 Well, we did it folks. We made it to the end of 2022 and I know some of you didn't think we were going to get there. I don't know that I was going to get here, both, that I'm still alive and that the channel is still going. 2022 has been a whirlwind year, both in terms of gaming and at the channel. Today we're going to be focusing on, for our final video of 2022, the channel, the community and yeah, maybe even stuff we are going to have going on in 2023. We're going to go over a bunch of stats and numbers for those that like to have numbers from the channel because you don't get yearly numbers from me pretty much more than once or twice per year and then we're going to go over how our content has evolved and just a lot of other things because 2022 is the year I went full time on YouTube. That's right. There are no other sources of revenue for me personally than things related to the YouTube channel as a content creator. So let's first recap a bunch of things. I have a lot of people to thank along the way but we'll get to that after we go over the numbers. Let's dive into the numbers for those of you that like numbers. So we reached 4.6 million viewers this year and it's the most we have ever reached in channel history. This topped our best year ever which was previously 2021 where we reached 4.1 million viewers but the crazy thing about this was we weren't anywhere near this pace. We weren't until this month because almost half of those views came during the month of December with 2.2 million views in the month of December of 2022. Why? Well let's talk about our content and the changes that have happened. Our most watched content of the year is a YouTube short. That's right. We make YouTube shorts now. We weren't doing that until about two months ago. And it's a YouTube short about Mario Kart that we released in December of 2022. It has 1.1 million views and it was posted I believe on December 5th or 6th. The crazy part is even if we eliminated that short December would still be the most views the channel has ever had in a month. Over 900,000 views without that short. That is awesome. Now our top three most watched standard videos so we can go over shorts now. They're relatively new. I think we'll have more information on shorts in 2023. But our top three most watched standard videos in 2022 are as follows. How to download free games on Nintendo Switch at 41,000 views. Tears of the Kingdom news just dropped a video that was from this month at 36,000 views and of course a rumor about the Wind Waker and Twilight Princess arriving on Switch from earlier this year. I think around July with around 25,000 views. What a surprise, folks. A how to guide and oh, Zelda, man, you guys like Zelda. Who knew couldn't tell by the views on the Tears of the Kingdom content over the last couple of weeks at all. Could I? Yeah, Zelda is sort of a thing we all enjoy together. It is my favorite franchise after all. So no surprise that my audience tends to really watch the Zelda content more than anything else. Who knew? All right. Next up, we'll go over our top three most watched live streams of the year. The most watched live stream of the year was actually our live coverage of the Nintendo February Direct of 2022 at 9,719 views. Next up would be the Prime Gaming Fest event for the Game Awards in 2022. Well, this just happened this month at 9,525 views with our summer Prime Gaming Fest kickoff live stream in third place at 9,492 views. Now, our top viewed podcast episode of the year is actually episode 38 with 3,996 views on the live version of it. But we actually had a re-uploaded version on a second channel that did 3,200 views, putting in over 7,000 people having seen that episode. However, that's not our most listened to audio episode as that was actually episode 36 with 1,222 people listening in on various apps and devices with Apple Podcast being the number one podcast app. All right, next up we had a net gain of 5,800 subscribers in 2022. And I did say net gain. That means we actually had about 9,000 new subscribers, but we did lose 30,200 subscribers that we previously had. Based on numbers I've looked over the years, losing anywhere from 3,000 to 4,000 subscribers per year seems to be pretty normal. Some of this is just YouTube purging people. Some of this is just people don't enjoy the content anymore. What are you going to do? Obviously, as a content creator, you just want to gain more than you lose. We did do that in 2022. It was a significant drop off from 2021 when we had over 15,000 new subscribers. But again, net new subscribers by the way. But again, that we got hacked at the end of the year and we had a really rough start and we really only recovered quite recently. All right, that all being said, that's Nintendo Prime by the numbers in 2022. But what's more interesting to me is how the content has evolved. And to understand that, here's a snippet of our first video in 2022. Just blowing my mind because I never in a million years thought we'd see this game. Again, I had hope, but we're going to see it. So GoldenEye back in the day. Okay, you can see some differences. First though, before we talk about that, how about a snippet of our Nintendo Prime podcast first episode of 2022? As always, Mr. Nathana Roppeljantz. And to my left, my immediate left in the middle is Mr. Eric Moore. Hello, everybody. Awesome, man. And then way over, even further, I would like past Eric. If I just knock his mic over. Is someone that maybe some of our very, very oldest subscribers might remember. He's been on this channel before, technically. A long time ago when he, I think he worked under me officially. I think that was like the official order of things. Mr. Zeon, how's it going, buddy? I'm doing great, Nate. And Nate, you can hear me. No, he's not muted. He's not muted. We can't hear him. Nice. Cool. I'm good now, right? Not now, you're good. Hey. Maybe you weren't muted. Hey. What's happening? I was. I was muted on my own by my own. And now here's our most recent episode of the Nintendo Prime podcast. Thanks awakening. The new one. Don't put that in my head. No, no, no, no, no. Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo. She could shrines or she could shrines. Yep. Equivalence. Don't go. I mean, it plays all the flora. Right? Oh, boy. Oh, my. The game pulls a breath of the wild and just rework all remix all the things and all the shrines in that game It would be infinite gameplay Eric's now I'm not talking to all you guys Now my idea feels I wasn't even thinking about that. Wow Motion while you were doing your video earlier today. I was motion you like oh, I Saw you doing that and I was like, is you like trying to play Legos? No Dungeon builder. Can you imagine if they actually like cuz like dungeon building in 2d for Link's awakening was like, okay I'm not sure obviously if you feel like things have gotten better from the start of the year to the finish But I do think that we have at least made some steps in the right direction to be sure So I keep glancing down at my notes. Make sure that I don't forget anything look 2022 has been an incredible year And I have a lot of people that I want to thank for this first off is you guys the viewer If you guys weren't watching liking subscribing commenting super chatting becoming members gifting memberships Supporting on patreon for those of you that do support us on our hardly ever mentioned patreon channel You know subscribing to a new podcast channel then coming back to this channel for the podcast really muddling the podcast in general because of it because YouTube changes how their algorithm works Guys, I am just so appreciative of each and every one of you those of you that stuck through through the lean years and those of you that are sticking Through to today. I think that 2022 was honestly our most consistent year to date both in terms of content volume We uploaded over 311 videos and had over 130 live streams guys, that's over 400 pieces of content not counting the 44 shorts at least at this time that we have also done as well That is a lot of content in a single year for a solo content creator That's that's just I look at I think about those numbers and I just my mind is blown How how the hell did I pull that off and most of the year? I wasn't even full-time so really how did I pull it off? This is what I'm talking about when it comes to just being so thankful wasn't for all of you guys watching We wouldn't be here. There was even a point this year or I contemplating shutting things down Obviously, we all know the world's trying to recover from COVID and there's sort of a worldwide recession happening And I'm not gonna act like it has an impact to me We did make less revenue on YouTube this year than last year not I wouldn't say by a Significant margin, but obviously when you're hoping to grow and you're doing it full-time now you're kind of hoping to see better numbers, but We didn't and that's okay, and it became okay due to your guys's support So thank you so much just for liking these videos. I know there's many of you out there that are Extremely critical of everything I do But even I want to thank you because you guys helped drive me to create bigger and better content The people just screaming clickbait. However, they don't always help but the ones that provide actual useful feedback Even if I disagree with you at the time all of it sits in the back of my mind and helps me improve the content Now there's been a lot of changes obviously just in terms of equipment that we've used Well, we got new microphones as you can tell and a new audio setup over here That's been really driving us in the second half of the year and yeah We have a new set obviously compared to the beginning of the year and so much more in fact this that's going to be evolving even in 2023 and we haven't really hit the final evolution of what this is going to look like This this little drape thing back here that was actually from from e3 extravaganza 2021 It's going to be gone some point next year and we're going to have some So I'm just let's just say a better looking backdrop back there that can have a little variety to it We added a giant screen over here, which you guys can sort of see in this video at least it's not visible on every video What I'm going to do with this screen in the future is still a little a little up in the air There there is a goal of mine to eventually have the screen Be in almost every video at least my standard videos But the set right now isn't really set up for this originally when we installed this TV It was about the podcast well now we're sort of changing How that podcast works so meaning I sort of need to change how the set works again So yeah, we'll see if the TV is going to be part of the set I just have to see How I want to handle things I don't know that I really like the way Things are set up now basically we I wanted an entirely new desk These are like Amazon really cheap tables put together We'll see what happens at the desk situation in 2023, but look guys. I'm just I got so many people to thank Mike Odyssey Words cannot express how important he has been both financially literally As a friend as a supporter of the channel As someone to just bounce ideas off as him and I are on this YouTube journey Trying to figure out how both of us can go full-time how we how we can make this stuff work What works on YouTube? What doesn't work on YouTube? What hurts our channels? What helps our channels? Mike Odyssey is an incredible human being incredibly kind. He never pushes his ideals or His in any of his own agendas on to me. All he ever does is push and inspire me to do my best even Even when we might not see either I had something or Maybe I say something that might annoy him He knows he's aware of what moments those were some of you guys might be aware of some of those moments as well he's understanding and I Couldn't ask for a better Somewhat partner in crime here on YouTube So thank you so much for helping inspire me through some of the changes to some of my hardships and Hopefully inspire us on our goals for 2023 I was a big thank you to my fiance for all of her support and for now helping me manage Sponsorships and other things at the channel help me manage the Prime Gaming Fest and getting all that stuff shipped out and just Helping support what I do. She is the number one support system I have in what I'm doing here on YouTube and I would be remiss if I didn't thank my fiance Yulia You know, I love you And thank you for letting me chase my dream because I don't know any other person I could possibly be with that would be crazy enough to let me try to chase this dream While raising three children at the sort of money I'm making right now. It's Thank you so much. We're gonna be I think there's big things coming in the future for this channel Next up I want to be sure that I thank eric more I know some of you guys I get calls from people sometimes to replace eric on the podcast because He's not the most knowledgeable about gaming like as much as people Chastise me and say I don't play enough games or I don't this or I don't that one thing that is pretty consistent At least when it comes to our podcast where where eric is there as it becomes very apparent Who pays attention to all the news who actually plays these games Versus a person who maybe plays a game a year and doesn't pay attention to all the news Which happens to be eric where he plays usually two maybe three games total per year I'm playing dozens of games a year So as much as people can criticize me that I didn't spend 500 hours in splatoon 3 and I didn't put 200 hours in the Z little bit chronicles 3 and you know that For some reason I beat things like Kirby in the Forgotten Land and 100% of that but Didn't 100% Mario Strikers or something look it's weird But the thing is I at least play all the games And I understand that people get really perturbed sometimes that eric doesn't seem to know a lot or have a lot to say But here's the deal. I couldn't do the podcast nor could I do what I do here without eric's support He's not only been again another financial backer of the show Helping purchase equipment and other things around here to keep things going. Yes, he gets paid back Of course, but the point is he does help things keep going I also would be remiss if I didn't mention how much he pushes and motivates me as well Um, he helped build all the sets here We have a set over there if you guys remember that we were playing around with earlier this year with the neon Nintendo prime Sign on there that set's gonna come back. I've got plans. I've got plans I just don't know when we're gonna get to that set But I've got plans for that set and he helped build that set over there He helped build this set over here the tv in the background All the cable management, which sadly is gonna have to be redone at some point and we'll talk about this Soon here in this video. He's been a big mental support He's gone to all the big events with me e3's and stuff like that and been someone to hold a camera someone to help drive me To make the best content I can and do everything he can to try to at least make things as easy as he possibly can I mean he's even offered to try to edit videos Haven't gotten to the point where I feel comfortable enough with him editing videos Especially since he volunteers his time As my best friend, but um, I do appreciate him and who knows maybe there'll be an episode in 2023 Where he's got to run the podcast not me Um, because I maybe won't be here for one reason or another, you know, like a wedding. We'll see what happens Uh, so there's just a lot to To to thank a lot of people I'm probably forgetting to mention the numerous content creators who've guested on our podcast hoops and hip hop and player essence and um, andres restart uh, sumbro nation h.m.k jake randall and Lynn's and and so many others I mean there's been this is the year that we had the most guests ever on our show and pretty sure 2023 is going to top that If you saw our most recent episode of the podcast and what we're aiming for in 2023 So I I'm just I'm really thankful for all the support. I'm thankful for all the viewers I'm thankful for my children Who also support what I do they actually think it's really cool their dad's a youtuber even if I make the kind of content They're not gonna watch they don't even care about the shorts. I make they're more interested in like minecraft or You know cooking grandma or so. I don't know the kind of crap they watch But they do know that I have an audience They do know that people care about the content I make and that for some people it it helps them out I don't know how I'm just reporting news. I'm just a random guy in his mid 30s talking about video games But apparently and I you know, I've been told anyways by others that it's helpful for them Both information wise discussion wise distractions Or whatever the interactions on live streams the numerous times we've had calling guests whether it's charles strudel or Let me see joy cj gosh I think e primifies called in Corey's called in once and and so many others. I mean I I apologize if I'm forgetting Everyone who's called in during our live shows. I appreciate all of you guys for Chiming in and helping me entertain the masses as well And just couldn't some one-on-one discussion. So You guys are amazing and I couldn't do any of this without you and obviously now it's time where we sort of shift things and talk about What do I want to do? What are some of my goals with this channel in 2023? So in 2022 thanks to a Late surge in the year. We did get to 80,000 subscribers which Honestly, I was I was aiming for 90,000 this year But that was before I really understood how much getting hacked in 2021 late in 2021 is going to affect us So the fact that we were able to turn things around hit 80,000 subscribers was absolutely incredible And maybe I'm a dreamer. Maybe it's just because I'm doing youtube full time. I don't know But I think 100,000 subscribers is in the cards in in 2023. Maybe that's nuts But I feel like we're pretty close to 83,000 You know, I think getting 17,000 new subscribers In 2023 is totally doable. We hit 15,000 in 2021 And if I really hit on this thing with this balance of shorts and regular content and live streams and podcasts I kind of feel like this is doable I kind of feel like it's sustainable. I think we've hit on something and I sort of know what I'm doing on youtube now Maybe So maybe it's a pipe dream Maybe I never get to 100,000 subscribers. Certainly social blade doesn't think I'll hit it for like three years or whatever that's worth, but I think 100,000 is in our cards next year and who knows maybe beyond I I'm not going to go into Other projections like oh wait 110 120 120 fun. No, I have no idea Some channels do blow up insanely fast Even after they've been really slow growing for many many years and some channels never do it So I I'm just going to say it's sort of a goal I have is to see if we can get 100,000 subscribers together in 2023 um Setting that aside There's a lot of other just minor goals Like I would like to see the average views for per video which according to youtube this year our average views for per video Are right around 4,000 views of video, which it's actually pretty good Uh, it's not quite where we were in 2021. We were at 5,500 But remember we got hacked and we had to deal with a lot of um suppression of our content until lately so I think it's realistic that if we go with 17,000 new subscribers Um, and that we're not really being suppressed I would say or suppressed as much anymore plus we got a zelda game coming and I don't know you guys love zelda so I would say It's a bit ambitious, but I would like to see us double that and get to An average of 8,000 views of video maybe maybe we can do better You know, I wanted to say 10, but I'm going to be a bit conservative and say let's let's let's see if we can double that to 8,000 by the end of 2022 if we don't get it in the beginning That's fine But if we can if we can hit 8,000 per video by the end, you know for like that last month of november december We're getting 8,000 views almost every video. That would be great It also allows me to post a more wide variety of content, right? Like yeah Our zelda videos can maybe hit 8,000 But would it be nice if any news video I make could could do that or any discussion video So that's sort of a a goal. I have another goal. I have is to simplify my setup I probably run the most complex setup On youtube for a solo content creator. This might not seem so complex to when you have teams of people I don't have teams of people. I got a streamdeck xl A roadcaster I got all this stuff to manage things and I'll still use those But things like right now I do everything off of a single computer, right? Yeah, I have my my laptop here that I sometimes do some screen shares of for podcasts and shows But I do all my editing all my live streaming all my content creation Running of all the various equipment all of it's done with a single computer And it's quite taxing. I mean there I believe when I was counting the other day With expansion cards and everything else. I have over 30 cables running off my computer That's insane. Most of you guys don't even have the ability to plug in 30 cables to your computer I do that's insane. It's really taxing on the computer too What I would like to do is basically get an editing only machine So I would like to take my current machine and basically Relocate it to a part of the set that you guys won't see Get rid of a lot of the cables and cable extensions and runs I have across the ceiling and on the floor and simplify things a bit And bring that computer over here to be literally nothing But it's a base station that manages my live streams And then I'll do all the actual content editing and stuff on a separate computer And of course the computer I'm thinking we're gonna need some mac studio of some type Uh sometime in 2023. It's just I gotta start making decisions that are best for content creation And at this point mac studio, it's a no-brainer for content creation over PCs I'll always love PCs always build PCs always do my thing And yes, I'll always have at least one cable running through my big monitor From this, you know current pc so I can do some pc gaming and stuff, but Mac studio is definitely something I want to add To help simplify things more than that. I would like to upgrade our main camera this camera Has been serving me well for a year and a half and It's fine for the most part has some autofocus issues at times I think I've saw the lot of the autofocus issues as much as I can For now But it is a thing And I know I just want to maybe do something about this In the future. I also want to add more lighting right now The entire set is basically lit by two lights. I have mounted on the ceiling But when we do angle shots like this, we don't have any side lighting So sometimes it's darker over here lighter over here So I'd like to have another light like maybe up here And up there where there's like a light shining this way and a light shining this way to get Eric's face Or however we redesign the set When we get our new desk and whatever lighting we think we need for that So yeah, so say a new lighting and a new camera. I I rented a camera for our prime gaming fest I actually that's the exact camera. It's a sony alpha Uh mark two or mark four. I don't remember what it is. I gotta go look it up again But that camera with the $2,500 lens we rented as well is exactly what I want for this studio As our main shooter and then this camera Would become a secondary camera, which would be great. And then our Trackable webcam would be there for more dynamic shots. So It's crazy, man Why am I talking about purchasing like $10,000 in equipment in 2023? You don't need the level of equipment. I'm talking about to do what I do on youtube part of What drives me one? I'm a tech enthusiast, but part of what drives me Is always finding ways to make things better and more streamlined Both in terms of video quality audio quality, although we we sort of hit our peak. I think with audio quality for now I would like a boom mic at some point that is In the back of my mind, but not we're still we're still paying off these mics and our audio here until that's paid off I'm not going to worry about boom mics and stuff. But that might be something we add to the set down the line I I just I always strive to make things easier and more proficient and more efficient because I'm a solo content creator And as you saw, I'm producing a crapload of videos a lot of other solo content creators That don't have as crazy of a setup as I do One they're not making as many videos Two the ones that are Are a lot more successful and have separate editors and everything handling a lot of stuff Whereas I have to handle everything. There is nobody else that handles any of this stuff by me. So It might be complicated. It might be weird. It might be funky It might not be the best way to do things, but it's how I do things And yes, one thing I don't do want to prove on is my editing One thing that prevents me from doing a lot of complicated edits is even though I have a pretty decent editing computer I don't know what it is But premiere just really bogs down when I do more complicated edits And it bogs down in a way where even when I render out certain specific sections Um, it's not a problem or like it becomes it's still a problem. I don't know. It's weird now to talk about some more personal goals This feels like a cop out People say this every year, right I'm going to lose weight this year. I'm going to hit my target. I'm going to this. I'm going to that I had this goal And I talked about on video a year ago How do you know the 2022 of losing weight? um But I got injured And I didn't really talk a whole lot about it, but I I did get injured and uh It didn't allow me To get off to the right start in 2022 and then by the time things started getting better Uh summertime, you know, you're still in your bad habits. It's hard to get out of everything. You have a bad routine because I've been kind of laid up and Now we we we get into 2023 and currently I'm feeling great. I I don't have any injuries So I don't have any excuses um It's time to get serious about weight loss It's not okay To weigh as much as me. I know we're in a world where we talk about how you know You can be big and beautiful and I I don't think you need to be a stick to be healthy Like there's plenty of people that can have some extra pounds and be fine. It's okay to have a little extra weight I Even even where like science says that you're obese. I think sometimes that's a bit Different because every person is different, right? So the science can say you're obese But if your body carries the weight well and you don't have any adverse health effects I think that's fine, but I'm not that's not where I'm at guys I'm a big boy I've weighed less than this just two years ago on this channel I was almost 200 pounds. I'm like 80 pounds heavier than that today it's time to get serious and Starting january 1st. I'm back on a more strict but more realistic diet It's not one of those fad diets or anything. You don't do that. You just eat better eat healthier watch your calories and then I'm gonna be Back going on my daily walks like I was back when I had my heart attack We don't want that to happen again, right guys Um, if you didn't know I had one this one. I don't want to really revisit this like three years ago But I don't want it to happen again Due to my weight. So I am going to go back on my three to four mile walks every day Even when it's cold out. It is what it is. I don't have a treadmill uh, and I'll probably start A little extra cardio with ring fit adventure and then do some some light some light training Uh, I've talked to like paul gale and some other, uh, you know more fitness oriented people in the past But what that training is going to be And I just never really got around to to following through with that um But I'm serious I'm supposed to get married next year. We'll see Don't even have the date locked in yet. So We'll see if it actually goes through next year, but um It's not really even about that. It's just about being healthier being more energetic being more myself. I work a job where I'm sitting in these even raising chairs all the time and as comfortable as these chairs are Maybe they're a little too comfortable. They don't get out of them enough. Um So I'm I'm very serious about it. I know I've said I'm serious about this stuff before I know that I've been in this cycle of I lose weight. I gain weight. I lose weight. This is what most I mean, I feel like I'm the most Honest person about this uh out there in that My cycle of losing weight gaining weight losing weight gaining weight is pretty normal And I don't think people talk about that enough you focus so much on Failing rather than realizing hey losing weight gaining weight losing weight. That that's pretty normal when people are trying to lose It's it's it's once you're losing weight to keep it off Like even if you fall off like let's say I get down to 200 pounds again By the way, I want to get lower than 200 pounds. I want to get down to like 160 but Let's say I get down to 200 pounds. The key thing is even if I fall off the diet and I stop losing weight It's making sure I don't put the weight back on Right. Don't gain it back. Don't lose what you've already gained um Don't let depression and and other things throw you off course. So I know this is the law and taught just to talk about losing weight But that it honestly is a very serious goal that is going to both help my mental state of mind my physical Body and help me produce even better content. Plus, you know A better looking Nate I hear I hear being someone who is slightly attractive on camera works It makes more people want to watch. I don't know you got spawn wave out there rocking like an eight pack so I know he doesn't use it to to make his videos blow up, but I mean he did post that that that shirtless picture on twitter once and No one's ever going to let him forget it. So anyways guys, thank you so much for tuning in I am Nathan DeRobel Janssen from nintendo prime. Uh, I think this is it for 2022. I don't think there's any other videos coming today So I'll see you in 2023