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July 2, 2025

Hey hi it's me, Anch. This week we yap about Pokémon Yellow and Mario Kart World before getting into some Canada-focused analysis: Nintendo (original) switch prices on the rise, and some analysis on the video game industry in Canada. TLDL most firms are small businesses, in my opinion the 'large' outfits are overestimated by the Canadian ESA. We also cover EA exec and employee compensation.

CHAPTERS

00:00:43 Intro
00:04:21 Value Prop for Streaming Companies 00:05:29 Pokémon Yellow
00:07:00 Mario Kart World
00:18:02 Nintendo Switch (original) Prices to Increase in Canada
00:24:49 EA Exec Comp Up, Median Employee Comp Down
00:47:57 The Game Business Dot Com (and UK Industry Supports)
01:01:56 Analyzing the Canadian Video Game Industry

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Sources:
- Myself (LUL)
- https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/mario-kart-world-patch-makes-it-harder-to-have-a-standard-three-lap-race-online/
- https://www.gamespot.com/articles/nintendo-is-changing-the-switch-price-for-millions-of-people-soon/1100-6532846/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f
- https://www.ign.com/articles/looks-like-nintendo-will-raise-its-prices-in-canada-but-for-switch-1-and-nintendo-switch-online-subscriptions-rather-than-switch-2 - https://www.nintendo.com/en-ca/whatsnew/nintendo-switch-pricing-update/
- https://www.gamefile.news/p/ea-ceo-andrew-wilson-pay-ai-target
- https://www.thegamebusiness.com/p/we-need-our-studios-to-believe-they
- https://funding.ryan.com/blog/government-funding/canadian-grants-for-video-game-development-studios/
- https://theesa.ca/resource/canadas-video-game-industry-2024/ - https://theesa.ca/#topten

See also:
- https://www.thegamebusiness.com/p/reviving-sega-will-be-the-greatest
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