 Hey everyone, welcome back to prom news. Yeah We're doing a prime news today because there's a ton of stories. I mean here are my notes This is two full pages almost top to bottom with a bunch of notes because we have so many Major stories today that I don't really want to waste any of your time. No jokes here. No, no silly preamble Wait a second. No what this is. I don't know whatever for our first video this week Here's prime news. Let's get into the major stories and the first one starts with Pokemon sword and shield Yes, I literally just fell forward It's a little strange. All right, so What's going on Pokemon sword and shield? Well a whole bunch of things in fact We got a flood of news this week from various interviews and hands-on things from places like game informer But maybe the most interesting thing is that tomorrow there is going to be a 24 hour Livestream starting at 8 a.m. Central Standard Time this live stream is being hosted out of Japan on the Pokemon Japanese channel we'll put a link to it down in the description and It's literally like one of those in real life Livestreams where you stick a camera out in the forest and then like watching eagles nest or something They're doing that but inside a video game. It's quite strange. So let's just talk about exactly what they're doing So the camera fake camera anyways will be in gilm wood forest Which is part of the galar region from the game and literally it's gonna be 24 hours of a camera Just looking into the forest so you're bound to see oodles and oodles of Pokemon and all the shares I think the idea of this stream is to prove that the game itself Is just a living breathing world that's constantly changing and we're just gonna see that over the course of 24 hours So it's not focusing on gems or or leveling Pokemon But it's just focusing on how the Pokemon themselves seem to interact with the world at least that's the presumption Because they're not really telling us anything else other than to tune into the stream Whenever you have time and just enjoy this gilm wood forest camera now to add to a little bit of the Mystique around a living breathing world in Pokemon sword and shield The year is going to be 18 gems in the game and that's a crazy number of gems There's typically only eight so 18 is a lot and there's gonna be some different gems between the two versions of the game But that's not what makes it a living breathing world There's actually two leagues in Pokemon sword and shield for the gems to exist in those leagues being the major and Minor leagues and each year in the galar region because there is like a tying thing going on You know a calendar year in the game each year in the galar region The gems will change which tier they are in whether it's the minor or the major so depending on when you're playing the game Could actually affect how what what gems are in which league and how you want to progress through the game And as I said some of the gems are different between the two versions of the game So it's not just that the Pokemon are changing up There's also going to be some differences between the leagues and the living breathing world And obviously the gems themselves so that's pretty crazy now There's some additional info we got as well mostly from game informers such as HMS are not being focused on in this game They're kind of being dropped out and that there's like a thousand people working on Pokemon sword and shield Which is a record number for a Pokemon game. However of note Just because a thousand people are working on the game doesn't mean that they have a thousand developers working on the game The Pokemon core development team still has about 180 to 200 people at game freak actually actively working on it, which is a good size team by the way It's just you know, not it not as impressive as say it all a thousand people are working on the game But it is notable that they do outsource and hire an outside company to help with Pokemon animations and Pokemon designs And we're not actually sure how big that team is maybe it's 50 maybe it's a hundred people We don't actually know because those numbers aren't ever posted publicly And they do hire a company like that for each and every Pokemon game they make so well well who really knows what's happening It doesn't mean they don't have some designs that don't come from internally of course they do But they have an outside company that really helps with a lot of that So maybe the development team is more like a hundred to three hundred people who really knows But what I wanted to point out in that thousand is that a majority of them are basically marketing and localization teams because they are counting Marketing and localization in that number and localization from the you know The dozens of languages they put in there is obviously pretty huge marketing for all the different countries that rent is obviously a pretty huge team So just wanted to note that just because a thousand people looks like it's a huge number But it's not quite as big when you just think about who's actually making the game but hey marketing and and Localization teams do need to give some credit because a lot of people overlook them in the process of releasing video games And they shouldn't because those are very important teams like without localization. We can't play the game in English. So Yeah, kind of a big deal. Now. There's also an autosay feature added to the game However, it's completely optional So if you don't like autosay features and video games and you don't want it in Pokemon You could just not have it and you know, whatever it's it's option You can just turn it off beyond that Masuda has come out and said hey all the Pokemon that are cut from this game Which basically means, you know, there's no national decks. That's about a big drama all year They said will appear in future games. However, he's not promising that a national decks will ever exist again I think Pokemon is probably done, you know, the Pokemon company in Game Freak I probably done doing a national decks in any specific Mainline game anyways, there's possible that could be like a pokedex specific game or like maybe a national decks that exist in the Pokemon Bank or something like that where You know, you can still try to collect them all from all the different games But it's just not going to exist in a mainline game I have no idea because that's in the future and the future is not like certain at least for us So there you go That's all the big Pokemon Sword and Shield news and I can't wait. I'm actually going to tune into some of the stream tomorrow Heck if I get an opportunity, maybe I'll even live stream And have a Q&A or whatever and talk with you guys and while we're live streaming it I'll put up a video of of their live stream so we can actually like hey if we see cool Pokemon We can comment and figure out who the Pokemon are try to figure out who they are Because if they're unannounced Pokemon, then I mean we don't really know we're just gonna guess and say do we like the design? So it might be something kind of cool to have on in the background as we're talking and stuff So I will see I think that's actually a pretty neat concept In fact, I'm gonna do that get back to you guys later on what time that stream will be our next story is about PlayStation 4 But it does affect Nintendo switch Because what's happening here is that according to wire comm PlayStation 4 is officially left the beta stage of cross play now Sony's infamously not supported cross play then supported cross play but then said only for certain titles It's gonna be in beta. Yeah, they've actually rejected a lot of developers and a lot of games saying sorry You can't do cross play. Well, that's no longer the case. It is officially left beta However, Sony will not be making any public announcements about it So while it's no longer in beta what this means is that any game that wants to have cross play can just have it Sony's no longer putting restrictions up according to wider comm. In fact, the first game that supposed to feature this out of The beta period is call of duty modern warfare But it does appear that any game that wants cross play with switch PC Xbox all at the same time can have it So that's good news And I had a feeling that Sony might do something like this heading into PlayStation 5 as lunch because it was kind of a big Bugaboo against them that felt a little anti-consumer even towards their own customers that might want to play with their friends It might not own a PlayStation and I know they've infamously said like a year ago Oh, we're not doing it because these games are best experienced on PlayStation. I think we all know that Options are good for consumers So for them to support something that switch and Xbox and PC have supported for a long time is good news for everyone So kudos to you Sony on sticking to your, you know, when you said you were gonna allow cross play Actually doing it once it got out of beta. Why you didn't let it happen in beta. I have no idea Why was there even needed to be a beta because all cross play is essentially handled on the developer side anyways? So it was really strange But hey, that's good news especially heading into next gen. Did you think we were done talking about links awakening sales on the channel? Haha, I don't think so because Nintendo of UK or Nintendo UK on Twitter I guess as they're known has announced that links awakening is the fastest selling Nintendo switch game of 2019 in the UK now it did debut at number one However, we don't actually know real sales figures in in the UK because they don't publish them anywhere So it's kind of left to us to guess unless Nintendo says what the numbers are So what we do know is in its second week It was dethroned from number one by the launch of FIFA 20 which we know FIFA is a really big franchise in Europe Especially in the UK. So yeah, we don't actually have any idea how well links so we can be sold overall in Europe However, if it happens to be a really impressive number, Nintendo is probably gonna throw it out there They know you're in a financial meeting or something. So it's something to pay attention in the future, but right now With Mario maker out there Astral chain Yeah, I mean you've got Luigi's mansion coming up here in Pokemon right now I'll make awakenings the gold standard for games launching on switch being the fastest selling game in 2019 So pretty cool and kudos to those people out there playing links awakening Hopefully I'm one of you guys here before the year is out So Mario Kart 2 or continues to shatter records in its first week on the market 90 million installs Just let that sink in 90 million that crushes Pokemon go which has held all prior records now to be fair Pokemon go ahead a staggered launch between you know Apple devices and Android devices So it didn't have a big universal launch like Mario Kart 2 or had so who we don't really know how well Pokemon would have done Pokemon go anyways would have done if it launched on both at the same time But what we do know is mark our tours at 90 million installs now that sounds impressive But then you have to look at the revenue generated because there's been a lot of controversy around how it how 200 cc's locked behind a paywall and Microtransactions and loot box, you know ways of getting characters and stuff like that Well, it turns out that it actually isn't generating that much revenue compared to its install base 90 million installs only about 12.7 million dollars in actual revenue Majority of that being made in the United States, of course the United States also has the largest percentage of the install base So I guess that makes sense now What's interesting in looking at the numbers is that while that crushes all the installs for any other Nintendo launch game that they have Published I can remember they didn't publish Pokemon go the Pokemon company did We have to look at the actual revenue because that's what Nintendo cares the most about and well Super Mario Run actually had 16 million in its first week So it's not on pace with that And it's their best game out there Fire Emblem heroes in its first week did 18 or I'm sorry 28 million or so in actual revenue in its first week while only having 8.1 million installs So the gotcha mechanics in that game clearly Clicked with fire Emblem fans versus what's happening with Mario Kart 2 or now I do think it's gonna make more money than Mario run in the long haul because you remember Super Mario Run was a One-time $10 payment Whereas this is going to be more continual revenue and with 90 million installs You know, there's gonna be more and more and more I wouldn't be surprised that this thing hits half a billion installs or more at some point And it's going to generate more and more revenue. It's just not generating a high percentage of revenue compared to the installs We'll see how happy Nintendo is with that, but they got to be pleased that there's a lot of people playing it So I expect to see some changes or updates that might mess around with how that game makes money in the future I'm hoping that it's not a system that we end up hating, but what are you gonna do? It's just something that we have to deal with right now. I happen to think Mario Kart 2 is actually a pretty decent mobile game No, it's not Mario Kart 9. So I don't expect that But I don't know it's fun to pick up and play a little bit here and there if you can get used to the weird Touch control sliding thing. I mean, I got used to it, but I know not everyone can my kids haven't figured it out yet So So the director of overwatch as well as Blizzard on the whole has publicly stated I'm sure they've privately stated this as well that any character in overwatch is welcome to join the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate roster now we do know that that Nintendo sort of wrapping up the fighter pass I had added five new characters to the game But Sakurai did announce in the last big Smash Bros update that there will be more DLC characters added beyond that so while I don't think an overwatch character was considered for the this current fighter pack It's definitely something that could be considered for future fighter packs now the director himself of overwatch did say that He would prefer Nintendo to choose tracer, but at this point We just have to know that Nintendo or I guess if you care about overwatch We just have to know Nintendo's actually gonna pick a character from overwatch at all before we start thinking about Which character could it be? I don't know maybe what I guess go on the console Don't tell me what what it's what's your favorite character from overwatch and then which character from overwatch Would you like to see appear in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate? I think every video game developer in the world basically would love to have a character from their game in Smash Bros. Ultimate I mean Microsoft has publicly said several times that they wouldn't mind it even if Master Chief went in it for some reason so Smash Bros. is slowly becoming a celebration of all of gaming And Paladins is shutting down in like China and potentially some other countries as well Not in the United States or most of Europe So we're actually pretty fortunate for that and that kind of gives overwatch a nice boost in some of those other territories on switch And so it'll be the only game really like that than one of those arena shooters So it's gonna be interesting to see what happens in the future, but I'm all for an overwatch character joining The roster. I don't care if it's a female or male. I don't care, you know skin colors I have no preferred character in overwatch. So hey more potential DLC characters from major IPs is something I am always welcome to After all you got Banjo-Kazooie, and I never thought that was possible. So now for the rest of my life I'll just keep praying that conquer makes it in someday When I know that's probably not happening because one of his main attacks would have to be him peeing on people And I don't know the Nintendo's gonna let that happen, but hey You never know Mario and Luigi RPG you guys know that one right it's been on on a lot of the handheld systems for a long time Well the Mario and Luigi RPG series with the latest entry being Bowser's inside story, which is like a remake with extra content Yeah, they're parent company alpha dream the big developer. They're bankrupt. They file for bankruptcy I think as of yesterday and We don't know all the exact details on where their finances stand today We do know back in March of 2018 that they reported 4.2 million dollars in debt and this is USD It's some crazy 562 million yen or whatever, you know, I did the conversion for you guys already So this is obviously a little bit of a sad story because some people really love the Mario and Luigi series And these guys have basically made every single game And now they won't be anymore and the popularity of the series has been waning in a long time And in fact Bowser's inside story did so poorly this year that Nintendo actually canceled other plans for Nintendo 3ds Because of it. So that's just something to take into consideration here I know a lot of people are hoping the series does find a way to continue and that Nintendo either passes it on to another developer or Potentially hires on the developers That no longer have jobs from alpha dream after filing bankruptcy and continue to develop the game under Nintendo's umbrella But I don't know with the game waning in popularity It's potential that this just might be the latest Nintendo IP to just not be made anymore You know like the f-zeros of the world and stuff like that. We're Nintendo's like, hey We're just not making these games anymore So we don't have any evidence to suggest that's what's gonna happen But when the actual development team goes down and that's all that development team has really been making It doesn't look good for the future of the franchise And I don't know how much Nintendo really wants to invest in it But my heart goes out to all of the people and the families Affected by this bankruptcy claim because obviously once you hit bankruptcy That's usually the end of the company and everyone basically loses their job There is a way to file bankruptcy and still bounce back and rebuild the company, but that's in the United States I'm not really sure how bankruptcy works in Japan So again, I feel for all the families and developers more so than I feel for the gamers that might miss out on future Mario and Luigi games because You know real human people matter way more than our ability to enjoy a video game series And if this is the end for Mario and Luigi, I mean I'll say this Bowser's inside story Well, you know, it's kind of an add-on to an existing game It's really good and I always thought it was a mistake that it was coming to 3ds Anyways, we'll switch out but it is what it is and maybe the games will be remastered someday for switch or something but I Feel for you guys. I feel for the fans are gonna miss the series and I feel for the families affected and Let me just say this. I'm gonna say a prayer for all of you guys tonight Our last story of the day is actually a multifaceted story because we're talking about The Japanese sales charts from last week all the news broke yesterday And I'm just gonna break down what matters to it for you guys today Dragon Quest 11 s as an example launched last week on switch that echoes of a Whatever definitive edition. I forget what a loose of age. I think I was over the loose of age So it's all over 300,000 units in Japan and debuted at number one for switch. That's great That's excellent. That's really good numbers But some people have told me well those numbers don't sound that great because when it launched last year on PlayStation 4 It did 960,000 units and that's true It did actually I'm way better debuted on PlayStation 4 in Japan Then it did on switch and switch has more units in Japan than PlayStation 4 So what gives well? There's something to consider here And this is not something that a lot of people seem to be talking about at the time that it released on PlayStation 4 It also released on 3ds and the 3ds version of Dragon Quest 11 sold 1.15 million units Obviously that is a big margin of Nintendo's market is in 3ds in Japan No, 3ds is huge even bigger than switch. So that being the case I'm actually not that surprised that a year later a late port in Japan that already sold multiple millions of copies between PlayStation 4 and 3ds didn't debut with like a million selling because why would it? Why would people double dip if you own 3ds or you own a PlayStation 4? Why would you double dip on this game? Even though it is the best version of the game and it combines modes from previous versions of the game and Re-orchestrates some of the soundtrack and all that all that's optional. There's also additional content There's a lot of reasons to pick it up if you're a Dragon Quest fan I can see why people might not want to double dip in Japan specifically So I think 300k sales is actually really really good for a year late port I would have been very interested to see what a day and date like if it would release a PlayStation 4 3ds And switch at the same time I would have been very curious to see what the sales would have been then I have a feeling it might have been north of 300k But again, I want to see what what happens worldwide But I think in general we should be pretty impressed with these sales And what's even more impressive is the massive hold that Nintendo Switch sales did now last week over 200,000 units debuted a switchlight No shocker there blinks awakening all that jazz But see this week it actually sold 196,000 units in total now 80,000 of those units were switchlight about 115,000 or so or you know normal Nintendo switch But but normal Nintendo switch sales actually increased week over week It went from 60,000 to 115 almost doubling the amount of units sold switchlight sales obviously came down from launch Which is expected but that does mean that Dragon Quest 11 was a system seller for switch Think about that. That's why I said are the sales really that bad or are they really impressive because they sold switches In fact this same week a year ago. They only sold about 46,000 units So that's a pretty big increase year over year clearly Dragon Quest 11 played a big role in that obviously switchlight being on the market as well So that's crazy to me. I think these numbers are are amazing What is interesting for Sony side of things is they had five brand new titles released in Japan last week And all five of them are in the top 10 And this is in addition to the monster hunter definitive edition Iceborne stuff and because of that This is the first time this year that PlayStation out numbers switch titles in the top 10 So there are six titles on PlayStation 4 in the top 10 and sales only four first Nintendo switch But in the top 30 switch still dominates with like 20 plus of the games. So that's not too big of a surprise I suppose so yeah, it's just kind there's a lot of great games that released on PlayStation last week So it had a nice week. However, PlayStation sales as you're seeing on the chart It are not that great in comparison to switch So PlayStation is clearly at the end of life anyways, but there's still a lot of people in Japan millions I'll seven eight million people who own a PlayStation 4 in Japan. So No, they're still gonna keep buying games as long as they keep coming out That being said links awakening felt the number four because of some of these new releases selling about 46 45,000 or so Whatever units it is what it is looks good Sales I'm just doing great probably will cross half a million at some point Maybe even a million I will have to wait and see with a long tail sales are filling awakening I don't think it's gonna match breath of the wild of course But for the wild being the best selling Zelda game in Japan history best selling game in the Zelda franchise history So I don't expect breath of the wild numbers there long haul But hey, it's still good and I'm pretty pleased overall with what we're seeing out of these Japan charts Which is just dominating and we're not even to the holidays yet think about that We're not even the holiday season and this is what switch is doing. What's Luigi's matching in a pool? Heck, we talked about Pokemon Sword and Shield for the first game. That's huge in Japan What's that gonna do is it gonna be record numbers because the Pokemon company definitely seems to be expecting record numbers there So anyways, that's all I got for you guys. I want to thank you so much for tuning in Boom two page of massive notes gone done with I did get a new pair of glasses by the way guys You see this I mean they look kind of similar to my old glasses, but a little bit different a little bit different on the side on the bottoms Whatever, they're new glasses. I also have contacts by the way That's why you guys have been seeing me a lot without glasses on because I have contacts I it's weird. I haven't worn contacts in 15 years and now I have them again That's cool. And you might have seen me playing with this a little bit. I don't know how well shows about camera Yeah, that's an engagement ring that my fiance gave me yesterday. We are getting married talked about this in a live stream before We are getting married next year. We're targeting a date in August But we'll have to see if that works out once we meet with the pre-slider, but things are moving fast in my world I'm obviously doing okay health-wise as I'm sitting here on camera under this hot light with this burning light straight in front of me That's just blinding me. So, uh, whoo. Thank you guys for tuning in. Don't have anything else for you No jokes. I just this is a lot of news. What was your favorite news piece from this from this? I don't know. This isn't even getting all the news that might come out today. This is all stuff that happened yesterday So that Pokemon stream that's tomorrow tune in for that. All right, folks, then a robot dance Nintendo Prime get you in the next video