 Hey everyone, this is the week Skyward Sword HD comes out and I do have some news to kind of sort of talk about with Skyward Sword HD, nothing super major but we'll at least mention it in this video. But this video is probably going to be focused on the Nintendo Switch OLED because Nintendo has put out a statement in regards to the Joy-Cons and while it's not a definitive one and I'll explain why it's not definitive, I would say it's a pretty safe bet that Nintendo has changed absolutely nothing about the Joy-Cons on the Switch OLED other than the color being white or I think the other ones are black or something like that, yeah I just don't think you're going to see any improvements in the major issue that's been plaguing Switch from day one and that is Joy-Con drift and I'll actually explain why there probably isn't an update this time around and why we could probably give up hope on this issue ever being solved at least in the lifetime of Switch by Nintendo themselves. Before I do, hey we are giving away two copies of Skyward Sword HD so head down to the description to find out how to enter and I wish everyone luck. Alright, so before I get into this news I just want to apologize again for not being on camera. I know I haven't been on camera a whole lot lately, I did do a live stream of one other video but I'm not like re-organizing necessarily the studio, what I'm actually in the midst of doing and hopefully I'll have it done today is I am sort of tidying up the studio a little bit, you're not going to see much difference on camera but there's a huge difference off camera, I guess with stuff that hasn't been taken care of since E3 that needs to be taken care of so I'm going to get all of that hopefully done here before I stream tonight because I do plan to live stream tonight because we have a lot of stuff to talk about. Speaking of stuff to talk about, let's first touch base on Skyward Sword HD. So they released a new ish trailer, I guess it's brand new, it just came out for the Switch and they highlighted a feature of Skyward Sword HD that we had technically known about but just kind of glossed over and that is that there's now an auto save feature. So when you go to save the game at owl statues you can choose one of three save slots whatever that's really cool but now as you're running around the game there is an auto save so that's really convenient it is very much a modern day game convenience and it was pretty you know pretty stock standard back when Skyward Sword came out but it wasn't a feature in Skyward Sword so it's lovely to have that happen that is a that is maybe potentially the biggest quality of life improvement to the game is auto saves so you don't lose progress or if you have to quit playing at any time especially when you're playing on the go I feel like anytime you're gonna be on a platform that people might be playing on a train on a bus on the playground or wherever you know you have to turn off the game sometimes or the battery might die having auto save is a big feature and I'm glad to see that added I know it was standard in a lot of other games but it's glad to see it come that way alright so that's cool there was also a smoother play experience being teased by Nintendo so the exact quotes here are from Nintendo of America's Twitter says some changes have been made to the opening hours the legend is of the Skyward Sword as she to make for a smoother play experience and to get you on your grand adventure to the surface world sooner here's one example where a mandatory advice from Horwell has been adjusted and it shows a clip where where link talks to Horwell and it says you should use it to climb if you want to you can make the jump try climbing here so it's more of a if you want to do over you know it's kind of teaching you the controls you can but you don't necessarily have to right you don't have to do that in order to proceed so it's one of those things where they tightened up the tutorial so it's kind of like look if you know how to run with Lincoln and jump then you don't need to do this tutorial so it's like an optional thing now I assume a lot of people might still do it especially if you play the game and you think you have to but yeah a lot of these things have been apparently tightened up and that is another quality of improvements so hey there's some quality life improvements for Skyward Sword as she comes out this week probably gonna sell a lot of copies let's get then into the switch OLED stuff because I think there's a grander conversation to have here but let's look at a couple a couple things here so according to a question asked of Nintendo they're asked about the Joycon experience with the OLED model by a number of outlets this one happens to be GameSpot and Nintendo's official response is this the Joycon controller configuration and functionality did not change with Nintendo switch OLED model the Nintendo representative said the configuration and functionality is the same as that of the Joycon controller for the Nintendo switch system but she didn't really answer the question because what they're getting at what GameSpot and other outlets are getting at and other outlets were asked as well and they just said Joycon controller for configuration functionality did not change they're just repeating the same PR rhetoric because that's probably all they're allowed to talk about and the big thing to me here is that they're not saying the joysticks haven't been replaced with a newer better model so you can't some people look at this is well this this quote doesn't definitively make it that you know make it so that Nintendo hasn't fixed Joycon drift but it also doesn't really suggest that they have either right assuming that they have fixed Joycon drift it's a pretty big leap at this point I'm going to explain why it's a pretty big leap and why I'm fairly certain that Nintendo is just skirting around an issue that they don't even publicly admit is an issue all the time there are currently at least from what I was able to quick look up with just some Google searches 34 pending lawsuits worldwide some class action some by actual governments against Nintendo over the issue of joycon drift joycon drift that in every legal defense argument made so far by Nintendo's legal team is something that doesn't exist so Nintendo's legally denying that joycon drift exists meanwhile of course we all know that Nintendo has been offering at least here in North America specifically the United States free joycon repairs outside of warranty for any joycon issue they won't specifically say they're offering it because of drift but after people started pushing back over drift it's conveniently when Nintendo of America opened up the repair services for joycons so you have had the president of nintendo shinter for akawa reference the drift I think twice ever in the last four years maybe recognizing you you could say that he was sort of recognizing that it's a problem but then not really ever outright saying that it's a big issue so it's one of these things where there's so many lawsuits currently pending over joycon drift that it's at this point where nintendo one can't really like acknowledge it like if they they could announce hey we have redesigned the the the the sticks in the uh joycons but if they announce that uh that would be almost them legally admitting in some way that they did something wrong because there's so many pending lawsuits and nintendo is obviously hoping to win a majority of those lawsuits uh nintendo likely wouldn't change the joycons even if they could because when you change the joycons in something that can also be used on current switches because by the way everything is cross compatible the docks the joycons everything is cross compatible with other switches all the way back to the version one switch that means that you would be admitting that you changed a design in your joycon uh for a reason that doesn't appear to be obvious like what what reasoning could you change out the joysticks in joycon except if there was a problem because you're not going to add a some sort of a we're going to add a double click functionality like what are you going to do through your joysticks that you could argue is an improvement for the end user that is not related to joycon drift so if you replace those joysticks with something better which we all want to do it would be almost like admitting legally that yeah we knew this was a problem the whole time basically just giving up on all those lawsuits because of that i don't think and this is without nintendo saying anything that the joycons on the switch OLED are any different than the ones we already have i think everything about them is the same except a new color uh and that includes the sticks and nintendo every time they're pressed on it keeps saying the joycon controller figuration and functionality did not change but the switch OLED model the configuration of functionality is the same as that of the joycon control they're they're trying to tell you that it's the same thing but they're not going to sit there and get into the nitty gritty details like they're being pressed on hey did you swap off the joycons no this is what we did they're the same configuration and functionality they're not going to come off there and be like oh we did that so like a lot of fans that i see sort of still defending nintendo on this we're saying hey look they didn't really deny they didn't say they didn't it could still be the same configuration and functionality but have new joysticks and they could have get rid of drift absolutely but on the flip side of it they also probably wouldn't do that because they would be admitting in several legal cases that that's the only reason that they swapped out those sticks because there's no additional functionality or configuration that's any different think about that when they say the configuration of functionality did not change that means that that if they swap those sticks for something that doesn't drift it's not because it actually changes anything it doesn't change how the sticks work right it doesn't give you extra functionality in games so if that's the case if they're not giving us new sticks because of that then they would be giving us new sticks because there's a problem with the old ones and again that would make them automatically lose pretty much all of their lawsuits worldwide and cost nintendo millions probably hundreds of millions of dollars not that nintendo can't afford that or that you know whatever but they are a company that doesn't like to give up money if they don't have to especially when some certain governments are actually involved in some of this not necessarily over the joy con drift itself sometimes just involve a denial of right to repair and a whole bunch of stuff like there's been some weird lawsuits going on with some of the joy con drift stuff but all of its links to the fact that hey the controllers are drifting in the first place that's the number one issue that wasn't such a big issue if that wasn't a bigger issue than it is on other systems because by the way drift is a problem and pretty much all controllers from the xbox elite controller to the playstation 5 to the xbox one all the controllers have drift they just don't have it to the extreme level of switch or have haven't as quickly as it does the switch and it's all because all these controllers are using a rather archaic form design for the control sticks which has always been disappointed especially when you're spending $200 on an elite controller it's really disappointing to see them still continue to use that design when that it's been proven there are better designs out there that are just more expensive so when you spend 200 plus dollars on a controller you would hope microsoft would put in the better design likely to less likely to end up failing and drifting designs but for some reason you know everyone just keeps sticking with the stock standard maybe because it's just has an acceptable level of drift like the drift is only going to happen after so many uses it's not going to happen to a majority controllers till long after a console is dead etc etc where it's like on switch it can happen in the first few weeks you have the platform it's pretty insane so anyways um yeah i i i just think that out of all the things that could affect which olad this would have been a nice thing this obviously would have been a selling point for a lot of current switch owners to quote unquote upgrade because hey look we can get these joy cons that maybe we can only get you know the ones that are included with olad but at the same point that's a lot of lawsuits to give up and i think i don't even tell us gonna have a problem selling switch olad remember i i truly think switch olad is the long form replacement replacement for well the current model of switch i think that this is just going to be the stock standard model of switch next holiday not this year's holiday but holiday 2022 i think at that point this switch olad is just going to be the normal nintendo switch uh so yeah i don't think nintendo is really too concerned with trying to create a selling point when it's going to be a replacement platform anyways essentially a version three um and then we'll have to wait and see obviously if another model of switch i don't want to say a name but if another model of switch comes out someday it'd be cool if you know joy kind of drift with the dress address then probably won't be so i think this is one of those situations where all of us want something fixed that nintendo is never going to fix and never going to admit to um at least not fully they've sort of talked about admitting to it but then backed off on it and now they have a bunch of lawsuits so that's what it is you guys let me know what you think about this down in the comments below um yeah you guys have a great day and i'll catch you in the next video hopefully tonight for a live stream if i get my uh office studio back together bye