168: How Switch 2 Can Become Nintendo’s Best Console Launch Ever
The Kit & Krysta Podcast
The Kit & Krysta Podcast
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🗓️ 1 May 2025
⏱️ 132 minutes
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Hello and welcome to episode 168 of the Kit & Krysta Podcast! This week, we'll be ranking every single Nintendo hardware launch and seeing where Nintendo Switch 2 fits into the rankings. Also in this episode, we'll be talking more about the Switch 2 pre-order madness, how we feel about game key cards and talking about a new game that has major game of the year potential! We wrap-up the episode with questions from our wonderful Patreon community. All this and much more is coming right up!
0:00 - What is Nintendo's best console launch?
14:55 - Ranking all of Nintendo's hardware launches. Where will Nintendo Switch 2 land?
1:04:53 - Games we are playing (Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Blue Prince)
1:28:23 - News news news (Game key card discussion)
1:44:41 - Questions from our Patreon subscribers
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| 0:00.0 | Today, with the dust is settling on pre-orders. |
| 0:11.7 | It's pretty clear that Nintendo Switch 2 is going to be a huge seller. |
| 0:15.6 | But does it make it Nintendo's best hardware launch ever? |
| 0:22.0 | We're going to rank them. |
| 0:23.3 | It may eventually be the best-selling launch. |
| 0:27.1 | Yes. |
| 0:27.3 | Maybe by a big margin, if any of this information from the pre-orders is something to go by. |
| 0:31.4 | But there's more that goes into just the best launch than just the best selling. |
| 0:36.2 | There's the games, the experience with the hardware, |
| 0:38.7 | just like the, oh, I'm wowed by this factor. So we're going to go through every single |
| 0:44.2 | Nintendo launch, decide what we think has been the best, and talk about how Switch 2 can maybe |
| 0:49.2 | come out on the top of the list. Where is it ranking among all of the other Nintendo hardware launches? You came up with some great criteria. I did. Which is nice. We're going to look at launch games. Like you said, we're going to look at cool factor. We're going to look at just whether or not the hardware at the time felt next gen. But it's going to be fun to look back and rank all of them. And then, yeah, we'll see where Switch 2 stacks in that ranking. For anybody who might be saying, well, the Switch 2 launch line up is a little light, doing our research, I reminded myself, there was a system. There was a system that launched with literally two games. Yikes. Game one and game two. And that was it. That was it. That was all you got. Take your pick. |
| 1:47.0 | You know, like they say, when we were kids, we used to walk 15 miles in the snow. To get the pre-order I'd to camp in the snow for two months. With no shoes. To play one game. Only to play one game for a year and a half. When we were kids. Kids these days, you don't know. with your lineup of, you know, 20 plus, whatever games. |
| 1:47.9 | You don't know. We'll get to that in just a moment, but we are now at the end of April into the start of May. Wow. Birthday month. Congratulations. It's my turn now. Yes, it's my turn now. It's my turn now. That's Krista's personal slogan. Wow. We just have to acknowledge April's been our best month ever by a huge, huge, huge margin. So thank you to everybody who watched. Thank you everybody who subscribed if you just found the channel. Welcome. We are so glad to have you here. I love the Nintendo Minute kids. I love it. Still finding us. I love you guys. The most. Don't tell anyone else. But if you're the kid that's like, I used to watch you on my 3DIS, I love you the most. Yes. But it's been so fun to, yeah, to see this channel really grow over the last month. We've had such an exciting month as well. It was fun because we documented |
| 2:34.8 | all of this in our April vlog. Yeah. And it's, it's been nice for me to edit these vlogs just |
| 2:41.0 | because it gives us a chance to reflect and look back on all the things that happened. And gosh, |
| 2:46.9 | April was just like so much stuff. It was literally one thing after the other. |
| 2:51.1 | Amazing. |
| 2:52.1 | It was fun to have it captured in that way. |
| 2:54.0 | It was. |
| 2:54.6 | Yes. |
| 2:54.7 | Yes. |
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