 Hey everyone, welcome to 2022. We made it, everybody! Woo-hoo-hoo, yeah! More importantly, we are giving away $100 in cash, money, a new subscriber. So if you are a new subscriber all the way through January 27th, yeah, you get an opportunity for $100 in cash only for our new subscribers. Now, for everyone who's been subscribed this entire time, or in the future, I suppose, we are also giving away three copies of Pokemon Legends Arceus. There's a viral sweep link down in the description in the pinned comment to enter for that. Now, sending all of that aside, this is the way to start 2022, okay? We already know there's a bunch of major Switch games coming, but this news here is just blowing my mind because I never in a million years thought we'd see this game. Again, I had hope, but we're gonna see it. So Goldeneye, back in the day, was one of the most amazing experiences on console when it came to shooters. That and Perfect Dark were sort of the godfathers as they were of what led to Halo and other games coming to platforms. Well, here's the thing. According to Wario64, he found a achievement link for Xbox and holy crap, there it is. And this achievement link is very, very interesting. So you can see real achievements in here for Goldeneye 007. It says they have the run achievement, now try gunning for 205, fly away, do a wielding, shooting cameras. There are screenshots in here, images of the achievements themselves, of the box art, et cetera. And it does show that one player has actually achieved like 45 of the 55 achievements. Now, for those who don't know, this game was going to originally come to the Xbox back in the day. There was even an HD version of it made that ended up leaking online at one point, but it never officially released. And the reason we never got that version of the game or have seen Goldeneye come back in any other way like on virtual console is due to licensing agreements. Now, Nintendo actually does own part of the licensing for this game. And back then when it was gonna come to Xbox, Nintendo actually did okay at going to Xbox. But the problem was the movie licensing was not willing to do it. And this is why when we saw a reimagining of Goldeneye 007 later, it didn't have Pierce Brosnan in as the main character. They replaced it with Daniel Craig. And it's fine, it's just not as good as this one in my opinion. Now, it does appear this is obviously coming to Xbox. A shadow drop, I don't know if it's gonna be part of Game Pass. Well, how they're gonna bring this over is it gonna be the original N64 one? Is it gonna be the HD one? Is it gonna have online play? They're obviously adding achievements which weren't originally part of it. So is there gonna be online play as well? We don't know. Now you might go, okay, Nate, that's fine. It's coming to Xbox. Why do we Nintendo people care beyond some nostalgia over the original game? And yeah, I own an Xbox Series S right now. I'm staring at it. So sure, I get to play it. But if you only own a Switch, why does it matter? Here's why it matters. Nintendo still owns licensing rights to this game. And I can't see them being okay with it coming to Xbox and not coming to Switch. And Xbox isn't going to care either, right? Microsoft and Nintendo have been buddy buddy on a lot of projects over the Nintendo Switch generation. So why would Xbox block it from coming to Switch? That doesn't make any sense. Nintendo okayed it originally to come to Xbox back in the early 2000s. So why would they not reciprocate that? Especially since the game can't even release on Xbox without Nintendo's permission. So if Microsoft has worked out the licensing issues to end up getting this game to come back, why wouldn't they partner with Nintendo and do a dual release on Switch? We're not talking about a super graphically intense game or a complete rebuilt game from the ground up that's just gonna blow your mind. We're talking about a classic first person shooter experience with co-op, maybe online at it in like Nintendo does with the N64 online. And yeah, I think this could realistically be coming to Switch. So here's the facts of the situation. We know real achievements exist for this game. At least one person's played, you know, gotten 45 of the 55 achievements on Xbox, likely as a test. And that means it's coming to Xbox, guys. It's coming to Xbox. But what we also know is Nintendo owns licensing for this game and could obviously have to okay it going to Xbox. Why won't they also want it on there? The biggest thing was always the movie rights. They couldn't work out the movie rights over these years. But if Microsoft, this multi-billion dollar company worked out those movie rights, why wouldn't Nintendo also get this game? Whether it's part of Nintendo 64 online, remember, we just got Banjo-Kazooie is coming to N64 online and Microsoft owns the rights of that even though originally released on the N64. So if they're okay with Banjo-Kazooie, why the hell would they be okay with GoldenEye? Remember, they don't actually own GoldenEye. They just own the studio that made it, right? So anyways, I think personally this is coming to Switch. Maybe it's not going to be coming to Switch to the exact same day as Xbox. Or maybe it is. Maybe this is going to be a shadow drop release. I don't know. But to me, if this is how 2022 is kicking off, can you imagine what the rest of this year is going to be? We're getting the impossible game on Xbox for sure, possibly on Switch. And we're getting an insane lineup of games kicking off the year with the most ambitious Pokemon game since generation one. I am having my mind blown right now. 2022 is kicking off with a bang. And folks, I can't wait to see what's next. Happy New Year, everyone. Welcome to 2022. And I will catch you guys in the next video.