It’s the week’s biggest Nintendo news stories and the Arlopinions that accompany them! In this edition: a juicy new DK rumor is making the rounds; Nintendo gives us the deets on all the financial happenings from the last fiscal year; the guy who founded Illumination Entertainment is probably joining Nintendo’s board of directors; scalpers are now after cereal; an ex-Retro dev doesn’t seem to think Metroid Prime Trilogy on Switch is likely; and like a whole bunch of other stories too but I won’t spoil them all here.
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https://www.youtube.com/yoshiller
“Reloaded Installer #11” by LHS.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBZt2qw2lcIJ1kRHJWXnBRg
SOURCES:
Game Builder Garage
https://youtu.be/0yM3ppz0Zt8
$880 million on R&D, Almost $800 million on marketing
https://twitter.com/ZhugeEX/status/1390214058381565952?s=20
$9.2 billion in the bank, investing
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/05/nintendos_ready_for_acquisitions_when_the_time_is_right
Chris Meledandri joins board
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/05/illumination_founder_chris_meledandri_set_to_join_nintendo_board
Universal Display Corp investor call mentions Switch Pro
https://twitter.com/SpawnWaveMedia/status/1391553858501967878?s=20
Pokemon cards in cereal
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/05/great_now_pokemon_card_scalpers_are_ruining_cereal_too
Pokemon Master Journeys: The Series this summer
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/05/pokemon_master_journeys_the_series_will_arrive_this_summer
No Detective Pikachu 2?
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/05/detective_pikachu_star_doesnt_seem_to_think_a_second_movie_will_happen
Scorbunny Build-a-Bear
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/05/scorbunny_is_joining_the_pokemon_build-a-bear_collection
ORAS failure
https://youtu.be/bbbzxm7p1Pk
Michael Wikan on Metroid Prime ports
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/05/metroid_prime_trilogy_switch_port_unlikely_says_former_retro_studios_dev
Epic wanted Nintendo exclusives
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/05/epic_apparently_wanted_first-party_exclusives_from_nintendo_microsoft_and_sony_on_its_digital_storefront1
Microsoft on Nintendo’s 2020
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/05/xbox_thought_zelda_breath_of_the_wild_2_bayonetta_3_and_metroid_prime_4_would_come_out_in_2020
No Yakuka at Nintendo
https://twitter.com/stephentotilo/status/1389281643798704132?s=20
Bandai Namco Baten Kaitos trademarks
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/05/bandai_namco_just_registered_trademarks_for_the_gamecube_exclusive_series_baten_kaitos
New Mario character renders
https://twitter.com/SMWikiOfficial/status/1390654742108327938?s=20
Aaaand Waluigi
https://twitter.com/JonComms/status/1390804180353290245?s=20
PowerA Waluigi controller
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/05/waluigi_is_getting_his_very_own_powera_enhanced_wireless_controller_for_switch
Elon Wario
https://twitter.com/geoffkeighley/status/1391250244839510019?s=20
BotW barrels
https://twitter.com/bgDzNY5zKPNFETJ/status/1390317888771268608?s=20
Louie Zong Pokemon art
https://twitter.com/everydaylouie/status/1389792678385131523?s=20
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All corporations' boards of directors are made up of "outside directors." This is not even remotely a new concept. Boards of directors are never staff or individual decision makers for companies. They are advisors, they vote on some management (i.e. when a there's a vacancy in the CEO/president position), and direction/budget/policy issues as needed or required by the company's by-laws. Most corporate boards of directors are comprised of people from outside the specific industry/business that the corporation is part of IN ORDER TO provide perspectives from other businesses. So, Nintendo doing this is not unusual in the slightest, and it only make more sense because they have a pre-existing working relationship with this animation studio. They've said very publicly they will be doing more film-related projects with their IPs, so having a film company on their board to help provide that perspective year-round is something very logical that they should want and have.
The Harvest Moon: Save the Homeland music 🥲
Gamma's theme surprised me and put a big smile on my face 🙂
you do know that's waRIO, not waLUIGI, right?
Ahh I hope monolith's new project is a new Baten Kaitos for Switch,
My loins ache for a new installment
1:11 i only care if Nintendo EPD tokyo is developing a 2D Donkey Kong game, if is a 3D Donkey Kong game is a pass for me.
1:50 now everyone can be a Shigeru Miyamoto.
You see, Olive Garden the movie, is simply more memorable than detective pikachu
I like Elon, because he runs another company that is trying to get us into space and that's all I care about.
I can imagine arlo clicking the stop recording button, and then right after starts recording again being like “So Donkey Kong right?”
Nintendo: we made record profits but we cant pretend itll last
EA/activision/ubisoft: we cant understand what you're saying anyway employees to fire
Detective Pikachu was more about celebrating the games than the Sonic Movie, but in terms of an actual story, Sonic is undoubtedly superior. That's why it broke the videogame movie curse, it broke the game so it could be a good movie, they are different mediums, it worked.
I wonder if the team up with Illumination will ensure more Nintendo movies??
I love arlo. But sometimes there is too much complaining.
the word 'million' missing in the middle of the list (4:10) annoys me somewhat
then again, maybe luigis mansion only made 3.26$
I love how many people want Metroid Prime ports and I've just been waiting for Metroid Prime 4
I hope digital sales dont increase by that much in the future.
I try to buy everything physical simply because the regulations around digital games are rediculous.
It's bound to your account, so when you lose your account your games are gone.
You cannot resell or borrow digital games.
And sometimes you cannot even share a digital game with another account on the same nintendo switch.
If digital sales get so high that physical copies stop being a thing it'll be a pretty bad thing.
Gonna be called the Switch U
I bet they’ll call it the Nintendo Switch Advance. Since they’ve now outsold the Gameboy Advance.
Nice vedio.everyone needs more than there salary to be financially stable.the best thing to do with your money is to invest it rightly.because money left for saving always end up used with no returns.i started investing in Bitcoin mid November 2020 with the help of a well-known- professional Mr Stephen Duncan and the profit entirely funded my receipt duplex.
Really? I swear I remember riding a barrel the first time I played botw, just seemed like the right thing to do.
7:00
Gamma's theme? That was unexpected.
We can ride on large barrels? Wait..
There are LARGE barrels?
So the rending of Waluigi, hear me out; what if they are bringing back DDR Mario but to the switch
Did people not love Detective Pikachu? I thought people loved Detective Pikachu
I thought they confirmed the Detective Pikatwo movie ages ago.
Speaking of which, I'm still waiting for the Detective Pikatwo game.
You can ride BARRELS?
We're always finding out more…
Is there something new with the cards? I've been buying Pokémon card cereal for months now…
Based arlo is an ally of the proletariat
DK RUMORS AT LAST
So THAT'S why Kiryu can't be in Smash!
the Metroid Prime trilogy is such an easy sell is unreal
and it would go So Far in making people believe they actually give a shit about samus
Excuse you Arlo, the Sonic movie wrote it's sequel into the movie. Detective Pikachu did not. There's nothing more to the story I, as a massive Pokemon fan, really want or need to see. It doesn't make sense Pikachu would continue talking after he was resolved. Meanwhile, Sonic's blue lightning is a reference to the missing cyan Chaos Emerald in Sonic Adventure 2, explains why Tails is looking for him with the radar despite "Sonic has no friends", and we get to see the transformation of Dr. Eggman and his creation of orbot and cubot, represented by the stone heads in Mushroom Kingdom. They wrote SO MUCH potential for the sequel it actually hurt me to admit Sonic had a better movie despite how generic the overall plot was because they used the generic story to draw in the general audience but left so many easter eggs in plain sight to passionate fans to keep them excited for more.
…Also it makes sense Sonic formed core characteristics around his observations around television and media because he talks so much differently from the other Sonic characters that I've always found his demeanor unusual in comparison. They really did a fantastic job if you're thinking more deeply about the movie than the surface level "haha cool blue character go brr", and the fact they're balancing both to try and create their revenue is freaking genius.
If Pokemon cards were given away at garbage clean-up organizations it would literally save the planet.
But that render isn't the tennis one
Yeah i do feel like detective pikachu was better than the sonic movie, but of course detective pikachu 2 will never really happen because of how they ended the movie. But i do remember someone from the movie, like a director or producer or something, saying that they would really like to do more pokemon movies in the same universe, just different story of course, becasue, you have all these amazing pokemon CGI models it would be a shame to use them just for the one movie
And SNL was just bad, Elon is not funny, surprising no one
Arlo didn’t even mention xenoblade in the sales breakdown, what does he always forget about it?
The board doesn't control any of the stuff you're concerned about. They aren't involved in day to day operations or individual projects. Outside directors specifically are a check/balance for collusion/corruption within the inside directors of the board.
Makes me happy hearing the sonic adventure soundtrack in the background of this video!
Here is hoping for a sonic adventure remake!!
Arlo, I love you man, but the Sonic movie had plenty of love for the franchise in it. They clearly did their homework. I had more fun with it than Detective Pikachu and I think the majority would agree.
21:14 Woah! That looks amazing! 🤩
Very confused by your take on detective pikachu being authentic to the source material and the sonic movie being this terrible monstrosity…
90% of detective pikachu is just "oh hey, look at all these pokemon in cool graphics" and the other 10% is something that's very loosely like some of the mewtwo plots in various other pokemon media.
Yeah, the sonic movie didn't go all in on the source material either, but it was clearly playing it safe for the first movie to get more widespread appeal before going more all in on the lore in sonic 2.
Jim Carrey.
I've worked on the sonic movies…. its been hell for someone who is even a remote fan
I'm with you Arlo, I found the 'Detective Pikachu' film to have much heart about it & the music was familiar etc, can't say the same about Sonic's film.. average at best.
Was that background music the Gamma theme from Sonic Adventure?