 Hey everyone, welcome back to Nintendo Prime. We're back again here, sitting at the desk. Some people might have noticed this week that I haven't been using my normal set. We do actually have a bevy of news stories, by the way. If you wanna skip around, we do have timestamps and all that, so you don't gotta hear this little preamble, but yeah, basically, I haven't been feeling well this week. It's not COVID, so anyone that might be worried that I'm suffering from that, no. There's just been a cold that kind of ravaged my house. My children are dealing with it much better than I am. But yeah, I've been kind of very low energy this week. I know you guys see me on live streams and everything, and I pretend that everything's okay, but it's been a bit of a rough one. But whatever, we'll turn a corner eventually when I can finally get some damn sleep. I don't know when I'm gonna get it. Being a father of three kids kind of makes it so you don't really get that much sleep. But you know what, as they say, the show must go on. And if this is the first time you've ever seen a Nintendo Prime video, hey, I would appreciate if you would subscribe to the channel. As we push through and get to you guys, today's bevy of Nintendo news. Also, we do have a giveaway. This is like one of the last days you could enter. Technically you could enter, nope, this is it actually. Today's the last day you could enter to win a PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X or a Nintendo Switch OLED. We will be announcing the winner tomorrow night on Livestream. You do not need to be there live to win, so don't worry if you don't have time to be there. You will be emailed and contacted. Just use our glean.island down in the pin comment or the description to enter. And let's get into today's news and we're starting with an interesting thing happening with Pokemon Violet and Scarlet. So these are the generation nine Pokemon games arriving later this year. Late 2022 is the official date. They look to be fully open world, enter villages from any, you know, any direction or whatever as they put out on the official website. And we haven't really heard anything about the game since it was announced, which isn't surprising. It wasn't actually announced that long ago, just back in February. Still, it does look like we're gonna be hearing something from the game soon. This is because the official YouTube playlist on the Pokemon YouTube channel for Scarlet and Violet has been updated. Now I'm air-coding updated because it could mean anything, but typically this means new videos have been added to that playlist that are currently private, hidden, scheduled for the future. That's usually what it means, although you can technically update a playlist by just reorganizing, except there's not really much on the playlist to reorganize in the first place, which tends to lend credit. Creed is through, there's a new trailer, a new something existing on that playlist to be shown in the future. So that's obviously really exciting to get some Pokemon Scarlet and Violet news, hopefully soon, probably sometime in April, I would assume. Maybe it's just an April Fool's joke, which would be really weird since the Pokemon company typically doesn't participate that heavily in those jokes, but you know what, that's also something I wanted to note before we move on is you gotta be very leery or weary of all the stories happening in the next 48 hours over the weekend. I was gonna be a lot of fake news out there. I'm gonna try my best when I make my content tomorrow to avoid as much of it as I can. I don't, you know, I'm gonna tell you guys right now, I personally do not have a joke plan for you guys. I thought I would do some fake news or some fake this. I don't know, I'm probably not gonna be doing anything like that because there's already gonna be so much of it running rampant on the internet as is that I'd rather try to sift through the fake and try to find the real, which is going to be extremely hard. So whatever, let's move into our next story. And this one actually deals with Kirby and the Forgotten Land because obviously we wanna know how well this game is performing. You know this wonderful game right here that I'm having a blast with. I gotta say the amusement park world, mwah. But here's the thing, we now have some data for this game, some sales data out of Japan for launch week and it actually launched at 380,060 units taking the number one spot. This is significantly ahead of the 200,000 units that Kirby Star Allies debuted at. And obviously in the sales data, we get an update on Switch sales and the Switch itself, the entirety of Switch which is the OLED, the base model and the light leads the way with 83,800 total units sold with 49,000 of those units being the Switch OLED model. And what's also interesting is there was about 32,000 PlayStation 5's that sold as well giving PlayStation 5 one of its best weeks in sales yet. However, despite that, you know, on a bit of the, hey, if you actually care how much Nintendo's dominating Japan, well PlayStation 5 has now crossed 1.2 million in sales that's still behind the Switch OLED at 1.4 million in sales and the Switch OLED hasn't been on the market like for an entire year's worth that PlayStation 5 was. So yeah, PlayStation is obviously still not even remotely close to doing as well as Nintendo but they are gaining momentum. So that's good for them. There are a number of PlayStation titles including things like Elden Ring, trending in the top 10. So it's no longer this total domination by Nintendo and hasn't meant for a few weeks but competition is good and that's always going to help push each other forward and hopefully we see, you know, Nintendo pushback with some of their bigger titles they have coming. We all know that Nintendo with sports is probably gonna be a big one. I don't know how big it's gonna be in Japan but it's going to be pretty big worldwide. Next up, this story is, these stories come around often. Nintendo makes an announcement and then their stock prices go up and down. This is just the way of the world. Sometimes the announcements make the stock prices get super inflated when they shouldn't be. Other time announcements make the stock prices go down when they probably shouldn't be. In this case, in the wake of the breath of the wild to delay being announced. Yeah, oh no, it's coming out in spring of 2023. Nintendo's stock prices actually went down 6%, one of the biggest daily dips we have seen in a long time. Now, technically they were already up 25% year over year. So now they're only up 19% year over year. Actually, I think it's maybe balanced back a full percentage point at this point. But the point is that it was an overreaction by investors who said, wait a second, breath of the wild, too is not coming out this year. Sell, sell, sell. Because that's what leads the price dip is some investors overreacting and then selling off their stock. So I obviously find this to be really weird when they make these decisions because there's already so many major games coming out for Switch this year that the lack of breath of the wild two in 2022 shouldn't really slow down momentum given that Xenoblade Chronicles 3, Splatoon 3. Obviously, we got Pokemon coming out. We have so many big games coming out, Nintendo Switch sports, Mario Strikers, Bayonetta 3 at some point. There's so many big games coming that I don't really think, while obviously sales would be a little bit higher with breath of the wild two coming out, especially software sales, I don't think Switch sales are gonna be negatively impacted. And wouldn't this give you confidence in 2023 to hold on to your stock, maintaining its value, heading into next year? I don't know, maybe I'm just being crazy. We could be seeing a lot of stock drops throughout the year as potentially investors think this is the last peak year of Nintendo Switch. But I guess time will tell. All I know is these panic trades, I always find funny. A lot of people get into Nintendo and in various stock markets because they're not really looking to hold on long term. They're looking to turn around and make a quick buck. If they bought their stock, I don't know, at the beginning of the year and then enjoyed the 25% bump on their stock prices, maybe they looked at this as, hey, with this being delayed, we're gonna predict the trending in the stock is not gonna keep going up. So we're just going to sell out. But hey, it is kind of weird seeing one game being delayed leading to a 6% drop. I honestly don't get investors at times, but I guess if you're just looking to make a quick buck, maybe you did. So I guess it worked out. All right, this last story I'm gonna show you guys here is actually kind of a double whammy from Nintendo. So first off, we had a new trailer for Nintendo Switch Sports. And I found this to be quite interesting. We're actually going to go ahead here and look at Nintendo of America's official Twitter account. You can see them also talking about part two about Masahiro Sakurai's Smash Bros. Fighter Reveal trailer and kind of looking back on that. If you're interested in that, I will link to that down in the description as well. This is the new trailer. It's about five minutes for Nintendo Switch Sports. It's just kind of an overview, going over everything we already know about the game. There's nothing new really unveiled in here, but it is fun. It is cool. Nintendo Switch Sports, they're gonna start ramping up the advertising for it. But that's not really the big news. The big news is this because they just dropped this out of nowhere. And what we see here is they dropped three brand new games for Nintendo Switch Online that were completely unannounced. Dig Dug 2, Mappy Land and Earthworm Gym. Two of those being NES games, one being a SNES game. So they've added new games to the base Nintendo Switch online package. This is obviously good news. There's nothing negative about adding these games, but it's interesting that this happened in the wake of Kit and Krista, formerly of Nintendo of America, now running their own podcast show, critiquing Nintendo. That's right, Kit and Krista, you guys remember them from Nintendo Minute. They now run their own YouTube channel, their own podcast. And on one of their more recent episodes, they actually criticized Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch Online service, saying things such as Kit noting, Hey, guess what? Newer gamers, younger gamers, aren't going to care about the NES, the Super Nintendo might not even care about the N64 or Genesis either. So, hey, adding these games means nothing. Also, you kind of blew your load at launch, launching all your good games and haven't really added good games since. Oh, and Nintendo, why aren't you more transparent about how many games we can expect for what platforms and when we're going to get them every single month? Why is there no transparency? Why can't you tell consumers if you're going to be adding more DLC to the expansion pack moving forward? Is it going to be all games? Is it going to be some games? Is there going to be no more added? Why can't we have that transparency? That mostly came from Kit. And then Krista obviously chiming in that, hey, maybe if they add a GameCube it could possibly be better. But otherwise, obviously she agrees that Nintendo Switch Online could be better. And it's obviously nice seeing former Nintendo employees come out and talk like that. And then obviously it's kind of funny because right after that podcast went up, Nintendo dropped these three games. And I would argue Earthworm Gym 2 is actually a pretty solid addition. But it still doesn't really get around the fact that there was no transparency on these games being announced. Obviously, some of these games, like Mappy Land, isn't really that great of a game. I did play it back in the day. DigDug 2 is what it is. If you like DigDug, you'll probably enjoy DigDug too. I'm just saying that, you know, I get it. I get the criticisms. But it is nice to see these games announced for those looking forward to it. I know there were some live streams and stuff happening last night and some channels where they were specifically playing Earthworm Gym 2 because that takes back to a lot of people's childhoods. DigDug is more of my dad's era. But yeah, it's whatever. Hey, those are some updates from Nintendo of America's Twitter account. So anyways, folks, I wanna thank you guys so much for tuning in. I am Nintendo RoboJance from Nintendo Prime. Hopefully gonna start feeling a little better here. I feel like today I've maybe turned a corner. I just need to get some more sleep. I think I'm running on two and a half hours of sleep right now. By the way, this isn't because I couldn't sleep. Kids, you know, my boys sleep in the same room. One woke up, woke up the other, leads to a whole thing. If you're a parent with multiple kids and they sleep in the same room, you kinda know how it can go sometimes. So dealing with all of that, but whatever, they felt well enough this morning to go off to school. So that's good for them. They've turned a big corner on their cold. Waiting for me to hit that same corner where I wake up feeling refreshed. Right now, I wake up and feel like a zombie. All right, guys, I'll catch you in the next video.