 Hey everyone, welcome to Nintendo Prime. My voice is a little shot from Pax and hanging out with friends and having a lot of fun, so I apologize if I sound a little bit raspy, but there's some things I want to talk about. Because I love making YouTube content, right? I love talking about tears of the kingdom, I love talking about Mario and all his friends and Luigi and Pikmin. I also love the community we have here, and I think we've had so many new people join this community in the last few months that I wanted to sort of reintroduce myself as it were. So before I do that, I will remind you all that we are on our road to 100,000 subscribers, and if we do happen to get there by the time Tears of the Kingdom comes out, we'll be giving away a collector's edition of Tears of the Kingdom, and one of those Tears of the Kingdom pins you could only get at Pax East. Hi, my real life name is Nathaniel Rumpel Jantz. I am a 36 year old guy, lives in Wisconsin, been talking about Zelda in particular for many many years. I started fan websites back when I was 12, ended up being editor-in-chief of a site called Zelda Informer for over a decade, and before that's like I bought out and I guess consumed by another fellow website in Zelda Dungeon. I've been on different podcasts, I've wrote for different websites, I've done a little work for places like Nintendo, everything, and I've made a lot of contacts and met a lot of people over the years. I've been to three different E3s, I've been with Gamer Passes and as media, and I obviously do YouTube content now. The thing is in all of this, I'm not like an insider, I think some people feel like because I've had a few things sourced to me, the people think I'm some sort of insider, I'm definitely not a Nintendo insider. I don't personally know anyone who currently works at Nintendo, I can say that right now, I don't really know anyone if I'm being frank. What I do know though is how much I love talking about video games. At one point in my life when I had the Zelda Informer gig end and sort of taken from me, I didn't know what I was going to be doing in this industry anymore, if anything, right? I was working other jobs and that was really true even until last year but what's interesting as I focus in on being a full-time YouTuber today is I didn't know when I got into YouTube about five years ago, six years ago, that I was going to end up loving it the way that I do now. I look forward to this. I wake up looking forward to creating the next big YouTube content, the next big video. I know there's been a lot of rumors and or leaks or stuff like that on the channel for a bit but I actually just want to cover a bunch of Nintendo news. The problem is we're not really getting a lot of Nintendo news that I would say is noteworthy Nintendo's being a bit silent. A lot of that's because they're promoting the Mario movie and obviously they'll eventually start the Zelda promotion and then we'll have a lot more to talk about when it comes to actual news because I literally can go to a website like MyNintendoNews.com and some of the biggest headlines besides the first one I guess that came from my channel, some of the biggest headlines are like, hey, former Nintendo employees say, smash, you know, melee HD will never happen. Okay, cool. Lord of the Rings Golem comes out on a switch later this year. I mean those are news and I have some thoughts on Lord of the Rings Golem because I played it at PAX East but for the most part none of it is stories that I feel like my audience is really going to care that much about. If it's not Zelda right now it's already hard to get people to watch but even beyond that none of these are exciting. These are the kind of things that get you up in the morning, right? We're not getting a lot of new trailer drops. We're not getting a lot of new interviews and details like that. So we're sort of stuck in this limo where we discuss things and one of the number one things on my channel and I don't know if it's still in my channel banner. In fact, I'm going to check right now. It does not have it in my channel banner anymore. So in former versions of the Nintendo Prime YouTube channel I used to say, you know, we have news, opinions, podcasts, etc., etc. And a lot of my videos are discussion videos. I do have some that are actually news. Usually I'll put news in the thumbnail if it's something I consider to be news or the headline will be very, very specific that it is news. It gets a little confusing because in the world of social media you got to do things a certain way. You got to play the game a certain way but I really do stand behind the content of my videos and the things I say inside of them. And I'll give you an example of a recent discussion video where I talk about the champion abilities returning in Tears of the Kingdom. If you watch the video it's pretty obvious that no, there's no news or anything. I'm just wondering if the champion abilities could come back in Tears of the Kingdom and I give some opinions on that. And I love making content about that. I love talking about games. That's why I'm here. And I just want you guys to know a bit about me. I'm a parent of three children. I have a seven and nine year old and a 12 year old daughter. Two sons and a daughter. I love them very much. But what I really love the most about what I do here on YouTube in particular is interactions with the fans. Whether it's on live streams, the podcast, comment sections. You know, I can be a little wild sometimes. I can be a little defensive because I love what I do and I have my reasons for it. And unfortunately, things get assumed to me at times that aren't true. I have friends here on YouTube with me, Andres Restard. My God is he. You got to go subscribe to them as well. Other people, you know, player essence and monster maze and so many others. It's insane. Jake Randall. I'm very appreciative of the people I have met through what I do here and I'm very appreciative of all of you. Honestly, well, I've always sort of in the back of my mind over the years kind of thought what would it be like to be a full time YouTuber? None of that I am one. I'm just more thankful than ever. We recently crossed 92,000 subscribers. I don't even think that number is astronomical to me. I don't even know why what why are you watching this video? Like, I don't I don't know what I did to deserve this sort of attention. But what I do know is you guys are awesome. And I think sometimes we beat ourselves up a lot. And we have our reasons, maybe we made a bad decision, or we said something mean, or we hurt somebody else, or we have a hard time getting out of bed in the morning. And we think that, you know, each of us are bad people and don't deserve to do what we do. I just want you to know how amazing you are and how much of a difference each and every one of you have made in my life. Because, you know, when you're on the internet and you're creating content and you're talking stuff, and you're in front of, you know, people, there's going to be certain sectors of the internet that just are, they're going to come down on you, justified unjustified, it really doesn't matter because it all sort of hits the same. And it's so appreciative that you can just turn around and look at your own community, read your own comment section, watch you guys react in live streams, and just smile, because there's 92,000 of you that just really enjoy the stuff I'm doing here. It helps lift me up and makes me just love this job even more. So, while this might not be the Zelda video you were hoping for today, or it might not be the big news video you're hoping to drop, and I'll probably have some sort of Zelda discussion video later today. I just wanted to let you all know that thank you so much for everything you've done for me and my family. I love you guys. And, you know, we'll catch you a bit later. We do have a live podcast happening today, so I'll catch you guys during that. Absolutely. Be sure to stop by.