 Hey everyone! Welcome to the Nintendo Prime Podcast Season 2, Episode 7, and oh boy, do we have a banger today! Literally, this is hours after a Nintendo Direct dropped clearly the biggest Nintendo thing to happen this year. Metroid, and Zelda, and Pikmin, and Katamari Damacy, and so many more all in the same show! And then Mike wearing his DK hat because the full costume is TOO HOT! It's too hot damn it! Love it. Alright, first up you guys know my co-host as always, Eric Marr. Oh, good, good. That's good, that's good. Next up we'll just bring a little, a little Mike up here. Where's Mike? There he is. Mike Odyssey, how you doing buddy? I'm okay, I'm right, I'm good. You're good. You're just good. I'm good, I'm alive. I'm just restart, how you doing bud? Oh my god, I'm so hyped, I'm so happy, I'm so excited. This is a little nugget, I got a double check, but I'm pretty sure for my live stream I used a background music that was a compilation of Pikmin, Metroid, and Zelda. And what were the big three for this Direct? Alright, I'm going to shut up now. Can we talk about for the past three months? Cap, Bergeson, the burger, how's it going? Good, I wore the right shirt today. My heart's been pumping out of my chest all day. It's nuts. How many times do you watch that trailer? Six, so far. Only six. I was like on repeat or something. How many discoveries have you made already? No, don't trust me. It will be on repeat, like when I'm working on a video for it. So it's going to be nuts. It's going to be great. I'm watching the trailer, it got me emotional. And then listening to Zelda's voice so much throughout the trailer, it's just listening to Zelda's voice, the guide for Link throughout. That'd be cool, honestly. We'll get there, we'll get there. Trust me, we'll be talking to Zelda. First up though, we got to welcome First Timer, no cam man, West Nemo. What's going on, fellas? How we doing? Nintendo Direct. Nice to meet you guys. What's up chat? It's going to be fun. So we'll start off our podcast so we can start off every podcast. We have Wes up here right now. We start off by asking everyone, what have you been playing lately? So what have you been playing lately, Wes? So recently I've been playing Uncharted. Went back and played the Uncharted games and got done the second one. Been playing a little bit of Hogwarts Legacy. You know, that's been pretty good. I played High Five Rush as well. That game is incredible. If you haven't played it, I strongly recommend it. That's nice. That's all right. Eric, I know you were just playing today some stuff. What do you got going? Oh, just sparks of hope again. Sparks of hope again. Keep it going. You don't just have to waste until tears of the kingdom gets you, right? You know what? I want to play like a half hour a week and still tears of the kingdom gets you. Yeah, no, I'm partway into the fifth world and still just enjoying it. I still, I mean, I do have a couple other games that I can possibly get to once this is done before tears of the kingdom. Possibly. There's a lot of games you could. Oh, I mean, yes, but I mean, yeah. NSO today. Oh, yeah. Trading card game. Oh, yeah. That's going to be played eventually. Eventually. All right. Mike, what have you been playing lately, buddy? Well, in preparation for two years of the kingdom, I've been along like basically side by side playing with Nate on, on, on master mode. I'm pretty far in now. I'm pretty far. You're past me. I know you're past me. Yeah. I've got in all the towers. I have about, I would say maybe like half of the shrines. I'm leaving. I'm leaving the divide beast. I already got a master sword. I'm leaving the device, the divide beast for like the very end. I'm like, okay, once, once I get all the shrines and everything that I'll take the divide beast is because I know that the abilities that I get from the divide beast makes it a lot easier. So I'm trying to make it a master master mode. You know, I mean, three heart run it. Then you're right. There you go. I mean, I got, I got all shrines with almost four to five hearts. So I mean, that's kind of impressive thing. Yeah. I've only got, I've only taken out like 12 shrines so far. So I'm so happy to say I started out. I started a Metroid, Metroid game today. Oh, does that prime in its name? I'm just wondering. Metroid Metroid Metroid, Metroid Prime remaster. You know, I started it today. 40 doll hairs. It's, it's, it's just, I started it. I'm like, man, I couldn't believe I was playing Metroid Prime today on switch. You know what I'm like? I was expecting it for me to be a little, you know, more out in the year, but today shadow drops me digital. They, they've been sitting on that game for so long. It's so obvious. It pretty much just kicked it out the door. Gameboy Advance started a game from this cap. And I'm like, oh man, I can't believe this is, this is happening, man. We have it. This is real. Yeah. Yeah. After, after all the speculating, no, no more speculating, no more rumors, no more leaks. We, we're here, you know, finally. Man, it felt so good. To me, I'm extremely, extremely in the clouds. I'm like, here's the king. I'm the best directs of that. I think I've witnessed it like so far. Yeah. Yeah. Period. Yeah. Um, cap Berguson. What are you been playing lately? Oh, I always juggle games. So a kind of handful. But, um, I just started to say found Wind Waker on stream today because that game is awesome. No, by the way. Um, but I have actually also in a bit of anticipation for tears of the kingdom because there's this weird feeling I have that there's going to be some form of save data read. So I've been trying to do another 100% run of breath of the wild and I'm already at, I've already got like almost 70% done there on this save file. I've kind of had it going in the background for a while, but very on and off. But now I'm like trying to go all in on it before the release. And then also Splatoon three because I can't get enough of Splatoon, but you know what game I'm going to be playing. Metroid Prime four or master one remaster. I want to say four. I will be pressing one remaster. I cannot believe that they just dropped that today. We all owe Jeff Grubb an apology for how everything went with that. He's probably crying because now he probably feels like Nintendo intentionally. I was going to say anybody to see it. We were going to win last year for a February drop. But you know what? Jeff Grubb put his hair on the line. We just want to see it cut. Right. Yeah. Yeah. No, I'm I'm I'm I've been like going back and forth like, oh, maybe I should buy that game now. Oh, wait, what? The physicals coming out. I'd rather get the physical copy. And then I keep saying they're trying to trick you. And I'm like, it looks so good. They're trying to trick you. Everyone in the double dipping. That's what's happening. Oh, I'm done. I might do it. A lot of people are double dipping. I might do it. At least at least they only charging 40. So I mean, yeah, actually, I mean, it's like only like what? So I'm paying 20 extra dollars for Metroid Prime. Like I'll Metroid Prime. Yeah. Prime is so, so good. And I what it looks like to me, like I watched some people are live streaming it. And like, if you guys remember when people do those like Unreal Engine demo projects, like those fan made things. And you're always like, wow, this looks incredible. Like how this is this fan made thing. It looks amazing, but it would never actually run on the console. Yeah. And that's exactly what this looks like. And it actually is running on the console. It looks so incredible. I cannot. I'm in shock at how good it looks. I want to add one little thing. It does look pretty much as good as those Unreal little like things. But the difference is when you typically watch like Unreal Engine games, they feel kind of lifeless, right? Like there's not animation to everything. Everything here looks life full. It's there's there's a buoyancy to the plant life. You can see the atmosphere. Like there's there are little many effects going on. Like it is a living, breathing, beautiful Metroid Prime world. That is amazing. I saw someone did a screen comparison of a screen grab from the original GameCube version. And then now that the new version showing, you know, when sometimes it's dark and then like something will flash and you get catch just a glimpse of Samus's reflection in the laser. It's like such a dope detail. And it's just that, like the comparison is like the glow up is so unreal. Like it looks so good. Her eyes look so real and full of life and energy. It's like, it's, I don't even know. I'm in disbelief about how freaking good it looks. It's, so that's going to take up many hours of my time in the next few weeks. Did you like it? I was like, I want to drop everything. Yeah. No, I'll, I'll, you know what, I'll, I'll, I'll send it to you on Twitter because I, yeah, it looks so good. So it's so good. Andress, what are you been playing lately? Well, I'm going to tell you what I will be playing right now. Okay. Right now. We know what you will be playing there. Right. Down at the, I took, I took archives and things I haven't been playing because my, my big SD card is now no, so not so big. The terabyte. Yeah. I think it's actually not a terabyte. I should probably get one. Anyways, I will be playing Metroid Prime HD. I'm thinking I'm going to, I'm going to play it twice anyway. I don't know. I'm going to play a lot and I'm probably streaming it tomorrow. But beyond that, I have been, you know, jumping in and out of breath of the wild, probably going to start an actual play through soon. And I've still been playing Fire Emblem. And I still think Fire Emblem is great. Like it's, it's a great game. I haven't had time to like just completely like go straight through it. Like I kind of want to just like marathon through it real quick, but with all of this direct stuff going on, like there's, there's no time. Mike, I want to say speculation ain't done. Oh my no. No. This is the tip of the iceberg, my friend. Oh man. The tip of the iceberg. Think about this for mother three coming to GBA NSO. Calling it right. The second half of the Nintendo's lineup is just, we don't know. It's just, it's just, just air. This is okay. Can you guys confirm something for me? I would say a pretty big majority of the games for that were announced are, are ports or remakes, right? Taking away breath of the wild. There's a pretty big chunk of remasters. I would say. Yeah. Oh, I mean, I've already said from the beginning, if we see a lot of remasters, there's more speculate to be done because something is on the horizon and we're going to know about it this year. And then with, with, with. I know where you're going. I know where you're going with that, Mike. I totally disagree. I'll leave it for later on in the conversation, but. Nintendo did say in their investors meeting, nothing is coming this fiscal year or this upcoming fiscal year. So, I mean, when does it, when does it end? April or March next year. So, I don't believe it. I'm not, I'm not saying, I'm not saying this, I'm not saying that it's that, but I'm saying that it's interesting. I mean, I mean, it's, it, it, it, it can't, we can't deny it more. It's something is coming. Somebody's on the horizon. Something is there. There's at least probably going to be like a June direct. Anyway, I know. I know we're so, I'm supposed to. What is it? Nintendo's at E3. Cancel. Yeah, right. I'm worried about it. Tendles at E3. The reports are all wrong. All right. All right. All right. I want to make sure we address one thing kind of the elephant in the room. It wasn't actually an outside of the direct, but it is something that has become a huge topic of conversation. And that's the fact that Nintendo for the first time ever is charging $70 for a game. And that is tears of the kingdom. And I know for most of us, we love Zelda. It don't matter. They charge a Hondo. We're trying to get the collector's editions. It's whatever. It means that much to us, but it is sort of Nintendo's never done this. And why are they doing this? And there isn't a, there's no real answers. There's a lot of speculation. A lot of, oh, the other companies are doing it, but we're doing this. But then also don't be mad at us because we just dropped Metroid Prime for 40 when we've been charging 60 for all the other remasters. So what, what are we thinking about this whole $70 thing? I just want to get the kind of the negative out of the way because I'm pretty sure everything else about the director is going to be all positive. I think I know what's happening. I think I know what's happening. I think, I think this is Nintendo setting up tears for their game, their pricing. And I don't think every game will be $70. I think the best of the best games will be $70. For example, if they, if they do come out with the brand, I was talking to this about this with Josie Day today in the stream. And if they do come out with, let's say, their main line Mario game open world super, you know, promotional, I mean, like the first party hit the top of the line game, $70. They come up with a remaster or a second tier game, Kirby, whatever, then they go, they go at a lower tier, maybe 59 to 49. And all remasters and ports, that's, we just saw the price for them right now went with Metroid. So I don't think it's going to be every single game. Personally, I, like I said, you know, we all know that that Nintendo has been holding on to this price point for a long time, even though, even though, you know, the market has changed completely ever since forever. And, you know, with inflation and all of this, I'm just thankful for Nintendo for keeping the price in how, how it was for as long as they did. But it has come to a point where Nintendo themselves needs to be also gain. And I think they're doing it with tears instead of just having tears in the kingdom with tears in pricing points for certain games, depending on their caliber and, and the game strength. I mean, so Pokemon, all Pokemon games, so you know, because they say, I don't know that a lot of people consider Pokemon to be like the upper echelon of their games. Like Pokemon is great, but it comes out really often. So clearly it doesn't get the same budget and development time as like the next 3D Mario did or Zelda did. So a lot of people would actually not consider that to be same tier. But if Nintendo is pricing this way, Pokemon company is going to do it. I think it's so inconsistent. Cause like, for example, Kirby's return to Drilland Deluxe, $60. Prime remastered $40. Like to be fair, Kirby return to Drilland Deluxe does have new content in it. And they didn't say there's no new content Metroid Prime from what we're aware of. So yeah, yeah. And the other thing with that too is it could be trying to get more people into Metroid too by having the lower price point. Then they should have marketed it. No, no, you're absolutely right. But look, the whole Metroid Prime thing announced today and the drop is huge and it made the, it made this direct amazing and awesome in many ways. But obviously people who love Metroid are kind of like, that's cool. Why didn't we get a marketing campaign for this game? Cause there is no marketing campaign. Now we'll trend for a day. And I bet you because of the price, it's actually going to sell quite a lot of copies today. Like it's, it might sell over a mill today. And that's really impressive for Metroid to do in any day. Especially a shadow drop like this. But I don't know, we'll get to that in a moment. $70 prices. What, what, let's go down. Mike, Mike got his piece in who wants to go next. Well, I personally feel that it doesn't bother me because as much as I'd hate to pay extra $10. The thing is that the size and scope of games is not the same as it was when that $60 price point came into effect or became this, this sort of the norm. And actually, if anything, if you look at how much games costs during the cartridge era of the Super Nintendo and N64, then you start adjusting for inflation. Games are cheaper now than they used to be. Games are actually costing less adjusted for inflation than they ever did, but they're costing more to develop. They're, they're becoming larger in scope. They're lasting people more hours. Like a lot of Super Nintendo games are classics, but they're very short. They're very short small games compared to the games that we have now, but you would have paid more for a link to the past back in the day than you will be for tears of the kingdom. So for me, like it sucks because obviously I would rather not spend more money as a consumer, but from a business standpoint, I like, I understand where they're coming from. And I guess it doesn't bother me that much because I want them to keep making games. And in order for them to be incentivized to keep making games, their games have to make a profit. Simple as that. So yeah, I don't care. Here's the thing. Here's the thing. I'm going to throw this out there. So yeah, like Mike talked about the pricing tears and like doing $70 only for the biggest of their big games. The biggest of their big games make a profit anyways. Yeah. Breath of the wild. So 29 million copies. Nintendo made a bank. Oh, for sure. Big bank. They didn't need $70. So like the biggest of the big games that we're talking about open $70 just to play devil's advocate, those are the games that don't actually need that price point. They're already massively profitable and Nintendo has made more money this generation than any generation in the company's history. So like they're in the midst of their most successful generation, the most profitable generation. So to play that devil's advocate, they don't really need $70 games. Yeah. But they want to, they want to, maybe they, they, they're starting now and they want to set a president of what games are going to look like. Yeah. They also just gave all of your staff a 10% raise. If that's a trade off. I don't think, I don't think it's a trade off. I don't think one game being 70 bucks is the trade offer or 10% raise. But still, like if they want to, if those two things are intrinsically related at all, we're talking about, we're talking about a multi-billion dollar company with $15 billion in the bank. They don't need to make $70 games. It doesn't need to happen. There's a myth on $70 games. Oh, PlayStation, Xbox. All of these companies are some of the richest companies in the world. They don't need to make these games. They can make them $30 and they will still make bank. I want to be clear on this. PlayStation sells the majority of their copy of games after the first week because they cut the price in half. Like this is not something these companies need to do. I want to make this perfectly clear. $70 games is because we'll pay for it. It's the same reason Nintendo doesn't reduce the price of their games. They just finally cut the price on Breath of the Wild today. Is that just a sale though? No. It's a price cut. It's in their PR. It's in their email they sent out. So they just cut the price of Breath of the Wild today. But that's, they have a sequel coming out, right? So they probably want a bigger price gap between the old game and the new game. And that's fine. But it's, it's, we just stop pretending this isn't just about them wanting to make more money to make more money. Not because they need to make more money. Fair. No, that's fair. I think we need to talk about Andre's cat. Sorry. Sorry. I got my doubts out of you because I know we're all huge Nintendo fans and we're going to be like, oh, it's okay. We'll make all these reasons. But in the end, these companies are already making all the money. Why do they need to make all the more money from those of us that don't have as much money? I got one answer for you that I think is going to answer it completely. This is both for Debra's advocate and for, what's the opposite of his advocate? Angels. Angels. I don't know. I actually don't even know what is the, I don't know if there is a term. Right. Okay. You ready for it? Sure. Money. Money. Yeah. I agree. I had a business that I lemonade for 10 cents more and people will still buy it. Well, I mean, that's what I said. Why does Nintendo not lower the price of the games because we'll still buy it? We don't have to, but if you ask them for money, sure. Yeah. Money comes down to the market set in the price. You know, like, yeah, people are willing to pay $70. So I was going to make him $30. Same with PlayStation and Xbox. Like, you know, it's just, it's what the market does. Yep. People are willing to pay for it. They're going to make it $70. They make it $82 if they could. Yeah. Let's do it. I mean, They're going to, just giving it going five years. Give it time. And you know, I did a little bit of a calculation earlier. I'm going to stream very poorly, but I got the job done. Basically, I assumed that, let's say they sell 20 million tears of the kingdom copies if they sell at $60, right? Yeah. But you know, if it's, if it's higher, then, you know, probably not as many people are going to buy it, right? Now it's just a $10 difference. I'm certain most people will buy it. And I took a poll on my channel. And when I looked at my channel, I mean, obviously it's small sample size. That's just my viewership, not the rest of the world. But yeah, about 90, it basically suggested about 90% would still buy the game, right? So we assume that's the case. Then if, if at 60, they were to sell 20, this is obviously hypothetical. I don't know how much it's going to sell, but you know, let's just say, right? Then at 70, probably only sell about 18 million, right? Which would be less, but they're also making 10 more dollars per game. So I did the math and 18 million times 10 is a bigger number than 20 million times, well, no, 18 million times 70 is a bigger number than 20 million times 60. So even if they sell less copies, it might look a little worse from an optics perspective, right? But also a 10% drop probably isn't going to be that big of a difference in terms of like perception of how successful the game is, right? You know, from, you know, co-locally speak, like we're talking about it on social media and stuff, but they're going to make more money from it. Like there's going to be more revenue. So yeah. I mean, that's what it's about at the end. They're just making more money. I mean, it's weird talking about because video games are like a luxury, right? Like it's a luxury entertainment medium. It's always been expensive, right? You buy several hundred dollar machines or thousand dollar PCs and you know, you're spending, you know, 50, 60, 70 bucks on a game unless it's indie games. And even then some of those are getting up 20, 25, 30. Their prices are going higher and higher as well. And it's weird because we're obviously in this state of the world where a lot of the world is, our currency is worthless. I mean, I'm paying twice as much for eggs now as I was four months ago. You know, it's interesting because our money is becoming worthless. So I understand having to raise the prices to maintain profit margins, but it's weird because as consumers, and this is where that whole, hey, Nintendo doesn't need to do this. They're not suffering. We are. We're suffering and now they want more of our money. And that's where it kind of hurts because like even when Sony and PlayStation did it, they tried to justify, oh, well, you know, we got we got next gen systems and they're not spending any more money now than they were before. That hasn't changed. It hasn't changed. They did it because they want to make more money. Okay, fine. And I understand inflation. I understand all those reasons. I gave those reasons when this first news source broke. But also these companies are massively profitable. Microsoft didn't have to lay out 10,000 employees. Did you see the last financial thing? They literally profited like $400 billion last quarter. Like they have money. These companies all have money. They don't need to do this. They're doing it because they don't have enough. I think people forget and they forget this with Nintendo and I'm a staunch Nintendo guy, obviously. But Nintendo ain't our friends. They're charging 70 because they're going to get away with it. They're my friends. They're going to get away with it on the next Mario game, too. They might get away with it on Metroid Prime 4. They might have a good friend, but they're my friends. They're my best friend. That was a kid. He's my best friend. Your best friend was named Nintendo? Yeah, Nintendo NES. We used to go hunting. On walks? Little strolls? No, we used to go hunting together. Lizard hunting. Personally, I'm really not that upset about the $70 price because, as I said, I'm trying to get the collector's ditch for $130 and I spent way more than this on Breath of the Wild. How many copies of that I bought. But it's still one of those. As much as personally, I go, yeah. It's up to us as individuals always to decide if a game is worth the money and it's worth the human value, right? Is $70 forespoken worth the money? Well, most people that play it are saying probably not. Is Zelda Tears of the Kingdom to me going to be worth $70 to buy? Sure. It just feels like a weird time to increase the price. And it's on one specific game. Nothing else is at that price right now. You have other game... It's kind of like the remastered prices, too, like Kirby's 60, but Metroid's 40. It's just a really weird time. And obviously a lot of this is experimental, I think, for Nintendo. If they see that launch sales aren't as good at $70, then in two months, maybe they drop it to $60. Looking at other companies, it didn't affect PlayStation or Xbox or Ubisoft 3.0. Yeah, it didn't go on awarding really well. It got awarded really well, yeah. I think $70 is just how it's going to be. That is what it is. Maybe they do a tiered system. I highly doubt it. I think $69.99 is just the standard. Yeah. I think by the time the Nintendo's next system comes out, they're all just going to be $70. And I already have a hard time stomaching $60 for things like Mario Tennis. And now you tell me that might be $70 next year. Tennis. Maybe. It's rough. You're just a 4K, so you got to give us 10 more now. I do think that there is some to play devil's advocate, right? Because I also don't really have an actual problem with the game being at $70. I'm probably going to buy the game twice. That's actually a tradition for me to buy Zelda more than once. Get the game vouchers. You can get it for $50. Maybe. Twice. You can't buy it digitally twice for the same count. I'm just joshing around. That would have been an idea, though. I mean, put it this way. Let's say they decide that Metroid Prime could be part of it. You spend $10 more on Metroid Prime, but you save $20 on Zelda. You save $10 overall. Yeah, that's interesting. I guess. Actually, I mean, yeah, if you... Let me just say, if you're using a game voucher on a game that's less than $50, I don't know what you're doing. You should just like, wait, but spend it on Pikmin. Go buy Pikmin or something. Buy Pikmin. They make more games. Yeah, Pikmin 4 and 2 to the Kingdom make sense. Of course, you have to get them digitally and 2 to the Kingdom are getting Special Edition. Well, here's what's going to happen. I'm going to have a digitally, so I have easy access all the time, and then I'll just keep the physical copy. Yeah. Plus, I have this issue with Yulia that because Breath of Oz is digital and sharing... You're just going to have a physical copy and I'm going to have a digital and we're not going to talk about it anymore. Yeah. What was I going to say? I'm sorry. No, it's okay. It's been a roller coaster, my dude. I know, we're not even getting to the good stuff. I'm trying to get negative because this has been a largely negative reaction out of us. Thank you. I wanted to play Devil's Advocate to the being okay with the price tag. So, I am okay with the price tag, but I'm playing Devil's Advocate just considering another perspective. People can consider more than one perspective. Do not attack me with torches and forks, please. Pitchforks. Maybe okay. Anyways, for a lot of the $70 games that are on the other systems are on systems that are next generation systems that have better visuals. They're in 4K, they're at 60 frames per second. These are from a graphical fidelity standpoint. That's kind of like from an optics perspective. That's like the reason. Okay, these games are, they require more resources to make. They're like, they're like that. Jesus of the Kingdom is probably not going to be 60 frames per second on Switch. And it's definitely not going to be 4K. You know what game is, 60 frames per second on Switch? Metroid Primary Master. It's only $40. Just putting that out there. $39.99. But anyway, all I'm saying though, is that I think some people might see that it's $70 and think, well, Switch can't even do 4K. It doesn't make any sense. I think there might be something they may look at it that way. I don't think that's fair because it's basically how expensive was the game. Jesus of the Kingdom is probably a higher budget game than a lot of $70 games. I don't think that's a fair actual perspective, but I do think some people are going to think that way. And now, I think it's going to be a little bit more more of a volume that it would be able to do more games at higher frame rates and better resolution. So there wouldn't be as much of a, you know, point that people kind of argue over. People will still argue over it. But anyway, I just want to kind of put that in there that some people may just be upset because Jesus of the Kingdom isn't going to be that on Switch yet. It's $70. I would counter their argument. I was going to say, if you want somebody to blame, just blame EA. They're the ones that were shambles enough to do it, you know? I mean, I'm always playing blaming EA for stuff. Right? I'll blame EA for anything. Damn it, EA. You know what? Your why I have to pay more for Zelda, you bastards. Let's take our forks and fork them. Yes. That was PlayStation that it was like, okay, we'll do this, and then Xbox is like, okay, I'm done. Well, they're doing it, whatever. Everyone's just subbed the game past them. I mean, all the normies that by FIFA, like they enabled it. Yeah, the FIFA stuff also is what like people get mad at all microtrend. Blame EA. Exactly. They created this. They're making a killing for me. Yes, they are. So I'll add one more point to this just because I'm reading the chat a bit more on this topic, because I'm always interested in alternative perspectives on what some people say and some people that disagree with the statement I said about things like corporate greed. Here's the thing, though. Yes, inflation and everything is affecting everyone in the world. But when a business posts in a single quarter a net profit, this is after paid employees, this is after everything is considered, they added straight up, even after taxes $8 billion to their bank account. I don't see this is in a quarter, by the way. This is just for one quarter of the year. Oh, they're paying their employees 10% more. Yeah, and they could do that and they did that already without $70 games. They can afford to pay their employees more. Apple can afford to pay their employees more. Google can afford it. These companies are the richest companies in the world. They can afford to pay their employees more. They don't need to charge more. They're not charging more because Nintendo's in trouble. This isn't a oh, well, inflation is affecting their employees so they're paying them 10% more so we have to pay more for games. No, they could just stop taking as much profits and putting them in a damn bank and pay their employees more. They don't need $70. Nintendo ain't going out of business if they don't up to $70. Nor is Tony. Nor is EA. EA is richer than Nintendo. They don't need to do this stuff. They have their microtransactions carrying the way. I'm thinking about the employees they subcontract. How many Nintendo subcontracts are there? Same with other developers. They're not paying more for more developers. They're pocketing the cash. That's my point. It's up to us as consumers if we'll pay the price for Zelda, I'll pay it. I don't know that I'll pay it for some of their other IPs if they decide to put it at $70 because I already am really wary at $60 on some of those. Nintendo never price drops. It's not like I'm waiting for a price drop. They're going to start just not buying all the Nintendo games that they all go to $70. They're going to get less money out of me overall. I'm someone who buys a dozen Nintendo games a year. Now I'm only going to buy three. That's just the way it goes if they're going to charge $70 because I'm only paying $70 for the absolute games that I fuel our must plays. Is Metroid Prime 4? Sure. Zelda? Sure. 3D Mario? Sure. 2D Mario? I might pass at $70. So that's a bit much for my taste. It's kind of interesting thinking about that because now I would say that there is kind of a weird despair that we have that we just sort of accept. There are Nintendo games and that's not just Nintendo games. It's just games across the board. You'll see a massive open world game come out for $70 or $60 and then you'll see this other game that probably took them only a year to make is not as long, is not as massive and it costs $60 or $50 or it's literally the same price. Like that happens all the time. Make your annual edition of Sportball. Oh my God. If we talk about like DeFi or 2K they're running on the same engine. They just optimize a little bit. They update for new characters and I don't want to say they don't do any work but it's minimal by comparison. That's why I mentioned the whole corporate greed thing. No matter what we're talking about all these companies that are doing it are the richest companies in the world posting profit margins we can only dream of. They don't need the money. This isn't a need. This is a want. Counterpoint though being a need and not a needs versus want is that you could make that argument about all of this. Gaming is not a need. No, no it's not. It's a luxury. Absolutely. It's a need. I need it. Yulia would tell you right now she literally left work. She does in home care and she's there until like 11 to 11 at night so she has like 3 hours where she has never anything to do. She put all of the clients in work in her car drove all the way back to our house during the Nintendo Direct to pick up the switch because she needed to play Breath of the Wild. If she didn't have Breath of the Wild with her at work. She don't care about that. She's not a big hardcore gamer. She should. You should be happy she's playing Zelda. It's her first Zelda game ever. She just started. She is just hooked and she will tell you right now I did it because I need it. I'm like do you really need it? You know what for her mental health I need it. I can see where some people view video games as a need a little bit. Obviously it's an optional entertainment medium and we survived many, many centuries without having them. Games are more important though. Covid did a lot to kind of make games more mainstream. Oh absolutely. There are studies that show that games can be there are health benefits to playing game. They are proven to boost your critical thinking skills. Depending on the game there are other things like for example if you play Call of Duty you're pretty good at discerning certain things with your eye and pointing things out especially in the dark like you're better. There are things that gaming can offer that are beneficial. Most of it is just kind of a healthy escape. Depending on it. In proper quantities if you're playing Fortnite all day every day and not working or studying or exercising or eating healthy that's not healthy. Rage quitting, chucking your remote at the TV and costing your parents $2,000 every time. When you play games with friends and co-workers and they throw your controllers because there's something wrong with them. Anyways, I feel like things that have backstories. Yes, there are many backstories. Yes, there are. Alright, I mean it is what it is. Nintendo is doing it. Nothing we say is really going to change anything. They're either going to make everything 70. They're going to do something 70 and some not. They're going to make a transition. They're going to make a hard transition. Don't know. All we know is that hey, here's the kingdom of 70 bucks. Most of us are still going to pay anyways. There's something else that I shouldn't say. But I'm going to tell you because I'm an honest person. I don't want to say this because I feel like this might impact sales for a particular game and I want this game to do really well. You can buy that game as much as it gets $40. You can buy that game twice. Twice as you can. It's a better looking game. It's a better quality game than pretty much everything on the eShop and it's cheaper. Buy it, play it, change your life. You can tell what he loves. No one knows. Anyways, no. Actually, I'm talking about Advance Wars and I have to double check this but if I remember correctly, it was the first time before it was taken off the eShop and now it's for $60. It's gone up 10 bucks. It's a $59 game, right? Yeah. $50 versus $60. Yeah, basically the Nintendo's $59.99 regular. Not itself, if you look at the whole picture, it screams tears. So then why is Metroid a lower tier? Yeah. Because it's not that it's not lower. It's not that it's a lower tier. It's a 15 hour game. Yeah. Okay, Advance Wars 1 and 2 can be beaten 15 hours. What are we talking about? It's two games but it went up to 60 bucks. It was $50. Then it was delayed and it's now selling for $60. That's the point I want to focus on here. My point was my point about 15 hours is not that Metroid Prime shouldn't be priced the way it is. I'm saying more games should be priced lower like that. Sorry, Mike. Please. And my point is on my head right now. Okay. There you go. By the way, why are we wearing a DK hat today? Mike, what's going on? I did the rap. I'm working on the music video rap, too. I'm going to probably be on to set my laws and to set responsibility. If you need a lanky Kong to join you or like a Diddy Kong or any Kong really except for Tiny Kong. I don't want to dress up as Tiny Kong. I'll join you for that DK rap video. Diddy Kong. I just want to make a few more points about this Advance Wars thing. The chat seems to be verifying what I'm saying. It used to be $50. Game was delayed, taken off the eShop. They brought it back and now it's $60. I just don't know why they did that. Is it just because they can sell it more or did they take the time to improve it? I don't know if they made any mentions that they did. We're just in there. It's not as big of a game as Tears of a Kingdom is. Tears of a Kingdom. It's not as big of a game as Metroid Prime. It used to be $50 and they made it $60. They delayed the game a year and raised it $10. It's just the market dictates the price. If people are willing to pay for it then they'll sell it for $60. There you go. Perfect. That's exactly what I've been trying to say. It's what the value is to the market. Think about how much analytics they do and data. You already know that they've probably group tested. The point is it's not so much that they're trying to get one on us. Back then inflation game prices are going up. Back then it wasn't as common place to have higher priced games and now it's worth $60. Advance Wars is two games. It's not one. It's two remade games. It's not a cheap... It's not a bad deal. I was curious why they increased the price. The beauty of it is if you don't agree with the $60 price, $70 price tag you don't buy it. It's a blind demand. If there's not a demand for the product then they're going to lower the price to try to create that demand. I'll get the vouchers. Yeah, or until they just bring back Nintendo Select. Nintendo also said in their investors meeting they have no plans to offer a cheap version of their games. I miss Nintendo Select. Dude, this Nintendo... This is the part of Nintendo that's being ran. It's a numbers guy. Chintaro Furukawa is literally a numbers guy. He is not Iwata. He does not care about trying to be friendly to you late in the generation. He's just going to rip your wallet. The funniest thing about this whole conversation is that here in Canada where I live, we've already been paying $80 for games. For years. Ask Australians what they've been paying. Go to Brazil. Ask Brazil what they have to do to buy a Switch. Switch cost at launch $400 in Canada. Yeah, Brazil would laugh at you. They wish they could get Switch for $400. No, so... I want to point out one of the questions. Now I'm seeing conflicting things in the chat because now I'm seeing people saying that it was always 60. So until I confirm this, don't just... Andre, if it did increase $10, I can explain it. They need to pay for the storage. They had to store the physical copy somewhere. So they had to pay for the storage. The game was like a week from launch. We're not bringing it out. They had to pay for the storage. In warehouses for three years. Warehouses with like freezers. So they keep it iced. Exactly. They ice it and then they air control it. They have to filter. They got to make sure the boxer doesn't fade. Anyways. All right. Enough of the negative stuff because obviously this stuff happened outside the direct. Technically leaked yesterday by Nintendo and then confirmed after the direct today. That was the price they were in charge. So... Getting to the actual direct itself. Late in potatoes. I think there's a lot of ways we can go. We can talk Zelda. We can talk Metro. We can talk Pikmin. We can talk whatever. Let's just start general reaction to the direct overall. How are we feeling? What is the temperature of the room? You guys see the title of stream. The best Nintendo direct ever. Question mark. It is in my opinion. In my humble opinion. It is the best Nintendo direct that I have ever seen in such a long time with the amount of games. I think it's mostly because the anticipation of a certain game was already there that we actually saw the game and we've been talking about it for so long and it's a mixture of us talking about these specific games for so long and then actually seeing them come to fruition in front of our eyes that gave us that satisfaction and brought the level of the direct just a little higher. You know what I mean? It's not for any specific announcement. Of course we have Tears of the Kingdom. The best trailer in the history of forever. But we've been talking about Metroid Prime Remake for so long and we've been talking about this and that and all of a sudden watching everything speaking of and then some rumors here and rumors there all just come together and just look so beautiful in this little gift that Nintendo just gave us today. It was just so satisfying to watch and so pleasing to see that finally this, you know, we've been talking about the direct we've been wanting to see and we got the direct we've been wanting to see, you know. There are some little games here and there that, you know, good, you know, their party offers there, but you know when it comes to the first party games we've been talking for, oh man I'm like, you know, we got it, we got it. There were those games that we wanted to see but those were more like personal but the ones we all wanted to see collectively the way we wanted to end, we wanted to end the direct, Nintendo said, you know what you want the direct to end this way take it here you know, Platter, whatever, you know Platter? Platter, I love it. Pigman, it was the first game that was announced and I'm like, what the heck is this? Is this like 8K, 8K resolution with Ray Tray Pigman is crazy how realistic they go with the visuals compared to any other Nintendo game It's not very visual with games Realism, you want realism play Pigman The first game on GameCube, that was like one of the best looking GameCube games like in its entire life, so Pigman 3 on Wii U for the time like, I was awed how real it looked No surprises It looked amazing on Switch Bro, oh god, I'm just so excited that I wasn't a Pigman fan until I saw that trailer It looked so good It's time to go back and play the first three games Yes, time is now after the hot Metroid primary master They're not very long games so they won't take you long to get through The replay value is insane on those games I can sit down and replay those games weekly The replay value is like Star Fox 64 levels of good replay value It's... They're adding Night 10 gameplay I wanted this, I talked about this earlier in the year It's always been something we've always wondered, it's like what if we got to play on the planet at night No, that's it, mission over No, we get to play at night now That is insane I'm trying to think of a comp If you don't play Pigman, it's like being able to go beyond the boundaries of Hyrule or something The thing you always wish you could do in a game we could finally do it in Pigman 4 That's epic Nintendo Online, we got Game Boy We got Game Boy Advance, we got Game Boy Color I love it I don't like the fact that they put Game Boy for the first tier That's maybe one negative and then Game Boy Advance on the second tier It's all that coming Just Game Boy Just Game Boy, second tier, Game Boy and Advance, I'm like I mean It's not a great choice I wanted the Game Boy brand, those Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance under the first tier and then GameCube under the other one, of course, that was just me Yeah, they're not doing GameCube They're remastering everything I'm not sure if they are if they are, it's probably coming for the next console not this one They'll just port over all the remasters they're probably making right now Yeah, I think they should just remap I don't think they're going to give us GameCube games anytime soon They're trying one remaster and not two and three And that's okay if they want to remaster some of the major games but we're never getting an Animal Crossing remaster I don't think they'll ever get an Animal Crossing re-release The thing is that one's tricky because it has a lot of virtual console games in it Yeah, but still we'll never get it To be fair, Mike Animal Crossing on GameCube originally released N64 in Japan They could bring it to the N64 NSO Oh dude, that would be crazy but weren't the visuals improved for GameCube? Yeah, they were improved but still, it's basically the exact same game Oh, would they just give us the N64 version? Yeah, that's what I was saying They could just do that for that game That would be interesting to see that version because a lot of us didn't play it Paper Mario 1000-year door You could argue that That needs to be remastered Have they ever remastered a Paper Mario game in the past? They will 1000-year door Okay, have they ever remastered a Metroid game until they did Samus Metroid Prime Well, Prime Trilogy is technically a remaster That wasn't really a remaster Zero Mission, okay, I'll give you Zero Mission Alright But the point is a lot of the remasters are more recent Alright, so just give us GameCube online for those games that you know They will not be remastered Oh, double dash online though Double dash online What I really want to see is the four sorts games with online co-op Oh, yeah That would actually be killer There's something to this idea though because there was this connectivity with the Game Boy Advance all the games and the GameCube ones that never really seemed feasible because you need to have two Game Boy Advance, you need to have the cables you need to have the games, you need to have two GameCubes and a person that would play with you all that nonsense It's the hardest part having a friend It's what the Switch is now Yeah, but if they could facilitate all that under one platform I'd be interested Maybe it doesn't even have to be a virtual console thing What if it's like some sort of friend and I still don't get to play games with them So Yeah On that note, you know what the Internet was trying to do right? They were still trying to sell multiple consoles for home, what they're doing now successfully So they started there and now they're doing it now like hotcakes, you know Hey, you want to switch? Okay, I'll get it I do want to talk about something in relation to this though Someone in my stream asked me in my pre-show how do you feel about them adding Game Boy to Nintendo Switch Online and I said very confidently there's no way it's going to happen and let me explain why Because literally every September Direct they add Send you a DK hat And I've multiple, during that stream and during the video I posted and now now I will take the L I will gladly take the L I simply said what I said and I explained why and then we get a NSL update it's in September because they want to do it because people are going to re-up they want to make sure they re-up for that but they didn't this time So it's because of the reason I'm wearing the DK hat It didn't matter what you think Nintendo's Nintendo and they're going to do whatever they feel like What pattern? Look at the pattern on my head Well maybe Or you listen to the wrong patterns Yeah We posted on Sunday that we were getting on Direct this time I will never Hey Hold on a second Last time we talked because I told you guys it was going to be on February Yes I said it was 5pm Eastern time and you watched my stream on Monday I told you it was announced at 9am Yes And I'm on record that I predicted the 15th But a report is different than that I'm reporting the correct information Anyway So it's funny Andre's I had the exact opposite situation I was streaming the Direct And the guy Mr. Takahashi says Now an update for Nintendo Switch online And I just leaned into the mic And I said Game Boy And then the Game Boy thing came up And then we started laughing about it And then someone asked in the chat Do you think it's going to be base NSO membership Or do you think it's going to be NSO expansion pass And I said It's going to be Game Boy on the base membership And then GBA on the expansion pass And then like 30 seconds later They bring up the GBA thing and confirm it Nostradamus confirmed Nostradamus confirmed Everything you say happens I did agree with that though I thought that's how they would do it too Doesn't mean you have to like it Like Game Boy Advance Visually is usually on the level of the SNES Which is on the base NSO There's a point to think that I would also go well how many more This to me confirmed they don't plan to bring any of their other hand held out Because At least not right now I would even do DS There's DS They figured out emulators, they could do it We have a touch screen, they can make that work They literally had DS on Wii U And you could play it on one screen So like they already did it They literally already did it on Wii U with one screen So it can be done I thought I hoped that they would do something more like Because remember how we have Sega Genesis I was kind of hoping that they would do Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance on base And then announce Game Gear For the next month But that's not what they did Obviously I don't know if they can work that Even though it was Sega It's whatever This leaked last year The emulator and stuff The Nintendo was already working on it Wasn't it September? My theory is maybe it just wasn't ready For whatever reason They planned it for last September Wasn't ready, do we push it out a year We'll just launch it at the next direct And it's whatever That's what I think happened But obviously we don't know what happened This director was insane man Like This is what I told people during my live stream What was up with that first half of the direct I put it in the second half That second half of the direct is what mattered That second half of the direct is the best Half of the direct I've ever seen in my life Just that 20 minute segment I'm sorry it went like 22 minutes because of Zelda Was like one of the greatest stretches Of Nintendo Direct reveals I've ever seen Something that needs to, that I don't think Is going to get enough conversation I'm going to bring it up now The Xenoblade 3 DLC Go for it Alright so and there will be an analysis For this later this week but Also We said it will be an epilogue Not a prologue, we said an epilogue Got hated for it, it is an epilogue But not just any epilogue We get Chad Growing up adult Shulk We get Chad growing up adult More so than the others Rex and Super Chad Noah All of them have aged and matured And are grown ass men Freaking Albus whose name starts with A and is the only Mobius member we did not see throughout The entire game All their letters were there Except for A and now we're fighting Albus With the three main characters from the Xenoblade series As grown ass men So we have Simon in Theodore Anywhere What? Doesn't apparently know the chipmunks That's alright I got you Come on You're not that age You don't know who they are I know You just couldn't get there The mind would not get, I'm too stuck In the Xenoblade mind I don't know what you were Simon in Theodore Who are those guys in the game? I have to say I started playing Xenoblade I made it half way The trailer itself Made me want to finish the game So I can get to that Man that trailer was awesome For Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Whatever Rex is built He's like You just have that ready Oh come on Rex is wielding both swords From Mithra and Pyra I haven't gotten that far yet You should go play Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Oh boy Oh He's the main character for 2 The main character for 1 The main character for 2 And the main character for 3 Have all been aged up and are going to be flying together against the ultra Mega God of the Xenoblade world Mega sword from Power Rangers Yeah they're Power Rangers Yeah I mean if you want some mega swords You just go back to Xenoblade Chronicles X Mega sword Anyways the point I'm making here is that Of any sort of like Story DLC they could have shown off That was probably like the most hyped thing they could have done And they didn't even have to reveal that yet They did it because they wanted to They wanted to hype us up for wave 4 I mean it makes sense financially Because oh they're going to show the coolest thing now Tease it just soft tease a couple seconds So we actually buy the Xenoblade DLC Because I don't even think I bought it Actually no I bought it because I'm a huge Xenoblade fan For example Splatoon I haven't bought Okay that one they just announced as well I haven't bought the Fire Emblem one Yeah I'm not going to buy that one until They show like something like super Extensive with the story there Yeah not just new characters and stuff Anyways it was super hyped I don't get how last year It was the same time Masio was the 9th Direct right? On the 9th They announced Wave 1 I guess they had already Wave 1 of the Mario Kart For March Again this Okay March again so they can fall into Spring I'm like Okay so I think the race It's done They showed off all 4 tracks And they showed off a brand new one So it's not like it's not done It's a timing to release it Maybe it could have shadow dropped today But then we also have Metroid today And by the way like 3 demos that Dropped today And we have a really busy month with Tales of Syphonia And Autometrable 2 and Kirby And then obviously Okay well what about next but well They got their third party company Some of those games that they showed today are coming out in March Plus they got Mayonetta It could still happen but I think it's one of those At the time they recorded the direct They made exactly sure which week And which month they were going to drop it They just know they're dropping it before we get to the summer Yeah I mean Spring does mean March for Nintendo Awesome times like for example They told us Kirby the Forgotten Land was going to be spring And it came out in March right So that still may be the case for Mario Kart May still be the March time May still match that pattern from last year But they also to your point maybe they're thinking about things And maybe they're trying to think Oh well maybe we wait for the Mario movie to have something Mario really That could be that Imagine Mario Kart DLC the weekend of the Mario There was no Mario announcements in this But that DLC so They could maybe want to time it more closer Oh you just watched the movie You watched the movie? Nahy now go play Mario Kart Everyone wants Mario Kart go play it Bye bye They don't have to do that because that game Will not leave the top 10 Sales It refuses to die Mike Let it be It's going to be the first 60 million Mainline Nintendo game ever That isn't like Wii Sports Let it go, it's going We don't ever get Mario Kart 9 That game will just be ported over And over and over again Forever and ever They'll never let Mario Kart 8 Deluxe die It's coming back, we're getting Mario Kart 8 Double Deluxe and it's just the same game But they're gonna give us 96 new tracks over the course Of 5 years I wouldn't actually be that mad Like That's a lot of tracks They're doubling They're doubling the amount of tracks 48 so I'm just saying There's double the double Mario Kart 8 Ultimate Oh my god, you know what This is Nintendo, it's going to be new Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Ultimate Edition I think they're not going to have a number for the next Mario Kart It's going to have some sort of cool name Yeah it'll just be called Mario Kart Let's just put this in perspective though Which I think is interesting A typical Mario Kart game In the past was 32 tracks 16 brand new tracks 16 remade tracks and by the way Before the 2000s it was less than that It used to be like 8 or 16 The standard has gone up But anyways the previous standard was 32 Now we're going to have 96 Well you gotta remember they had DLC for Mario Kart 8 Originally this is actually the second time we've had DLC for Mario Kart 8 So the reason we were at 48 in the first place was due to DLC Correct and now they're doubling it Which is just mind boggling So now double the double I'm just following the trends Double the double Yoshi's Island though What's cool about the Mario Kart DLC is that wave 1 People were very critical of it But they went back and they updated some things Like Coco and Amal has the moving cars now And as each wave has come out It seems like they've upped the ante a little bit With wave 3 To me it just feels like pretty much There's a lot of different tracks Like I feel like it measures up to the rest of the content In the game You can nitpick But the point is I think it's at a level where You have to be focused on nitpicking To really notice And wave 4 looks great Like the Mario Kart DLC Is good content It's not a bad DLC expansion It doesn't feel like a cop out It feels like quality tracks that we're getting And I'm excited to get more We know one thing that this Nintendo Direct did Due to my head It left my brain empty I think there might have been Everything else you have to deal with today In a way That could be it You were still You were screaming For like 5 hours Anesthesia in you They might have played a role maybe That's how much I love my people I came from the hospital Still with all bandages And all my cables and stuff on me And I went to stream You were just dragging the machines behind you On the way to the car But in a good way That it didn't leave Anything else that I wanted from the Nintendo Direct I was satisfied completely I didn't leave the Direct saying Man I wanted to see this The only thing I could say And this isn't really a negative This is just how they've done all their other Directs They always say This Direct is mainly focused on the first half But they always have something big They show for the second half They didn't do that So that does it all for all the speculation And all the wonder If Pikmin is it And that's coming in July Then what the hell is coming the rest of the year They gotta have something Maybe it's Pokemon that gets announced by the end of the year Who knows And then we tie things over And then we know pretty much about the summer lineup And then come June we do get a Direct And then that's what tells us The only thing I can see if you want to have a negative here is Well look There's multiple ways to have a negative But let's be honest There are some people that they only care about new And DLC is cool But it's for games that already exist And remasters and remakes are cool But also those games have already existed There wasn't a lot of new This wasn't for you If you're somebody that's a hardcore Nintendo fan that's nostalgic And you want all these old games back It feels amazing and obviously if you're Like me and like many people The only thing I really needed was Zelda Everything else just kind of frosting to my cake I got Zelda And that Zelda trailer which we haven't even dived into yet And we will in a little bit because I can't get through this podcast Without talking about it at some point Showed more new things than all the other trailers combined And I don't know what to do with this And my mind is exploding I think that I might just go into a coma For the next four days dreaming Before I come back and make a video Just go to a coma for the next three months And just wake up when it comes out No! I need the pre-order first I'm still trying to fight for the collectors edition I can't, I'm not allowed to sleep I gotta be refreshing that page Yeah I've been refreshing it this whole time Notice what that, today during the surgery I remember I was laying on the bed And I'm like okay we're gonna do the anesthesia now So don't worry if you feel a little bit woozy Or whatever I didn't feel anything, I couldn't remember the last thing I said or anything the next minute I was waking up, it was about two hours later And I was like what the heck Where am I, you know I'm gonna go back to the doctor And it's time to wake me up in In May Wake me up in September Then you'll miss tears of the kingdom Right Well May 12th, I actually know I can Because man that DLC Extra Deluxe thing With the book and the thing And the thing With the other thing Just put your pre-order in and then wake up on May 12th Then you're good But then they don't have a pre-order for the extras They said it's gonna be available on the same day Um This is just kind of an update This happened I think before the Our podcast began but you know a lot of us Caught up in the direct, it was literally up until Like a couple hours before the show Nintendo, when we talked about the $70 pricing earlier, Nintendo did say That we will determine the suggested Repair price for any Nintendo product on a case-by-case Basis, not every game will be $70 So that's just Nintendo's official statement Of course, at the moment because they Obviously have it all Exactly what Yeah, but that's just What they're saying, obviously none of this might matter Two or three years from now But anyways, I just wanted to throw that out there As I was technically a news update that You know, things are flying out there I mean even like tears of the kingdom, the thing ends And then all of a sudden we get brand new screenshots Showing even more things that we didn't even see that was in it Like what has happened Like you know what's happening guys The marketing campaign has begun Yeah, it's all about the amiibo functionality Yeah The marketing campaign Every week we're gonna hear something new about this game Is my prediction at this point I believe it too I think they're gonna shadow drop trailers From here and up trailers, commercials Screenshots And there will be as of the beginning of April I don't want to say I told you so But like But for months people are like Why haven't we seen more tears of the kingdom And I have literally been saying February, things kick into gear February things will kick into gear And that is when the marketing will start And they will go all in on that until the game releases March and then probably a little bit after still too Mostly I've been saying that On the game over Jesse The highly gamescast podcast Which I was a part of But I have been saying that for months And it just makes sense, Nintendo likes to market on the short term They had Fire Emblem to get out the gate Early in the year Now that's done, they gave themselves like Couple weeks of breather And now they're going all in on Tears of the Kingdom And that trailer was fantastic Is it that they can't, they can do it Because they're sitting on the most Anticipated game of the year People literally They weren't Marketing, you know the marketing We've been marketing the game Every single day If they raise the price of the game after it won Most anticipated game Most anticipated game Whoa, whoa, 70 70 The reviews came out A week ahead of time Oh man, it's a 99 Alright guys, we just increased all the prices again By another $10 No, they won't do that, but the DLC though Will be another $70 It won't be $20 this time It's 50 plus I will say though I do think the DLC for Tears of the Kingdom is going to be extensive But I think it will take place on a different map It'll be like an expansion that We've talked about We've got to get the game here first Well, we're on the subject of Tears of the Kingdom That trailer, what are you guys thinking What are our thoughts Because it wasn't like the four or five minutes People wanted, it was two minutes It was the longest trailer we've had Two minutes and 18 seconds I have to admit something I was watching the trailer And I was trying Extremely hard I succeeded and I think mostly because Of this thing was covering me like this You know I tried hard to not be One of those people on YouTube To be me You try not to be me, I understand Don't, nobody link Mike to my stream For real Nobody link I was actually kind of quiet Because I was trying to pay attention To every little detail I couldn't because as good that was like this Because I had my eyes on TV And I was listening to the entire thing Beautiful It's beautiful That I got to when I saw the trailer Beautiful The voice acting, if it was good In Breath of the Wild In the voice acting I want to talk about that If it was good in Breath of the Wild Man, in just this little Trailer, the emotion And the ruggedness There was a lot of emotion Man I almost got the impression that Zelda Might even been sacrificing herself The way she's talking Exactly, I think she ascended I think she ascended But again, so another one of those things We didn't see enough, so we don't really know So a billion theories are going to come Yeah Zelda says in that trailer, Link I don't think that you'll be able to Yeah The fact is that You wake up in the Shrine of Resurrection In Breath of the Wild And the first thing she says to you Well, practice other than open your eyes And take the Sheikah Slate You are our only hope You're the light, our light You can do this And this time she's like, I think you're done You got no shot That's what's so amazing about this I want to just kind of piggyback on this When I was looking at the trailer The ending parts of the trailer They make it clear They ran into Ganondorf and got wrecked Like no, Link was fighting His arm, his shoulder Was all burned and scarred And he was still fighting with the sword And basically, Ganondorf Walloped him, right? So I'm assuming somehow Link and Zelda escaped And things happened to both of them But to your point, when she says that The implication there Is that the power difference of calamity Ganon versus Ganondorf is substantial So what's really cool about this Right? It's not only that Ganondorf was stronger But it's also that It was like stronger than he's ever been Yeah, it's that But also that Link and Ganondorf fought They had a battle Link got destroyed And now Ganondorf Has a personality, has a voice And a criticism that I had for Breath of the Wilds That final boss Was lacking in kind of Like that rivalry That relationship That's one of the reasons why I feel that One of the final boss And the final sequence in Ocarina of Time Is one of the best in gaming history It's just throughout Ocarina of Time It's not just that Ganondorf is really powerful It's that there's a relationship between Link and Ganondorf It's built throughout the course of the game There's this rivalry that's built there And here in Tears of the Kingdom They're building it again with even higher stakes So when we finally get to Ganondorf at the end When he's supposed to be far stronger than us When we're the underdog With a higher degree than Breath of the Wild When we got our butt kicked by Ganondorf And when this guy who wants to destroy everything There's an actual personality There's a character there And not just a random force of nature It becomes The stakes are higher And it's going to feel far more satisfying when we have that battle So this is setting itself up to have a much More climactic end than Breath of the Wild I mean they set him up already Where he says something I can't remember the exact line What are you You're wiping the planet clean What? Did you guys see the three-headed flaming dragon? It looks like they're on the bridge There's so many new enemies showed in that trailer Looks like we might have redeads back Losing my mind The big blends from the DS games Look like they're back The big chunky boys They got like cargo rocks Or something, some kind of like winged guys That are not cheese Big ass dragon Maybe Gleeok I'd love to see that That's the closest that we have The only three-headed dragon So Someone's asking where the champions are They're dead They were dead at the end They were dead at the beginning of Breath of the Wild They're still dead at the end They don't come back Yeah Who? Bonobo From the Gorons Yeah He's super afraid of everything The champion's successors Yeah, we do have the successors And I wonder what happened to that Cause we haven't obviously seen all of those areas again And if he's like destroy everything It'd be really crazy if we go there And they're already dead But they tried And they couldn't This is so far beyond What their predecessors were dealing with Or I mean it could be something as simple As just like they're not there with Link Because they're defending their home base Basically, you go to Zora Sidon's not walking around Hyrule with you Cause he's the only thing holding I know it's early impressions But I kind of get the idea That if it's to the point where Zelda's like I don't think you can do this I think he's already wiped most of the planet Yeah I think I think there's very few people left Yeah And they're in hiding And Link is literally the only hope But also he's the hope that's already been wrecked And nobody thinks can actually do anything anymore I got the same feeling too By the way, I think Zelda dies And that's another reason why all hope gets lost for so many people Because Zelda's dead Yeah and it's like these Just a thought though, I don't know This is the finale I think this is the finale Of the Legend of Zelda I don't know what's going to happen after Because this is so big This is so huge How will Nintendo top this with The next game, you know what I mean Well, I think they're getting... Look, all my theories about demise I'm throwing them out the window I don't think demise is coming back this game But even though the Master's Road is broken I have a theory about this And I've thought this for a while That this could be the finality Or the final chapter of Ganondorf Which feels crazy to say Because he's been the main bad guy for so long But he hasn't always been the only one And he's now at his peak of his powers Whatever's going on We've never seen him this powerful Ever Like Zelda, oh you hold them back On his own with the power of the Triforce Just one part of it, okay cool Or he just sits there And his ambitions aren't like this So maybe he's always had this power And he's just sucked at using it And according to Miyamoto There's only ever been one Ganondorf the entire time Which means, oh maybe now he's finally figured out How to unlock his full powers And now we're seeing that in action And he's just pissed He's tired of this stupid shit I'm done, I ain't messing around anymore I'm going to destroy everything This is just the way it's going to be This isn't Wind Waker anymore I ain't crying over spilled milk It's done And I kind of think if that's the case And we're seeing the peak of his powers If the game ends with us Ultimately defeating him And so whatever, we presume that's how it's going to end Because that's how Zelda usually ends I don't know That there's anything left for him after this And I think that's when you might see Like the game, some people think it might be a trilogy And if it is That's where it sets up For them demise to return in the next game Because he's the only thing above him In Zelda lore anyways He's the only thing above him And the only way for Wind Waker to win this game Is to destroy himself too And in the end everything dies Well I mean we had that technically Of course they just made that up out of thin air That's in the downfall timeline I mean it's true, Link could die in the end We've never had a Zelda game where like Zelda or Link have ever died You know like it's never really been a thing But this game It just seems so much more Sinister and ominous And beautiful And beautiful From a visual perspective this game is at a new level Then Breath of the Wild It's not even comparable I don't even think it's comparable You can see images where I'm just Stopping in the trailer going frame by frame And I'm like okay that's 1080p We did not even get 1080p with the lasso Like that's way clearer Than anything I saw in Breath of the Wild And I'm just going frame by frame Through a compressed video on YouTube Like it's just The way they do it, the lighting's been Been improved I think the textures have been improved There's a lot more particle effects going on Almost all the time It's a cool thing It kind of goes back to the graphics Stuff we've talked about You can see so much detail High-up High-rule the background In better detail In the footage we've seen Even though the distance is greater Because of how much higher you are That just goes to show how much they've improved the technology And also We see more footage From the beginning segment of the game Like that opening trailer That we saw for the first time They announced it back in 2019 I would argue it looks in some ways better All in engine We see some more angles when linked until they're falling down And the lighting there It looks really good This is peak switch Obviously switch is dated hardware But I think they're very clearly pushing The switch to the absolute limit with this game Is that the new image processing Maybe Could be They have that new image processing FSR is also in play I'm sure They've been using that on some of their games There's probably a lot that works And the big thing for me is People keep forgetting Breath of the Wild is a Wii U game Switch is more powerful than a Wii U It's actually a pretty decent gap We've never actually seen the game built Specifically for Switch Which is one reason why I think it looks so good All I know is Nintendo Stop leaving me with the damn cliffhanger On if Zelda saves Zelda I'm tired of it There's footage of a woman That looks like Zelda Yeah The more angelic Goddess type thing Could be Hylia Well Hylia is Zelda It's kind of weird Hylia Hylia reincarnated as Specifically Skyward Sword Zelda Every Zelda after that is just carrying on The bloodline But Breath of the Wild isn't technically Hylia Unless something Happens Technically Skyward Sword Zelda is the only one that is a reincarnation And it's possible That some of those powers haven't passed down Hence the triforce stuff Technically Hylia hasn't reincarnated So when we go back to Skyward Sword It's kind of interesting because Zelda Is like your childhood friend But she awakens her powers And obtains knowledge as Hylia So she becomes Hylia Even though she's Zelda at the same time And at the end of the game she's still your Zelda She's still your friend She just has a greater awareness of her purpose And what she's supposed to do If I'm a betting man And obviously we don't know But there is clearly someone And we do see the voice of Zelda We don't know if it is Zelda But there is the voice of Zelda speaking after the fact Of that initial attack When Zelda fell So there is someone that's Zelda-esque That is talking to Link And telling him, hey I don't think you can do this That's her voice I don't think that Hylia is out of the question Because it's like Even though Hylia in ancient times fought Demise barely won Reincarnated herself as Zelda Hylia still exists Outside of time as it says in the game From her place at the edge of time And still communicates with Link directly In Skyward Sword through Phi And then in Breath of the Wild through goddess statues So Hylia Is in this weird place where Existed mortally In the world of Hyrule Or before it was even called Hyrule And then also exists outside of time Is able to communicate directly to Denizens in the mortal plane As it were It's just That's a power move right there No it's um Hylia is out of the question at all Absolutely Who was Zelda talking to Give Link power Whatever Give Link the power And you're like what are we talking about I'm assuming that green hand Is like a personality That's why I think That's the line that made me think of the sacrifice Because I think Hylia Was going to give her the power To save her And she's like no give Link the power Like I can't do it Give it to him There's a sacrifice Not having the ability But maybe it's like Hylia shows up Like she falls down And Link doesn't catch her Because we see her fall down without Link Being able to catch her in a different trailer And so then maybe Hylia Actually does show up and is like That scene's coming Where they put their hands together And all of a sudden She just falls And she goes no don't Sorry All right before we get into Welcome to the Odyssey To like French play You know though that might be why The Sacred Realm has come down With like the Sky Islands right Like if it's the Sacred Realm we don't know But it is definitely like a holier It's definitely more Special than typical Hyrule right Like it has a certain mysticism to it It could be why it comes down It could be related to Hylia potentially Like I think it's a possibility But just to throw an idea out you Right like I don't like the idea Of thinking that Zelda's dead Like I want to think that she somehow survived Right but you know Let's say she does die You guys are right She dies Goddess Hylia steps in And Zelda's spirit you know Asked to help like her dying words Or whatever her dying magic Something like that Hylia works with Link here At the end of the game when they Beat Ganondorf there's a sacrifice And the sacrifice is Hylia Hylia dies But say But brings back Zelda at the end So Link and Zelda can brave a new world Together that is post both Hylia and Ganondorf Like it just ends the cycle entirely What if we have to Go on a quest to Reconnect or Re-gather the pieces of the Triforce To Bring back Zelda or Something along those lines I don't know if we need Hylia to do To sacrifice her because we know that When you have all three pieces of the Triforce Or granted a wish Link could wish her back Or he could just I think the Triforce is going to be Part of the equation here If Zelda sacrifices herself Or chooses to and tells Hylia To give Link even her powers What is she saying is Give Link my part of the Triforce Even though I can't live without it Give it to him so he has the best chance To beat Ganondorf on his own But I like what Poppigater said in the chat Link can wish for everyone back So think about this Ganondorf has a price for some power Ganondorf has a price for some power So maybe Link defeats Ganondorf Gets the Triforce of power He collects the Triforce of courage Gets the Triforce of wisdom for some quest for Zelda And then makes the wish to bring everyone back Because everyone's dead Except for Ganondorf Or he forgets to save But Ganondorf so we see everything going All nice and easy And then like Deep below the ground Deep below the ground They just show in the final cutscene of the game That's a small smidge of malice crawls That would be cool But here's another idea What if instead they just Showed a new male Gerudo being born at the end of the game Oh that could be too Yeah It's so weird because Even if it's a new male there's only ever been one Ganon So it's like What if not Why does it have to go back To the beginning Like for example When Ganondorf shows on Link right from the back And all of a sudden it's dark and all of a sudden he dies He brings everyone back including the OG champions And then he becomes The villain in the next series of Zelda No way There's so many crazy ways that you can go Like here's the thing It's like every other trailer There's so much shown But so little of it Can we really connect properly We still don't know if there's dungeons We still don't know about the shrine replacements yet Like there's a lot There's little glowing places Not the towers or whatever they were showing These little glowing places Is that a shrine replacement? What is that? That looks like the glowing and Kakariko Yeah, no not the towers Because they have towers You're talking about the green spirals I believe those green spirals Are what links you to the sky Because there's also spirals on the islands Sure And I think it might be related to the Portaling with the blue There's actually similar green Sometimes even green Spiraling things in Minish Cap Which is now on switch You can use to glide in the air And the aurora themes I now know how they get out Underground Hyrule Is an existing spiral to send you to the sky In that first trailer with the green spiral That's around Ganondorf they get wrecked But the green spiral Makes at least link to the sky Maybe Zelda too That's how they get out of there Listen, it's their fault to begin with They shouldn't be messing with anything down there They woke up the beast And everything died because they were Messed with their little torches And little things Searching for Who knows what By the way we saw Shiga technology in the trailer We finally got to see Shiga technology This one room Is it a hideout or something Yeah, I was thinking like the Either Robby or Pura's lab Maybe You see Shiga symbols on the wall in the background And it's like a wooden Shack or something I assumed it was Yiga But it could be that too Only February Well Yiga never had any Or they never actually used the technology Or at least not in Breath of the Wild They could change these things We're kind of piecing things together But not even as efficiently As the Shiga from 10,000 years before Andre, it's actually called Laurie, okay Actual upside version of Hyrule Low rule Low rule is like a parallel world Low rules actually Low rules and a link between worlds And I think a link to the past as well A link to the past's dark world Is the sacred realm corrupted by So low rule is just a link between worlds It has Bunny Link Yeah, Ravio But not Ravioly There's like multiple parallel realms Right, so there are And there's also the Twilight Realm and Twilight Princess Did we see Spirit Flames in that trailer? We did So they also confirmed subterranean Environments too, like now we know for a fact That there's multiple shots Of them being underground There's this one shot Where you see some mushrooms You see gray spores You see some green Spirit Wists to the side Like little flames Yeah, and there's a shot early on Where it looks like there's like Lizalfos mining something So it makes me wonder if there's going to be Gameplay mission scenarios Where Or just drop to their Operations as it were or something I guess we're going to watch this now I figured it out I figured it out Looks a little blurry Oh yeah, hold on I'll fix that That's my bad story 144p That's good I had When I was playing it on my side You know what, here I'm going to download it quick It'll be better quality Legging a trailer No It's the best video creator has ever downloaded A trailer Maybe it'll play now Where do we get the footage from? I'll download it Wait, you download the trailer? Wait, that's possible? Dude, you can screen capture it Yeah, hold on Downloading is It's fun Alright I'll be back We'll play it again We'll play about streaming stuff There's so much to dissect About this trailer, it's just crazy There is Link has cars And a helicopter There's a zonite car There's a zonite helicopter It feels like Nintendo Saw all the crazy stupid things People were doing in Breath of the Wild Stacking minecarts And then making an actual flying machine They're like, oh you want to do that? You can have it in the game That's all good You're welcome Have your car All the nonsense we're doing It's great, I'm here for it You can find a piece Of the wheel It shows him finding a wheel And driving the car Is this going to be a nuts and bolts situation? Maybe Was that the mud pit on the plateau? Yeah, he pulls the wheel out of the mud pit Yeah, that's so sick And it's like a Magnesis ability Except it's not just with metal It's like anything One second here, Nate You have control of the volume Can you make a whistle A little louder so we can hear him? He's already maxed out Okay Yeah, I was going to say something earlier But I was like, well I fix it in post all the time But that doesn't fix the video version Anyways, anytime you guys want me to pause Let me know Pause, pause That's a subterranean area Lizalfo's mining If you guys are listening in the audio version I'm trying something new this week where I can actually show the footage So if you want to get extra context What we're talking about, go watch the video version Here on the YouTube On the YouTube Yeah, this looks like a brand new area Wes, you're not as loud as us But I mean Might be a little better One, two, three That's better I hear him We're all assuming that this is a subterranean area But I have an alternative theory If it's not a subterranean area What if this is what's left Of a Hyrule Great Forest Because in a previous trailer We got a landscape shot In which we could see Sort of the horizon And normally where the quark forest Is in Breath of the Wild It's not there, there's no trees Great day, could trees gone or nothing So what if this is a corrupted Raised version of that forest Instead of An underground area I was going to argue both I don't see a lot of trees underground Yeah, well I see like mushrooms here Right, so I feel like Uh oh, the last of us Maybe There's spores, if you look at the footage Great little spores all throughout There's definitely a mushroom Vibe there, but I feel like I don't know what happened to On the quark forest, but it feels like Maybe he just ganked it out And there's a giant hole there Which opens up to Something there The crater That's interesting That would be really cool though Maybe explore the underground Roots of the Deku tree So down Trees roots are always bigger than the actual tree Right? That would be crazy All I can bring to this clip is height Because I have no kowtomies It means there's underground Areas to explore The Bokoan is mining We've never seen those sort of interactions With the world really With the mining of the stuff Maybe My question is Is the enemy AI better This time around Yeah I thought the AI was pretty good already But I imagine they're going to continue To build on their systems Here's the thing Facing off against the Hinox Hinox got kind of a joke To be honest, once you figure them out It's kind of like A lot of these enemies We've faced this stuff before For a lot of people, veteran players This is kind of easy How do they make it better? With different attack patterns And just catching you off guard Maybe they swarm you Oh, I'm winding up to attack As a Bokoan I'm just going to stab you I think this game is going to be harder Than Breath of the Wild Much in the same way that Majora's Mask is harder But it's like Majora's Mask is like a game that was developed With the assumption that people who were going to play this Have already beaten Ocarina of Time And I think that's kind of the same case here Yeah I also think from a story perspective I obviously story gameplay Two separate things that I feel like they should complement each other If the story is That Gandalf is more powerful And he's making his enemies more powerful And he's going to have a more dominant effort Look at that freaking dragon There's Malice spewing out of Death Mountain And This is Gandalf's reign He puts a free-headed flaming dragon on the bridge Death Mountain is just Malice erupting everywhere It's all thundery and rainy and dark He's taken over Andre, Andre Leave a little bit of the description for the rest of us Andre As much as I can And as soon as possible The dragon is the fire Malice coming out of the castle The point is though Is that it just kind of shows that Gandalf has this powerful clutch On Hyrule So to that end, if the story is That he's a lot stronger and tougher and harder to beat Then maybe the gameplay should also Suggest that as well I like the dragon That thing is going to be so fun to fight I can't wait man It's probably going to kick my ass a few times I don't care That's a badass To me The first half of this trailer Makes it feel like this game is going to be One of the darkest Zelda's Ever And then all of a sudden you get to the second half It's bright and shiny and you're like I'm just in Hyrule Blood moon I'm feeling for all those people That I met in Breath of the Wild Because they show that little town there Hold on Okay Mike, I need your opinion I know what speaks right in this section I'm going to turn the volume up Let's hear this voice Like What are your thoughts? That's just No survivors Man What the heck dude I always figured if Ganondorf is in here He's getting voice acting That's good That's a really good voice acting That's an actor Holy crud That might be the best voice acting in Zelda It sounds a little bit like the guy from Wes What's that game You just do one voice actor of the year Oh, Christopher judge Yeah He sounds a little bit like that guy The tone of his voice And like the grunt But the guy's a good actor It's really really good man You believe it and you are scared I'm scared, listen to it Look at that man Look at everything They just look Oh by the way Real enemies We're pretty sure this is a re-dead To the right of the Xophos We got wait for it There it is That is a re-dead That looks like a re-dead to me That's a re-dead Epic And is that the thing you were talking about earlier To the right What's that That's the big blend That's the big blend We see it later where it comes out And it's got like five or six vocal blends There's also Nintendos put a lot of screenshots On Twitter and stuff There's a really great piece of artwork With that guy and then some vocal blends Yeah, I'll go grab that quick We can show that This is tough Dude this game man My favorite clip This whole thing Is the vocal blend being carried By the flying creature That's fucking hilarious It's like waiting for You're just running along in Hyrule And all of a sudden the vocal blend just drops And you're like wait what Yeah, I love it Where was the art that Nintendo posted It wasn't Nintendo of America right No, is it another Japanese I saw it because Zelda Universe Tweeted it out I think it's on probably Nintendo's website I'm dropping the I have all the images So I'll put them on discord Okay I just saw the PNG of Link's Zonai thing That's some beautiful It looks so good It's beautiful, yeah We're looking at it but it's not on stream Yeah, yeah You're like I'm not looking at anything yet I don't have anything So I literally have nothing to look at Zelda is in the art and looks like she has a Sheikah slate That's cool It's a different Sheikah slate though It does Instead of the Wii U game Maybe it's the 2.0 It's letting me do Only 10 files at a time Hold on I got Zelda Universe's twitter app that's got almost all this stuff on it So I'm gonna You already have the links I mean the images in your The links The images in my what In our chat It's in our chat We have a chat Top rate What the N There's chat right below your That's the public chat I have no idea what he's talking about I'm talking about the DM Between you and me on discord Okay, I'm on discord Oh now I do Oh my god I don't check my Let's try to slide into them and it's not working Okay All these screenshots, do you have the art and stuff too? I do It's all in there? Okay I'll start with the screenshots here Let me get my Screen share going again We'll share the screen We'll share the screen Man Man, man, that Special edition box We hunger for it It's really not gonna It's not gonna let me Entire screen there we go And the screen there People are staying in the chat that the The OLED Zelda switch was confirmed But I actually can't find online that confirmation I haven't seen those I want to So Yeah, I must need an actual confirmation These are a bunch of screenshots We're just gonna start at the beginning here So we have the one with one of the new items Yeah, it's like a Zonai cannon Yeah, it's got like zonai text on the side It's the dragon as well It's got the little like Broom symbol that we saw in a previous trailer as well That was on like that big Golem, like stone golem I don't know what else to call it So, zonai items I'm guessing there's gonna be zonai dungeons or something And we get these items maybe This is 100% in a cave Yeah, it's a cave There's stalactites Also That stone talus has a luminous stone I don't think we've seen luminous stone talus I don't know They are in Breath of the Wild There's luminous talus I'll shut up Okay, I still love you Oh, they're holding hands So is that zelda or is that Hylia or what is it? Link's arm is glowing Is it ascended zelda Who's become Hylia Oh, the zonai zelda Look at her Is she the bunny zonai we've seen in the trailers There you go There's like a detail that intricate this metal stuff Link's hand with dead zelda What's dead zelda Maybe Maybe See that's his hand This is the first time Link got a good look at his hand This is pretty messed up What is wrong with my arm, man Or he's like, ooh, I got powers Maybe he just received some Upgrades on powers Yeah, like he said What the hell Oh man, I gotta do my nails And there's the new Yeah, there's the magnesium replacement They clearly wanted that ability So it's like A wheel for the little car thing that he's driving later So I think we're gonna be able to like assemble Assemble the parts and build them It's gonna be banjo-kazooie nuts and bolts Oh, god Also, I just want to say This goop stuff looks so much better than it did In the old game Yeah, it does Is it mud or is it like The tar stuff that we can't Enter or whatever it is It's the tea milk chocolate in the Splatoon Splatfest They made it They made it He's put it together in the car, right? Does that mean we have some sort of crafting? Yeah, at least The cars Can we disassemble and rebuild different things The same parts We gotta fix the master's or something else Here's one, speaking of it It looks great Are they sequential in the trailer Maybe the trailer is trying to tell us Yeah, that's the tire we're getting Yeah, they are, it's like one shot right after the max And if you look at the other stuff It's made of wooden things and there's a battery in the back So you might need a battery too Yeah Nice headlights That looks great That was one of those square rune bombs In the corner right there We're gonna put there Look at the clarity of the whole shot Right This is draw distances we've never seen Exactly I think what happened there Is that they removed that little filter The haze The haze is gone I think something that's probably being done Obviously MonoSoft, we know they're working on this If you take a look at Xenoblade 3 versus Xenoblade 2 They have a lot better image processing And presenting what appears to be a far clearer image They're probably using that to get a better image They're probably using that technology here Not maybe even one better version of it Got a little monolith You can even see details In some of the cliffs all the way back here Yeah Where as they impressed a lot, it's like basically silhouette Almost like a little grade Out too, yeah, hazy Yeah And this is good Not perfect, you can see a little pixelation On some of the flowers and stuff here But this is so much better Yeah, the game is going to look great I think some people are really You know They don't understand until it's in their hands Pokemon is fresh in their minds Still They don't want to go through that Dude, this game on your OLED switches In your hands is going to look so amazing And it's actually interesting when people bring up I've seen people bring up the arrow, but have you played Scarlet and Violet Yeah, well, Scarlet and Violet was made by Game Freak Which is not an internal Nintendo team No, it's not And these games have like twice the amount of development time Yeah Throw that out there With like a $300-400 million budget I don't think a Pokemon game will ever have that kind of budget They're like working on the next one, and then the next one after that Nintendo releases games Another version A flying Bird of Fence I'm curious what this big orb in the sky is Yeah Is that the moon? Yeah, no, like pain Just built a giant planet in the sky Right? Yeah I was curious, what are these things? These little long strings No clue, but they're interesting That's interesting Something I want to point out here Look at the background, we've seen this before But you see there's a lot of islands that just go vertically upwards Right behind the ball We can go really high up We don't know how high Well, look Look Even here, this is super high You can almost see like half of Hyrule right now Right, and there's things so high up We can't even see it So like how big is this? Right, and then we talked about I mean there's something even higher, like up here Like what We're literally going to the heavens Like smoke lines going up or whatever Like they could be Showing you basically like where an even higher island is Like some kind of visual indicator Yeah, maybe Well, yeah, it could be Maybe I'm going to chat with the Death Star, so that's That's where we're going That's the ship He's going to shoot the hole in the middle One thing that's obvious There's a crap load of technology In this game Like more than any other Zelda game I think when they went underground They actually uncovered more technology When it comes to Sheikah technology I think this is something different It's like Yeah, Andres gets me Yeah Dona has been a very common like theme Or theory for this game for a while That's exactly why I think We know so little So well supported So interesting tidbit During Breath of the Wild's initial conception The Guardians and the Sheikah technology Were not a major plot point of the game After the 2014 trailer Fans went Nuts analyzing the one enemy We saw in that trailer That's all they gave us It could have been a vocable enemy They The development team basically saw how What the fan feedback was and thought Wow, these guys really like this stuff Put it everywhere To include more Sheikah technology Which is exactly why I think this game Is going to have a strong zone eye focus Because what's the one thing Making Zelda theories, fan theories all about Is just zone eye stuff And there's elements in the map as well What? No, total There's even shots where the zone eye ruins And the labyrinths There's a cube in the sky That might be where the labyrinth was supposed to be It's exactly that There's cubes Floating in the sky And they're floating right above where the labyrinths were Which implies to me that The labyrinths literally just Went straight up into the air too By the way, we know the labyrinth were zone eye Architecture So if Ganon wants to destroy the entire world The question is Is Everything rising to the sky A way of protection Or did Like in Skyward Sword Are we going back in time To get knowledge From the ancient zone eye Hard to say Where Link's riding his horse There's all this sky stuff This really tall thing What the hell is that? This cube thing stuck in the ground What's going on? You could argue that Things are coming up But there's evidence that things are actually coming down In this trailer You can see things falling With the green energy around it too It's like a burst of energy That maybe lifts it up and then it falls back down On the energy Some things are going up Some are going down But there's always the chance that These Sky Islands are a good majority of them We're always there and we just couldn't see them Because of the cloud barrier Which was introduced in Skyward Sword So That's always a thing We see dragons go through the vortex There's Twin Peaks There's been evidence of one of the Divine Dragons In a previous trailer First time I actually looked for something From Breath of Wild Hey look it's the Twin Peaks I actually know where we are right now There we go It is fun trying to figure out where we are In the map There's a shot of the match before it's fully broken That's before it's fully broken Wow That's in the beginning of the game At the end Someone tried to tell me This stuff destroys the sword But I went frame by frame There was no seam where it ever showed the sword destroyed It just shows him dropping the sword To jump after Zelda That's what it shows Yeah it might break later Maybe it breaks me drops What if Link goes like this with the sword And all of a sudden Gannon catches it with his hand And all of a sudden it's cracked Maybe it doesn't even like shatter during the fight But that damage sustains After they go back up and they retreat You see it just fall away It kind of gives up Maybe a spirit of fire dies And that's when the sword gives away And that's how it looks in one of the previous trailers That shot Beautiful This shot has me like This is what I was bringing up earlier Remember how we were talking about how it looks The technology has gotten better So this is another angle from the first trailer And look at the lighting The lighting and the shadowing It looks good Yeah So sad man She's not dead don't worry She could be I mean here's the thing What I'm trying to figure out is like Link jumps after her And he's gonna She's falling Paraglider Well yeah Let's say he's got the paraglider Don't tell me that paraglider ain't gonna get hit Listen listen This might be what we hear the voice Zelda kind of speaking to Highly as save him Or whatever Maybe he does catch up to her And he tries to save her Fails they're both gonna fall into her death And that's where it's like save him To your point His hand right there is already ruined If you go to the trailer frame by frame Burn and scarred during the fight Like he's fighting with a completely mangled Like right side of his body And he's trying to grab Zelda with that mangled hand How is that gonna work out for him Imagine trying to save someone that's completely burned Yeah So basically he grabs a hand and stays with the hand In her hand and then just falls with the hand The hand The hand in the hand And then this is a new one This was never in the trailer Coom And there's a divine dragon There's a dragon Can we get a zoom in on the dragon Can we I'll open this in the browser and see In hands Hold on We haven't seen this at all Computer And hats Oh okay we can zoom in And that might be a dungeon The dragon there's that giant structure Like The dragon is more important Trying to determine if it is ferocious It's hard to see but the horn Control scroll Control scroll Open it back in your browser and control scroll I knew there was a way to zoom in I just don't remember In hands And there's a master sword ruined You can see it on links back to It has like a yellow mane Is it possible it's another divine dragon I see no reason why Why there wouldn't be Yeah what if it's just like a beast That lives up there like this is just part of The life that lives in this realm I'm still looking for the dragon Yeah the dragon is right there in the middle You can see a bit more detail on its head Yeah I want to see It has the blue crystals Like natra Yeah And is it carrying something right here Yeah it could just be It has like six limbs So Doing this And there's like a Shining light beam There's angel rays Yeah there's angel rays Go to links back Absolutely And then we've got to take a look at that structure too Yeah we do I don't care about his underwear per se I just want to see the master sword Per se Not saying he doesn't but He does a little bit It's worth noting I mean look We're not going to get a look at the master sword without seeing his ass Alright that's just what He's got a bandage in the ass He does I wonder if he's hurt Yeah like what if he goes back in time He like obviously gets resurrected somehow And that metal right there is from the zonai Trying to like save his arm Could be like an attempt to stop The spread Like Iron Man We've already known That it spreads a little bit down his body What about this one It's not necessarily going back in time All the timelines are converging into one That's possible So these that pop in With the green energy Is literally something Popping in from a different timeline And dropping in Tyvers I think this is early game by the way Like the opening segment of the game I think it's after like the Initial Hyrule Castle Raising It has like legs and stuff You can remember Mike Odyssey is legally blind So it's a bit harder for him to see Can we get a Look at the big structure We've never seen it from this angle before Yes Those bridges look familiar The bridge is broken That might be an arena up there An arena Or maybe that's a pokemon It looks like you go up here And then you enter here And then it's just a big tall ass structure I mean this could be a dungeon Where you make your way up And then lost fight on the roof Think about that Cause it kind of looks like it might open The door that had like the dragons Circular dragons where you open it up In the lost trailer It might be where we start It may not be a dungeon It could just be a shrine of resurrection That's possible I want to believe it's a dungeon though That's the one thing Give me the dungeons Here's my thing This is now our what Our fourth big trailer And we haven't seen dungeons Which tells me there's no dungeons I disagree The thing is that I thought that the dungeons Were always in Breath of the Wild Because the shrines That's what Nintendo says too If Nintendo officially says them Then the shrines are The modern part of dungeons We haven't seen shrines either though We haven't seen the replacements for that either So I wouldn't say there's no shrines either Or shrine replacements We just haven't seen it yet We were looking at all those spirit orbs For like the goddess Hylia gave us Like what are we going to do with those things I know we are stamina and health Are we going to revive the goddess Hylia from Get some rubies I think we see some zip lines down there We've seen it in previous footage so it doesn't surprise me I think I see a car down there Look I think I see the Geico logo Is that a salon I see a zip line Is there a zip line that goes from one Moving platforms Yeah These platforms If you look carefully just above Those platforms to your right I think we can see a zip line That's what I just said There's also a broken bridge to the left too That's what I just said You said both You said a zip line and a broken bridge I said there's a bridge there and a zip line Alright well Mike wants his credit He sent the images He wants his credit There's a line here When I see stuff Oh there's yellow trees Call it Those clouds Those links in this game From Link's arms and legs That line that's coming through the dragon's head Those are coming from Link's arms and legs Those look like wind West From there There's time travel There's time travel Yes because Link Time travel denier He went back to the 80s He has a beeper in the back of his head Here we go I'm a time travel denier I think there's things from that have ancient history That will be alluded to I think there could be flashbacks and stories of the past But I'm also on team No time travel The new champion technology That allows us to take the rock That is a great point There is some time travel stuff See you can't deny it I'm a time travel Supporter This is another shot I haven't seen This wasn't from the trailer We'll open this one up This is a good shot I gotta tell you that Mike got us He appeared out of nowhere That's true When do I Get my castle Again This giant cube That is exactly where The southern Lomai Labyrinth is Right by Gerudo desert I think that's legit The labyrinth has Floated up Okay Finally Has Roblox finally signed a contract with With We're finally getting parkour In the sky Parkour Here's a thought If the labyrinths are in the sky Sure it's cool if they're in the sky But they should do something different with them We should explore the maze again What if it changes shape It's still a cube But it gets completely restructured Yeah I'm down for that It would be kind of weird to just explore the maze again Like a puzzle You have to solve You have to find the right pattern So we can actually change Into the right path So you can find the Can we go back to the desert please Can you look at the desert please You can see Spectacle Rock You can see Link's nails Link's nails Does he have French tips I don't know Yes Spectacle Rock There's Gruda Desert You can actually If you use mods or something You can actually see it in Breath of the Wild as well But if you're playing just on the switch Or in-game You can never actually see That the Gruda Desert connects right To the shore They kind of obscure that You can actually see You have enough clarity to actually see Pass the desert and see that the shore Does actually connect right there to the right desert Can we zoom out a little so we can see that Did you guys notice We can customize the glider Yeah There's the shore You can see the shore goes right up And they obscure that You can't tell it all in Breath of the Wild That is interesting I wonder if we can explore that then I want that collected This is so bad Hear me out here We can see it This is such a dumb thing I'm just never going to be flabbergasted Because this is so far beyond Breath of the Wild What are our thoughts on Boundary expansion It's big I think there's more Obviously vertically Both up and down With that One banger after another These screenshots are just Damn This is the music king The direct right here with these screenshots Answer, answer, Andrei, I think the game has Grown in every direction Underground, sky Wide Water, maybe Please give me overworld Sea bosses Between this game, like what we're seeing with these images In Metroid primary master I swear I don't want to hear anyone complaining about Switch and games running on it Or anything like that Because they have some technical wizardry Some black magic that they're using here To get their games to work And I am here for it Go back to that last one Look at the clarity Of the things in the distance It's so good The game looks so good And it looks crisp It looks so good It looks so good That's a little place I can't really ever get to Because I get struck by lightning a lot You need to not have this part We got Sheikah symbol In the background there I think this is Some kind of These arms are like Sheikah tag It looks comedic I think you're right It's probably one of the professors I don't think this is an enemy This isn't an enemy In the trailer there was a shot Where it looked like there was a device You interact with that one of the hands was holding Yeah I don't know if there's a screen shot That's a close up Daddy door Daddy door Daddy door Dude I like the intricacies Look at the intricacies on all the metal Yeah The head piece looks way more detailed That's so much more detailed Than the first trailer There's a metal gleam To it I want to say There's so much more detail In these That's the same man There's a card rock That's not what matters It's the homie arrows The homie arrows The aisles are badass And that's something like if there is crafting In this game like we're speculating Be cool to be able to like upgrade your arrows So you find a Some kind of gem or elemental thing And then suddenly you can now make fire arrows Or you can make these homie arrows So many possibilities That would be so cool But notice the link's hand is glowing Ice Pikmin look awesome Yeah I freaked out when I saw that If you go back Nate go back one image While he's using that His hand glows there When he's using another power He's doing some power thing with it Oh don't worry I fired this thing it's hitting your ass By the way I know this is small but notice the detail in the shield Yeah That is very detailed Just everything It's just It's a night and day different Oh no You're wrong you see that tree to the left That's the same tree from Breath of the Wild The support Lazy program Listen listen listen If this is the same world the tree has to be there It's not gonna just No no The trees are in the same location in the same shape Lazy How dare they not complete I don't remember being able to do the shield surfing On rails That's new Whatever the hell this is Is this like a new rock Is it malice Or is that lava imputed into the rock It's a weird rock that's for sure What if it's egg It's a dragon egg It's like a turtle What if it's a turtle I want there to be a giant turtle in this game Please let there be a giant turtle And again every time there's these far out shots I'm like look at this detail You didn't get unless you were within like 100 feet I don't know what's happening in this game You remember in that like 29 or was it 20 20 trailer or one of the previous Trails I can't remember which one it was Where we saw the bokoblins had longer horns But it seems like they changed the design of those horns In this trailer like they're not just longer But they're also like They almost look like barbed Either they changed it or there's different types There could be different tiers of enemies We got more zonite rune like things on this object Using his new His new ability to turn this thing What if it's got like the arrows Like the directional arrows And if you look at this, we're kind of at the height Of the top of Death Mountain here Yeah, that's probably Looks like one of the It's like a lower one Yeah It's obviously a puzzle or something Listen, I just confirmed something That you guys are not going to like What? There's going to be a sonic frontier Across over with That's what the rail grinding was Oh, there we go Gotta go fast See, Link can't keep up so that's why We have our vehicles that we build Yeah, so we can keep up with Sonic If there's easily a kind of sonic frontiers I might play it Big boy Hinox Big boy Hinox And a long cave And if you go back to the cave shot real quick Yeah I think it's worth pointing out Not only do we see unique vegetation On the bottom, but you also can see it We're hanging from the top and the sides In the background to the left of the Hinox So that's something That's the kind of stuff we would never see In Breath of the Wild We never had a cave this big In Breath of the Wild That's true Look at that, dude That's one of the customizable Yeah, Amiibo You get that Cause I got it by the young lady Karkaroks Looks like military training grounds Without the Sheikah tower there Interesting Yeah Whatever's any closer shots of the new towers Oh, here's one Can we zoom in on that flame dragon? This might be a better or clear shot This looks like a clear shot An uncompressed YouTube video thing Enhance Enhance I'm working on it More enhancing We need more enhancement Oh, okay, okay, okay Look at his tail Look at his tail on the spikes Yeah He's got wings there He's got wings there Someone was arguing it was a Cerberus But I think it's clearly a three-headed dragon Yeah, it's a three-headed dragon You cut off one head, three grow back Oh, that'd be insane That would be insane Dude, if they have it Where you just keep cutting off heads and expanding And it can go up to like 20 heads Okay, I don't want to hear anymore How do you cut the heads though? You don't take the heads out That might be the key. You're attacking the wrong part Well, I mean It would be People would do it just to get the heads They want to see how many heads they can get Yeah, it looks like the Skyward Sword and me a little bit Yeah It was almost like a worm reptile thing I forget what it was called Enhanced war But I think Gliok is probably a safe bet It looks like a scorpion with three heads A winged scorpion Yep Oh, sure A winged flimid scorpion Wait, is that mechanical? Is that green right there? I think it has armor on it If you look at the back Oh, like right here Yeah, maybe Yeah Is it Trojan Horse? Oh gosh What if it's a bony It's like a stalgliok Yeah, this green glow stuff Yeah, there's like a light under there Yeah, we see Those green lights throughout Hyrule That might be the green light that's where Gandorf was Could be fast travel points Instead of the shrines They've got to have like some fast travel points around Maybe You never know Game mechanics I know We did a little look at the water Mike, you and the I know everything I know everything If I don't know it, I'll make it out Alright, what are we looking at the water? It's like half the screenshot I was just wondering if we could take a closer look Because I want to see if there's any signs Of underwater exploration Yeah, I might have something to give Eventide raises up and that's going to be a Delantis like Oh, what if Not in that shot Is there any other mind blowing shots? The ominous Blood Moon shot I don't have Blood Moon Where are these pics located by the way? Are they on the There are official screenshots Yeah, I got it I got it from The Press website from Nintendo Yeah, it's on the Press website So here's My column's getting smoked by whatever this stuff is Yeah, they're horns are different And in that last trailer, they are Like they're way more barbed looking Yeah I know this one's just floating I'm just pissed That's a glitch coming back That's a glitch What is this? What is that tornado thing? Hold on, what is that tornado thing? We've seen it in the concept I know I think that's around Hebra It's literally right above the Giant Heber Mountain with a hole in it We might be touching ground I think we could see something We look carefully Right above the mountain Right above it There's something there That can kind of make out That or my screen It has to There's going to be an escort mission It's like a tower Yeah, there's towers with lights I think those are the Sheikah tower replacements Maybe those are the work points I can imagine I'll be making an entire video on a speculation Just to find out there was a little smudge in this little screen I'm just speccing a screen Yeah You look right here No, literally right here No one else can see it No one else can see it No, but there is something there You guys don't see that Yeah, that is Ipona Yeah Ipona Ipona Our faithful steed We get naturally in the game Or they just do that for trailer purposes There's the one with the big boy With all the big boy And those have two horns Yeah, they have two horns So they probably signify it's a harder version Yeah, they are a different color too Those little balloon guys are back Are you talking about arctic rocks? Yeah, the balloon guys When you play master mode They have like little And they have like The little balloon guys I don't know the name of them They're just balloon guys to me Balloon guys, I'm like Mike, is that anesthesia still working? It's still working, right? What was that? The little balloon guys On the little wooden platforms When you play in master mode They're everywhere You mean the balloons that hold up The little platforms? The little guys Where are they in this image exactly? On the way back where? We can't see it Something I will point out If you look to the left, we see a few blocks That don't match the rest of the terrain That could be from the sky Yeah, that's likely The big balloon We saw some of that in the trailer I feel like this is the sort of encounter The first time I see it, I'm dead Run I'm just dead Look at this, this big guy's got like Freaking malice coming out I think it's during a blood moon resurrection I don't care Or blood moon resurrection doesn't exist Because the moon's always red We're not even looking at the same picture That's why you guys can't see it I had to open my own separate picture And then zoom in By the time you guys spotted it What picture were you at? This is more of the Amiibo customizations I wouldn't call it so crisp I'm not that excited about it I mean, it's I mean, it's fine They're still giving you the same stuff We got in the last game I'm basically just excited about it Just because they're making announcements That means the marketing campaign Has actually begun That's the reason I'm excited about it Oh, oh, oh Enhance Oh, we need to see little circles Even more I don't even see anything on it That's like, I don't even know What this collect transition has I pay more money for Zelda I'll always pay more money for Zelda My money! There's an image that has All the Yeah, we'll get to that That's just a box How many bucks just for the box? That's the box, here's the image There it is The book You get a steel book You get a four pin set You get a steel poster A metal poster and an art book You know what? I'm actually not that excited about it It's not as impressive as the rest of the wild ones Alright, I'll have it You want to open that up and zoom in on the art book I do want the art book What am I zooming in on? You want me to zoom in on the Other armor pieces? Yeah, yeah Enhance! It looks like Those pins still look cool He's got the snow boots on or the sand boots Yeah, snow boots on We saw these boots in One of the previous trailers In one of the scenes where he's like Paraguay in the sky Yeah The camp on top of it too The steel book does look pretty cool I don't remember seeing these guys in that art Yeah Those are the people That wasn't in the trailer Yeah It was cut off like Right at the bottom of it or something I always like steel books I always think they're really cool What? You can't see, I don't care if you can see I guess I would want that art I'm not going to show up here I know I'm going to show you guys that after I said it No Charles Chagall is right Six stages Oh Charles coming through in the clutch Yeah And then the seven stages is that one That's why the top tier That's Hylia All right Nice Oh, the OLED has been confirmed The what? Look at what you're looking at The symbol The symbol is on the joycon It's the same as what's on the That's on the joycons Yeah And one on the other side Unless this is somewhere else I don't think I've ever seen that on anything This is new Yeah Let me go find an image of the Yeah The joycon has two sides But yeah I say the OLED's not technically confirmed Until Nintendo actually reveals it But it's certainly done The symbol was the first time we saw it Yeah It's definitely more likely Feeling Yeah, it's right there It's a little different though This one has two little wings But there's no way you get that design Just from like And the whole like there's all these concentric circles Yeah Have we really seen that pattern? Yeah, so there's like the eye thing That one was The patterns on the Zelda website Actually, but there's not a lot How long have those been up though? They were up around the time Of the week I'll say that I'll say this For people on Team Fake This looks a bit Chubbier in the egg spot Right I guess the thing is though How do you get that design? Yeah, it's a nail like the eyepiece Like obviously it's been changed But how do you get that design Without ever seeing the logo before? It's too close It is too close Right, now what it could suggest though Is that maybe that was an early version And what we saw isn't a final I thought it was going to fully look when they actually announced it Sure The OLED looks kind of ugly The OLED they're going to announce People like because they didn't announce it today We don't have it, it's like guys A lot of the OLEDs they've announced Are actually much closer to the games coming out And they released it before the game I want to announce it for at least another month Next month is a good month Look at the pins The pin signs The symbols might also be on the joy cons in the OLED We only have one Oh, here it is That's the exact one on the OLED Yeah, but also look at the The green symbol That might be on one of the backs of the joy cons too Maybe not I'm just bringing it up I think that's the symbol that's on the back of Link's His hand And the thing is there were two different Runes that I think were on the joy cons That were one of them alluding to the back of Link's hand But then Yeah, I think this is Probably It's real After watching the trailer This kind of feels more like the actual It gives me the same vibe as watching that trailer Yeah, I just really wish they just Re-copied the Azolla logo from a previous special edition They have so much material They do So there's the symbol there Yeah, but if you have like Even these exact symbols I mean man If that's the same Let me drag it over here It's definitely real The question is This is like reversed It's so similar It's similar, yeah, this could be on the other pins Yeah, that's true There's three we can't see You can see sort of an edge of one here Yeah, so this is what I think I think that this is at least A prototype That edge of one actually looks exactly like this one Now that I'm zooming in Going in further here We can get really clear on this one I'm really hoping that There's just a prototype though And there's a better looking version that's more final Because I hope so Either way I mean, love it or hate it This is It's not that bad I live through the Wind Waker Special Edition Wii U Which was just some gold Lines Yeah I don't think it's a prototype The part that disappoints me Is this Reusing this That part Yeah, it does I like what they did around it This is such an old cop out From an old design on an old Special Edition I understand you have the asset lander You couldn't put a tier to the Kingdom logo You couldn't be able to say You could literally just put a tier to the Kingdom logo there And it would be better Without the text Screw it Just make a golden boss and put it there It looks so much better But It looks legit Obviously Too legit to quit I mean that's That's really close We knew they were going to make that an Evo Yeah that's that 100% Looks like a nice Evo Like most of the Evo's do There are some more than that We got some official art as well To look at Here's Zelda The new Nintendo Switch Chica Slate So this is Proof that she does have the Chica Slate A different version of it And apparently a six pack I mean that was already Part of her outfit It was weird There's Link Looking pretty awesome Looking like a badass Metal Juts out of it here That could have been an Evo too Still have no idea What these things are on Link's hip No clue Files Big Lin I love the art It's always great Giant ass tongue The droopy eye Sloth love chunk More official art here That's some good looking art That is nice You can buy that at mygoddassi.com Right now because I want to see the bad designer We're gonna appreciate it That's it I think it's it I think it's it for all the actual art And Middish Cap is now available on Nintendo Switch Yes, yes So is And shout out to Zelda Universe For putting this stuff up By the way we do have links for the Amoeba And stuff if they're still available They might be sold out now You can still get it but why don't you check out for some reason That means they're probably sold out right now Or they're not taking more pre-orders That's alright Let's see here So we spent a lot of time on Zelda Let's kind of bring this all back around And I'll give this back to here Let's talk about Just briefly some of the rest of the stuff Are all their favorite parts of the direct We haven't even touched on the fact that Here's the thing A lot of us are gonna be touching on Zelda again next week Because HMK And some are gonna come on I don't know if I can get HMK to talk about anything But Zelda if I want to be completely honest Right now So what about like Metroid Prime What are we thinking about that Metroid Prime drop Obviously Jeff Grubb wasn't right the entire time last year So a lot of people owe him an apology For saying that it never existed Clearly it existed I'll say this I mean one I never doubted it It was always just a matter of time And I'll also say For the doubters But this supports that F-Zero Is also coming soon too Because all this comes from the same sources Like Nate the Hates at F-Zero said Metroid Prime It's These people aren't wrong They're just When it comes to talking about things that haven't been announced yet Time is always gonna be weird We don't know And Emily Rogers was the very first person To ever say anything about Metroid So here's what's clear And specifically to say Metroid Prime 1 Not the trilogy as well Emily Rogers, Nate the Hate And Jeff Grubb clearly have sources I don't think there's any doubts anymore If people doubt it because they've got a few things wrong It happens But I mean It's the timing that's wrong Not the content The only thing you can say Even for Nate the Hate is Oh because he's the one who said Switch Pro was imminent That one E3 Okay cool because that's probably what he Is But you know It never came out Nintendo decided not to do it So it's It's just guys You gotta pay attention to the overall track records Like when I use Nate the Hate and Jeff Grubb to say Definitively there was a direct this week It was like check their track records Every time they say a week a direct is coming It's happened Every time Like they've never been wrong on it Like whoever they have for a source that tells them when the direct is coming They're right Yeah so For me the reason I was able to predict Exactly when the direct was gonna happen Was because I knew it was either me the 8th or the 15th Based off the direct pattern But I wasn't sure which one But once Nate the Hate and Jeff Grubb said Hey we're hearing about a direct this week Alright well if it's one of these two And considering the advanced war pre-order thing And then also the tears of the king And then on spawncast Nate the Hate was like No there's a direct this week And he doesn't have to It's February It's a general direct In fairness to that though There has been conflation Or not conflation but confusion about that Because sometimes it's like oh it's a direct and it turns out to be a partner Like that has happened in the past But given the timing There needed to be a general direct Like last June He said there will be a direct but when he talked about There will be a direct he said but I don't know if it's a general And then as He said it's going to be towards the end of the month And then he said the exact week and then he said by the way Like two days beforehand this is going to be a partner showcase So like he didn't know exactly What it was going to be until it was really close to it What he knew there was one coming And he's always very easy Nate the Hate really does clarify When he just knows it's a direct but not what kind Yeah And he literally had a He already had as an example His predictions episode that went up The day the direct was announced He recorded that Three days earlier he already knew Exactly when it was going to happen He already had the podcast ready to go for it So yeah I'm going to go ahead and have a Advocate here and say that Nope I'm going to stick to my 15th It's on the 15th Okay DK You might have some too many bananas on the brain buddy What are the T's of the K even direct on the 15th No that would be crazy You were right after all My heart couldn't take it No I know part way through the direct Actually most of the way through the direct Was sitting there looking at the clock going Man it's been 35 Almost 40 minutes I know they They go a little bit long They do sometimes go a little bit longer Than the 40 Right And I was like watch them just Drop a date for Zelda Direct and that's it One more thing No I was waiting for it Just because of the timing I knew they were going to go to 43 minutes or so Once I saw the sizzle reel and it was at 40 There's always one more thing they're going to 43 It's never exact They always overdo it a little bit Yeah it's Roughly about Around Here's the Zelda marketing timeline We got the initial media blowout today There will be Twitter updates Moving throughout all the way until release Next month they'll announce the old lid And then April They'll have the depth of Zelda Direct And then the next month the game comes out And then in June they announce the DLC I don't think they're going to do Zelda Direct I don't want them to honestly They can tell me everything I don't care I'll consume all of it No matter what they show it's only going to end up being like 2% of the game I don't care If you think about a game like Xenoblade Chronicles 3 That's a game that needed a general director Because of how complicated a game it is to play No offense to the Xenoblade fans But that's not something you can just jump into You have to commit to that game And learn the hell out of it Because its systems are so complicated From a gameplay standpoint As Zelda does not really have that issue A trailer is more than sufficient You don't need to explain to people Welcome to the Legend of Zelda game You're going to play Link You're going to encounter these enemies You can travel this way They don't need to do that They can just show a trailer Are you guys prepared to not learn If about the dungeons or shrine replacements Until we get reviews I'm fine with that I've already said it though It's already done It's just acceptance It made sense to market Breath of the Wild That way because for Zelda It was a huge change Dedicating a whole E3 There was a presentation to it That made sense because they have to sell people On the fact that this is the new Zelda This is different than anything you know Before You had never seen anything like this before And we hadn't You were there, Nate, I wasn't I played that demo a lot Yes On that note Something that Nate said earlier Because I played Legend of Zelda on NES That was my exposure to Zelda And I played it called Zelda here and there I wasn't a real fan Guess what, I'm a baby fan Call myself a baby fan Zelda until it got Breath of the Wild One of the things that Nate said When they first revealed Breath of the Wild Was the feeling that he got When he first saw This brand new open world This brand new concept Well, and then nothing will replicate That feeling Now the question for the entire Panel Is did this Do it for you When it comes to that feeling You had at the beginning Of seeing Breath of the Wild for the first time To this or Is it a type of feeling Just different So That giant flaming Glyok That gives me Kind of like the So in Breath of the Wild There were like these moments where What is that That looks strong and really interesting I want to check it out Or that looks really dangerous I shouldn't check that out but I'm going to anyway So it is kind of inspiring A little bit of that fear Anxiety element that Breath of the Wild had Because of the threats and how weak you were at the beginning So it's kind of giving me that Then there is also the curiosity of Okay, there's weird things going on here Why is that there Then it makes me kind of want to go in Different directions to check it out So it is kind of giving me some of the same feelings I have with Breath of the Wild I would say it's like a different kind of hype For me because Breath of the Wild was like Wow, this is like a big change This is not as much like a big change But it's like it looks So detailed and exciting And it looks like bigger So it's not like A culture shock almost Breath of the Wild almost was This is like a culture shock It's such a shake up But it's exciting in a different way Because it seems like it's iterating On what became Very quickly became my favorite game ever It's iterating on that and improving on it So that's naturally super enticing But sorry That's all I'm going to say Nate, you were about to The feeling I got all throughout playing Breath of the Wild is back And it was introduced with Breath of the Wild So it's hard to give this game credit for But the feeling is my favorite part Of Breath of the Wild and how I spent a thousand hours Was exploration exploration exploration exploration And Even though like The concerns that some people have like Oh, it's the same high rules Those concerns are gone for me There is so much change So much new and that's what we were sort of missing Oh, here's a couple new ideas But we don't really see what's actually Really changed And now we've seen a heck of a lot more In this one, they spliced more changes And more new into this trailer Than they have any of the prior trailers And so that idea that I want to explore I want to see like oh It doesn't look like there's much going on on them I bet you there is And I bet you I need to explore it to find out And I'm going to keep exploring and keep exploring And what's up with these vehicles I want to find out it looks like there's might Might potentially be parts of them sitting around the world I want to go find all those parts I want to collect things I want to figure this out And that is a feeling that Technically Breath of the Wild introduced to me That this game is just Expounding upon and reminding me That This is what you loved in the first place And we are just ramping this up to a degree That Breath of the Wild couldn't do And The idea of the wow factor Which I think most people got with that Opening shot when you walk out in the world You know showing to you I don't know that that's replicatable Because we've already had that They've tried it already in a trailer When we go up to the sky And go through the bottom and Know they pan out It looks cool but no one was really getting that same feeling Because it's like we've done that We've done this Breath of the Wild style trailer You're not going to impress us again But This thing this time around They put a bit more story into this trailer Obviously the first time we've heard voice acting at all We haven't heard voice acting in any of the prior trailers Besides whatever weird voice You know is in the background of those tracks And stuff And so It's interesting to me that I don't know that this game Can give me the wow factor Of That moment Where you just look at the world But I don't think that's the way this game is going to deliver it This game is going to take what already Worked in Breath of the Wild And just ramp it to a degree That instead of it being like this Where you're standing there looking at the game and going wow It's going to be moments in the gameplay Where you're just like This is so much better And I am so impressed In this exact moment Like the one shot where they show You're fighting the robot looking I'm sitting there and I'm like Looks like one of those moments that I'm going to go This ain't Breath of the Wild anymore Man This is what I want This is bigger and better And I think that's all they really needed to do The fear is That the game couldn't be bigger It couldn't be better Or if it's bigger it's artificial Because it's still mostly the same high This proved to me there's so much going on That I'm okay Obviously anyone who ever thought the game was being delayed again Was wrong the whole time anyways Now there's no fear of that, reiterated it And Look, say what you want They're charging 70 bucks And I don't think they're going to get away with that If this game ain't just a significant step Above Breath of the Wild And I think it is Based on what we've seen so far Granted we have to play it, we have to reserve judgment See more of it, yada yada So nothing's finalized until I play it But just from these trailers It's like I already know what Breath of the Wild set up This looks like it still has that And then it's doing a whole bunch of crazy crap We've never been able to do, oh and by the way It just happens to look significantly better While you're doing it You know, just a point Just to kind of further support what you just said How it's like bigger and better The, it goes back to what I was saying Early about the Gliok The three-headed flaming dragon It's so big and huge On that bridge we still explore So it's kind of like It's taking up the whole bridge So you know how like you might find an enemy on a bridge Like say like a Lionel But no, now it's just a giant three-headed flaming dragon It's way bigger than anything else in Breath of the Wild What happened to the Lionels? I don't know Did they just level up to the next level too? I don't know, let's find out They were too weak, we get harder enemies now Two weeks later There'll be something even stronger We get double-headed Lionels But So about you Wes, did it create The same exact feeling? Yeah, what I'm thinking is like We got that Progression between Awkra and a Time to Majora's Mask We got that evolution And we're seeing that in the trailer The biggest thing is that we all didn't like About Breath of the Wild, enemy variety Weapon variety The regions, everything kind of looked the same We got all of that in this trailer Dungeons, lore, new stuff to think about The trailer was perfect Was the director the best? I don't know if the director was the best But it was a good direct If there's one thing that could drop If there are actual dungeons in this game Okay, a trailer that just Closer to launch Oh, there are dungeons, and it just blows your mind with one of them And you're just like, okay, they could do that Because that's one thing that Senatorly not confirms there's any sort of dungeons Or any sort of shrines or anything You know, like So that's one thing that I think they're holding close to that That could be something that they do unveil In a dedicated direct on the launch Even if they don't, like just being able to Like come across your first dungeon, like It would be wild If they never show it And then it happens to be this big theme in the game And we don't even know until the release drops So Jessica They're definitely holding back How much did Breath of the Wild cost in Canada? There was 80, Doc 80, Doc 70, 99 79, 99 Yeah, Canadian And now we have 89, 99 for Canada Sounds right Sounds alright Sounds alright Now go look up the price in Over in Australia Yeah, so anybody Who have said about that I mean, I just I mean, you must note Money isn't quite worth the same as the USD But still Canadian prices are Wild like during the whole GPU thing, it's like, oh yeah, you got to go to eBay for $3,000 or $380 Yeah, in Canada it's like Now look at how much a condo costs In my city Then you'll really be saying wow So if What you're saying is true that they're actually Paying more You know what I mean The tech for they were paying Like Second I just had it If I type in 80 Canadian dollars $59.54 Technically If I go up to 90 If I go up to 90 it's $66.98 So if we all send you money Like, you know Oh man You know Then You're gonna save your like $.50 on $5 commission But Apparently Apparently the special edition went on sale For a little bit on Best Buy With $129 bucks and it's already got Gone. Come on That sounds right It wasn't refreshing enough Oh man Alright, well I think that's gonna wrap it up For this episode I hope you guys all had fun including Our newest guest, Wes Nemo We'll have to get you on a future episode Maybe we're not gushing just straight up about Zelda non-stop I mean it's Zelda Okay, I'm sorry Oh man, Zelda's great Oh yes, yes, yes So You guys should go check out their channels I got everything linked down in the description So you want to tell them what you're doing And where they can find you So on just restart You'll just find me on YouTube What am I doing? I don't know I'm really tired but I want to make like 20 videos This is one of those things that you're probably like We just need to sleep on it And then we can grind it Like, I don't know It's hard to stop thinking Too many ideas There's too many ideas I want to get to immediately And I don't want someone else to beat me to the chase Dude, I've given up on the chase The chase I don't worry about people beating me to it I worry about doing it the right way now Right, so maybe with that in mind I'll just kind of I was thinking that maybe I'll just push things up a little bit So there will be a trailer Announcement of the Kingdom coming out tomorrow Maybe I'll just focus the day on that There's already analysis out there So it's like don't even It's not about doing it first Yeah, and I'll probably save the graphics analysis Graphics analysis for Metroid Prime for Friday And then My Xenoblade and Pikmin analysis Will come out on the weekend Striking Zelda while it's hot is probably a good idea But anyways, yes So there is a Zelda analysis coming There is a Metroid Prime graphics analysis coming Pikmin and Xenoblade will be analyzed by the weekend as well I'm trying I said I was going to stream Metroid Prime But I also want to do like a Like a live discussion again Tomorrow as I usually do, so I'm trying to figure it out But yes, we're going to be talking about a lot of Nintendo Everyday Multiple times for a long time So, yeah Yes All right, Wes, you want to tell me what you got going on And where are you going to find you? Yeah, I make gaming videos on YouTube Talk about the latest and greatest games and stuff You guys can catch me over on my channel If not, it's all good But yeah dude, like I cover pretty much everything Everything new Legend of Zelda coming out We just covered some Hogwarts legacy We got all the projects and stuff Yeah, yeah He's killing it over there He's about to crush 100k subs Any day now When I met Wes I think I was like 2,000 subscribers, he was like at 15,000 And this was like a year and a half ago So a year later 100k The algorithm give us The algorithm give us quite a bit To your channel lately You have unlocked the algorithm Variety as well Which is nice I've been stuck on certain games But it's nice to be able to just talk about Whatever the hell I want to The algorithm is currently giving us But it'll probably take it eventually And by the way, publicly I would like to give Wes some Credit Because he basically gave me some advice behind the scenes That contribute To the success of The current channel right now We just hit 23,000 today 7,000 subscribers Since the year started 10 years on YouTube for you guys Multiple channels Alright, Wes I'm going to need some of this advice I'm going to get the scoop from Wes I really could use A scoop here because I can't rely on shorts anymore They're just YouTube decided no more shorts For you man We'll talk about that later Here we go The price over there We'll talk about it in the scenes Alright, Cap, what do you got going on? The burger Especially now that we have Zelda You got stuff coming I already had a video ready for this Friday And now I'm debating if I should delay it It's going to get overshadowed By all of this Tears of the Kingdom stuff I'm probably going to make Some Tears of the Kingdom content Maybe Just to 100% I'm giving the whole video on redead There's a redead and I'm doing it Cap's channel is dead Crazy redeads I'm going to go against the entire Tide, I'm going to make a video On Minus Cap Like the entire just There you go You're 50 views, it's cool Or it'll get like a million views Like it'll be the only one Everyone's looking for Minus Cap They're probably looking for Minus Cap walkthroughs At the moment But I do make Zelda videos I currently run a series called Dungeon Design in Zelda In which I am running through And analyzing all of the Dungeons and their design in Zelda As they implies, pretty on the nose Not very creative name, sorry But the videos are good and I've got some link to the past Dungeon videos coming up very soon Because we already finished Zelda 1 and 2 So, fun stuff Fun stuff Alright, and then Mike, Odyssey Fantastic goal, anyway You guys see already a little glimpse of what's going to happen The entire week So maybe fully close For the videos, right? You don't have to wear it for hours on it Dude, the thing is that the outfit is so hot man Yes, they always are They always are I can't believe you wore it as long as you did on your I did, dude An hour and a half But yeah, it's an authentic Nintendo Donkey Kong costume Huge one with Really feathery All the stuff You look like a good beefcake today, buddy But anyway First you have to be wearing that the entire week If you want to check it out Go ahead and check that out On the Friday news Working on bringing back The podcast a little by little But I have to put it on hold because of But I'm good now I'm 100% good Got that going on I have something else going on I completely forgot about it On the 18th Of February We have our 20K That sounds horrible to say now 20K, Mike Mastos 20K by then 20K Milestone It might be a 20 and 30K Milestone stream It's a Mario Kart Tournament And it's a Fall Guys Tournament together And then during that Tournament I'll have a link down below So you guys can sign up and give all the information And then announce the Switch OLED And I have another Switch OLED I got two more Switch OLEDs For a 30K That might be a double upstream by then Yeah, so I mean That's what I'm going to have gone on so far I also have a I'm working behind the scenes with A story that I wrote Based on Mario Like a fan fiction story It's called The Story of Princess Peach It gives Princess Peach like a little background With her parents And how the Mushroom Kingdom came to be And this is called Fan Fiction But we wrote it and then I have a person who is Illustrating it And animating it so that we can have it on the channel One day It's a pretty cool story And it's coming soon To a theater near you To a theater near you Alright, awesome My God, I see what My God, I see what My God, I see what MrIvt, Instagram, Mike submission Twitter My own YouTube My God I think we have a chat command One of our mods can throw up for you To help you out Alright guys, well, I'm obviously a Dvarian You know what's up? This is the Dvarian podcast I'm assuming that you know I'm here If you don't and you're listening to our music You caught us on Spotify And a billion other places that we are You heard, if you're listening to the audio version or saw the video version, I am experimenting and trying to make these podcasts even better as we go. Obviously, this is the first podcast I even attempted to show video clips and or images of the things we're talking about might try to do that more in the future as well when we're talking about specific games might just play some trailers and stuff for people at times. So it's not just always our giant mugs you're getting you're getting some context for the conversation visually at the same time, a little visual enhancement. Unfortunately, audio listeners, they haven't invented the ability to shoot waves into your brains audio wise to create images yet. I'm sorry. Maybe that'll be a tech that exists someday. That'd be interesting. Doesn't exist now. So cyberpunk TLC. There's cyberpunk TLC. That's what it is. That's what cyberpunk exists for all along. That's why it was so buggy at lunch. Um, anyways, you guys know where to find me. Nintendo Prime everywhere. Just type Nintendo Prime in that literally into Google search or any sort of search. Actually, I don't really know. Bing is experimenting now with chat GPT. I don't know if I'm in the chat GPT database. I have no I have no idea. So maybe maybe you can't find me in Bing, but you'll find me everywhere. Who uses Bing? Who uses Bing? And if you find me, just type Nintendo Prime. It's probably me. So thank you guys for tuning in. I really appreciate it. We have had two straight episodes across 4,000 views. We haven't had a single episode in season two. No, you do come up as the first search term on Bing Nintendo Prime YouTube. And we every single episode in season two, this is our seventh episode has crossed 3000 views. These are literally nonstop records all the time. You guys are loving the podcast. We're gonna keep finding ways to improve it. Keep bringing new guests on. And also, while this isn't new next week, just just a little tease. It is the OG six back back again from episode one. Thank you. Never give up journey on, dude. Never give up journey on and party on Wayne. Oh boy. Just for my age. So am I. Oh boy. If you don't get that reference, I'm too old for you. All right. All right, everyone. Have a good rest of your evening. Later. Take care. Bye. Goodbye.