 Hey everyone, well we got a few news stories for you today for Tears of the Kingdom. We got some pre-order updates. We got some brand new merchandise. And well, a strategy guide is now for sale for the game here in the US for those that like to collect those things or maybe even use them. I don't know what kind of consumer you are. We got timestamps down below for all of today's news, but before we dive in I wanna remind you we are giving away Eight Tears of the Kingdom Nintendo Switch OLED Edition. We're also giving away Eight Tears of the Kingdom Special Collectors Edition. Well, okay, I shouldn't throw a special in there. It's just the normal collector's edition. We're also giving away a pin from PAX ECU. Head down to the pin comment or to the description. Click on the link to enter. Winners will be drawn May 12th. And I'm really excited about this because we're on our road to 133,000 subscribers. So I'd appreciate if you drop a like on this video and subscribe to the channel. And who knows, we just might get there someday. All right, let's dive into our first story. And this is one that really excites me because talking about the sales of Tears of the Kingdom just tickles my fancy. And we need to talk about maybe the only place giving us actual numbers. And that is ComG out of Japan. So with about 10 days to go until the game is here, ComG has updated their pre-order chart for Zelda showing how far ahead of Breath of the Wild it is in the same time. And it has basically doubled the sales of Breath of the Wild at ComG. Now ComG is showing just over 500 sales. And the big thing to remember about ComG, and I've talked about this before, it represents about 1% of the market in Japan. And you might go, well, that's not a very good barometer except every game that releases in Japan seems to stick by the ComG representation. So that means for every one copy sold at ComG there is a thousand copies sold across Japan. It's very, very, very consistent. So when we see this over 500, that means there's over 500,000 pre-orders. Now to note, pre-orders do not mean launch sales because there are tons and tons of people who don't pre-order games and they just show up to retailers day one and buy. Also this doesn't obviously include digital sales. So yeah, that's really, really exciting stuff to see how far ahead of Breath of the Wild it was and or is currently. And I'm just, I can't wait to see what the future holds on the sales data because Japan's gonna be the first territory we typically get any concrete sales from for launch. Typically from the Femitsu report that's gonna come out the Thursday after now. The thing is, it's only gonna give us concrete physical sales, not digital. Can it top 2 million physical? I don't know. Can it be like a Swatoon type launcher? Is it just gonna be the best launch in Zelda history but still not quite up there with some of the more popular launches on Switch in Japan? Time will tell on that. Now we gotta get into our second story and that is because there are brand new merchandise launching 14 Years of the Kingdom and this matters for everyone in the US in particular. If you're gonna be at the midnight launch at Nintendo New York, you'll actually be able to buy these at that launch. Potentially they might be sold out guys by the time they get to the daytime but that's not the only way you'll be able to buy it because you'll be able to buy it on Nintendo's online store as well. So they put up a few tweets like it's dangerous to go along to the Legend of Zelda here's a kingdom t-shirt with you on your quest available for $29.99 starting at midnight but it's also gonna be, by the way, the midnight starts exclusively at Nintendo New York but you can actually buy it online from the Nintendo shop at $5.11. So the day before, so online buyers get to buy it as well. It's just a typical green shirt with the gold Uchers Kingdom logo with the family crest on the sleeve. Next up, they have a mug. They are selling, this looks like one of the handcrafted variety mugs that you can sometimes see at Renaissance festivals and you can quench your thirst. It says here's the kingdom mug. It's available for $39.99. Again, starting midnight exclusively at Nintendo New York City but again, you can buy it online the day before and then our last one is a long sleeve shirt. It says, what will you create wearing the Legend of Zelda shirts into a long sleeve t-shirt and again, gonna be at Nintendo New York midnight for the midnight release but you can buy it online the day before for $34.99. So look, I might pick up all three of these. I do like the merchandise. Maybe I don't need the mug, we'll see but I do like the t-shirt. I do like the long sleeve shirt in particular. That one's one that I definitely think I might pick up. It just looks really sleek and I'm really digging the arm patterns and the family crest on the other wrist and something just looks classy about it. It looks like something I would just wear out in public all the time. So really, really excited about that one. And then our last story today deals with the strategy guy listing. So we talked about this listing existing in like Spain and stuff before from certain retailers where they were selling a hardcover and softcover strategy guy. Well, today we have a hardcover listing of that exact same strategy guide on Amazon. This does suggest that there will be a day one strategy guide and this one seems to come from a company called Piggyback and they state on the thing that the legend is all in tears, the channel offers a vast world full of varied quest, challenging puzzles, ferocious monsters and unique sights to behold, working closely with Nintendo. So they are claiming this is an official guide. We have created the authoritative all-encompassing guide that this game so richly deserves. We have explored all features and facets of tears of the kingdom with a single mission to help you discover and enjoy every moment of this game. Now, these strategy guys don't always end up being the best guides because they have to make it on a time crunch and because it's a physical thing, it can't be updated as more information comes out or as the original writer does it more. But who knows? There's definitely gonna be a bunch of screenshots, a bunch of new imagery. Sometimes you get brand new official art and the stuff, people like to collect these just because there are these oddball little facts and sometimes interview quotes and other things included that really make the strategy guys feel like more than a guide, just a nice collectible item to put on your shelf, maybe glance at it in hindsight after beating tears of the kingdom, see what stuff is talked about in there, see if the strats they gave are really what you feel are the best strategies or if it's just a strategy. I don't know, I really like looking at these guides personally. I think that, I have a, well I used to, I should say I used to have a collection of them again. I sold a lot of my gaming memorabilia back in 2019 due to financial crisis, but bottom line is I'm really excited about this hardcover book and I think I'm going to buy one for myself. I don't know if I'm gonna order on Amazon, I might see if it's gonna be at GameStop where I'm gonna be picking up my Amiibo and my game, my physical copy of the game at or Best Buy where I have the order of the case and the pro controller. I know my orders are split between stores because that's just the way it went this time around. Or maybe I do just order this online and just hope it arrives on launch day because right now they're saying this is the weird thing on Amazon. They're saying this title will be released on June 16th which is over a month from launch. So is this guide even done? That's another question to ask but apparently it's being made in tandem with Nintendo. So maybe this won't be a day one guide? I don't know. This could just be a placeholder date. Maybe they meant to say May 16th because maybe they don't want to send it out early, risk people getting their hands on it early so they actually ship it on May 12th or rise on May 16th. I don't know guys. I'm just reading the Amazon description. You guys let me know what you think about this of course down in the comments below. I am Nathan DeRumpel Jans from Nintendo Prime and you know what guys? We'll catch you in the next video.