 Hey everyone today I got four big Nintendo Switch stories for you and a couple things I want to mention before we get to those stories. First off is obviously our October giveaway. It is Dread Tover. Yes Metroid Dread is finally out and we are giving away three copies of the game. I'll have more details on how to enter this giveaway later this month but one of the base requirements is to be subscribed. In fact we do giveaways all the time. Any of our regular viewers can tell you this. We do giveaways on our live streams and all that stuff. So hey if you would like a chance to win anything on our channel let alone Metroid Dread be sure to hit that subscribe button. Plus if you don't I might kick your dog. Okay no I won't maybe. Also I have heard a few commenters over my last couple of videos have noted that they have heard a slight echo in some of the audio of my videos specifically when I am towards the upper levels the peaky levels don't worry I'm going crazy. Let me know if you still hear that echo. I have an idea of what was causing that. No the the second microphone I have is turned off so it's not from that. There's something I turn on specifically for streaming that works in that environment but probably isn't ideal for a actual video and I've had it on for a couple weeks so let me know if the audio's improved. That being said let's get right into today's Nintendo news. Our first story is actually great news for those of you that live in the UK or certain parts of region the PAL region of Nintendo Switch because the bottom line is one of the key issues talked about when we were getting the N64 and Genesis particularly for N64 games releasing on Nintendo Switch was hey look they're adding these things as an expansion patch to Nintendo Switch online but there's been a fundamental issue with these games every time they come out especially previously on virtual console and that is that they run at 50 hertz aka max out of 50 FPS this was because at the time when these games came out that was actually the standard in the PAL European region so here in the United States we've been using the 60 hertz standard for a long time but that wasn't the case there so the games were running at 50 and every re-release officially has ran at 50 hertz while Nintendo of Europe's official twitter account came out and announced that hey you know what yeah if you're playing the English version of these N64 games on Nintendo Switch online yep it's gonna run at 60 hertz this is obviously really great news for say people in the UK but if you're from other regions of PAL and you use other languages unfortunately they're basically telling you yep it's still gonna run at 50 hertz so it's good news but bad news because they're giving essentially special treatment to a single language now this treatment is the obvious treatment that Nintendo can do because the 60 hertz English versions exist in the United States if I had to guess or just take in the US versions of the games and tossing that English version overseas because it's just easy they don't have to do any work to do that and if it's any other languages then sorry here's the PAL version so again this is kind of an unfortunate thing where it's good news that there even is a 60 hertz available option but it sucks for those that aren't native English speakers because they might not want to be locked into that and it might not remind them of what they experienced when they were kids um and obviously 50 hertz is what you experienced when you were kids but now the word adults we obviously want something a little bit better than that we expect at least 60 so yeah it's kind of unfortunate that this isn't for everything but hey kudos to Nintendo for at least giving the option because in the past they didn't even give you any option to get 60 hertz in the PAL region for n64 games so it's a step in the right direction I just like to see them go all the way and again this doesn't even affect me I live in the United States but I feel for people that want to play these old games and want to get that full 60 fps experience and you can't just because Nintendo won't let you plus things running at 50 hertz on a current 60 hertz tv or better sometimes you can lead a frame pacing issues as well it's kind of a mess so all we can do is hope that this step in the right direction leads to a more long term solution so our next story deals with Metroid Dread of course we are giving away three copies of Metroid Dread please be subscribed if you would like a chance to win some but here's the thing Metroid Dread is something that we've been wondering what are the sales going to be because sure I think anyone who follows a bunch of youtubers in my space would say hey we want to get at least three million in sales just a week of force rgt85 to play a full playthrough of Balan Wonderland that being said uh suddenly decided him kind of punishing himself with that reality is we don't really know how well Metroid Dread is going to sell we hope it sells well we also know the game as reported by several outlets is widely available to play on pc it actually has been available to play on pc for over a week now uh through emulation and illegal piracy of course now that there's legal copies out there you could obviously hack your version one switch and dump the game yourself so there's still legal ways you can still enjoy it on your pc but reality is obviously piracy was running pretty rampant for this game hence all of the Metroid leaks before launch we'll see if piracy ramps up now but what we do know is that Metroid Dread has some sort of launch numbers we don't know what the exact numbers are but there was announced today that it is the largest Metroid launch in UK history it beat out Metroid Prime 3 which was the previous largest launch now again UK is just one region it's not a huge region that's going to be like yeah if it sells really well there it's going to end up selling 10 million worldwide that's not necessarily always the case but overperforming in a region where you have previously underperformed is notable it's also notable because this was just physical see the Metroid Prime 3 data seems to include digital as well and obviously there's going to be additional digital sales of Metroid Dread beyond physical so physical sales of Metroid Dread alone are the best for a Metroid game ever let alone counting digital in so this is really really good news obviously we'll know next week Thursday what launch or this week Thursday actually what launch sales were in Japan we'll have to wait obviously a whole month and a half here before we know sales here in the US from the MPD but reality is that Metroid Dread at least for the first little bit of numbers we have in which aren't real numbers they're just kind of a statement is really really good so here's hoping that Metroid Dread could sell five plus million and that this convinces Nintendo to make more of these Metroidvania side scrolling games because I don't want Dread to be the final one based on my experience with the game again I have an impressions video coming at some point this week where I talk about my final thoughts on Metroid Dread because I'm still playing through the games I don't want to get too much into it but it's pretty damn good let's just say that so this has been this next story is just something that we have known for a while been rumored heavily rumored there's been some other things the GTA trilogy Grand Theft Auto trilogy which is you know everything through the San Andreas doesn't include obviously GTA 5 yeah it's coming to Nintendo Switch it's also coming to other platforms and it hasn't really technically been officially announced per se there's no official release date although now we have kind of a leak for that release date of December 7th the games supposedly are just going to be upgraded textures so supposedly comes December 7th and has graphical improvements but it's supposed to have the same look and feel this feels like an HD sort of remastering port kind of thing think like you know Twilight Princess HD or something to that ilk it doesn't sound like it's anything major does look like it's coming to Nintendo Switch and other platforms we're still waiting for like all the official information to come out about this thing and we're not really sure why they're holding back officially there could be some magical reveal they plan to do in the next couple of months to do a huge blowout maybe tied into some Grand Theft Auto 5 DLC or something I have no idea but this definitely feels like it's something that's coming there's just way too much fire way too many outlets reporting on it way too many retailers reporting on it way too many you know ratings coming in from ratings boards for it so it's pretty obvious this is coming and yeah now we just need to wait for all of the exact official information including like an actual trailer so we can actually see what it looks like right now we're just reading what it looks like rather than seeing it so yeah 2k Rockstar let's just let the lid off already right like this is one of the worst kept secrets in the video game industry at this exact moment so for our last story I'm gonna play a little switch OLED play some more Metroid Dread here um okay let's actually get into what why I'm touching a switch OLED which yes is using the NeoGrip uh at least I'm using the NeoGrip from Skull & Company here's the thing Nintendo has issued a warning for this system uh it's interesting warning because they act like it's a bigger deal than it necessarily is but it's also something that I personally don't think anyone should really even concern themselves with but when you buy a switch OLED there is a thin um layer you'll notice on it if you look closely by the way you might not even notice it unless you're looking for it but if you turn your finger a certain angle you might see a little on the edge where it looks like there's some sort of film on top of the switch OLED and the thing is these films aren't new a lot of places use them but some people might look at that as well hey maybe that's just a protective piece of plastic for shipping let me peel that off it's very common on glass to have a protective film of plastic so let me peel that off but by the way it's extremely hard to peel off you can get it off uh but it's it's not meant to come off which is why it's so difficult and Nintendo has warned people to not take that film off that it is for your protection and that that film is you know almost essential for the OLED the thing is it's not essential I actually have a friend of mine who successfully took his off uh and his switch OLED's working just fine so why is Nintendo warning against taking this film off if it doesn't seem to really ruin the screen to do so which by the way there are times that it does if you remove the film on say a galaxy fold device it actually will ruin the screen and you broke your device and you can't do anything about it even if you try to put the film back on it just doesn't work the same again so you can remove the one on switch OLED but you shouldn't now let me explain what this film does there seems to be two main things it does one of them is supposedly light refraction now I can't really prove that the light refraction does anything I think it's more of a Nintendo fluff term but whatever light refraction supposedly I guess it's supposed to help it burn in or something I have no idea based on everything I've been able to look up online light refraction doesn't really seem to matter for the system but what does matter and this is probably really why they did it is because sometimes children are going to be playing switch OLED right a lot of parents might buy them switch OLEDs to put underneath their Christmas tree or whatever holiday they're celebrating birthday etc and here's the thing unlike the original switch this uses a glass screen rather than a plastic one the original switch and switch like both these plastic screens which are extremely easy to scratch but you basically can't shatter it so there's no way to really do damage to that screen that's going to hurt the end consumer on a glass front screen it's actually quite easy to shatter you could just do one drop and if you hit just right the glass will shatter we see this with phones all the times and how many kids have phones from their parents that the glass is completely shattered and it might not even be a shatter when they gave it to the kid the kid dropped the device the kid threw the device the kid did something that caused just like that actually the screen to break so here's the thing kids break screens all the time this has been a very common thing for a long time so Nintendo thought ahead and said hey look it actually is a super easy solution to this not to prevent the breaking but to prevent kids from cutting themselves on it plus OLED has organic material in it there's a slight chance that organic material could leak out through a crack it's highly likely not going to happen and probably won't even be that harmful but bottom line is what happens is um if this shatters it'll still feel smooth to the touch why because of that thin film they put on there it kind of holds it all together if that makes sense in case of shattering also it doesn't prevent it from shattering but it prevents you from cutting yourself if it is shattered still it's going to look weird to have a broken screen and all that but that's neither here nor there so should you remove it no is it safe to put a what like i have i have a tempered glass screen protector on here is it safe to put a screen protector on top of it absolutely you can put a screen protector on take it off put it on take it off it is not going to peel up that layer that layer is very well i don't know if you call it glue whatever material they're using to stick it down it's very well stuck to the screen and it does not impact the quality of the screen my friend who removed his when we looked at mine uh without the screen protector on that i have on now versus his it looked exactly the same it didn't look like there was any difference so that film didn't do anything plus notably obviously the one reason why you might consider moving that film is that film does put a layer between your finger and the glass screen so you might think it creates a feel difference a touch difference and i can confirm having touched one without the film on and having touched mine with the film on and then obviously mine with the the glass screen protector that i have on it right now uh yeah it feels exactly the same whatever that thin layer is does not ruin the feel of the system because that could have been one reason why people might legitimately want to remove that film is if it feels plasticky when you're using the touch screen but it doesn't it feels very much exactly the same with or without that film at least based on my ability obviously my sense of touch maybe it's different than your sense of touch my friend felt the same way my fiance felt the same way so everybody kind of felt the least that i have around me that it feels the same so bottom line is you're safe to put a screen protector on it there's no reason to really peel it off and it's just there to help protect you or children or anybody else from cutting themselves as an example our ipod right now has a shattered screen because my dog decided to grab it and run and when he grabbed it he bit down and it broke the glass on the screen still works but obviously when you put your finger over it doesn't have that film so it actually will cut your finger uh or micro cut as ours does really like slice it open but it does do little micro cuts um and yeah that's what this prevents from happening in case a screen was broken and kids tend to sometimes break screens but still want to use devices anyways adults are that way as well because hey 350 bucks ain't cheap like that's a lot of money for some people it's not as much as like buying an iphone you know get getting the old thousand dollar plus iphone or Samsung devices or tablets or you know this is like a 1500 dollar laptop it's not that expensive but it are still pricey so just something to kind of consider Nintendo does warn you not to do it um doesn't mean you can't do it but it also doesn't mean that you should do it there's not really any benefit to doing it unless for some reason you just had that that certain level of ocd it's just like dude i could just tell it's there i could see on the little corner that it's just like i don't know uh 0.001 of a millimeter away from the edge i need to feel that thing i get it it might really bug some people it won't harm your switch to remove it it is difficult to remove it you have a high chance of scratching your system doing it um some people might wonder if that film is actually super scratchable it's not um i haven't done a hardness test yet and maybe that's something i will do on my broken OLEDs it's already broken so who cares if i do a hardness test on it but i have a feeling that it doesn't appear like it's scratching anymore so i don't know just my a personal opinion don't remove it Nintendo tells you not to remove it as well i don't really see a reason i think there's just a risk of you damaging your screen more than anything even though i have a friend who removed it without doing so anyway folks i'm in the roba jazz trucking center prime uh i got to go i got more to do today i got some more Metroid dread the plague i work at other things i got to get to you guys are amazing hopefully you got informed by this video and i will catch you guys in the next video