Mike Howard

I think that would have launched the launch title, right?

Yeah.

Launch title situation.

We're going to see a lot get revealed.

As we start to see release dates get planned, we're going to learn a lot about what strategies are, what publishers think about these games.

I would put... Maybe not money, but I would bet, nothing real, that we see Call of Duty...

come out a little bit earlier than usual.

hell yeah dude shouts also saw uh passed by the actor who played zero from holes that was yeah he was at the comic-con panel i hosted and he like told me good job afterwards and i was like wow he's everywhere i see him i just see him places and i don't know i was at disneyland for a bachelorette party and i saw cleo thomas and i'm like why are you everywhere i love it

Yeah, I think that last paragraph does a lot of heavy lifting as far as why we're probably seeing this.

Yeah, the RAM prices, the ongoing tariffs.

But then, yes, I think also the holiday period.

And in comparison to Switch 1, even though I think currently Switch 2 is still doing better than Switch 1 overall, I think you still had the thing with Switch 1 of Zelda Breath of the Wild and Mario Odyssey and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.

I think that was such a...

trilogy of high sellers that when you get to that holiday season, oh yeah, I'm going to buy my child a Switch and have...

an assortment of games that they might love, not to mention other games, like, I'm not going to say it jokingly, but, like, games like ARMS, you know what I mean?

Games like Splatoon 3, I think, or Splatoon 2, actually, that came out that year as well.

You had, I think, Xenoblade as well that year, if I remember correctly.

Just the craziest form of Nintendo first-year titles for Switch 1.

I don't know if I'd say Switch 2 compares, you know, and I think you could have the direct things of, like, well, DK Bonanza is the Mario Odyssey, but...

as much as I love my guy DK, he's not Mario.