 Hey, everyone. So the last thing I thought I'd be doing today after the Nintendo Direct was actually making another news video, but there's too much stuff for me to talk about. Before I do, can you guys help me for a moment? Like, seriously. Yeah, you can help yourself. You can enter our Switch OLED giveaway by subscribing to the channel. Winter Announce next Friday. That's all great. But can you guys help me for a second? Because I don't know what to do with this. What do I do with this? I got too many W's lately. I'm confused. Like, look at this. Another one? Like what? W's just coming from everywhere. I don't get it. What am I supposed to do with all my wins lately? I know. Channel them into this video because we have updates on stuff that were announced today at the Nintendo Direct. Stuff that you guys are going to be highly interested in. You can call this stuff rumors and leaks and, you know, we could argue throw the Tim Foyle hat on. And yes, absolutely have skepticism. But the video I made this morning and the Direct, and now we have a massive update today. Let's just say this N64 and Genesis stuff coming to Switch isn't just what you might think it is. There's a lot of people out there saying, can we just get virtual console instead? I'm going to explain why this is actually better and we have actual rumors to back this up from the same people that were telling us we were getting this stuff in the first place. Also, by the way, remember when I talked about how Emily Rogers said that we were going to get Metroid Prime as a solo release in some sort of remake or remaster form? We now have pretty much all the details behind it. And let me tell you, at least based on this rumor, let me tell you if this stuff is true, Metroid Prime coming to Switch isn't just your everyday remastering. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. Not quite from the ground up like remake, but it would definitely be a rather impressive feat. And it's had years of work put into it by retro studios. Years. And we'll explain why that's happening and apparently why the Metroid Prime trilogy rumors aren't true, although they do plan to do this to Metroid Prime 2 and 3. So that is something as well. Starting off, we have some updates on the Nintendo 64 and Genesis Online stuff from Emily Rogers. She put out on Twitter after the Nintendo Direct that Nintendo 64 on Nintendo Switch Online will have a much stronger library than the N64 on Virtual Console. I've even heard tiny whispers about Pokemon Stadium, a game that never released on Virtual Console. I'm not sure if that's currently in the cards though. There may be challenges with that. And then she goes on to say they did announce Dr. Mario 64 for Nintendo Switch Online. And as far as I know, that has never released on Virtual Console. And that is true. Of note, Virtual Console for Nintendo 64 games topped out at just 21 games in the past. And it sounds like it's going to be an even bigger library than that. Obviously Banjo-Kazooie is a big get. We'll have to see what happens. But yeah, it certainly looks like we're going to get more than 21 total N64 games this time around, which does make this Nintendo Switch Online subscription service version better overall than the Virtual Console. Of course, you still might want to buy games individually. But how many times do you want to keep rebuying the same games over and over again? I almost rather they be part of the service that just never goes away, right? I kind of feel like what Nintendo is doing with this service is something that's infinitely expandable and also easily portable to future platforms. And that's really good news for us. I'd rather just pay a subscription fee and not have to rebuy every time. I know technically you can argue you save money by rebuying, maybe, maybe not. Especially now that online is locked behind it anyways. But that's not the human order there. Emily Rogers also tells us about Genesis. And this is where things get really, really crazy. So Emily Rogers says, there's way more games planned for Genesis Nintendo Switch Online compared to what was available in the Switch Genesis collection that comes out in December. By the way, that collection had 54 games in it. Think about this, way more games coming to Nintendo Switch Online for Genesis than what was in that collection of 54 games. What? Here's what she says. For example, Nintendo and Sega want third parties to get involved with Genesis Nintendo Switch Online. Think Mega Man, Wily Wars, Castlevania, Bloodlines, etc. So essentially Nintendo and Sega are reaching out to all the third parties that ever put games on the Master System, the Mega Drive, whatever you want to call it, the Sega Genesis. Different names in different territories with different expansions and all that. The point is that, yeah, they want pretty much the entire Genesis library to be here. That's what it sounds like to me and that is wow. That would make it the largest library. I mean, even if it just had the same games that are in the collection pack, 54, that's already bigger than any virtual console system Nintendo's ever offered. But they're going to go beyond that. Let's just say Sega and Nintendo are going all out on Nintendo Switch Online service and this is glorious. At least these are rumors and reports. You guys take from them what you will. Emily Rogers is one of the most reliable ones out there. Now, we have an update. Emily Rogers actually mentioned yesterday that we were... that Retro Studios is working on like a remake, a remaster of just Metroid Prime 1 and didn't really have any exact details on all of this. Well, there's a person over on Reset Era. He goes by the name Belmont and he has actually leaked things in the past for Nintendo on the Reset Era forums and been right every single time but it's only been a couple of times he's even spoken up and said anything but he seems to really want to set the record straight with this and my lord are there a bunch of details. So you know what? Enjoy this fan created Metroid Prime remastering footage. I'll put a link down to the full video for it and I'm just going to read off his post because my lord, there's a lot to digest. Here he goes. I don't usually comment on these things but given that there's been a lot of irresponsible reporting around this project that's led to a lot of misconceptions and in my opinion, undeserved negativity I want to clear up a couple things here. As the cat's out of the bag now and Emily has already broken the news I figure I can't do anything but help. First off though, I don't know whether or not this is being announced in the direct today. It wasn't. Of course we know that now. I was expecting it to be announced in the E3 Direct but when they announced DRED instead I assumed they were going to hold off on this announcement until after DRED release which would make sense. You got to space out announcements sometimes especially if they're Metroid related, right? You know, you just had a Metroid announcement you're going to space out the next Metroid announcement. So I'd be surprised if they talk about it today but if they do then that's great because I've been waiting for this to be announced for years now just so people understand what this is and what it isn't. I just want to clear up the history here so people can make accurate judgments about the project and whether it's worth their money. To start, most every rumor that's supposedly leaked about retro the last several years has been complete bullshit. The stuff about them doing Star Fox Grand Prix and Labo stuff was complete bullshit. The only thing that was accurate was the rumor about the project they've been working on since Tropical Freeze released and was cancelled. That was true. After that, Nintendo had them start working on this project. It was designed from the beginning as a full asset remake of the original Metroid Prime Trilogy which might, by the way, be where some of the rumors started from Metroid Prime Trilogy. So it actually was something that they were planning to do. This treatment to all three Metroid games. Alright, let's dive a little deeper into this. They didn't want them making any changes to the actual design. They just wanted a one-to-one remake of the original game with new art built to modern standards. Down to them even reusing the original collision meshes and just replacing the art. They didn't want to mess with perfection. So this was never at any point a simple remaster of any of the games. They were always planned to be full remakes. But it was only the art that was being rebuilt. So that left their design staff with nothing to do. At the time, Nintendo of Japan was having issues with Namco's work on Prime 4. Particularly the level design. So they started having retro design staff start helping with the level design on Prime 4. Meanwhile, art and programming staff were working on the Metroid Prime 1 remake. After seeing the quality of retro's level design work on Prime 4 and the quality of their art for the remake, Nintendo of Japan decided why are we not having retro do Prime 4 altogether. So that was the point where they cancelled things with Namco and made the announcement that they were rebooting things with retro and put them back together with Tannabe. So I think it was a few months after this or somewhere around then when the rumors about a Metroid Prime trilogy first came about. I believe Imran-Kam was the first to scoop it. However, what he reported was largely bullshit. He said that the full trilogy was finished as a remaster and was just sitting around waiting to be released. Also that retro had secretly put a demo together to scoop Metroid Prime 4 from Namco. That was completely untrue. That is not how things work in this industry and definitely not how the relationship between retro and Nintendo of Japan works. This is not Spankelberg era retro where they're just secretly working on their own projects supposedly to steal projects from other studios. I feel like that was really irresponsible for Imran to claim that as that's a really bad look for retro and is the kind of thing that creates bad blood. Retro are good guys and classier than that. I privately messaged Imran back in early 2019 that his reporting was largely wrong. This was not a simple remaster. Work had not yet even begun on the later two games and the first game wouldn't be ready for some time. Also that his statements about retro sniping Prime 4 from Namco was completely untrue. It had been Nintendo of Japan's decision and they were just following orders. Imran stopped responding to me as I guess rather than do his due diligence to correct any bad reporting he'd rather just let those bad rumors fly and soak up his 15 minutes of fame. Of note of Imran Khan he has been correct on several leaks so I'm not going to sit here and argue 15 minutes of fame. I think what happens is you have multiple sources and you already reported on some of them and then you get some conflicting information from new sources and you aren't really sure what to do at that point and since you're just waiting for things to get confirmed one way or another you just kind of let it, you know, kind of fly under the radar because I don't know what Imran Khan can do when he's got sources with conflicting information. Alright, moving on. So instead of these rumors about a Prime trilogy being finished and waiting in the wings just kept circulating and getting reported by more people before retro got Prime 4 back they've been planning for them to redo the whole trilogy. Again, I think that's probably where the Metroid Prime trilogy stuff came from. Obviously, that was not going to be possible with them now doing Prime 4. So the new plan began for them to just finish up the first game then Nintendo would contract out the work for the subsequent games to be redone by other studios with the Prime 1 remake serving to establish the visual bar and style for other studios to emulate which again, that's completely fair. Once you have one of them out the door it's much easier for other studios to mimic it especially when they're not making changes to the collision and all that stuff they're trying to keep a lot of the base underlying code as much as they can but still make this a full remake that's going to feel like a brand new experience. Alright I don't know whether or not that is still the plan or if that work has even begun I'm sort of doubtful they've just barely finished up the work on Prime 1 just a few weeks ago so this is definitely not something Nintendo has been sitting on for years and releasing them individually to Nickel and Dime everybody Retro has put a lot of work into this project they've seriously been working on it for years I hope that can be appreciated this is not one of Nintendo's usual quick minimalistic re-release cash grabs I think this is the kind of thing we want to see from them and should reward that's why it irritates me that all this irresponsible reporting from years past is casting a negative shadow over it with people being led to believe Nintendo was just trying to take advantage of the fanbase yes that has happened from time to time but this is not one of those cases I don't know what the price point would ultimately be but given the amount of work put into it I would fully expect it to be full price again there's not any new added content to my knowledge but all the art assets have been completely rebuilt from the ground up a la shadow of the colossus flash demon souls remake I have not seen the game running so I cannot comment on the finished quality of the art remake but I have heard it's impressive for what it's worth hopefully that clarifies the situation here now if this is all true obviously I understand the tone of someone who has the tone of a person who knows people at Retro and is expressing the frustration of the development team so if everything he said is true I understand the tone because it really the way that things have been described over the years didn't make Retro necessarily look great from a business perspective and obviously it sent a reputation that Nintendo's prior Wii U kind of port jobs is sort of what they're doing here when reality is years and years of development have gone into the Prime one and that it's going to be something that's just going to impress now I think a lot of people thought obviously for the Wii Trilogy the Wii Trilogy version that could come over in HD it'd be a pretty simple port job for Nintendo to just up res it like we've seen fans do but also at the same point is that really what we want I think this sounds better now obviously we'd like to have it happen to 2 and 3 and I think the success of one even if 2 and 3 aren't in the development yet will lead to 2 and 3 getting it done and whether or not all of them will have it done before Metroid Prime 4 comes out that I don't know but Metroid Prime is why I think it's the best of the bunch and obviously if it is done they don't want it to overshadow Metroid Dread so it would be an announcement for next year but this is insane to me if this is all true yes yes and more yes he referenced other games like the Dark Souls Remastered that people said oh look how much better this is it mostly was the exact same game but with completely rebuilt art assets which made it feel like a brand new game if that's what they're doing here hell to the yeah that's what I want them to do especially leading into Metroid Prime 4 eventually coming out also it's really cool to find out that Retro Studios might have already been working on level design for Metroid Prime 4 in the first place you know what that means when I hear news like that they could reuse some of those assets because after all they created the level design so anyways we'll have to see what has it with Metroid Prime 4 does sound like Metroid Prime 1 if this is real again rumors leaks speculation whatever be skeptical if this is true we should see Metroid Prime one remake or definitive edition or whatever the hell they call it next year and then man oh man oh man leading that into Metroid Prime 4 I know it'll feel weird not having 2 and 3 but again 2 and 3 might be quick turnarounds I don't know man I know it feels weird to go a little out of order with releases going Prime 1 to Prime 4 then back to Prime 2 and Prime 3 I know okay and I'm sure eventually they'll all be bundled together in some massive 4 collector pack on Nintendo's next system but damn this is what I've been wanting Nintendo to do with all of their remakes they kinda did it with the Wind Waker not everything was rebuilt from the ground up but the character models were this is kinda what they did there I am glad to see this treatment happening supposedly again rumors speculation take it all with a truckload of salt but I'm excited if this is what's happening I'll be excited for Prime Trilogy HD as well but I want more than just HD treatment if that's the other alternative on the table anyways folks thank you so much for tuning in I am Nathan and Robert Japs from Nathan and Prime at least it does kind of explain what Retro has been doing this whole time haven't been sitting on their hands of fail project after fail project although there was one fail project in there he notes in a reply to somebody else on reset error that it was some sort of adventure game that just wasn't coming together so they scrapped it and then began work on this at Nintendo's behest so anyways I'll catch you guys in the next video