 Welcome to a very early stream here at Nintendo Prime. Today, we will be live reacting to Nintendo's indie world on April 17th, 2024. Let's go ahead and have a lot of fun welcoming in your host by dropping your favorite emojis. As we say hello or good morning to Nintendo Prime. Let's go ahead and get some lo-fi going in the background here. Well, we would literally sit here and wait for the indie world to begin. It begins at the top of the hour. We are roughly 51 minutes away. I have everything all set up here. You can see it right here. But bam, boom, boom, boom. We are all ready to go watching this count down here. 50 minutes to go. Going to be pretty good stuff here. All right. So hopefully you're looking forward to the indie world. Obviously, there's a lot going on just in terms of expectations for this indie world. People are expecting this to be a pretty damn good indie world. There's just a lot of expectations. Obviously beginning with the expectation of Hollow Knight's silk song. I saw some people saying that it's all but confirmed that Hollow Knight's silk song is going to be in this. I guess if you want to just say, well, because there's been a lot of ratings, sure. I haven't seen any actual leaks or any rumors saying that Hollow Knight's silk song is going to be in this one. But I think we just have basic expectations because look, the game's been rated everywhere. The last bit of news was that it was coming to PlayStation. Before that, it said it was going to Xbox Game Pass. So the next bit of news should be when it's coming out. So yeah, I guess that's what we're expecting today. So that's just a basic expectation. But I don't think that it's confirmed or anything that it's happening. I literally haven't seen any insider. Nobody really talking about it. So it seems that insiders in general don't really know much about indies. Probably because most of their connections are at AAA studios. All right. Capac is that he really hopes we see silk song, but I'm not sure if they would show it in an indie world. I mean, why wouldn't they? It's an independent game. They showed a Nintendo published game at a Nintendo Direct partner showcase. So it would make sense that an indie game would be in an indie world. I understand that you could argue it's big enough to be at a general Nintendo Direct. Well, let me ask you, do you see a general Nintendo Direct anywhere? I'm just asking this is just I'm asking for a friend. Do you see a general Nintendo Direct anywhere? Or has it been seven months since we've had one? Yeah, I think indie world is probably the best expectation for seeing that game. My cat is watching you intensely in front of the TV. What's up kitty cat? Sorry to tell you. I am not a cat person. In fact, cats make me want to punt them. I don't actually do that. I've never actually kicked a cat, but I don't like them. I've had bad experiences with them my whole life. My dad's allergic. One of my children are allergic. And the last time I had a cat that lived in my house, it scratched the shit out of one of my baby's faces. That's right, a literal baby. And then before that, the cat literally sat there and destroyed all my electronics by chewing on all the cords. Look, I'm not saying that this is everyone's experience with cats. Obviously that doesn't happen to everyone or they wouldn't have cats, right? Cats aren't constantly scratching children's faces to shit and constantly chewing on all your cords, because that was the case no one would want them. But what I would say is cats, and I've been to places at houses where cats are well behaved and all that, they act like they own the damn house. They're going to do what they want, when they want, because they can. They're going to lay out what they want. They're going to go on who they want. They're going to do whatever they want, because cats think they run the joint. And I don't like pets that are like that. You're a pet. You don't pay the bills. You don't run the house. I run the house. Anyways, it's okay though. Plenty of people love cats. One of my good friends online, you guys know Andres Restart. He's a huge cat person. So look, I got nothing against cats in general, other than I just don't like them. I'm a dog guy. That's why I have a dog. I'm a dog lover. Love dogs. But that's okay. Some people love both. My daughter loves both. She's a cat person and a dog person. But I'm not a fan. Let's get into some of the chat here. We had a member checker man from Cindy Estes saying, hype for the indie games for Switch. Hell yeah, dude. I don't even know what to think or what to expect. I didn't go into this looking up. Like I was going to watch the prior indie world to see what games haven't come out yet that we might get updates on today. And I decided I'd rather just be surprised. I'd rather just have full on surprise and shock for any of the indie games shown today. Kappa says, I couldn't be here yesterday. So probably you already talked about this. But do you think it's possible for an April Direct, none of the indie world was confirmed? Well, anything is possible, but I don't think the indie world confirms anything. Went over this yesterday. Nate, the hate, another insider went on family boards and he said, people need to stop jumping the gun basically, assuming that this confirms there's a direct because he said that this April, indie world was always happening. It wasn't moved. It wasn't some mystical supposed to happen before the Game Developers Conference or anything. The indie world was always planned for April, meaning that if it was always planned for April, then it's probably not really tangentially related to rumors about a direct. Basically, Nate, the hate is disagreeing with Brazil who claimed that the indie world was originally planned to happen before the Game Developers Conference. Now, to be fair, Nate, the hate's been pretty consistent in the stuff he has said. He was the one who said that we should expect a switch to reveal in March before the delay happened. And if that was supposed to happen, it would make sense that the indie world was in April, because March would have been switched to reveal. Then you would have had this in April, then you probably would have had a direct in June or something. But who the hell knows? We don't really know what's going on. So Nintendo is just going to literally sit here and make us twiddle our thumbs and imagine the possibilities of an indie world leading to a direct. But I don't know that that's the case. It could be the case, but I don't know that it will be. Jimzo says, can you play Rivers in the Desert from Persona 5 slash Persona 5 Royale? I cannot, because you have to super chat in song requests. And when we do song requests in streams like this, we obviously have to stick to just gaming music that's not copyrighted, which that song is not copyrighted and is gaming music, but you do have to super chat it in. $2 for your first song request, $5 for every request after that. But again, only gaming music. And I'm not going to be using... We're just going to play it off YouTube because I can't have ads play because ads also give me copyright claim, which is funny enough. And we don't want streams like this being copyright claimed. We leave these streams up after the fact. Yo, I don't do cats. I won't even eat at anyone's home that has cats. See, I'll eat at people's homes that have cats. I'm not allergic. And my son is allergic. It's not like deathly allergic. So you can be around him for a little bit. You know, it usually takes a couple of days before my son starts to really react. So he's not like super, super allergic to cats, but... I had some unhinged cats. Well, I have seen multiple cats at houses that chew cords, and I've watched what people have done to like hide their cords and put them in places the cat can't get to. I've seen cats climb drapes when they shouldn't be... I know some people declaw their cats, then you don't got to worry about things like scratching a face. But I... Man, cats... Every cat I've ever been around acts like they own the place. Every cat. Now, I'm not saying they all behave in that way, the scratching of the face and the... What was I going to say? The chewing of cords. But I definitely have been around a lot of cats, and all of them have acted like they just can do whatever the hell they want. Walk across your keyboard, jump on your lap when they're not supposed to. Maybe sometimes get in the way when you're cooking food, or all of this stuff, stuff that I've never had a dog do. Now, I'm not saying there aren't bad behaving dogs, there definitely are. But I've been around a lot of dogs, and most of them listen to their owners and don't do those kind of things. But again, there are bad owners of dogs as well that don't train them properly, just like there's bad owners of cats. Happens. Also, one thing I really found out that I don't like about cats, and this isn't the cat's fault, to be fair. For some reason, cat pee does not come out of things very easily. Like even... If you ever get cat pee on carpet, or on a wall, or on anything that can absorb it, it's so hard to get rid of it, and get rid of the smell. It is bad. Dog pee for some reason isn't as hard. Like when you train a dog, they obviously pee in the house sometimes when you're initially training a puppy. But I've never, I've always been able to get that smell and get that out of the carpet, get it out of the wall, get it out of whatever floor rain it's on. Cat pee, man. It's not the cat's fault, it's just, man, it's almost like it's a toxic wasteland. Anyways, in before stray, or some other cat game, is like the first announced game in today's Direct. Today's in the world, I suppose. All right, don't talk to me about that. I know there's a lot of cat lovers out there. I'm just not a cat person. It's life. All right, moving on. Oh, let's see here. At least you don't have goats the amount of times I've been neat cat by a baby goat. Yeah, I wouldn't want to raise goats either. But I don't mind visiting goats. But I definitely wouldn't want to raise goats. When are we going to get a real thing for people who like me don't like indies? Well, I'm a starter as JT Gamer. I'm really sorry that you don't like independent games. I think that people who say that are people who haven't given independent games a fair shot. And I'm not talking about going to play your dead cells or in Celeste and stuff like that. Did you know things like Hellblade were originally an independent game? Literally, Hellblade was an indie game. Yeah, there are indie games. I guarantee that you would enjoy. Like, guarantee there are indie games you would enjoy. In fact, indie games you might enjoy as much as you enjoy AAA games. Indie games you might enjoy as much as Nintendo games. You just haven't given them a shot. So if you don't like indies, it's just because you're not trying. You're not giving them a chance. And they're cheaper. Usually, usually. What games you want to see that never comes out but will be announced? What games you want to see that never comes out but will be announcing what? I mean, the only game that hasn't come out that's been announced is Metroid Prime 4. I don't know what you're talking about. I shouldn't say that's the only game. The only game I can think of on top of my head. What's up, Marcia? How you doing, Marcia? The gaming's on. Thank you so much for subscribing. I do appreciate it. The gaming's on. Let me see. I think the next director will have the same feeling of the first director in the pandemic. 2021. Yeah, that's when we have the first general director. I remember there was a lot of people watching at the same time and everyone was so happy. Yeah, we'll see. Cult of the Lamb. That's a good one. When does the indie start? Top of the hour. Show you right now. Top of the damn hour. Babam, babam. See, it says 38 minutes and 40 seconds away. We're counting down. We're in the final countdown. Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. Um, let's see here. Gaming Pool 101 says so, Nintendo Prime. Are we sure it is an indie world for Nintendo Switch? Look at my eyes. Are we sure it's an indie world for Nintendo Switch? Well, Nintendo has no other platform. So what would the indie world be for? You know what? No, it's for the game and watch. It's clearly for the game and watch. Indie world today is for Nintendo's game and watch. You know what? Rob the robot from the Nintendo entertainment system is clearly who this indie world is for. We're going to get a bunch of Rob the Robot games. Wait, maybe it's... Maybe it's not that. You know what? It's Virtual Boy. Today's a Virtual Boy indie world. Yes, I am sure it's for Nintendo Switch. You know how sure I am? It says Nintendo Switch in the actual name of the indie world. A new indie world showcases airing today. Two never roughly 20 minutes of announcement updates on indie games coming to Nintendo Switch. Yes, I am sure the indie world is for Switch. Nintendo's doubling letting you know it's for Switch. It's also the only platform Nintendo has. At the moment. Yes, it's for Switch. Sorry, I'm just... I just couldn't believe that wasn't even a question asked. Um, give us a percentage chance for Hollow Knight. 75 percent. Preplayed. Preplayed 1, 2, 3. 75 percent. Watch it not happen. Hey, there's still 25 percent. I'm giving myself an out. But are you really sure? I mean, I don't know. Nintendo could be lying to us. Nintendo could be lying to us. And again, then the indie world today must be for Virtual Boy. I understand. It happens. You know what? No, Nintendo's hosting an indie world for PlayStation 5. That's what it is. This is a PlayStation 5 indie world ran by Nintendo. Let's see here. Just happened some fun. I thought it was just a really weird question. Let's see here. Thanks for... Okay, the gaming's on. Subscribe. Thank you so much. Indies isn't a genre. It's the autonomy of the studio and its size. Technically, it's not even about the size of the studio. What makes something an indie versus not an indie? Let's say a double A or triple A. All right. Is independent games are typically... Are typically either self-published or have to go through a bigger publisher to get published because they can't afford it. And the budgets aren't super big. Once you exceed a certain budget level, it becomes a double A. And then obviously they're the triple A budget. Believe it or not, double A and triple A are supposed to be based on budgets. They're not really supposed to be based on quality. That's why indie games can end up being better than some triple A games with those big budgets. So as long as it's not a game made by a massive company, like Nintendo can have a smaller internal team make a game, but that still wouldn't be an indie game because Nintendo is a massive multi-billion-dollar company. So if the studio isn't like a billion-dollar studio and self-publishers their own games or it has to go through a big publisher, I'll give you an example. There was a time that Platinum Games was considered an independent studio. They are not considered an indie studio, even though they are technically independent, now because the budgets for the games are reaching double A and triple A level. So because of that, they're no longer considered indie with their games because of the budgets. But there was a time that Platinum Games could have been considered an indie studio. So yeah, it's not really about how many staff you have. You could have 100 staff. If they're all working for pennies on the dollar, it doesn't really matter. It's all about the budget. Like I said, the original Hellblade was made with a group of like 20 people or whatever and they had like a shoestring budget. Still an indie game. So, now Hellblade 2 is no longer one because they've been given the big budget by Microsoft. So, and now they're owned by Microsoft. It's hard to argue any company owned by Microsoft is now indie and they're owned by a trillion dollar company. Went from billions to trillions of that one. Anyways, it gets kind of weird because people assume certain types of games are the only, you know, make it indie. Like that's why a lot of people thought Dave the Diver was an indie game. But then when you dig into Dave the Diver, they're definitely not an indie game. The company that owns that studio is massive. They are, they're not an indie game just because they made a game that looks like an indie game. You know what I mean? That's why people were really mad that that was being considered for best indie game because I had the game awards because it's definitely not an indie game. Not when you're owned by and being published by who they're owned and published by. Again, it's like calling Kirby an indie game. It's not. Um, all right. Dave's of all this here. He says, good morning, man. Do you feel the hype this morning? I slept like shit because my cat won't shut the f*** up. Let me get back to that. My cat won't shut the f*** up. Anyway, here we are. I was just complaining about cats, but I just understood the cat level. Hey, you're the one that has the cat, chose to have the cat, so I don't want to hear complaints. It's like me complaining that my dog acts up, which he pretty much never does. He hasn't since I trained him when he's a puppy, but still. Um, yo, just re-correct my question for Nintendo Switch One. Is this the last one? The last one of what? The last indie world? I won't put bets that this is the last indie world for Switch. Yeah. The Switch is like probably the only platform for Nintendo in 2024. Like I don't think Switch 2 is coming out this year. I would venture to guess there could be two more indie world tech. We can get another indie world for Switch in 2025. Indie games are going to keep coming out for Switch for years. So I do not think this is the last indie world. No. Um, Charles Trudeau. Of course not. It's only PC games that Nintendo decides to market for Valve's sake. Yeah. Today is officially a Steam Deck indie world, everyone. Um, you think Soak Song was too early announced when it was first revealed? I mean, in hindsight, it's easy to say that. I also think the pandemic caused some delays. So, um, yeah, yeah, yeah. I talked with the Dave the Diver. Was it technically not an indie game? Even though it looked like an indie game. Prince of Persia. Uh, so Prince of Persia is an interesting use case. Prince of Persia The Lost Crown is not indie. It is literally made by a main, by a main studio at Ubisoft. So Prince of Persia The Lost Crown is literally made by one of Ubisoft's best studios. And Ubisoft is a billion dollar corporation and publishing game itself. So Prince of Persia is not, The Lost Crown is not an indie game. Now, the interesting part about it is this next Prince of Persia game. The Rogue Prince of Persia is being made by an indie studio. Chances are they were not given some triple A budget to make that game, or even a double A budget to make that game. They were probably given enough of a budget to hire that indie studio to make it, but they probably weren't given a double A level budget to make the Rogue Prince of Persia. So you could argue the Rogue Prince of Persia is an indie developed game. So you can call it an indie game if you like, even though Ubisoft is publishing and owns the rights to it. So that's one where you, you gotta almost look at a game by game basis. I would like this to cadence of Hyrule is clearly an independent developed game. It's clearly an indie game that is using the Zelda property, right? So I would kind of look at it in terms of that. So the Rogue Prince of Persia would probably be considered an indie game, but the Lost Crown would not be. The Lost Crown is made by an internal studio at a multi-billion dollar company. Uh, let's see here. I may have had a little too much to drink last night, but I had a dream that today Nintendo would announce that Mario Wonder finally comes to PlayStation 5, Xbox and PC. Well, your dream, sir, is about to be crushed because one, this is an indie world, so they would make that announcement here. And two, the day that happens is the day that Nintendo has decided that they can no longer make money with their platforms. They would be giving up. Maybe, I mean, I'd like to see PC someday, but I, you know, even if it's on like a two, three year delay like Sony does, but I don't know that they're actually gonna ever do that. Free Metroid Hat is here. Says, how are you doing this morning? Crazy to think howling like silk song today without it being a meme. Yeah, I mean, look, we're hoping. Obviously, there's no guarantee. We're hoping. Just like some people are hoping to see Hades too as well. So we'll see. The elemental hero of the shadow link dragon wolf king is in the house. What's up, buddy? What's up? What's up? I love that username. How is grounded? I seen gameplay when it first came out and the story is very fun and interesting type of game. So I never play grounded on PC or Xbox. I posted on Twitter yesterday that I do indeed have it installed on my switch. I am going to play it for my first time later today. So I have no opinions or impressions. Might talk about a smidge on the podcast tonight when we get to our what have we been playing lately section. If I play enough of it to even have an opinion. So we'll see. But I plan to try it out for my first time today. I don't even know what kind of game it is. I know next to nothing about grounded. So I'm just going to give it a try and see how I feel about it. Oh, see here. See, you're still trying to flatten them hollow night. Nice. Yeah, I never, I never did that. Plus I played it on switch where, you know, there's not really achievements anyways. But grounded is all right yet. I mean, I don't get it. I don't even know what kind of game it is. I just know that it was one of those games from Xbox coming over. So we're giving it a try. See what happens. Maybe it sucks. I have no idea. Man, we're getting closer guys. We're getting closer less than 27 minutes to go. So officially according to technically the Indian world is live right now. The countdown is over. Well, that means like a full screen this bad boy. Let's make sure we have a HD selected as well. That's right. We technically are live right here. See this? It's live, but it's it hasn't started obviously. Well, on full screen that for now. I was going over to check their countdown timer, but there is no countdown timer. Uh, do you think that the tales of Canxera Zao game will get more info in a release date? I don't even know what that game is. So let's just say sure. How hyped am I to see Rift today? I don't know what Rift is. So I'm I would say my hype is a zero for a game that I don't really remember. Maybe I do know what it is. So is that the MMO? I've heard of like an MMO. I just Google it quick and I'm like, oh yeah, I've heard of this MMO that's called Rift. Could there be any Xbox exclusive indie games coming to switch today? Could be Ron, just a thought. Well, let's see. Xbox exclusive indie games. What games would we have here? See, none of those are exclusive. Valheim? There's not a ton of like Xbox only indie games as a thing. I'll say Xbox slash PC. I mean, I don't really. Yeah. I'm trying to figure out what ones are Xbox or PC, Xbox slash PC. So also on Xbox and PC. And I'm not seeing it. There's tons of PC exclusive indie games are getting into a list like that. But it's like impossible because there's so many. But I don't even know of any current Xbox, you know, indie games that Xbox has, but other platforms don't. Hope silk song gets announced. I mean, it's already announced. What we're hoping for is release date information. Do you want to do an audio test on the YouTube side of streaming? Why would I need to do an audio test? I'm good. I'm way good for audio. Rift is the elsewhere to necro dancer in the only indie studio Zelda game. What? Huh? One is definitely not the only indie studio Zelda game. Could tell that. Tell you that there are plenty of other indie games that mimic Zelda. I mean, it's the sequel to necro dancer. That kind of sucks. It's the sequel to necro dancer. And yet you type a rift. And that's not the game that pops up. An MMORPG pops up. And it's like the entire first page of Google slime rancher. Oh, yeah. I forgot about slime rancher. Wasn't that announced at some point for switch or not? Or maybe that wasn't. Maybe that was a different showcase. I was watching that slime rancher in it. Only licensed. Oh, you're talking about... You're talking about... The thing about that, Corey, is rift is not a sequel to... Rift is not a sequel to that. It's a sequel to crypt of the necro dancer. Not cadence of Hyrule. Anyways. I know you're a big fan of that. Studio and game. Remember YouTube Playables? Oh my gosh. Let's not talk about YouTube Playables ever again. I never want to hear the term YouTube Playables in the chat on a Nintendo channel ever again. I do... That's the... Let's go ahead and talk about Baldur's Gate 3 or something instead. Or any... Or anything on PlayStation Xbox or Nintendo. Even... Even PC. I never want to do... Talk about YouTube Playables to me is like talking about Facebook gaming. Remember when like Facebook, you had to go on there to play like... I don't know. Knock off Farming Sim games? I'm... Dude, I'm good. I never want to talk about YouTube Playables again. Um... You're ready for the part or the farming games. Guarantee... Okay. Over under three Farming Sim games. Tell me right now. Over under three Farming Sim games today. Let me know. What do you guys think? Over or under three Farming Sim games? You know what? Let's do a poll. Let's do a poll. This is pollable right here. We need a poll for this. Doing a poll for this one. Over or under? Three Farming Sim games shown today. So far we're not... Oh, oh, oh, oh. Oh, there we go. Let's say someone's got to take the under. I mean, it's not like you get anything if you... You know, this isn't like a betting line. So I'm more of like a prediction. Oh man, it's like 50-50. You guys are really unsure on the Farming Sims today. By the way, Farming Sims are a very popular genre. That's why there are so many. Because it is a very popular genre. It also means there's a lot of competition. So if you're going to get any headway in that genre, you need to release a high quality product like Harvestella. It's not the only one. But I farm silk. Remember that one direct... Yeah, dude, that was a general direct. That was like five Farming Sim games. And they went like bat to bat to bat to bat. And it's like, what is happening right now? They should just call that direct Farming Simulator direct. Yeah, Harvestella is a good game. But that's my point is that there's so much competition. Like Farming Sims, the reason there are so many is because it's a very extremely popular genre of games. But it's still one of those things where there's so many that it's hard to stand out from everything. Harvestella stood out for a little bit. But even that, I don't think hit the success of Square Enix wanted. Michael Lorenz II comes in with a $2 super chat saying, since Indy is happening, do you think you'll get a regular direct in the next couple of weeks? Thank you so much for the $5. I kind of answered this already, but I'll give you my real reaction. I'm kidding. No. I don't think there's any direct happening this month or next month. That's just an opinion. I have nothing to base it on other than I just don't think it's happening. I literally don't think it's happening at all. I got to add some more music in. Hold on. I don't like that. That's like one of my only little fun tracks to drop when I got so many options. We're going to go add some more in. We're going to go add some more in. What's this? Under what category is under? Okay. So we're going to go ahead to this and more. Oh, wait. That's the wrong one, isn't it? You know, that's the right one. Let's go ahead and add in. Sorry. I'm not going to tell you what these are until I play them. If I play them, if I play them. I got some cool ones I'm adding in right now. I actually don't remember what some of these are. That is definitely not what I was hoping it would be. What's that one? I like that one. We're going to leave that one on. I like that one. That one's a good one. Oh, God. Okay. I know what that one is. I'll leave that one on. Holy crud. There are some really funny ones here that I'm adding in that are just kind of dumb but also funny. Sure. I don't know what that one is. That one I actually don't know. I just added a bunch of ones that I don't know. Mango Tango Games says, I'm hoping for a 3D platformer. Well, that is entirely possible. By the way, Michael the Reds II was our spring chicken but I'm pretty sure Mango Tango Games is about to take over. But hey, since I don't know, Mango Tango Games did take over at 1246. Thank you so much, Mango Tango Games. You are our spring chicken. Of the stream right now. All right. Bucks 8 making it out of the east without Yanis. Dame is the man but GGs, fellas. Well, I mean, one, Yanis is not out for the playoffs. I don't know what you're talking about. They don't have to make it out of the east without Yanis. You know that he might actually still play in game one of the first round, right? People are really reading way too much into what Adam Scheffler and others are saying about that situation. They're literally repeating stuff we already knew about on Sunday. There's no new updates on Yanis. He's officially listed as doubtful, not out. So probably won't play game one. But he's not out for the playoffs. Let's see here. Some very good indie games on sale now. I don't know that Nintendo will put down Dragon Ball Z as indie who knew. He has a strained soleus, which is part of your calf. But he's apparently doing well. He's walking around no issues. He's doing some workouts. He's not practicing yet, which he probably wouldn't practice anyways. I mean, he probably would give it like a little go in practice just to make sure he can run jump, jump, slam, basketball, play defense. But he probably wouldn't have a full session anyways. At this point of the season. But yeah, there's literally still a chance he plays game one. Even Dodd Rivers said, hey, it could happen. They're going to practice like he's not going to play, but there's still a chance. I'm not saying he will play game one, by the way, or game two. But he's not technically ruled out. There's literally been no actual updates on his injury. But the media is acting like there is. Kind of like how Stephen A. Smith yesterday was just literally pulling out of his ass that Damian Lillard is unhappy in Milwaukee. But people ran with that headline like he had inside information when he said it was his opinion that Damian Lillard isn't happy in Milwaukee. We got to remember both Stephen A. Smith as he's been shit talking Milwaukee for years. He hates Milwaukee. He hates Milwaukee. Just hates it there. So he'll say anything to try to get players to leave. You know how he was talking Milwaukee when people thought Yanis was going to leave? It's all, dude, Stephen A. Smith doesn't know jack shit about what's going on with the bucks. And he's got no connections with Damian Lillard. And he said so himself that he doesn't know anyone in Damian Lillard's camp. Okay, he has no idea if Damian is happy or not in Milwaukee. What he does know is obviously what Damian has made quite public, that he misses his kids and all of that. But that would be the case no matter what team he played for. Because of the divorce with his wife and his wife having full custody. So it's right. His wife got full custody of the kids. So Damian, you know, it doesn't matter where Damian plays. That's going to be a problem. Um, yeah. So those headlines about the box yesterday were just a bunch of made up BS. What do you think of Clay going scoreless against the Kings? Whatever, man. He's probably not getting re-signed. So he's going to be a free agent. What they need to do is find a way to move Chris Paul and get anything in return. I don't know if they're even going to be able to move them, let alone get anything in return form. They do have some, some tradable picks and stuff too. So who knows? Depends if they want to keep paying the luxury tax to try to get another person to come play with stuff. Um, what's the difference between a partner showcase and an indie showcase? Please explain to me like you're 10 years old. All right, daughter. Here's the difference. A partner showcase will often involve games that are much larger in scale. Let's say things like a fortnight, right? You know what fortnight is. It would be a bigger game like a fortnight or a call of duty or something to that affair, right? Whereas an indie one would be like you pick up your phone and you go in here, you go to your little games folder if you have one, which I think I have a games folder. Maybe I don't. I don't play a lot of games on my phone. Yeah, you go to your games folder and it would be more like, you know, when you're looking at games on here like among us, right? Like it's a popular game, but it's indie or golf battle. Now I'm not, I don't want to sit here and tell you that this is how you determine quality of games. But I'm just saying that there's a difference between the games that are really big in terms of like money spent by the people who made them. And then these smaller games that can sometimes become big over time like among us. So that's the difference. Now, is that actually a fair way to explain it? No, but to a fucking 10 year old, how else am I going to explain it? You're right. Like, I don't really know how else to explain it except give examples. But that's not, it's not a fair explanation because that's not, you know, it's not a fair explanation, but it's a simplistic one. We don't always censor myself. You realize my channel is meant for people over the age of 18. I know we have some that are younger, but literally my channel is for people over the age of 18. So yes, I can swear. I just do the bleep because I think it's funny because I need to. Um, it appears over is the winner of the poll. Yeah, it does look like over one. We're about 10 minutes away, guys. We have Venata 712. Why isn't it popping in the chat? Oh, there it is. It was just delayed a bit. Venata 712, over under 30 comments and Nintendo shit complaining. There's no Mario or Zelda. It's already over. It was over last night. So the complaints were already happening. So it's already, we're already at the over. Yeah, I do the bleeps because I think the bleeps are funny and not because I need to. Look, I'm pretty sure I didn't really drop a swear word in that explanation. Like I was talking to my daughter, but uh, let's see here. We could technically see Genshin impact today. That is a possibility. It was announced for switching to keep saying it's going. Okay, reset the 300. Well, how many people are in the chat right now? Here we go. Let, let, let's go look at the, let's go look at the chat. Let's go look at the chat. You know what I love about this? I just, this is the first thing I saw. This ream guy, silk song, silk song is not an indie game. Yeah, this game made by three people in Australia with next to no budget. Not an indie game, guys. Imagine saying that team cherry is not making indie games. It's three people. Do you guys realize it's three people in their own basement making a video game? If that, if that's not an independent game, then nothing is. I just want to say this right now, then nothing is. It's literally just three people in their basement. Negative video game. No, I don't know if it gets more independent than that. Pizza tower port, bill gates, adventure three. Dude, you got to love this chat. Look, look at all this stuff here. Yo, this gawning session is going hard right now. Okay, silk song is dominating the chat right now. Lots of silk song. Kung Fury two, sonic mania three, sonic mania three wouldn't be here. I don't think. I don't think that would, that would be in a partner showcase. Fortnite two, that would also be in a partner showcase. That's by Epic Games. They're not an independent studio. They're massive. They literally make the Unreal Engine. They're huge. Nintendo land two. There you go. So I, oh wait, there you go. There you go. Hey, I was looking for a Mario or Zelda comment. We found one because he said over under 300. Well, I found one. We found one Mario expectation. Haven't seen Zelda yet. Tomodachi life. Again, this is also not indie, but Final Fantasy two. Oh, geez, guys. What are these expectations? Metroid Prime four mentioned. Dude, what is going on? People are just, okay, I can't, I can't handle this anymore. I can't handle the public chat. I just can't do it. Dude, what are those expectations right now? What are those expectations? Metroid Prime four, 3D Mario in Fortnite two? What? What are, people just, dude, I want to know what medicine they're on. I want to know what pipe they smoked out of because I might need a little bit to have that sort of Hopium and an indie world to have that level. You know what? Yeah, Switch two. Mazel just say Switch two is being revealed in the indie world today. Like, what are you smoking to have that cross your mind? You see indie world Nintendo Switch, 3D Mario, Metroid Prime four, Fortnite two. Switch two. The thing is, I'd like to say that people are trolling, but enough people say it that I don't really know. Like, this is probably a troll. Bubsy 3D, that's probably a troll. That's a common troll. Dude, people say in Persona six? Oh, God. Epic Mickey, which again, they showed that in the last thing. That was in the partner showcase. It's clearly not going to be in an indie. My gosh. Okay, I can't read this chat anymore. Why did I even reopen it? I know that it's just going to be bad. The public chat on Nintendo Directs and indie worlds and pretty much all gaming events is pretty bad. Not our public chat. The public chat of the summer game fest one's really bad. The game awards one's really bad. The Nintendo one, the PlayStation, the Xbox Direct one, all of those public chats are always just so nasty and dumb and full of people having their expectations like so high and calling every single event trash because they didn't have that one big game they wanted. Even whether that game was realistic or not. What's up, Patrick Muller? In a couple of minutes here, we'll switch on over so we make sure we don't miss anything with the start of the indie world. Breath of the Wild 3? Yeah, why not? Just throw it out there. Mario Kart 9 is going to be there today. Absolutely. Urban Champion 99. Big reveal. Let's grab a fizzy and drink it. Good morning. Maybe some of them cooked the magic mushrooms and ate them. Oh, there it is. They cooked and ate them. Had a little magic mushrooms. They had a little mushroom in Swiss. No, you know what? They put a little magic mushrooms. They cooked some magic mushrooms, put it on their eggs this morning. Little eggs and toast with some magic mushrooms. That's what some of those people did today. All right, so they're hallucinating that this is a switch to reveal direct. They're hallucinating. I understand. Look, when you're on hallucinogens, everything's possible, right? You could have the best day ever. You could also have a really bad day. Kind of depends on what you're hallucinating. If you're hallucinating some really amazing stuff, then you're probably having a damn good time. Here's looking at DLCTs at the end. Oh, that's funny. Well, what's up, Fire Soul? Yeah, we go about three minutes away here. Punch out four. There we go. Yeah, they're going to drop punch out here. You know what, guys? The next big 3D Zelda games being revealed today. I'm just having fun. Like, dude, the public chat is just so great. In fact, we're just going to switch over to it right now so we're ready. We'll turn off the thing. I'm not going to full screen it yet. I'll glance at the public chat one last time. What do we got? What do we got? Lots of copium, kids. That's fair. Genshin impact. Okay, I mean, I'm not going to say it's impossible. I don't, we see it though. Vice City. Pockin Tournament 2. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate 2. What? Switch 2. There it is. Somewhat. And you know, I like, I like the name YouTube Channel said Switch 2. YouTube Channel. What a username. YouTube Channel said Switch 2. Love these expectations. Oh, man. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Deluxe. You forgot. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Deluxe DX Ultimate New Edition. Maybe it's new. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. Yeah, but new at the beginning, right? It's always good to have high expectations or none. I'm going in this indie world. The only expectation is a Hollow Knight. And if that doesn't happen, I'm like, okay, I'm not like banking the whole direct. I'm one game like that, but or the whole indie world. That's the only game that I have any sort of level of expectation for. Otherwise, I decided that I don't really even want to watch the last Indie World, I just want to see what happens. Because Nintendo's given us so little news this year that I just want to see what happens. I want this indie world to drop some surprises. Maybe the Indie World's about to suck. I have no idea. Or it's about to be awesome. Let's find out together in less than one minute. Less than one minute away. There's a lot of people streaming this indie world. Man, Roger's base is streaming it. I'll just restart. Giant Bomb, Botox Games, Nintendo AU. Well, of course they are good vibes gaming. Game explain. Dude, can we get more views than Game Explain? That'd be sick. They only have 452. The Indie World. I'm Amber. And I'm Tyler. We're back with more indie games coming to the Nintendo Switch system. All right. Let's get, uh, what was that? Oh, I'm just prepping for our first segment. That's a cat game. Well then, let's get going. Called it. Hey, Micah, you ready to get started? Yep. Pip's here. Hello. Um, Pip, you have a filter on. What? Oh. I don't think anybody's going to notice. Let's go. Hi, I'm Matt, director and lead developer on Little Kitty Big City. I'm Micah, the animator. And I'm Pip, the narrative designer. Little Kitty Big City is a game about exploring a weird and wonderful neighborhood as a little cat. Game idea originated when I was teaching my kids how to code. And it's grown a lot since then. But the core is still the same. It's a game about being a little cat. A little cat in a world filled with exciting distractions. Made by people who love distractions and cats. We hope you love Kitty as much as we do. I think we nailed it. Yeah, and I think I've worked out the filter thing. Look. Not again. You're a curious little kitty in a big city. You were taking a nap in your favorite spot, but you fell and now you're lost. Talk about a near catastrophe. In this adorable adventure, you'll navigate a vibrant city to find your way home. And there's plenty to do along the way. Like? Check your to-do list. Some of the city's animals have found themselves in hairy situations. And you can lend a helping hand. Paw. Maybe one of them wants something shiny. Another might be stuck in a pipe. There are also cat achievements to complete. Get petted by humans. Nothing's over. You know, normal cat stuff. Oh, we didn't mention kitty customization. Collect and wear over 40 perity nifty hats like a ladybug, a shark, and even a bunny. You can also perform emotes whenever you want. Oh, that's a big stretch. It's a great way to look cute while stirring up some mischief. I just want to say. Get ready to dig your claws in when little kitty, big city counts on to Nintendo Switch. I called it. We're going to start with a pre-order. Pre-orders begin later today on Nintendo eShop. Come on, Chad. Give me credit. Did I not say they're going to start with a cat game? I literally called it earlier. You ever get that feeling? Like you're meant for something more? That's been kind of my deal since forever. But now? Something's changed. There's something powerful inside me. Ready to break out and fly. Heck, needs to be stopped. And I'm the one who can do it. Sounds like I'm a sad that Atari is now an indie. Probably. Year's Rising. Hey there! And me Kimura here, aka YAR. If you want to use my handle, but you totally should, join me on a high-stakes sci-fi action adventure in YAR's Rising, the newest game from way forward and Atari. What started as your typical hacker for hire gig, spirals into a weird intergalactic conspiracy involving megacomb glomerate Kotec. Help me run, jump, hack, and blast my way into unlocking the mysteries of this corporate empire and YAR's Rising. Launching on the Nintendo Switch system later this YAR. Year! Year! Sorry, I meant here. I mean, that doesn't look too bad. Looks alright. I had to better than the first game. A journey of self-discovery awaits in this exploration-based adventure. Take on the role of an android, the creation of a doctor who has since passed away. Every action you take and decision you make during your journey reveals a little more about who you are. And there are no right or wrong choices. Travel to places from your memories, interact with other characters, and gradually piece together the future the doctor envisioned for you. At the end of your journey, your personality type will be revealed. With 23 personality types to discover, you can make different choices in each playthrough and see where they lead you. Will you end up as a proactive leader? What about a wise sage? Or even a strong-willed samurai? And if you're curious about the personality types of other players, you can share your results with each other and compare your choices. A curse talk that is a very... Find out who you are in ReFind Self. The Personality Test Game, launching as a timed console exclusive on Nintendo's Switch this summer. Hi everyone! We're Speigarten Games, the developers of sticky business. We drew our inspirations from the small businesses and creators we saw popping up on social media. It's been so inspiring to see all those fantastic artists create cute stickers, assemble beautiful packages, and learn about their customers' wholesome stories. So you wanted to make a game where you can experience exactly that for yourself. Come on, Dogo. It was supposed to be just a short project, just a few weeks, but then so many people liked the concept that we kept working on it. We're excited for you to play on Nintendo Switch. Sticking around for the cozy sim, sticky business. You've got a sticker shop to run, so let your imagination run wild as you create stickers and ship them off to customers. I like the music. There are over 400 elements to choose from when creating your stickers, and you can get upgrades for even more options. Wow! Boba, ice cream, books, pizza, and raccoons? Oh, there's plenty more! And you can add effects like glitter and sparkles, so combine whatever elements of effects you want to design your artistic and peace of mind. But no shop is complete without its customers. Each one will ask for different stickers. Sorry, it reminded me of the sleeper one movie. Not only will you impress your customers but you'll also learn more about their lives. From a music teacher striving to motivate her students to a dad who wants to share of this grieving child. Each customer has a heartfelt story to share. Plus, the plan with me paid DLC adds 10 more customer stories and over 100 sticker elements. It's an indie world. I don't know what kind of people, what kind of games people expect in an indie world. Get ready to build the cutest shop ever in sticky business. You should have your expectations set properly. Time console exclusives on Nintendo Switch later today. A bundle of the game and DLC will also be available later today. Later today, there you go. If you're looking for explosive, calming, or mysterious journeys, we've got you covered with this trio of upcoming indie games. Check them out! Nelu did this and blast him into teeny tiny little pieces. Have a blast in Anton Blast. Here we go. The devil himself stole your pride spirit collection and you're on a rampage to get it back. That's lagging! Mighty Hammer as Dynamite Anton. Or the massive mace as Dynamite Annie to lay wacky worlds to waste and beat up brutish bosses. Smash up levels like concrete jungles and slimy sewers to alter their paths and find new areas to explore. After reaching the end of each level, a detonator will start ticking down so you've got to rush back to the beginning before everything explodes! Get ready for a destructively good time in Anton Blast for some reason. Time console exclusive on the Nintendo Switch system November 12th. A demo will be available later today on Nintendo eShop. A riveting first person adventure awaits in Valley Peaks. As the new technician assigned to the peaks, you'll climb, glide, and even use your tongue to scale the mountains. That wasn't their tongue? What do they do? Put a lick of tongue in this thing? How long is that damn tongue? I'm sorry, I can't get over the lick of tongue action. I need to know more about this tongue. I want more tongue action. What's happening? Oh, it's one of those puzzle solving mystery games? I used to play a lot of these kind of games. They really get your brain thinking. Can be very difficult. The laser eyes may succeed, okay? Hi, I am Elder Pinto, the creator of Europa. Six years ago, I started working on the game in my spare time and since then it blossomed with the help of an amazing collective of friends all bringing their piece of magic. It all started with the idea of using watercolor art style to evoke peaceful and zen vibes. I wanted it to be a meditative experience and to tell a beautiful story through gameplay that's able to put the player in a state of flow. I really hope you enjoy the world that we are creating here and I cannot wait to show it to you. Thank you so much. Yeah, I've heard of this game. Some say that humans brought life to Europa. If you ask me, all we did was unlock the life that was sleeping within. Europa is unbelievable, but it's not finished. We're trying to build something better than what we left behind. That is why I'm sending you a platform and nice. That's your 3D platformer someone said they wanted to see. If anyone can decide about tomorrow, it's you whoever you choose to be. Yeah, this looks really good. I'm very curious what the story is. It seems like it's going to be pretty story driven. Demo! Hey, I might actually try that demo today. Order up some pizza because the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are back on Nintendo Switch. In their very first radical roguelike adventure, Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello, and Michelangelo must travel through reality bending portals to rescue their kidnap master Splinter. With each run, you'll fend off the totally bogus foot clan while enhancing your abilities with power arms. But no two runs are the same. Upgrade your turtle powers to grow stronger and shred through the story. The four turtles each have their signature weapons and awesome abilities. For example, Donnie's attacks have more range, but Wrath has a higher chance of dealing critical damage. After clearing each room, you get to choose from a variety of turtle powers to customize your moveset and create devastating combos. Don't get too attached though, because these powers reset when a run ends. More customization options await back at your sewer home, where you can spend in-game currency you earned on your runs on permanent upgrades called artifacts. Pick the turtle and artifact that best suit your preferred play style. Enjoy exploring iconic locations solo or jump online with up to three bodacious buds in co-op plans. Your team of turtles can drop in and out when everything runs. Turtles out for a no-crash play set. Cowabunga, dude! Fight the foots! Let's go! Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Splinter Face launches as a timed console exclusive on Nintendo Switch this July. Pizza's here! There's the pizza joke. I knew it was gonna come. You know what hasn't happened to Farmingson? We haven't had any Farmingson yet. Uh-oh! Glover took the under. Might have been correct. Guys, if Silksong's in here, it's gonna be the final game, right? Yeah, you guys aren't silly, right? If Silksong is in this, it's gonna be the final game. If it's in it. We'll see. This game actually looks kind of cool. I like that it's a cat game, but I don't always have to look at the cat. Cat Quest III. Cool. Cool. I never played one or two, so. Sawadee from Phuket Club. I'm Jay, the Lucas Studio Art Director. And this is my amazing wife, Anathes Ying. Hi, Dad. We are part of the creative team behind-stage, a puzzle game about handmade embroidery. It is such a blast for us to merge our shared passion for art and craft. It's a Mario TV thing in the background. As we design a pattern called hook. Pretty cool. Together, we have designed over 180 hook for Nintendo Switch version, and there are so many more to come after the game has launched. Our patterns, our fusion of personal experience, and the community's idea. The Penguin mascot is a gamified avatar of our producer, Tanya. Some content categories, like Mystical Creature, for example, originated from our players. We hope you will enjoy the game. Who is my super suit? Sawadee Club. Here's the nitty gritty on this cozy game. You'll complete puzzles called hoops to bring stunning embroidery patterns to life. Yulia would like to scan. Stitch together groups of cells according to the numbers on the grid while avoiding any overlaps. Yulia likes it. No, they won't. My fiancé likes a very interesting... From roller skates and teddy bears to real life locations, her favorite games, Tears of the Kingdom. That's her favorite game ever. Hoops for you to needle. But she also likes doing these games sometimes, just like little peacefulness, you know? So you can take a quick break with smaller hoops, or unwind with bigger ones that require more careful thought. Complete hoops in whatever order you'd like. No matter which hoop you choose, each one has the potential to offer a relaxing and calming experience that you can also enjoy with touch controls in handheld mode. After completing a hoop, you can play it again in free stitch mode and recolor it to your liking. If a hoop seems too tough, don't worry, a handy hint feature can be used at any time. You can also tailor your experience with various accessibility settings. Want more of a challenge? Try the limited-time daily Shikaku puzzles. These ones don't offer any hints, so you'll really need to put your thinking cap on. Indie World English Narration is insufferable. They got Koyasu Takahito for the Japanese one. You know what's insufferable to me? Listening to people talk in languages, I do not understand what they're saying. It's very annoying. For me. Stitch launches as a console exclusive on Nintendo Switch. I'm like listening to a presentation that I don't understand and have to read. Before we go, let's take a quick look at a few more games heading to Nintendo Switch. To say I like, I prefer things in a language that I can understand. It's not a racist statement. Language isn't a race. When does another crab treasure come out? That was one I wanted to check out. Before we run out of... Steve. When does another crab treasure, April 25th? Ah, I might be grabbing that one. Another crab treasure. Looks so good. Get ready to sail the spectacular seas in this mud-awaited Steamworld sequel. Didn't see this coming. The waters of the world have turned deadly, corroding the metal limbs and mechanical hearts of its robotic denizens. Now, it's up to you to explore the great sea and discover why this once essential resource has become a nautical nightmare. Guide your ragtag crew of Steambots in tactical, turn-based shoot-outs in a brand new adventure. Point, shoot, and let those bullets... This time around, you can explore the world map and engage in real-time naval combat. Equip your submarine with a variety of weapons and items, then line up your shot to blast baddies. You can even befriend Steambots along the way, recruit them to your cause, and embark on an epic voyage together. As you get to know more bots, you'll learn how your actions impact their lives. Plus, with the new job system and in-depth character customization, along with over 150 weapons, utility items, and ship equipment pieces, you can strategically craft your crew to best fit the mission at hand. Your Steambots' jobs and abilities depend on their equipped weapons and levels. Okay. Each different crewmate also has unique abilities that can be unlocked. Of course, you can also steal and wear your enemy's hats. So many hats! So many hats! Taking them last bots to bits when... Steamworld Heist 2 ricochets onto Nintendo Switch August... I'm just glad we're getting another one. That's all for today's Indie World. We hope you enjoyed the games in today's showcase. All right. A big thank you, as always, to our Indie community and partners for bringing their experiences to the Nintendo Switch system. Follow our official Indie World account to stay up to date on the latest news from Indie World. I'd probably give that Indie World a C. Happy gaming! You know, if we're talking about just grading that Indie World, I would say it's probably a C. There was some interesting stuff in it. You know, things that I'm a little bit paying attention to. Obviously, some of you guys I saw in the chat were kind of excited for this cat game. I forgot what it was called. But, you know, not really my cup of tea. Nor is the personality test game. But there was, let's see, this one here. The Yars Rising. This one, to me, looked kind of interesting. I need to see a bit more gameplay for it, because it looks like a bit more of a slower paced Metroid-slash-style... Mega Man game would go a slower paced one, but it seems a little bit fascinating. And then, let's see here. That dog I wanted to care that much about. See, this is that Metroid one. This is like the little kitty big city game. And then I didn't care so much about the sticker stuff. This game looked pretty interesting, too. This Anton Blast. Yeah, this game actually looked pretty solid. Might have to try that one out. Then we got to this one, which I was so focused on the tongue. I honestly don't remember much, because the game didn't look that interesting to me. This one looked cool to me, too. What was the name of this one? Well, not that one. Oh my gosh. This one. It's like puzzle type game. I thought that looked kind of interesting. I might have to check that out. And then, yeah, the Lorelei and the Lazer Eye thing. And then we have this game, which looked just incredible. And there's a demo for it. Like we'll mute here. There's a demo for this game coming out today, if not already out right now. This one I thought looked really good. I might have to, I might have to check, yeah, was that Europa or whatever it is? Yeah. Yeah. So I might have to check this one out. One thing I noticed at the end, do you see something? This might be a Nintendo Switch exclusive game. Look at the end trailer. It says Switch and Nintendo eShop, and then it has the studios involved. It does not have PlayStation 5, Xbox or PC. I'm just saying, this might be a Switch exclusive. Might be. Obviously, I gotta look it up. Or it comes with a PC, sure. Then we have the TMNT game, which I thought this looked solid enough. Cat Quest 3 I actually thought looked pretty good, even though this game is not my kind of cup of tea, but I know people that are into those kind of games. And then obviously we have the Steam World Heist too. So I think that it's a solid C. Like there's nothing coming out of this indie world that I'm like, oh man, I need to go plot down my money and buy right now. But there is a small amount, like three games or so, that I'm gonna at least follow up on and pay attention to. And I'm gonna actually go download the demo, the Europa game, see if I end up liking it. There was no farm sims. So for some people, that should already bump your grade up at least half a grade. You're not in the farm sims. But it was an indie world. I think one of the biggest things with indie worlds is, as disappointing as it is that Silk Song wasn't in there. And I think for Nintendo fans, we have to be a little bit concerned. We haven't seen Silk Song with a Nintendo mention since 2019. Yet we've seen mentions for PlayStation and Xbox. So there is like some concern that maybe they went away from Switch. But I doubt it. It's probably still gonna be on Switch. But I just wanna point out that I think that people's expectations for indie worlds are sometimes way up here when what we got in this indie world is pretty much what most indie worlds are. Like, most indie worlds are just like this. They're not gonna give you those big, giant, exciting games most of the time. They're tiny titles from small publishers or small game makers that, you know, you're either really into these little tiny, like a lot of cozy games. That's what these indie worlds typically are. So if your expectations are set correctly, then I don't think that anyone should be giving this like an F. I've seen people give it Fs. I've seen people give it, you know, D minuses. I've seen it now in multiple live stream chats that I'm checking out. I've seen it in my chat a couple times. If you're giving it those kind of ratings, it's because your expectations were out of whack in the first place. Like, indie worlds aren't Nintendo Directs. Okay. They are very small showcases for tiny little games. You might be into the games. You might not be into the games. Okay. Are we getting a late April or early May Direct? I do not believe so. No. Thank you so much for the two bucks though. It was definitely an F. I thought it was good. See, I definitely have because we are starved for real games. Okay. What is a real game? Exactly. Those were all video games. So what the hell is a real game? It's a serious question. What the hell is a real game? And try to tell me how these are not video games. I'm really confused. That sounds like a very elitist statement. Anyways, let me see. Found the Europa and Stitch game. Interesting. Cool. But for me, it was a C because my expectations for indie directs are extremely low because I don't play a lot of indie games. I play only a very small amount of them. Hades 2, I didn't really expect to be here because they've been talking about nothing with the PC version right now. And then I was hoping Silk Song would be in. Thought there was a good chance because of the ratings. Not in. And if Silk Song was based on what else was in this indie world, if Silk Song was in here, Silk Song would have felt like a AAA game compared to some of the stuff they showed. So I can understand why maybe it wasn't the right setting. But let's see here. Real games equal anything not shown in this indie world direct today. So every other video game in existence is a real game, but games in this indie world. Got it. Make sense. Uh, I'd say it was still good enough, but I thought there wasn't that many titles compared to... Yeah, it had for a 20-minute indie world that it did feel like there was not nearly as many titles as we've gotten in prior indie worlds. I felt a little light in that way. I mean, it's fine if you want to give it a meh rating. That I understand. For me, C is sort of like a meh rating. It's kind of like a eh, there was a couple interesting games to me, but for the most part it's like whatever. But for some people there might be a lot more, especially people who love cozy games. There's probably a lot of stuff in there people loved. So, yeah. Expectation levels need to be appropriate. Uh, I want Star Fox on Adventure 3. Remake of SSX Tricky from Gamecube. Zelda, Ocarina of Time remake. New three. Well, I mean, you're not getting that in any world. I hope that wasn't something you expected today. Okay, see, I see people saying, you know, that they're giving it a B. They actually found some games in here. They thought it was Beak or other indie worlds. Yeah. I mean, look, indie worlds, we know what they are at this point. Like we've had enough of them that our expectations should be set pretty well. They should be pretty low. And unless, unless you are someone super hyped about cozy games, super hyped about very specific genres of indie games, like it's one of those things that we know what indie worlds are. So, none of them are really bad. They're just, it's whether or not the games that were in there are the kind of games you like or the kind of games you don't, you know? A lot of shovelware though. Can we, do you know what shovelware is? Do you know what shovelware actually is? Did you just call the games in this indie world shovelware? Do you, do you even know what that term means? Holy crap. Yeah, I don't think you understand what shovelware is. That is not how shovelware works. Holy crud. Wow. Just to give you an idea, shovelware is basically games that are shot out in a high volume that are super shitty games made to be quick cash grabs. Okay. So, as some examples of shovelware, there's one I'm thinking of in particular, I just got to double check. Asset flipping games on Steam and Switch, there are by the way shovelware games on Steam and Switch. Lots of them. Asset flipping games that someone spent a week and tossed it together. Flappy Bird clones are shovelware. Stuff like that. Games that are cloning other games with very low effort tossed together in a weekend, thrown out in the world just to make a quick buck. That is like shovelware games. These games are not shovelware games. These games had lots of time put into them, lots of development time, lots of passion, lots of love and clear care to try to make a quality product. Now, you might not like the kind of games they are, not liking the kind of games something is, does not make a shovelware. Shovelware games are literally, they're quick cash grabs. They're quick shitty cash grabs. They're junky games, no time, stolen art assets, reused asset flips, copying games, sometimes just straight up copying code from games. They're literally just, you know, it's not even about how much the game costs. They're just literally quick, quick buck make games that took no time. Now Call of Duty is not, is not like that. Call of Duty is not a shovelware game. It has years of development that go into each game. Lots, that is a high budget years of development game. That is not a done in a weekend game. So that's not how that works. Shovelware has had a clear definition for decades and decades and decades. Nothing in the Indian world is shovelware just because it's not a type of game that you like. Now that, that's the big thing. Not liking a particular game, not liking the kind of game something is, does not make a shovelware. You could argue it's a cash grab, but this is why I said quick cash grab. If you want to argue things about a cash grab, every video game in any franchise exist to make money. So every new Zelda game is a cash grab game. Every new Mario games a cash grab game. Every new Kirby is a cash grab game. They're all cash grabs. Quick cash grab is the denotion I'm saying. It is a literally shout out in a day or two to make a, to make a bunch of money. But every game exists to make a bunch of money, but there's a difference between the quick ones and there's a difference between the ones that are just taking their time trying to deliver something quality in order to get your money. Like Call of Duty, we can shit on Call of Duty all we want. Bottom line is, if you haven't played Call of Duty in a long time and then you just pick one up, they're all pretty solid games. They're pretty good. They're just, it feels repetitive. Well, yeah, most franchise games feel repetitive, you know? Rush, shitty, stolen, kind of. That's kind of, kind of days old. I mean, that's a better definition than what other people were going with. Yeah, and Luca, you're right though. A lot of people that say that about Call of Duty games, I'll put some background on these again, a lot of people that do say that about Call of Duty games don't play them all. They just like watch videos and they don't really understand that there is differences. And a large reason that there's differences in each Call of Duty is that they're made by different studios. They're literally made by different studios. That's why they're able to get one out every year is because they have multiple studios working on it. So they literally don't feel exactly the same because they aren't made by the same people every year. Yeah, yeah. If you like the formula of Call of Duty, not probably form of these people's opinions of the game, I don't think, I don't have any issues with Call of Duty personally. Just like I don't have any issues with Fortnite. Not like major ones, you know what I mean? Like with the way it makes money and the frequency of release. I got no problem with those kind of games. I have a problem with games that are like riddled with ads or you can't even progress at all without spending money or even get to the end game without nickel and diming. Monies, games that allow you to spend money for competitive advantages. And when it comes to a multiplayer game that I don't like. So second or third week of June for a general direct. It cost me the last week of June. We don't really know. I don't think it's going to happen during summer gamefest time. So I feel like a third or fourth week of June is probably more likely to me. But we'll see. It's not like we know. Also, it depends if they're planning to reveal Switch 2 or not and when they want to do that. All right, let's see some other stuff in the chat. Thank you for the two bucks, by the way. I do appreciate it. Let's see here. The only good Call of Duty games are made by Treyarch. Yeah, and some people have that too where they prefer only the Call of Duty games made by one of the companies. Everyone's got their opinions. I think we'll get more news later at the end of April and beginning May or near other events like summer gamefest, gamescom, and other video game events. I mean, we'll get a lot of video game news. Nintendo doesn't care about that stuff. Though Nintendo has told us by how they've behaved in the past that they don't care about that stuff. I would love for Nintendo to participate in summer gamefest. I mean, PlayStation and Xbox do. But unfortunately, Reggie's not at Nintendo anymore. Reggie would have been the one to convince them to work with Jeff Keely. But no, Holland was disappointed with the Atari game. Yeah, the Atari game actually took me by surprise because on one hand, it kind of sucks thinking that Atari is now an indie company. Like how the mighty have fallen. Like Atari, one of the staples of early console gaming. One of the pillars is now so small that it's now indie. Which we've actually, if you pay attention to the history of Atari, you understand why it's become that way. But so it's crazy watching an Atari game have to be in an indie. But that is what they are. They are a very tiny independent company. Yeah, Atari's been sold and resold a bunch of times. And it's pretty sad what's happened to Atari over the years. But they're still around and kicking it. Hey, they put out a new game that looks pretty solid. So I mean, people say Fortnite is a rinse and repeat Battle Royale, but still remains on top. I don't know. Is Fortnite still more popular than Warzone? I don't really pay attention. Those are like the two big ones right now. I know PUBG is still floating around as well. But I think Fortnite and Warzone are the two big Battle Royales, aren't they? I don't pay a lot of attention to all the Battle Royales anymore. But I think Fortnite and Warzone are the two big ones. And I'm not sure which one's bigger. Literally, I have no idea which one's bigger. Obviously, Fortnite does a lot of crossovers and stuff, and that helps its popularity. Whereas Warzone is more like a more traditional war shooter. Yeah, Atari was instrumental in the arcade scene. Absolutely. I'm still mad about that fake VR announcement for Switch from IGN on April Fool's. Had me ready to grab my wallet immediately. I never got fooled by it, but also I'm not big into VR. The funny thing is we actually have VR in my house now. My kids got a Meta Quest 2 for Christmas. And I've actually probably played it more than my kids have. I was doing, I've been doing Beat Saber. It's a little bit of a nice little workout. It's a little bit of a little bit of cardio action in Beat Saber. I get really into Beat Saber. Do my play areas got to be massive when I'm playing Beat Saber? Because I do, I move like crazy. Well, that's like one of the few VR games that I really enjoy and enjoy. It's probably just because I like the music. Paul Gale Network obviously liked the presentation. I said that was a solid presentation. Quite a few good looking games. I gave it a C. To me it was just, it was just okay because there was only, there was just a few announcements that I was really into. Otherwise it was just whatever. And I think it's okay to just be whatever at times, you know? I don't think, I don't think there's a problem with that. So, No Man's Sky is pretty good, yeah. Like No Man's Sky today. Like at launch it was a little lacking, but today it's good. Today it's good. All right. Well, I'm going to go, I'm going to go prepare a new video for today. Play some Grounded and get some housework done. So we'll see what's up with that. Plus I got a workout today at some point. Kind of waiting for the rain to, waiting for a break in the rain. We have a lot of rain today. But I think there's going to be a break in the rain in a few hours. And that's why I'm going to go get my walk and do my workout. Doggy wants to know what would be an F presentation. A full show of shovel, where is you to find it? I don't think Nintendo would put shovelware in a, I don't think they'd put any shovelware in an Indian showcase ever. I don't think they would do that. If they would do that, that would obviously be an F. But I don't think they would do that. What I think would be an F showcase. It's very hard for there to be an F showcase for me. Now, for you guys individually there can be. Because a lot of people look at showcases as this showcase had no games for me. Ergo, it was an F. And I'm not going to say in an individual case by case basis that a showcase can't be an F. But I try not to look at showcases in that light. Here's the way that I look at showcases. And this probably helps that I have a wide interesting games and several different genres and several different types. And I've tried out a lot of indie games I would never buy at events like Pact East and E3. What I look at when I'm watching a presentation is number one. Before I even consider what I like and dislike. Does what the game is trying to do look like it's doing it well? All right. So is the game the kind of game is trying to be? Does it look like it's doing that well? Okay. So if you're trying to be a very specific type of cozy game, does it look like you're doing that well? Now, what does that mean? Well, it means basically if I was into say that quilting game, if I was somebody who played those games where you like to you like to paint by the numbers in the game and make these really cool designs. Or if you really were into quilting, like if I was that kind of person and I know people that are like my fiance, does this look as good as other games I've seen like this in that genre or even better from a gameplay perspective? And as long as it does, then it's not an F. And that's across the board for all of the games in a given showcase. So for a showcase to be an F for me, all the games would have to look like they are failing at a literal gameplay perspective for what they're trying to do. Every single game would have to come out and literally just look like what it's trying to do for the genre and type of game it is. It's doing it really badly. Now you might go, well, okay, that's one aspect that you care about. Well, the other aspect I care about is obviously is the art direction pretty good. Like if it's just a bunch of stick figures and every game is stick figures, then yeah, that'll be some points stocked off for me. One game can be that way. They can't all be that way. And then lastly, was I interested in any of the games they showed? Even if I wasn't interested in any of them, that might get it down to a D if I have zero interest in every game shown. To get to an F though, you literally all the game shown would need to be games that I feel like are failing at the type of game is trying to be. So you might go, well, why do you consider things that way and not just your personal taste? And that is because I am somebody that is very considerate of the fact that we are all individuals. We are all different people and we all have our different likes and dislikes. If I wasn't considered of that, I don't think I could be a content creator. If I only gave a shit about just the very games I want to play all the time, you can be successful as a content creator doing that. But I am not an individual game YouTuber, right? I'm not a Zelda YouTuber. I'm not a Mario YouTuber. I'm not a Spider-Man YouTuber. I like a wide swath of games and I recognize other people might only like a very narrow, you know, a very small genre type of games. Other people like another wide swath of games. Some people like cozy games. Some of them. But what I recognize is we can all connect as people with different likes and dislikes in gaming. And I'm very respectful of other people that have likes for things I don't. As an example, Little Kitty, Big City. I saw people really excited about that game in the chat. Not my kind of game. I'll probably, you'd have to pay me to try to play that game. Just like you'd have to pay me to try to play Stray. They're just not my kind of games. But I can recognize if it looks like a quality experience and give the game credit for being quality at what it's trying to do. Little Kitty, Big City looks like a pretty damn good game. I'm not going to lie. It looks like a pretty damn good game for what it's trying to do. And I'm sure people that are really into cats are going to love that game. And so I can respect these games and what they're trying to do, even if they're not for me. Because I recognize they're probably for the type of audience they're catering to a really good experience. And most indie worlds, most every game shown is that it's a quality game for what it's trying to do. And so that's just how I always examine all of these events. I do the same thing with Nintendo Directs, the same thing with PlayStation, same thing with Xbox Showcase, the same thing with Summer Game Fest, the Game Awards. I always kind of look at things in that way. And I'm not saying that's the right way to do it. I'm not saying that everyone has to do it. I'm not saying that you have to do that on an individual basis. But that's how I am in life. I look at that way with movies. I look at it that way with shows. I look at it that way with pretty much all forms of entertainment that it not being entertaining for me does not make it bad, pointless, and shouldn't exist. Because there are other people that it might be catering towards. So that's me. That's just how I do things. So it's very hard for a presentation to ever get enough from me. But it can happen. I just haven't seen one yet that's come close enough. I've had some come close to getting a D. C is usually the lowest I give. I have had a consideration for a D for one presentation once. I had considered a D for a presentation one time, but there was one game that I really liked in the presentation and that carried it to a C. But it's very hard for me to give enough. Not even Ubisoft can net you enough. I like Ubisoft's games. If it's an Ubisoft presentation, it's highly likely to get an A or B from me. Sorry. I'm not saying I always like Ubisoft the company, but I love Ubisoft's games fan. Assassin's Creed, the Mario Plus Rabbids games, The Lost Crown. I'm really looking forward to Star Wars Outlaws. I don't know who you are, but I enjoy their games. I don't know that the only dud in recent memory for me of their games I played was Scullin' Bones. Scullin' Bones was very much a very underwhelming experience. Yeah, I have a problem with how they ran and how they've been running the past and issues with Ysgeemot and his lack of responsibility taking for some of the issues that Ubisoft just had with their management, but their games have been pretty good. So yeah, sometimes you have to not listen so much to... Are you talking about the Avatar game? The Avatar game? The Avatar game is fine. If you go look up, if you go look up the Avatar game, what was it called? Avatar Frontiers of Pandora. So if you go actually look at the reviews and you read them, the problem people have with Avatar Frontiers of Pandora, and it's a very strange problem. Here, I'll show you the reviews because of course I got to feature the Super Chat. Is this enough for Little Kitty Big City? I don't know. I'm not buying the game anyways, but thank you so much. I do appreciate the five dollars. I did the support. My community gives is incredible. Literally couldn't do this without you guys. Thank you so much. Shout out. One thing I just want to point out quick. We are going to end in the stream here in a moment. I'm not on a strict schedule or anything right now, but you see that it's got a 72 overall. But if you actually read the reviews, like you're seeing some 90s here, if you actually read the reviews, the problem that people have with Pandora is that it felt very similar to other games. It didn't do enough... Yeah, look at this. GLF with the 70. If you're coming to the outdoor frontiers of Pandora purely as a fan of the films, then there's a lot for you to get out of it. So if you really love Avatar, you're going to enjoy it. It lets you explore the world like never before and take part in the culture it created for the first time, which by the way is the entire point of the game. However, if you care about it more as a video game, then it's nothing special. People's issue, and this is consistent with all the bad reviews for the game, is people want it to not be an Ubisoft game. People wanted it to do something crazy, new and inventive, and instead it's an Ubisoft game in an Avatar world. I don't think there's anything wrong with that. I literally don't think there's anything wrong with that. None of the reviews say it's a bad video game. They're just... They wish it was something that it's not. So like the Avatar game, I think is fine. I think it's great even. I've played some of it. I think it's a hell of a lot of fun. And now I'm a fan of the Avatar movies. As they said, if you're a fan of the movies, you're going to be a fan of it. If you're not a fan of the movies, I don't know why you're playing an Avatar game, but let's say you decide to pick up the Avatar game, and they'll be a fan of the movies. Well, if you're a fan of Ubisoft games, you're probably going to be a fan of the game too. I don't really think there's anything super wrong with it. They just wanted it to be something it wasn't. Which I think is... I think that's unfair. To put expectations on a game to be something that never promised it was going to be, and is everything it promised it would be. That game delivered on what it said it was going to be. So I don't know why people expect it to be something different. Basically, you just have reviewers that are tired of the Ubisoft style of games. And so it doesn't matter what game it is, they're just going to give it a bad review. Yeah, like it's... I'm not going to sit here and say that Avatar... The Pandora game is like the greatest game ever. But I mean, it's solid. It's a solid game. It's a lot, plenty of people enjoyed it. So yeah, it's not... Some people are just really tired of the Ubisoft style of games. And to be fair, Ubisoft created this pattern of games with Assassin's Creed and a style of game. And they've taken that style and they've applied it to others. And people just are kind of tired of it, I suppose. I am not tired of it. But I'm also thrilled that they're doing new things. Like the Lost Crown is nothing like a traditional Ubisoft game. Star Wars Outlaws is starting to look nothing like a traditional Ubisoft game in terms of how it plays and stuff. Like people were worried about that, oh, you're going to have to find towers and unlock the map. And that's not at all how Star Wars Outlaws works. I just naturally your map, you know, it's like a lot of games. Naturally, your map just fills in as you explore. It's not, you know, go to a tower and the map unlocks kind of thing. So yeah, burnout. People have some burnout of that kind of Assassin's Creed like experience that is being applied to other genres, like Watch Dogs and all that. So I just think that people are just kind of tired of it. But that doesn't mean that it's bad. It was never bad. And yeah, I think it's a solid game. So just my opinion. But I'm also someone that enjoys Ubisoft games, even though I'm not happy with the management. I hope it's getting better. I hope it's getting better. Taker610 comes in with the call of oxygenate. Did you and Eric play Guitar Hero and Rock Band? I played a lot of Guitar Hero and Rock Band with people in college. I don't remember ever doing it with Eric. Maybe we did Guitar Hero at an arcade together once. But I don't remember playing Guitar Hero with Eric at all. No. I definitely did it with college roommates and stuff. But I definitely didn't. I didn't do it with Eric. So here's a question. Do you think with all the handheld PCs on the market and the Xbox and PlayStation handles said to be in development right now, did Nintendo's worried about Switch 2? Like were they worried about the DS when the PSP came out? Or were they worried about the Vito when the 3DS came out? I don't think they're worried. And I'm going to tell you why. I'll tell you why. I have serious doubts that Sony is going to commit to making exclusive games for their handheld. I think if anything, it's just going to be games for their PS5 that also happen to run on the handheld. I don't think Xbox is ever going to make exclusive games for a handheld. And none of the PC stuff obviously has exclusive games. So, the reason Nintendo's handhelds are so damn popular, including Switch, is literally form factor convenience, quality, consistency, and the game lineup. Nintendo offers a game lineup you just can't get anywhere else. Period. Period. Everyone thinks, oh, third party, third party, but everybody has third party. So nothing makes your handheld stand out just because you got third party games. It doesn't make your games stand out. Nintendo stands out because of their games that they put out. Nintendo is the only company to legitimately say their platforms literally are as popular as they are because of the games they put out. I don't think Nintendo's that worried because they have the IP property and game production level. Like they put out a shitload of games to create a must-have system. As long as they keep it, Nintendo is under pressure to keep releasing quality games. They have to release really damn good games. They've got to keep being inventive. They've got to keep having their games come up in game of the year conversations, right? They've got to have not every game they bring up, but they need to have it. Their Zelda's need to keep being game of the year quality Zelda's. Their Mario games need to keep being game of the year quality Mario games. They need to be in the discussions. Metroid Prime 4 needs to be in the discussion for game of the year. Nintendo has to keep putting out like those quality of games to drive interest. They can't just start shitting out garbage games because that's how they'll lose. Nintendo is in a very good position as long as they keep making high quality products. So I don't think they're actually truly worried because they know that their sales proposition is their games on their platform and releasing them at a high volume. So it feels like a must-have. And then you get enough of everyone else's stuff. So people don't feel like they need to have multiple handheld platforms. You can buy some Jinko jeans. You couldn't fit a PS5 in those pockets. You may fit the portal though. You could probably fit the portal in a Jinko. I had Jinko jeans back in the day. You could probably fit a portal in those pockets. They're pretty damn big on some of them. No, no, most of the Jinko jeans had really damn big pocket. But you couldn't fit a PS5 in it. It's a little bit of an exaggeration. Yeah, the PlayStation portal I felt like was a solid idea. I don't necessarily like the design, but I thought it was a solid idea. People seem to like it who have it. I don't have one. Maybe I should get one. I'd probably play my PS5 a bit more often if I could just play it in my bed. So maybe a portal, maybe it is a good device for me to grab. We'll see. You know what, I kind of wish a portal existed for the Xbox. And I say this because I do the Madden League stuff, and I'd like to play the Madden League in my room without moving my Xbox up there. And I can do it through the apps on my phone. But one thing I'll say about, and this is just specific to Xbox, the PlayStation app on my phone actually works better. I have a very hard time getting my Xbox controller to connect to it. So then I usually leave my Xbox controller connected to this Xbox, but now I'm 20 feet away, where the connection's not always the best. And there's multiple walls. It's not just that I'm away. There's like literally like two walls between my system and my room now. So now there's, you know, it's kind of a pain in the butt when I can't get it to connect to my phone, which is most of the time. Yeah, I'll probably play the Europa one today. Not on a stream though. Um, it reminds me, do you think Nintendo decides to launch Prime 4 in 2026? That would be GTA 6. I don't look. GTA 6, if, if GTA 6 delivers, which I can't imagine it not delivering based on who's making it and their track record and how long they've spent making it. I think GTA 6 is a shoo-in for Goaty unless it falls on its face. It would have to have some weird monetization thing that turns people off or the story or just really buggy things. I don't think are going to be a problem. So I think GTA 6, it will be a consensus Goaty, but we'll see. We'll see. It's hard to know right now. Like, you know, people thought tears of the kingdom would be a consensus Goaty and then Baldur's Gate 3 happens. So you don't know. Like we can think, hey, GTA 6 is a shoe-in, but then something else can come along and shock people and end up being better. So Metroid Prime 4 is probably going to be a very high-reviewed game and be up for game of the year regardless of what it releases. I don't know if Metroid Prime 4 can win Goaty in any year. So I don't know if enough people will play it, but it will definitely be up for game of the year. I can't imagine, just like I can't imagine GTA 6 being bad. I can't imagine Metroid Prime 4 being bad. So, all right, we're going to leave it at that. Thank you guys for being here. I know I meant to end a little bit ago, but it's okay. You guys are great and awesome. I'm going to go ahead and have one of my meals today because I actually didn't even, because of how early things were today, I didn't even have my apple this morning. So I got to go have my meal. You guys are good. Have a good one. We'll catch you later, man. We'll be back tonight, by the way. When I end this stream, it's going to kick you over to our podcast. Be sure to come to our podcast tonight, man. We got a packed show and some great topics. Bye, everyone.