show

[@theotherjared9824]

The gaming industry as a whole isn't dying, it's just that those at the top at Microsoft, Sony etc. are allergic to making good decisions.

[@michaelcasiano9497]

no they got footinmouth disease.

[@amadeus.7436]

Not that Nintendo is making great decisions either. They make great games, not decisions.

[@zacharydechant1303]

Love those Legends Arceus numbers being practically tied with BDSP.

[@nintentoad913]

These were my favourites videos on the main channel glad you still doing one

[@SharpEdgeSoda]

The amount of games that are insanely relevant with only 1-2 million sales makes Arlo's frustration with Pikmin's nearly 4 million really funny. Relax! Think about how Guilty Gear Strive is a beloved darling of a Fighting Game and that only JUST hit 1 million. Also Sega is my proof that releasing collections and greatest hits doesn't necessarily always mean "better sales for the mainline."

[@leightonpetty4817]

GGS hit 2.5 million sales as of August 2023?

[@blayedd_]

It’s amazing to see all these long running series become mega franchises on Switch

[@minecrafter3448]

You’re forgetting that Mario branded games are fairly evergreen. Wonder was the fastest selling MAINLINE game in the series, and it only did 4.3 million in nearly a month. Princess peach showtime doing 1.22m in 10 days is fantastic.

[@OfficialDarkSoulMusic]

I'm glad you made this channel. You are one of the only wholesome content creators out there. I watch plenty of more "growed-up" stuff on here, but sometimes I just need a good Arlo vid as a palette cleanser to wind down from life.

[@jonathanwest8415]

Find the Xenoblade fan I guess, but I'm very happy that all 3 Xenoblade games on switch are in the console's top 50 best sellers, even if just barely.

[@twincherries6698]

Sorry, Xenoblade? What's that? This is TopicArlo, thats not a series we discuss here

[@fluffystagbeetle4526]

I am also a Xenoblade fan! Actually I am a Xeno fan in general and it kinda blows my mind how far the series has come. After Xenosaga 3, Takahashi was really depressed but it was Iwata who got him to continue the series and it finally worked out. I am really happy for Takahashi and making Xeno series successful was one of many great things Iwata did

[@jairekambui7738]

Still wish Nintendo allowed Xenoblade on other platforms. Being stuck on switch limits it especially being a jrpg. A lot of Nintendo fans don’t care about the franchise and PS and PC have sizable jrpg fanbases.

[@jonathanwest8415]

@@jairekambui7738 I don't know, there's something special to me about Xenoblade now pretty much being Nintendo's premier RPG franchise. Also, Nintendo fully owns Monolith Soft, it isn't like RareWare, where Rare just felt so much like a Nintendo Studio, but it then became blatantly obvious they were just partners. Even then, if there's one massive JRPG series to be exclusive to Nintendo's platforms, I think it should be the one made by Monolith. With Nintendo's history of underpowered hardware, they might have never gotten any JRPGs on their system if it wasn't for Monolith. They're just getting so big these days, you almost need a PC. No one else's game can fit on Switch, but Monolith Soft is somehow able to make it work. Xenoblade 3 is such a massive game, even compared to the first two, and im left surprised it runs exceptionally well, let alone at all, on my little first edition switch. (And are you really gonna tell me that Pokemon deserves the title of "Nintendo's premier RPG franchise?" Nintendo doesn't even fully own Pokemon.)

[@lemon5000-tj6nv]

​@@twincherries6698i forgot that nintendo fans dont play rpgs unless it has mario or pokemon in it

[@CasualKansai]

TopicArlo was a great idea! I think this format is most suited to your style and interests. Keep it up, i listen to them all!

[@hubadubatron1045]

18:35 can we normalize not filming people without their permission please? this is extremely rude Arlo, I expected more.

[@LooseAsADEUCE]

This sent me to Pierre's page and I spent a good amount of time last night looking through the numbers and talking about them with people, so thanks for bringing this to my attention!

[@pkpyro2000]

Record game sales and they aren’t even closing down every single studio and developer just to get a bigger bonus . . . What are they even thinking over there at Nintendo

[@justanick258]

Arlo meetin the Weevil was a life highlight 18:58

[@The_Starkindler]

Is that what it is?

[@emperorcubone]

I love deep diving in the numbers and seeing all the things that are doing better then expected! Let's go to Luigi's Mansion for being a premiere game for the system; gonna become a full series once per console for sure!

[@alemirdikson]

If Im not mistaken i think that bug is a masked hunter assassin bug, or reduvius personatus. Their nymphs secrete a thick adhesive mucous on their carapace, which collects dust, dirt, sand, and other debris. They have wings, but the carapace is glued shut until their mucous wears off. They're mostly harmless. The adults can bite, but apart from burning like the dickens, has never been known to cause actual harm. Their primary diet typically consistes of bedbugs, ticks, and other parasitic insects, though they can also go after flies, cockroaches, and mosquitos when they need to. According to the Washington State Department of Entomology theyre pretty rare around here. Native to the Missouri are I believe. In the Yakima-Ellensburg area where I live, they get reports once every several years. Personally I think theyre incredibly adorable.

[@Jakedoxey]

This has got to be the most informative youtube comment I have ever read. Thank you for your knowledge

[@alemirdikson]

@@Jakedoxey Thanks! One of the perks of being autistic. I love sharing information about things that excite me. Of course I'm not an entomologist, so I could always be mistaken. The masked hunter assassins are one of my very favorite insects. Had a couple of them a few years ago in my basement, and I absolutely fell in love. Thought they were spiders at first, which I also have a deep love for, but spiders have more legs and no antennae. The nymphs are adorable, but adults are ugly as sin though. The one on Arlo's desk seems to be in the late nymph/early adult stage. Right about the time they stop producing their mucous, shed their debris, and start flying. They can be really clumsy at this stage, which would explain why it dive bombed on the desk. The white schmutz on Arlo's desk was probably some dust that was knocked off of it on impact.

[@1mrcow143]

As an autistic, I could do the same this but for reptiles!

[@alemirdikson]

I'm being told by people who are ostensibly more educated than I, so I'm afraid I'll have to retract my guess. Apparently it's a weevil of some kind. I don't see it, but... Again, not an entomologist. The info dump about masked hunters is still valid though.

[@ReddBoi64]

@@alemirdiksonit certainly weevil esc in shape but I don’t see the shnozz. I’m not a big expert though

[@DP3com]

When a Bug Fables bug lands on Arlo's desk.

[@banquoviaquo9220]

Crazy to look back on sales data from the SNES era--data on games that felt generation-defining--and see just how little they sold by comparison. Well, in most cases.

[@fluffystagbeetle4526]

Its crazy how far gaming has come

[@Ray_2112]

Makes those best selling games from back then even more a huge success actually...

[@goranisacson2502]

One must also remember that some of those generation-defining games were made in like... a year at MOST by about ten people. The money it cost to make and which it needed to recover to make it a success, not to mention how there were just not as many console owners back then as there are now, changes all the calculations.

[@RK-iq9uh]

It is really insane how well the Switch has done. Basically every series got something, and often it was a major success. I really hope this sort of quality continues even if the Switch 2 probably won't be able to be as successful as the Switch's breakout domination.

[@rcdr898]

Gonna need an update on that bug.

[@OurHeroXero]

Butternut Squash? Yes Please!

[@cjward72]

Thank you for reminding me of this🤣🤣

[@Fossilized_Nerd]

*gasp* THE BUG WAS A WEEVIL Also I am SO, SO happy to see Luigi's Mansion 3 and Kirby: Forgotten Land performing so well

[@MalzraAirwynn]

I really wouldn't call TOTK 'the same game but better.' It borrows BOTW's structure, sure, and improves on some things. But ultimately it's a very different experience in a lot of ways, and a lot of us still prefer BOTW over TOTK despite the improvements like better dungeon visual variety and more enemy types etc. I think it'd be pretty foolish to assume 'I played TOTK so BOTW would have nothing to offer me.'

[@SarajevoKyoto]

As someone who played both, I vastly prefer TotK's world, but vastly prefer BotW's design. BotW was just so much tighter and more intuitive on level and puzzle designs, and I didn't have to look up guides on nearly every single shrine because they all DEMAND that you be the kind of person who relentlessly cheesed every shrine in the previous game.

[@Random1567]

For the most part, I do think TOTK is BOTW but better. There are some small advantages like activating champion abilities, the memory system making a bit more sense for the story, having guardians, master mode, etc. But overall, TOTK has better and more shrines imo, better and more variety with dungeons and bosses, generally more activities to do in the world, better quests like the side adventures, more maps and caves, a crafting system, far more uses out of materials, better combat (thanks to more options via fuse and Ultrahand), the ability to repair weapons, more mechanics, amiibo costumes actually in the game and not amiibo, more things to get, craft a house, a sort-of party system with the champions helping you in actual battle, Ganondorf feeling heavily involved in the plot constantly and causing problems throughout the game, and a way better finale. But I do get that TOTK kinda forces the crafting, building and fusing into the design of the game. Although I think that makes it better and gives the game more depth and many more options, it also complicates it and assumes you vibe with that aspect of the game, and if you don’t, it can make some of the content feel worse or pointless (like a lot of the shrines that utilize building, or the depths that are highly focused on increasing your battery for creations or helping find the shrines in the first place via lightroots). Weapons are also weaker unless you utilize fusing due to the corruption. As such, I think it’s easier for TOTK to not be a players thing, even though it’s also the better game with more systems, content and depth and will make players who enjoy that stuff like it more. BOTW is simple and easy to get into. TOTK is not as much. You have to be into all of its systems, which if you are, it is easily seen as the better game imo, but also not as easily approachable. TOTK goes all out with its mechanics in a way that assumes you’ll like all of that, and while you can skip it as much as possible to enjoy it more your way if you don’t, that also means missing out on a lot of the content the game was designed for, and thus still may make the game feel lesser for those players. So overall, I think TOTK is better and that’s not hard to see why, but BOTW is a game more easily for everyone. More crafting in BOTW would be great, and that’s what TOTK delivered, but I’m sure some people wanted it in a way where you could just do it optionally like a lot of other games and not have the entire game be focused so heavily on it, design-wise. So even if TOTK is BOTW but better, what it’s better at isn’t necessarily for everyone, and thus your point that the games are different is also true. It’s nice actually that the games are so different, because they can’t replace each other. Many may like Majora’s Mask more than OoT and it may be the better game, but MM isn’t for everyone and can’t replace OoT either. Both have purpose existing at the same time…and that’s great.

[@maurice9493]

Yea, I prefer botw by a mile

[@MalzraAirwynn]

I could write paragraph after paragraph, page after page on why I enjoy BOTW more than TOTK personally. But what I really want to focus on is this idea that 'TOTK is just BOTW but better so don't bother with BOTW.' For the sake of argument, I'm going to continue with the premise that TOTK is objectively an all around better game and there's no reason to prefer BOTW over it. I don't believe that. But I just want to explore this idea. Would Pikmin 2 or 3 being better than Pikmin 1 mean it's obsolete? Should Paper Mario TTYD mean the original Paper Mario is obselete and has nothing to offer? A sequel coming out that is a better version of the original does not and should not mean that the original suddenly has no value. Heck, one of the aspects I liked MOST about TOTK was getting to see the world again, see familiar faces. See Tarry Town blossoming, seeing Purah as the head of Kakariko Village, seeing Yunobo come into his own as the boss of a mining company etc. While you certainly CAN play TOTK without touching BOTW I feel like a big part of the experience would be missing. It's one of the aspects of TOTK that I enjoyed the most. Plus, even if someone thinks that the content of TOTK, the shrines, boss fights and dungeons etc, are better in TOTK...BOTW still has loads of its own content unique from TOTK. One being better does not mean the other is no longer worth experiencing. I like Majora's Mask more than OOT but I would never suggest MM makes OoT obsolete. I don't begrudge anyone for liking TOTK more than BOTW. But I feel like saying 'TOTK is just BOTW but better' does a disservice to BOTH games. To BOTW because I don't think all of TOTK's changes were straight up improvements and there are some things BOTW did better. And a disservice to TOTK because it denies TOTK's own distinct identity and what it does differently, by over exaggerating the similarities and downplaying what makes it unique.

[@JETEP3]

Ask yourself this question: If Mario vs DK was priced at $30, could they sell twice as much? Because that's the argument that never gets brought up. You can't just say, "Oh, this FEELS like a budget title" because the sales have to back that up.

[@Ray_2112]

I for one would have probably bought it if it was cheaper...I think a lot other people too. People complaining about great Indie games being 20+, but THIS here is far more a problem.

[@FedoraKirb]

Yeah, a game’s price is almost never measure of its quality or even how much was spent on it; the questions are always “how many people would be willing to buy it at this price?” and “how much money will that make me?”

[@amadeus.7436]

I know I would've considered buying it if it was at 30$

[@hahani17]

MIITOPIA SITTING WITH THE BIG GUYS AT THE BIG BOY 1 MILLION TABLE YEEEEAAAAHHH

[@intoontown]

Arlo's videos discussing the business side of games are always a hit with me, I just really enjoy seeing that side of things covered and he does it very well. I'm glad the TopicArlo channel has ensured more videos like this have a place!

[@secret_society5850]

it’s kind of insane too see how almost every game on switch is the best selling in its series, really might be the peak for nintendo even compared to their nes peaks

[@Chris-jx4ij]

I think that saying that Princess Peach Showtime shipping 1.7m is too little is a bit shortsighted. For one, it's not a holiday release. For two, it's only counting shipped, which I don't think counts download sales. And for three, that figure was within 10 days of its release, not an up to date number.

[@painuchiha2694]

That bug interruption was adorbs and makes arlo a certified pikmin lover

[@heroic_teddy]

Edit: I wanna see how well a Daisy games does! These are honestly my favorite kinds of videos. I love how you analyze them!

[@peanutbuttercracker1]

For reference, despite the PS2 being the best-selling console of all time, every single one of the Switch's 10 best selling games have sold more than the best selling game on the PS2 (GTA: San Andreas, with 17.33 mil).

[@Wyattporter]

My partner very smartly pointed out that there is another common denominator between these best-selling open-world titles: they’re all on the Switch. Both Breath of the Wild and Odyssey were flagship, mainline titles in their series, released on one of Nintendo’s best-selling and most-accessible consoles ever made. It’s not necessarily that they’re open world that’s making them sell so well - it could easily just be the power of the Switch. Notably, I think, Wonder’s first two quarters outperformed Odyssey’s, even so late into the system’s life cycle. I think it’s too soon to call it for open worlds, even though I do like the open world games in these series.

[@cuac232]

Love this number stuff. It really lifts (or crushes) my spirit to see a newer title selling much more (or less) than previous ones.

[@skyriotAndKadeGaming]

Peach selling as much as it did is probably fine, I highly doubt it was more expensive than Xenoblade 2 or Xenoblade 3 which sold about 2-3 million each, and they were considered very profitable.

[@yakumorisuke9403]

It's nice to see Three Houses so far up the list. It's one of my personal favourites, but also niche enough that you don't really imagine it hitting wide audiences.

[@3ulugalu3]

loved this video talking about the sales!! :)

[@IanZWhite00]

Arlo reads this like a disappointed but encouraging parent going over a report card

[@clap2973]

An Arlo video to listen to while finishing up work?! A gift

[@ssssaa2]

The reason the games have so many sales this generation is primarily not because they are different/better, but because the switch has sold an enormous number of units. Many previous console generations of Nintendo were much smaller, and the wii didn't have a very good games sold to consoles sold ratio because it was awkward control wise.

[@michyoung77]

Remember folks! VOTE WITH YOUR WALLET! Let’s make TTYD Remake show a very clear signal that THIS KIND of game is what we want for the Paper Mario Series!

[@mjc0961]

I'm VOTING WITH MY WALLET by not buying the game, Nintendo needs to know that dropping the framerate from 60 to 30 is not acceptable for an action game. (And it is an action game, combat revolves around a system literally called "Action Commands")

[@chunkymonkey7983]

​@@mjc0961Nobody cares 😯

[@yourehereforthatarentyou]

@@mjc0961shhhhh

[@BeyondTrash-xe1vs]

​@@mjc0961It's tapping a button at the right time, as long as they adjust the frames it's no big deal. It's not like it's 30fps because they were lazy, it's 30 because the game is graphically incredible for its platform.

[@user-be3qc7re9o]

​@@mjc0961 Paper Mario is a TURN BASED RPG, not an Action Game.

[@Aether_Athea]

Numbers are cool always loved numbers, I also love knowing about sales numbers

[@Shmeve0]

Only on TopicArlo do we get 1 on 1 interviews with bugs mid-video

[@elfofcourage]

Nintendo didnt just catch lightning in a bottle with the Switch, they caught Zeus’s Thunderbolt in a bottle.

[@monkeyking9863]

Remember when everyone was saying the switch was DoA and the end of Nintendo?

[@andrew8168]

Yes. The "Nintablet" was a saying.

[@imperiallarch7610]

...No? It was sold out on launch for weeks (I remember struggling to buy one), and Breath of the Wild was a killer app-most people didn't have a Wii U, so they had to buy a Switch to play (unless they wanted to pick up a last gen console that was very much dead already). Who were these "the Switch is DOA" people and what were they on about?

[@monkeyking9863]

@@imperiallarch7610 you must not go onto forms very much if you missed it. it seemed every other gaming channel was saying it for years before release and a few months after. after release they where trying to justify their claims by over blowing minor issues or even making things up about the switch from it melting and bending in the dock to the kick stand not being able to hold it up

[@Mattriix]

​@@imperiallarch7610 y'know there was also talk before it released right? After the WiiU debacle people assumed the Switch was gonna be yet another failure and bankrupt them...

[@fluffystagbeetle4526]

Nintendois dying, when will they announce the NX

[@crystalpokedude4329]

Topic Arlo is the Scott's Stash of Arlo content. Also, think you were a bit harsh on Peach. You've gotta factor in those numbers only counted the first 10 days. In 10 days, a million is big.

[@avataraarow]

Excited for more from Arlo’s newest series: “Arlo talks to weird bugs”

[@spencers5898]

I think this all just goes to show how huge the Switch's install base is. Princess Peach Showtime sells 70% as many copies in its first ten days as Super Princess Peach on NDS did across its lifetime, and we call that number soft. That only makes sense if the Switch's install base is *absolutely massive.* Same with MK8 Deluxe massively outselling MK Wii despite the Wii's legendary popularity.

[@FuZZbaLLbee]

I really don’t understand how Nintendo didn’t create more DLC for animal crossing with such a big install base

[@pcgus]

I love these sit and chat videos! So awesome!

[@JoProGaming]

Ah yes, the forbidden sequel to Hey! Pikmin, "Oh! Pikmin"

[@kingrocky7519]

13:48 I remember a couple years ago Nintendo releasing a promotional image for their upcoming store in Tokyo featuring new renders of Mario, Link, Villager, and Inkling. It was basically seen as their way of announcing “Out of all the franchises we own, these are our Big 4.” (And just to be clear, they’re talking about their main four franchises that they have 100% control and ownership over. So even though other series like Pokémon, Kirby, and Fire Emblem have probably sold more, they don’t count them as their Big 4 because they’re shared properties whose games are developed by their subsidiaries.)

[@CapriciousTF]

Warms my heart to see huge creators like The Bug making guest appearances on other channels

[@kukri52231]

So glad to see Animal Crossing become a tentpole series. Now we just need that for Metroid.

[@Sponsie1000]

l think it doesnt entirely follow that the big games with new ideas have proven their superiority over the other games "just" because they sold incredibly well compared to them, because those other games didnt have the same circumstances. If they made a more galaxy-like open world mario for example and released that instead of odessey, would that have for sure sold worse..? l think a new zelda on the switch at a time where people were starving for a big new zelda game (botw was announced in 2014 remember) was going to sell BIG regardless of whether it shakes up the formula or not, especially with how many people have a switch. I'm not denying that part of the big salesnumber is people interested to see how the new take on the formula will play out, but l think it's too easy to say "This new game that changed things up sold incredibly well -> new gameplay style is superior to old gameplay style", although l guess it will be hard to get the genie back in the bottle cuz l guess people will perceive it as lazy/regressive if they were to go back to the old style immediately...

[@SarajevoKyoto]

I loved BotW. Didn't enjoy TotK nearly as much, but still solid enough. I REALLY want Twilight Princess HD though, just beats out Wind Waker for my favorite non-BotW Zelda game.

[@fluffystagbeetle4526]

I think you are right but also I think what he meant maybe (or at least my interpretation) is that Nintendo will see it and THEIR interpretation will be that it has to be open world.

[@KevZ7.]

"If they made a more galaxy-like open world mario for example and released that instead of odessey, would that have for sure sold worse..?" Personally I don't think it would've sold badly, but it definitely would've sold worse than Odyssey. The linearity of the Galaxy games worked cause it was their premise, to be a different take on the 3D Mario franchise to the point where Nintendo themselves acknowledge them as different from 64/Sunshine, but it also leds to people waiting for the next one to NOT be like them, people were begging the next game to follow the legacy of 64 & Sunshine especially with how video games evolved over time & Odyssey succeeded cause it did exactly that, being a sandbox type Mario game with a level of creativity, fun and controls never seen before for the series. It was, in the way, the successor of 64/Sunshine people were hoping for, done in the best way possible.

[@Aether_Athea]

The bug was cool! Cool bug, also yeah I do agree I want Pikmin 4 to eventually reach at least 5 Million but it is good to hear about it still getting significant sales overall that are adding up!

[@reeseseater12]

In fairness to Princess Peach Showtime, that is after literally just 9 days of it being released. Even with the Mario label slapped on not a lot of spinoff games are going gang busters within a week. I'd like to see the month and eventually 3 month sales and then see if any boost after holiday. I can see it getting to 2.2-2.7 mil (which would probably be a massive success, I doubt this had a large budget)

[@madnessarcade7447]

Pokémon games sales usually drop off completely when a new gen comes out but swsh is different for some reason it’s impressive

[@LooseAsADEUCE]

I think the negative publicity around S/V sent some people to Sw/Sh, which, for all their faults, at least run better than S/V.

[@Borble09]

i think you need to account for how the fanbase of Nintendo games have grown more. Especially for zelda since botw

[@jtessexpress]

23 minute Arlo? lets a fucking go

[@Redkitt3n14]

[@deanmoriarty6015]

Superstars doing worse than Super Mario Party is upsetting since the former is soooo much better than the ladder

[@brideoflister]

Arlo, I opened my local game shops website and bought Pikmin 4 during this video. Just for you. (and for me, really.😊)

[@BilJoeJaggins]

Thanks to you and Scott the Woz for posting stuff I can watch as I feed my new baby at 2 AM. ❤️

[@jwr6796]

As someone who just likes to hear you talk, this is a good channel. The first time I listened to you, I was mowing my side yard, and now whenever I mow my side yard, i get a hankering. Glad i dont have to mow without these days.

[@peacocca190]

My problem with Nintendo saying the BotW formula is it for Zelda moving forward is that they still make 2D Mario despite 3D Mario sales. I love BotW and TotK. But their is still a place for linear Zelda AND them.

[@LooseAsADEUCE]

I think this only works if Nintendo makes 2D Zelda the linear series and leaves 3D Zelda open air. Splitting the 3D team to try to make both titles will lead to open air Zeldas taking even longer and I'm sure no one wants that. They would have to create a dedicated 2D team to make it work.

[@peacocca190]

@@LooseAsADEUCE I’d argue that making the 3D team do a linear 3D Zelda every once in a while would help prevent fatigue for open world Zelda. Edit: 2D should have its own team though. I agree.

[@DamienDrake2940]

The secret to Nintendo's success is that they stayed the course. They didn't fall into the graphics money pit. They don't extort their players with micro transactions. They've kept up the quality for the most part. You look at Nintendo in the 80's and 90's compared to now and there isn't much difference.

[@83ng_min]

The bug intermission was really great 👍🏻

[@groundhog4222]

Collab with buggy is peak content

[@treyyates]

That bug will be in Pikmin 5. Mark my words.

[@Save_Frog]

My favorite part of the video is when Arlo stopped the video for a minute to say hi to a bug

[@jasond.b-w]

I have a lot of bugs coming in from outside due to gaps in my door and holes around my foundation too, but they aren’t as cute as that little friend! I get those gross black ground beetles (which I bring back outside) and camel crickets (who I set traps for because I literally get so startled by them that I’ve had cardiac events and PNES episodes.) I do care about these numbers too but…that little bug, man. 🥺

[@bennycaustic5102]

I just wanna remind people that we went from people thinking Nintendo was gonna go the way of Sega, to now THIS

[@natty42]

My new favorite channel for Nintendo news !!