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Celebrating Metroid's 35th Anniversary + Nintendo's Earnings Explained - NVC 572

Nintendo Voice Chat

IGN & Geek Media

Technology, Leisure, Video Games

4.63.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2021

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Welcoooome to Nintendo Voice Chat! This week, Metroid turns 35 years old in Japan, and Casey DeFreitas, Peer Schneider, Kat Bailey, and Logan Plant are here to discuss their favorite games in the franchise. Plus, The Nintendo Switch just keeps on selling, and the crew breaks down the latest financial numbers. Stick around to hear Peer and Logan's thoughts on The Great Ace Attorney, and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome!

0:02.8

Hello and welcome to Nintendo Voice Chat IGN's Nintendo hot cast this week we will be talking about

0:08.2

Nintendo's quarterly earnings report and what that means for the system going forward.

0:12.8

Metroid's 35th anniversary, at least in Japan, Logan impairs in progress review of the great

0:18.0

ace attorney chronicles and more. Like always, I'm your host Kasey DeFritis and this week I am joined by

0:24.0

Kat Bailey. Hello. Air Snyder? Yes. And Logan Plants. I am back from the dead.

0:33.6

Back from the dead. This time hopefully the heat will not melt your internet. I'm happy to have you

0:38.0

back on. Thank you. I got to think so. I was literally melting your internet. That's insane.

0:42.6

Yeah, I got one sentence in on last week's episode and then I was gone. I was out.

0:48.1

Well, I'm glad to have you back to talk about the ace attorney and other things starting with Nintendo's

0:54.5

quarterly earnings report which we just learned about this morning. We're coming off hot off that

0:59.2

news. So we're going to decipher it the best we can with the limited time we had with that

1:04.4

information. But as of now, the Nintendo Switch has sold 89.04 million units, meaning a whole

1:13.6

bunch of different things. It is now outsold the 360 and the PS3 in its lifetime. It will definitely

1:20.2

outsell the Wii U and 3DS in sales combined during their lifetime by the end of this year.

1:27.0

Because that was only 87.4 million units. Only has to sell half a million more. And Nintendo

1:33.6

thinks sell sell 20 million more before next March. And this is just also going by fiscal years,

1:40.0

by the way. We call this the first quarterly report because fiscal years end in March and start

1:46.1

in April. So anything else that any of you would like to pinpoint from this report, there's a lot

1:53.1

of cool information in here. Look at where to start. I know. I know.

1:58.8

The thing that jumps out at me is how insanely well Mario Kart continues to sell. It's actually

2:05.2

creeping up on Mario Kart Wii, which is the all-time king, the series. And should be able to surpass it

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