 Hey everyone This is just a another video today considered a bonus video. I'm not on camera for this one I don't really have everything set up, but there's a couple of stories. I want to talk to you about one of them comes from last Friday This one's actually something from three weeks ago, but it seems like a lot of the internet has gone unnoticed with it So I want to I want to bring up these stories because I think they're important and this first one is to do with someone that EA is looking to hire through LinkedIn. So if you guys remember Towards the end of 2018 beginning of 2019 There was some hiring posts out there on LinkedIn that kind of pointed to the fact that EA might be bringing frostbite to Nintendo switch But we really haven't heard anything about it since and EA hasn't really announced anything major for switch If anything at all that I can even think of all the time I had over the past year But they are hiring someone at Motive EA Vancouver has been looking for a talented and experienced rendering se to join them Working on a beloved and revered IP now motive from what I could tell online has Worked with dice and others on like Star Wars Battlefront 2 and currently an unannounced and unreleased Star Wars game That's in development So they basically been working on Star Wars and been assisting with that from what I can tell anyways based on What a Google a quick Google search is turning up And it says it's an opportunity to join a veteran team in the early stages of development who are working on a cross-platform live service game for both mobile and console Your role as a rendering engineer an ideal candidate will have professional knowledge of rendering technologies You will have general experience in PlayStation 4 Xbox one Nintendo switch PC and mobile hardware GPU to architecture deferred lighting global illumination shadows anti-aliasing etc You will work with the content creators implement features tools and debugging Workflows the expectations are to work with artists to collaborate bringing the vision of art director to life work with the lead rendering se to create cutting-edge Rendering technologies develop in the frostbite engine creating leading technology for games around the globe Profile and optimized GPU performance, etc, etc All the required experience and all that if you happen to be someone interested in this job You want to apply for it I'll put a link down below to the LinkedIn profile for it because LinkedIn is where most Professional companies are hiring these kind of these kind of contract workers through But yeah, I mean they are literally looking for general experience of PlayStation 4 Xbox one Nintendo switch and You will be developing in the frostbite engine to create leading technology So this is just further evidence that something frostbite related is not only in development for switch But it's coming to switch at some point in the future We don't know what it is because EA has obviously shunned Nintendo massively over the last few generations If we're being honest even back to the Wii even though we got some weird wonky Wii versions of games that ended up not being that great You mean I see the frostbite engine mark because the frostbite engine has been ported to mobile phones and mobile phones with worse technology Then the switch so it's not as if the switch can't run frostbite It's just a matter of putting the resources into bringing frostbite to switch and bringing the game that runs in frostbite to switch Right now any game they brought over has basically not used the frostbite engine Like even FIFA has been using an older engine and not using the frostbite engine That's why you know that's their excuse for not giving us a full FIFA game Even though it ends up being the best portable FIFA ever. It's still like not exactly what everyone else is playing So it would be nice to see frostbite engine brought over and who knows maybe it's just gonna be for you know FIFA Maybe it's going to be For something else. Maybe a future Star Wars game going to come become the switch I don't know maybe Rolex squadron is gonna get rebooted or something that'd be nice to see but Yeah, obviously EA is doing something. I don't know what that something is But they're doing something for switch and who knows maybe it's gonna be exclusive or switch pro or something I have no idea. Obviously, you don't even know if that's a thing and we don't know if the thing coming this year You know Nintendo says it's not but you never know Maybe for the next gen. I have no idea, but EA is doing something switch related. It has to do a frostbite So just just further proof, you know about a year later since the last time we got proof Here's more proof that something is happening. Although it's very early in projects So we're talking years down the road before we even see anything out of it That's why I'm wondering if it's a switch pro thing because if it's not gonna come this year then you know 2021 2022 Then you know, you could start thinking on your next gen switch or something. So we'll see The next the sex one is something you guys might have heard about But I didn't talk about on my channel There was a rumor out there that Nintendo wanted Sora in Smash Bros. Ultimate But it was rejected by Disney specifically Disney of Japan not Disney of, you know Just the general company of Disney of America or whatever. We're the homebases So one of the most requested DLC fighters for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is Sora from the Kingdom Hearts series Especially since Kingdom Hearts 3 came out last year compared to a lot of other suggestions This character actually seems quite like an appropriate fit for Nintendo's all-star brawler. He is an iconic character in the industry He's a unique character even though there's Disney ties etc What are the chances then of Sora being added to the game and why hasn't Nintendo already made it happen in the latest episode of the Kind of funny games cast this is last week So it's an older episode now the former senior editor of Game of former and industry insider Imran Khan and funny thing is Imran Khan Just a fun fact about him He used to work under me In his early days before he ever got a paid gig in the industry He worked as a volunteer writer for me at Zelda Informer, so I actually know this guy pretty cool He revealed how Nintendo had absolutely Approached Disney about the possible inclusion of Sora in Smash when asked to Disney was the problem Khan explained how it was Disney Japan specifically who was supposedly prevented any deal from going ahead So basically Nintendo really wanted to put Sora into Smash and they approached Square Enix and Square Enix So what we got to get approval from Disney because they co-owned this whole IP and Disney's like not not happened Disney of Japan just instantly shut that down It's not extremely surprising considering that Disney is obviously been working with Universal For their movies and stuff like that There's a Mario movie in the works and they also the universal theme parks if Disney had partnered with you know Disney and Nintendo had partnered up instead for instead for Nintendo themed parks and Stuff like that and Disney would would be making Nintendo movies Maybe it would have been different because it could have just been an extension of the partnership But it's very clear why Disney would block this It doesn't mean Disney would block Kingdom Hearts coming to switch because they do very much like money but obviously they don't think they need switch to to sell Kingdom Hearts and They're trying to be very protective of their IP as they always are and it might be hard to do a Sora in Smash Bros without a final smash involving some of the actual Disney characters That's another thing that could become a problem because I'm sure a Sakurai was gonna put Sora in there The final smash would have to include you know Like it has pictures here You know Donald and and goofy and probably Mickey and stuff you'd have to include them in the final smash because it's a part of the characters You know being as a as a character in this industry and some of the attacks and stuff in Kingdom Hearts So it would be almost impossible to put Sora and even if they were okay with Sora as a character Without including that the peripherals around him and all the references to Disney so Obviously Disney's super protective. It's shocking that they even like Kingdom Hearts still exist They shut down all the game development studios and yeah, they still like Kingdom Hearts go forward There's still any Star Wars games you made by EA so I Don't know it's it kind of sucks that because Basically politics where we're not going to see you know business politics as it were that we're not going to see Sora in Smash probably Ever is a long time, but it feels like at least in my lifetime We're probably not gonna see Sora in Smash that sucks, but it is what it is So I don't know you guys don't know which story you know matters the most to use the fact that Nintendo Apparently based on Imran Khan who you know made connections while he was a game informer You know, what's the bigger story to you that Nintendo wanted Sora in Smash and it pairs of Square Enix Maybe even did to a Disney of Japan's like a not not gonna happen or is it that EA is You know hiring someone To potentially get a major game over to switch or to help get a major game over to switch using the frostbite engine Whatever that game is now again motive just to give you an example motive studios here They are a subsidiary and all that jazz as I said, you know Star Wars Battlefront 2 And then an untitled Star Wars video game, which hasn't even been announced yet And they have only worked on Windows PlayStation 4 and Xbox adding mobile and switch into it would be new for them Again, they don't really have you know any other credentials other than that Because EA's Bioware Montreal was actually merged So I guess that's notable is that Bioware's Montreal was merged in the mode of studios in August 2017 So and the motive to open a new branch of my group So that's just a little background on motive studios. They own by electronic art Say they were merged in with with with a part of Bioware So that's just something to take into consideration as well. Is this a bigger story to you? Obviously, I want to see some EA games come to switch. I want to see that new Dragon Age game Which probably still isn't even coming this year. I want to see that come to switch There's a thing EA does a lot of really crappy things, but I really love a lot of EA's games So it's it's just kind of this conundrum where there's some things I really hate, but then I really enjoy I like Madden every year. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I know people are gonna trash me. I like Madden every year There's very few years. I dislike Madden So I'd like to see Madden come to switch I'd like to see a Star Wars game or two come to switch Even if they're kind even if they're kind of bastard eyes like Battlefront 2 I'd still like to have it on switch than not have it. There's just a lot of things I want to see happen But again, let me know what's the bigger story to you that Sora could have been in smash with Disney of Japan blocked it you know rumor of course or the EA apparently seems to be hiring someone to potentially work on Nintendo switch and Frostbite games You guys let me know. Well, what you think about this stuff down in the comments below I am Nathaniel Robledance from Nintendo Prime This is just a quick little video for you guys giving you a couple more big stories I didn't make it into my video earlier because to be honest I kind of found this stuff after the fact even though it's older stuff and I'm like, how did I miss it? How did I miss this stuff? This is like like big deal stuff. We're talking EA major game on switch We're talking Sora in Smash like this crazy stuff So yeah, let me know what you think down in the comments below I am Nathaniel Robledance from Nintendo Prime like subscribe hit that bell icon and I'll catch you in next video