 Hey everyone and welcome back to Nintendo Prime. We have a bevy of new stories for you today. The Mario Kart 8 Deluxe DLC drops and you can actually download it right now. We'll talk about that. The new information gleamed from there. We also have some potential stuff with the indie world and so much more today. Time stamps all down at the bottom. We are also on our road to 80,000 subscribers this month or next month or this year. Whenever we get there, if we get there. If you wanna help us on our road to ADK, just go ahead and hit that subscribe button. Also why not hit the like and comment that obviously will spread our videos around as well. We also happen to have a giveaway going on right now for Nintendo Switch OLED of PlayStation 5 or an Xbox Series X for the month of February and March. All you have to do is use that gleamed.io link down in the description or the pinned comment to enter for that. That's right, pretty exciting there. Winner announced on April 1st and I promise this isn't an April Fool's joke. We're actually giving one of those systems away to one lucky winner. We actually already gave away Switch OLED earlier this month. Hey, you know, we're just in that gimme mood. Although, well, giveaways, monthly giveaways are actually slowing down until E3 slash Summer Game Fest. We will still have milestone giveaways. So yeah, if we do get to 80,000 subscribers, we'll do another celebration giveaway because that's just what I like to do for my community. All right, let's get right into the news and our first story is a massive correction on yesterday's big video. So we had a video yesterday talking about how Nintendo Switch's name was, well, or Nintendo Switch 2's name called Switch Forward. And reality is that Switch Forward is a real thing. I actually put a pinned comment talking about this and correcting myself yesterday and I corrected myself on Twitter, but I talked about how I had some independent sources to verify that Switch Forward was a real thing and they did. Obviously, when we talk about Unreal Engine 4, one of the first and most obvious games you would jump to would be something like Fortnite to double-check this stuff. And it turns out that yes, the original source that we posted from Twitter actually did get it from Fortnite. And yeah, sort of my sources. They went and double-checked and that's just where they ran to is Fortnite. And they basically just went through the code base and did a search for Switch Forward and it popped up. So that's where I got my confirmation that Switch Forward was real. But my independent sources then went through there and decided, hey, let's dig a little deeper and saw that it was within a tree in the code base that was about the rendering solution. So Switch Forward was actually not the name of a potentially new hardware. It's the name of the rendering solution that Epic Games uses with Fortnite in particular in Unreal Engine 4. And this was obviously later backed up by a correction tweet from the original source we used on this. Again, we'll show all that on screen for you guys. And so yeah, the next Switch Hardware is not called Switch Forward. I do want to apologize, obviously, if I misled anyone or upset anyone by giving potential mission, well, that's just potential. But by stating something that isn't what it is, data mining is obviously an extremely fickle thing. And when I'm not the one personally doing that mining, it's hard for me to directly go in and verify this stuff. So I'm reliant on others, including people I know who data mine to do that verifying for me. And honestly, it was a pretty honest mistake. They just went through a code base that was obviously Unreal Engine 4 and just did a control F and looked for Switch Forward. So it seemed like it was worth reporting on. Other people picked up on it as well a little bit. But no, the next Nintendo System's not called Switch Forward even though I still kind of really like that name. But yeah, Switch Forward does have to do with Switch just with Epic Games and their rendering solution for Fortnite. So sorry if that disappoints anyone or maybe it makes people happy because there was a number of comments that saw people like, yuck, Super Switch is better. Switch 2 is better. By the way, I think numbered is always better. I think it's less confusing on the marketplace but whatever, much to do about nothing. Let's get into the real news that yeah, you can verify all of this real news quite easily. All the sources as always are linked down in the description. So our first story is a rumor. So there is potentially an indie world dropping this month and I'm gonna glance at my notes on this because this is somebody new, somebody that I never have heard of before. I actually found this on the Gaming Leaks and what Gaming Leaks and Rumors subreddit and it comes from Marmalade on Account NGT Discord and normally Marmalade disagrees with Account NGT a bunch apparently I got from the comments. I have no idea. I don't know who Account NGT is. I don't know if he's a YouTuber. Literally don't know anything about this person but what it stated is that this person actually got correct that we were gonna get the Hogwarts Legacy Event today which we are getting for Sony. So they predicted or said this event was gonna happen today and it is before it was announced and so they obviously have a bunch of other things they have said are gonna happen coming up and how this person can know things between Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, third parties and have all this information is beyond me. Probably gonna be made up. That's why Tim Foyle had the hell out of this but it is interesting and I do kind of expect an indie world to come from Nintendo sometime soon in the next couple of months but they stated that an indie world will be dropping on March 23rd which is Wednesday next week. They also said a few other things as well like March 22nd is gonna feature a PlayStation VR2 developer showcase and then there'll be a Gotham Night press event next April. So we don't have to wait long to see if this person actually knows anything. I mean clearly the PlayStation VR stuff that's very specific, indie world, very specific Gotham Night, very specific so don't have to wait long to really verify if this person really knows anything or if they're just making guesses and get lucky but yeah, this is obviously just really, really cool and I wanted to bring it up because indie worlds are amazing and every time we get an indie world is one more possibility to see Hollow Knight Silk Song which I know many of us are waiting and waiting and trying to wait patiently for a real update on it beyond a voice actor saying hey, I completed my voice work but like that doesn't tell us anything because we still have to see the game. It's not a vaporware, I guess that's one thing it does tell us. Next up you can actually download the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe DLC right now. Now it's not playable yet although there's some hours fudging like I guess in Australia it says it'll launch tonight which is like the middle of the day for us over here so again, it's possible that with cross region support you might be able to play this very soon, maybe even slightly before when this video gets posted I don't know if it can be played at any point today not necessarily late tonight but today maybe we'll do a live stream showing off that stuff we are gonna be, by the way be live streaming Mario Kart 8 Deluxe DLC tomorrow we'll probably go through the individual tracks on my own and then we'll do a big multiplayer tournament where you guys can obviously select whatever tracks including the new ones but what's interesting in this DLC update is they just added all the cups. All the cups are added we just only have the wave one tracks so the cups are as follows for wave one is called golden dash cup and lucky cat cup for wave two which is later this year is gonna be turn up cup and propeller cup wave three which also should be later this year is gonna be rock cup and moon cup and then in 2023 we should be getting wave four which is fruit cup and boomerang cup and then wave five in 2023 as well with feather cup and cherry cup and then wave six with acorn cup and spiny cup and some people noted like there's some Mario Galaxy and new Super Mario Brothers references in here I don't know I kinda think that these are pretty simplistic but you know what it is neat that they did this it is neat that they're adding all these tracks notably it does look from some people that have hacked their switches and hacked Mario Kart 8 and so there is some gameplay clips out there that the tracks actually look a lot better than they did during the original reveal but obviously it's a little bit subjective because we didn't get to play the tracks back then and we can play them now so full comparisons are a little bit rough although obviously we've seen some screenshots that show that at least the lighting looks a lot better but one thing to note that we didn't know back then that we know now it does appear every single music track in these games is completely remastered and redone for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe so that's really exciting even ones that were in Mario Kart 2 or like newer music tracks got remastered and redone for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe so the music looks really good the visuals have been bumped a little bit now we just got to play the damn thing I'm pretty excited to dive into it with you guys and do this tournament so see you guys on the race track tomorrow night next up we get to talk about AMD Fidelity FX Super Resolution 2.0 so it was already announced by AMD that this was coming but today is kind of a cool day cause we get to see it a little bit in action it's not gonna give you the full scope of it but the AMD released a video showing it in action in the game Deathloop compared to AMD Fidelity FX Super Resolution in 1.0 versus 2.0 2.0 is supposed to have some big temporal upscaling boost and it's supposed to just be significantly better than the original now why do we care about this coming? Well because as we've discussed previously AMD Fidelity FX Super Resolution is actually coming in Nintendo Switch Sports Nintendo themselves are using this technology right now to help increase frame rates and resolution for Nintendo Switch Sports so if they're already using the technology obviously the release of 2.0 which is supposed to happen in quarter two of this year so sometime before the end of June should actually be something Nintendo could possibly implement now AMD FX Super Resolution is something that they use in particular with any hardware it doesn't have to be new it could be slightly older hardware which is why Switch can take advantage of it and it's basically a primarily an upscaling tool that obviously can help a little bit with frame rates typically it doesn't work as well as something like DLSS 2.0 from Nvidia which would involve actual hardware cores dedicated to this however this you know take with a grain of salt 2.0 of this AMD version is supposedly close to on par that's the claims anyways with DLSS 2.0 as a software based solution I'm very interested how this works from a resource perspective but hey Nintendo's already using 1.0's version 1.22 to be exact so hey why not end up using 2.0 as well moving forward this would be great obviously if this is as good as it touts because with you know other games coming out later this year like Xenoblade Chronicles 3 I think could really benefit from this Breath of the Wild 2 could benefit from this Pokemon Legends not Pokemon Legends Archies well that could benefit from it as well a Pokemon Violet and Scarlet obviously that could really benefit from this as well so I would like to see Nintendo more widely adapt this technology in to just kind of help with their aging hardware sort of keep up a little bit this isn't by the way going to be taking things like oh no because there's a 4K output on your dock we can now upscale these games the 4K on your TV yeah that's not what Nintendo's going to be doing here with this they could just make things look better take a 540p 720p make it look a lot better at 1080p with better frame rates so that's probably more what you're looking at here but still this is good news this is good for gamers and obviously good for Nintendo who's already been dabbling in this technology as it is now this doesn't preclude future switch systems from using DLSS instead of this I don't know if they can work together I don't know if it's possible with DLSS and AMD FX Super Resolution could actually work together on the same piece of hardware that's something that someone's going to experiment with at some point and find out hey can I use this and then use this too and I don't know I feel like that's going to be really difficult to make work but hey I'm not a software engineer at this moment so what do I know? Our last story actually deals with something that was teased yesterday by Direct Feed Games and that is that Nintendo and Sega have dropped three new Sega Genesis games today completely unannounced on the Nintendo Switch online service that would make four new games including F-Zero X for the N64 app yeah all these games were added today and here's the name of the games I haven't actually played any of these so I got to read this list Super Fantasy Zone, Alien Soldier and Light Crusader again these are three games I've never played so I don't know much about them but getting these additions to the Nintendo Switch online service is always great and just increases the value and I can officially tell you right now that I am now a Nintendo Switch online member again remember I canceled my membership and I also have the expansion pack and you might go, but Nate, you said I know what I said, bottom line is a good buddy of mine inviting me onto his family plan that already had the expansion pass so I would just be remiss to say, you know what? Why not? I still wanna play Mario Kart 8 Deluxe with you guys I wanna play that DLC with you guys why not just become a member and join the family plan for somebody who already paid for the next year anyways they were even nice and they didn't even ask me to spend any money so shout out to them for inviting me on and what's funny is I didn't know if this would work cause I never tried it but the family plan actually works across regions so we're in two different countries and the family plan just works so that's really, really cool and I actually downloaded the N64 app and loaded up some Majora's Mask today kinda gave me an inkling to wanna play it again but we're gonna back up on that I gotta finish up my triangle strategy play through at this moment but still this is really cool that they've added these three Genesis games and obviously Feather and the Cap again for Direct Feat Games I know a lot of people sometimes feel like that guy doesn't get anything right but he actually gets quite a few things right you just have to pay more attention to what he's saying alright folks, thank you so much for tuning in I am with Andrew Rufflejans from Nintendo Prime wearing a classic Nintendo Prime podcast t-shirt by the way you can get all of our merch this hat and everything links will be down in the description you want the hat in particular we gotta use the Streamlabs merch shop but I'm gonna link basically all my various merch shops if you would like any sort of the classic shirts or the newer search or the hype responsibly yet nobody has to buy anything oh and by the way, fun note Best Buy has partnered with us I actually announced this on Twitter for the rest of this year and again I don't know if this game's coming out this year but for the rest of this year if you use our affiliate link down in the description to pre-order Breath of the Wild 2 that's right baby, Breath of the Wild 2 you can pre-order right now at Best Buy if you use our link that will send 22% of your order right back here to the Nintendo Prime YouTube channel and that's just for the rest of 2022 so even if the game gets pushed and isn't out till 2023 if you pre-order it this year with that link by the way this only works for the United States that will kick back some money to the channel so you're already planning to spend that much money on it anyways, cool obviously if collector's edition stuff gets announced in the future gonna be hard to use affiliate links for those cause those are gonna be snatched up like that but still it's there for anyone who wants to do it and if people worry, hey if I do this you know Best Buy wants to charge me right away can I get a refund later if I happen to get a pre-order in for a collector's edition or a console edition or something later yes, actually you can and I don't actually lose my 22%, it's kinda weird but unfortunately with Best Buy you do have to go through customer service they don't offer an easy way to cancel pre-orders customer service will refund you of course so it is a little bit of an extra hassle to get refunds but I just wanted to put it out there that this is I thought was just a really cool partnership 22% kickback to the channel is an extremely high kickback rate so I mean how could I say no to that it just made sense by the way that doesn't mean that we won't ever link to Amazon or other places especially when collector's editions and stuff like that drop and just you know for sake of me just being completely transparent because I'm not an idiot if you walk into Walmart day one without a pre-order and buy it in person you will be able to get the game for $49.99 so I'm not sitting here pretending that my way of getting it is necessarily the best way to pre-order the game but if you don't have a Walmart around you or you're not comfortable going to Walmart and supporting that outlet you don't wanna walk in store or you're afraid it might be sold out because like they're selling it for $59.99 online Walmart does these are just in store it's been known for a while they knock 10 bucks off game prices in store to try to get people into the store and buying other stuff so that's just the Walmart way I guess but I'm not sitting here trying to pretend that this is the best deal in the world I'm just saying it does help support the channel if it's something you were planning to buy anyways like me personally I know I'm buying the game no matter what so to me it doesn't really matter when I pre-order it so I actually used my own affiliate link to already put my pre-order in at Best Buy and you can do that pre-order for in store pickup so you can like literally pick it up right away or to have it shipped to you sometimes what's neat about having it shipped to you is it can arrive a day early also sometimes it can arrive a day late kind of a crapshoot that's just the way online shipping goes all right folks that's it thank you so much for tuning in and I'll catch you in the next video