 Hey everyone welcome back to Nintendo Prime I apologize I have a bit of a raspy voice today But we have some big news to get to and before we do that. Yes We're giving away three copies of Metroid Dread you got to be subscribed to enter But hey, we have a link down in the description or pin come to viral sweep Go ahead and enter there when a couple copies the third copy will be given away on a live stream later this month Before we get into the rest of this video. I do want to make an announcement This upcoming Saturday. We are doing a fan meet-up. We are doing this meet-up at a local pub in my town So yes folks, you do need to be 21 or older to enter This is taking place in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. I understand that everyone can make that sort of trip If you want additional details, there will be a link down in the description and the pinned comment to a Facebook group Where you can join and let us know if you're gonna be there We would actually like to get a decent headcount on who's gonna be there in case we're gonna give away some free merch or other stuff While you guys attend also, it's a chance for you to meet myself Eric from the Tenor Prime podcast and yes, even my fiance you guys see on the live streams It's gonna be a good time. We have karaoke Happening that night. We got, you know, obviously a DJ do some dancing. We could play pool We could chew darts we can obviously all bring our switches and have some fun have a few drinks Have a few laughs have a good time. So hopefully I see a bunch of you guys there and let's get into today's video So our first story actually deals a little bit of Metroid Dread but more like the Developing were behind Metroid Dread and Mercury Steam. We previously reported that there have been some Little bit of backlash by former employees over not being credited in the game And we found out that this is actually quite normal to not be credited in games across the whole gaming industry Which I guess I get some of the arguments to not do it. I also think Sometimes certain positions aren't needed for the whole of development. So I don't know It's a rather sticky situation and when you're dealing with complaints from former employees Yeah, it's it's never gonna sound good former employees that quit for various reasons usually don't have nice things to say and that continues as And that games published a follow-up to that article They're the ones that originally posted it and basically the former employees are making even worse accusations Beyond not being credited the studio that They mentioned that Mercury Steam actually over scoped what Metroid Dread was supposed to be Causing Nintendo to suggest making cuts to cut scenes and all that. There originally was gonna be a hundred and twenty cut scenes And double the amount of bosses that are currently in the game and Nintendo basically told Mercury Steam you're overshooting The budget slash expectations for what Metroid Dread supposed to be some people might be disappointed by that But that's what Nintendo did which obviously caused Mercury Steam to have to cut a lot of people from the team And maybe this is where some of the animosity is coming from Nintendo played a role in it But Mercury Steam obviously overshot what they were supposed to be doing Um Moving on it says development of Metroid Dread is described as quite chaotic Many times giving me directions my lead and the game director contradicted each other So there's another programmer another artist had this to say of innate to the management style in place at the studio They do not trust the worker at all and it shows you don't feel valued the bad atmosphere is constant And it's very tense in general punishments at the studio are alleged to range from Isolating the worker or changing the group to the same sudden dismissal Elsewhere allegations are made of improper treatment of staff and contractors regarding salary Negotiation as well as a negative assessment of the studio's response to the pandemic One programmer said the pandemic has not been well managed and it was total and utter chaos and describes unsafe Anti-covid measures employed in the workplace as staff were unable to work on the project remotely Inconsistencies in the human resources department responses to employee grievances are cited with one example Detailing the workers right to leave the office to cast a vote for the Madrid community elections Which fell on a working day Questioned due to the current state of development at that time the article also touches on the credits debate with a fear of Speaking out in public suggested as a factor as what has kept people silent until now I think they play a bit with the fact that a lot of people don't dare to speak in public I know two more people who are not properly credited But I understand why they are afraid to complain because it seems they are going to sink your career Another worker elaborates the main leaders know a lot of people and they can destroy your career If they have a problem with you They don't mind talking bad about you and screwing up your career and that's why people don't talk so These are obviously some fairly serious Allegations thrown at mercury steam. It's hard to know where to stand on this personally Obviously when you're a former employee, you're probably gonna be pretty disgruntled because maybe you didn't want to leave or you were fired for reasons You don't think we're just and some of these allegations do sound quite serious in that mercury steam may not be treating their employees the best But I could say from firsthand experience working at even someplace like McDonald's There's people that get fired and start bad talking McDonald's like there's some evil corporation that has it out for them and didn't understand that their mom has cancer and all this other Shit when reality is they were late to their shift for ten consecutive days Didn't bother to show up on the day they were fired or while they were there They didn't follow all the protocols and started having a lot of their food sent back like there's all sometimes in Cases like this and I don't know this 100% Former employees that have been let go aren't as willing to accept the mistakes They may be made that led to their dismissal in the first place and like the place blame on other Factors that they just sort of make up in their head now again This is why I don't know what to think about this. I didn't talk to these employees myself or former employees I don't really know mercury steam might just be a really crappy place to work I can't vouch one way or another because we're only hearing from disgruntled former employees Nothing seems to be coming from current employees even anonymously So I kind of feel like if it was that bad Current people working there would say something anonymous Anonymously about it. We've seen patient Shryer get people to talk about crunch anonymously I would assume they could get somebody to corroborate this Unfortunately, it's just a bunch of disgruntled former employees. And so that just kind of leaves me questioning I'm not sure what to think it sounds really really bad Sometimes it always sounds worse than what reality of the situation actually was so all I know is the end result Metroid Dread This might be game of the year, baby So, uh, hey, at least we got something positive out of this whole mess This next story is more of a non-story But I wanted to address it because gosh, I'm seeing this stuff spread like crazy on YouTube and news websites I don't get it. So zippo. He is a person who was portorted to be a leaker He has a blog and he put other rumors that the Pokemon company has a next-gen switch He knows of at least one company with a next-gen switch dev unit and that is the Pokemon company and Yeah, Jen, you know the next generation of Pokemon is going to be launching on this new gen system and blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah look Zippo is about as trustworthy as Trying to grab construction paper to wipe my ass and ain't gonna turn out very well bottom line is Zippo is not a leaker. I think we have already debunked and proven the debunks of him over time at this point Yeah, he got a couple things right about the sonic anniversary. He also got like 75% of what he said wrong So why are we continuing to give this person credit? He was wrong about quite literally everything. He said was gonna happen 83 He's been wrong about everything he said except for like one thing about the sonic anniversary So who we got one lucky guess out of the last 248 things that he has said were going to happen Guys Zippo is a fraud can we just That's like people want to debate about Samus Hunter and all at least she has a lot of things that come true Zippo doesn't even have that Zippo has nothing So anytime you see a video pop-up that talks about. Oh, yeah, according to Insider Zippo. He's not an insider He's been banned at all the places that he pretended to be an insider for not being one. Okay Don't believe it. Don't get your hopes up This doesn't by the way meet by the way if a next-gen switch dev unit did exist Of course the damn Pokemon company has it their work for Nintendo but and why would Zippo know about what's happening at a Japanese development studio like Yes, if a next-gen switch dev unit does exist. I'm sure the Pokemon company does have one Because they work for Nintendo. This is stupid. It's a non-story Zippo's a liar. Just move on already To get moving on we actually have a smidge of a possible leak from at least somebody who has a track record more recently of getting things Right named central leaks. You guys probably know them from Twitter They don't have everything they say it doesn't end up coming true But a way a way better track record than someone like Zippo So it's definitely worth at least paying some attention to I'd say it's about a 50-50 track record with this person and they're actually claiming That generation 9 Pokemon is going to launch next year now that might seem like You know controversial I suppose because obviously we have Pokemon legends Arceus that they've been supposed to be working on so time How can they suddenly have a whole another gender a whole new generation of Pokemon game ready to come next year? Well, technically if they do release one next year holiday 2022 holiday That does fit the normal schedule of a new generation roughly every three years So that actually would fall in line with the way the Pokemon company has traditionally done things But some people felt like they were not going to go on the traditional pattern because after all they broke from tradition to have A third-party company do brilliant diamond and shining pearl because they wanted to do this experimental game in Pokemon legends Arceus So if they're breaking from tradition there, we're probably gonna have to wait an extra year to see generation 9, right? Apparently not apparently generation 9 is still planning to launch next year Which by the way starting with Arceus ending with gen 9 that would be an insane thing So we'll have to wait and see if this ends up coming true But we shouldn't have to wait long We typically would hear about generation 9 pretty early into 2022 at least within the first six months if it is gonna come next year So yeah For now, we're just only gonna hear about the upcoming games But yeah, you know, we'll see we'll see I'm I I can't rule it out as a possibility There obviously is multiple development groups at Game Freak So it is what it is and our last story deals with the NPD. That's right We finally have the NPD in for last month. These are sales here in North America and Well, the streak is over folks There has been an ongoing sales streak for Nintendo switch That shattered previous records previous records were like 12 months Where one platform leads in unit sales every single month Yeah, that was the original record Nintendo switch has been doing it for 33 Straight months at number one in unit sales in the NPD until now in Wake of the announcement of switch OLED and obviously in wake of the incredible demand for a system like PlayStation 5 Switch has fallen to number two PlayStation 5 now leads in unit sales and dollar sales They've actually done dollar sales for a bit Knocking switch off its roost at 33 straight months, which is still incredible. That's over three years That's almost three and a half years if we're completely honest. That is a long time For one platform to be the dominant one in the sales chart So it's an incredible end We're not sure if that record will ever be broken again And by the way, just because PlayStation 5 won it last month Doesn't mean that Nintendo won't take it back in October won't take it back in November and December And then we'll see moving forward from there because 2022 Everyone's got big games coming out and he might say well, why would they take it back? Well, cuz switch OLEDs finally out and there is a thought process that switch OLED led to less sales last month Because people knew this new system was coming so they were holding out for the new ones So we'll have to wait and see what happens. I've seen it was a number of big holiday titles coming still Mario Party being a big one Shimagami Tensei 5 obviously Pokemon legends Arceus landing in January We obviously have that brain game in December and also Advance Wars 1 plus 2 reboot Obviously, we know about you know Splatoon 3 and other massive title sparks of hope coming next year So Nintendo has a path to maintain Amazing sales in the next year and maybe this was just a blip due to a new system release I don't know but hey kudos to Nintendo It was a fun run and we do have a little other update from the NPD We're not gonna go over most of the sales because they pertain to games either that aren't on switch or pertain to Just the general sales of the other platforms which are doing really really well as expected It says WarioWare get it together. That was the game that launched last month Was the 15th best-selling game of the month and the second best-selling on switch now that might not seem like that great You would hope a new game can we know to hit number one? Here's the thing It's actually the best launch for a WarioWare game since 2007 So it might not end up becoming the best-selling WarioWare game Maybe the you know that one back in 2007 might end up being better selling it in the end But to be above everything sense and there's been a number of WarioWare games since 2007 That's still pretty good for you know a spin-off IP such as WarioWare So that is good news for that franchise. Alright folks I am Nathaniel Roblojans from Nintendo Prime. Hopefully you enjoyed this video Enjoyed the news. We caught our wind as we kept going. Everything's feeling good. My throat's already feeling better by the end of this video Yes, baby. Nintendo Prime is back. Well, I never really left. What am I back from? I didn't take a vacation. Well, I never left. Whatever. Hopefully I'll see some of you guys in person next week Saturday I'm really looking forward to that meetup and I'll catch you guys in the next video