 So I was browsing official websites for Super Mario Bros. Wonder always looking for new bits of information and I came across something that was really fascinating and deals with online play or at least online related features that are likely going to be in Super Mario Bros. Wonder that Nintendo has not actually announced or discussed yet and is something we are likely to find out exact details on over the course of games come in the next week and a half. We also have some other information coming from the ESRB that does potentially tease DLC or something worse. We'll talk about that for Super Mario Bros. Wonder as well. Before we dive in I just want to remind you guys we are on a road to 150,000 subscribers so if you really enjoyed this video I would appreciate if you drop a like subscribe to the channel and go ahead and hit that bell icon so you can be notified of all future content. Now let's get into this news and the first thing you see on screen here is this is the UK website for Super Mario Bros. Wonder. You can see I'm actually logged in but I can't buy anything because it's not associated with this country. That's my account. Okay cool. But I noticed something at the bottom of the overview page that is not listed on other overview pages and that is this. Now it says this description was provided by the publisher so Nintendo themselves put this in here. So to be able to download okay this is about downloads to be able to purchase download games or download demos of software that each have official website you need to have a Nintendo account which is like your Nintendo Switch console. You need to have your console registered as the active console for downloads. Okay cool. We don't need to be told how to purchase and download games. We understand that but the second paragraph really caught me off guard. So this software this is Mario Wonder. This software includes modes or features for which an internet connection and a paid membership to Nintendo Switch Online are required. Any online play modes require a paid membership to Nintendo Switch Online to use online services. You must create a Nintendo account except the related agreement yada yada yada find out more about paid Nintendo Switch Online memberships. This says multiplayer requires one compatible controller per player additional controller sold separately. So what's interesting in looking at this is my first thought is probably what you guys are thinking of. Oh yeah if they're saying you require an NSO you know there's certain modes and features they're talking about cloud game saves right because we can do cloud game saves. Well that's what I thought as well until I went over and I glanced at Tears of the Kingdom. As you can see we're still in the UK website because you can see you can't do anything and we're in the overview section and I'm like huh let's see anywhere in here do they mention needing a Nintendo Switch Online account for some sort of mode or feature because we know there's no online features for Nintendo well these for Tears of the Kingdom but we do know that it does support cloud game saves. So I'm just scrolling down here you see this is much more fleshed out again this is a game that's already released so it's going to be a bit more fleshed out but we're scrolling down we're scrolling on compatible with Amiibo see how compatible purchase options you shop for the website scrolling down well nothing yet nothing yet we'll keep going we're not too far from the but oh this description was provided by the publisher that looks familiar but there's nothing else there now we have our additional information down here age ratings controllers etc but you'll notice that there is nothing there about Nintendo Switch Online membership for a specific mode or feature even though you can argue that cloud game saves is a specific feature I find this to be quite fascinating that we look at Tears of the Kingdom or really any other game that is just has cloud game saves and it doesn't talk about this on the UK website but it is bringing it up specifically for Super Mario Bros wonder so it does make you wonder I guess the puns intended here what could this be now I got in a little back and forth with my good friend player essence a fellow content creator and he made a suggestion to me I had not considered because obviously the first thing that positive mind when you hear huh there's some modes or features that require online subscriptions internet connection man it must be an online multiplayer mode if it's not you know multiplayer from the main game maybe there's a separate battle mode or some other multiplayer mode they just haven't announced yet and that could obviously technically be true I know all the official websites only list one to four players locally so I understand that that might seem a bit of a stretch but he mentioned something that I hadn't considered and that was the potential of leaderboards now leaderboards exist in various games on Nintendo Switch Xbox and PlayStation and some of these leaderboards do require you to be subscribed to PlayStation Plus Xbox well I guess it's not Xbox live anymore what do they call it Xbox the game something I don't even know I'm subscribed to the damn thing I don't even know what it's called whatever Xbox subscription service and then we obviously have Nintendo Switch online so there are games that were certain leaderboards were required I kept wondering well this is mostly a single player game or a local game why would we need leaderboards and it could just be for some things that we've gotten in prior Mario games remember there's a crown that passes around now that crown doesn't necessarily have to be related to online leaderboards but it could contain a local leaderboard that maybe you can compare with other people's local leaderboards that's one possibility there could also be things like time trials you know the fastest people through a level and there's online rankings for that there could also be just other types of leaderboards for different aspects of the game again we don't know a lot about the games I'm trying to speculate on what those leaderboards could be is you know really just anyone's guess but another thing I want to throw out there is you know in some games they have these things called ghost runs we've had them in Mario Kart before and what if the NSO is required for there to be a ghost run so let's see you access a stage and it notes hey the fastest time in the world is this by this person and you want to race against the ghost of that person to try to beat that level as fast as they did so that could be a thing too as well it could be locked behind Nintendo Switch online honestly though all we can really say here is that there's some sort of mode or feature or something in this game that specifically requires an online subscription to Nintendo Switch online that is not related to cloud game saves and that's really all we have now cloud games is by the way already confirmed for the title if people were worried about that we already have that confirmation but we not like we needed to really worry about that there's only a few select video games that legitimately you should have worried about it with games like Splatoon 3 that being said we also need to get into our next story and this also deals with Super Mario Wonder that's right we have a Super Mario Wonder exclusive video today and something that we should have noticed a while ago got past me and it might have got past you as well so you guys remember when we made a video talking about the ESRB rating and I have it on screen right here for the Super Mario Bros wonder and we had this information down here talking about the boss battles and stuff like that you know just some little small tidbits we hadn't had before where stages are being manipulated and destroyed that's really neat but what I want to focus on is this right here in game purchases now again this is officially listed by the ESRB and they aren't going to list something that's not there and in game purchases are things that require you to spend real world money on things in game now this could be various different things it could just be DLC and right now we don't even have the main game so it'd be interesting that they're already planning DLC and this is a confirmation potentially of DLC notably in game purchases are not listed on the ESRB rating for Tears of the Kingdom don't believe me well here is the Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom on the ESRB website and this fantasy violence also just a themes non-interactive oh look no no listing for in-game purchases so this does suggest that something is happening with Super Mario Bros wonder that's different than Tears of the Kingdom and it could just be that there's going to be day one DLC or something like that obviously we can't ignore this potentially could be something negative we could be looking at in-game item shops to buy cosmetics we could be looking at loot boxes all of that would also be in-game purchases so we have to be wary when we see the term in-game purchases to realize there's a lot of negativity that could be surrounding that but also we need to remember that it could just be something positive as well something you know like DLC and again I can mention something like this because see we look at a game like Splatoon 3 from the ESRB and we notice it also includes in-game purchases and we know there's DLC so yeah it just sort of seems like this this could just be DLC and Nintendo does list in-game purchases on every single game they've released on Switch that has purchasable separately purchasable DLC so that's probably what it means but we can't dismiss that it could be a negative some people might want to do it because Nintendo has a you know dove head first like EA and other companies have into the negative side of things but I just want to throw out there that we technically don't know because they haven't announced it but yeah it's probably DLC which is kind of crazy the thing we're going to get DLC for a side scrolling Mario game is that the first is that the first DLC for a side scrolling Mario game I think so I can't remember any other side scrolling Mario game that has DLC so if that's what this is that's just really neat and obviously makes me really excited now I just want to say thank you so much for tuning in and watching this video on Super Mario Bros. Wonder you can tune in right here to Nintendo Prime for all of your Super Mario Bros. Wonder needs we're gonna have tons of coverage of every detail including stuff we dig up like this but also officially announced up new gameplay all that you know we're gonna have all that stuff right here at Nintendo Prime and I'm super stoked to show all that to you and yeah we're gonna do the same thing for we've got Mario RPG coming up right we're gonna end up having that new Peach game Luigi's Mansion Darkmoon and so much more at Nintendo Prime that's what we do we talk about Nintendo games and systems and philosophies and dive deep into the news cycles around the biggest releases so I can't wait guys Mario Wonder's around the corner it seriously it arrives in October it's it's so much closer than you realize thank you guys so much for being here and I'll catch you in the next video