 Hi, I am Nathaniel Rufflejant, Editor-in-Chief at ZeldinFormer and your local boss man. And today I'm here to give you my top three reasons! Woo! And I'm excited for Nintendo in 2015. Alright if you guys remember a few episodes back I talked about the three reasons that I'm frustrated with Nintendo in 2015 and in interest of fairness you can't be frustrated with someone without also discussing the positive aspects of someone. In this case that someone is a company it's not a single person it's not just Mr. Iowata or Iwata sorry it's not just Mr. Iwata or Miyamoto or Regifizume it's a collection of people and today I want to just talk about what I'm excited about for them here at the beginning of 2015 as we're starting to get into spring and head towards summer with E3 coming up so the first thing I want to talk about and reason number one that I am excited for Nintendo in 2015 is Crossby. So Crossby is not a new concept it's something that Sony has been doing for a while with the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita and now with the PlayStation 4 and the PlayStation Vita. Essentially if a game exists on both platforms and it's the same game if you buy one of those games for either platform you get it for free on the other platform. You could see how that's a really good value for consumers now it hasn't been a selling point for the Vita people are not lining up to buy the Vita because it has Crossby but people are buying the 3DS and people aren't really buying the Wii U so it's kind of it's kind of they flip-flopped in terms of relevancy here but Crossby is a thing it's happening it's already happened the very first game to do it for Nintendo was Mario vs Donkey Kong. Since then it also happened with I believe it's called Oli Oli it's an indie title Mutant Muds Super Challenge was the most recent game announced to take advantage of Crossby and that was from the last Nintendo Direct on April 1st. So Crossby is a thing and Nintendo is doing more of it and we have three titles so far this year we know about that are gonna have Crossby and there's a huge potential for this in the future. Not so much between the Wii U and the 3DS because there's gonna be very few games that are going to be on both platforms outside of indie titles which is why we're seeing this more with indie titles versus say New Super Mario Brothers. What we could see in the future with the next consoles coming next year the year after the year after that whenever they come out is that this Crossby is going to be a huge a huge thing it's going to really interlock their their systems together so you could buy either system buy the game for that system and have it on the other system and I think it's going to be a big selling point and a big thing Nintendo is going to market even more so than Sony did for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita and PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita. Somehow Nintendo is going to make it a selling point when the competition struggled to do so. So I really really like this idea of the Crossby and I think this is just the beginning I think we're going to see even more indie titles this year announced as a Crossby and there's a potential that there could be titles that come out say a mobile game for phones that also comes out to the Wii U and 3DS and you could see a Crossby between all three platforms and that would be really cool. And one thing that the Crossby is different on Nintendo compared to say PlayStation Vita and the PlayStation 4 is that Crossby has this unique functionality with Nintendo network IDs so if you're on your Wii U and you bought say Donkey Kong versus I'm sorry Mario versus Donkey Kong and you bought it in your Wii U and you say you have three or four Nintendo network IDs connected to that Wii U and all three or four of them obviously have access to that game no matter which account bought it on that system. Well those same Nintendo network IDs if you connect them to three or four different 3DS units can also download the game. So in theory you could buy the game once and still have four other friends or three other friends get the game for free. That's awesome and I don't know if this is a bug but it has been confirmed to work by several users. I've not tested it myself because hey I had two Nintendo network IDs only of one handheld system. You know it's just a really really cool thing. Reason number two. Loyalty discounts. Now Nintendo announced a concept for a loyalty program a while back and a lot of people think this loyalty program could be what replaces Club Nintendo but a while back back E3 2011 or 2012 they talked about rewarding customers who continue to buy games in the same series. So say you bought only between Worlds and Wind Waker HD Majora's Mask 3D and say Skyward Sword say you bought those four Zelda games. Because you have bought in those four Zelda games you would get the next game in the series at a prorated rate at a discounted rate because you're loyal to the series. So Nintendo is rewarding your loyalty by encouraging you to continue to buy into the games you're already into the game series you've already bought into in the past by giving it to you cheaper than people who are just jumping in right now. Nintendo hasn't done anything with that announcement since. They just said it's an idea they're going to work on and they're eventually going to test it out. Well it appears we're finally seeing that test become a reality. If you have bought Mutant Mud specifically in the 3DS before you are going to get a discount a loyalty discount for buying Mutant Mud's super challenge and that's huge. We don't know how much that discount is. It could just be a dollar. It could be 50% off. It could just be 10% off. We have no idea what that discount is but the fact you're going to get a discount for buying the previous game is just a sign of Nintendo testing new grounds here. And this could just be the first of many titles they attempt to do this way. As an example we have a new Fire Emblem game coming out on the 3DS next year and they could say hey if you bought Fire Emblem Awakening you could get a loyalty discount on the new Fire Emblem game for 3DS and they could even apply that to the Fire Emblem crossover game. So if you think about it it's a really interesting concept and something that you know you think Nintendo wouldn't do because they might lose money on it but it could also encourage continued sales. Have you grown tired of the Mario Kart series? Well are you still willing to buy into that Mario Kart series if at launch you can get it for 40 dollars instead of 60? That's what we're looking at here with this loyalty program. And I think it's really going to tie into whatever they launch at the end of the year to replace Club Nintendo because it's going to be how they track your purchases and track your games. It's all going to be online. It's all going to automatically happen the moment you fire up those games instead of having to enter in Club Nintendo codes. It's going to be fun it's going to be great and I can't wait. I honestly cannot wait. I'm excited and I'm excited for what Nintendo plans to do with this loyalty program in the future as this is the first game taking advantage of it. And obviously my last point probably the most important point is games games games. I am excited for the games that Nintendo has in 2015 the games that have already come out the game's still to come. And while I am disappointed like many of you that Zelda U has been delayed even though we're probably going to get a better game because of it I understand the frustrations with that and while Mr. Aonumo did not say that we would not get the game in 2015 he just said 2015 is not no longer a target it doesn't matter if we get Zelda U or not this year. It really doesn't and it pains me saying that as the editor-in-chief at Zelda and Farmer but there's so many great titles this year to be excited about. I'm going to look down here a little bit and read off this list of titles that I kind of came up with and these are all at the top of my head just titles I'm aware of. So we already got Kirby in the Rainbow Curse we got Majora's Mask 3D we got Codename Steam and we've gotten Mario Party 10 and Xenoblade Chronicles 3D as of last Friday on top of that we still have Splatoon Mario Maker Yoshi's Worldly World and Xenoblade Chronicles X. That's what we know for sure is coming this year or has already come out and to me that's already a stellar lineup and then we have potential Ace in the Hole type games we have Star Fox we haven't seen it yet it could still come out this year we have Fatal Frame 5 we still don't have a release date for it but it was just announced that in the last sometime and the game already exists so all they have to do is localize it that's very realistically coming here in 2015. We also had the Fire Emblem crossover game I don't think that's going to arrive this year as we just finally saw a little snippet of footage for a trailer but that could potentially come this year and obviously in 2016 we have the new Fire Emblem game as confirmed for a 2016 release in the United States and Zelda U which is a likely 2016 release if we just stick with 2015 we have Kirby Majora's Mask Codename C Mario Party Xenoblade Chronicles 3D Splatoon Mario Maker Yoshi Xenoblade again potentially Star Fox Fatal Frame 5 and maybe even the Fire Emblem crossover that's a huge lineup of games coming from one company I mean you think about that that's all coming from one single company that's that's something to be excited about obviously I wish we still got the Assassin's Creed we call the duties of the world the battlefields and all that great I wish that Nintendo consoles got that because then maybe I wouldn't need to own my Xbox one in fact the day I bought an Xbox one was just to play Madden Madden imagine if they just released Madden on the Wii U the original edition of Madden not what we got Madden 13 which was an older version of the game and you know not not what they did on the Wii like they just gave us an updated version of Madden I probably wouldn't even own an Xbox one I would be a happy Nintendo gamer I would have been 400 to 500 dollars richer and I probably would have bought even more Nintendo games now that's not anything against the Xbox one I played Shadow of Mordor and some other great games on it that I probably could have also played on my PC instead but yeah Nintendo man I'm excited they have a really really really exciting thing going on here this year and this is probably why so many people are forgiving of them for the negatives they've done as you know I talked about the negatives in a prior video you can see up here click somewhere around here and go watch that but just because there's some negatives doesn't mean there's some positives so uh whatever way you want to view 2015 for Nintendo this year uh you could view it negatively you could view it positively I know angry Joe views it negatively I'm kind of stuck in the middle right now I played Nintendo for the games so as long as all these games deliver great experiences for me I'll be okay but will you are you okay are you okay with the negatives are you okay with the positives is there more positives than negatives or is it the other way around let me know down below in the comments and thanks for checking out this week's episode of The Boss Man you can catch us on Facebook on Twitter on Twitch on Google Plus Tumblr or we're kind of everywhere obviously you could check us out on Zildenformer.com be sure to subscribe like this video comment below and if you're wondering about last week's giveaway because we had such a low viewer comment on the episode which I guess I sort of anticipated and I want to apologize for the quality of that video I didn't it was not at my best last video hopefully you guys enjoyed this one a lot more um we're gonna revisit that giveaway in the future and uh kind of change it up and and make it easier to enter as it were and try to get more people involved so hey as long as you're enjoying this boss man you can look forward to a giveaway in the future and I will catch you guys next week adios