We Must Prepare Ourselves for This GRIM INEVITABILITY...

[@ArloStuff]

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[@TeriyakiDior]

idk if you seen this movie, but you sound like the grinch from the 2018 animation movie 😅

[@PWPictures67]

@@TeriyakiDior So you're saying he sounds like Benedict Cumberbatch?

[@TeriyakiDior]

@@PWPictures67 yes, yes i am lol

[@JuhoSprite]

I love squarespace!

[@gustavotanaka9665]

Take care Arlo! Health is N°1 mission 😄👍

[@Jordan_G.]

I love how Arlo has just permanently changed his intro to an apology for being sick.

[@jacobsan]

lmao

[@tielmaster7879]

He probably records a bunch of videos at one lol. Then edits and posts them at times.

[@excadrillo99]

The biggest issue I see is that even though PS5/XSX games release at $70, a large amount of them go on sale down to $50, then $30-40 a few months later. Even switch games that released 1-2 years ago are still $60. Prices never go down and physical games started to go up even during the switch generation. We'll see $70 games stick around without a price drop in sight and people will be a lot more selective

[@lacosta0892]

1-2 years ago is being nice. There’s switch games released in 2017 that still cost $60 to this day.

[@ConsciousCloud]

​@@lacosta0892Yeah I was curious and checked the prices and was shocked that both Breath of the Wild and Super Mario Odyssey are STILL $60 after pretty much being launch titles in 2017 (although Odyssey did come out later that year). I remember back in the N64 and GameCube days Nintendo would significantly lower the price on what it would call "Nintendo Selects" games, which were usually old titles that were really popular like Ocarina of Time and Mario 64. I really wish they still did that.

[@PrixtoTNT]

Kinda weird to mention 1-2 years old game when there's games released 7 years ago lol. Also Arlo mentions that same point in the video

Tears of the Kingdom, released last year, was $40 over black Friday, and has been on sale multiple times for $55 or $60 since its release. If people care that much about games' MSRP being $70, then they need to become better shoppers and buy when the game is on sale.

[@excadrillo99]

@@PrixtoTNT At this point any first party Nintendo game from before 2022 is *usually* going to be on sale from a third party seller or eShop by now. Though that's becoming an exception.

[@thiccnicc7469]

Arlo is like Markiplier with how often this man is just...hospitalized

[@ReachStudioPro]

Yeah truly. I wish both the best health possible though.

[@chilling-boy]

That’s what you get from not working out and only playing video games WORK OUT AND MOVE PEOPLE

[@davestylehenry]

Mark works out​@@chilling-boy

[@chilling-boy]

@@davestylehenry good for him then maybe it’s an underlying illness

[@addisonmcqueen3850]

​@chilling-boy how do you know Arlo doesn't do anything active?

[@saininj]

TotK was $30 over Black Friday, and that was probably the lowest you'd ever be able to get it for. Those rare Nintendo sales will be much harder to come by.

[@Skelterbane69]

It was free for me, if you know what I mean

[@VagueNaming]

@@Skelterbane69on one hand I’m like “agh no!!!! The game is too good for that!!!” But on the other hand I’m like “they’re a triple A Studio lmao they’ll live”

[@raymaniqe1906]

​@@VagueNamingI hate that kinda mindset

[@uriahnewtton7312]

@raymaniqe1906that’s usually a planned inconvenience for companies of that caliber, don’t feel bad.

[@olliepoplol5894]

@@Skelterbane69 ahoy brother, I’ll see you on the seven seas

[@billyzamoravargas3611]

Whoa! Didn’t know that TopicArlo had a secondary channel

[@Pharnando]

REAL

[@teamwallin6817]

Guys this is the secondary one 😂

[@thespeedyyoshi]

I think it’s the fact that these are scripted videos and much more edited that makes it main channel worthy. It’s just the fact that without Arlo on camera, it’s edited very similarly to topicArlo at this point.

[@John6-40]

Arlo = main channel Topic Arlo = secondary channel Arlo has 724k subscribers. TopicArlo has 85k subscribers. 😂

[@shigerumiyamoto9612]

@@John6-40 Yeah, but like a lot of his videos at topicarlo is annoyingly getting more attention cause of the algorithm (and even the channel was started this year and has already gained lots of subs in short amount of time), just look up topic arlo videos and compare them with his recent output here, it puts a lot of videos to shame now.

[@Stealthywaterninja]

14:24 And nowadays, a lot of us weren’t around in the 90’s, so it goes from “Wow, that would’ve been so much more expensive in the 90’s!” To “Why does this game cost so much?!” For the people born in the 2000’s and higher, there’s no point of reference to make their judgement off of. They’ve only ever seen $60 and lower. And all they can see now is that games are getting more expensive, and for many of them that price hike alone is enough to drive them away.

[@anzaia2164]

True, but video games have also become much more mainstream since then. Sales numbers today totally dwarf those of the 90es, they make a lot more profit per copy.

[@Brick_Soup]

$70 is a lot of money but what really bothers me is that digital games aren't less expensive than their physical copies

[@OniLink147]

That's mostly because making digital games significantly cheaper would be a death sentence for brick and mortar stores even bothering to stock physical games. Physical games would cease to exist as anything other Limited Run collector's editions.

[@JorgeLopez-qj8pu]

@@OniLink147 You say it as if the video games industry would care if it happened. They already make you download the physical game you bought mandatory. The entire industry trying to make it all digital so they own what you "buy". The only thing making it a slow transition is most 3 world country's like the U.S. doesn't have stable internet.

[@QuantumConundrum]

I am surprised they don't do it, would be good marketing, more sales, exposure, brand recognition..

[@QtheLaserDude]

They clearly do care. They haven't changed the prices between digital/physical. If they didn't care, that's the first thing they would do. Digital would sell twice as much for 70% the price, easy. How many people can afford 40$ right now but not 70?​@@JorgeLopez-qj8pu

[@OniLink147]

@JorgeLopez-qj8pu Brick and mortar stores want their slice of the pie which is why they have deals with game manufacturers to not undercut their sale prices.

[@LevyNeptune]

"This PNG of me" was probably funnier to me than it should have been

[@CalebWillden]

Nope. Just the perfect amount of funny. 😂

[@James-wn4fc]

Arlo’s immune system is worse than Concord 😩

[@PoketronPokey404]

Not true. Arlo comes back and Concord stays dead

[@matthewLkidder]

naw if that were the case he would already have died last year.

[@jpbo98]

If that were true, Arlo would’ve died a long time ago

[@perfectlyslicedegg3348]

This guy is always ill.

[@TMcKeon408]

Heyo!

[@painandspaghetti]

One thing I’ll always appreciate about arlo is that he’s always sick and always has to record Nintendo direct reactions from his car

[@WarlosFZ]

Grim is a reference to Hollow Knight (Grimm Troupe) so we're getting Silksong for the Nintendo Switch 2. Thanks for confirming it Arlo

[@YamiAiger]

Lol 😂

[@Hide_Me]

You joke, but we are getting it as a Switch 2 launch title.

[@nothanksfools]

What no silksong does to a mf. (I also look for cope where I can)

[@Hide_Me]

@@nothanksfools just be sure not to forget my comment when it's announced.

[@benJAMMIN634]

@@Hide_MeI won’t forget it when it doesn’t

[@matthewtjeerdsma2549]

I'm gonna take a "wait and see" approach, here. TotK was over a year ago, and I don't believe they've released a $70 game since. And unlike some games out there, TotK doesn't have hidden costs like DLC raising the ACTUAL price. Smash Ultimate, for example, is only $60, but the additional DLC characters total another $60.

[@supremekirb]

(for the record, Ultimate and BotW were an extra $10 (convert to local unit of currency) in some regions outside of the US, so it really does just seem like something they reserve for the very largest of games)

[@Antasma1]

$50 really

[@Neoxon619]

To be fair, fighting game characters aren’t exactly cheap to make. Plus Smash also has tons of licensing fees to factor in regarding any third-party characters.

[@Cloud-dt6xb]

If you buy the passes in full, however no one is forcing you to do that you can just buy the charachters individually which are all at a very cheap price and at your own pace and only on the fighters you really want. To this day I don't have Steve in my copy of Ultimate.

[@olivierf2938]

Then again that was the last time Nintendo released a "AAA" game. It would have been very hard to justify the price point for anything they released afterwards.

[@cherubin7th]

6:50 Keep in mind that profits are also inflating. You need to adjust profits for inflation to see the full picture. The grim reality is, we are getting poorer, but instead of seeing it on the paycheck you see it on your bills as inflation.

[@Justagamerhere1]

In the US in 2019 I have been getting emails from nearly every vendor saying how the costs have gone up due to a combination of factors (2 major in particular). I expected this to continue but the pandemic accelerated it a little more than I thought.

[@BonJoviBeatlesLedZep]

​@@Justagamerhere1The tariffs are only going to make it worse.

[@turtleanton6539]

​@@Justagamerhere1yes ofccc

[@PieMan24601]

I miss when 3DS games were $40. That price point was THE reason I got to enjoy so many games on that system. I have the tiniest glimmer of hope that more flexible prices will be adopted in general through the industry, seeing as Sonic x Shadow Generations for example is selling a TON of copies at $50, but this is the game industry and nothing ever goes how it should. If the Switch 2 has $70 base price games I'm just... not going to even bother.

[@turtleanton6539]

Me neither since the neve r lower the prices

[@eon6274]

I wish it wasn't so, but the price points of the games are the reason I probably won't get the next switch. As much as I like to waste money on another broken pokemon game or another smash/mario party you have to have a monthly sub to get the most out of, just don't have the money to keep up with nintendo. At least on pc I can emulate and get games on sale. I too miss my 3DS games that were cheap. I loved to go get cheap titles then exchange them for other cheap titles at gamestop. Coincidentally one of the best cheap games I recall playing as a kid was a title called Tigerz. Can't remember why, only that I was able to make my own animal reserve and use the stylus controls in some unique minigames helping animals.

[@gwenpolo1307]

It's like Arlo is briefly possessed by the spirit of Bernie Sanders and honestly I dig it

[@Jehayland]

“Corporations are getting richer and we’re getting poorer”

[@GeddyRC]

Good thing Trump plans on giving all the ultra-rich tax breaks, which means everyone else gets to pay more to make up for the deficit. Thanks, American voters! Oh yeah and if the Switch is manufactured in China, you can expect the tariffs to crank the price up by at least 30%. So thanks again.

[@KairuHakubi]

they're not getting richer the money is worth half what it used to be. if they gained even 33% income, that's still a loss.

[@C.Frizzle]

@@KairuHakubi…naturally meaning the effect on the average person is significantly worse lol

[@KairuHakubi]

@@C.Frizzle that's not the point Don't sell the idiotic idea that what they're doing benefits them. Because how do you think that will motivate them? Instead repeat the *correct* idea that they are _screwing themselves._

[@mRibbons]

That is one of the things I miss about Nintendo having 2 systems actively on the market.... the smaller, less expensive, and sometimes more innovative experiments on the traditionally "portable" console.

[@ariwl1]

Back in the day I owned SO MANY Game Boy games because they were so cheap. I could buy one on a whim with my regular allowance and even if it turned out to be a bust I didn't care that much.

[@PixelPikmin]

I don’t think all Nintendo games will be $70. I think the only $70 games we’ll get next gen are the big 1st party games like 3D Mario, Mario Kart, Smash Bros, and maybe Prime 4

[@megamegaO]

He mentioned it in the video....

[@DontuseMyRealNameYTplz1425]

Prime 4 should NOT be $70 dollars, that would hurt the game if anything

[@exzisd]

I am shocked Nintendo’s games aren’t $70. I argue most gamers have too many games. Nintendo games are already largely budget titles. It’s absurd that Nintendo games are only 60 honestly. It’s this sort of thinking which WILL contribute to the all digital future even more so. People won’t want to pay the cost and believe the inflation which is ALWAYS there with a fiat currency regardless of who’s in office. Again - it amazes me that Nintendo games are JUST 60. Amazing. Go back to the 90s and look at game prices and then on top of that adjust for inflation. 😅

[@Neoxon619]

Prime 4 isn’t a big enough release (from a sales standpoint) to justify being $70.

[@АлександрТерехов-ж3й]

for the Western market, Metroid Prime 4 is a major release. In Japan, it is of little interest to anyone, and the price will most likely be lower, but Metroid has never been popular there, in 1994 in Japan even Super Metroid failed, Nintendo has no point in promoting Metroid Prime 4 in Japan. When in the US, Metroid has the same cultural significance as Zelda Also, even Metroid Dread cost $ 60. When other 2D metroidvanias like Hollow Knight or Ori cost $ 20-40

[@morphinball7954]

11:10 He got one more use out of the state of play footage!

[@darcidious99]

We all know he'll find something else to use it for. Concord was such a catastrophic failure that it represents everything wrong with the industry, its the perfect example to callback to.

[@KingsBard]

​@@darcidious99Reminds me of how often Alpharad used that clip of the switch in the trash.

[@lewstherintelamon244]

We don't need to go back 30 years. Just compared to 2017 (i.e. when the Switch came out) a 60$ dollar game is the equivalent of spending 77$ dollars today. I'm not saying that I want prices to rise, but if I want to buy something for the same price I would have paid for it 5 years ago I can go to Costco and buy a hotdog, but that's about it. Nintendo may be less inclined to inflate budgets for games, but no one can deny having to boost their games specs for more powerful hardware is going to be more expensive than developing for the equivalent of a tablet from 2015.

[@chiquita683]

When Nintendo drops the Switch 2 as a PS4 for $450 in 2025 they are cooked

[@lewstherintelamon244]

​@@chiquita683Adjusted for inflation the Switch cost roughly 385 dollars in todays money when it came out. Anyone who thinks that the Switch 2 is going to be any less than 399$ is dreaming. Of course it's all up to the games whether a console is worth buying or not, but I don't think the Switch generation made anyone have cause to believe that Nintendo lost it's touch at making good games.

[@TMcKeon408]

I like Costco hot dogs.

[@GigalassII]

Can't even do that, now you're required to pay for a membership before they'll even let you order anything

[@ItsDangerousGoAlone]

Yeah, i dont think $70 games is that outrageous, unless it is a low budget game like a ported/remastered game.

[@TheMoney9999]

"The final Nintendo Switch game ever published: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of The Kingdom" ??? Genuinely don't know what you mean by this

[@steveroberts1938]

yeah what

[@ryancarrell3186]

it wasn't even the last ZELDA game to release lmao

[@steveroberts1938]

maybe he means the last *big* nintendo game for the switch?

[@Matanumi]

@@steveroberts1938 Mario wonder?

[@TheDreadedZero]

Wasn’t it the last first party game?

[@luisoncpp]

let's face it, companies don't price their goods and services according to how _fair_ their prices are, they just charge to maximize profit. If Nintendo's marketing team thinks they would end more by charging $70, they are going to charge $70, and that's it.

[@HozyFlynn]

Get better soon Arlo

[@Ijustusethistocommentstuff]

My theory for why Zelda was $70 specifically is that Nintendo's trying to do more variable pricing structures for games, so that cheaper to produce games get better margins, and they can maximize on holiday sales for way larger games, like TOTK. TOTK was released early in the year, and would be able to then EASILY become a holiday or summer sale hit, as its then old enough to get good discounts. It increases the longevity of the games in terms of pricing and market value, because it makes sales much more appealing. 15% off a $60 game looks worse than the same price on a $70 game, even if its a year old, especially during the holidays. Adds value to the game LONG after its released. Then, say, making more simple remasters 40 or 50 means they can pump them out, and still see good profit. They do the least amount of work for the most benefit.

[@Mrturtle.4]

I hope you get better soon Arlo😭

[@paladincomics]

As someone who was just sick and is still fighting a cough, I feel you

[@Katie-hb8iq]

For me, the price of the game is not even the major factor anymore - it's the time that is required to play it and its quality. As you said, there are a lot of games not worth even 60, but I would even pay 100 for a game I know I want to finish. The number of games worth finishing is shrinking the last 10 years too, so it's not even a major problem for me. Western game studios make it very easy to ignore their games these days.

[@jameslawrenson1208]

Even though it was overpriced, I thoroughly enjoyed Another Code Recollection!

[@nikkimvee4710]

I would have paid $100 gladly for Binding of Isaac and Skyrim based on the time I've put in them. I think the money is on the screen especially with Isaac's 10 years of development updates and Skyrim's fantastic writing especially for the side quests (the Dark Brotherhood is one of my favorite questlines in any RPG). I think the problem is that so often we can only identify this in retrospect. The price of Balatro felt a little steep for me on consoles until I actually played it and realized I would have paid double that.

[@sabrinacastro69]

freaking real

[@davidtitanium22]

when almost every western AAA game feels like reskins of the same game it starts blending in

[@specs6637]

Agreed

[@GameJam230]

3:05 …Mario and Luigi: Brothership, that Princess Peach spinoff, Echos of Wisdom, several HD remakes, and they’ve already confirmed Metroid Prime 4 on the switch in 2025 as well as Pokémon Legends: Z-A too… Tears of the Kingdom is so far from the last that I’m honestly not even sure what the point of suggesting it was is.

[@Dualex_Builds]

I was wondering the same thing. Where did he come up with that line?

[@GameJam230]

@ My best guess is that he was specifically meaning games made by the main Nintendo studio (not 2nd party contractors like GameFreak, which most if not all the games on that list are from), as well as not being remakes or remasters. But tbh most of those games are big enough to justify putting them in the same bin as TotK

[@Dualex_Builds]

@@GameJam230 yeah and even if made by contractors, there’s a lot of first party games like Metroid and echoes of wisdom

[@Parker402]

Starts at 1:45

[@TeriyakiDior]

tysm

[@spaceman466]

Thank you

[@dominicyeomans8107]

I hate ads what a sell out

[@ryanb4940]

@@dominicyeomans8107yeah! He should make videos and work hard for free!!!! 🙄

[@Kornkid933]

Not all hero’s wear capes!

[@SupremeMarioGamer]

I bought TotK on eBay for $46, including tax since shipping was free. I haven't bought a game full price for years, so I'm prepared for the industry's greed. Only shame is that DLC for games rarely ever goes down in price. Splatoon 2 & the Mario+Rabbids are the only Nintendo games I've seen discount their DLC.

[@THEONETRUEOVERLORD]

70$ isn’t greed it’s the amount they need to charge to make any money. Some games aren’t worth 70$ but just don’t buy those.

[@django4013]

They don't need to charge 70 it's just greedy. Do you not know what capitalism is?​@@THEONETRUEOVERLORD

[@sharingheart13]

My perception of game prices is skewed by the fact that when I was little, the game Bram Stoker's Dracula for the SNES, shortly before the N64 release, was $99 at my local Walmart.

[@chinacaat1880]

dude is ALWAYS SICK

[@herrzeiens3503]

He has Ligma

[@draxon2006]

​@@herrzeiens3503 What's ligma? 😏

[@fencerderio9814]

@@herrzeiens3503You’re not funny.

[@BrendanB-j4c]

@@herrzeiens3503He’s got Lumbago

[@mikeuk666]

Imagine thinking everyone's immune system is the same

[@JadnMaxGaming]

Poor little blue haired Arlo laying in bed with a big old timey ice bag on his head, fighting off a Switch 2 fever dream.

[@the6ig6adwolf]

I rather enjoy flappy head PNG Arlo. It reminds me of Canadian characters on South Park.

[@pubertdefrog]

Yeah it kind of sucks that more of their games might become a little more expensive, but at least we haven’t had nearly any live service games like some other big developers make constantly, and I don’t expect that to change too much. I’d prefer if my video gaming experience is a hobby, not a lifestyle if you get what I mean

[@RRed19]

Nuanced and good take. This is a hobby, not a life.

[@herrzeiens3503]

I am Prepared now. Thanks Arlo!

[@BaoKimshi]

I'll start to believe that Nintendo's trying to get Arlo poisoned with how often he's falling sick.

[@TheAnonLee]

My biggest concern for the switch 2 is that Nintendo gets greedy, well greedier, and start making the same mistakes of other companies, aka getting cocky and screwing over their fans, even more than they already do

[@RightCross22]

Nintendo has always, *always* been the greediest of all the major console companies. They never reduce the price on their first party games, even after over half a decade. They charge hundreds of dollars for a glorified tablet. They force you to restart your digital library every time a new console comes out, because they refuse to allow backwards compatibility. When the switch 2 comes out it will probably be more than $400 and it won’t let you use your digital library of switch games. Even though Xbox and PlayStation have had backwards compatibility for ages now, Nintendo refuses to get with the times. They release overpriced, underpowered consoles, and refuse to be consumer friendly. Boycotting Nintendo until further notice

[@andrewg.3281]

​@jaycefields756 I get spreading misinformation on the internet is fun and all, but come on. Nintendo has already said switch software will be playable on switch 2. We don't know to what extent that means, but it implies backwards compatability. And saying Nintendo refuses backwards compatability is insane. The Wii u played wii games, the wii played GameCube. The 3ds played ds. The ds played gba. The gba played Gameboy games. They had consistently been backwards compatible since the turn of the century. The only one not is the switch, which wouldn't make sense to be backwards compatible. Both the Wii U and 3ds had two screens, one of which being a touch screen. It would be incredibly clunky to try to make that work on one screen. Plus the wii u has disks about the same size as the switch itself. And the switch itself is a glorified tablet, but, unfortunately, a tablet and a controller will be around $300 today anyway. And for the $60 games never getting price drops, yeah you're right. But we have no one to blame but ourselves for that. People keep buying them no matter the price so there's really no reason to lower it. People need to actually not buy them until they go on sale if they want Nintendo to drop the prices. So in that case, good luck on your boycott. More people should be like you and put their money where their mouth is if they actually want prices to go down.

[@АлександрТерехов-ж3й]

​@@RightCross22Firstly, no one really gives prices now. If there used to be Nintendo Select and PlayStation Hits, now with the release of the Switch and PS5 they have disappeared. Secondly, the cost price of the Switch at launch was $250, which is $50 more than the retail price. But this price does not include transportation, assembly costs, etc., but only the components that make up the Switch. Also, the PS5 cost $500, and the cost price was $450. You can object to the fact that the Switch has not fallen in price in 7 years, but the PS5 in 4 years not only has not fallen in price, but on the contrary, has risen in price in all markets except the USA. Thirdly, what you said about backward compatibility is an absolute lie. Backward compatibility was ON ALL NINTENDO CONSOLES STARTING WITH THE GBA, with the exception of the Switch, which was not possible due to the presence of two screens on the Wii and 3DS. Also, despite the presence of backward compatibility in the PS2 and PS3 fat, in subsequent Slim versions of the PS3 and PS4, backward compatibility disappeared, and returned with the release of the PS5, which came out later than the Switch, so where is such confidence that the new Switch will not have backward compatibility, if even Nintendo confirmed that it will be present on the Switch 2 Fourth, the Switch is a 2017 portable Portable hardware is always weaker than stationary hardware. There is Steme Deck, but it came out 5 years after the Switch, comparing it is equivalent to the PS2 (2000) and x360 (2005) is also incorrect. At the start in 2017, for 300$ and this was a good offer

[@PunsandPixels]

I wouldn’t say greed is the right word here. To me greedy would be charging that much money for a lazy product, like several of the pokemon games. For the most part Nintendo’s first party games deliver for the price. At least all the ones I’ve bought I haven’t felt like I didn’t get my money’s worth. And sales are a very slippery slope. Like Arlo said in the video he will wait for games to go on sale, even a year! People nowadays are more willing to wait long periods of time if they believe a game will go on sale. I believe this has to do with the fact that time is going by faster than in the past and there being countless more things you can pass the time with now. Rereleasing an old game for the same price as a new nintedo title is where I think they are a little off the mark. I wanted to play that game another code but the price has really kept me from it. But again they are a publicly traded company and are at the behest of those shareholders. Compared to the vast majority of companies, like all these streaming platforms for example who are hiking their prices up to the moon, Nintendo is pretty tame.

[@АлександрТерехов-ж3й]

@@RightCross22 Firstly, no one really gives prices now. If there used to be Nintendo Select and PlayStation Hits, now with the release of the Switch and PS5 they have disappeared. Secondly, the cost price of the Switch at launch was $250, which is $50 more than the retail price. But this price does not include transportation, assembly costs, etc., but only the components that make up the Switch. Also, the PS5 cost $500, and the cost price was $450. You can object to the fact that the Switch has not fallen in price in 7 years, but the PS5 in 4 years not only has not fallen in price, but on the contrary, has risen in price in all markets except the USA. Thirdly, what you said about backward compatibility is an absolute lie. Backward compatibility was ON ALL NINTENDO CONSOLES STARTING WITH THE GBA, with the exception of the Switch, which was not possible due to the presence of two screens on the Wii and 3DS. Also, despite the presence of backward compatibility in the PS2 and PS3 fat, in subsequent Slim versions of the PS3 and PS4, backward compatibility disappeared, and returned with the release of the PS5, which came out later than the Switch, so where is such confidence that the new Switch will not have backward compatibility, if even Nintendo confirmed that it will be present on the Switch 2 Fourth, the Switch is a 2017 portable Portable hardware is always weaker than stationary hardware. There is Stimul Deck, but it came out 5 years after the Switch, comparing it is equivalent to the PS2 (2000) and x360 (2005) is also incorrect. At the start in 2017, for $ 300 and this was a good offer

[@combatwombat8742]

In Australia most switch games are at $80 with some being at $90 like SSBU, breath of the wild and TOTK. Most PlayStation games are about $120 at launch which is kinda wild that it costs 1.5x as much as Nintendo games. So TOTK costing $70 in U.S.A. doesn’t actually affect me at all.

[@takodacorliss5838]

Gigachad energy here.

[@apersonwhomayormaynotexist9868]

is that adjusted to USD or is that in australian dollars? i don't know the conversion ratio

[@viddysgamingviddyos4710]

Well, the catch [as an Australian] for me is that I tend to get games from JB. Which means, instead of 79 AUD for a Switch game, it's 69 - at the cost of mostly not getting anything special bundled whether pre-ordered or not. I got the special TOTK edition from JB with the artwork and stuff, and I'm pretty sure that was a bit cheaper than most other retailers.

[@cvolo]

$70 usd is $110 AUD which i think is insane for a switch game!

[@AusSP]

@@viddysgamingviddyos4710 JB do get preorder bonuses, though. I got a collector coin. It's Big W who don't usually.

[@gearedguy1737]

Hey arlo, did you hear about the new discovery in the paper mario community? we actually found the E3 trailer with the original stuff and such, it's pretty cool, probably not worthy of a video but still a cool thing to check out.

[@Dash123456789Brawl]

For a bit more context; Unless another trailer was discovered with impeccable timing, this is about the original reveal trailer for Sticker Star.

[@BoxoSpoons]

All I can say for sure is that the next $70 game will probably be Prime 4. I can only imagine the ungodly amount of money that's been dumped into that project over the last 7 years.

[@Neoxon619]

If anything, I feel like MP4 will likely remain $60 USD. The series historically doesn’t sell a ton, a fact Nintendo recognized when they only charged $40 USD for Prime 1 Remastered. Charging $70 USD for franchise as niche as Metroid would pretty much be sending Prime 4 out to die.

[@AndrewSoup]

@@Neoxon619 yooo that's actually a good point

[@jacobmonks3722]

I could see it going either way. Metroid Dread was $60, and it was the highest selling game in the franchise's history. Metroid Prime has always been seen by the general industry as the more prestigious and prolific incarnation of Metroid (not saying whether that's good or bad, just that it is), so selling for $70 is something I can see them doing.

[@Neoxon619]

@@jacobmonks3722 But again, Metroid isn’t a heavy-hitter franchise. Even Dread’s 3 million is well behind 2D Zelda selling upwards of 7 million units. It just doesn’t have the mass appeal to justify a higher price tag.

[@АлександрТерехов-ж3й]

for the Western market, Metroid Prime 4 is a major release. In Japan, it is of little interest to anyone, and the price will most likely be lower, but Metroid has never been popular there, in 1994 in Japan even Super Metroid failed, Nintendo has no point in promoting Metroid Prime 4 in Japan. When in the US, Metroid has the same cultural significance as Zelda Also, even Metroid Dread cost $ 60. When other 2D metroidvanias like Hollow Knight or Ori cost $ 20-40

[@mitwhitgaming7722]

I saw the title and immediately thought of Scar's song... I saw the thumbnail and felt vindicated! 😂

[@isntchrisl]

You're not wrong. I've been thinking about all of this lately too. I'm also hoping the upcoming tariffs don't cause the system to launch at $500.

[@peterkorman77]

The tariffs definitely aren’t gonna do any of us any favors here.

[@DAndHGamer]

I understand your point, but you are completely wrong. Tears of the Kingdom was not the first $70 Nintendo game. Back in the SNES days Chrono Trigger was $70. If you want to say "first party Nintendo games only" Killer Instinct for the N64 retailed for $75 originally, with MANY Nintendo 3rd party games being $70 or even $80. I am not saying I want to pay more, and in fact, games are the one area that does not necessarily need the price to rise. The truth is because it costs practically nothing to make a single game distribution, the key is recovering development costs. As such, it is better to simply sell the game at the "best" price point. If you can sell a much larger quantity at $60, you would be stupid (and incorrect) to say you NEED to sell a game for $70. You would make more money at $60. But if Nintendo convinces enough people they "need" to sell at that price, or enough people buy at that price, that is going to be the new normal.

[@ausgod538]

chrono trigger isnt anintendo published game

[@THEONETRUEOVERLORD]

I hate to say this over and over again but accounting for inflation games used to be 150$ back during NES area.

[@frikyouall]

Greetings! I'm doing my first playthrough of TotK, and I have some wisdom to offer: You can ride the dragon, but be very careful if you must jump off. I have just found out the hard way that the game does not autosave while you ride it.

[@johnquigleyiii7685]

I think part of the reason Totk was 70 was also to pay for the costs of 32GB switch carts. Nintendo doesn't normally do price differences between digital and physical. A big argument I hear is that Metroid Dread was priced too high as $60 was too much for a Metroidvania, even if was a Metroid game and it had to be cheaper. It sold rather well and people really enjoyed it.

[@Mr_Mimestamp]

If Nintendo sells another Mario Sports game with barely any content at launch for $70, my sigh-o-meter will exceed capacity.

[@RacingSnails64]

Dawg I couldn't handle that

[@TiredOx7536]

Iirc the reason for the price was due to the Switch only using its own format for cards which are expensive to produce. TOTK required significantly more storage, hence a pricier card, hence Nintendo increasing the cost to make up profits. The real question is if they'll continue with something like this next gen or find a new cost effective way for their cards.

[@mr.awesome6011]

The game is also jam-packed with content. I got more playtime out of TOTK in a year and a half than I did in the six years prior with BOTW.

[@THEONETRUEOVERLORD]

@@mr.awesome6011my friend had 250 hours in BOTW over 6 years but got 200 hours in TOTK in just the first year.

[@cyankoopa8111]

Totk is under 20 gigs, it was just because it's such a big game content wise rather than file wise

[@mikeuk666]

It spent an extra year in game testing

[@Neoxon619]

I feel like they’ll only charge $70 USD for the games that sell at least 10 million units. So while Mario/Zelda/Splatoon/AC/Smash/Pokémon will become more expensive, smaller IPs like Metroid/Xenoblade/Pikmin/ARMS/Fire Emblem/etc. will likely remain $60 USD because they can’t really afford to cost more without sacrificing the relatively fewer sales they get.

[@jacobmonks3722]

I desperately hope Pokemon won't sell for $70. They already take advantage of their fans by shoveling out the same game with 2 different SKUs that is so subpar in production quality that even Zelda Twilight Princess, a late Gamecube game, looks and feels better. They need to justify $60 first before even considering raising that pricepoint.

[@Neoxon619]

@@jacobmonks3722 Best to prepare yourself for it, it’s an easy cash cow for TPC. And Pokémon sells more than enough to justify the price tag.

[@Neoxon619]

@@Bargate If you mean MP1 Remastered being priced at $40 USD, it was because Nintendo knows that Metroid is really niche & needed help to sell more. DK on the other hand is a bigger IP that’s on the cusp of becoming a heavy-hitter, hence the full $60 USD price tag.

[@mistabrown830]

​@Neoxon619 $60 for a 2D DK game from the Wii is ridiculous a lot of their games are just blatantly overpriced compared to many indie games on other platforms.

[@matthewLkidder]

I bet the people who say the Switch 2 looks like the Switch 1 said the 3DS was just another DS.

[@RacingSnails64]

I hope you're right.

[@jacobmonks3722]

Diminishing returns is a real thing. I couldn't tell you the difference between PS4 and PS5 game footage most times. And I feel that is only going to become more true as the generations continue on. I honestly hope this generation lasts a decade or more, and the focus is more on games playing better and not necessarily looking better. I want faster load times and better framerates and higher quality audio. Graphics are already as good as any game realistically will need.

[@jellycore1316]

Oh, Arlo, I know this was seemingly recorded like 12 days ago, but I hope you're feeling better now! If not yet, get well soon! 💜 Thanks for the video! ^^

[@thisguy4505]

At release, in 2024 inflation funbucks: Mario 64 was $120. Super Mario Sunshine was $88. Super Mario Galaxy was $76.

[@TotalRADandMORE]

Dang sorry to hear about your sickness. That’s been going around, my family just recovered from it. Wishing you a speed and complete recovery. 🤗😷

[@lemontonk]

7:02 the revolution is coming comrade

[@moritakaishida7963]

Like fusion, the "revolution" is always just 10 years away and then still doesn't happen

[@batataambulante1378]

​@moritakaishida7963 no revolution can come without class organization

[@haythemmessaoui3379]

also the fact that Nintendo removed the Nintendo selects 20$ collection this generation and is still selling 7 year old games for full price is outrageous

[@hatboi124]

Arlo gets sick more than anyone I've ever known.

[@mikeuk666]

Lots of us have underlying health issues.....

[@aaaaallllleeeeexxxxx]

Things are even worse in Canada. Games are $80CAD plus the 12% sales tax for a total of $89.60/game. There’s simply no way I’m going to pay $90 for Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD (a flipping REMAKE) The price point of games means I’m extremely choosy/cautious about what games I buy. Nintendo would get considerably more of my money if they would lower their prices even just a bit.

[@calvinbrinenestoris2357]

*Laughs in used Switch vouchers to buy TOTK for $50*.

[@Qwoll]

I pray for you Arlo, health n all. Hope u feel better soon honestly

[@AP-sg2ut]

Arlo remember when talking about a corporation earning record profits, if the value of your money is going down, the same effect is happening to their profits. So an increase in profits has to exceed the inflation rate for the value of those profits to go up in real terms.

[@Melonhome_yt]

Can't believe how many people ignore this, including Arlo. No shit they have record profits, their dollars are getting weaker too, thus requiring more dollars to pay for everything.

[@TheGreatSammyJack]

"The first Nintendo game to sell for $70." Sounds like someone who never had to buy N64 games.

[@StudioCoqui]

I know right, Super Nintendo games were clocking in at that price too.

[@Zubadascana]

“Corporations are getting richer, and we’re getting poorer” “The cult of capitalism preaches that it doesn’t matter how much money you make; if it’s not more money than you made last time, you are literally failing” - COMRADE ARLO, 2024

[@blister81]

Without capitalism we wouldn't have nintendo

[@Zubadascana]

@@blister81 you’re a fool

[@NautilusXO]

​@@blister81 Uh huh, and if we didn't have slave economies, we wouldn't have clothes 🙄 oh wait, that's not true! Nintendo, and every company, could shift to a different corporate structure that is not based in capitalism, and they'd be better for it. Capitalism is an ideology, and we owe nothing to an ideology that bankrupts the vast majority of people, especially when we know there are better alternatives.

[@tomwantshelp]

Amazing how he can consistently be so confidently wrong on this subject. Like, this is a US-centric video. His entire life, US citizens have been getting richer in real terms, and most of the time (including right now), right across the income bracket.

[@tadstrange1465]

@@tomwantshelpthey literally aren't? Wages have been stagnating for 40 years

[@jacksondavis3355]

“Yes our teeth and ambitions are bared!” …. D- Do ya get it?

[@tzeneth]

I laugh a little bit because I actually stopped buying Nintendo games or even playing my switch because of the prices. When I realized they never lowered them, I put it aside and said, "Well, I don't accept these prices and will just continue with my PC games." I have a huge backlog and prefer to support indies.

[@technobladeleakedclips1827]

Indies are dreck

[@danielgertler5976]

Tears of the Kingdom is more deserving of 70 dollar price tag than most of the games on ps and xbox which contain like half the content, then sell you that same content in micro transactions. With nintendo pricing, my problem is the lack of the price going down over the time like you said. There's a bunch of nintendo games that I would absolutely buy at like 30 or 40 bucks but I'm not going to buy at full price.

[@MarkingBuilds]

So fun fact, in Denmark (and iirc, most of Europe), both Breath of the Wild and Smash Ultimate cost the equivalent of $70, for the same reason as Tears of the Kingdom, so this is really only a new thing for Americans. Looking at it from that perspective, BotW, Smash Ultimate and TotK are definitely bigger games than the rest of the library, both in average playtime and complexity, so it makes Nintendo's argument make a lot more sense. Actually, it's a bit weird that they've only just now started doing increased prices in the US with TotK.

[@moxty2795]

I wish you a full recovery from whatever your illness is, Arlo.

[@NTNG13]

i hope Arlo doesn't die

[@Expensive_Salt]

As a big Phillies fan, was so happy to hear you recommend the turnaround. Just an amazing documentary and story

[@Mr_Mimestamp]

I have no problem paying $70 for TOTK. But I have no doubt that Nintendo will soon be charging $70 for games that are much lower quality. Not to mention that these prices are so much worse for so many other people. Nintendo doesn’t really localize their prices in poorer countries, making their games nearly unattainable without piracy in places like Brazil.

[@xenos_n.]

After I bought a Switch and realized that despite how much I wanted to play all of the new Nintendo games, I barely owned any because I was mostly buying indie games. That $60 price tag just wasn't worth it anymore with the plethora of amazing indies. So, I gave my nephew my Switch and bought a Steam Deck... ... and I couldn't be happier with it. I realized I didn't NEED Nintendo games anymore. This upcoming generation might be the first of Nintendo's that I purposefully skip since the 80's. I just have way too big of an amazing indie backlog on Steam Deck and don't feel the desire to support Nintendo like I always had. $60 is just a crazy price for an 8 hour game that I'm not going to replay when I'm on a tight budget in the year of our lord 2025. Times really have changed, not my enjoyment of Nintendo games.

[@bobbybananas703]

Nintendo's refusal to discount games has me hoping they get served some humble pie now that there are other viable handheld alternatives on the market.

[@usman5140]

handheld PC’s and the Nintendo Switch do not have the same audience. It’s not real competition

[@bobbybananas703]

@@usman5140 Pretty brain dead to believe there is no crossover in the venn diagram of pc handheld and switch users, but ok.

[@usman5140]

@@bobbybananas703 of course there is some overlap, but it is a very small scale. PlayStation had “viable handhelds” that were far more technical than what Nintendo has to offer and they failed to make the same impact as Nintendo. Sony has greater access to games that handheld players play than steam. If it’s not even happening with the current switch, what makes you think this will be enough for the superior switch 2?

[@KittysCat-j7x]

I’m far more critical of the $60 price tag on Princess Peach Showtime than I am about the $70 tag on TotK. It’s about value for money. It’s a bigger problem when all the crappy games cost $10 less than what’s being charged for “triple A” releases.

[@jourdonpatron212]

UM, Tears of the Kingdom is NOT the last Nintendo game on Switch. It's not even the last Zelda game. 💀💀💀

[@EhurtAfy]

Echoes of Wisdom developed by Grezzo. Mario & Luigi Brothership developed by Acquire, Princess Peach's Showtime developed by Good-Feel. They are all fine enough games, but they are not flagship games and not primarily Nintendo developed. It's basically Nintendo extending their IP to other developers, not like Tears of the Kingdom, Super Mario Wonder, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, which were developed by Nintendo EPD. Super Mario Wonder released after Zelda though, so there's that. It's pretty clear Nintendo is taking a hiatus on the Switch, they're letting the B-team keep Switch owners happy, while Nintendo-proper develops meaningful launch titles for Switch 2

[@DontuseMyRealNameYTplz1425]

I’m guessing he meant the last major switch exclusive game? But yeah weird statement there

[@dmaster342]

@@DontuseMyRealNameYTplz1425 That's not even true tho. A new 2D Mario for the first time in a decade is pretty major.

[@benji6325]

With the dramatic way he delivered that statement and not being ambiguous when saying "last Switch game ever published," I'm pretty sure it was just a joke

[@Stormkyleis]

He says "the final Switch game," full stop, he doesn't even specify by Nintendo. In the context of the intro, I'm pretty sure he's just being jokingly overdramatic

[@CESuchland]

Sometimes I reflect on the fact that NES games in the 80s were $40-50 … that’s like $150 today (purchasing power).

[@spooky-helix217]

The game awards probably prevented him from healing

[@keving7940]

In my 20’s now and grew up with Arlo. Now your content resonates even deeper as I begin to unpack my relationship with Nintendo in my adulthood. Thanks for always putting in the effort and giving me something to look forward to in life. It really makes a difference in my eyes

[@keving7940]

recover well ❤️‍🩹

[@onefinegent]

3:20 shrine island had nice shrine AND THE GAME COSTS SEVENTY DOLLA-

[@GreenThunder]

honestly i can see them having their prices be 50 60 and 70, being pretty much the same way they are now. 60 for most games, 50 for smaller games like warioware or mario vs dk, and 70 for their bigger games like totk

[@illumi3604]

It's just not games, expect a price hike for the online subscription and peripherals as well.

[@TeeDohJackson]

According to the inflation calculator, the original Zelda game would cost almost $150 😂

[@OrbitalLizardStudios]

The next Zelda may be $70, but luckily the sequel to '1-2 Switch' will only be $60!

[@headlesshiidra]

My honest opinion is any developer charging $70 for a game usually doesn't care about the customer as a person. I have very few $70 games in my catalogue, totk was one of them and I loved that game and I'd say it was worth the extra 10 bucks because I dropped hundreds of hours into the game. But most games charging 70 bucks are just not worth it, and some even have microtransactions on top of it too which is especially scummy.

[@chadstevemichaelmichaels4605]

Totk was the only $70 have I've bought where it felt like i got my money's worth.

[@Pocket_Stuff]

I held out for tears of the kingdom. No way I was paying $70. Plenty of other games to play in the meantime, then sure enough there was a sale and I paid only $40 for it. Gonna do that for all nintendo games moving forward because otherwise they ain't worth it.

[@Aether_Athea]

I do hope that if they do introduce more $70 games, that vouchers will still be around, but yeah I could see at least some games in the future becoming $70

[@IcarusFallz]

I get your point of view HOWEVER when you think about ToTK is a bargain for $70. The amount of content and it being a technical miracle is mind blowing. Obviously an exception. I really doubt Nintendo will make switch 2 games 70. They're going to see sales drop and start discounting. It makes more sense for them to keep games priced 50-60 throughout the entire generation

[@brisingr14]

I dont even pay full price for regular switch games. I always get them used for around 40 bucks

[@gameboycolor47]

They literally said the $70 for totk was because it had to be printed on a larger storage size and more expensive cart than what is usual for switch and will not be normal.

[@georgerobertson1054]

People complain about price increases, but $50 going to $70 is entirely understandable given the past 7 years of inflation. People never quite understand inflation as it’s always 1-3% per year. But recent years it’s been 6% or more coming down now. But $60 (BOTW) in 2017 is worth $77 now, ($70 TOTK) Our economic situation post pandemic is kinda screwed, and unless things make a change soon we will continue with gradual price increases. When you account for inflation TOTK is cheaper the BOTW. TOTK cost exactly the same as Skyward sword when accounting for inflation since 2011 $50 has become $70. Games are relatively cheaper than ever, but we are becoming relatively poorer too. I hope it doesn’t reach a stage where gaming becomes a privilege only available to the richest amongst us.

[@DaWrecka]

Inflation isn't even a factor; 70USD games is greed, plain and simple. People are willing to pay that much, so the publishers will charge that much - whether the game involved is worth that much money or not. You can claim that the 70 USD price is necessary to make up for increased game budgets - but why is game development so expensive? Simple; Because publishers decided that games needed to be more photorealistic. Words you should pay attention to; "publishers", not developers, and "decided", because there was nobody asking for it. In other words, the same people complaining about development costs being so high are the reason those costs are high in the first place. It's certainly not necessary - look at the hundreds of quality games coming out from small studios. They're not making millions upon billions of dollars in profits, but they're making perfectly-comfortable profits. Some of them even get enough recognition to team up with huge publishers - thinking of Dead Cells and Vampire Survivors here, both of which got officially-licensed crossover DLCs with Castlevania. Not to mention that a huge amount of these AAA games that supposedly *need* the increased price are also coked up to the eyeballs with 120-dollar "deluxe" editions, 50-60 dollar season passes, battle passes, and predatory microtransactions, all designed to hoover money from the wallets of credulous muppets and directly into the wallets of scum like Bobby Kotick. Developers certainly don't see so much as a penny of those extra dollars - they're usually lucky if they don't get laid off moments before the release of the game they spent years of their life on. Knocking up the price to seventy has never been necessary - it just adds more zeroes to executive bank accounts than a hundred Flat Earth conventions.

[@jameslawrenson1208]

Tears of the kingdom may have been slightly more expensive, but it was a BEEFY game.

[@technobladeleakedclips1827]

It was a glorified dlc for a game from 2017

[@THEONETRUEOVERLORD]

@@technobladeleakedclips1827you never played it shut up. If you claim you did then tell me about an obscure side quest you did. It innovated in almost every aspect and is better than 99.99% of games out today. The gameplay loop alone makes it a major improvement over BOTW and worth the 70$ or 40$ on sale.

[@Unkindpigeon.]

7:11 ARLO PREACH! Arlo for President.

[@TheDreadedZero]

Another thing that dawned on me as I was watching some of the Switch 2 leak videos is the worry that the next system might only appeal to hardcore Nintendo fans. Think about it. The Switch 2 (from what we’ve seen) looks pretty much like a switch. The hardcore fans will buy it because we know it’s more powerful. But the general consumers? Moms buying systems for their kids? They’re just going to look at it and be like “we have a switch at home.” It’s like the Wii U again except this time it’s because of the system looking the same and not the name being confusing. It’s going to have a much smaller install base and sell far less overall.

[@thetzar2573]

They need to have good launch titles to actually sell with it.

[@sahaprocks7751]

The bad name and the bad advertisements are why the Wii U failed. I even think they could just call it “Switch 2” and anyone would understand. Plus if the ads are actually good and they get the point across that this is a Switch successor, we don’t need to worry about that.

[@mrconroy4672]

It’s too early to tell at this point. Let them do the reveal first and then judge.

[@Shinntoku]

"We have X console at home" will *always* happen on some level, calling it the Switch 2 makes it much more obvious it's a follow-up and not an expensive add-on. They really need a strong marketing campaign for it that makes features like backwards compatibility very clear so people know they can migrate their collections

[@trumpeterjen]

It's possible, though I think it's worth noting that it's worked just fine for the PS2. And the PS3. And 4, and 5. It'll probably work for 6, too.

[@kylebartkiewicz7274]

If switch 2 trailer drops with kids and grandparents in it, we’re cooked.

[@TaylorTV5]

Games really didn’t take an increase for years while other goods and services did. I remember $60 games in 2008, what other product category didn’t move in that time? Not to mention, wages are up, and the development cycles are longer. games are one of the few areas where a price hike was justified. At the end of the day, gaming is entertainment, it is not a need like food or shelter, so my criticism would be less regardless. Lots of reality checks needed in this comment section and video.

[@alexthewrecker4666]

Wages definitely aren't up. They have been stagnating for several years at this point

[@TaylorTV5]

@ objectively false

[@ronwapossibly]

wages literally are not up what are you on

[@TaylorTV5]

@@ronwapossibly its an objective fact that wages are up, estimated 4% over the last calendar year. Now compare that to 12 years ago when games were still $60, the movement is justified. In addition to wage inflation you also have increases in COGS , marketing , etc.

[@interrobangings]

Aw. Feel better soon, Arlo

[@billfrantz1638]

Be prepared for $500 Super Nintendo Switch.

[@augustbornone]

LOL! Love that Thumbnail you posted for that video "BE PREPARED", I am currently watching The Lion Guard and on the seventh(fifth if not counting the "Roar of the Guard" Special) episode of that show.