We know plenty of people who aren't shy of spending silly amounts of money on Nintendo products, but this takes things to a whole other level.
Popular Japanese YouTuber, Hikakin, shared a new video over the weekend to his 7.82 million subscribers. In the video, he takes a trip to the lovely-looking new Nintendo store in Tokyo, casually grabbing one of every single item available. Wowzers.
This includes stacks of Nintendo Switch games, more plushies than we can count, one of every console variant available, and so much more. Seriously, the video's worth a watch just to see the rows and rows of shopping bags that he has after throwing everything at the poor assistant working on the till.
Feel free to check out the madness below (if you don't have much time, things start getting particularly exciting at around the 16-minute mark). In total, he spent 2,176,758 yen, which equates to roughly $20,000.
If anyone has this kind of money to spend and fancies taking us to Nintendo Tokyo for a shopping spree, we seriously wouldn't mind.
[source youtu.be, via gonintendo.com]
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Probably sponsored by a company, for them 20000 is just a really cheap advertisement for an otherwise hard to reach target audience (teens)
I was in Tokyo today and actually arrived in Shibuya; unfortunately I was on a tour with my father and couldn’t make it to the store unfortunately. Hopefully will return in the future.
Still managed to pop into a shop in Akihibara and bought a few Switch games.
It’s just @JaxonH in disguise 😜
I have no idea what they're saying or what's going on throughout but I like the energy and enthusiasm, lol It seems like a lot of fun. And I would definitely love to be able to buy all that merch.
It's also a business expense and tax deductable depending on the country.
Or you just say your credit card was stolen or refund everyrhing. As amazing as it I to have $20k in sales from one customer some stores and even credit cards will make you jump through a lot of hoops to okay that big of a transaction.
It’s good to know YouTube stars are universally annoying.
He had access to the store without any other customers in it to film, clearly this is a collaboration with Nintendo. Something tells me he left with a check for his promotion and not many actual merchandise items.
@Mr_Pepperami
Couldn't have said it better myself. That is not to say there aren't excellent channels on Youtube, but simply put, the more any of them seem to be focused on a/one person, the more annoying that person seems to be. Also, the more popular the channel, the more annoying the individuals seem to get.
Yes, that is broad-strokes, for sure, but still not nearly without merit.
@kepsux Exactly. No other customers. Allowed to film in the store. Setupmuch?
Staged or not, this was oddly entertaining, and honestly, I share this guys' enthusiasm. I'd be the same damn way if I was there and able to spend even 5% of what was spent. Some day, Tokyo, some day.
Let’s consumerism with HIKAKIN!
☆:.。. o(≧▽≦)o .。.:☆
I must admit there are actually few things I’d be interested in owning on that monster of a receipt, but this video is definitely a bit... gratuitous.
I'd do this but as bad luck would have it I'm about £16,000 short at the moment
Me: Hi, I'd like one of everything in the store please.
Clerk: Ha ha very funny.
Me: No, I'm serious.
Clerk: (There's only 3 clerks today and this will take forever to ring up. We're going to have a lot of pissed off people in the line). Sigh.
I feel sorry for the clerks that have to put up with this. This is like those a$$holes that order like 40-50 dollars in a drive-thru lane for fast food.
Edit: I didn't look or read the article and didn't realize he was the only customer. Maybe they rung him up before they opened or after they closed. Sorry, I just woke up and didn't feel like reading.
I love these sound effects. They are all over in everything!
I, also, don't understand the Youtube phenomenon, nor how it seems internationally, universally, the same flavor of cookie cutter annoying.
This video makes me want to spend 20000€ buying every single product at the local alcohol store.
The second one that showed up in the video.... I swear to God I thought he was wearing a mask for a while until I realized that was actually his face. I mean holy crap. He's just straight up spooky looking.
pathetic, what an annoying person.
How is this supposed to be good PR after the chaos that was the London pop-up store?
"I'll take one of everything, please"
"Sir, there are people lined up in the street who will get in here to find empty shelves..."
"It's OK, I'm a YouTuber!"
@gcunit It's possible Nintendo let them come off hours, if they called them ahead of time and said, I'd like to buy one of everything, and film it, if you let me do it I'll sign an agreement that I can't refund the purchase items.
It'd be free promotion for Nintendo, plus profit on the sales of course, not a bad deal
@DeltaPeng Yes, it's possible. Do I believe that's how it was? No.
@NEStalgia yeah I don't get it either. Who has time to sit and watch all this crap that now circulates the internet?!
@HobbitGamer
This is why I was really brushing up on Japanese 😂
I’m still a small-timer compared to most of these YouTubers. Then again, most of them have 20 years on my 5.
Is this what the kids are watching nowadays? There is no hope for humanity...
Worth every penny!
Now that is some incredibly Japanese Youtube!
@ehhh_puuutooo You sorta need to understand Japanese culture to get a video like this. It's a common comedy style for them, I am sure a lot of people find this obnoxious like they do western Youtubers but I am pretty sure this guy is just a popular Youtuber over in Japan. These kind of promotional videos are quite common.
All thanks to Patreon money!
@Mr_Pepperami I approve of your comment. But where can I subscribe to your channel and/or click that "like" button down below???
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