Nintendo Selects
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ต.ค. 2023
- I take a peek at the Nintendo Selects line for the Wii, Nintendo 3DS and Wii U.
This video was originally released via Card #35 of the Scott The Woz Collectible Trading Cards in late 2022.
Edited by Justin Womble and Scott Wozniak
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Nintendo really needs to bring this back for the switch so 6 year old games like Breath of the Wild and Mario odyssey aren’t still 60 dollars
hopefully
Call it a gut feeling that’s coping really hard, but I feel like if it were to happen, it’d be next year.
not gonna happen. this is dead. unfortunately.
If they going to add Dark Moon on the Switch, they gotta add Nintendo selects to the system
@@sahaprocks7751 No one is buying yoshis craft world in 2023 for $60
Nintendo Selects are genuinely insanely good. Pretty much all must haves plus the packaging actually looks special instead of like a tumor
Agree to disagree. The big frame around the cover art always looks worse than the top banners. Platinum Hits can be uglier but Nintendo Selects is the second-worse to me.
@@felonyx5123is it better to have an ugly paint splatter right above the Mona Lisa or a slightly larger and more elegant frame on it
The more and more he jokes about him being color blind…the more and more I start to believe it
@@Samaritan16he actually is colour blind
@@felonyx5123people like you are the reason we're still paying $60 for a 2017 game.
I understand that LESS work goes into these than main channel, but it's almost as entertaining. Thanks for the consistent content Scott
I would absolutely argue this channel is on par with the main channel. Here though, the focus is obviously not the bits and edits, but Scott talking about the topic in the title. Not as "fun" but just as entertaining to me.
I like it a lot better. The constant cutaway jokes can be a little annoying and never funny
@@ratvibe Not a take I expected to hear from anyone, I guess I kind of get it but I never in a million years could agree.
If say it’s as entertaining as the main channel but in a different ways. It’s nice to hear Scott’s unfiltered thoughts but also I love the long scripted style and higher effort.
I don't particularly care for the story based scott videos
As far as re-release packaging goes, I actually really love the look of Nintendo Selects. That gold ribbon coming off the top and the deep velvet red looks so classy, and it looks like the cover art of the game is framed like it's hanging in a museum. Despite being "budget" re-releases it still felt PREMIUM. Wish they brought it back for Switch.
I love the look too I never really got any cus I was normally on top of getting most games I want pretty quickly after launch like typically within a year
I loved the Selects look as well, especially after the players choice yellow banners on the gamecube. The whole selects idea felt like a love letter to players. It was a way for new players to jump into huge games that had already sold well and were widely loved. I do not understand why we don’t have it yet in Nintendo’s most financially explosive time ever. They’re raking in billions between hardware and software sales. How great it would be to get BoTW, Odyssey, Splatoon 2, MK8, and others with that select banner. I might actually go out and buy some of my games again to have it. I’ve been digital only since launch in 2017 so as to share games with my son. Anyways, back to real life lol
during the wii and 3ds era, i basically lived off nintendo selects. the fact that i could buy a link between worlds or ocarina of time 3d for £15 or super smash bros brawl or wii sports resort for £20 was a major win as a kid
I think that was the best part about those games. As a kid, if you wanted a game you had to save up A LOT, wait until a holiday, or beg a family member to buy it for you.
Nintendo Selects however, you could afford it on your own and get full price quality games.
It’s a shame they don’t do them anymore, but it does make sense considering how successful the Switch is. There’s no need to milk longevity out of a console that can’t seem to stop selling units.
It's been great to have a couple of these every other week. I almost feel spoiled
It’s because of the trading cards he made
@@mr.stuffdoer8483nah, those are still privated, these are new
I miss Selects, I should not have to pay $59.99 for a new copy of Super Mario Odyssey in 2023.
Think that's bad, the Switch port of DKC Tropical Freeze doesn't have a Nintendo Selects re-release!
The Almighty Nintendo tax. I just stalk Craigslist and OfferUp now for switch games. Prices are ridiculous
@OlimarRocks @@TommyDeonauthsArchives both are great games worth the price anyway.
@@SailorPalutenait'll be a lot more fun if i was getting a big great deal for being late to the party
Probably not gonna happen due to the switch selling amazingly. Those Wii U and 3DS days in particular are dead 😭
I love that Scott always start these videos with some random one liner
Did he say sex?
oh yeah. its nintendo selets time
@@Sunkery_CDDid somebody say Gex?
@@japplebarry5627 I LOVE GEX
If Scott keeps this up he has to talk about the L button
Or the Wii U again
Still waiting for that hour and thirty minute video of the L button
You could make a video about the N64 L button alone, and how it might be the least used controller button ever made.
😂
The only reason he hasn't is because Scott only takes Ws.
Man Nintendo Selects was a really cool idea, hope Nintendo do it again in the future
I would imagine not. because they don't want to underprice the online store
@@hurgcatI mean, they did it on Wii U and dropped the pricing on the eshop to match the new retail price.
@@ZapCannon5
Yeah but Wii U was stillborn and Nintendo was desperately trying to squeeze at least some money out of it
I wished they would do this to Nintendo Switch as well. Yoshi's Crafty World and Link's Awakening are games I am kinda interested to play, but i don't want to pay $60 for them. Even if they reduced it to $30 instead of $20, I would go for it.
Secondhand
@@AxeIRadit's hard finding them secondhand at that price too
I remember Pikmin 2 was oddly priced a bit more in the USA at about $34.99 probably because it wasn't actually a re-release for us with it being a first time
I love Nintendo Selects. If it weren’t for it, I might have never played Mario Galaxy or Super Paper Mario.
Literally the only two wii games I have that are selects
Odyssey, Splatoon, MK8, and BotW never dropping to $29.99 or less is a tragedy.
Even digital only
The redesigned covers never really bothered me. I much rather just be able to afford the games, also just a great way to find many of the "must own titles"
I didn’t pick up many Nintendo Selects copies, but I really appreciate that they put out a version of Animal Crossing New Leaf with the Welcome amiibo update on the cartridge, it’s such a cool little treasure
Yellow is my favorite color, so I actually prefer the yellow spine with a black logo. Although the header on the front is definitely too intrusive to the overall design.
Scott is the only person who’s game collection has family game night 1-4
Honestly this could’ve been a regular Scott episode if he hasn’t already done player choice
Still wish that they made FE: Awakening and Kid Icarus: Uprising part of Nintendo Selects on N3DS, though
Nintendo e-shop Selects was a nice idea. Limited Run sort of ran with that idea basing their whole business on creating physical releases of games that were only released in e-shop.
Huh, the non-selects Wii Sports that were bundled with the Wii in Australia were always in regular plastic cases instead of cardboard ones. The gamecube players choice games in Australia also changed the Gamecube black banner to a silver/platinum shade. Must be a PAL/NTSC thing.
We got in a plastic case in the UK too
Digital games getting a physical release is what Microsoft did on the 360. I still have a physical copy of symphony of the Night, geometry wars, and feeding frenzy.
i honestly don’t get the stigma against nintendo selects, it’s how i got mario galaxy for 10 bucks and that’s awesome
(i got it used if i remember correctly)
When are we gonna get Scott selects ???😢
Cheaper Scott the Woz videos? You mean Scott's Stash?
@@DethInHFILrebrand it to Scott selects.
Scott's Snippets
These budget rereleases work well when a new console comes out. It gives the hold outs something to play with if they missed out, and provides a more packed lineup for the new console if backwards compatibility is an option.
It’s interesting, as a kid I never put together that greatest hits were cheaper rereleases of physical games. I thought it was just a way for them to show off that a game had sold really well.
Nintendo Selects though? Somehow the messaging got through to me that Nintendo Selects equals a $20 game. I don’t think I prefer it to Player’s Choice but it did make what it was a lot clearer to your average child.
I'm surprised Nintendo hasn't brought back the Nintendo Selects line (30 bucks price cut) for the Switch yet. Hopefully they do that could boost even more in software sales numbers.
Glad we finally got the Nintendo Selects release of this former Card #35 exclusive.
Nintendo did do some releases of DS Mario games.
They put them out in Red cases instead of the typical gray. I have my copy of Partners in Time this way because I got it late, the red actually compliments the cover art.
I can't remember if they made them cheaper or not, but I want to say they did. It's been so long I can't remember.
They did that for the 3ds, layer copies of mario games had the red case instead
Absolutely love the rate at which these videos drop. I do closing work shifts and run the floor machine through my workplace and find this kind of content to be so much fun to listen to. Thanks man!!! 🙌🙌
I suspect they're not doing Nintendo Selects for Switch games because the next console is planned to be fully backwards compatible, so they could still make a ton more money of older Switch games on the new system.
Hearing that a 3DS spinoff of Disney's Frozen once released as a "Nintendo Selects" suddenly makes me wonder if Nintendo _actually_ selected some of these...
If it makes you feel any better I keep my American and Japanese GameCube games mixed together so not only is there Player's Choice but also boxes of completely different sizes mixed together.
That upsets my OCD. You're a monster 😱
Why did Nintendo stop doing this? I wish they kept doing these because some of their switch games are SIX years old, yet still cost 60 dollars, especially some games that never deserved that price tag like Mario Tennis Aces and Arms
Because some people will still pay full price...
Nintendo has realized they have too many fans with the lowest standards in the game industry
Answered your own question.
Yeah, I get that games like Zelda BOTW and Mario Odyssey keep selling constantly without needing a boost (nevermind Mario Kart 8 Deluxe), but there's titles like Arms, Mario Tennis Aces, Splatoon 2 (+DLC), Astral Chain, Fire Emblem 3 Houses, Kirby Star Allies, Yoshi's Crafted World, Link's Awakening and so on that have been succeeded or simply forgotten. Re-releasing them at a lower price point would definitely help boost game sales.
rather arrogant words, Mario Odysseus, and VOTV, Smesh Ultimate are excellent games of high quality, which is why these games sell well@@jesusbarrera6916
10:23 Nah I'm convinced Scott never left his Wii U era
You see, it was the "players choice"
Finally another video about ruined boxart!
"Putrid"
"Garish"
- Scott using all the adjectives!
I have been listening to specifically Super Paper Mario’s 1-1 music off and on for a few days and started replaying the game last night and today Scott talks about it and plays the track throughout most of the video! What a crazy coincidence! Great video as always Scott!
I find it funny that Players Choice and Nintendo Selects have completely different meanings
The algorithm recommended me Scott's old Player's Choice video, and then this one. And im glad i did
It honestly made sense for Nintendo to re-release Wii Sports. Considering how popular the Wii was with casuals, especially children, there's a good chance the Wii Sports discs could've been destroyed or gone missing, so now it was easier to get a replacement copy.
the PAL GameCube player's choice boxes are actually pretty cool, with the whole box taking on a silver color aside from the art exclusive to the game itself
yes even the plastic of the case itself
Apparently that release of Wii Sports sold at least one copy, by the looks of it.
The fact Nintendo hasn't and might not do this for switch is just unacceptable when we have something like splatoon 2 and splatoon 3 BOTH AT 60$
Omg they got Dark Moon, my favorite game of all time? 10/10 line a game, they should make a billboard advertising it
Another awesome Scott’s stash video love random topics like this
Funny enough, Nintendo Selects is how I managed to get Nintendo Land on my Wii U. My system was the bundle with Smash and Splatoon, so I didn’t have it as a pack-in title. It was also around the time where Nintendo Land was re-released under the Selects branding.
I wish you showed the disc for these. Was the disc art printed differently? If not, I wonder if there is/was an active after market for just the case sleeve. That way, you could just swap out the sleeve and there would be no difference.
Disc was different, any “shiny” elements were replaced with flat colors
Haha yeah wouldn't it be crazy if Pikmin 3 cost 60 dollars can you imagine
I love the card packs! I bought a couple of them and loved the videos, so creative, and still brilliant content!
the wii sports re-release made sense for a little kid, I was 5 years old at the time and lost everything including my copy of wii sports that came with my wii
Buddy is so good at talking with nothing but his hands
The wii sports part had me go "huh?" out loud
I actually liked the PS3 ones where the cases themselves were red.
0:51 N64 and GameBoy had the cleanest- just turning the red to gold/silver to gold on the box. I like having a few Player’s Choice games in my collections!
Never put so much thought into these rereleases. I just bought the cheapest version I could find back then. Nice video!
I'm tempted to think that it's possible Nintendo Selects was an idea created for the PAL region, but at the last minute was lent over to the US territory. It could explain some of the weirdness you described 🤔
Also, what did you think of the Player's Choice designs in the PAL region? I was expecting you to talk about it given how much you mentioned the PAL region in this video, but you didn't 😕
yeah im surprised we got a lot more selects than america considering that we usually get shafted by nintendo when it comes to cool stuff like this. i'll always appreciate it though since being able to get some of the wii and 3ds' killer apps for cheap was something i always appreciated as a kid
It’s a blessing he can’t see all the colors, there would be more things to upset him
if the switch 2 is backwards compatible, a new nintendo selects would do incredibly well
My family couldn’t afford new games growing up, especially during the GameCube era where my parents still thought video games were interesting, we only ever got used movie games and these gave us an opportunity to play actual Nintendo games. The “ugly” yellow design was something I actually associated with a good thing as a kid because I thought it meant it was nintendos picks and the best games you could get lol just saw it like badge
Is it weird that i absolutely love the Nintendo Selects box art for all three? it just feels way more important like a celebration for the game.
I know how these videos are really made but I like to imagine him on a carpet floor with his feet kicking up in the air.
A table with carpet?
@@5Detective yeah, so at his old apartment, he had carpet flooring and recorded his videos on that floor but when he moved, he got some similar looking carpet and put it on the table for these videos. He posted on Twitter about it.
Even when Nintendo does something good, Scott still has something to bitch about. And I love it
3:32 hey scott, I'm here! I bought this copy of Wii Sports because my Wii was bundled with New Soup. Take that.
"I printed off my own case" for Wii Sports, Scott please never change
its quite funny just watching Scott gesture at his rug lol
It's just a table with a rug on top of it lol
10:50 i remember when pikmin 3 came out in august 2013, i saw a lot of people complain online about how impossible to find physical copies of pikmin 3 were and right after i heard about that, i walked into my local target and saw a few copies left in stock. i should of bought a copy because i did consider picking up pikmin 3 and donkey kong country tropical freeze when that came out in 2013 and 2014 respectively because there were to many software droughts on the wii u and i just wanted an excuse to use it because at the time, it was sitting in a bin in my closet gathering dust
17:06 that's interesting, my European copy of Ocarina of Time 3D from Nintendo Selects still has the emblem, i wonder if the emblems were removed in the US versions of Selects or if it was dropped with the later batches of Selects games
“Hey Nintendo why’d you have to make Player’s Choice so lame?”
“Well…Sir… it was… The Player’s Choice.”
“Oh no. WE did this.”
In at least the UK, early Wii's came with a boxed copy of Wii Sports! Later pack ins would change to the cardboard sleeve as seen here
Nintendo Selects should absolutely come back for the switch this year or next. Imagine doing that plus a new “select” Switch Lite bundle.
2:58 Is the snug sleeve for the pack-in Wii Sports a US thing? I remember the pack-in Wii Sports being in a full-sized Wii Game Disc case here in Australia (which is a PAL region).
The fact that selects came out in both 2011 and 2016 just before a new console came out, we can gather there won't be a switch 2 until after switch selects.... unless Nintendo do a Nintendo
well switch 2 well be shown off sometime before April 2025
when talking about the re-released wii sports and nintendoland, Scott forgets these are kids games and kids break discs really easily so releasing a game that you couldn't previously buy in in stores is really smart.
Wtf
Personally I liked that Nintendo re-released WiiSports as a Select because I found that it was surprisingly easy to lose track of the pack-in title due to its stupid little sleeve, so it was a nice saving grace. But, of course, around this time, you would be better off just getting Resort
another nice thing that they did for the wii u & 3ds specifically is that games that were part of nintendo selects also got their eshop prices cut to 20 bucks!
So, with the Wii U, when I got to select the "free" game, I chose Wind Wake HD. And I'm glad I did! I was, like many others, initially turned off by the original. But playing the HD remake, wow! Loved it!
GREAT!
I HAVE TO LIKE THIS VIDEO ALL OVER AGAIN AFTER SCANNING THE QR CODE ON MY SCOTT THE WOZ TRADING CARD!
Was this one of those tcg exclusive videos?
Yes and it says in the description (or if you got the card the video's QR code was on) it was from card 35
Great timing
I remember my (european) Wii coming with both wii sports and new super mario brothers, but both of them were in paper casing
The best thing about the Nintendo Selects in Canada, is the price increase didn't happen until late into the 3DS' life. So, a lot of these Nintendo Selects only saved you 10 dollars. So, you could have already gotten these games at EBGames for the same price by then.
I know this is real off topic but just three seconds in gave me an absolute wave of nostalgia. Seeing Dark Cloud in anything just hits hard for me.
Sadly, Scott and the two of us are probably the only ones that are familiar with Dark Cloud
The was also the Korean titles for the selects which had the US covers but was called power soccer instead of football even though it was a copy of the US verson 😊
I have that Nintendo Selects Wii sports copy! I was only 3 when the wii launched so I got one pretty late in it's life as a Christmas gift when I was 8 or 9. (I got that mario kart wii bundle).
I got a Wii wayyy late in the game. It was a black family edition version that came with NSMB Wii and a SMG sound CD, but no Wii Sports. I had to get the Nintendo selects version to play it
I somehow never knew Wii Sports came in those card sleeves for some till now. My launch UK Wii came with a proper boxed copy.
Scott! You should do a whole segment on Video game collections on the Switch!
I feel like they should do something for the switch.
With almost everything being digital now , I understand how it would be hard to do this now. To be clear , Nintendo games would sell like bonkers if they dropped prices periodically.
As of right now the only first party games I get are ones I know that I will like. That wouldn't be the case if six year old games weren't sixty dollars.
it would not be hard at all, they managed it with wii u and 3ds titles
You plebs know it on the PS2 as "greatest hits" but here in the first world we call them "platinum games"! :D
I never like the budget line re-releases for any console, but I do have a couple Nintendo Selects: Ocarina of Time 3D and Super Paper Mario. I actually like them more than their originally releases, because the Selects border and ribbon make them feel like storybooks, and the games already felt like storybooks anyway.
I realized after watching this, most of my dads gamecube games were Players Choice games, so its weird to think abouy how many games i never would have played if not for the massive price cut. Its a shame this went away and i can only hope they bring it back one day
Haven't watched the video yet.
Classic.
In Australia i'm fairly sure we got a boxed version of Wii Sports at launch
In Brazil, they used sleeves to identify which Nintendo Selects were 🙏
Thank you
on the 90's Players Choice were around too, the difference is that the boxes and labels had a golden ribbon , SNES and Game Boy games had it, and SNES games that were released before ESRB are now rated on Player's Choice versions, i have several Player's Choice SNES games
honestly, nintendo land makes way more sense than wii sports cause plenty of wii u's later on *didnt* come with it, mine included (i got mk8)
Scott's hands are pure emotion