 Today we got to bring you four really big stories surrounding the Nintendo Switch including one that technically surrounds the Nintendo Switch 2 with another major third party game looking like it's going to be coming to the platform next year after it releases. Obviously we don't know when it's releasing next year but we're just pretty confident that it is. Now before we dive into this news I just want to remind you that we're on our road to 150,000 subscribers so if you would subscribe to the channel drop a like I'd really appreciate it and wringling that dingaling to be notified of all future uploads and live streams. Alright our first story today dives into Splatoon 3. That is because a big update was added today including some new amiibo and as you see here they announced this over on the Splatoon North American Twitter account or ex account whatever social media it says next some shocking news it's been a full year since we started researching the Splatoon 3 game and now we've discovered that the next splatfest from 9.8 to 9.10 celebrates the same anniversary with a divisive theme who will be the best leader shiver fry or big man we've also discovered a set of badges that can be unlocked by playing in and winning 10x battles and there will be twice as many 10x battles in this special anniversary splatfest if you don't quite make it all is not lost your stats will be carried forward to future splatfest we're not done yet if you like badges you'll love banners check out these deep cut banners celebrating the game's first anniversary available via the Splatoon 3 channel in news on your Nintendo switch system they'll roll out following the drizzle season 5.0 update and just take a closer look at these badges you're seeing here they look pretty slick obviously based on those three last but not least the deep cut die hards out there will have a series of deep cut amiibo releasing on November 17th our research indicates that they will function in a similar manner to other Splatoon amiibo giving you powerful in-game gear that can boost your battle abilities let's take a look at these amiibo yeah looking pretty good here looking pretty good all including the mask that's really cool and then you know you got big man here just rocking out just what a ridiculous looking amiibo and I love it moving on alert everyone with everyone distracted by all the news the Salmonids are planning an invasion the SLR big run prediction team is expecting a swarm from 5 p.m. Pacific on September 1st to 5 p.m. Pacific on September 3rd no one invited these Salmonids to the Splatfest but we'll need your help to send them packing so just a really awesome update for Splatoon 3 and I'm super stoked about it I'm really glad they're continuing to make this game tick even though I do believe Splatoon 4 will be launching in 2025 you keep Splatoon 3 going for years until then and maybe even after because obviously Splatoon 4 will not be or likely won't be on the current switch now next up we have to talk about a potential Nintendo Switch 2 story here and we're gonna explain why it could also not be but why it possibly is and it has to do with a major third-party title and that title is called Dead Island 2 so as it notes here it says Dead Island 2 is coming to another platform in the next year the game is already released for PlayStation Xbox and PC via the Epic Game Store so down below Embracer Group CEO Lars Wingfors to discuss the performance of the game and its future prospects during the company's quarterly earning call on Thursday now while this game was first announced in 2014 the zombie our action RPG suffered a series of delays and changes of developers during a turbulent production style Dan Buster an internal Deep Silver Studio took over development in 2019 and it was finally released in April of 2023 for PlayStation 5 PlayStation 4 Xbox Series X and S Xbox one and PC via the Epic Game Store that Island 2 exceeded expectations at launch selling 1 million copies in three days and 2 million in its first month according to Embracer I think that island had a really strong release window and then we've been seeing more normal performance according to expectations Wingfors said today what we now expect obviously is promotions but primarily the addition of new content coming through so there is a significant amount of content coming through for the game in the year that would improve sales and the base game as well then looking ahead we would have a release on another platform that will also drive multiple sales Wingfors didn't elaborate but he could be referring to plans of a PC version of the game on steam now the reason we're bringing this up is because it's interesting to think about where we could be seeing this game it's on PlayStation 4 and it's on Xbox one so it does bring the possibility of a coming to Nintendo switch into focus but it also really brings a possibility of it coming to Nintendo switch to because they specifically said it's coming to a new platform next year that is awesome and with it coming to a new platform next year it really makes you think well that could be Nintendo switch to because to bring to bring this off of the Epic Game Store over to steam is pretty easy you're not changing what it's playable on right like it's going to be playable on PC right whether it's on the Epic Games or on steam it would just still be played on PC and there's a lot of debate over what platform means is steam considered its own platform or is different than the Epic Game Store different than good old games or is it merely a game delivery service and not an individual platform because the platform itself happens to be personal computers the PC market is the platform and these are just the stores on that platform I'll give you an example when we talk about Android we talk about Android as its own platform but with in Android you have different stores so there's the Google Play Store there's the Amazon Store so there's multiple stores to get your applications from just shifting how and where you could purchase but it's still being available on that same platform Android doesn't really change anything right so it's a big debate over what the term platform really means and obviously it's really clever for the CEO here to use that word because it just leaves the entire question out there it leaves us guessing that they really mean they're just going to move it from Epic Games or to steam are they going to do that anyways and that's not what they're talking about does it mean it's going to be coming to a Nintendo platform which would be an entire platform like an actual platform so it'll be interesting to see what this means obviously for us over on the Nintendo side of things we clearly speculate it could be a Nintendo Switch 2 title especially with them saying 2024 and with the system not too far away Embracer Group likely has development units and that might have been when they made this decision oh we got the dev kits oh man dude we can put this game on here and so we'll do that we'll put some work in it and release it next year so we'll have to wait and see what happens obviously we're talking about a platform that hasn't been announced yet so it is what it is now next up our next story deals with an update to sales out of Japan and of course Pikmin 4 is still crushing it so we're over here on golden tenor where it has the japanese software and hover sales from august 7 to august 13 and we'll just scroll down here and you can already see the software sales here in the top 10 we have Pikmin 4 for its fourth week in a row sitting at number one at 69,989 units now crossing 666,000 units in sales we obviously Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Tiers of the Kingdom coming in there at 2 and 3, Minecraft at 4, Smash Bros Ultimate at 5, Switchboards at 6, Pokemon Scarlet and Violet still doing well at 7, Splatoon 3 just still just doing numbers at number 8 and then Natsu Man 20th Century Summer Vacation at 9 and Mario Party Superstars at 10 then we get into the hardware sales though and this is obviously just always fascinating to watch Nintendo Switch continue to dominate despite a lack of new releases there was a time when PlayStation 5 for about a month consistently sold more than switch and everyone was like oh man see switches coming to an end even in Japan then it's like oh that didn't last very long did it so the switch OLED moves 71,256 units it is over 5.3 million units just that OLED model the base switch model sold an additional 12,446 units and then obviously a switch light coming in with that 8,000 and when you combined all that then Nintendo Switch sold another 90,000 units in Japan that last week that's incredible PlayStation 5 is doing well as well moving 50,000 or so units itself last week so that's really cool and even the Xbox Series X coming in at 1,639 that is slightly ahead of what prior Xbox one systems were doing so it is nice to see that there is at least a smaller but still somewhat growing audience in Japan is that they now have you know right around 400 and you know they're they're encroaching 500,000 units install you know obviously nothing compared to PlayStation and Switch but it's not nothing so Xbox is making a little bit of headway there we see some trailing sales from the new 2DS as well no one really cares they don't make that anymore still it's really nice to see how well things are continuing to go for really a lot of interesting reasons in Japan just watching the Nintendo switch continue to do well as I think a lot of the audience there is just sort of waiting for Nintendo's next platform and I expect an absolutely record-breaking launch for Switch to next year now this next story deals with something really strange and it's I don't agree with how the Pokemon Company handled any of this but essentially today a couple hours ago as you're seeing on screen the Pokemon Presents was reposted so 8.8.2 there you're seeing two hours ago they reposted the Pokemon Presents they took down the old one and there's been a lot of questions as to why they did this people getting a whole bunch of notifications and it turns out you know if you go into the comment section you can actually see the reason for it right here at the top for those wondering why the real the Pokemon Presents again the Scarlet and Violet DLC trailer had remixed music in it without the creator's permission this one has original and in-game music instead and you can see the change music at the 27 minute mark and what's interesting is essentially they stole a fan's remix to use in the last trailer which they are technically legally allowed to do because the remix and the fan creation is based on a Pokemon song so they are able to do it from a legal perspective but they didn't give any accreditation for it and it's not really a question of whether they're allowed to do it it just felt like a really crappy thing for the Pokemon Company to do it didn't seem morally right to do it and so they edited it and reuploaded without it which is interesting but also made people get super excited today as a bunch of people got notifications all over their phones across the world because they replaced this in every territory and some people got really excited that we got a surprise Pokemon Presents after we just had one like well man is there a big game getting announced and no it's just the old Pokemon Presents it's interestingly did it this way YouTube does provide tools to remove music they could have literally went in and just selected you know that the eight to ten seconds and just eliminated the music and sure it would sound weird replaying the presents with that blank spot in there but at least you're not reuploading and re-exciting fans so I don't really think this was the way to deal with that situation also they could have literally just went into the description of the video and added accreditation and called it a day it's not like the person was that upset that their music was in there in fact they were quite honored to find their music in there they just wanted you know a shout out basically it wasn't been that hard to put a shout out in there but they didn't want to do that either so I don't really think this was the right way to deal with it but this is the way they decided to go with I would obviously you know if they wanted to take down the individual trailer or whatever I just don't get taken down the whole presents that to me was just I don't know it's a weird thing the Pokemon company did but you know what the Pokemon company does a lot of weird things anyways guys I want to thank you so much for tuning in that is our pack of news for today hopefully you got something in there that you found to be extremely entertaining or at least informative in some way and you know what we're going to be right back at it with more content we have a live stream tonight lots of stuff head in your guys's way if you missed yesterday's podcast be sure to check it out we talked about the potential upcoming direct we talked about more Nintendo switch to stuff we took out some fan questions that got very very interesting when we back at the podcast next week Wednesday we do a special guest switch force Zach from switch force coming on and who knows who else we'll have to wait and see I'm going to catch you guys in that next video