 Hey everyone welcome back to Nintendo Prime we got a bevy of news stories for you today including some really interesting news on a massive franchise that Microsoft wants to bring to Nintendo's Switch of all things uh and yeah some updates on Xenobite Chronicles 3 updates on a specific lawsuit that Nintendo's been involved in and so much more now before we get into it I will remind you we are giving away a Nintendo Switch OLED a PlayStation 5 or an Xbox Series X to 1 lucky winner all you have to do is go to the glean.io link down in the description or ping comment to enter and I wish everyone luck so our first story is actually dealing with Kit and Krista uh if you remember who Kit and Krista are or aren't aware uh they used to run Nintendo Minute for the official Nintendo YouTube channel it was a nice little show they would interview people sometimes give opinions it was basically a sort of fluff show for Nintendo uh that tried to connect with fans and they did that show for about I don't know 10 13 years they were doing it for a long time uh both Kit and Krista have left Nintendo after Nintendo closed their California office so now the only office for Nintendo America now besides obviously Retro Studios exist in Redmond Washington and they were given the option to move to Redmond Washington and they didn't have to end Nintendo Minute but they decided hey our family our friends everyone's here we're not leaving that well they have decided to return with their own podcast called the Kit and Krista podcast I will put a link to their YouTube channel for down below they also have a Patreon as well for you guys can check all the details out on it if you want their plan for this podcast we have no idea how long the episodes are going to be or if they're going to do interviews in this podcast but they are going to be talking about stories that they were unable to talk about on Nintendo Minute that they have experienced over the last 13 to 14 years uh they're going to do a classic Nintendo Minute segment in each podcast as well and then dive into other things in gaming news and in the industry because they obviously have a lot of thoughts on things that isn't just Nintendo uh so I think it's going to be really interesting to see what how this podcast evolves and how successful it can be because these are obviously two former Nintendo employees that have a decent following uh trying to just spin off and do their own thing they're basically trying to keep it going without having to leave where they are so I give them credit for that and I do hope that it all works out for them next up a massive IP is for sale this is the type of sale we don't see very often and that would be the Lord of the Rings so the Saul Zantz company has decided to sell its holdings in the Tolkien uh which is expected to fetch around two billion dollars at auction now Amazon supposedly in talks with this along with several other companies potentially in talks as well and this does include the movie and video game rights this won't affect Gollum that's scheduled to come out later this year as that's a pre-existing contract and is supposed to come to Nintendo Switch but it could impact several other things coming down the line uh right now uh the movie rights are even up for grabs because despite a different studio handling the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit movies they haven't done anything film-wise in a while so they've sort of lost their movie rights back to the default and the Saul Zantz company owns a majority of Tolkien holdings so it's really interesting to see uh who ends up with the rights for the TV movies video games stuff like that I wouldn't be surprised if disney's may be in talks as well although um we'll see if that's even something the FCC would approve after they obviously got their hands on Marvel and Fox but we'll have to wait and see how it all turns out but for right now it is up for sale I don't think we need to think Nintendo's probably gonna get involved in this it's too much money for Nintendo to consider for a single IP but hey we'll see what happens down the line next up we have brand new details for Xenoblade Chronicles 3 uh courtesy of the games director Tetsuya Takahashi so let's just jump right into everything he said because it's quite long just over four years since the release of Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and one and a half years since the release of Xenoblade Chronicles definitive edition we now bring you news regarding the latest game from Monolith Soft Xenoblade Chronicles 3 as the name indicates it is the third installment in the Xenoblade Chronicles series we are currently making the final adjustments to ensure we make it the best game possible based on everything we've learned from the past games from the series the key visual features a broken greatsword of Machanus and the body of Yuriana Titan with big gaping hole I imagine everyone who saw the trailer was quite surprised by the final scene what is this visual hinting at I can't reveal that yet what I can tell you is this visual was conceived quite some time ago more precisely speaking we came up with it sometime between the end of development of Xenoblade Chronicles and the beginning of development of Xenoblade Chronicles so it's not something we recently added to the series we believe the game will be enjoyable for both those who have played Xenoblade Chronicles and or Xenoblade Chronicles 2 as well as those who will be playing Xenoblade Chronicles game for the first time the characters were designed by Matsuda Yuga Seto who also designed the characters for Xenoblade Chronicles 2 while we can't show them to you at this time Tachi Magutani created some of the key artworks as you can see familiar staff members to the Xenoblade Chronicles series have once again come together to create this game the game music was also handled by artists who have contributed to the series in the past the music for Xenoblade Chronicles 3 was composed by Yusamori Mitsuda Manami Kayata Ace Tomakura Chico Kenji Haramatsu and Mariam Abunzer the music in this game maintains a unique Xenoblade Chronicles touch while also taking on a new challenge namely that of integrating as its motif a flute based melody the flute is actually one of the key themes in this game a variety of other elements and themes are hidden in the trailer will be revealing the details bit by bit going forward Xenoblade Chronicles 3 is a brand new adventure bringing together the worlds of Xenoblade Chronicles and Xenoblade Chronicles 2 to take the players into the future while there is still some time left before the release these look forward to it and obviously this is going to build a lot of hype for Xenoblade Chronicles 3 they did reveal a ton of details of Xenoblade Chronicles 2 heading into launch so I expect them to do the same here looks like they're going to be drip feeding through these blog posts maybe press releases obviously trailers and all that as well all the way up to release yeah I don't know if this is going to be the final installment this you know monolith soft tends to do like a three game installment technically we would be fourth games in Xenoblade Chronicles X which was a spin-off I'm not sure what we consider that but yeah um we'll see if this is the last Xenoblade Chronicles game there is but I do expect this to be the end of the current chapter of Xenoblade Chronicles 1 and 2 so this is going to be this is going to be a great way to see how they want to end this story so next up we have the conclusion of a lawsuit with the government and Nintendo against team executor hacker extraordinaire Gary Bowser last we talked about this the update was that the federal government was trying to get five years imprisonment against Gary Bowser to set an example that this sort of behavior stealing games hacking products like this is frowned upon and definitely illegal well they did not get their five-year wish but they did get 40 months Gary Bowser has been officially put in jail now for 40 months which is just over three years you got to let me know if you think this is a fair punishment remember he already owes 15 million dollars worth of fines I owes 5 million to Nintendo and 10 million no wait no 5 million to the government and fines 10 million to Nintendo and damages so let me know if you think this is is fair the two other cohorts of team executor right now are not in custody they have a bunch of pending lawsuits against them as well so maybe we'll have more updates on this story down the line but you guys let me know what you think about this was this a just and fair punishment you think it's too much do you think it's not enough I mean that's that's a valid thought process as well next up I want to tell you guys that all of the big games are seemingly all the big games from yesterday's Nintendo Direct are now up for physical pre-order at many retail it's not all of them have it up the one that we're going to talk about ourselves is just one because we we have a special deal going on between Nintendo and Best Buy at the moment where if you use our affiliate link we actually get a 14% kickback on your pre-orders or really any purchase you buy for Switch so down in the description or the pinned comment we're actually going to put up all of the affiliate links for the Best Buy physical versions of all the big games yesterday from Nintendo Switch sports this was two three Kirby etc all the big ones are up there Mario Strikers the new Fire Emblem Warriors game they're all there so if you were looking to buy those games anyways obviously we encourage you to use our affiliate links and help support the channel without hey you're not donating you're just something you're going to buy anyway so why not give us a small kickback obviously you don't have to use our affiliate links you can go ahead and pre-order at your favorite retail outlets I'm sure Amazon has them up target GameStop etc as well but we're just going to link to our affiliate link because hey you know what why not try to support our channel I don't know you guys you guys could literally am I begging you to Nate don't do this don't be begging people to use your affiliate I don't care get the game wherever you want guys buy it on the eShop in fact Nintendo Switch sports is cheaper digitally than physically physically you get the leg strap digitally you don't so they're only charging you 40 so I mean if you don't care about the leg strap technically you should just buy digitally but hey you know what some people need that physical card and our final story is a bit of an interesting one um this was something that kind of slipped under the radar yesterday and we had a Nintendo Direct so we weren't really going to talk about this yesterday but Phil Spencer put out an interesting update on their purchasing acquisition of Activision Blizzard and their intense moving forward with games especially major IPs like Call of Duty and what's interesting isn't so much that he's you know basically reassuring that beyond currently existing contracts they plan to bring Call of Duty as an example to PlayStation and stuff moving forward it's comments he made specifically applies to Nintendo Switch that I find most interesting since Activision Blizzard hasn't exactly been the greatest supporter of Switch we did get Overwatch we have gotten like you know Crash and Spyro but we we don't get the big IPs although I mean the Overwatch is pretty big and we're supposed to get Overwatch too but in general we don't get their biggest IPs on Switch and that might be changing because Phil Spencer said something that I thought was really shocking we'd like to bring Call of Duty to Nintendo devices we'd like to bring other popular titles that Activision Blizzard has and ensure that they continue to be available on PlayStation and that they become available on Nintendo namely invest more in innovation bring it to more people bring it to more platforms make it even more useful and hopefully delightful for the people who use it now obviously the PlayStation stuff is just maintaining current ways that Activision Blizzard works but the idea that they want to bring Call of Duty to Nintendo and other big Activision Blizzard games to Nintendo as well I find that to be utterly fascinating because again Activision Blizzard has basically been avoiding Nintendo like the plague but was that because Bobby Kotick was making those decisions and he was the one deciding Nintendo switch wasn't worth investing in whereas Phil Spencer has raw sales data of things like Cuphead to look at things like Ori to look at and probably realizes there's a really big untapped audience on Switch for these games so why the hell are we avoiding them and it sounds like under Microsoft's tutelage Activision Blizzard might be actually getting better at being multi-platform instead of becoming more inclusive to Microsoft at least for the really big IPs so I find that to be really interesting that at least starting the Phil Spencer his goal is to get Activision Blizzard Ring Call of Duty and all their other big IPs to Nintendo Switch or future Nintendo platforms that to me is exciting and a very interesting twist of fate here obviously there's a lot of just trying to get the sale approved by the FCC and minds can change down the line and I do expect certain Activision Blizzard games to eventually be exclusive to Xbox Game Pass platforms but I do think that they might see a benefit in Call of Duty the same way they did with Minecraft to keep it a multi-platform experience and if that's the case hey if we're going to keep Call of Duty always infinitely multi-platform then why the hell don't we put this on Switch I don't know why Microsoft is going this way but I'm really happy about it and I think they just see untapped sales potential that Call of Duty could bring the Switch because there's not really a lot of games military shooter-wise that would compete with it I don't know it just makes a lot of sense they brought Call of Duty Black Ops to literally the Wii U and that platform flopped so why the hell not bring it to Switch I understand downgrades and all that who cares right Fortnite's massively successful on here every game that's basically come over has been massively successful so hey you know what Phil I like where you're going with this and I really really hope that you stick to your guns and get Activision Blizzard to deliver a high quality Call of Duty port to Switch all right folks I am Nathan de Rubble Jans from Nintendo Prime one of you guys so much for tuning in it's been a lot of fun today and I'll catch you in the next video