 Hello. Welcome to today's episode of the Pugwalls podcast. It's me, Scott. It's not my back again. We have our lovely cohost Osiris. Hello. Still, still, still been very quiet positions this week mate. We swap positions. We have sort of, sort of positions. I've taken control of the podcast. It's, it's my podcast now. And yeah, I've had to sort of, I just had to meet my, I sounded horrible on my headphones. I just had to turn it off because it was so distracting. But no, yeah, how's your, how's your, how's your weekend been? I know we've been good mate. It's been good. But birthday parties, children's birthday parties again. It's been getting like a hobby of mine now. So it's been like full on mate. But it's been good. It's been good. Yeah. Other than that though, not a great deal going on. We obviously had the, the Chestnut raid that went live on Thursday night, Friday, which is good. Interesting. Probably one of the easiest seven star terror raid events that we've had in my opinion, but it's good. Appleton, Appleton men coming out on top. Get your apples out. Yeah. So yeah, it's been good mate. Nice to have Chestnut and I'm in the process of shiny hunting it at the moment. So, but I'm like, I'm like 400 eggs deep. And I think it's punishment for how quick I got the, the Oshawa. Oh yeah, you got that one. I got that and like seven eggs or something like that. And I'm like, I knew there was, I knew there was payback for that. So this is, I feel like this is going to be there, the payback. So we'll see. Hopefully get it soon. But yeah, mate, weekend was good. How about you? What we have too? Not much. Yesterday was a lazy day to be honest with you. Just, I was hoping for nice weather. We were promised nice weather on Saturday. Saturday did not, well, we didn't get it here anyway. So that was a bit gutting. But we did get it today. So I had a nice kip in the garden today. Did a bit of bouldering as well today. Enjoyed the weather. You know, it's just nice to have the sun out. It makes a difference. You know what I'm saying? Oh, mate, it does. Yeah, it's just like the vibe and general vibe of life is just so much better when the sun's shining. You just feel better. Like everything just makes you feel that little bit better. So no, it was, it was excellent, mate. But no, yeah, it's been another interesting week. Like you said, we had the Chestnut Raid event, which was arguably one of the easiest ones. Your video was really useful. Again, people just think you can always tend to get like, because obviously your videos are good indication to how much people care, at least about the Raids are at the moment. Because a lot of people without flexing or whatever, I don't know, a lot of people seem to come to your, your channel for the Raid stuff now, like you've been there for a long time. So you sort of established your Raids ideas good. And so you can only tell how interested people are with reviews. And the last couple, I mean, people just, I don't see me interested at all. I mean, I think the biggest problem is the fact, like, as you mentioned, that too easy almost. And I guess there's no challenge there. So people are just like, I just, people are just like, what is the point? If you're, if you're trying to build up to home, why are you making these problems so easy to catch? Like people want something interesting to happen? Like people are so starved for content right now. The least you can do is make the seven star Raids interesting. As we mentioned, yeah, loads of times make it increase the shiny chances, make it super hard. I don't care what they do. Just make it, you know, it's just a tale of tale of the same tower every week. Where is Pokemon home? It's not here. Okay, we've got another terror raid. Oh, I'm really cares about that terror raid to be honest with you. So it's just like, well, what is happening? To be honest, though, mate, I would say on the back of that, I do agree with you to a certain extent. But I feel like there's been a lot like for me personally, just like looking at the numbers on the video. And the comments in particular, it's been a lot more engaged within like previous weeks, this one, which surprised me a lot because I don't feel like chestnut is everyone's favorite kind of starter Pokemon. And also you had like tears of the kingdom dropping on the Friday as well. So like, most people are going to be preoccupied with that. So I expected it to be way, way worse than what it was. So I was quite, I was like, honestly, pleasantly surprised. I do think though, in a way, like, you know, I think the raid itself was easy because they the chestnut just didn't really wipe any of its stat buff. So you know, we went from the previous raid with Intelion had missed, we couldn't debuff any of its stats speak for five turns as long as that was in the field to this one where it was like, well, just do what you want before my shield goes up because these are going to stick around for the rest of the game. And it makes it so much easier. So whether or not they're kind of compensating that way. But like, I do feel like there has to be some point where we get a seven star raid that makes it so challenging for everyone like and everyone's like stumped where even something like an eyelid, which just week on week seems to be like an easy pick for like more people like an online man who just did the job again. The ape is just me minutes way through every seven star raid as per usual. I do think though, the next one, which will be announced a week. We're recording this pod on Sunday night because we got other stuff going on this week. But I think we should get a week today. The next seven star raid announced and I do think that big Del Fox. I fully believe that it'll be a fairy type and I fully believe if it is a fairy type, an eyelid is not going to be a Pokemon you're going to be able to use into that rage. So we'll see. We'll see me. Yeah, we'll just just yeah, I'm trying to I'm trying to say the same thing to you. But again, I know, I think the thing is as well, you got to think they probably I think this is part of a plan as well. We've briefly talked about it when the the teal mask comes out the first DLC there's a lot of talk about the masks that are in and have been shown in the trailers to have some sort of alternative terasalization hat or some sort of terasalization mechanic where the Pokemon that have these masks have a different look. And for the reasons why they've chose this string of like starter Pokemon is because these starter Pokemon that are in the seven star terror events right now before the DLCs kind of drop is because they are the ones that are going to have these special kind of mask terasalization, whatever it's going to be. And I do think that that makes sense. But you got to think like after this phase, which hopefully will be the Del Fox, the Rilla boom that I'll finish the first phase with these hats in mind, then we might get some more interesting terasalization. I do think the Hissui in form Pokemon when the Hissui in forms will be very difficult because some of those Pokemon are like absolutely busted as Lana. You've got some like the Hissui in Samorot, which is just going to be busted in competitive because of some of the moves that it's got. And there's a bunch of other ones like Sneezler as well, going to be really scary Pokemon. And they've got to at some point, you think they have to do like a legendary like something like a Mewtwo. Now imagine like Mewtwo in a seven star turret. That thing is going to be so scary because you're not going to be able to bring an eyelid up against a Mewtwo. I personally don't think that part fighting weakness that you've got there is going to be like you have rage fist for sure. But Mewtwo stats are like ridiculous. And also you've got I will throw in as well, obviously in the anime this week, the new anime. We had Roy's Pokeball revealed and it opened up the pendant doing its thing with it and Rick Shining Requaza came out of it. It wasn't like an ancient ball. I saw. Yeah, yeah, it's crazy. Like yeah, I have no idea. I hope it gets featured in the DLCs. I hope they tie it in somehow and there's some tie to Requaza in with it because Requaza in it like I think Light made a really good Twitter Twitter post about it where he was like he did how it was more crystallized, but it didn't have a terastalization hat or anything like that, but it was more crystallized than your regular Requaza and also when it vanished at the end of the the episode, it vanished like a terror when you beat a terror aid Pokemon and it vanishes. So I thought there's a connection there. So imagine a seven star Requaza raid. I think man and it's probably got some mechanic as well. Yeah, can you imagine if it's got a mechanic where you know like mega Requaza didn't have to hold a mega stone to mega evolve. It just needed dragon ascent. No, imagine if they bring in some mechanic where it can terastalize into I don't know how they would work something. Imagine the moment when you could put wait, could you could you put a Z like a could you still use a Z move on mega Requaza or not? I think so. Yeah, you must have been able to. Yeah. So if you could stack a terastalized mega Requaza with a Z move or some you know something they do something down the line like another gimmick. Just sick Requaza. But this is what I mean. I think like it's it's probably not a bad thing where Pokemon is like there has been some challenging seven stories but nothing that's been like too difficult within like an hour or two four players to figure out like it you know after a bunch of testing you go into the raid you see what the moves are. It's easy enough to kind of like figure out especially when you know when they're going to nullify stack boosts or kind of nullify their own debuffs or anything like that. You can figure out ways to get around it and like I say two hours maximum probably you figured out a really good strategy to go into it but I think the this kind of phase I keep calling it phase one of these seven star raids which I really fully believe it is. I think this is maybe like the warm up section for the player base to be like get yourself ready because you need to get yourself you need to get yourself in gear because what is coming next is going to be a complete shock to your system. Maybe these feel really easy because we've had because remember when the game dropped right I specifically remember you DMing me and they're like down these these raids are hard. I remember you did six star raids but these five and six star raids is well hard. Maybe it's gotten to a point now where we'll see we're so used to raids going like kind of what you were just saying of them us getting used to this first phase because we're so used to them now we know exactly how they work how the shields work how the debuffs work you know it just doesn't seem easy maybe that's why everything seems so easy. Obviously some are going to be slightly harder than others because of the typing and their like own stats and stuff like that you know you're not going to be able to get past that but that's a really I think it's a really good point what I've mentioned in maybe maybe it's just because we're so used to the seven star raids at this point and maybe they maybe they maybe the legendary ones eight star raids you know like maybe maybe in the difficulty one add another star on there you know who knows as well because you know like most of them as well that we've had so far don't have items and none of them are taking advantage of having a held item which is a huge thing if any of you play competitive Pokemon you'll know how impactful like held items are we've had one raid which was the Pikachu one which was a kind of a Pokemon day special seven star raid event and that was the only one that had a held item so we know the possibilities are there for these Pokemon to have held items so you think like okay well let's chuck in something extra on top of that to make it difficult like I say I think yeah I think it's going to like take a turn I honestly expected the chest not to be a lot harder than it was but I guess as well if they are trying to bed players in like you say for them to get used to this kind of format then it makes sense to not make them too difficult no see me it is exciting know the possibilities you think like if they start bringing in these legendaries for these raids and stuff like the DLC could be so sick like they have the potential like so if you if you forget about everything else right about Scott do you want to zoom your camera in just a little bit I know you did earlier just because you're zoomed out just like if you look at Scarlet and Viola that's it nice and sexy there we go if you look at Scarlet and Viola as a base game right it's actually a really cool game I forget about all the problems with it running or whatever like in terms of gameplay it's really cool right and it just like you just think about that you know Pokemon has done some cool stuff in the past as we mentioned we've been we've been gagging for some more interesting stuff and you know maybe thinking about the Terrarium right we're talking about this they they they basically trialled them in Sword and Shield right because they had they had the Terrarium events but we didn't have this kind of level of Terrarium right did we so it would make sense for them to be ramping them up slowly especially we like for the it would make like when the DLC comes out it would maybe it would make sense for the natural progression to be oh DLCs have eight star rates you know and that's where we get all these really hard Pokemon yeah they again like it's just it's just whatever direction they go with it you know how good is this DLC gonna be because if it has all their stuff that we just discussed it could be really awesome you know suddenly you know that could be the way we get all the legendary Pokemon we get these really hard like Terrarium rates and sick because it means that some people can't get them like it just adds to the rarity of the Pokemon because in previous games you can just catch capture them quite easily yeah really challenge while you had the in the dimensional rift thing was it in Sword and Shield where you could get the Pokemon was that Sun and Moon that was ultra Sun and Moon yeah you know and it's just like but it would basically my point is it was easy to get the Pokemon right yeah it is a kid came into the day but why not make it a bit challenging clearly they're trying to up the anti-right because a child without being mean to a child a child wouldn't be able to just work out a seven star rate without watching a YouTube video or something like they're not just gonna be like oh I can do this like on a regular playthrough you know so it just no making me think you know this seems like something they could actually they could do yeah I mean even for like the seven star rates I don't really think you can go into them and not you know change the nature of Pokemon you've got to optimize it for EVs you've got to optimize the IVs so there's a bunch of things that you still need to do now to like make sure that you can beat these things so like if they go like an eight star rate yeah that's gonna be that's like where I think the the crossover from like the basic stuff that you need to do with your EV and IV in good move set to actually have a full fledged strategy against it and maybe it gets to the point where you can't do it on your I would love to see it get to the point where you can't do it on your own in game where you have to go online and you have to have a team of players to kind of say right well we all need to pull together yeah you know what I mean though I think that would be really cool yeah even more you're gonna have to find a way of doing it yourself you could probably do I'd imagine soloing it you could probably get really close but you're not gonna be able to do it and I think that would be great but then it would have to come up with like a better way because I feel like I think that have to be ways to solo in game because I think then like for those players online a lot they need to make it more more inclusive because you can't go online and do raids with other players unless you've got like the online subscription you can get the raids without it well there's that in your game and also you know if you've got they need to be a way to communicate or something like if you're doing online my point is there needs to be some sort of advantage should I say because to an extent or something that will help aid in the process because playing with randoms is hard right which the more I think about it the harder it's gonna like I don't think I would do something like that but you know I would really like to see a really hard to rate I think it would be awesome that's what we need Game Freak get on it when you mentioned about the Hissuiin Pokemon before can you trade them over from Legends Arceus or not is that not traded yet it is tradable Legends Arceus has had compatibility with Pokemon home for a while now but do you not think if they just release home like why would they then do Hissuiin Pokemon I think they would do it to make everyone able to get the Hissuiin Pokemon because the only way for you to get them is by buying Legends Arceus and I think last week actually there was some interesting numbers come out about the games and it doesn't put much hope in my corner for us getting another Legends game because I think the numbers sold so far for Legends Arceus after a year is about 14.6 million copies which sounds a lot but when you put it in comparison with like the Let's Go games it's pretty close to the Let's Go games and they haven't a sequel to that so it's like based on those numbers are they going to invest in doing a sequel to Legends Arceus which makes me really sad if they don't because I know I've said a million times on the pod how much I love Legends Arceus and I would love to have another Legends game in the series I wouldn't play it past them to try something else right like you know we had the Let's Go series right I mean that wasn't really much of it was a different art style you know it was like it was a way to rake in on the Gem 1 nostalgia as they love to do we've mentioned that many times obviously but I feel like you know they tried that obviously you know wasn't really too different so it was a pretty safe play to be honest they've done Legends like it wouldn't like the idea of them doing trying something else you know I wouldn't put it past them is my point you know like you try something slightly different or like adapting I mean the worlds they're also they can do whatever the hell they want man they've got so much bloody money it's just like it's just whether they get to the point where they care I mean we could like I said we could be hindsight's a bitch we could be eating our words you know the DLC could be amazing home could come out everyone because once home's out everyone will just like just forget about the fact that it hasn't come out for ages that's exactly what happens people just all of a sudden there are no complaints because it's just there people are just happy that they have it and I think they know that like okay they've got a bit of pushback but all it's going to do is be like okay when home does drop there is going to be a lot of hype and I think like you've mentioned before I think it's not going to be like just home dropping I think they're going to drop a bunch of stuff around it so it's going to be like everyone's going to be like oh we've got a new trailer we've got new information about the DLCs we've got Pokemon Home we've got this new event happening where if you trade from Pokemon Scholar and Violent or Pokemon Home you're going to get like the hidden ability to start a Pokemon in your games and it's like you say there's going to be so much stuff where it's just this like hype up the DLCs what's going on currently potentially a new 7 star raid or whatever mystery gifts alongside it I think yeah it's going to be all forgotten about and all rosy in the garden again it will be 100% they'll just release something special that people will eat up and they'll be like oh yes give it to me it'll be like a 7 star equation people will be like yes they'll do and then they'll just forget everything that ever happened it's interesting though that we're talking about this the leaks that have come out in regards to Pokemon Home did you want to talk about yeah well if you've got the central one because I think the central put out earlier in the week kind of on the back of obviously Ridleyku is a more reliable leaker so central is pretty reliable but central obviously has their own source with Pokemon Home because they were pretty nailed on with the updates and the leaks that they put out with Sword and Shield the last time and BDSP and Legends Arceus so it turns out from these leaks if you believe them it's going to be Pokemon Home for the very first time it's going to have the ability to trade Pokemon from Scarlet and Violet into Pokemon Home and then you're going to be able to trade these Pokemon into previous generations obviously if you've got a few Koko or Quacksly you're not going to be able to trade them into Sword and Shield because they don't exist in Sword and Shield but if you've got a Pikachu for example in Scarlet and Violet you can then trade that into Sword and Shield which is pretty cool and there's going to be some tinkering with how Pokemon's moves get deleted I think you had the tweet up there before and there's been a list compiled so basically how we understand moves to be deleted will be working is if a Pokemon is trading Scarlet and Violet and it's if it's got one move on its moveset that can't be learned in Scarlet and Violet the entire moveset will be deleted it'll be reset so even if the three other moves or what that Pokemon can learn they'll still get reset because of that one move and then they're only going to have a set like they're going to have a brand new like learn set to Scarlet and Violet so they'll learn some of the moves that they could previously learn but a lot of the stuff like that they got from previous generations won't be accessible anymore going forward so that's and there's this list compiled by Roy Dadadu which is amazing so I would advise we'll stick it in the description a link to this Google Sheet and you can go through it if you want because it's going to be really useful for like competitive players and things like that where you can have a look at what Pokemon's learn sets will be when they're traded in from Pokemon Home to Scarlet and Violet and there's a bunch of different examples as you go through them and all the Pokemon that you can trade in and I think they'll be around 9 is a 92 Pokemon that initially going to be able to be traded into Scarlet and Violet and then obviously when the DLC drop you'll be able to trade more in so yeah, 88 oh well that's close just as like a naive person for a second just this question just come to my head as much as I think that is a very cool feature that they would add what benefit does it have like why would you want to transfer a Pokemon from Scarlet and Violet to Sword and Shield like what would that do for you can you think of any reason why you'd want to trade down a Pokemon hmm probably not to be honest unless I was I'm probably the wrong person to ask because I don't really like the main series titles that generally don't go back and play them at least the recent ones like I haven't touched Sun and Moon since we went past Sun and Moon I have I've rarely been back into Sword and Shield I think the only time I've been in Sword and Shield what yeah I've been into it maybe once or twice so I haven't really touched Sword or Shield BDSP I haven't really been in but I would be more inclined to go and play BDSP probably than I would anything else I think that the cool thing is you could probably do this you could trade in a Pokemon to like Legend's Arceus which might be quite fun to do but you know it just gives you I think the option to be able to kind of trade Pokemon around all the titles rather than just keep them locked into they're either in the new game or they're either in home you know what I mean so they're kind of locked in that dungeon whereas you can pull them into other games that you want to play with stuff like that which is kind of cool to be honest but I'm I'm literally the wrong person to ask I think the only game that I really play outside of Scholar and Violet Pokemon wise is recent games would be Legends Arceus they play that quite a bit still and then I'm playing more of like the really old ones man the classic stuff like I'm playing through red again at the minute Re-release the old games and I'm still on the hunt for Pokemon Emerald so hard to get a hold of a copy without absolutely paying a fortune for it and I know I'm going to have to pay a bit more for it I've got one but we might find one if we go you're definitely able to find one you might even be able to find a boxed one but you might play that would be nice you'd definitely be able to find one though because there will be loads of stores that have stuff and it all would be genuine the amount of fake copies on eBMA you've got to be so switched on have I told you my fake GBA Pokemon Sapphire story no it is so I bought when I was younger my first Pokemon game was Diamond and Pearl and this is why Gen 4 a lot of people my age you always see these graphics of which is your favourite generation and it's basically which paper are born within this time frame because that's when that game comes out so Diamond and Pearl is my favourite Gen 4 is my favourite because it's my first Pokemon game in the way objectively Gen 3 is actually really good I really like Gen 3 and so my second Pokemon game I ever played was a copy of Pokemon Sapphire and I can't remember where I got it from but had it, loved it, played it through I think I played it on I had a Game Boy, I went and bought a Game Boy or borrowed my cousins they had a pink old Game Boy I just used that to play it loved it, I caught everything I had a high level Blaziken I had Kyoga I had Rekwaza I remember the first time going on Youtube trying to work out how to catch all the Regis I thought that was so awesome how to catch all the Regis and I even somehow managed to catch Latias which is so hard to do in these old games and I got it and I completed the game I got all that I was like yes this is it and I was like I need to trade these to my copy of Pokemon Diamond and in the bottom I've gone through the transfer and it's wiped the cart it wiped it and I'm sitting on my bathroom floor I don't know why I was in the bathroom like crying because I've just lost everything and I was like holy shit it's a fake game and then I looked it up and obviously because it didn't have the shiny sticker and it was a fake one I was devastated man it's the first time and obviously I just didn't know and it just completely wiped it and I went back onto the game just like started the game again I was like fuck so annoying I actually saw getting mate after all that time that is the worst case scenario yeah there's so many fakes out there there's some good tells though like some of the fakes are getting really good but there's some really good tells you can look for if you're looking for GBA games in particular like Emerald number and dents on the front of the sticker there'll be like two number and dents like you'll not be able to see them so the lighting has to be good but that's a really good tell the chipboard as well some of the fake chipboards don't look anything like obviously what an official one look like and you can see that if you just get a picture of the back of the card because it's a bit translucent because it's like that green see-through so you can tell quite quickly if it's a fake and there's a few other things as well obviously the labelling, the positioning of like the Nintendo like seal of approval stuff like that, the wording on it as well but there's so many fakes out there man and the fakes people obviously sell for silly money as well you know like it's like and I'm sure it's horrible because I know people probably will be buying them thinking they're genuine on the fakes and stuff like that and they'll have similar situations to you which is rich really sucks so it's annoying it's annoying man yeah sorry I'm just smiling because the mic shadow is casting out of your eyes and it looks like you look a bit like Batman I need to move it out, I am Batman there we go, is that better? you can see my face it's like slinking into the shadows basically there's so many of the boxes but I'm pretty sure I've got legit copies of only two games I'm missing, all the old games are Silver, Pokemon Silver and Leaf Green I've got all the others I would love Leaf Green the fun fact about FireRed and LeafGreen is the other games as well like you get the internal battery issues with like all the older games like Red, Blue, Yellow Gold Silver Crystal Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald all have internal batteries Emerald, I think Emerald does run when its battery goes down but the in-game like events that would happen based on time just don't work so the saves still works I'm pretty sure but FireRed and LeafGreen have like flash saves on them so they're not like a battery so that's why they're like a lot better to pick up if you want to play some of the older games in my opinion anyway so they're pretty cool but I haven't got, yeah I haven't got LeafGreen I'd love that as well but there's some convincing fakes of those, I've seen some convincing fakes like with the boxes as well that like you're like and it's just when you look at it in a certain light and you think it's got too much of a glossy kind of look to it to be like we'll have to have a look at my games one week maybe next week because I've got them all up in a box but yeah but no it's yeah release them it's the third episode in a row we've asked for them to release a classic game how many episodes are we going to get how many hundreds are we going to go just a bit of a tangent talking about the Switch console they someone saw on Reddit they've sold 125 million units and we have a nice little comparison here compared to the DS and the Wii U and for all of them and you can see the numbers there it's basically it's close to double what the 3DS sold worldwide which is pretty wild and look at like compare that to the Wii U as well and how do-do was the Wii U, bless him like a 13 million units and then like the Wii look how many the Wii sold and the DS, jeez oh you can't see, look at these numbers for the we sold 101 million for people listening in audio sorry I realised you can't see that Wii sold 101 million the Nintendo DS sold 154 million units worldwide that's massive Gameboy Advance 81 million the original Gameboy 118 million and that seems like a lot considering how old that is like hardware wise how much did the 64 sell the 64 was 300, no sorry 32 million 300 I thought you were going to say what? 32 million is not a big number is it compared to these ones? no no, which is very weird and the GameCube GameCube is lower, it's 21 million units that's mad isn't it the Wii U man the Wii U did the literal worst of every release they had of a console so the Wii U had 13 million units sold worldwide and the second lowest was the GameCube that is wild to me it is wild because the GameCube for me was such a... is it such an iconic console? does it have the best smash or is that 64? it has the 64 was the first smash and then you had what's the one that everyone plays? was that Brawl? yeah I don't know I don't know no it wasn't Brawl Brawl was Wii wasn't it I can't remember but the one on the GameCube was the one but I just thought that was super interesting I've never seen this graphic before so this is actually all new to me I like to dig this out I got a fun fact about Super Smash Bros on the 64 I wish I continued playing it as much as it did when it first came out but because I didn't know about any competitive at the time when I was playing it when it got released I just kind of migrated over more to Pokemon because there's more of a competitive scene and there was more online for me to like there was battle simulators online that I could go on and talk with friends and battle online so I just kind of naturally gravitated towards that but with Super Smash Bros I absolutely loved it I played it relentlessly after it got released it was like one of my favourite games for the 64 and I've got a Nintendo magazine, a Fisher magazine somewhere where I've got this record of the Pikachu run in that game where I got the quickest time I can't remember what it was involving I think you had to collect little lightning balls it's been so many years since I played it but you had to record it I had to record it on VHS I had to get my dad to like my 64 up to a like video player and then ask for a blanket yeah and then ask him to help me record it and then I had to post that to the official magazine it's proof that I'd done it in this time and then I got was in the the list it's crazy I've got the magazine with it my parents are have to dig it out but it was my little claim to fame with Smash Bros sorry throw it in there getting back to your point though about the consoles the switch is that's nuts figures mate I'm surprised that the the DS though the DS sales are amazing as well really aren't they yeah I guess it kind of revolutionized portable gaming while at the DS so it makes sense but just on I was surprised at those low numbers though of some of the other consoles yeah I knew the way where you was bad but I didn't think it was that bad no but you sold well though what was that 101 mil no you mean the regular way yeah yeah on the topic of switch I mean we spoke about potential successor I mean we've seen the graphics it's normally they would normally work on a seven-year cycle and I switch come out in 2016 I think it was in 2015 come out in 2016 so we do on basically at this point and they basically confirmed that there's not one happening for a while I mean that's what they say whether or not they're lying we don't know but Nintendo liars Nintendo says the switch successor is not happening for at least another year wow is that a year until it's release or a year until it's announcement won't be released until April 2024 at the earliest so they could so it could still come out next year basically which was our original theory yeah I would have thought that would have been like the kind of the timeline anyway yeah spring 2024 that's quite exciting though isn't it yeah I guess that yeah maybe they again maybe they're just trying to give themselves some more breathing room yeah so to stop to rumours about its new hardware whether it's long rumoured switch pro or otherwise by declaring that a switch successor won't be released until April 24 April 2024 at the earliest unless they want to make sure that they've got enough maybe come down to stock because they've definitely got the concert at this point there's no way they don't I don't believe that they haven't got it sorted at this point it's been almost years at this point because I'm pretty sure because I think I mentioned on the last podcast ASUS recently released their portable handheld as a competitor to the steam deck that had their Z1 chip which was apparently slated for them and Nintendo this special chip and it's really powerful but no one really knows it was just a rumour that it was made for Nintendo as well mmm it was that rumour that we covered a few weeks ago that was that new Tegra chip yeah there's also that as well supposedly we'll be going into it but I guess when the sales are still going strong so why would you release another console but they need to take the leap at some point because the hardware is so far behind right and they've obviously got absolute factories, warehouses full of OLED switches because that's why they're doing all these fancy OLED switch editions yeah they must do everything the next one yeah it must have a that would actually make a lot of sense because they must have loads of them so we'll just we've got loads of OLED screens now let's do an OLED version don't actually change anything else Splatoon, oh yeah we'll do Pokemon after that and then yes Twilight, Tears of the Kingdom is not coming out on the switch too, it's coming out on the switch and we're going to do these OLED models as a special edition with it so what we'll be next but yeah I think that's probably not along the lines, I tell you what mate I haven't really mentioned it at all but playing Tears of the Kingdom on this system really really highlights even on the OLEDs that you have mate it's beautiful mate it's beautiful but what I mean is it highlights what a bad job Pokemon have done with Skull and Violet oh I see, aww because if that runs as smoothly as it does on this console and looks as good and you think like going from that going from Tears of the Kingdom into Skull and Violet it's a big eye opener at least it was for me anyway going from playing Tears of the Kingdom and then doing the seven star raid for the chest I was like oh doesn't matter too much to me like personally on a personal level I don't really care about that too much because I enjoy the games for what they are it would be nice if they looked as beautiful as Tears of the Kingdom and I know they're never going to because it's comparing Pokemon to Zelda which is just not something you should really make a comparison of but the baseline is the possibilities of making Skull and Violet that good is definitely there and the reasons for all of these issues that they've had doesn't really make too much sense so Zelda have had a lot longer to develop their game I guess and get all the kinks out well there's also this they had to get right with Zelda they didn't have to get right with Pokemon if they got it wrong with Zelda like they were fucked basically they were really screwed because they know people as we mentioned people are going to keep buying Pokemon games people are going to keep buying Pokemon stuff it's not going to hurt their IP basically but if they released a Zelda game that actually was doodoo it would hurt their IP a lot so yeah because it is their one game per that is kind of all they have as well right they have the games they don't have any other parts of the IP that they make money from so with Pokemon oh no the games crap oh anyway buy these new Fenty Pokemon cards you know they don't have cards for like Zelda it's just the game right we just bought this brand new giant plushie yes they have you know they might be able to do a few bits of merch but nothing compared to like the stuff that Pokemon can do you know oh did you see the the collector's case it's huge and I was like what is in it there's an illustrator book which is epic you've got a big poster I'll just turn it around there's some like there's loads of little things that you get in the box oh nice and the game of course and you said it wasn't much more expensive than the regular when I pre-ordered it it wasn't made and then I looked at the cost of these about two weeks ago and it was like for the collector's edition it was nearly double what I paid for it because I ordered it the day it dropped and it had a price guarantee with it so yeah but honestly I got home from work and I was like what is this box I was like I haven't ordered anything this big I was like where's my copy of where's my collector's I was honestly expecting it to be like just a little bit bigger than the normal switch box in a little box I was like what is this and it opened it and honestly I nearly had a heart attack so I was like oh my god they've sent me the OLED switch edition by mistake I was like bonus I was like because it's just the sheer size of it and then I obviously opened it up a bit more and it was like man this is nuts big but yeah it's cool so excellent it's nice to have anyway I just don't I'm like I'm pretty stuck for space on my shelves I'm like this is a big bit of kit like where am I putting it yeah so never mind please I got it though no it looks really nice I saw a lot of people I saw you tweet about it as well sure they sure they trolled a lot of people with that box I am I got it a day early though it arrived on the Thursday so if I hadn't been at work if I wasn't at work on Thursday I would have had it at about 11 o'clock in the morning so it had like a whole extra day to play it I know the games leaked online like a week a week and a half before yeah yeah I think two weeks early I think that the games leaked it's had incredible reviews like every place I know I was giving it a 10 out of 10 basically which is crazy I know you're not into those all games along the day we'll get a 10 out of 10 on a public one game and IGN doesn't knock us down for a game that is built around water and the legendary is being is a water it's basically a wow and then knocking it down for having too much water too much water do you remember the IGN review when Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire come out they knocked points off for there being too much water like it was the region the game you idiots yes it didn't change anything oh I know those remakes were great best remakes we've had so far hands down I mean how gold is all silver mate oh yeah I forgot about that it was yeah and you got the poker walker with us as well you won me over with that yeah I think I don't know if we'll ever get a 10 out of 10 poker one game have we ever had a close one hard gold till silver must have been close reckon it would have been a 9 out of 10 I don't know we'll just have a look it's probably not a 9 out of 10 right it's probably not a 9 out of 10 maybe an 8 out of 10 I'd like to think it would be a 9 out of 10 it's a very good Pokemon game so what but then when you start kind of like rating it against other titles it's hard to argue like Zelda's getting like a 9 or a 10 out of 10 so what IGN gave it IGN IGN gave it IGN gave it IGN gave it IGN gave it a 8 and a half ooh that's pretty good most of the reviews are pretty good for Soul Silver Nintendo Life gave it a 9 out of 10 Metacritic gave it a 7% so pretty standard stuff but no no we'll see maybe what maybe when the next game it makes you think though genuinely like if saw Scotland Violet run really well would this have got so much praise would it be like oh my god this is the best everyone needs to buy this game now nah I don't think it would have I don't think it would have got much more than what it got I think there would have just been a lot less noise around the issues I think they need to bring in like voice acting like they need voice acting instead of just having the text I think that's the next thing to enhance it a little bit more you know I think if they had that in Scotland Violet it would have made it way more appealing did you ever play the Professor Layton series they used to have like I guess it's the same for any game but they used to have these little sick cut scenes before boss before like really important parts of the story they were only like 30 seconds long but stuff like that would be like I know we kind of have them but like just like an actual anime style cut scene not like the in-game graphic crap it just adds little things yeah I love stuff like that I love to ask my dad about the Professor Layton stuff because he left I remember for like years like every Christmas and birthday I'd be like get my new Professor Layton game he was like well into them I actually haven't finished the one they released one on the switch I haven't actually finished it yet but I haven't played any of them mate but he's got all of them so I could go on could borrow them apparently and acquire his DS at the same time be like just borrowing this just a quick one before I forget we had another bit of Ruminous you had to hear from Ridleyku I don't know what this is about so it's a long line of his kind of leaks I guess hints or riddles in regards to Pokemon Home and it's just kind of that continuation because I think we talked about them last week so the Move Tailor is how the moves we've touched on that already he put this out earlier like the way that he's kind of saying so the first tweet that he put out Move Tailor and then his second tweet after that for anyone listening turns out that old money won in the end Truth of the World so the old money I think it's a new turns out old money won in the end I think he's referring to the fact that when you're trading in Pokemon to the new games all that old all that old moves are going to be deleted pretty much I think that's what it's referring to and then the 3.0 is I think the Home Update which will take us to in Scotland Violet or maybe the Home Update I'm not too sure which one it is but yeah you can kind of follow along from the whole thread about the coo riddles and it all goes back to that 19th if it had been the 19th week it would have been last week when we got Pokemon Home 19th week of the year so it wasn't last week that we've had so the 19th is the next prediction is going to be like the 19th of May which is this coming Friday which I honestly feel like it could be this Friday Friday could come and go and we don't have anything so that's pretty much it on Pokemon Home I feel like it feels like with Tears of the Kingdom released now it's just weird that we've not had an announcement for Pokemon Home like they generally want to announce that it's going to be releasing on this date rather than just randomly shadow drop it and say oh it's the updates there now I feel like they want to do an announcement that it's coming yeah so it's very bizarre yeah I don't know how much room they would need because it could potentially drop it on like Monday the update and say like oh the update is coming this Friday they could even do Wednesday and say Wednesday maybe maybe like I was saying at the year of camera I think the spotlight terrorite event this week because the walking away guy and leaves a two week period for their spotlight event ends tonight so that spotlight event you're not going to be able to get walking away guy and leaves after this evening in your games and that means that there will be room for a new spotlight terrorite event happening this coming Friday which could be quite kind of telling to whether or not we get home they could do something quite special with it to say it might even be like a trio start a Pokemon or something that you get for doing this week I don't know mate so we'll see what happens but I do feel quite confident that we're going to get something this week in regards to news whether that would be about potentially DLCs or whether that that is Pokemon Home it makes sense it be more Pokemon Home related because once you get the Pokemon Home release compatibility out the way then it paves away for potentially like a trailer in June at some point for the DLCs they would expect to be coming around September October time I think for the Teal Mask at least anyway because we're not going to get it's not going to be the same timeline as we had for Sword and Shield where we got Isle of Armor in June there's no way we're getting the Teal Mask in June no way they've had no there's been no promotion about it it's got to be September I think so and that kind of goes in line with I think Platinum was the last game that we had dropped in September month and the month of September I want to say like just off recollection because September I feel had quite a few releases like of older generation games but I can't remember the exact last one but I feel like Platinum was definitely a September release might have even been on August release a late August release but who knows but September definitely feels like it could be could be there and then there's enough time between September and then December for then the next one to come out after that there's you excellent well I think that's enough on that for now we'll have to see you next week the problem is like say you can just yeet around in circles which we we do repeat ourselves a lot but it's a very frustrating position to be in as you can imagine so for a lot of fans but anyway moving on to some TCG news for a while we had some leaked cards so spoiler warning now you've probably seen it if you follow the TCG anyway but Charizard what cards sell the most what cards do everyone like what pug one does everyone like Charizard so of course what card have they decided Colin you know made this weird I don't know this is maybe divisive what do you think what do you think of this design there's been a leaked a leaked design artwork of a German Charizard it's French oh sorry French French terastalize gold star Charizard card Dark Teratiping Charizard and it's a gold card I believe as well I think it's like one of the you know the full gold cards but it's coloured to the Charizard it's like coloured on it for those of you that aren't watching listening it almost looks fake right because normally when you see fake cards they're like this but I'm pretty sure it's weird because the terra hat that it's got for the dark that terra type it is exactly how it would be depicted in the games it's just got a bit more artistic reference to it because it's coloured a little bit differently but it's exactly the same as the terra hat that you would get in the game but it's a dark terra type Charizard so whether or not that's got any links anything to do with this theory about the teal mask and these new terra forms with the seven star terraids or not and then this drop in I don't know but interestingly the card next to it I don't see a lot of people talking about this in this leak so there's two cards for those of you that aren't watching there's the main card in screen which is the leak card which is the Charizard one and then there's a card kind of half shot like a quarter of it maybe showing on the screen and it doesn't really show the actual art of the card but it is a dragonite because you can see the dragon air in the little symbol the evolution symbol as the the pre evolution of the card so that would indicate the dragonite which is kind of interesting but the you can't see any of the design on it but obviously that is something that's leaked as well just looking at it earlier and picked up on that so I thought that was quite interesting yeah yeah it is going to be very interesting to see where they go do you like the card design? I don't know I'd have to see it in person I think it's one of those that might look better in person obviously this is a very blurry picture there are some slightly clearer ones I have seen but it's hard to tell because it kind of looks a bit tacky dare I say I'm not a big fan of the colours that's what I think with the gold it doesn't yeah I know what you mean when I first saw it I was like weird so I think you're right I think seeing it in person might make it look a little bit better there's also a cleffer card as well that got leaked from the French like a French cleffer card as well which was like an old odd cleffer it's like a tiny little cleffer and a big kind of like scenic background to it did not see that yeah so that was another one that got leaked as well so that's kind of and I just say this because it's really cute under Scots what do we call it fuck so I had a really good comment and I'll bless my car they had a really good name for it I will find out let me find it you have to go you have to go to the comments for the actual pod I'm on my way there's still time so anyway while you find that we're on to this section of Scots part of the podcast there's this chamsey card that looks really cute in the new 151 set that's coming out and I just I want it because it looks very cute let me see oh that is nice I like that a lot man that is cool that is very cool I like it I'm gonna try and find this comment before it as well I've mentioned it um but no some other things as well there's a really sad story here but no we'll go for the not sad story but we had a girlfriend wrapping up Pokemon cards last week this poor guy had his collection in his basement and his basement flooded and all of his cards are now ruined and so he had loose cards it gets worse it gets worse he had sealed booster boxes as well and I'm pretty sure this is a Charizard he's got two Charizard collection boxes here that are ruined by the water as well I feel so bad for this man a woman that is horrendous that is awful look at the state of those how that it is brutal that is horrible the only good thing not a good thing that is just that look at the state of those there's no recovering there me there you know you would have there just common collector's boxes you might be alright you're probably alright with the the packs are sealed but you're just left with loads of packs which is no good and again with these you'll probably be fine of anything in plastic packaging but the whole point of it having sealed is fucked it's ruined but I just felt so bad for this guy I think I found the comment by the way I think the comment was you'll tell me if this is right Scott's Rocket Game Corner that was the one that is courtesy of lumpy thank you so much for that I do like it Scott's Rocket Game Corner yeah so that's a good one for this one I feel super bad for whoever they are I kind of feel like I want to donate some stuff to them just to be like but make sure that you put it pie somewhere where it can't get water on it you can't shell airs basically and when brutal something less sad which is pretty much it but Pokemon released some nice big old flightables for your summer holiday and I just thought it was hilarious so get your big magic heart floaty and there's a PsyDark as well and a mantake like who's sitting on that a baby maybe a bubba a guy who's not chilling out on that he's going to have a hard time in the water with that there is no way for those of you that are listening there's a collection of pokemon themed I guess what would we call them like they're not like sun lounges the floatable pool it's like a pool bed they've got a name as well I should know it I can't remember them Lylos the pool Lylos it's a magic heart one there's a manti one which is tiny and there's some Pikachu and a PsyDark ring as well Pikachu rings look kind of cool but the mantake one is tiny and there's a full grown block got a hold of it and it doesn't look like he's going to be doing any going to be doing no floating on it no floating whatsoever the magic heart one's cool though but again like you could probably lie in it but it's not massive it doesn't seem that long for a full grown adult to lie on maybe they're more into kids you may be alright mate that big I don't know the Pikachu ring with the PsyDark ring on top of it that's why it looks a bit meatier she must be boiling magic heart part she must be absolutely boiling it might be a special swim hat there's ones that they're professional as well could you imagine just rock up to a swim tournament with like a magic heart pattern stretched eyes and everything did you ever used to have to wear those when you used to go like swimming I don't want flashbacks I want to get PTSD man I used to go like I think like when I was really young like it was probably one of the things that my parents thought I'd push him into swimming because I enjoyed swimming and I was quite good at it but I like five nights of the week I'd be swimming like I didn't have a night off like oh man I remember coming home like some nights like it would be a Thursday and Friday and just crying with exhaustion being like I don't want to do it I'd just be like but it would be brutal mate and I used to have to wear those swimming caps you know they would just tear your hair and everything I don't know how girls put them on because they have way more hair than boys it used to hurt my hair so much I think you'd be like come out around you never see those anymore though they don't wear them they must wear them I think they do in like the Olympics and stuff but I never see anyone at the pool with them on not that I go to the pool often now to do any like actual swimming they're a funny old invention I always think I feel like blocks to shave their heads now that would be so much easier just be like I'm not putting that on just shave it all off if you're a dedicated swimer I don't know how we got onto this let's do this this is a weird tangent to end it off with but you know is that easy at first it is absurd no that went too quickly mate I feel like I've got way too much waffle left in me to cut it off now and finish now is there nothing else that we've got to talk about I did find a little it was almost breaking news before the pod when we started recording and I haven't included it but there was a news article I couldn't get it translated though because it was on Yahoo news in Japan about 600 there was 600 products worth of TCG that got stolen from a Japanese TCG store like 600 individual like booster boxes and stuff like that items that got because of the crisis that's gone on over there at the minute with the lack of stock and someone's hijacked a shop and taking all of this TCG product over there which is pretty bad it's brutal maybe I don't know do you have pokemon cards but yeah it's pretty bad it makes you think what's going to happen for the world championships over there because you're going to get influx of pokemon fans into Japan at that time of year but if they're going to have these restrictions on cards it's going to be pretty sad for a lot of players that are going over there but the hope in mind of being like wow we're going to Japan this is the home of pokemon this is where I want to pick up loads of pokemon cards because it's kind of cool we're here for maybe their first time maybe this is the only time they get to go there and then they're going to be kind of let down a little bit by the lack of products that they can pick up maybe it'll be resolved by then I'm not opinion at well I'm sure they can find a way to print it print more look yes just get more ink and card more cardboard it seems pretty seems like something we could probably sort out if we were there get down on the cardboard orders get Steve to get some more ink printers hire a few more people to pack the cards although they're probably all done by machines anyway so just keep the machines on all night get a watchman in get Nigel to come and watch do the night shift keep the machines on 24-7 put more coal in those burners stop get the generators on more money see I'm doing a good job of dragging this out mate and I know you're sitting there just like waiting for that moment to be like see you later everyone and I'm not giving you it I'm sorry I'll let you do it it's been fun mate thanks so much it's been fun again thank you this is my teddy fresh hoodie nice I love tie-dye stuff if you ever want to buy me a gift just get like a tie-dye anything tie-dye how about a homemade tie-dye I don't care mate I love tie-dye stuff man it's awesome anything brightly coloured there's a bit of me so there's a bit of me mate right on the right on the tangent the new castle kit that I had on the weekend I've hooked you in now the new castle kit you had on the weekend was actually really nice the blue one with the gold stripes the dark one it'd be nice it is a nice kit I actually got that one as well it's nice I haven't got the home kit this season I only got the two away ones I got the home kit from last season but then I got isn't this how they won the third kit that one is the third kit so the blue ones the away one nice yeah that's the three of them but supposedly from what I've heard they're going to keep the white and green one for next year again so interesting I said it there because we're almost in an hour and ten minutes so it's good it actually hasn't it's weird you've got a plug thank you so much to everyone tuning in commenting every single weekend supporting the pod it is like I can't say how much we both appreciate it if you're on Spotify or if you're on iTunes and you've got two seconds spare do leave us a rating on those platforms because it does massively help we say it every week but it really would mean a lot to us if you someone is yet to do it I could do it myself but that would be cheating so be the first person and then you will be forever more 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