 Hey everyone welcome back to here's the news five major news items for you today I mean we got things for everything from sales data in Japan to Square Enix doing its own Nintendo direct style presentation today literally called Square Enix presents We got Sony buying EVO of all things bunch of crazy stuff including potential specs For the Nintendo switch pro that sound completely unbelievable until you consider who is saying it and Why they would know this information? Alright before we enter that we are giving away a $99 Nintendo switch eShop gift card or a $100 PlayStation or Xbox gift card it'll be user choice on that We're also giving away a copy of Monster Hunter Rise and two additional $20 Nintendo switch Xbox or PlayStation gift cards for four total winners to enter down in the description or the pinned comment Let's just get right into the news Right away. We got Japan sales data in for Nintendo switch PlayStation 5 etc. Really switch dominates So here's the top 10 software and as you're seeing here the number one selling software for last week was Mario 3D World Plus Bowser's Fury with 41,734 units. It is now across half a million units in Japan Nintendo just continues to kill it. They literally own the entire top 10. There's one new game in there I'm not gonna read through the whole list. You see it on screen Honestly, this is just par for the course for Nintendo But what's interesting is the Nintendo switch while it still leads in hardware sales at 72,610 units actually saw a 17,000 decrease week over week whereas PlayStation 5 at number two sold 37,851 units, which is a 15,000 increase week over week They are still selling out of the PlayStation 5 just like they are everywhere else in the world as many use it as they can get out They're just putting more and more units into Japan So we could see PlayStation 5 units continue to rise and potentially threaten switch or at least you would think that if it wasn't for the fact that monster hunter rise comes out this month literally next week, so Yeah, sales are about to explode for switch all over again. Maybe even another hundred fifty two hundred K week or something I don't know. It's gonna be insane because monster hunter is that big of a deal. So It's just interesting to see what's happening PlayStation 5 is clearly not out of demand in Japan Xbox is somewhere on the sales list as well Xbox series X under a thousand units, but I think over 700 which is actually pretty good for an Xbox platform But anyways, let's get into our next story, which is Square Enix presents. Yes, folks Square Enix did their own Nintendo Direct and the big thing here is they promised there will be future Square Enix presents this year. So this is one of my maybe two or three of these bad boys And first up they kicked off the whole show with out riders Yes, folks out riders that comes out on April 1st on PlayStation 4 Xbox one PlayStation 5 and Xbox series X along with PC and Google stadia on PC releasing on steam and Epic game store. So lots of options to buy this game unfortunately not on switch. It is a co-op RPG shooter And it's by the makers of bullet storming Gears of War. So it has a good team behind it I want to see how well this game turns out. It is one of the biggest third-party launches to start this year And it's a new IP new IPs are always exciting when they come from anyone let alone a triple-a developers So we'll have to see how this turns out Hopefully it can find the kind of sales that bullet storm was unable to find in the past with Gears of War did Maybe this will be able to pull off a more Gears of War style consistent sales pace We'll see. I haven't played the game. So I don't know if it's even worth your money But hey, it's coming and it's coming soon the next story from the Square Enix presents Recap comes from the 25th anniversary of Tomb Raider That's right. Laura Croft has turned 25 years old. She is Officially the same age I was when I met my fiance a decade ago, and I was playing like Tomb Raider games when I was 10 I'm old. All right That being said They announced a bunch of stuff including some reconfirming things that have been previously announced There's a new animated show coming to Netflix There's a new live-action movie in the works with the same actress who was in the last one They have crossover content in Ghost Recon Breakpoint and War of the Visions in Final Fantasy Brake Exvius Tomb Raider cookbook is coming out Also, the big announcement today was a Tomb Raider definitive survivor trilogy edition. That's right Say that five times fast has arrived today digital only it is a collection of all three of the rebooted Tomb Raider games Including all DLC. It's available right now again digital only on your PlayStation and Xboxes and PCs out there It looks like it's about 20 bucks So it's a really good price if you haven't played any of the games includes all that DLC. It's up. That's awesome Also, we all know that Laura Croft was added a fortnight or if you didn't now you do well They're also going to be adding Croft Manor later to creative mode So that should be really really interesting. They did say there's going to be more announcements for the 25th anniversary Coming later this year. Hopefully a new like may mind Tomb Raider game would be quite interesting They're like a remaster of the old ones. I don't know. There's a lot they could have in the works So we'll see what happens next up Square Enix Montreal announced their new game They're working on it called hitman sniper assassins. We don't know anything about it. It's just hitman multiplayer maybe I I don't know. I honestly have no idea what this game is. They didn't give much information Next up Crystal Night Amix showed off their new Avengers DLC called future in perfect, which is a Hawkeye It's free DLC plus they featured the free upgrade for next-gen which includes 4k 60 FPS and improved destructive Destructions in the environments. They also announced and this was a big announcement today black Panther war for Wakanda Expansion is coming later this year. That'll obviously be a hate expansion now I know Marvel's Avengers the game has had quite a bit of controversy around how the game Was announced and then what it turned out to be and how they delivered it and I don't know Um, I actually thought the game was actually pretty good But I also didn't pay attention to the media cycle on it. So, you know, it is what it is I don't know how many people are still playing but it's there Obviously, they're trying to take advantage of the fact that Marvel is still a massive deal in media Next up the there was a new Balan Wonderland trailer. This is a game coming to switch But also coming to all other platforms there has a demo out as well that did not get very well received They claim they made some improvements based off demo feedback But they couldn't fix some things because it would fundamentally change what the game is It comes out March 26th and honestly, you're seeing the trailer right now. I think it looks Nice it looks promising, but the demo really soured some people. So we'll we'll see if the final game can Really impress moving on life is strange gets a new game. It's called life in strange true colors It's coming out on September 10th. It looks really really good life is strange is a massive story heavy game There's two prior games as well called life is strange and life is strange before the storm They're actually coming out in a remastered collection a later this fall. That's going to have improved visuals 4k likely all that jazz There's also going to be Some live So some new animations in those games, but in the new one the true colors game They actually went with live motion capture, which is always best So it's gonna be one of the most realistic in terms of how the characters move yet Basically life is strange is just becoming a bigger and bigger deal So that's really really great and then they ended the show with what I thought we all anticipated and that was a new look at Project Athea. It's not vaporware folks. It's real. Of course it is coming to PlayStation 5 and PC they unveiled it with what could be best described as a Title reveal calling it for spoken and there was a giant dragon because dragons are awesome So it's coming in 2022 so console exclusive the PlayStation 5 and PC really exciting As always PC gamers are starting to see the reaping of the benefits now is a lot You know all Xbox games come to PC now most PlayStation 5 exclusives are coming to PC It's a good time to be a PC gamer. Let me tell you well sort of outside of the fact You can't really build a PC right now That part sucks. All right moving on Sony and some company I've never heard of called RTS when I think RTS I think real-time strategy, but whatever Sony and RTS together have co-purchased Evo Yeah, the fighting game tournament and they announced that Sony will not be restricted them to just Sony platforms But here's the thing Xbox also said that like all Bethesda games would be a case-by-case basis sign if it comes out on PlayStation And then the purchase was finalized and they say yeah outside of the currently contractually obligated games Nothing's going to PlayStation. It's all coming exclusively to game pass and game pass platforms PlayStation is not a game pass platform So I don't know how much you could believe when you're told this stuff I don't think it's gonna affect things this year. There is going to be an Evo online event in August I don't think any of this is going to impact that but I do think there's a potential that future in-person events are gonna be Heavily leaning towards PlayStation versions of fighting games and fighting games on PlayStation platforms Let's just be honest here Sony didn't buy Evo to not advertise Sony Sony didn't buy Evo to not advertise PlayStation so I Mean let's just let's just be real with time. Yes PlayStation has sponsored Evo in the past difference between a sponsorship and hey We own this event Also for smash fans out there Nintendo already has major issues with the melee and ultimate community. I'm not going to get into all that drama It goes back years Nintendo themselves might have already been trying to pull smash out of these events Nintendo is also not super supportive of the fighting community anyways, so seeing smash get dropped out of Evo would suck but also You think Sony cares? I pretty sure they don't give two flying hoots. All right moving on The next story is actually about This is This is big do maternal do maternal dropped a surprise trailer yesterday for the ancient gods part two and The biggest surprise of that DLC is that it comes today. It's here today. They didn't give us like any run up It's here today. We get the complete hell. We get to finally end the hell saga in doom So supposedly that's what this DLC does. I don't know. I have it on game pass on series X I also have it on switch at some point tonight. I'll probably dive into it a little bit But for right now, it's out now really cool surprise drop good on them good on the you know doom eternal id software Really great to see them. Just literally drop this from the sky on us. I like surprises like this, especially with DLC I don't feel like you need, you know months and months of build up for DLC. I know it's in release Announce and release it works. All right this last story I know a lot of you guys have already jumped to this story didn't see the rest of here's the news How dare you shame on you? But it's okay. I understand. This is the story that keeps on giving so far in 2021 And that is the switch pro and no, I'm not just calling it the switch pro as some You know out there moniker the people talking about this called that the switch pro themselves Although they're not saying that's what it's called. That's how they're referencing it So we're gonna reference it the way they do because all of this information comes from Bloomberg, but it doesn't just come from another Takahashi Machizuki public article Oh, no, no, no, it comes from an investors article that you need to be an actual investor to get access to Which means you me and the rest of you guys out there can't actually access. It's through the bling see service You have to apply for it and there's like a really expensive fee and I applied for it And I couldn't get access as a youtuber So it is what it is, but thankfully some people on Reddit, which of course Hello Wall Street bets is on Reddit have access to this because they obviously are gathering all the possible information They came for investment purposes and they summarize the article and oh boy, is there a lot in here? There's price points. There's release dates. There's Specs or at least an idea of what the specs could be to a degree Kind of sorta. Let's oh, let's talk about it So first up they state plainly and clearly the switch pro is releasing this holiday period It's coming this holiday. They're not even questioning it They're not saying oh our sources are saying no, they're just saying it's coming this holiday. That's what Bloomberg is reporting Hardware sales overall for switch will either be flat or slightly increased in the current fiscal year So yeah, they don't think switch sales are are diving off a cliff We talked about this in the latest episode of the podcast be sure to click up here Where Bloomberg also, you know previously said hey look, we don't think these analysts are right Sales are either gonna be the same as last year or they're going to be even higher And what they are saying is switch pro sales in particular will be higher at launch than PlayStation 4 pro sales PlayStation 4 pro sales were at 2 million. So they're saying switch pro is going to sell more than that during launch month Okay, that's kind of a prediction. I'll give them that it's probably true as long as switch can maintain its popularity Which I don't think it's gonna slow down with Monster Hunter Rise new Pokemon snap Mario golf scouts. I think they're gonna be pretty good for the first half of the year We'll see what happens for the second now What's interesting here is they're saying launch quarter September to December. They expect the switch family of systems Which includes the pro to sell 12 million units. That's a lot of units. That's what they sold last holiday They're saying look it's not going to drop. So investors don't sell right now. They're also saying That Zelda is likely going to be a launch game They are hearing internally that Zelda Breath of the Wild 2 is a launch game So think about launching this holiday Zelda's a launch game Ergo Breath of the Wild 2 is a major holiday game for Nintendo this year. That's according to Bloomberg now They're not confirming that but they're saying they're hearing that so that is a plan Currently they they are hearing is internally happening at Nintendo There's also going to be a bevy of other games releasing around the release plate of it So probably a major game in December a major game back in October. No, you know, whatever there. We obviously know Pokemon So what is it brilliant diamond and shining pearl, right? Those games are coming out during this time period So hey, you never really know They're just saying there's gonna be it could be third-party games They're pretty exclusive games that that are only on this pro model And why would there be third-party exclusive games, especially at launch when there isn't an install audience yet for it? Well Let's just say they give us an idea of the price in the performance. So first let's start with the price They're saying it's going to be priced 20% higher than the current switch Which isn't exact, but it pretty much rounds around 350 bucks. So 350 dollars USD is what they're expecting the price point to be But based on the specs, I feel like that's $50 cheaper than it should be I feel like this should be a 399 system and you want to know why? They're saying the performance of this revision the performance not sales performance They're saying the actual graphical performance and I confirmed it with the Redditor. That is what they mean They're not talking about sales. It's not all sales data. They're talking about actual console performance is Expected from their sources Which includes developers with dev kits to be in line with a PlayStation 4 pro and an Xbox series X Let's let's pause that for a moment There's two ways to read this because the article apparently does not go more in-depth you can either read this as Nintendo's giving you a PlayStation 4 pro in your pocket Sort of switch doesn't exactly perfectly fit in everyone's pockets But you know what I'm saying they're making PlayStation 4 pro portable that will be huge or What they're saying is and this is just an interpretation The leap from switch to switch pro will be Equivalent to the leap from PlayStation 4 to PlayStation 4 pro or equivalent from Xbox one to Xbox one X now The Xbox one X leap was huge because it went from 1.4 teraflops of floating point You know GPU performance to six teraflops in the Xbox one X. It was a rather big GPU bump Equivalent for that, you know if you kind of look at the PlayStation 4 pro wasn't quite as big as believe But if you kind of look at you know somewhere ballpark between them You're looking at a Nintendo switch that currently at dock is just under one teraflop to end up being two three Maybe four teraflops well docked maybe two two and a half teraflops in handheld. That is a mass That's two three X the current switch I'm just putting that out there. This is what Bloomberg is saying That's a massive leap for a mid-gen refresh Which yeah Xbox one X was a massive leap for a mid-gen refresh That never got fully taken advantage of because games were forced to have to be on the original Xbox one I'm just saying that That's huge and it doesn't you know that this obviously the re-iterator It will have 4k output they re-adder the 720p seven inch OLED panel Confirming that this is all the one unit the switch pro unit They are talking what is the one with the seven inch Panel I know this kind of goes against some of the speculation out there that there's going to be a switch XL That isn't upgraded specs that is still a Tegra X one and has a bigger screen with the OLED panel I get it it goes against that but Bloomberg's the source on the OLED panel in the first place And if they're linking the two together, they're saying it's in the upgraded power switch And they're saying the power is going to be 2 3x the current switch. I Don't know what to say other than I hope that they're right because that's what I want the switch pro to be It kind of sounds like Bloomberg is telling me everything that Nintendo Prime has wanted the switch pro to be it's going to be Even cheaper than I thought it would be too We'll have to wait and find out obviously if it's coming this holiday You would presume Nintendo will be announcing it at some point this summer Anyways Now that's it. That's the end of here's the news today We're gonna do a little additional conversation here to talk about why here's the news wasn't here the last few days And what's been going on for people who haven't been updated and then some feedback from you guys one I want feedback on here's the news you guys let me know if you like Here's the news if you like my presentation if you like what I've done with how I'm bringing this news to you let me know if you like the Style I'm doing with the lens where I have a bokeh effect behind me I don't have to do that I have a lens that came with the camera that I could use that does not put bokeh It just makes everything pretty much seem like everything's in focus also But I kind of like the bokeh so I'm impartial to it But I kind of I know what you guys think about the bokeh effect on the background. It's a natural bokeh effect It's not added in editing It's literally part of the lens that I bought now I also want feedback on what you guys think of the quality of the video. This is a 4k 60 fps video The first here's the news to be in 4k 60 because this camera can record 4k 60 Yes folks the reason we haven't had and here's the news over the last three days Even though I started this series last week last Thursday is because my kids broke my Lumix G7 Which I don't even know where it is right now It's broken. I let my kids play with it got chucked against the wall one of my kids got angry It was just a whole big thing And it was kind of sad, but the benefit of it is I upgraded cameras to the Lumix G9 Which came up two years. It's actually a camera from 2017, but it still sells for almost a thousand dollars So it's not a cheap camera, but it's also not one of those top-tier cameras as well But one thing that's great about this camera is it has amazing autofocus It makes the Lumix G7 look like hot garbage in comparison So throughout this video I should have never went out of focus and you should have never saw things go in and out from dark to Light dark to light like we've seen with the prior camera because this camera is just that much better despite the fact that the internal Sensor itself is technically exactly the same. It's the exact same internal sensor But there's additional shutter speed and a whole bunch of other crazy features on the G9 that you guys Will probably never hear about because I'm just gonna use them and you guys will just enjoy the benefits of better video quality You should be able to see all the hairs now on my face including all these gray ones here to show you just how old I really am I don't think I could fool anyone anymore The thing when we get too many people are going to the comments like man Nate you look good. What are you 22? Mmm, something I can get away with those 22 year old remarks anymore, but that's okay I'm just glad to bring a higher quality video to you especially for those people out there that are rocking 4k phones 4k tablets 4k TVs so you can get a better Experience no not all of my content is going to be in 4k for now the nintendo prime podcast is going to be in 1440p Because there's an issue where I can't Quite get it to record long enough to pull off a 4k, which is fine I'm working with Panasonic right now to fix some issues with the camera for the podcast But literally Panasonic's in my DM is talking to me about it So we will have that sorted out But it's not it's still going to be a 1440p thing for the podcast But 4k I think for pretty much everything else I do Moving forward because that's what I want to do and that's what people are enjoying and I know switch isn't 4k But switch pro might be so why not jump the gun to be one of the few nintendo channels out there producing 4k 60 content Why because I can also for the audio is better. I got a different audio setup You guys can't really see it. It's just off-camera, but I'll zoom it up a little bit Look here's my mic. Look how close this is to me. It's very close. It's on a boom arm a Lot to talk about but I also want to know your feedback on the camera on the quality on the show And on the audio because I've been working very hard and invested quite a bit of money Some of it unintentional because I didn't plan for my prior camera to get broken But since it is mmm I've invested something like over two grand Into making the podcast and making my videos look better now over the last few weeks. I Hope it was worth it. That's all I could say. All right. I'll catch you guys in the next video