Nostalgia & Numbers || ft. Patrick Ehlers from Nintendo Cartridge Society Podcast -Nintendo Pals Podcast Episode 36‪‪-‬

WOAH! this episode is Looooooong. But to be fair we decided to drop a new segment in last minute aaaand talk about pokemon snap. So whose fault is it really? Still ours. But whatever. This week we are joined by Guest Patrick to talk more Pokemon Snap as well as some Nintendo financials. with a fairly stacked news week we have a lot to discuss so buckle up as we let Nostalgia fuel a full 2+ hours of podcasty goodness.

-INTRO

Introduce ourselves

-welcome special guest Mark Ehlers from the Nintendo Cartridge society

-Whatcha Playin?

• Here we talk about what games we are currently playing.
  

-Coin Block

• Nintendo Switches sales last year 28.8 mil, total 84 mil
  
• Animal crossing 20 mil, mario kart 10 mil, 3D all stars 9 mil, and Ring fit 7 mil
  
• Top ten sellers
  

-Nintendo News:

• Fall guys gets delayed but promised to have crossplay
  
• Pokemon snap sells extremely well
  
• Game Builder Garage announced for Switch.
  
• Epic vs Apple! Many previously internal gaming documents are being made public.
  
  • Nintendo contracts forbid any ties to Yakuza (the IRL org not the game)
    

-The Rumor Mill:

• Fortnite official internal documents showed Samus being added along side master chief and kratos
  
• Furukawa hints at more animation projects coming for nintendo IPs
  
• From Nikkei: Switch rumored to be producing at highest level ever with plans to produce over 30 million units. They attribute this to the rumored switch pro being added to the mix.
  
• E3 rumors run rampant as "insiders" speculate on what's cooking for nintendo.
  
  • Zelda WW, TP, OoT, and MM HD
    
  • Splatoon 3
    
  • Smash bros Ultimate
    
  • 2D Metroid & prime trilogy
    

-Community Corner

• From Edward Varnel on twitter: Could Nintendo and Flickr team up for New Pokemon Snap DLC/functionality down the line where you can have pictures printed at Walgreens/CVS or some photo store?
  
• Top 10 essential gamecube games for switch virtual console, yo.

-Outro

• Thanks for listening!
  

-Links

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