207: The Impossible Cost of Being a Nintendo Fan Right Now

The Kit & Krysta Podcast

Technology, Society & Culture, Video Games, Leisure

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🗓️ 30 January 2026

⏱️ 140 minutes

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Hello and welcome to episode 207 of the Kit & Krysta Podcast! Today, we want to talk about this interesting thing we noticed where Nintendo has a lot of high end stuff that they want you to buy, it's all very expensive and guess what? It's not even a video game or a Switch 2! What's going on? Does this mean Nintendo is focusing less on games and more and the stuff? Let's discuss. Also in this episode, we have a monster news section where we talk about another Nintendo legend who secretly retired, the new Splatoon update, the recent NSO leak, games coming to the Virtual Boy and so much more! We're playing some new games and we have some great questions from our Patreon community including a juicy one on what Mr. Iwata and Reggie were like when they were really mad. Settle on in for a good time!

0:00 - TODAYYYY
11:52 - News news news (Nintendo Direct coming soon, Hideki Konno retires, new Splatoon update, games coming for the Virtual Boy, Metroid Prime 2 and Pikmin 2 NSO Leak, Xbox Developer Direct highlights)
1:08:34 - Nintendo wants to sell you a lot of expensive stuff and it's not even a video game
1:45:56 - Games we are playing (Final Fantasy 7 Remake on Nintendo Switch 2, Resident Evil Requiem, Art of Rally, GRID Legends, Dynasty Warriors: Origins)

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0:00.0	Today, we're going to be talking about Nintendo's recent push to sell you a lot of stuff that isn't a video game.
0:16.0	What's going on with that, huh?
0:18.0	What is it? It's just stuff, but...
0:20.0	It's a lot of stuff! Over the past year, they have been throwing a lot of stuff at us that is not a game.
0:27.6	Yes.
0:28.6	That is still extremely expensive.
0:29.6	Very expensive.
0:30.6	So we want to dig into, get our hands around, like, what is going on? Why are they doing this?
0:36.6	Are we interested in this at
0:38.7	all and is this becoming like a bigger focus for nintendo yeah and is it becoming a distraction
0:43.1	from the games that we actually want from nintendo instead of the plastic stuff that costs
0:49.6	hundreds and hundreds of dollars yes it's a little crazy, right? That's all coming up soon.
0:55.3	And remember, it is almost the end of the month.
0:58.2	So there's a lot going on.
0:59.5	First of all, it is almost the end of our big Patreon promotion for the month,
1:05.6	where you can get up to 25% off of our $5.10 tiers,
1:10.1	if you're going monthly, if you're going annually. Just use code Kit and Krista when you're going through that. When we get into February, this code goes away. That's true. And who knows when we're doing another one of these? Probably not for a real long time. So if you are thinking, if you're interested, you know, get into our Patreon community now is never a better time.
1:29.3	Yes.
1:29.8	We have so many things in there.
1:31.9	Spoiler cast, story times, gameplay videos, bonus Q&As, behind the scenes.
1:37.3	Yes.
1:37.7	All of that exclusive content.
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