NVC 611 – Was Metroid Dread a Flop?

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🗓️ 12 May 2022

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

This week we go over Nintendo's recently reported sales numbers and ask what everyone wants to know: Is Metroid Dread a big ol' flop? Well… 2.9 million copies sure seems like a success, but in the pantheon of Nintendo Switch tentpole releases, kind of a bummer. Join Kat Bailey, Jada Griffin, Seth Macy and special guest Imran Khan as we talk about all the Nintendos.

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0:00.0	Good and talk and to get us in and super in friendos welcome to NVC episode 611. I am your
0:14.5	host Seth Macy joining us today lender of gravitas Imran Khan. Hello. Hi. Industry legend cat
0:22.8	Bailey. As we all know I am the happiest and lightest person here. And the only community manager
0:30.2	that matters. Jadah Grim. Good morning as well. Donka donka. So we had a little breaking news
0:37.5	beep beep beep in my ear right now before we recorded Alan Wake remaster is coming to Nintendo
0:43.9	Switch. It was announced just before we hit the record button. And perhaps even bigger news
0:48.7	than that. Pokemon home. Well I had support for legends Archaeus brilliant diamond and shining
0:53.6	pearl soon. Cat I believe you wrote that story. Can you elaborate on what soon might be?
1:02.1	Oh okay well I did I wrote the Alan Wake story didn't write the Pokemon home story.
1:08.8	Man I just embarrassed myself in front of Imran. Yeah it's been a kind of a long time coming
1:16.1	for Pokemon home because brilliant diamond and shining pearl came out of course last fall.
1:21.8	And then legends Archaeus came out in January. And I think a lot of people were expecting the
1:27.7	announced the support to be announced back on Pokemon day because I believe a couple months
1:32.7	ago at this point. But it did not happen. So we all kind of been waiting very anxiously
1:38.6	to be able to move our Pokemon from legends Archaeus and brilliant diamond shining pearl. And
1:42.6	to Pokemon Sword and Shield and whatnot. And we're gonna do that. It's gonna be great. They explained
1:49.4	everything about how it's going to be going as usual. But the cool thing that's gonna be really
1:55.3	great is that if you shift Pokemon from legends Archaeus you're gonna get a free turtwig.
2:02.3	Sorry, roulette, you know various starters from legends Archaeus. And let's say Casey's not here.
2:09.7	So she can explain it very clearly in a way that I cannot. And you also get the Sino's charters
2:16.3	from brilliant diamond shining pearl if you end up moving those. So with her hidden abilities
2:21.4	and everything. So at this point it's been well worth the wait and I'm very excited to finally be
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