 Hey guys we're giving away a Tears of the Kingdom collectors edition along with a Switch OLED along with a pin from PAX East. We're also on our road to 133,000 subscribers so I would appreciate if you just hit that subscribe button. Anyways you can go enter that giveaway down in the pinned comment or in the description and let's get into the video. Alright guys, Tears of the Kingdom is now 13 days away at least at the time this video is being recorded and published. Maybe you watch it when it's 12 days, 11, 10, etc. Maybe you're watching this after Tears of the Kingdom comes out. But what I want to tell you today and it's less of a new information thing. We do have some new information we could talk about. We have a much better piece together, a map we could be going over. We have some other screenshots and details that have sort of been out there that we maybe could dive into. But I want to save those for another time because obviously especially when it comes to the map thing it kind of feels like every day there's new additions to the map. So I want to let the map get completely fleshed out here at least for another 24 hours before we dive into it. But what I wanted to talk about today is this idea of how important Tears of the Kingdom is not just to me but for Nintendo and even the video game industry. And some people might feel like I am overstating this a little bit. It's not like the video game industry crashes without Nintendo and without the legend of Zelda and stuff like that. Obviously there is a very healthy gaming industry going on all around us. It's bigger than ever. Mobile phone gaming and tablets are bigger than ever. PC gaming has made a huge comeback becoming really mainstream. Obviously we know PlayStation sells 100 million every generation and their games have been increasing in sales. You know you've got Horizon Forbidden West probably around 12 or 13 million in sales right now. Major DLC dropping all that stuff. So look the video game industry is in a healthy place. Elden Ring last year you know one game of the year rightfully so. It was you know pretty subjectively the game of the year I know I was going to say objectively but that's not really how that works right it's an opinion. So I do think that the video game industry is in a great place and it would be in a great place even without Tears of the Kingdom. But we're also in this place in the video game industry where a lot of weird things are happening and Tears of the Kingdom is not excluded from some of that weirdness and we'll talk about that. What I want to first look at are the things that Tears of the Kingdom you know the timing of this game coming out. You know PlayStation's big games like the next Spider-Man game and Final Fantasy all that stuff those are coming later in the year right. To kick off this year we obviously had Fire Emblem for us Nintendo guys Xbox has Red Fall coming up and then there's been all that negativity around Red Fall and requiring online connections and not being able to actually progress in the game with your friends only the host progresses and just really weird decisions made with that game and then yeah Starfield supposed to be a big redeemer for Microsoft as well but again like Final Fantasy 16 and Spider-Man 2 that stuff is later this year. The beginning of this year has been pretty solid for Nintendo. I mean arguably great for Nintendo and we've had other great multi-platform games like Autopad Traveler 2 but Tears of the Kingdom is coming out at a very interesting point it's a point of inflection for Nintendo and I think a point of inflection for the video game industry because you see this is the third year of those new generation platforms PlayStation and Xbox and literally Sony just put all projections of selling 25 million PlayStation 5's in the current fiscal year which is utterly amazing and would be a all-time record for PlayStation to sell in a year that's awesome and I'm really happy for Sony and you know the people that play on that platform I have a PlayStation 5 so happy for me yay I'm gonna finally get some big games this year I want to play. Heck there was one game Hi-Fi Rush that came on an Xbox actually was actually pretty good too again I'm not one of these console warriors I think there's good games on all the platforms but my thing in talking about when Tears of the Kingdom comes out here is that the industry sort of needs to be reminded of a few things one graphics aren't everything to not everything needs to be 4k 60 FPS to be enjoyable and I know that seems weird because I would love if Tears of the Kingdom was 4k 60 FPS it will be day one on emulators I know I'm not stupid we all know that's gonna happen this game's gonna leak before it comes out and people are gonna already be playing it in 4k and 60 FPS on emulators we're not stupid happens with that research game but the point is that even without that running at 900p and 30 FPS with frame rate drops it's still gonna end up being an absolutely incredible experience for tens of millions of people and the industry sometimes needs needs a bit of a gut punch and sometimes that gut punch comes in you know forms that maybe we least expect it like yeah Redfall was supposed to be this big deal now there's some worries about it now people are saying it doesn't look good enough which I think is just weird because I still think the game looks pretty good I don't know what people are expecting at this point is a gamers are all over the place with their expectations but Zelda is gonna walk in here you know for the most part at a glance looking exactly the same as Breath of the Wild from six plus years ago just from a visual perspective and still gonna end up blowing people's minds because of the creativity of the gameplay and that is something to me that just gets overstated by other gamers about how much other aspects of a game matter more than the actual gameplay of the game when the gameplay is the core fundamental aspect that we're all interacting with now yes higher frame rate does lead to smoother gameplay experiences and I would love for a on switch to for there to be like a 60 FPS mode for tears of the kingdom but my point is that even without that the gameplay ends up being so fundamental so fundamentally enjoyable that it's just beyond anything that people you know think we talked about when they unveiled that little 10-minute gameplay segment of the fuse and the ultra hand and ascend and all this how there were game developers out there being like hey man your Nintendo's out here just making us look bad like they are doing things and ideas with their games that are crazy and even all those nuts and bolts comparisons with ultra hand oh we've had building before looking nuts and bolts and now that media have gone hand on they're kind of like you can't compare this to nuts and bolts it's so far beyond you know even the even the the remote gameplay of nuts and bolts let alone just the possibilities of ultra hand are so far beyond it that it's just not even a fair comparison there really isn't a game that compares to I know my my dear friend you know player essence he put out there the other day that it's sort of like a Minecraft like you have this all this creativity and imagination and then it's helped Minecraft be like this forever game and there is a little bit of that here but in a completely different way like completely unique I do think that Nintendo is reminding the world in the moment of what matters and what matters is fun and I think we sometimes forget that that is an important aspect in all of our lives I don't mean to get too philosophical or life lessening on you guys a man I'm a parent of three I'm a youtuber for a living at the moment thank you by the way for enabling me to do that you guys really you know subscribing and supporting over the last four and a half months have really you know solidified me doing this full time so thank you but between making all this content making multiple videos a day and the live streams and the saving up to do the giveaways we're doing and all that other stuff that just happens in life family things and you know bills and drama from certain aspects of things look in all of this and this is before talking about like personal things like depression and all that what matters as I get older because I turned 37 this year is I don't want to forget what fun feels like fun makes life worth living let's just be frank as we get older some of us forget to have fun or to focus on we have to do the next thing we have to do the next thing we have our next goal example hundred thirty three thousand subscribers if I was solely focused on getting to a hundred thirty three thousand subscribers I might forget to have fun along the way when I'm doing this like part of the reason I wanted to be a full-time youtuber was I enjoy it and what happens if I get so focused on growth I stop enjoying what I'm doing right I want to make sure along the way that we're having fun that I'm having fun and what's so cool about Nintendo and this is maybe the one thing that for any criticism Nintendo deserves I give them credit for is they somehow every year seem to release at least one game that reminds me that fun is more important than anything else and we all have fun in different ways but I love a visual feast game I love games that look gorgeous I love games that run at high frame rates and and all that but there's a reason every now and then I still turn World of Warcraft back on there's a reason I really enjoy Mario Odyssey there's a reason that I play these games that I play a wide variety because I like to have fun I sometimes get tired of the conversations and gaming that lead to really singular focused things like oh if it's less than 60 FPS or it has frame rate dips like we talked about yesterday oh the game sucks and meanwhile I'm smiling I'm laughing I'll I'm when I make some crazy contraption in tears of the kingdom and it crashes and burns and my character goes flying and my stamina runs out and I kill myself I'm gonna be laughing and having a ball and gonna have all these live stream experiences with you guys that are just gonna make me smile and all of this is thanks to tears of the kingdom coming right now at a time that I think gaming needs a reminder of what fun is and one of the reasons that tears of the kingdom is likely going to win game of the year this year even with Final Fantasy 16 and Starfield and other major games coming out is because it's gonna be the one game that goes yeah you can have your super serious story your amazingly in-depth combat trees and progression and all of this stuff and that might be fun to an extent but then there's the kind of fun where you're just smiling a lot and when I watch people play Final Fantasy 16 and you know other Final Fantasy games I suppose I don't see them smiling a lot in the live streams they're really focused they're really determined and that's good that's a type of enjoyment right like they're a serious movie as we watch where we're not laughing but we're still being entertained but I think it's nice to be reminded that it's okay to just laugh and smile and have fun and that doesn't mean there won't be serious and dark moments in tears of the kingdom of course they're well but along the way along the journey I think we're just going to have a lot of fun and I want to thank Nintendo for kind of reminding me and maybe the rest of the world that maybe this is just what some of us need maybe I'm off base maybe I'm just babbling to the wind and nobody cares but I think heavily that tears of the kingdom is coming exactly at least when I need it you guys let me know what you think down in the comments below do you feel like me do you think this is just a bunch of nonsense I don't know these are just the thoughts running across my mind today as you know we just inch closer and closer to tears of the kingdom being here thank you for tuning in and I'll catch you in the next video