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the first story today is about the nintendo switch right now shocking right i mean we're a nintendo channel and we're talking about switch well actually we're talking about the wall street journal rumor that landed yesterday for those that are unaware the wall street journal rumor basically states there are two versions of the nintendo switch coming this year that are brand new one of them is going to be kind of like a mini version and another one is going to be a pro version again these are just kind of code names being used to describe them these are not official names provided by nintendo or from their sources and it basically means that the mini model is basically targeted for children or you know people that are looking for a cheaper version of the nintendo switch well the pro model is being targeted to avid gamers now they did know that the pro model does not put out the performance of a playstation 4 pro or an xbox one x this is notable because why are they comparing the power of this thing to that when the current switch isn't even at playstation 4 levels i don't know some are saying that this suggests it might be playstation 4 levels in capabilities i'm unsure at this point but i do think it's really interesting to at least speculate about it now they claim their sources both come from the manufacturing side and from software development side where developers already have dev kits for these units and now it's also assumed that most games will be cross compatible although as we learned with the new nintendo 3ds there were third party games that were exclusive to that version of course that's not the only thing we did get zlb chronicles as well ported from we but you know you catch my drift on the most part it was third parties that took advantage of that extra power and kept things away from the regular 3ds but the new nintendo 3ds xl also massively overtook the original 3ds in sales so i don't know becoming a non-issue so we'll have to see what happens this time around assuming that this rumor is true yesterday sony debuted their state of play which is essentially sony's version of a nintendo direct interesting huh well let's talk about it for a moment at least about what was announced some of the major titles because uh some people are pretty disappointed and um i disagree but uh well more on that later let's just get into the games that they announced so they kicked off state of play with iron man vr all right looks pretty interesting some people were not happy that it was a vr game but it still looks good just because then vr shouldn't change perception of how on how good it is no man sky announced a new vr mode coming in a free update blood and truth vr is coming on may 28th it's a game we've known him up and now we have a release date uh five night at freddy's help wanted vr editions coming it'll feature brand new maps and levels as well as some from the original five night at freddy's game uh mortal combat was actually featured at the end of state of play and it featured lu kong kung lao and jacks these are all people that were either part of the movie series or part of some of the original mortal combat games back in the 90s uh the days gone trailer was also debuted again this is you know days gone comes out next month so this isn't surprising that they wanted to advertise it uh some people actually got pretty excited for this game after this trailer because this trailer did admittedly look a lot better than the last time that we saw days gone so we'll have to see uh how that kind of survival uh zombie shooter game ends up turning out we've seen a lot of these survival zombie games over the years so we'll see how this one uh stands up we also got an announcement of a brand new ip called concrete genie uh very interesting game uh definitely an original concept and original direction and then there was another game called observation coming out uh looks really cool takes place in outer space you're like i don't know you're in the spaceship it's it just looks cool it's hard to describe it without you just watching the trailer uh and that comes out on may 21st it's also coming to pc i think it's actually coming to the epic game store another one of those you know pc exclusives but yeah i mean i honestly the state of play really wasn't that bad for me personally you know maybe it's because i'm not heavily invested in sony's side of things and i'm not like sitting here disappointed they're not going to be at e3 you know i wish they were at e3 but if they don't really have much to talk about what's the point of being at e3 and just disappointing people uh last year's e3 they even had a couple cool announcements and they still disappointed people so uh i don't know i'm all for them doing these like little mini direct style things they didn't promise in the state of play this is just the first of several that will come this year so i expect at least two more of these if not three plus we know about the playstation experience which comes towards the end of the year so we're gonna hear plenty from sony this year they're just not gonna be happening in june at least at e3 as far as we're aware beyond third parties that might announce games coming to playstation 4 at their own press conferences like ubisoft is still holding one Bethesda etc ea isn't however ea will have new announcements through the live stream of ea play which is their basically in-person ability for people to come and check out stuff well they'll have like a show going on for the three days that ea play is publicly available and uh they'll be making announcements there so they're basically just getting rid of the press conference and say look what does give your announcements in nintendo treehouse style and uh i don't think there's anything wrong with that it's different it's new why not yesterday apple announced the apple arcade which is a subscription service for apple devices that's coming out later this year no pricing was given but it's a subscription service for games and there will be exclusive games uh there's an exclusive game being made by platinum games actually for this platform uh and even some of the cooler games they showed off it turns out some of them are also coming to nintendo switch uh so it's very interesting to see apple take this route they are technically right now the first announced games as a subscription model uh for mobile now we do know game pass is a subscription model that exists for xbox and obviously we know about things like ea access that also exists on xbox so it's not the first gaming subscription service but it is one of the first ones coming to mobile exclusive to apple devices we'll have to wait and see how successful that is in wake of the apple arcade announcement shantae 5 was announced on twitter as coming to nintendo switch playstation 4 xbox one pco and apple arcade so shantae 5 is coming that's awesome i know some of you guys are really really excited about games like shantae or shantae or shantae shantu i'd you know what i'd have no idea how to pronounce the name of that character maybe i gotta write the first time me and pronunciations don't get along very well anyways it's coming and uh no release date yet but it's it's in development and coming at some point so here's some interesting news and this is our first bit of news that actually comes from today and that is that square enix has announced that final fantasy 14 is currently in negotiations with microsoft nintendo and google to bring final fantasy 14 to those platforms a key part of these negotiations apparently is their sticking point of wanting to support crossplay now obviously we know that final fantasy 14 is on playstation 4 and on pc and there's been some iffy-ness on sony supporting crossplay to other platforms and i'm not sure that they can convince sony to make them make their version cross platform compatible with xbox nintendo and google stadia but if they can get nintendo microsoft and google stadia to approve of cross platform play between all of those three platforms plus some pc users that might choose to play with that crowd it might be a very enticing setup they fully believe in final fantasy 14 kind of be in their world of warcraft where it's gonna last for many many years to come and it would be a big get for switch owners it would also be extremely nice for those who own an xbox or potentially the xcloud in the future and obviously google stadia just wants everything so they're gonna be on board for this i'm sure as much as they can google stadia already said that their whole platform supports crossplay so i doubt that they're really gonna be the hard part it's whether or not nintendo microsoft and google can all work together to make this happen that being said microsoft and nintendo have been supporting crossplay really since the very beginning so i don't see this being a problem it's mostly just the negotiation phase and how they're going to sort out subscription fees and how that works and being able to play on multiple platforms and possibly having your character i mean some it's a mmo so whatever platform you play on your character should be available when you log in with the account it'll be interesting to see how this all works but i gotta say this is very good news that final fantasy 14 is likely coming to switch xbox and google stadia at some point in the future probably next year or so you gotta give them time to get it all ported and working but that's pretty cool and i can't wait to see how the negotiations play out for this ea has decided to lay off 350 people from their marketing and research department here is the unofficial statement they released to kotaku today we took some important steps as a company to address our challenges and prepare for the opportunities ahead as we look across a changing world around us it's clear we must change with it we're making deliberate moves to better deliver on our commitments refine our organization and meet the needs of players as part of this we have made changes to our marketing and publishing organization our operation teams and we're ramping down our current presence in japan and russia as we focus on different ways to serve our players in those markets in addition to organizational changes we are deeply focused on increasing quality in our games and services great games will continue to be at the core of everything we do and we are thinking differently about how to amaze and inspire our players this is a difficult day the changes we're making today will impact 350 roles in our 9 000 person company these are important but very hard decisions and we do not take them lightly we are friends and colleagues at ea we appreciate and value everyone's contributions and we are doing everything we can to ensure we are looking after our people to help them through this period to find their next opportunity this is our top priority now a lot of people i've heard that have previously worked for ea have had a lot of positive things to say about the company on the whole and how it treats its employees both on the way in and on the way out so i have no doubt that ea will be providing services to help some of these people find new jobs obviously great resume to have ea on there and various heads of ea to be on that resume so i do think that ea is going to help with placement of these people to help them find new jobs at other companies but it's still always a sad day when we're talking about 350 people losing their jobs obviously this doesn't affect game development per se because this is more of a marketing thing this is more of a market research thing but it's still sad to see it happen i wish those people well and i mean you know ea it's in the game until it's not in the game and they fire you so you remember those switch rumors in the wall street journal we just reported well i guess yesterday technically but also in the very first story of this video or we're gonna end with rumors related to that as well because not only is there now a second major media source backing the rumors of two new switch models coming this year they actually provide some details that were not provided by the wall street journal so let's dive into that so for starters it's a euro gamer that is corroborating these rumors with their own independent sources they claim are different from the sources that are had at wall street journal so that's key to note these are new sources that are not related to the original report and these sources have made some statements about these devices that we didn't previously know and one of those statements is that what is happening with the cheaper kid friendly version of switch is more akin to what Nintendo did to with the 2DS so what they're saying is a key functionality of the platform is going to be taking away and it sounds like the key functionality that's going to be taken away is you will not be able to dock this switch and you will not be able to hook it up to your tv in any way even through a third party dock it's going to be strictly handheld only and i don't think that's surprising that's the cheapest way to get switched into the most amount of hands and kids don't necessarily care as much about docking the platform heck there's some adults that don't care about it either and again the 2DS took away the 3d feature which was the key name to the 3ds so this isn't surprising it'll be interesting to see if they switch up haha no pun intended there uh the name of it or the branding of it uh to reflect that it's not the exact same as the original switch but it's probably gonna play the exact same games and the performance you end up getting in handheld mode on the current switch is probably the same performance you're gonna get in this one maybe a smaller form factor smaller screen maybe non detachable controllers i'm not exactly sure on that front because it doesn't talk about the controllers but it's definitely an interesting direction now as for the switch pro they stated that the switch pro is going to be more akin to a new nintendo 3ds in terms of the changes now that might not sound that impressive but let's talk about the changes the new nintendo 3ds had compared to the original 3ds so for starters the new nintendo 3ds doubled the amount of cores on the cpu going from a dual core to a quad core now the original cores ran at 268 megahertz but on the new nintendo 3ds all four cores ran at 802 megahertz a massive leap over the original cpu so again it was still a pretty significant jump for the 3ds hardware now the gpu didn't change at all in terms of the megahertz it ran at on the new nintendo 3ds but they did add four megabytes more of vram which was a big deal at the time because the vram of that gpu runs at the megabyte level at the gigabyte level that were used to the pc side of things now all of that being said they also doubled the amount of ram in it so what you're hearing here is these are all pretty significant changes to the new nintendo 3ds versus the original 3ds and if similar changes like that come to the switch if you go from four gigabytes of ram to eight if they double the amount of processing cores increase the megahertz add a little bit more vram to the gpu even if it runs at the same uh frequency that's a massive leap and that is how you get folks to the playstation 4 level or pretty damn close that being said obviously that's uh just what they're stating it's probably not based on any actual technical specifications you know they probably haven't opened the chip up and gotten down to all of the different fine minute details of it but still it's really interesting to hear that the changes are actually akin to something that was a pretty significant change uh the reason that some of you guys might not have noticed the change is because the resolution of the screen did not change but there are many games that run significantly better on the new nintendo 3ds xl and some games that only run on it and will not run the og 3ds in addition uh there are actually a game that runs on it in particular i can recall right now hyrule warriors legends that actually ran at a higher frame rate than the wii u version so again it was a pretty significant leap in power for the 3ds so if that's what we're talking about in comparison to switch i mean i don't i don't know what to tell you is it going to be playstation 4 level is it going to be less i'm not really sure a lot of people treat the new nintendo 3ds as if it's just like this minor leap when it was a pretty significant bump to the 3ds um it was like slapping two 3ds is together basically with higher clock speeds so uh that's pretty exciting and i can't wait to see how this turns out uh either way we now have two independent sources the euro gamer and wall street journal both stating that these models are coming one for kids one for avid gamers uh whatever they end up looking like whatever the form factor is heck maybe they're gonna go back to a clamshell design for the switch for kids to kind of you know put the controllers on the bottom screen on the top and kind of protect things i don't know i don't know what nintendo's thinking but i know that it's an exciting future for switch this year and uh by summer at some point we should be getting some announcements heck maybe at e3 nintendo hasn't done hardware announcements at e3 in a while but uh maybe they're gonna bring the goods this year knowing that there's maybe maybe an opening without sony being there i don't know anyways i'm nintendo jess from nintendo prime i want to thank you all for tuning into prime news thank you for sticking by me despite some technical difficulties last night and this morning but you know what prime news was here i hope it was worth the wait i love all of your faces and i'll see you in the next video