 Hey everyone welcome to another episode of prime comments I am Nathaniel Ruffeljantz the everything here at Nintendo Prime and let's just hop right into what you guys had to say this week Untempered link on our Breath of the Wild trailer analysis, which by the way that video was created by Mr. Daniel from NACHG Films He creates videos for our channel once in a great mile about every other month or so Untempered link had this to say trying to find that iconic shot of Hyrule field from the original reveal Was one of the first things I look for after exiting the Great Plateau Like the video said it is a shame It was changed because I had that image cemented into my brain after having it as my wallpaper for years but the main game was so good, I wasn't disappointed for long and And I agree I wasn't disappointed for long either with the game That iconic shot it sucks. It doesn't actually exist in the game just for How long we sat with that image in our brains? It was a good two and a half years Or even full two years just sitting there as the primary image for what Breath of the Wild ultimately was and While aspects of that are obviously there are death mountains still in there some of the peaks and stuff We found that out in the analysis We can't get an exact location shot anymore because well that exact location has been overtaken by different types of terrain And doesn't really exist in that perfect shot things were moved around which is expected in development I wish that iconic shot was available in the game and It almost makes me wish Nintendo didn't give us an iconic shot in the first place But either way Breath of the Wild obviously turned out to still be excellent and right now it's currently my number one favorite game of all time So thank you for your comment GameStop restocked Nintendo switches this past week all at the exact same time I think every store had at least five units over like 4,400 stores and it wasn't just game stops toys are us and best buy and Walmart and pretty much every major retail location that carries switches Got stock in this past. We can get significant stock And Phillip Stafford had this to say on that video Frankly, I think scumbag GameStop had these all along and Nintendo told them to stop their horse Crap And it's been proven lately that GameStop has been holding back on selling switches and NES classics And it's publicly been shown like it was made Nintendo Ram their boot up made GameStop's booties And then he went on to say because I replied to him and essentially said well Nintendo Can't really make GameStop do anything once they are sold their units that's that's really it Nintendo just cares about the sell-through and Phillip Stephan wanted to say Nintendo Prime. Did you not even read? It doesn't effin matter if Nintendo sold a billion switches to retailers and were paid for such Selling hardware is never about making money off the hardware itself. Although Nintendo does make some it's not about that It's about getting as many systems in people's homes in order to sell software I don't know if Nintendo jam their foot up scumbag GameStop's booty or not, but make no mistake It's in Nintendo's best interest to do so if you don't think GameStop holding back stock isn't damaging to the industry and Especially Nintendo you should really shut your channel down because you don't know jack about the gaming industry There's a reason ship numbers aren't all that important. It's sold units that matter now A lot of anger there. I understand That obviously for us as consumers the ship numbers matter For software creators the ship numbers matters and Nintendo the software creators So obviously the ship numbers matter as much as the sales numbers matter What then we have to think about here and some of your comments are actually factually incorrect You know you say it's never about making money off the hardware You actually look at Nintendo's financial reports over the past 20 years You'll see that outside of a brief period with the 3ds and Wii U Nintendo has always made money on their hardware. In fact, they have made Significant money on their hardware. So while PlayStation might sell for a loss or at cost or Xbox might sell for a loss or X At cost that's not really what Nintendo does Nintendo sells for profit So it's not just about you know getting software sales for Nintendo Hardware sales make up a huge percentage of their net income every single year and it's the number one reason when people talk about how Nintendo should get out of the games industry and they should become third-party Multi-platform they're forgetting the large chunk of revenue that Nintendo gets from hardware as it is and that doesn't even get into the Royalty fees that third parties and indie companies that Nintendo makes money off of the sales of their games as well Not just the sales of their own games now Ship does matter does it matter as much as sold through? No, but it matters because Regardless of GameStop holding back stock, which I think all of us think is scummy and bad for the industry and they do this with everything So whatever and I don't think they held back stock for this restock per se they hold back stock You know a hundred two hundred five hundred units or whatever the case may be so they can continue to sell their expensive bundles and keep those Always in stock online this restock wasn't about holding back stock because all retailers got a bunch unless there's like this big global Conspiracy that every single retailer needed a whole back stock so they could all have stock at once Chances are Nintendo just got a lot more units out there to fulfill their orders sold through matters because That's obviously the total sales number of the unit, but the shipped unit matters as well because While it's true shipping units doesn't mean those units sold through then the Nintendo switch has been selling out so Retailers have been consistently ordering more units and paying for them and pre-paying for them and getting units shipped to them It's a good sign when units are being shipped because Nintendo is making money off the retailers already because they prepay upfront for the units And the demand is still there for Nintendo to continue to ship units So while we don't always get exact sales figures updates very often sold through because even Nintendo might not be aware of If GameStop sold through all their stock if Walmart sold through all their stock All Nintendo knows is that those retailers keep ordering shipments from them and it's not just in the United States It's worldwide so if retailers are continuing to order shipments and Nintendo is continuing to have to ship more and more out And they aren't able to fulfill the orders right that's been really the issue When we talk about stock shortage of switch is Nintendo hasn't been able to fulfill the orders that they order these units They could they could sell Nintendo can't fulfill the order people can't buy it on shelves, etc So Nintendo is catching up with the orders. So Shipped units does matter not as much as sold through But it does matter to Nintendo's bottom line because as long as you know companies are continuing to Want Nintendo to ship more units Nintendo is gonna make more money that makes sense on the business side of things So yes, Nintendo does make money on the unit shipped and yes It is up to the retailers to decide how they would like to distribute those units and you could say that's right or wrong But they're also taking the risk of pre-paying for units that they don't know are going to sell So I think what GameStop did is scummy I think it might be a little scummy that Amazon potentially held back switch stock for their Trucks that were traveling around the United States and having NES classic units available and switch units available, but ultimately Because they took the risk in pre-paying for the units And you know the risk for them is that they buy a unit it doesn't sell they have to discount it later And they lose money on that unit it's Almost understandable that retailers are gonna do what they feel like they need to do to maximize the profits of the systems They already paid for as scummy as that might be and obviously Nintendo's part of that problem in that they weren't able to fulfill the full orders for the switch causing a shortage So now that the orders are starting to be fulfilled and we're seeing more and more switch units out there I mean it is Sunday right now and I literally was at GameStop Just last night on a Saturday and I saw switch units in stock So they have more and more switches out there They're catching up to the demand and this is ultimately good for everything as we're shutting my channel down You know I don't know how much GameStop only makes stock is damaging to the whole industry as I said It's more so Nintendo just needs to fulfill the orders But yeah, shit numbers are important Nintendo does make a profit I remember Nintendo does not operate like like Sony and Xbox do they make huge profit margins off their systems always have outside of the slack past generation and Probably always will because Nintendo doesn't believe in selling systems for a loss to get an install base And they shouldn't because this is like their biggest revenue Anyways moving on to the next thing we had a leak from the MPD that showed the Nintendo switchers on top And when the MPD came out it confirmed the Nintendo switchers on top And that's what two and two was the number one selling game of last month even out selling the Crash Bandicoot insane trilogy for the PlayStation 4 and OV Warrior had this to say Nintendo should over the course of a few years figure out a way to get all or at least most of the 3ds games to work on the switch To that I say I think that's a nice idea. I don't think it's realistic, and I don't think it's realistic because 3ds game cartridges don't work natively on the switch So no matter how much they modify and update the only way to be able to get those 3ds games to work on the switch without releasing like collection packs would be digital downloads and The switch only has 32 gigs of internal memory. I know it's completely expandable. Now you're gonna tell people Hey, you can have your full 3ds backwards Compatibility but you have to rebuy all the games digitally and then you have to buy an SD card and it's just kind of a mess I don't think Nintendo is gonna deal with I don't think the switch is ever gonna be backwards compatible with 3ds games I think it's more likely like five six years down the road for switch to to have Some sort of virtual console version of 3ds games But yeah, both platforms are still selling and Nintendo is not gonna make 3ds games work with switch make it's a cool idea I just don't think it's an approach. Nintendo is willing to take anytime soon I'm moving on there was a new arms character announces this week and tail exe Went out to retranslate the tweet that I quoted. I used Google translate at the time This person apparently knows some native Japanese. So I got the quotes up on the screen. I'm gonna read him off as president I recorded a fighter who's been the talk of the town lately during summer vacation It looks like she slash he or has his or her own costume and arms I couldn't really tell but it looked like he said she slash he had some sort of fighting style in which he slash He could change his her body and she slash he broke one of the cameras Should I write it up and I'll write up an explanation? Yes And then they went on to say, you know, if I need some translation analysis help with the things really Japanese No, the hell and I give my contact email and I believe they did actually contact me I haven't gotten back to you yet tail I apologize been very busy But when I do have some Japanese work I will certainly try to get you involved as quickly as I can so I don't have to delay my videos But thank you for that translation and that's really all I could say right now is I thank you Because I don't readily have a translator available all the time and it's good to have that information correct It doesn't vary too much from what I said, but it adds some additional context. So yeah, thanks I love I love me get comments like that Uh This past week we recorded and produced prime family episode one which included my six-year-old daughter Plain Splatoon 2 for the first time and also my four-year-old son watching us and Oh, man. Who picked out this comment? So Muher Eloise had this to say your fat. I'm fat. I Don't deny it. I'm not pretending that I'm losing weight that I'm not losing I'm not pretending that I am The most in-shape guy in the world. I'm a hell of a lot more athletic than I Appear let's put it that way and I don't know how long I'm gonna keep that athleticism, especially at my current weight But yeah, I am fat. I don't think anyone should be proud of the fact. They're fat and These comments don't bother me so much because I've accepted who I am I am trying to do some things on the side to work on it. It's hard And I make no excuses. Yes, I have three kids and I have all these other reasons not, you know That's not excuse for me not to eat better not to to drink more water in fact. I'll take a drink right now and Just in general These comments don't bother me, but Yeah, I don't know what else people what kind of reaction people like to say am I angry about it I'm not proud of it, but I mean I am I am fat. I've been fat for a while Might continue to be fat for a while, but we'll see I'm working on it Moving on I put up a video this week talking about if the switch should replace the 3ds and Sage Roy had this to say. Yeah, sure Nintendo should drop their biggest money maker and focus on making games for a console That's always short in stock. Why can't the two systems coexist like the Nintendo 64 and the Game Boy the GameCube and the Game Boy Advance the we and the DS on another note quit begging for every game to come into a system that just learned how to walk So obviously I can't say much about the situation short in stock opposite this past week There's more and more stock. There's even more stock available today. That's great. I whatever I can't do anything about the stock situation But the reason the reason the systems I'm not gonna say they can't coexist. I'm saying they shouldn't coexist my stance is that Nintendo has never been in a spot where they focus all of their game development on a single platform They've always split it across two platforms and that made sense at the time when you had a system that was underneath your TV And one you take with you, but here's the thing the switch is both There is not a lot of tangible things the 3ds brings to the table that the switch can't also do while having its own Additional features now obviously, you know, you can't dock a 3ds unless you buy a modded version But you know you have 3d screens it's got the dual screen thing That's something the switch doesn't do but a lot of the uses of the touchscreen and the dual screen stuff aren't things that can't be done On a single screen in fact, we've seen phone games that have done many similar things that the dual screen stuff for the 3ds And DS line has done and the glasses free 3d is cool I'm not gonna sit here and tell you it's not cool and if you really really love that feature No switch does not replace that so I get it But I think for a while it'll exist as Nintendo starts to cut prices of 3ds Cuz the 2ds XL prices down and they start to focus it more on a younger generation where this is the system you buy for your kids to Introduce them to Nintendo before they upgrade to the switch and I think that's a logical play for Nintendo, but In general, I want Nintendo's best foot moving forward on the switch Not just because I own one bit because I think it's best for the company if you look at I'm gonna bring up PlayStation Because they've been the most consistently successful company in the video game industry Since they came in even more consistently successful than Nintendo at least on the home console side And you know PlayStation 1, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 have all been wildly successful systems and That's because Sony is so focused on one platform now They did have the PSP which sold 80 million and that's fantastic They did have the PS Vita But you notice how quickly they dropped out of the PS Vita race and stopped trying to compete with the 3ds Now wasn't just because they were getting spanked It's because their stuff just wasn't selling and PlayStation is at their best when they focus all of their efforts on a single platform And we've never seen Nintendo do that and now they have a platform that is portable and for your TV It only makes sense now for Nintendo to dive into that now for some people who commented about They should keep doing as long as the 3ds is making more money than the switch or making money 3ds is gonna make money as long as Nintendo continues to sell it, but The switch has already outsold the 3ds so far this fiscal year It hasn't sold as much software as the 3ds But it also doesn't have as much software available for it yet again a problem Let's help alleviate it if Nintendo focused all of their efforts on switch and obviously focusing all their efforts on switch What do you eliminate a lot of the concerns people might have for game gaps? and now that Nintendo's Primary handheld, you know IP out there Pokemon is having a full RPG coming to the switch We're starting to model of excuses for them not to do this and for people who feel this way I actually pose this question to you. Why do you want Nintendo to not? Focus will solely on the switch. Is it because you don't have one? Is it because you don't plan to get one and you just want to rock your 3ds? Is it because you don't have the money? I you know, I'm actually curious what the reasons could be because a lot of things You know just like when the 3ds came out You could maybe couldn't afford it that you'd wait a few years and pick it up same with the switch And more software on the switch makes it a more enticing platform 3ds has had a good run. It's not like I'm throwing the 3ds in the trash It's had a good run as a ton of good games and it's a huge library already So yeah, I think it's time for the switch to take over Moving on We had switch bend gate come up again, and I realize people hate that name But basically switches bending either due to physical abuse heat manufacturing issues Whatever the case may be and we talked about this many months ago And it was brought up again because Kotaku found out that people in Japan are seeing it happen and people as recently as like last week We're reporting on their switches being bent And what's interesting about this is that oh man People who ever put down these comments for me was really hate me this week So bro. Hello had this to say stop copying review tech USA you PC looking, but Man So let me address this And I think a later comment here might might have something to do with this as well Review tech USA does a very similar thing to I do they talk about they have news They give their opinions on the news and they talk about gaming their throw up still images or gameplay or what have you They're not always on camera. Sometimes they're on camera. Sometimes they're not on camera Rich is a guy that I actually respect on YouTube. I don't think he's perfect. I think he's made mistakes in the past he has a Way of delivering stuff that I don't necessarily agree with like when he does some of his Insulting kind of voices I'm not really into that, but I obviously see his content and yes I saw his video, you know in this case on switch Bengi as well as like two or three other videos before my video even went up and I don't really I guess In this industry of YouTube you're going to see multiple youtubers report on the same thing Because we have different audiences while there is audience crossover, you know Obviously, I watch a bunch of different channels that are reported on it So I'm crossed over with their art with those different channels and with their audiences a lot of times There's not crossover as well and we have plenty of people who follow our channel who don't even know who review tech USA is or if They do they don't like him and they don't follow his channel I always see he's been way more successful at this than I have and he's been at it for a lot more years than I have but yeah, I I mean We have a very similar style to what we do in terms of how we deliver it, but I mean He his channel and several others are kind of an inspiration for me on my channel I'm not gonna shy away from that fact I don't really view it as copying because like he he covers. I mean his name of his channel review tech He covers tech. He's a tech enthusiast video games are obviously a big part of tech. He covers a lot of video game stories I'm just Nintendo. I just talk about Nintendo and plus I do get on camera And I do have a video podcast and I do do things and I want to be on camera more often Once I have the money to afford the proper technology, but you know, we has the technology But yeah, I you know, it's cool if you don't like seeing the video pop up twice in different feeds I can't tell you then the don't follow him or stop following us or don't follow anyone else I think this is just the nature of the way things work I mean I used to work at Zelda Informer and we would report report on a piece of news Was reported on but Nintendo everything go to Nintendo IGN Kotaku and GameSpot GameStop Whatever so many different places, but yeah, I don't really have an issue with with rich or anyone else And I doubt they have an issue with me But yeah, obviously we all take inspiration from each other Hopefully you feel like my thoughts on things are at least my own because they are they're not based on anybody else's thoughts moving on Our least viewed video this week was about Pokemon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon And I'm not sure why it was the least viewed, but it was the one that brought up some of the most interesting discussion points for me and Isolex responded by saying this video is more just your opinion and not news and Again, this gets back to me talking about what my channel does. Yes, I report on news. Yes I have discussion videos. Yes, I have top 10s. Yes, I do live streams Yes, I do a lot of stuff I even knew product reviews and maybe eventually game reviews Once I get up to a point where I'm confident enough that I can edit footage together and not worry about copyright strikes. That's all great, but The important part in all of this is that I view This channel as not being your IGNs or your game explains or your switch force or all these other channels That might just give you a quick one minute to 90 second video that just says here's the news do with it what you want and I think it's important that those channels in those avenues exists. I think it's important in print media I think it's important in video media and there's even people like Spawn wave they'll do like a daily news recap of the news from the previous day And they'll hit on some topics and sometimes he'll discuss his opinion on it Sometimes they'll just deliver the news and that's fine. Those outlets are perfect for what they do That's not what we do at Nintendo Prime We present you the news and then I create a discussion off of the news because to me this channel's Main objective is to bring Nintendo fans together to have honest Conversations about whatever topics we happen to be talking about in this case. I was talking about Pokemon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon I led with the news. I reported it. That is the primary reason to check it out I didn't say come here to see my opinions on Pokemon. I said come here to see this news They got the news and if you didn't want anything else, you could just stop watching the video after the first few minutes And you're good. You got the news. You're done. You're informed. Great. I'm glad I was able to inform you But I also like to build a conversation off that which means whatever comes to my mind as I'm going over that news I'm going to talk about and in this case It was about my love or lack of love of the Pokemon series and why and I understand some people Didn't agree with my reasons as to why and that's fine My reasons are my own like why I don't enjoy something is very very personal and as I explained I reported on it because Pokemon is a big deal and I'm going to be pulling Pokemon on switch and making tons of videos about Me playing Pokemon and switch so I know that I'm literally a couple years away from just Pokemon going crazy And like I have you know my favorite Pokemon is back there Charizard. I I love Pokemon Like it's not like I dislike it. I fell out of love with the gaming series I actually still love the anime and I just I'm having a hard time getting back in and yes I said maybe it's too complex and all this other stuff but maybe I When I finally sit down and give Pokemon a real chance again Strip away all my biases against why I fell out of love with it ages ago and give it a try from a fresh Perspective maybe I'll find I love all the new mechanics. I might I really might but right now I can't get my mind wrapped around even giving these mechanics a chance like the idea that you hatch Pokemon Just hurts my brain not because it's difficult to understand because I just don't I never viewed that as part of Pokemon So again, I will get over it someday and I am at our channel again It's a lot of my opinion because that's what it's an opinion channel. Let's just call it what it is We have news we have discussions, but everything's opinion-based so moving on we introduced a brand new occupant of time glitch this week and It's crazy 19 years later that happened and the legend 34 had this to say too long of a video without explaining the point and I think that's more so to do with the title of the video where I said This new occupant of time glitch is game changing and I might have jumped the gun by saying game changing because the impact of this Glitch isn't fully known. So when people were expecting me to go into deeper Explanation as to why it's game changing and what in what ways in the speedrunning community is it game changing? I couldn't give you those details because they don't exist yet just in my brain Thinking as someone who's played a lot of opening of time and watched a lot of Zelda speedruns and covered a lot of Zelda speedruns over the year I can think of ways and Experimentations with being able to use any item whether you're a child or adult and how it might impact speedruns that allow for glitches Obviously glitch those speedruns This is irrelevant for what for speedruns that allow for glitches not any percent because you're gonna skip everything anyways but just like glitch-less like like 100% runs that allow for glitches or all dungeon runs that allow for glitches or you know Whatever the kid whatever type of run there's like 11 different speedrun categories for ocarina of time And I feel like this could potentially impact four or five of those and for those runs I think it will be game changing But how exactly it's game changing can't be known yet because speedrunners are still taking this glitch dissecting it and perfecting it and trying to see In what ways it could help shave time if it shaves time at all and it's gonna take a lot of experimenting and Hundreds and hundreds of hours of practice before we see how game changing this is and maybe it turns out that the glitch Isn't worth it. You know, isn't worth the time it takes to pull it off since you have to do do it for every single item and That's fine. I understand that but We have to sit back and think that I think the potential for it to be game changing is there So I apologize that the title was me was a bit misleading I should have said potentially game changing and potentially game changing in that it could speed up getting through dungeons I could make certain bosses and enemies easier because you can use items across like the cocurie Sword does like the same damage as the map or the cocurie sword the Deku sticks do the same amount of damage as the master sword and all that stuff. So Again, I apologize if it wasn't informational enough. The information really isn't out there yet And I probably should have framed that in context with what I was talking about with the glitch So I apologize I wasn't as straightforward as I should have been and the title probably should have been a slightly different Sense we don't know how game changing it is yet. I just in my brain. I just kept thinking man This is gonna be huge Yeah, so Moving on So we end of the week with our top 10 critically acclaimed Nintendo games It's not really our top 10. It's top the top 10 according to Metacritic and Game rankings kind of smashed together and figuring out what are the best rated games critically of all time And Sierra Dobson had this to say love the video But I think some background music would make it flow better and the voice you use when you transition to the next game and Number is kind of funny lol, but I love your videos. Keep it up Finally a positive comment. Oh, it's good. There's plenty of positive comments this week I wanted to end on a positive note with this comment here. I I think you are correct I do need to start thinking about adding background music to a lot of these videos that are Long and just have me talking and it might be something I feel like I need to even add to this video So you're correct. That's a very good criticism. Very good constructive one. Thank you so much I will try my best to find fitting music that goes along with my voice as for, you know, finding it funny the way I don't know that just kind of happened on this one. I'm like number nine Skyward Sword I don't even know where that voice comes from I just I was reading my script and as I'm voicing and I'm like it just felt like This like epic deep number 10. I don't really get where it comes from I have a lot of crazy voices that happen like that sometimes And you they really only come out when I'm reading scripts. I used to fun fact I used to be like a actor kind of I used to be in like school musicals and plays and all this stuff Even after I got a high school. I was in a couple local plays in our town and logarithms I was the scarecrow in the whiz. I was Jesus and God spell So I have like this acting thing in me So sometimes you have to change the tone of your voice to fit the script or you know deep in your voice Or raise your voice or do different types of voices and different types of slang Different accents and I don't even think I can pull off any of the accents I used to do anymore because I'm way out of practice like 10 years out of practice, but It's still fun. It's still something I enjoy and sometimes that comes out in my voice work out the channel Yeah, and I wanted to mention something sitting here this whole time. This is a Ceramic metal. I'm not 100. I know it's steel on the inside This is a new piece of merchandise here at Nintendo Prime. It's got our new logo with the Nintendo Prime red and blue I wanted to mention that we now have these available for anyone who wants them I can't remember the exact pricing, but you can find the details for it down in the description below I have a link to free to be able to purchase it and as always it's another way to support Nintendo Prime You purchase this mug and it helps support us here. I get a small percentage and you get a product So that's I think it's a pretty sweet deal Ma'am, I also want to give a shout out to Ricardo graphics He didn't design the bomb that was actually designed by someone an old friend of mine named Trey from the Zeldin former days But he added the flames to it and the Nintendo Prime stuff on it He made it what I few is a printable version of itself. He HD'd the logo and I want to give a shout out to him because he did this all for free, but he's a professional at least I He looks like a professional to me. Let's put it that way He has done several professional work before so if you're someone out there that's looking for a professional logo kind of work or something Why don't you check them out? I'll have a link down to his YouTube stuff and his Facebook and wherever whatever other content information he gave if you would like to Contact him for work for your channel or other things. Anyways, folks I'm Nathan Robidance from Nintendo Prime Really trying to get you to drink more water Whoo subscribe like this video dislike it if you disliked it and I'll catch you in the next one