 Hey everyone welcome back to another video and today we'll be talking actually about the Nintendo switch because the switch continues to set records and I want to be clear here these are the kind of records that are set that make me not really worry about how switch is going to do this holiday let alone how it's going to do up against the PlayStation 5 and the Xbox series sex I mean X I'm not really that worried about how it's going to perform over the upcoming year and now this does bring you the question what the hell do we need to switch pro for and we'll talk about that in this video as well but let's get right into the numbers because this is absolutely insane and all of this data comes directly from the MPD and for one of the first times in years we have exact sales data on the Nintendo switch from the MPD group this does not happen the MPD group has stopped giving exact sales data for a long time but that's different now and it's different because of what the Nintendo switch has done in October the Mipthoros out there a month where the only new game really that mattered for Nintendo was Pikmin 3 Deluxe a Wii U port of a not very popular franchise that reportedly hasn't even sold that while the MPD doesn't even have it as like a top software title guess what then it's on a social 735,926 units like I said exact data 735,926 units just in the United States that is what the MPD tracked holy crap that's not even a holiday period these are the kind of numbers you hear for a November for a December not a random October and yeah it's the second best-selling October of all time you know who number one is for October the best-selling October ever tracked in the history of the MPD which dates back like 25 plus years well that would be the Wii that's right the Nintendo Wii sold 807000 during its peak in an October back in the early 2000s or really mid 2000s so that is crazy to think that the switch is pulling that kind of numbers at a time when it's not even releasing big games the switch has Animal Crossing New Horizons this year and that's pretty much it we could talk about Paper Mario obviously but really the big game for this year was that now there was something else that came out there was some DLC for the Pokemon stuff but again this it's crazy to me to think that switch is pulling these kind of numbers you know we had the Xbox Series X that just came out at the PlayStation 5 that just came out and here we are the very next day talking about Nintendo now I realized that some of you guys might feel like man they you might have a little bias on those next gen systems like here you are saying oh Nintendo doesn't have to worry about anything and oh you know who cares about those other platforms well I care I care about the Xbox Series X and the PlayStation 5 and I know I've done way more coverage of Microsoft this week than Sony and honestly I don't know who to really blame there's kind of blame to go all around for that chiefly that I couldn't get a pre-order in for the PlayStation 5 and then I got so frustrated that I decided to spend my budget for PlayStation 5 on other stuff for my children which I guess should I really regret spending money on my kids probably not but the point is that because of that I don't have a PlayStation 5 right now I plan to get one in the future and we'll be doing lots of coverage when it finally gets here and I can finally do my hey has my mind changed on the Xbox Series X now that I have a PlayStation 5 but what isn't going to change is my stance on Nintendo switch Nintendo switch is still my favorite platform even as right now this week I'm playing more of that Series X that black black box back there I'm playing more of the Series X right now that I am switched this week but it's launch week I already know the moment age of calamity lands next week I am right back to playing a lot more switch than anything else this channel is called Nintendo Prime for a reason I have a bias for Nintendo I am not afraid to admit it I am not ashamed to admit it I grew up a Nintendo fan I ran a Zelda website for God 20 years it's crazy to me to imagine Nintendo not being my number one platform and so for now the switch still is number one and it's clearly number one in consumers hearts as well now I don't know who's gonna win the NPD for the month of November because switches right now won the NPD sales report for 23 straight months which is an all-time record as well in fact Nintendo set that record a couple months ago and they just keep piling on top now for November I don't know because we know the Xbox Series X has had or the Xbox Series X slash s I should say according to Phil Spencer he put out there that it is the best launch in Xbox history in terms of sales and they're not going to give us sales numbers Xbox and Phil Spencer said hey we're never giving you sales numbers for systems again but if you go back and look at launch sales of prior Xbox platforms you can kind of extrapolate hey the Xbox Series X slash at least sold more than that and it's Microsoft's most expensive system at launch sort of because the Xbox one had connect bundled in minus connect but whatever anyways the point is that the Xbox Series X is sold incredibly well we know the PlayStation 5 is sold incredibly well in fact I'm willing to bet both platforms sold a million if not multiple millions in the month of November when it's all said and done we still have the Black Friday sales season coming up you know with the US specifically so yeah I honestly think you know we're going to see launch numbers that are in the couple millions here in the first month now that is amazing in that of itself but how can Nintendo stack up well they just had in October where they almost did a million without even trying that's that's the crazy thing Nintendo isn't even trying and they're getting these numbers this is why Nintendo doesn't need to worry about what's happening with the Xbox Series X or the PlayStation 5 because Nintendo is just killing it without having to do much now yeah they did some Mario 35th anniversary stuff at the beginning of October we had Mario 35 on that Nintendo Switch online service but did anyone really think that's what's pushing units I think it's just people being stuck at home wanting a platform that has evergreen titles out the arse see right now it's cool that we can go on PlayStation 5 Xbox Series X play some backward compatible games on PlayStation 5 specifically play a few new gen games you know Sackboy, Astro Bot, Demon Souls all that jazz that's great that sounds good but does that really compare to the Mario carts of the world the Breath of the Wilds of the world the Super Mario, Odyssey's of the world, the Splatoons of the world, the Animal Crossing's of the world, the Fire Emblem 3 houses of the world, the Luigi's Magic 3's of the world I mean for many of you guys absolutely if you are a fan of Sony platforms a fan of Xbox platforms you can easily argue game pass hey you know that these systems have way more to offer you as a gamer than the Switch does and I understand that this is not about console wars we all have our personal references just because mine's Nintendo doesn't mean yours can't be something else and I can't be okay with that if you love your PlayStation 5 way more than you ever loved the Switch awesome if you love the Xbox Series X or S way more than you ever loved Switch this generation that's okay just because I'm not there with you yet doesn't mean that I won't be there with you at some point in the future I can't love a platform at launch more than what's been out for four years it has a big established library of games especially exclusive games now Nintendo has obviously Age of Calamity coming Nintendo has Super Mario 3D World Pulse Bowser's Fury and a new Monster Hunter game coming next year exclusive to the platform and now we think anyways that Nintendo will be launching a Switch Pro next year and maybe even early next year and some people thought they need to do this to compete with the PlayStation 5 and the Xbox Series X actually I think Nintendo is just going to do it not because of those platforms but because Nintendo sees emerging technologies and Nintendo has a history of releasing mid-gen upgrades this isn't new hey remember the DSi remember the new Nintendo 3DS heck let's go way back in time remember the Game Boy Color that was technically not a new generation guys that was just a Game Boy in color that was a mid-gen upgrade and it was a huge upgrade at the time for the Game Boy so the thing is Nintendo has a history with handheld specific systems now I know Nintendo calls the Switch a home console but Nintendo is well aware they have the data themselves that a lot of gamers play it portably or play it both in fact more gamers play it exclusively portable than exclusively docked and obviously if you throw in docked you know the people who docked and portable actually use the Switch as you know the all the tools that it offers at your disposal for TV play and on the go play and you can find that with people who just play it on the go it's a really big audience that plays it mobile we also know it is using a you know it's basically using phone tech and we have seen phones now that output 4k we have seen phones now that play Genshin impact at settings that we have not seen possible with games on switch so mobile technology has come a long way and they're partnering with Nvidia which is at the top of the stack for now AMD is actually playing some pretty good catch up with big and heavy but at the top of the stack for GPU performance and now they own ARM which is one of the top tier mobile processors out there in a lot of the top tier well Android phones in fact it's actually in all iPhones as well they're one of the manufacturers of the iPhone CPUs so the bottom line is that Nintendo is sitting pretty and they're going to release the Switch well not because they need a boost in sales they didn't need a boost in sales when they released the new 3DS the 3DS was starting to pick up sales momentum and starting to do really really well and then they released the new 3DS and then it did even better and that's what Nintendo's hoping to capture it's not that Nintendo is not going to be happy with the 24 million projected Nintendo switches they're going to sell through the fiscal year of March of 2021 of course Nintendo's happy with that they want to keep it selling after March of 2021 and keep the momentum and sell another 20 plus million one way to do that is to reinvigorate the market excite the market after the holidays I said hey I'm glad you bought Switch I'm glad you're enjoying all these games but guess what 2021 is here and we have a new switch for you a new switch with a better screen with better visuals with better frame rates that you know what maybe we used to not care about this kind of stuff but you know what we realize a lot of you have better TVs now than you did five years ago then you did a decade ago so we want to give you a platform that performs better on your TV and we want to give you a platform that can take our games like Breath of the Wild and actually make it run at a stable 30 fps if not 60 fps we value that and we value it to a point that we want to upgrade and offer you something what was the point of the new Nintendo 3DS ask yourselves what was the real point of the new Nintendo 3DS what did it offer you you didn't get a better screen so you didn't get a better resolution but what did you get you got more visually intensive games they ported Xenobit Chronicles a Wii game to it think about that a Wii game on 3DS insane right we also got higher frame rates on games when we got a Wii U port on 3DS by the way and Hyrule Warriors Legends and it had better frame rates on the new 3DS yes frame rates matter Nintendo knows frame rates matter why would they have released all those updates to Breath of the Wild over the year that improve frame rate if they didn't realize that frame rate is important Nintendo knows frame rate directly affects gameplay and they're going to care way more about frame rate than they are anything else this is why we saw things like Yoshi's Crafted World be at 60 fps even though it would dip below HD resolutions because they valued the gameplay more than the visual presentation so again this is the primary reason to get an upgraded Nintendo Switch plus it's harder to hack obviously there's new technologies Nintendo has ongoing partnership with Nvidia that's trying to push new tech and Nintendo is their avenue into the console gaming space and obviously a use case for their mobile gaming chips so yeah i think a lot of things are adding up that Nintendo is good i don't know if we're getting 4k you know we're not going to get 120 fps i can tell you that well i don't know if we're getting 4k i don't know we're getting DLSS 2.0 i have no idea but what i do know is Nintendo doesn't care about the Xbox Series X or the PlayStation 5 even though kudos to Doug Bowser president of Nintendo of America he has shouted out both platforms on a launch day and congratulated them for their launches and Xbox i think also congratulated Sony i think there was a Sony exec that congratulated uh you know Xbox as well although i don't look the overall PlayStation Twitter did but you know there's some politicking involved in some of that sometimes but what i will say is Nintendo Switch is probably going to launch the Switch for next year just because it falls in line with the typical time period in which Nintendo would release an upgraded system and i'm pretty excited about that i'm also really excited about that Xbox Series X back there i'm also really excited about a PlayStation 5 when i finally get one on hands i'm looking forward to this current generation of Nintendo you know of PlayStation and of Xbox because i'm an everything gamer guys right here in front of me kind of down this way i have a gaming pc i love gaming on pc but i have the new world of warcraft expansion pack that's coming out hey i have it already pre-purchased and everything i'm going to be playing that i'm also going to be playing some Crusader Kings 3 on my pc because i like pc gaming heck when Age of Empires the new one finally comes out for Microsoft i'll be playing that on my pc uh hopefully with Game Pass should be included with Game Pass so that's kind of cool there and you know what i'm going to also be playing the exclusives for PlayStation i can't wait to play Horizon Forbidden West next year i can't wait to play Medium on the Xbox Series X i have games i'm looking forward to on all platforms Breath of the Wild 2 i think is coming next year so there are things that i'm looking forward to playing on all platforms because i am a gamer first and foremost as biased as i am for Nintendo really i just want a game baby and you know what i think i might finally be entering the greatest overall generation of my lifetime and that's saying something because i was back with the SNES and the Genesis right i was there with the N64 and the PlayStation 1 i was there i was there when the PlayStation 2 Gamecube and Xbox was on the market oh and don't forget the Dreamcast that existed for a little brief moment there i was there through all these generations creating all the way back to the NES sorry don't have a lot of experience with the Atari stuff beforehand and some of the other things that there were more than just Atari before that but here's the thing i've been there for a majority of all these gaming generations and it's this one in my mid 30s that i am most excited about so yeah baby three consoles that matter to me gaming gaming on pc is better than it's ever been gaming on phones has gaming on phones is better than it's ever been i know some of you guys hate the micro transactions but dude there's some legitimate and Genshin impact is fully playable on phones and fortnite used to be i won't talk about that one but anyways i am within the rubble dance from Nintendo Prime thank you so much for tuning in let me know what you think about this current generation which includes switch includes xbox series x and now includes playstation 5 that is the current generation of gaming let me know what you think does Nintendo need to be worried are you worried or are you just happy to be a gamer because i think right now it's never been better to be a gamer than today all right folks i'll catch all of you guys in the next video