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Reggie Fils-Aimé Reacts to Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour Price - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.10.25
Thu, 10 Apr 2025
This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp — go to http://betterhelp.com/kindafunny to get 10% off your first month. Reggie Fils-Aime weighs in on Switch 2, Amazon’s Tomb Raider series could be in trouble, and Devil May Cry has gotten renewed for season 2! Run of Show - 00:00:00 - Start 00:03:25 - Housekeeping Today after, KFGD, you’ll get: GAMESCAST - me and Tim talking about the most influential video games of all time. Then the STREAM is Mike playing Blue Prince If you’re a Kinda Funny Member: You can get today’s Gregway from Mike. Thank you to our Patreon Producers: Anatolii Ast, Delaney Twining, Karl Jacobs, & OmegaBuster The Roper Report - 00:06:15 - Reggie Fils-Aimé seemingly weighs in on Switch 2 Welcome Tour debate by highlighting the success of Wii Sports - Jordan Middler @ VGC 00:22:15 - Switch 2 Edition titles contain both the game and upgrade on the cart, Nintendo clarifies - Chris Scullion @ VGC 00:36:55 - Ad 00:38:30 - Breaking News:Rematch, by the developers of Sifu, is coming Day One to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. Coming on June 19. 00:41:20 - Amazon's Live-Action Tomb Raider Show From Fleabag's Phoebe Waller-Bridges Could Be 'Dead' - Vikki Blake @ IGN 00:46:05 - Devil May Cry has been renewed for Season 2 - @DevilMayCry on Twitter 00:48:15 - Katana Zero DLC and more shown at Triple-i Collective 00:55:00 - Wee News! 00:58:20 - SuperChats & You‘re Wrong Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: What are the latest updates on the Nintendo Switch 2?
I can't wait for this, because do you want to see the topic of it?
The most influential games of all time, and people are in a tizzy about it.
which I'm excited for because for a list like this, it's almost like we get to do a two-parter games cast in one where the first half of the show, we get to just talk about like, what do we think are the most influential games of all time, which ends up just being a great conversation period. But then, yeah, the second half of it gets to be a reaction. And I was talking shit.
It's all the good kind of funny content matched into one thing.
Exactly.
Analysis and reaction. And reacting. And so I'm very excited for that. I'm also excited for this episode of Kind of Funny Games Daily. Let me tell you, chaotic morning this morning.
Yeah.
I fucked up last night, too. I told Kevin this because now I need Kevin's help. Last night, apparently, not even apparently, literally, I left my keys in my ignition. And so this morning, I wake up at 630 to go to the gym. And I look and I'm like, where are my keys at? I'll go to my car. Keys in there. Try to turn my car. Nothing. Battery dead. Which immediately I had to text Kevin. I'm like, yo.
Yo. Do you have any availability to help me jumpstart my car? Because I fucked up. But because of that, right? I get into work a little bit late. I start prepping KHD from home. This is the whole thing. But I missed out on the triple I initiative. I would have missed out anyway because I prepped KHD during that time.
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Chapter 3: What are the clarifications on Nintendo Switch 2 edition titles?
Chapter 4: How does Amazon's Tomb Raider series fit into the gaming landscape?
Yeah. Yeah, this is one that I think is a fun thing to talk about just from the sense of I feel like when executives leave roles that they were –
fairly successful in or at least have the reputation of like oh you were a good thing and you were doing a good thing in this role somebody like reggie fees may who i think pretty much universally i'd say is is revered as somebody who was like a good executive at nintendo i would say so i don't think i've heard much bad about i mean it's like yeah he he over asked who he oversaw a couple of the um
you know down eras of nintendo sure but like i still feel like that's that's not on one man's shoulders yeah uh but i always i always find it fascinating and like i always like it when executives will leave and then like we'll say something where it's almost like a parent that's like a little bit disappointed in their child of like i taught you better you know what i mean i feel like i see sean layden do that a lot of like just like sly comments of oh yeah when i was there we did it this way but you know
They're a different PlayStation now. They're doing different things.
Obviously, there is that hindsight, and there is the, hey, it's not actually your responsibility anymore. So it's easier to just kind of be like, well, back in my day, we did it this way, and it worked this way. Why wouldn't you do that again? But I do think that to what exactly we're talking about here, specifically the welcome tour for the Switch 2 being $10, it's one of those weird ones
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Chapter 5: What does the renewal of Devil May Cry for Season 2 mean?
where Bill Trennan, who is at Nintendo, is defending it, saying that it's not an exorbitant price and that it's a robust piece of software that is worth the $10. That can be true simultaneously with the fact that despite it being worth it, this should be a pack-in. And I feel like we all get that. This is the type of game that is seemingly designed to be a pack-in.
So it does kind of just, I think, read... Very grubby. Tone deaf. You know, and tone deaf. In a way, it just was a very unforced error that occurred here. And I feel like with the way that the information rollout for Nintendo's happened over the last week, it's just another negative talking point, I think. Like, another thing for us to kind of look at and go, why? Yeah.
I think... I wish it was called something else other than Welcome Tour, because I think the framing of it being the, this is the tech demo to teach you how to play. This is the manual for the console. I think it's such a, I don't want to say it's a disservice to what it is, because from my impression, that is what it is. That's how they presented it. That's how the trailer showed it off.
Even the cool parts, that's what it looks like. Even the cool parts, that's what it looks like. If that's what it is, then 1,000%, it should be a pack-in, right? And there's a conversation to be had there. I almost wonder if they called it Switch Play. Kind of like Wii Play, right? And, like, framed it more of a... As a... No, this is an actual game.
Like, this is an actual, like, experience that you might come back to and do all that shit, right? Still would be grubby from the sense of we all have eyes. Or, like, most of us have eyes, right? That can see, oh, no, this is... I know what this is, right? Like, this is a tech demo. This is to introduce us to the system. The whole framing of it just feels off.
Almost as if it was supposed to be free. And then at the last second, they're like, oh, actually, we need more money out of this thing, right? Like, it... It is weird. A question that I'll throw to you, Tim, is this overblown? I think this is one of those ones with that. I think we can all agree that this is wrong.
Are we too angry at this? I mean, that goes back to what I was saying of just like two things can be true of it's worth $10, but also it should be free. It's just like, there's that. And I do think that you can apply that logic to a lot of what's happened in the last week. I do think to your question of, is it overblown? Again, I think two answers can apply. Yes and no.
And I think it's the... Everything adding up, it's that chip damage where... Let me start here. I think Nintendo did a very bad job communicating a lot of things about the Switch 2. The fact that the price wasn't even in the direct clearly, I think, is evidence to the way that they were trying to... own the messaging maybe a little too much. Like maybe just a bit too there.
They didn't want to get in the weeds, but then they did get in the weeds about a lot of other things. And I feel like with the direct we got and then the information we got directly after and obviously the tariffs and so many other things are at play. There's a lot of questions people had that Nintendo didn't answer, even though they could have.
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