 Hey everyone, welcome back to Nintendo Prime. We've got five huge stories for you today. It's really been a couple weeks since I fully got the suit on and we're actually talking about multiple stories because it's the holiday season and there's been a lot of slowdown in news coverage but you know what's not slowing down? Our giveaways. That's right folks, we're giving away three copies of Pokemon Legends. Arceus to enter. Head down to the viral sweep link or the pinned comment down in the description as well. Also has that viral sweep link. So yeah, be awesome. Check that out. Also we're on our road to 80,000 subscribers so I'd really appreciate if you would subscribe. In fact, to win any of our giveaways you have to be a subscriber anyway. So why not? In fact, you know what? I think we're gonna do something special here. I am going to pick one random new subscriber in the next 30 days. So by January 27th, I will pick one random new subscriber from today to then to win $100. Now you can receive the $100 as a cash. You can receive it as an eShop card or any other form of currency that I'm able to get to you. That being said, you guys are amazing and let's get into today's news. Our first story actually comes from Shintura for Akawa himself, the president and CEO of Nintendo of Japan. He has come out to publicly warn. He basically had a conversation with some newspapers on Japan and he basically said, you know what? Yeah, we're gonna have a problem fulfilling switch orders in early 2022. In fact, he went so far as to say they have been unable to keep up with demand of Nintendo Switch since Black Friday in the United States. That's way back in November. So he said Nintendo's been struggling to keep up with demand and due to semiconductor shortages. And this is a new one. Problems with logistics. They are unable to meet demand heading into 2022. Now, we obviously don't, we know about the semiconductor shortage. That's nothing new. And some people would argue they have a hard time meeting demand of Switch this entire time. However, of note, there's been Switch lights on shelves for months and months and months until we hit Black Friday. Now we can't even keep Switch lights in stock. So yeah, I would say Nintendo has finally hit a, hit a, you know, this kind of panic mode where, you know what? We can't make enough of any of our Switches to meet demand. And this obviously matters a lot in Japan because Japan's about to enter their biggest sales season of the year and Nintendo's already warning that we don't have enough Switches for you. We're sorry. And by the way, just to add to this, Intel and others have actually already publicly warned that chip shortages are going to be going all the way into 2023. Meaning this problem that Nintendo's talking about is likely not going away anytime next year. Now there might be a point where there's some Switch lights on the shelves again, but Nintendo's going to have shortages all year as of PlayStation 5, as will the Valve Steam Deck whenever the hell that finally comes out, as will the Xbox Series and pretty much PC components in general. There's going to be shortages until new factories open up unless demand goes down. However, because COVID has not gone anywhere and people continue to quarantine as they test positive, reality is it's probably not going to go anywhere, anytime soon. Just like COVID's not going anywhere, demand isn't either. And it really is going to come down to manufacturing, building new factories, which are in the works by the way. And factories cost billions of dollars to make. So people wonder why can't they just buy a building and throw some equipment in there? It's a lot more complicated than that to set up new manufacturing lines. Obviously you have to also make sure you have the raw materials coming in to be able to continue to make said products. So yeah, there's a lot of logistics that go into it, but, but they are planning to have new factories, the semiconductor manufacturers are planning to have new factories live in 2023 at some point. And that's kind of why Intel and others are saying, hey, wait till 2023 because like, you know, finally we can do something about this because the manufacturing plants have done something about it. So I don't know, this kind of sucks. If you don't already own a switch, I don't, here's the thing, on Christmas Eve, I actually saw three switch OLEDs at my local Walmart, which I'm sure sold out before the end of the day. So they are still getting switches out to people. It's just not as many units as they likely planned and they clearly are not meeting demand as it continues to be sold out online. So next up, I just want to address something that actually has happened over the last few days. Although I think as of today, it's a bit better, at least based on my experience. Nintendo warned us heading into the holiday season that parents or people gifting switches should go out of their way to settle up that switch ahead of time, get it fully updated. And there was a big debate last week heading into Christmas over whether or not we should take that first boot up experience away from people, which I always find to be a bit ironic because if their first boot up experience is going to be error, error, error, can't connect, error, can't connect, error, error, error. That's not a very good first boot up experience. Anyways, people are gonna wanna boot up and play their games. But that's neither here nor there. You guys can obviously decide for yourselves and your own children if you want them to experience that boot up experience or not. But what Nintendo did warn is that their servers were gonna be having a ton of issues around Christmas time and that's exactly what happened. I think even on December 25th, for the entire day here in the United States, the Nintendo switch eShop was down, some of the online servers went down, the online services went down, it was a hot mess. Now Nintendo did warn us this was going to happen. So it wasn't as if Nintendo was unaware of the Christmas surge. But still, it's kind of weird when, you know, yeah, there were some issues with PlayStation and Xbox as well. They had some down issues and you need to be online to even set up those systems. So there were some issues here and there, but it wasn't down for the entire day. It was worse with Switch, which obviously goes to show that Nintendo does not have the server capacity to handle the 100 plus million switches they have out there. You would hope at this point, Nintendo would have purchased and or increased their server capacity, but appears that they haven't, especially for the Nintendo Switch eShop. So that sucks. The good news is as of today, Tuesday after Christmas, it does appear that things are working mostly normal. Every now and then, you're in peak hours, you might still see some issues, downloading games and all of that. But for the most part, during the day, it's relatively stable and likely will be moving forward. I really wish that Nintendo, instead of warning us to set switches up ahead of time, nobody else warned us to do that with the Xbox or PlayStation. How about you just know a problem's coming and do something about it? I know you've been heavily focused on manufacturing, try to get enough switches out there, but maybe Nintendo invests in your infrastructure with your servers and then this would be less of an issue, even if there would be some sparing issues here and there, like there has been with PlayStation and Xbox. But again, they didn't say, you know what, go set it up ahead of time. They're like, nah, nah, nah, nah. At some point during Christmas day, it'll be fine. Nintendo was like, no, Christmas day is gonna be a shit show, so go set it up, you're not gonna need to play games. Have a good day. So yeah, I, sorry guys. You know, that's just the way it is from Nintendo. We all want them to do better, but this is just the way it goes. Now, Nintendo did announce something really cool and they've done this a few times in the last handful of months, but this time is neat because you don't use your platinum points. Nintendo has announced that they are allowing a free Nintendo Switch online seven day trial. This is just the base package, of course. They still have yet to offer any sort of trial for the bigger one that includes N64, Genesis, and obviously the Animal Crossing DLC. But still it's better than nothing and they did say it will not use up any platinum points previously when they've said, oh yeah, you could do a seven day trial again or whatever, it would cost platinum points. This time it's 100% for free. They also advertised a Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Tournament. They're calling it a Nintendo Fun Run. It's 100 CC, all items, running through the 31st. So you can go join in in that if you like. I don't really think it matters too much, but it is kind of cool. I think if you're a kid opening up a Switch for the holidays and you got Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, it might be kind of fun to be like, oh, I'm in this official Nintendo event and I can maybe get into the top 20 and see where I rank. So I think there is some neat stuff there. For me personally, I don't care about that. But who knows, maybe you guys do and you want to participate in that. The image was up and so was the code if you guys want to go take care of that. But yeah, I think it's cool that we are getting that seven day trial. This doesn't actually fix the issues with online. Nintendo continues to push these trials because I think they're trying to get people to convert and actually spend money on Nintendo Switch online. And I think the best way to do it isn't the free trials, although the free trials are a good thing. I think the best way to do it is to actually offer compelling services. You do that and the subscriptions will come. I mean, Game Pass did a lot of heavy promoting at the beginning doing $1 conversions and free trials. But guess what? They offered a compelling service and now Game Pass is sort of taking off on its own. Netflix offered a compelling service. And while it took a decade, now they are one of the most profitable services out there. So it's one of those things where if Nintendo would just give us a better online experience, eShop servers not going down. Online servers not going down. When the online servers are up, not having a whole bunch of lag because of one person. If one person has a crappy internet connection like in Smash Bros, kick them the hell out, put people together that have good pings so they have less connection issues. Better online server infrastructure, which does exist for things like Monster Hunter Rise, but it came how many years into the Switch? Four years into the Switch's life cycle before we actually got really good net code and good servers that can't even be applied to Switch's most popular games. Like Animal Crossing can't be applied to most popular games like Super Smash Bros and Mario Kart because it's a new system that's not compatible with the old. Yeah, Nintendo, you're a little behind the times there. And this is before we get into the fact that you have this trickle down effect where we have no idea when we're getting new games to the online servers. We have no idea if there's gonna be new platforms. We have no pre-announcement. Like at least we know with games of gold and PlayStation Network, the specific day that one, the game's gonna be announced and two, you're getting at least three every single month. We don't even know that from Nintendo. We have no idea. It's a complete mystery. It's a invest in trust in us and they want you to invest in that expansion pack for a year. They don't even give you the month option, the three month option, the six month option. It's a full year or nothing. So yeah, Nintendo gotta do better there. Make a compelling service and maybe you won't need so many of these damn free trials. So last week I did a video. Actually, that was like one of my only videos last week. You guys might remember it. Maybe you didn't see it. Where I said the Nintendo Switch has sold 100 million units and I can prove it. And what I did is I took the official last sales data we had and added up numbers we have from various countries and proved that basically as of last week, it was highly likely that the Switch has already sold 100 million units and people went, you know, why didn't Nintendo announce it because Nintendo doesn't care. And if they did care, they will basically announce it when they're gonna do their financial briefing, right? They're not gonna announce it ahead of that. They're gonna wait till they're gonna officially give you numbers and then they'll be like, oh, by the way, here's a really cool thing. We sold over 100 million or a whole, here's a really cool thing. We're ahead of Nintendo. We, so yeah, VG charts has actually come out. VG charts for those who don't know is a sales estimation website. They are not to be taken as law. They are not an official NPD like outlet. They are literally just people making really educated guesses based on real sales data with estimations for other areas. And they have basically said that their estimates have had Nintendo Switch at 100 million units. Actually 100 million and 7,000 units where that 7,000 units came from, I have no idea. Maybe it's like numbers from Spain or something. So yeah, that is really interesting that they are saying as of last week that Nintendo Switch had 100 million units when I already proved it. Did they just copy my numbers? I have no idea. But still, it's really nice to see somebody else besides me and Paul Gale telling you guys that Switch has sold 100 million units. That is obviously a massive milestone and puts it up there with legendary consoles such as the PlayStation 2, the PlayStation 4, the PlayStation 1. Look at that, three of those systems up there. Yeah, PlayStation 5 is probably gonna get up there as well. Obviously if they're with the Nintendo, we and the DS, like these are big, big numbers for Nintendo and I'm really happy for them as a company and they're doing well. Obviously, these system sales are just helping Nintendo's bottom line, not necessarily ours, but I also hope that this is a proving grounds to Nintendo that this concept of the Switch needs to stick around. This isn't like the Wii. The Wii was dead in the water at this point in its life cycle. The Switch is continuing to gain momentum, which should tell Nintendo this idea of a hybrid duality system ain't going anywhere and you should continue to push it with a new one. So here's hoping that Nintendo does that with a Switch 2 whenever the time is right for that. But yeah, I'm really excited for these sales numbers and I think you guys probably are too. It is, after all, a milestone. Obviously the question now is can it become the best selling system of all time? I've got a few people asking what my top out numbers are. I think it could hit 158 million, which would be the best selling system of all time. I think its low ball numbers would be about 140 million which would still be absolutely incredible for Nintendo because it would only have one system past those numbers and that would be obviously the DS. They have the Game Boy up there by the way at 118 million. I think that's next after Wii. So anyways, you guys let me know what you think about this down in the comments and let's move on to our next story. So we have a leak for Sonic Frontiers. That's right, that highly anticipated Sonic game which looked really good in its reveal trailer. However, it wasn't really true gameplay so we still have yet to see exactly what the game's gonna be. It does have this promise of at least open areas, if not open world. So that's really cool. And I think it actually has open areas that confirmed after the trailer came out. So here's the thing. We obviously wanna know when it's coming because they said it's coming next year. Well, we have a leak for it, although I'm gonna give you a caveat on this leak. It's not a rumor. This is a real thing. This came from PlayStation Database that gets all of their information from Sony's internal servers on their digital shop. And internally on the digital shop, on PlayStation it has Sonic Frontiers listed as November 15th, 2022. That obviously would fit next year and they did say it was gonna be a holiday game. So if that really fits right in with what we already know about it being a holiday 2022 game. That being said, this date shouldn't be taken as final law. This could just be a placeholder. Could even be a target date. It doesn't mean the game won't get delayed. Doesn't mean it can't come sooner. Doesn't mean it can't get pushed to December or any other day other than the 15th. But it is just notable because these are internal dates from PlayStation's own internal, their version of the eShop database. So it is important to pay attention to these numbers as this very well could be the target date for the game at this time. We'll have to wait and see, but that does give you at least an idea of when to expect Sonic Frontiers, which maybe you should have already since they said holiday 2022 anyways. But yeah, November, sometime the middle of November before Black Friday was probably always a good guess anyways. And now we have this more official date. So we'll see if November 15th ends up being the date. I just wanna see more about the game, some actual gameplay. I'd love to go hands-on. If E3's in person next year, I would love to go there and actually go hands-on with the game and give you guys some real impressions. Haven't gone hands-on with previews of games in a while. You guys seem to really like when I've done that in the past. So it'll be awesome to get back to E3 to do that again. Anyways, folks, I am Nathaniel Rumpeljantz from Nintendo Prime. I wanna thank all of you guys for tuning in. And you know what? Drop a like, hit that subscribe button, help us get to ADK and I'll catch you in the next video.