 Hey everyone, welcome to the Nintendo Prime Podcast Episode 1. Oh boy! This is a very special episode for me. Obviously, 100 episodes of anything is a lot. And I don't know how many of you guys know this out there. The podcast was literally all Nintendo Prime was for a long time. It was just a podcast. We did nothing else. There was a website that was in and out but really didn't exist. And then there was this. Literally, my journey to becoming a new YouTuber. This is my beginning and probably the end of my journey someday. I think the Nintendo Prime Podcast will be... If I ever stop making YouTube videos, I think the last video I ever make will be the final Nintendo Prime Podcast. Don't know what episode that'll be. I'm hoping it's episode 18,000. Because I think that'll take me until I'm dead. I don't know. I'm in the math on that one. But yeah, it's a very special occasion. I did... I tried hard, guys. I begged Darren to come on. Because I wanted to make this a true throwback episode. Because for those who don't know, the very first episode in the Nintendo Prime Podcast ever was me, Eric, and Darren Har. It was originally supposed to be a three-man podcast. Actually, we made quite a few promises. Once we became... Yeah, there was a lot of promises in that first episode that never came true. But once we became a weekly podcast, Darren went bye-bye. I think it conveniently worked for him that we would only do it when he was available. Pretty much. And now he's only available once every three months. So it didn't work out. And then I even tried to give 5J to come in. You guys might remember him. He used to do live streams on our channel. He's a great guy. You should go check out his YouTube channel and his Twitch channel. Just 5J Gaming. That's what he uses everywhere. Well, he would have been on as a nice replacement, but he's sick. So I wish you well, 5J. Hopefully you're feeling better. Maybe we can get you on next week if you're feeling better. I know episode 101 is not as special as episode 100. But man, we have come a long way. You know what? I know I didn't have four topics. We're just going to make a fourth topic right now. And before we get into that, I should remind you guys to, hey, you're watching this live. A lot of you, if you're not, and watching this on Monday when it normally comes out, welcome, if you would like to watch it live, $10 back around Patreon.com. Every Thursday is when we do the recording, and that's when you can see it live every single week. As we record it, or for $5 a month on Patreon, you can get the audio version early by a full day. Otherwise, the normal podcast comes out at 10 a.m. on YouTube and Podbean every Monday. Now, that being said, that out of the way. Oh, I'm Nathaniel Fitzgerald there more. I don't think we did. I kind of want to reminisce a little bit. I guess before I do the reminiscing, I should mention that we are going to have a giveaway, a special giveaway announced during this podcast. Some of you savvy people out there probably already noticed that there is a giveaway link already down in the description because there's no way for me to be like, oh, giveaway link is not in the description at all. It doesn't exist. What am I talking about? But there, obviously, you could already go enter, but I implore you stick around to figure out what the giveaway is and why the giveaway is what it is. But we'll get into that in a topic, I guess two topics from now. So the first topic I guess I want to talk about is strictly podcast and I guess Nintendo Prime related because, again, 100 episodes of this bad boy. Is there any particular episodes that stand out from you from the past 100? Anything where you're like, man, that was a really good podcast. I could think of one in particular that's always going to stick with me. The Smashcast? How can you not? Nathaniel, how can you forget Smashcast? I mean, the Smash podcast for those who don't know is we had, she says, bounced in randomly. He was originally supposed to be on, then he said he couldn't be on and then all of a sudden he just showed up halfway in. Darren was there. We had Player Essence, who did not like my opinions on the Gamecube controller, especially, and my opinion on items in competitive Smash. No, he did not. She doesn't like that opinion much either, but at least he thought, you know what, the kind of player you are, it's kind of silly. I think it was it, right? That was the group. That was a really fun podcast. It was the most people we've had on a podcast, I think, total because we had five. We had five people on and we struggled to get a third on most of the time unless it's a Patreon. It was kind of nice having that. That was back in the day. One thing I will say Darren was good for was getting guests. Yeah, he was. I'm not as good at it because I don't have time. I forget to ask people to be on the podcast if I'm being completely honest. And then when I do ask, like I did for this episode, it's no. It's the day of. Or even it's the day before. No. I've asked HMK a few times. He's been on some episodes. Yeah. I remember the first time he was on, there was a particular question. I held that because he's the hype man. I don't know if you guys, he gets overly hyped about things. It's good times. But it's like any particular memories, like yeah, even if it's just us two and you trash it on me because you and my fiance are the best at making me feel like garbage. There is that. No, the ones that stick out to me the most are always our betting specials because for some ungodly reason, I'm always the one that loses and takes the punishment. That's right. I'm undefeated in betting specials. Podcast betting specials. Podcast betting specials. Well, technically the one that I lost was an betting special. It was a video game competition stream and you beat me at the game so then I got punished and I ended up throwing up, which is cool. It's whatever. Still having found a punishment that makes Eric throw up, but it's okay. We've had a lot of fun on this channel and there's a lot of other videos I do. A lot of you guys out there probably know me from the news videos, know me from the prime news videos, know me from standalone news videos, discussion videos, maybe a video that went viral or two. I think my most viewed video as Nintendo Prime because a lot of people were like, oh, my body is ready. That was a video that's been on this channel for a decade. I'm talking about in terms of what I've done as Nintendo Prime, there was that hacking video that blew up to Nintendo, blocked hackers or whatever that blew up to 300,000 and the whole hacking community now hates me. I don't think there's a single Nintendo Switch hacker out there that views me in a positive light. There's one. I think Zachary Kurtz, he shows up to live streams once in a while and he doesn't hate me, I don't think, because he still shows up. But maybe he didn't watch that video. Maybe not. Oh, I just lost one more sub. Now he's going to look it up. That's another interesting thing. We're in the midst, we were at episode 100 and Nintendo Prime's actually doing the worst it's ever done. We're getting lower viewership per video now than we were when we started doing Nintendo Prime. Crazy. I, in the span of the last week, have lost over 150 subs and haven't had a single positive sub gain day and there doesn't appear to be an end in sight every single day I wake up, do more videos, and by the end of the day we've lost another 20 or 30 subs. I don't know what's going on. I don't know like is YouTube doing a long purge? Normally YouTube purges are like a day or two. So I don't think this is YouTube purge. I think what this is is the fallout from the Nintendo Prime podcast or the Nintendo Prime Nintendo Switch giveaway because that's still ongoing. But Glean.io temporarily closed it a week ago because YouTube changed their policies about giveaways and they didn't want my channel to get like a strike. Well, after talking to YouTube and stuff, I said well the giveaway was already ongoing before the policy change, you're allowed to finish it. So I reopened the giveaway. I'm not supposed to mention it really in a video. So like it's still ongoing but I can't advertise it. So the link for it is in the description of every video but it doesn't matter because people don't read the description unless you tell them to. That's something I quickly discovered as a YouTuber. Unless you tell people a reason to go to the description, they don't do it. So what happened is because Glean.io sent out all the, oh giveaway ended, what's happening is all the people that entered the giveaway are saying oh it ended, now I can unsub. So I'm really just losing the subs. I weren't watching my content anyways. So it's not really a net loss per se because I'm just losing people who didn't enter the giveaway. But at the same time, it is a little discouraging to see how hard I was working and it's like when is the sub purge gonna stop? When are people gonna stop unsubbing? Maybe never. And on top of that this past week, I changed up the channel. Now I'm covering more than Nintendo and I'm sure that's pissed some people off because that's just the way it goes. Even though one of my top viewed videos this week is a video about Sony. So I mean, the audience has spoken. We're not with Sony channel, I'm just kidding. We are not with Sony Prime. But it's just interesting because this is the 100th episode. This to me is even more important than the two-year anniversary that I celebrated anyways through a live stream a little bit ago because technically Nintendo Prime has been at this for longer than two years just as a full-time YouTuber it's been two years. But we've been doing this podcast for like three at this point. Somewhere in that area probably. This podcast means something to me. I've talked about it in the past. It was always the piece of content that was gonna stick around no matter what happened. If I don't do YouTube full-time, if I'm working 80 hours a week or whatever else, Eric and I are gonna find a time to get this podcast done. It's just gonna happen. And it's because I care... I think the thing I care about the most when it comes to the Nintendo community is the discussion on Nintendo games, the discussion on the community of Nintendo fans and the discussion on Nintendo hardware and the rumors. Like, I like discussion a lot. And also, this is a permanent excuse for Eric and I to actually see each other once a week because we're busy. We're working tons. I got kids. It's nice to know, hey, look, every Thursday we're gonna meet up. We just know it. It's in our schedule. I don't know. He might not get here until 8, but he'll be here in time to do it. Unless I push it or unless he's sick or whatever happens. Mass amounts of snow. We've seen circumstances that we can't really plan for. So, man, this podcast... We've been through a lot of crap. I mean, how many guests can you even... I know we're not gonna be able to count because we're not gonna remember them all, but how many guests can you remember that we've had? Oh, gosh. I mean, I mentioned a few already. I'll give you those a few already. She says Player Essence... You know, for how buddy-buddy Player Essence and I are, he's only ever been on one podcast. Hey, OJ, what's wrong with you, man? You don't invite me on your podcast, granted. I think it's a patron thing. But still, I'm a patron member. I'm just not at the level to be on your podcast. Oh, way to go. And I don't see you knocking on my door to get on my podcast. What's wrong? I'm just kidding. And we had, she says, he's actually been on a couple. Because he was on one where Darren wasn't around. But he's really busy. So, usually when I ask him, I have to ask him like a month ahead of time. And that's hard for me to plan over a month ahead of time. Let me see here. H.M.K. He's been on a couple early ones. He hasn't been on in a long time. He was on during that first year. I think he was on one of our Hype podcasts. And then we saw him at... No, that was 2016. We saw him at E3, but we didn't really know him that well. So we didn't say anything to him. When he was going nuts over Zelda. Oh, yeah, I remember that. No, 5J has been on. 5J, okay. Darren. Darren was the OG. He's a guest. Now he is. Might as well have always been. Might as well have always been. You got your patrons. Yup, the patrons. Let me see. How many of those I can name? We've got two Holmes on one. I think Be Righteous was on one. I think so. He might be on one again this month. He tried to get on one last month, but it didn't work out for him. Let me see. Cory Boehm has been on one. Andrew243. He takes advantage every month. He's on every month. He's the only $20 record we've had. Seriously, he's on every month. He actually takes advantage of his Patreon stuff every month. Oh, yeah. And you never actually mentioned that part of the Patreon part of it. Being on the podcast for 20 months. Oh, yeah, for $20 a month you can be on the podcast. I do. Over the course of this podcast is you guys are why we're able to do it every week. Because it is hard to organize this. It takes a lot of time to edit. Shout out to Martin, our old editor that did this podcast. Let me tell you, Martin, after editing this podcast now for a few months, I miss not having to waste my weekends editing and rendering videos. It sucks. And I really, really appreciate the amount of time you allow me to focus on other content. So thank you so much for that. I can't forget that you were a big part of this podcast. Oh, yeah. For so long. It's just me and Eric now and then random people from Patreon and then, I don't know, we haven't had an extra guest in so long. It's hard to even say. And I feel bad because it's the 100th episode and I thought about trying to invite everyone who's ever been on to see how crazy it could get. I don't think most people would show up but even if we got like three of them, the only people I counted had never got back. So I can tell you one right now that you're forgetting. Someone, you met at E3 but I didn't. Oh, yes, Mr. Bob Wolfe. Bob Wolfe from Wolfe. I actually got to ask him again. I've been popping up on his live streams and just checking in and I should probably get him on. See, basically, tonight, probably tonight, because it has to happen tonight or I'm going to forget. I'll DM some people and see if they want to be on some episodes coming up. Let me see here. I'm trying to think if there was anybody else. I know there's been some more people but whether or not I can remember who they are. I bet you if you look at your things, if there's been some people and I bet you there's people screaming me, me, me, don't forget me. No? I think GamerPon just signed up, I think, to be on a podcast this month. I think next week. I think for the rest of this month we have some patrons. But I'm still going to be inviting on some other guests to see. It's okay for us to have four people. We always wanted it to be four people. Yeah, honestly, we've had a lot of great guests. We have. One thing I like about having guests on is, one, a lot of the people I invite besides patrons, I love the patrons, the people that I invite are usually other YouTubers and what's great about them is they talk as much as I do. So they know how to shut me the hell up. Or if I say something, like, I say something about the GameCube controller and how much I hate it. Player essence is no problem. Popping off, I'm a part. I'm my own show. I'm my own show and I love it. I love it. Oh, I love getting them going. Getting OJ going is one of the most entertaining things. I swear, sometimes, I don't want to have mom just so I can say something I know he's going to disagree with. That would be funny. That would be funny. I don't like fighting games that much. I get around to telling how much fighting games suck. Why not? Just bring guests on just to torture them. Just to torture them. But yeah, there's other people I want to get on to. Oh! Oh, do you remember this? This was early days. This was like in the first 10 episodes that I think we ever made, Dreamcast guy. Oh, yeah? He was on an episode. He hasn't been on since. And I actually have his little discord and DMs. He's really busy, but I should see if I can get him on an episode too. I think the hard thing about what I've discovered and getting guests on is that because of when we record. So we record at Thursday nights, which is in the middle of the week, which is hard for people to get on because they have plans, they have sleep schedule, they have their own live streams, especially YouTubers have their own live streams, their own recordings planned, okay, everyone's on a schedule. So to be on my podcast is out of schedule for them. That's why they're always like, oh, is that on a Friday? Is that on a weekend? It's like, no, it's not. I'm sorry. It doesn't work for me. I have kids and I have stuff going on. My fiance wants to spend time with me on weekends. So Thursday night just works out best for both of us for work schedule and everything. And unfortunately, what works best for us doesn't always work best for everybody else. Also not just that it's Thursday night, it's generally Thursday night, 9 o'clock p.m. Well, because it's when my kids are in bed like 10 o'clock at night. Exactly. It would have sucked if we had a guest because they would have been pushed because my son wasn't asleep to like 9.30. Yeah. And on top of that, well, we went to dud all the other stuff we did. I don't know if you guys notice my microphone, if you're watching the video version, it has a completely different holder compared to his microphone because we snapped off the old holder because we were trying to get this out of it and we failed because I needed to get the fitting out to put it on here and anyways, it snapped and luckily I have another thing like this. It's just not made for this microphone. We're going to live with it until I decide to buy new stuff. It works. It works. Well, I'll find out how well it works when I go edit this later because I don't know how well it's actually absorbing anything when the metal things are actually touching the mic. So I don't actually know how well the version is, but we'll find out. Whatever. I'll get it replaced for next week if I need to. Anyways, I digress. It's been a hell of a ride for 100 episodes. I mean, just even our placements and our scenery and our everything. Gosh. How many different sets have we had? How many different sets have we had? We started in Couch. I think we did a couple other episodes then we went to the bar. I have a bar that's now in the playroom. We then went to the green screen room. Hold on, but in the green screen room we had the corner. Yes, we had the corner. We had the corner. That was my only office of my studio. Like imagining right now going back to that. I'm looking around this studio right now. All of this, well, technically that shelving unit in here. The one behind you. That was in the man cave. That's now the playroom. But all the stuff that was on it was in there. This shelving unit was in there. This table was in there. My desk and my stuff, the mini fridge was in there. The microwave was not. That was in the man cave. But like I'm literally like all the crap I have in here that is still a big mess right now was all in there. To go from couch to your office that is tiny. We always got the camera framed just right. To make it look like we were semi-professional when we were in the dinkiest spaces with crappy lighting and no space and hot as balls in there. If you go look on the YouTube channel there's some videos out there of us showing off the old office and then now going into us building the door having the idea to even build the door. Originally our idea was to build a wall. Originally the studio when we expanded it we've been talking about the studio expansion for a while because technically that room which we call the green screen room isn't even in use right now. It's storage, random crap. I haven't even picked it up. It's a mess in there. It's not even that bad of a mess. I just got to pack some stuff back in the closet but it's just because every now and then when I need something that I know is in there I just dig through crap and I don't pick it up because we're not using the room for anything right now. But that room is going to be the podcast room. It's going to be I want to be careful calling it a podcast room. There's a long-term plan for that room to turn it into an actual stage that's going to be interesting. It won't be green screen anymore. I don't know it won't be green screen because there's going to be a TV and two monitors and some other stuff going on some shelving whatever. It's actually it sounds crazy but it's not going to be like the TV I'm literally just going to go to a pawn shop. They got a zillion of them. I'll find some 1080p 42 inch TV and just throw it in there. Well I'll turn it on at the pawn shop and make sure there's not a big dead spot on it somewhere. Or like 18000 dead pixels. I do have to check the refresh rate. I'll bring my camera with just to see if it's flickering on the camera. Then I just told Eric that I've been looking at a special kind of desk I want and you're like you know what might just build one. Now to be fair I got to price things out because I did find one that might be big enough that actually even has an indent to put a TV in it that was 130 bucks. That's not terrible. It won't be the highest quality and I know that you know I'm sure but it's fine. And then we don't have to build it. No chair wise. Might have to get new chairs. Don't know if these chairs are probably too short. I don't know. And those other chairs we have my god. I don't know if I can go back to those. Yeah. Now if I bring the other cloth one down here those are fine. Yeah. Those would be fine. But right. Because that other one upstairs is supposed to be down here anyways. So I don't know anyways. We'll go out once we get it and do all that stuff. Yeah. So yeah that was the set, the corner of the office. Then when we initially built out the studio this was not the podcast set. No. It was still the green screen and you guys probably didn't even notice the difference. Yeah. It was just that whole room. We just went to a wall. And it was just we had a bigger wall with better lighting. And it made key in and out. That's four. Five different sets. Yeah. And they'll be set number six later this year. At some point. Even if I end up not doing this every day anymore. Which by the way we're still a daily YouTuber. I'm still going to build that out. Because it's not that expensive. So not as expensive as I thought it was going to be. Obviously wall paint. All this stuff. I know. And the thing is I don't even know what color I want that set to be yet. Yeah. I was debating actually if we take it back to white. Yeah. And I know what I want to do. We're not going to do it. Okay. But I want to mention it anyways. Because I think it would be really cool for the podcast set. I want to put up plexiglass panels with LED lights behind it. So that I can change the colors of. Yeah. And I got that idea because my parents. Now they had a really expensive one. They didn't custom build themselves. They used to have something like that behind their TV in their room. And it looked really cool. And I'm like gosh if I just had like a nice eight foot section of a wall like that. That'd be sweet. Now it's actually not that expensive to do it yourself. But then I got the plexiglass. And it's got to be obviously plexiglass. I got a coating on it. But I don't know. I'll have to look at how that is. I don't think that's going to happen in this one. I don't know what the color of the wall is so much. I also thought about just doing this. Where we make it white and just use flood lamps. Yeah. But I don't know. Because then the flood lamps might shine back off the TVs or the monitors. Maybe. Unless I use LED strips around the TVs. On the backside. Because then I could change those. Right. So whole lot of ideas. Basically the wall is the one thing I'm not sold on. There's going to be two monitors. One on the wall. I know for sure that some of those shells are going to go up. Because we're going to put different items per podcast. Or per show. Right. So I know that was one thing. It's going to be crazy when we finally get to it. Basically I need like 300 bucks to make it all done. Yeah. I already have the monitors. I don't have to worry about the monitors. And I have the computer. Thank you so much. I think it was two homes. Because of that computer. I can actually do that setup in there. It's going to be a dedicated storage server. And literally dedicated to everything that has to do with that set. Yeah. And that set by the way can be used for multiple shows. That's the idea of the different of the monitors and the TVs. And changing out items and stuff. And maybe changing the colors. They'll be the internal prime podcast stuff. And then there'll be other shows I can do in there in the future. As an example. I want to do a live new show eventually. And that would be from that set. It doesn't be the table anymore. Unless I'm doing unboxings. Like this table will probably be set up to the side. And just be brought up for unboxings. Otherwise this will just be the discussion area. You guys remember when I used to stand for videos? And stuff like... What? Well I do for news videos. My news videos now have a new setup. But for discussion videos I want to do it back here. I don't want to do a lot of videos anymore sitting in my chair. One, it's lazy. Two, I sit in my chair enough as is. I eat right now. The chair stream. That's the live stream stuff. But yeah, even some of my live streams, I've been using the portable green screen. It actually looked really, really good. So, I don't know. Things are changing around here. But I'm basically saying we're 100 episodes in and I'm not satisfied. We're going to keep getting better. But also, you do have to really re-mention these right here. Oh the mics. Be righteous. Be righteous. Gotta see these mics. Because we were having issues with the cheapos. The professional studio mics that we had. They were L cheapos like $30 mics and god they sucked. It was a fight. We think we fight with the audio now. We would spend hours to get one to work. Yeah, that we did. And we switched to those because the Blue Yeti was having issues going in and out and it wasn't the greatest quality all the time. The Blue Yeti's are great, especially if you're just a solo person or if it's like an interview. Now I have lab mics, so technically if crap hits the fan I could try to switch over to lab mics. Lab mics are going to be difficult for live stream purposes though. Because I can't really run them through my mixer very well. But we can run them into our phones and get high quality recordings that way. So in that case it might not be a live stream. We had to use the lab mics. We don't have to use it because we have these amazing microphones. And I somehow had enough extra audio equipment to hodgepodge together another setup after breaking the old ones up. They made it how many episodes without breaking? I'm kind of surprised with how it would have kept going if we didn't get something jammed in it. Then we tried drilling it out and it was a pain in the butt. But whatever, you know what, 100 episodes and we're still here. So I guess time for the next topic? Yeah. Man, I think I almost forgot what it is off the top of my head. What was the next topic? You know what Eric? I got to provide the details for it, I know that. Oh yeah. So I did a video on this and it was in prime news, but I want to have a discussion on it. So they basically discovered or has been discovered on Google Chrome's development website where they put up notes and everything the developers do it to public with their browser that Nintendo switched pro controller support and Joy-Con support both individual Joy-Cons left and right Joy-Cons together wirelessly obviously Joy-Cons in the Joy-Con grip with a USB cable if you have the charging grip same for the pro controllers, Bluetooth or USB support is coming to Chrome. Now it might sound confusing so you at first but Project Stream runs through Chrome. So that's basically what it's for. It's not for like probably the internet it's for Project Stream. If you can use your joystick and able to move your mouse and click I mean why not? Project Stream is a game streaming service. They had a beta test for it last year with Assassin's Creed Odyssey thanks to one of our people on Discord I was invited to participate in that I actually did a live stream of it to show you guys a proof of concept of how well game streaming is right now now granted I have a business line internet so I don't expect it to be bad here but it was really nice it was a very nice and smooth experience and it was kind of cool because not only did I stream it to myself I streamed it back out to you guys and it was flawless and I tried it on multiple devices I even tried it on really crappy internet and didn't have a problem with my laptop so I don't know it seemed really cool really nice really interesting and they're adding this switch and pro controller support to it which is nice it means like if you're playing with Xbox or wherever you have a Chrome browser on your phone you could enjoy Project Stream or whatever they end up calling it when they launch it now Google is doing a GDC special on the 19th so I'll be live streaming that and we'll see if they even talk about the switch or pro controller support or whatever because they're sitting there talking about their plans for the future of gaming which obviously is going to include their Project Stream whatever they're doing with that whatever they might be launching an actual hardware console so that's going to be interesting to see what Google is doing there but I have a theory so Joy-Cons I'm just going to come out and say it Joy-Cons to me are inferior controllers to everything else you've been the GameCube controller yes I'll even give the GameCube because you guys have to have an issue with the Joy-Cons controllers and I think someone in the comments on one of the videos said oh my preferred way to play is the Joy-Cons sideways you might be the only person in the world that prefers that I'm not saying it's a bad experience no but it's not as good as just a normal controller in your hands like my Donkey Kong one this feels at least decent the Joy-Cons feel tiny, cramped like the B-buttons directly above the stick to have bothersome people there's no D-pad unless you modify it or you get the Hori one it's not just a good experience to me there's no reason to really support the Joy-Cons because I don't see how anyone would even think about using Bluetooth Joy-Cons even especially sideways with Project Stream I don't see that as even a thing that anyone using that service would think of the Pro Controller sure it's a standard controller but here's the thing the Joy-Cons grip it's not terrible it's a little the Joy-Cons grip is okay but still even the sticks they don't have as much travel it's still also a little bit too close I wish it would have been a little bit I wish they would have when you put them on there because they're going straight there are like fan made ones where they're kind of like bowed out a little bit like this and then that actually feels kind of nice but you have to recalibrate your sticks when you do that but that's fine who cares people will do that for a more comfortable grip but I think what's interesting to me about this is Joy-Cons support to me this is sounding like Project Stream will be on switch yeah so my question to you is do you even want game streaming service on switch or there's even the possibility of testing for Nintendo possibly thinking in the future of going to game streaming testing for what how it works with game streams they like controllers and stuff it should work the same as any other Bluetooth controller it should that doesn't necessarily mean it will but you can already use Joy-Cons with a computer it's not like new been able to do that for a while it's just normal Bluetooth yeah I don't know I've ignored it very well though Steam the button mapping doesn't really like the Joy-Cons for some reason it's fine with the pro control maybe because it's split and it just confuses Steam I don't know maybe I mean I'm okay with it because the more games on switch the better what do you think these services will be used for what games are we going to get I don't know that we don't already get that I mean one is to me the obvious one is Assassin's Creed Odyssey like technically Switch has it in Japan through a streaming service that we don't have here yeah there's that you think maybe like a Madden or something would go on to a streaming service or a you know maybe maybe maybe they're more able to be on it's own service well there is that they'll never let you subscribe per month you'll be paying because you say that because you know they have EA access already which does let you subscribe for a month sure that's great and everything but when they do an actual streaming service EA is going to be like hey look it'll be ten bucks for three hours no no no what they'll do is the loot box it so you have a random chance of paying nothing for a month twenty bucks for a month or five bucks for an hour the loot box it only only EA oh my gosh they totally would they totally would of course the chance to get a free one is like point zero zero zero zero zero oh well yeah obviously like it's one in a trillion chance to get a free one no I mean maybe a little bit better than that just just to give you hope because you gotta have at least one person get a free one I don't think they're even going to do it I think it would just be at least a penny oh yeah they gotta make some money they're giving you a free one you're right I'm sorry it's EA they ain't giving you a squad they don't even let you have demos for free anymore you gotta be part of EA access for demos seriously yeah so sometimes they have public tests I think they had a public test for Anthem but then it's invite only so like it's not a public demo like there's no public demos anymore it's like you have to be part of you already have to pay for the privilege to enjoy demos but so back to my original point if for some odd reason maybe like EA would trust the streaming well there's also the rumor out there that the Xtreme from Xbox, Microsoft that might be coming to Switch if not this year early next year because I think this year Microsoft's going to focus on their platforms but then next year when they're going to expand it that Switch might be one of those platforms so like Switch might have multiple options and if EA can get along with one of them I mean I focus on Madden because well and Ubisoft we can't ignore them they're the ones that already are streaming Odyssey on Switch in Japan so like Ubisoft's clearly going to be for game streaming maybe it will help pull a little bit more triple A kind of quote-unquote support because but not really the Division 2 is on Switch right now even though it runs on an engine that runs on Switch I don't know why it's not here but it looks pretty and that could be something that would be on the service future Assassin's Creed games obviously too I think what some people are afraid of is that I think everyone can kind of get behind an option to get games we weren't going to get anyways fine but like is it also going to be an option that's going to replace games we were going to get anyways for example Doom Eternal is coming to Switch but if that's available through streaming service would that mean that like the next Doom game wouldn't come to Switch they would just put it on the streaming service maybe and I think people don't want that because then what happens is you don't own the game anymore so when the server shut off you can't play there's also the quote-unquote how much is this leading into the future of gaming where all of a sudden we lose we're losing physical copies of the game period I mean we all of a sudden everything's now going to streaming you don't own games period you don't have physical copies of anything I mean there's some people that is a future I actually saw a thread on reset era where someone mentioned so we know like before we even get all the details on the streaming stuff the title of the thread was essentially so we all know that the way we enjoy games now is going to go the way of the dinosaur someday right it's blatantly obvious that physical games is probably maybe not go extinct because it's not extinct on PC yet but it's going to go the way of PC where PC basically you don't even have disk drives so like yeah you could buy some physical games but it's more of a novelty item like it's kind of like buying records they don't release records of every album anymore like it's a novelty item it's not standard and now even CDs are almost going that way digital games I think are going to last a lot longer I don't know that they're going to get rid of full purchasing a game and downloading it I don't know that that's going to go away for a while I think that delivery method is one that is going to exist because even with all the Netflix and all this stuff going on you can still purchase digital games I own some movies on Amazon just straight up bought the movie on Amazon so I can play it anywhere and I own it and as long as Amazon exists which I don't see Amazon going away anytime soon I will have access to it and that's why I bought it through Amazon but that's also another thing too though is that you're relying on somebody else being around to be fair I have an option to have it on the download and just keep it so there's at least that so if we ever heard of Amazon I should go download whatever I got or go and bankrupt exactly like you said I don't foresee that happening even Netflix now lets you download some things I'm guessing probably their shows I don't know I think you're actually able to download anything you want but obviously there's DRM involved because they're going to have to the idea is so if you're on the road you don't have to eat up all your data like you can still watch your shows in the car but not eat up all your data but obviously they have to do some sort of online check or something at least once a day or once a week I've never tried it so I'm assuming because the idea is to be able to play it offline but obviously they have to do a check to make sure you're subscribed or not even that but is the thing still on Netflix because I don't know if you download it I wonder if that's a way to keep things when they take it on Netflix that would be interesting I downloaded all the episodes of The House back in the day they had it on Netflix I don't know if they had that feature back then but yeah I don't know here's the thing it's a future that's coming anyways whether we want it to come or not game streaming is coming Google is pushing it Microsoft is going to be pushing it Amazon is rumored to be working on something for it we've already seen streaming services or streaming applications on Switch appear in Japan it's coming it's happening that's what they do to stop it from coming besides tell a bunch of consumers that wouldn't otherwise be playing games that they shouldn't spend their money on these services that are really cheap or at least probably going to be really cheap at first to play a bunch of AAA games on their phones yeah I mean this is what I mean Project Stream and Xtreme work on phones or Xcloud or whatever they're calling it work on phones so you're not going to be able to tell those billions of phone users no don't spend that cheap Netflix style money per month to play AAA games you're not going to be able to tell them not to do that so it's not going to go away so I I like having the services on Switch because I think it does mean we're going to get some games that we normally wouldn't get especially if they're single player single player I think is where streaming really really can live and really thrive so the assassin's creeds of the world resident in evils stuff like that can really thrive in the streaming service the multiplayer games I think are going to take a while like Call of Duty because there is going to be latency I didn't notice it too bad in Assassin's Creed but it is something you would notice in a Twitch online shooter you know when you're playing Call of Duty online you're going to notice latency versus someone who's not streaming it so I think it might take a while for I mean it might even take until everyone has fiber before we get multiplayer games streaming I'm sure Microsoft will have their games on it because I think they said all their games might be on Xcloud in the future so like Nex Halo and stuff will be on there but again just because it's on there doesn't mean it's going to be good or it's going to be the non-extremely labor intensive multiplayer games I don't know like Killer Queen Black yeah no just you know something that simple that doesn't take a whole lot of yeah it doesn't take a whole lot of updating the whole lot of data back and forth even then there's still the issue I don't think is the amount of data it's the latency already from you sending a command to a server okay there's already that latency now you're waiting for commands from other people that have the same server and then waiting for those commands to come back to you if you just send more commands out it's kind of the World of Warcraft problem where in MMOs everything might look fine and smooth on your end and you might be firing up spells at different times than you think you are and they might be firing up spells at different times than you think they are so like it tries its best to sync everything but bottom line is with all those different internet connections coming in nothing's ever exactly perfect so what you're saying is if you're down to what three frames a second that you know I probably should not have been in a hardcore raiding guild let alone be one of the best healing priests on the server running at three to five frames per second so the Warcraft and 40 man raids no that should not have probably existed but back then I think everyone was running at crappy frames so it didn't really matter so no one noticed that I was running at three to five one I got really good though I got so good at when the game is running when you're seeing individual frames you know how easy it is to time and count out your spells you had to memorize how long does it take to cast your spell to cool down so you're not looking at the frames you're just subconsciously I hit the key now I can hit it again and now I can hit it again and then when I went to ones where you would click on the name tags to do the healing click different buttons on the name tags it got even easier because now every second once per second the health bars would update but you could only fire off a heal every 1.5 seconds anyways and when you weren't sure at all you would just spam prayer of healing nonstop because it hits a whole group of 5 there you go so either way you're healing someone and then you look really good on the healing charts even if you didn't do your job of healing the tank because you his health bar jumped and for some reason it didn't update for 2 seconds and now he's dead oops but yeah I think the more games we can get on it the better yeah so so I think it's ultimately a good thing now but it's one of those over time I think the concerns that people have are going to start cropping up when we start seeing games come out that we at least feel as consumers could be running on switch I think at first like if Assassin's Creed Odyssey or the next Assassin's Creed or the Vision 2 or Call of Duty or whatever like some more intensive games Red Dead Redemption 2 like if all those start coming to switch we're like okay cool those games aren't coming to switch anyways but it's like okay who's going to like what about Mario and Rabbids Kingdom Metal 2 is that suddenly streaming only yeah that would not be fun or when's a Nintendo game going to go streaming only right when Nintendo decides it wants to have its own streaming service and when they realize they can make more money that way probably yeah so it's it's interesting and on top of that you know there's always the concern that you pay a subscription fee and there's probably micro transactions in a lot of those games which exist already like you pay a subscription if they were the Warcraft there's optional micro transactions where you can buy mounts and stuff granted they don't really give you an advantage in the game it's all cosmetics so it doesn't bother me too much in Warcraft but you know an EA would be like okay subscription service, micro transactions and loot boxes it's all happening at once so now we have a continuous stream of revenue in every game we make in three different ways so instead of just paying the $60 price buying the DLC and the micro transactions and on top of that loot boxes now it'll be you don't buy the game anymore you just pay a perpetual fee to play it every month they're just forever and ever and ever on top of that if you want the DLC that'll be sold separately in packs and the micro transactions and the loot boxes I mean there's a world the EA is going to be the company to do it they're going to do it just wait till they start piecemealing okay you want to play Madden online that's $5 a month you want to play franchise mode that's $15 you want to do Madden ultimate team you pay for the privilege $30 a month for the privilege to be able to then spend money on packs oh yeah obviously no I really when you said something and then I was like oh my god I can see them doing that you know you have your base stream where they have your games then they have an upgraded section where you get the DLC for those games $5 a month then you have another tier where you get the special editions of games it's kind of like when Anthem came out and it had 18 different release dates the release date of the game will be based on which tier you're in so you want to give us $60 a month sure we'll give you what a week's early access oh sorry what am I thinking sorry yes 12 hours and the next one is like 10 hours and then 8 hours see me I don't mind the streaming services being there but I also kind of want a game pass on Switch so game pass on Xbox you download the games you pay a few per month like 10 bucks a month or something like that yeah it's in addition to Xbox Live whatever the point is you pay 10 bucks a month $120 a year and you can get and plus they added other things they have the older GEN games and stuff it's like their virtual console too and you download them and play them I think it's cool I think having a future where you can do both of that that's fine to me Grant I don't want physical games to go away but if they were going to go away but that was the future I'm a little bit okay with that Granton you still don't have ownership so you still I think should offer the option to buy games digitally actually you know what here's the way I view it if you have a thing on game pass like on Switch if you've been a member of game pass for a year any of the games you have downloaded and actually played in that past year yet you can keep playing them by staying a member of game pass or you will be given an option after a year you know every year for whatever you played for the last year to purchase the games you already have downloaded for a discounted amount whatever that discount is 50% for Nintendo games 50% off would be huge since their games never go down in price it would be like 5 bucks off they game stop it but the point is like some sort of discount Nintendo has even talked about doing this before a customer loyalty program a lot of people used to talk about it like rewarding people for buying Nintendo games or buying Nintendo services still doesn't exist you know when you buy digital games and you register them and you get gold coins like oh that's a discount program that didn't really feel like what he was talking about he was talking about if you keep buying Nintendo games they eventually get cheaper for you for being loyal and not cheaper for you because we're giving you gold coins that you can optionally spend to get it cheaper on the eShop they were talking about like okay you bought Odyssey, Zelda, Splatoon and Arms okay it was half off kind of thing that's what it felt like he was talking about but you never got to see that vision through of course because unfortunately untimely passing of him and I don't know that he would have ever got that to come and he's referencing for gold coins and it's worth the plan all along I don't know I just think it's interesting should we move on to our next topic we can oh boy guys are you ready for the giveaway so here's what's happening we're gonna be debating and trying to come to semi definitive conclusion what are the top 5 exclusive Nintendo Switch games so far okay we're gonna try very very hard to submit your own list if you want down in the comments there's no hate here everyone's gonna like what they like but remember we said exclusive sucks for me because my favorite game of all time gets knocked off rest of the while isn't exclusive so it doesn't count that's a key thing so like even startling I would want to throw on it can't it's not exclusive even though it has exclusive content it's not an exclusive game it's that basically knocks out two thirds of the games that I've played but yeah so we're gonna have a little debate and then if you want we could actually go do it right now we are actually gonna be giving away five Nintendo Switch games it will be a Switch game of your choice you must unfortunately this time around be in the United States this could potentially be a really expensive giveaway for us because people could choose $60 games or they could choose cheaper games it could be a digital or physical copy your choice and that's why we're keeping it strictly to the US because I feel like a lot of people when they win will want the physical copy so we're just gonna have it shipped to you from Amazon the standard version only yeah standard version only and no limited editions it's just one because those are more expensive usually and two sometimes are really hard to get their hands on and yeah so it could be any physical Switch or physical Switch game or digital Switch game that's $60 or less and we're picking five winners to represent each of the five games we originally were gonna do like oh let's give away a copy of our top five but then it's like yeah but a lot of people might have some of the games so let's just make it fair and you can pick any game you want so it will be five winners the giveaway will be ending next week Thursday or I should say if you're listening on money it will be this week Thursday and then we'll talk about the winners or announce the winners during the podcast so be sure to tune into that podcast multiple ways to enter by the way you'll see that when you go to the Gleam.io link down in the description so each winner will get one game yep yep one game per winner five winners and what's interesting is the first giveaway we've ever done that Eric's actually helping with it so we pooled our money together to pull this off I hope you guys enjoy it thank you for tuning in for 100 episodes and not only the 100 like thank you all our patrons for making this even possible I mean kind of 462 dollars on Patreon like this is just blowing my mind that we like we might be at 500 bucks next month I don't know what I did to deserve that support but thank you guys and I'm actually curious I know I brought this up to you in before the podcast but I'm actually curious as to you know we say this is a 100th episode I'm actually curious as to where some of these audience members actually started picking us up at what episode down in the comments leave what episode you started watching us out at if it's today welcome if you've been with us since day one thank you I'm just kind of curious to see how you know what's the mixture of longevity you know brand new what's kind of why not add like why you like watching the podcast there's that too and maybe what your favorite episode was if you happen to remember so yeah I mean yeah why not just kind of just feedback just feedback feedback that helps us just kind of figure out you know what we're doing right and what we're doing wrong and how we can grow the podcast to be even bigger than it already is so alright so top five so I think we can just get a couple out of the way that I think we're going to agree on Super Mario Odyssey yes like I think we'll just agree on that period who after that though is there any guarantees I think for the two of us it's I don't well for me probably Pokemon let's go whether it's although he has Pikachu I have Pikachu for you just to say I have the Pokemon one nice I think another one for us would probably be Smash Ultimate that we could possibly agree on one maybe I don't know I mean that's I mean that's in my top five only because I've only played no you played more than five we went through it I've only played a handful of games though you played more than a handful because a handful is five you know what I mean um so those are at least three of my top five so Pokemon Smash and Mario Odyssey for me obviously Odyssey is in there Mario plus Rabbids Kingdom Battle that is already that's unlike my top two favorite Switch games there are after that it gets a little fishy for me Octopath Traveler I haven't finished it yet but everything I've played of it tells me that should be in my top five and then it gets so debatable after that because I love Pokemon Smash Ultimate I think is amazing but I'm just not a fighting game fan so like there's games I enjoy more than Smash and I know that so part of me wants to put it in my top five because I think it would be top five if not number one for almost every one of our viewers or every Switch owner out there but for me it's like that's not the kind of games I enjoy though so like Splatoon 2 to me is a better game for me I played it I have it surprisingly I haven't played it no I mean I got it I think almost pretty close right away when we came out because I know we were playing we played it a couple times but I haven't touched it since almost since I bought it okay so there's that Odyssey, Mario plus Rabbids Kingdom Battle it's fun Octopath, Splatoon 2 and I really like Splatoon 2 a lot and my fifth one fifth one's tough you know I haven't played enough of Xenoblade Chronicles to put it in there Fire Emblem Warriors is nice but I like Hyrule Warriors better and I know Hyrule Warriors isn't exclusive on Switch but it's like I know it's better so I just I can't really put Fire Emblem on there maybe Fire Emblem 3 houses when that comes out Yoshi's not out yet so that can't be considered in the demo Kirby Star Allies is not in my top five it's a better game than people give it credit for but it's not not in the top five I mean Arms was pretty good but again I'm not really big into fighting games so I'm not gonna say I put Arms above Smash so that wouldn't be the case for me Pokemon obviously is always in consideration because the Pokemon game is good enough for me to play the next one which I didn't think was gonna happen it brought me back at least for the let's go part of it yeah it brought me back so now I'll give the next gen a shot I don't know if it brought me back that far you don't know if you're gonna play the next gen maybe I might give it a shot I think for the sake of us fully rounding out everything we think about Pokemon we have to give that next one a shot because this was Let's Go which was a gen 1 remake right up our alley so it's like okay let's actually give the next one a fair shot beat it at least beat the story and just be like okay do we like it or do we not and now we've actually gone through it can we explain better why we might not like Pokemon anymore or were we just wrong and live it on presumptions and it's just been a long time and we love it we don't know that's why I think we really need to dive in because well Let's Go was great and fantastic and I loved it it's still like it was gen 1 which is right in my wheelhouse gen 1 remade actually to in my idea actually be a slightly better that's a hot take only there is a hot take only because of the nostalgia gone no not no no it's still there only because I really really really really like the live world live world Pokemon that is so cool I'm kind of disappointed that doesn't appear to be that is the only reason why I think it is slightly better than the actual original I actually like the capture mechanics in Let's Go so Pokemon in the overworld is huge I wish to I don't know maybe it will be there in gen 8 but it didn't look like it it did not look like Wild Encounters it's going to feel real going back to Random Encounters I mean Golf Story that one is good it's so good it's a better than Smash for me it probably yes it probably I put more hours into it for a reason it's probably for me better than Smash but is that top 5 I'm debating on that might round out my top 5 with that one Golf Story Smash Pokemon Odyssey Golf Story and oh lord you were freaked out when you saw that game it's so good have you beat the Halloween area yet I gotta remember where I'm at I think I'm in that area you would not forget if you beat the Halloween area yes I think I did the opera song that was the best part of the whole game it was so good I go back to replay that area it's such a good fight it took me forever it kind of took me forever to figure out how to beat it that one was the closest thing in gaming to getting me back to Conker's Man for a day with the Great Mighty Pooh it was the closest thing in gaming I've had in 30 years to get me back to that oh my god it was so good and it was so funny just ripping on Mario what is happening this is old school rare comedy right here I loved it that fight alone put the game on my top 5 let me tell ya plus the game itself is just really good DLC is really good too I still have to beat that game so good I just haven't had time I've been out of town for work Snipperclips you know it's also exclusive right now with Switch Tetris 99 I'm not a big fan of Tetris I'm not a big fan of I'm not a big fan of do we disqualify Splatoon because it requires the other oh god there might be that oh man there's a lot more exclusive games than people I think realize there's 16 of them and I counted it up so we're picking a third of them I mean golf story probably would round up my top 5 I really like golf story to me it's everything that Mario Golf should have always been but never fully progressed to because Mario Golf wasn't RPG but it never really was that open world full progression it was an interesting take and I liked how they did it but they never built upon that concept and this feels like the group that made this out of Australia at clearly Mario Golf and they're like what is the next step for Mario Golf we're doing it it's got frothing in it it's got frothing in it I love froth the controls for maybe I just suck at it it took me a while there was one where you had to weave it I was like what I can't I keep hitting trees and then I'll watch you do it I don't know use the joy cones man there is that so the giveaway I just happened to answer the comments on the live version here the giveaway is right now there's a link down in the description it's live from now until we record the next podcast till noon on Thursday next give us time to get the winner sorted out and we will be contacting you through Gleam.io I think they give like an email address or something whatever we'll get contact info and get a hold of you but I'm not going to do that after we announce it to our patrons who will be watching the live stream of the recording and then after that I'll be getting a hold of people over the weekend to sort that all out and figure out what we're going to do and what games you guys want to get obviously shipping addresses and all that stuff we got to sort out I should probably go on my Amazon and delete some old shipping addresses from giveaways I've done in the past because I probably shouldn't keep those addresses at my Amazon I know where Darren's mom lives because I have her address let's go pay Darren a visit let's go pay Darren's mom a visit he lives on his own now if I show up at his mom's house I think he'll come over that's not awkward at all that's not awkward at all I mean I do want to go to Nintendo New York so I'll just go to his mom's house yeah why not I think he lives like 2 hours outside of New York City so that's outside of the city so then you got to get into the city so that's probably an additional 3 hours until you want to go in the city I'm guessing I'm the driver then because are we even going to drive in New York City I mean we do in LA New York's even bigger it's the biggest city in the United States I mean it's hard for me to imagine traffic worse than LA but I remember being out there my junior year dude it was bumper to bumper traffic everywhere that is true it was almost faster to walk that's probably true too that is probably true too the bottom line is if I'm going there I don't want to stay in a hotel that's near where I'm in Nintendo New York Nintendo New York is close enough to Times Square I don't think it's too far away from Times Square and then obviously close enough to Broadway to go there and go to some place that sounds like a fun time I love New York is really cool if you're in the right part of the city and I still have yet to go to the Statue of Liberty even Chinatown man and I never actually got to go to Statue of Liberty and that peaved me off I had it closed off that year you could go up to the island we went up to the island but we it was basically here's a gift shop and then here's the thing read about the history and you're done but I never got to go out there it wasn't that fun to me the boat ride out there was cool I like that it's just kind of nice feeling that air too bad we weren't out there with that salty disgusting New York air when impractical jokers were doing that one punishment because that would have been funny to be on that ferry going back through when they did their one Statue of Liberty punishment anyways or it'd be fun to be rich so I can finally go up into Statue of Liberty because they used to be able to go up into it all the way up into the but they don't let people do it anymore because it's too dangerous yeah do some repairs make it safe anyways what is your actual top 5 then to get back on topic Super Mario Odyssey yes Mario Bros. Rabbids Kingdom Battle after that traveler Golf Story, Splatoon 2 alright cool I mean yeah definitely Pokemon is flirting but for now I'm going to put it on the outside I think I enjoyed the other ones even more Splatoon 2 look Splatoon 2 I do it I've got like a lot of hours in that game I have so many fond memories playing with with our streamers and stuff like that playing with our fans like oh it was such fun so much fun so much booze consumed I think I might consume more alcohol playing Splatoon 2 over the last 2 years than I've consumed in the past 10 so there's been some fun Mark Greenberg you have made several of my Splatoon 2 streams nights that I do not remember so are you sure Splatoon 2 is good from what I remember before I can't remember yes gotcha gosh I think this made me do I got through a throwback Splatoon 2 stream dang it anyways I spent a long time I'm gonna suck I wasn't that good anyways I'm gonna really suck it's been so long there's like new modes now stages night I'm gonna suck anyways that being said I guess I always suck so what else is new our last topic I know what it was media create for those who don't know I report on sales data at this channel I talk about MPD data comes out once per month that deals with the United States sometimes I talk about the UK charts I don't talk about them often because the sales numbers aren't huge there but I talk about them when it's relevant especially when there's new Nintendo games we talk about the Japanese charts at least once a month sometimes multiple weeks throughout a month and the go-to that we use for that is media create media create is a company that tracks sales data for software and hardware for video games and media create there was a rumor floating out there last week that I didn't talk about because I didn't believe it but it came true today media create will no longer be reporting sales data publicly to anyone so starting in April will not be able to give you media create numbers unless we're a business and we pay them we are a business but I'm not paying them for the numbers they will, I think they said they still will release whatever the top 10 software are but they won't tell you the numbers and they just they said they won't give the numbers for software so maybe they're still going to give numbers for hardware but I imagine that if they're just doing it as a slow roll like we won't give you software numbers oh yeah for sure no no watch them they'll tell you the top 10 they won't put it in any specific order and conveniently this happens around the time that switch would be coming close to passing playstation 4 no Sony didn't pay them to do this it's just a interesting interesting point I had some conspiracy theory I've seen out there conspiracy theories they've been destroying my brain the past 24 hours they've been our knight oh my gosh I'm just I don't even know what to think anymore I mean I know what I believe I don't know what to think anymore my brain is fried my brain is fried in some of this stupidity that being said I think we'll still be able to report on numbers because Femitsu magazine still reports sales data as well also how long do you think it's going to take before somebody who pays for the numbers just go publicly? I don't know because I think they'll probably be a stipulation that they can't do that see MPD numbers aren't released publicly right? they don't have a report you can go look at on a website anywhere that has public MPD data what you have are guys that work for MPD like Matt Piscadell he's an MPD analyst he puts out a lot of the information every single month and he's allowed to do that so MPD doesn't give numbers anymore exact numbers anymore so it's kind of the same thing but you're able to extrapolate numbers so basically what happens is MPD used to give numbers so now when we hear what numbers are like say we know that say Nintendo said they moved 5 million switches in December like Nintendo publicly stated that and the following December the MPD report or the following January I guess MPD comes out for December the numbers for Switch are 25% ahead of last December well if Nintendo told us numbers we know it's 25% more than that you can do the math and even if they didn't give you numbers you can keep going back in the MPD data until there was numbers and you can keep extrapolating the data moving forward you can always basically figure out what the numbers still are because the data is there but it's a little more work but you can still figure it out that being said Femitsu still gives numbers so we'll still be able to track and pay attention to Japan so some people say what's the big deal the big deal is that Femitsu numbers are widely considered to not be as accurate as media create now the numbers are close but Femitsu numbers always come out after media create so you often wonder are they close because they looked at the media create numbers I'm not saying that Femitsu is like VG charts where they're making stuff up but they create literally tracked every retailer Femitsu doesn't track every retailer so they track some retailers and then they extrapolate for the ones they don't track which is why they're not as accurate so we'll still be able to talk about some numbers and they're still going to be relatively true and we'll still be able to make our videos but one of the videos will come out later since Femitsu numbers don't come out at the same time usually come out like 12 or 24 hours later but I think it's I just think it kind of sucks to see I mean I can't blame media create is the one putting in the time so I can't blame them for wanting to monetize it right and it also does MPD monetizes it too, you got to pay to access the report if you actually want to read the full report and MPD tracks by the way more than video games so it tracks all retail sales of everything in the United States and you wonder oh crap where was he going with this I lost my train of thought fantastic better not do that great god dang I forgot where he was going with it oh my gosh don't worry I'll think about it in about a minute and a half I don't like that they're doing it but I can't change it I told you, I think about it in a second I was close enough it also depends on how much they're actually charging for it too I mean if it's anything better anything better you know that's more than free is crappy I just don't like it's not public anymore and that they probably won't let businesses put it public if they pay for it which is kind of weird because if you pay for the data well because if you put it public why would all the businesses pay for it so I get what I don't know I mean they can do what they want it's their data we've been so accustomed to getting it from them for years I think it's been over a decade that we've been getting media created it feels so weird it's like the end of an era it's kind of like if E3 ever gets cancelled some people already feel like it's the end of an era for E3 because Sony's not going to be there and like Sony's always been there and now they're not going to be there so for some people if Sony never comes back to E3 that does feel like end of era but they're not at the showroom they're at their own building they're doing it the same time your E3 pass that you pay for whether it's a gamer pass or whether you have a media pass for the E3 convention that gets you in so there's obviously some sort of partnership and I'm sure the ESA gets some sort of money but not the same as obviously they would get if Microsoft had a booth inside the convention center still but to be fair Microsoft's theater Nokia theater is like like what a block and a half away it's not that bad it just sucked it by the time we watched it the way the theater was closed but at that point in time though we were pretty much done maybe if we didn't have to wait in line for Pokemon twice yes I forgot my badge maybe if we had media passes wouldn't have been a problem would have been done with everything they want E3 changed your YouTube I get they don't want to let everyone in but why is it easier to get in websites than it is to get in with YouTube because your lack of respect towards YouTubers and you know what I say that and they'll be like fine we'll fix it now websites are harder to get in it's not what I meant it's not what I meant now instead of it being 10,000 hits per month to get one person in it'll be 50,000 hits a day yeah right stop giving them ideas they don't watch our stuff I haven't applied yet because I'm afraid of being rejected I'm just like I think the website is going to qualify for even one badge but I mean if we can get one badge we're going for sure we just need the one badge to get our equipment in and then you can kind of do whatever you need to do we'll have the tripod because you can bring a tripod so I can technically record so it won't be that bad but then we could do all of the vlog-y stuff or all of the interviews plus if I can I'm going to be baiting this year on bringing a nice mic that I hook into the camera because I have a cord that I hook into the camera whether or not it sounds good I don't know because I've never tested but I'm assuming it'll sound good or I get a setup that goes on top like the road mic does and it's this mic did we ever really test the road mic the road mic has been tested several times it worked fine for the whole trip it broke on the way home now I don't know what I'm not sure about is if it's the mic or the mic port the thing is I plugged in other the lab mics into the mic port and had issues but the lab mics are different, they're weird microphones so you have to use a converter to even make them work on a camera so I don't know whatever I'll just buy a nicer one that's not so cheap but I do want to figure out obviously if the port's broken before I do that so maybe I'll try an XLR cable and do it although it won't be as good because these need power but it still works without power it's just not as loud I just need a way to test it to make sure there's no static I'll figure it out maybe I'll find someone around here who has a cheap road mic for 20 bucks I've tried a different cable so I don't have a cable I don't really have much else to say I don't like it it makes my job harder and less accurate until you find out it's actually relatively cheap then even I don't like it I'm not saying you have to like it I gotta convert currency to Yen's gotta use Google to translate it to Japanese and I'm trying to talk to them I'm sure you're fine are you sure? because English does not translate one of the Japanese very difficult translation the people that do it like Bill Trenin kudos kudos it all sounds in a way that if I say it, it's gonna sound very racist that's what it sounds to me I can't help it it's just what it sounds every time I hear Miyamoto or someone talk I'm just like oh my gosh it is the biggest gibberish but we sound like gibberish to them I mean I sound like gibberish to me I sound like gibberish right now it's just it kinda was the giveaway in the table I think it's gonna do it except for the Nintendo Prime podcast episode 100 be sure to enter that giveaway guys whether this is your first podcast ever or you've been here the whole time this is for you guys we really wanted to do something special for 100 episodes celebrating 3 years of doing this crazy hopefully here's to another 3, 6, 9, 12 let's go till I retire wait that's something isn't that from a show or a commercial it's not a podcast if I don't make him face palm at least once at least once anyways you can follow me on twitter at nintyprime you can follow Eric on twitter at emo8790 you can get our podcast online I guess I'll do it this week episode 100 I guess I'll do it on podbean.com or through the podbean app on iOS and Android you can find it in iTunes if you have iOS you can also find it on the google play podcast app through the google play store so it's there you can also find it on patreon.com nintyprime.net is the only place where you can actually go back and see all 100 episodes because some of the episodes started on a different youtube channel and all this stuff and that youtube channel 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patreon on next week I want to guess who didn't episode 100 now this is where I tried to get party poppers at the dollar store but they didn't work what? yeah seriously like they always work right even with cheapos and I was like I gotta try it nothing next one nothing all the strings just got pulling out yeah now poppin so thank you guys so much fake confetti post editing that might not happen so it'll just look like fun just us going like this thank you guys so much for tuning in we'll see you next week for episode 101 and to announce the winners of our 100th episode giveaway thank you guys peace out