 Hey folks, so yeah we got a new rumor for you today and I'm really excited about this one and there's a specific reason I'm covering it and it's due to something I was able to verify and you can verify for yourself as well. So this isn't even like oh my gosh I have a source behind the scenes and now it's publicly available information but it's really cool and it has to do with Nintendo essentially revamping their entire online infrastructure. We're not just talking about like new servers to play games on we're talking about the fundamental way their actual online works aka remember that phone app remember this thing you know you use it here like the Nintendo Switch Online phone app let's just say that looks like it's going away. Now before I get into this video I will remind you we are given away two copies of Skyward Sword HD there's a link down in the description to enter but let's just get into this and I'm going to give a little warning about this rumor it does come from Samus Hunter on Twitter. I have not covered Samus Hunter in almost a month at this point I just wanted to wait and see what happened at E3 and then it turned out she got actually quite a bit wrong at E3 but she's also gotten quite a bit right over you know over time as well so it's one of those situations where Samus Hunter is now basically just joined the rakes of every other leaker out there where they're not 100% which is true of Emily Rogers it's true of Jeff Grubb it's true of everyone nobody has a perfect track record except for Practical Brush 12 on Reddit somehow still has a perfect track record I don't know how the hell that happened but still is perfect after E3 so Samus Hunter is what she is and she put out some interesting stuff because there's been a lot of speculation around something that was happening over the weekend and into Monday where Nintendo was taking down all of their online services at the exact same time for maintenance and they've never done that since the switch came out there's not been one period of time where every single online service was taken down at once and a lot of speculation came out of this that Nintendo's prepping to announce a new system or new virtual console or something crazy like that not really any of that but according to Samus Hunter this is something really cool again take with a truckload of salt and all that let's read what she said on Twitter so she said I read a rumor that speculated that the large server maintenance that was yesterday could be related to an update of some game a new firmware or even the announcement of a new revision of the console in reality the end user won't notice these differences Nintendo is updating its entire online infrastructure the whole thing in preparation for upcoming titles more games especially Nintendo ones are taking advantage of the invite feature and it's no coincidence that now right now the old invite system that swatoon two used in the lounge no longer works some ideas that have been thought of such as the smartphone app as the focal point for the online after the poor reception by the public have been set aside in favor of more integrated systems obviously this change isn't quick but the first results are starting to arrive so essentially what samus hunter is saying here is that if you want evidence that Nintendo's you know that this is an online infrastructure change the lounge no longer works in swatoon two now is it that big of a deal with swatoon three coming out next year not really but it's kind of a first step towards hey look the lounge doesn't work anymore and that was part of the old system that was literally built around a phone at members between two for a while was like the only game that really use the online phone app especially for voice chat and obviously we know that Nintendo has you know in a prior firmware update added potential bluetooth support for headsets moving forward and that's really interesting because there's no reason for nintendo games to support it uh other than you know fortnite or something like that that does allow voice chat locally on the system so nintendo appears to be making a turn away from their original online infrastructure plans into a more integrated system at least according to samsung again this is all rumors and speculation but with the lounge being shut down with all of the online stuff going down at once and the fact that i mean can we be honest the nintendo switch phone app is maybe one of the least supported apps in nintendo history um yeah i mean to the state there's still only what two games that use it it's pathetic it basically shouldn't exist but it is what it is nintendo obviously had a plan and they have big plans for the phone app remember they remember an invite feature that okay so they were supposed to have here's the big thing about the phone it was definitely meant to be the central point of their online infrastructure because if you remember they had a lot of huge plans for that phone app right now it's just for voice chat in a couple games but there was supposed to be more yeah there's stats and stuff you can look up on splatoon but there was supposed to be more right you were supposed to be able to as an example set up lobbies be able to set up future play sessions with friends and send invites out all of that actually kind of made sense to use a phone for if you don't want to get your switch out to create future play sessions right so if you're at work and you want to set something up with your friends you want to send some invites out why not use the nintendo switch online app now it should have it could have been better by also being integrated with the switch so if your friends on the switch when the invite comes they could accept it on the switch or something like that so there were ways they still could have did it better but we never actually got that system on the phone app anyways there were other plans they had for the phone app that they announced way back in 2017 that also never came to fruition so they had a big concept to base everything about their online infrastructure around the phones and obviously not only did they under deliver what they did deliver was panned mostly by by switch owners even people who used it that said hey look the voice quality like to nintendo's credit i think they were using google servers the voice quality in the app was fine but like convoluted setups you know remember the original splatoon 2 headset where you had like a wire running to your switch and a wire running to your phone you know slicing that together in order to get audio from both was just really cumbersome there have been bluetooth headsets that have come out where you can bluetooth to this and then wire to your switch as a better solution but still not ideal plus you always have to deal with with you know bluetooth potential audio delays especially in multiplayer games that might be a no go there's just been a lot of issues trying to use it in that way by the way you've been able to use wired headsets on switch this entire time it's just nintendo games don't support in-game voice chat so who cares so this infrastructure while she doesn't mention in-game voice chat does sound like if they're going away from the app that was panned by the public that's just a major overhaul which would include putting voice chat locally on your system again not something samu center says but if they're going away from the phone app that's pretty much the only function the phone app has for the most part but yeah they're changing the way um invites happen i mean heck who knows maybe they eventually stop with the friend code thing that was obviously something that nobody really understood after we you why they went back to friend codes we you felt like a step in a more modern direction in terms of online infrastructure and then they just abandoned that because the we you flopped the we you didn't flop because of the online infrastructure it's like the we you didn't flop because of meverse it was a really cool idea they didn't have to get rid of that they could have kept that that was actually that was a good thing nintendo from we you so sure there could be voice chat updates there could be um the way you invite people to play online updates obviously we know about the server changes that's actually something we already know monster to rise one of the first games that uses nintendo's new server infrastructure it certainly seems like nintendo's at least doing a heavy focus on online making it a priority and trying to make things better now this doesn't necessarily mean that nintendo switch online service is going to get any better anytime soon but you know as samu center notes here uh you know it says you know some ideas that haven't thought of such as the smartphone app at the focal point of online and the poor research hope it has been set aside obviously this change isn't quick but the first results are starting to arrive so it's just one of those yeah we have things shut down in spittoon too we aren't really sure of a lot of other aspects of what nintendo's future plans are there's just a lot to take into consideration when we're talking about this and i'm actually curious like in what ways do you want to see nintendo improve their online overall across the entirety of the platform like yeah we talked about voice chat we talked about you know invites maybe even better connections through the new online server infrastructure that we already know exist so like what else can nintendo do to improve your online could it be uh you know having a games of gold style uh playstation plus style service where they give you free games uh with your online subscription could it be finally you know adding new things to the online app like the or not the online app the uh the nintendo switch online you know they have the ness and sness or is it time for the n64 is it time for something else is it time for them to add more and more games every month and commit to that is it time for a virtual console is it time for what like what could nintendo do to make their online better because we always talk nintendo's online is so far behind but then what the hell could they do to catch up i know one major thing would be the ability to just message people whether a voice or text or ideally both uh the fact that we can't message people in the online phone app nor can we message people directly on our switch um yikes uh so something like that would be cool uh maybe you know this is maybe an out there thing that's probably unrelated but maybe working out whatever issues are between netflix and nintendo because we had netflix on the damn 3ds what the hell uh so i don't know uh that's just some stuff floating out there obviously i'm i'm willing to listen to all of your guys's speculation as well uh sam and center uh you know it does have a track record of getting stuff right also isn't 100 so it is what it is i'm just you know we we cover this today mostly because i think this is highly plausible that nintendo is working on new infrastructure and the fact that in splatoon 2 uh you can no longer use the lounge it's one of those okay after they did this between two lounge doesn't work anymore hmm the lounge is one of like the key aspects that led to things like the the app on the phone so we'll have to wait and see what happens um you know it's for future nintendo games specifically and that's i think what's exciting because everything about their online was built around their own games uh and it was done really poorly i mean even mario cartel deluxe site most popular game on switch uh like is using the we you online and the we you online feels better than the actual switch online on the switch what the hell right so let me know what you guys think about this down in the comments below i am retaining robert jess from nintendo prime and i'll catch each and every one of you in the next video