 Hey everyone welcome back to another episode of prime news and it's been a hot minute hasn't it? Yeah, been a couple days. So prime news is supposed to be landing at 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and There's just been a bit of a rough start to this week But no excuses right you're here for prime news you're not here to hear excuses what I will say though is stick around for our fifth story and final story because I do have a statement coming up on Basically rumors and the rumor culture out there surrounding Nintendo and our coverage of those rumors moving forward including in shows like this That being said be sure to enter our Nintendo switch Super Smash Bros. Ultimate giveaway through the gleaner I owe the link down in the description and hey, let's just jump right into that news Microsoft has announced a new inside Xbox which is basically their version of a Nintendo Direct for next Tuesday April 16th at 4 p.m. Central Standard Time this will feature like the the cat the big game They're talking about here is rage to so there will be some exclusive gameplay along with a few other games and e-sports related things and they Honestly said they're gonna debut their road to e3. So essentially this is their direct to begin the hype train for e3 Microsoft has promised to have a Massive presence at e3 this year and who are we to doubt them after all? They're going to take advantage of the fact that Sony has chosen not to participate So hey, this is pretty neat and who knows maybe we'll end up streaming it just to see what Microsoft has going on on Tuesday the first week sales from Japan are in and Well, the Nintendo switch owns nine of the top ten software spots in order The very first game is super Dragon Ball heroes world mission from bantai dynamical games That came out this week in Japan, and it sold seventy thousand nine hundred and ninety units Yoshi's craft of world was next at number two And this is its second week of sales in Japan at twenty eight thousand four hundred and sixty-eight units for a total of seventy eight thousand Four hundred and seventy five lifetime to date Now the only non-nintendo switch title is Sekiro shadows die twice at the number three spot from from software And that's all eighteen thousand one hundred and one units for a quote total of two hundred and twelve thousand nine hundred and sixty one units Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is chiming in at number four with fourteen thousand seven hundred and seventy five units Which officially makes it cross three million units in Japan? insane Next up at number five. We have the Nintendo switch version of Minecraft that moved twelve thousand two hundred and seventy eight units to move seven hundred nineteen thousand eight hundred and forty five in Total after that. We have new Super Mario Bros. You deluxe at number six moving twelve thousand one hundred and eleven units making it cross the Five hundred and sixty thousand total unit mark at number seven is Mario Kart eat deluxe moving nine thousand five hundred and fifty one units Having it move two million two hundred and forty six thousand four hundred sixteen units all together at number eight is Splatoon two at eight thousand one hundred and sixty one units and it too is over three million units Beyond that the legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild at number nine moves six thousand three hundred nine units having it move one point two eight Million units and on top of that at number ten we have Super Mario Party Which moves six thousand three hundred and five units to move it ever closer to within eight thousand units or so of One million now it is notable that these are the first sales numbers We have ever reported from Famitsu and that is why you are seeing Splatoon two Slightly in the lead over Super Smash Bros. Ultimate whereas the prior sales numbers we reported on show the smash it already passed Splatoon two it is notable that media create has decided to take their numbers private and and charge a pretty hefty fee in order to Access those so we will no longer be reporting on media create numbers Which were widely considered to be more accurate than Famitsu But hey at least we get numbers at all the MPD here on the United States just gives us estimates We don't really get actual figures anymore So now we basically have the UK charts and Famitsu left to rely upon for any sort of reliable sales data But hey look the switch is dominating nine of the top ten and the numbers were always pretty close of media create So hey, it's cool. Whatever. This is what we're using moving forward I figured since switch was dominating, you know nine of the top ten It was worth talking about and plus no more media create the Pokemon company is holding a contest where you will be able to win a copy of both Pokemon sword and Pokemon shield for helping name a brand new move in The game now you can submit names for this in multiple languages, but they do accept English submissions Which means yes, I can enter you can enter any of us could enter But here's the details on the move that you will be naming The type is steel. It's in the category special It does a hundred and forty damage and the effect says it does major damage But reduces users hit points by fifty percent Again, this is very important information when coming to name the move I wish all of you that wish to do this luck There'll be a link down in the description for you to directly go and enter into this good luck And I hope one of our fans ends up getting their name chosen featured in the game for whatever move Whatever character that the whatever Pokemon that this move is supposed to be for or maybe it's a general move That could be used by many different types of Pokemon I have no idea we don't really know but you have a chance to name a move in Pokemon Sword and Shield And then conversely win free copies of the game. So why not give it a try our last story today is actually about super smash result I'm sure if you haven't been living under a rock We even did an individual video on this yesterday Stage Builder has been leaked by Nintendo. This isn't like oh my gosh Someone out there datamined to do this and that it literally appeared in a commercial Nintendo put up So yeah, well, they didn't show stage builder often the commercial There was a clearly a screen in it that showed stage builder as part of the menu So yeah stage builders coming to smash we assume that's coming in the 3.0.0 update Which should also include Joker if you happen to buy the DLC. So yeah, uh, that's a thing that's coming so let's actually talk about something that's kind of related to this and Is the angle I took on this news yesterday and that is a Nintendo direct now for those who don't know We did a report on gaming Intel's rumor Gaming Intel put out a rumor over this past week that well the Nintendo direct would happen now Basically, it'll be happening tomorrow and here we are the day before a supposed Nintendo direct and nothing has been announced This means that gaming Intel was wrong and that happens But gaming Intel if you dig further into their past they've been wrong a lot and The reason it's so hard to track how wrong Gaming Intel is is because they update their stories after the fact So they go back and they re-edit all of the stories they have so all of the information looks correct And because they do this it's very Deceptive and it did get past me when I reported on this I had not really covered much from gaming Intel in the past because I was always skeptical of them and now after They got this wrong. I won't be covering anything from them in the future this is important to talk about in general because Rumors are something that run rampant in the video game industry Especially here on YouTube and I'm very much part of that rumor cycle And I always want to make sure that if I bring a rumor to you not that I'm Bouching that the rumor is real but that I'm at least bringing you something that is semi reliable from somewhere and I do think the mistakes like this are gonna happen in the future where I'm unable to successfully verify things quickly enough to get the Story out and I end up reporting on a rumor that just creates false hype I guess is the best way to put it and I want to first apologize for any false hype I might have created again These are not my sources and I literally can't verify anyone whether it's Laura K Dale Liam Robertson Emily Rogers Gaming Intel IGN like it doesn't matter who it is. I don't have access to their contacts I can't verify anything and if you contact them to try to get verification They basically tell you nothing because hello They're not gonna spread around who their contacts are because that risks exposing them if they are legit So there's not really a lot I can do to verify What people are saying whether it's the Wall Street Journal even or Euro gamer I can't verify any of it So I'm left with trying to make judgment calls on what I decide to report on and how I decide to report on it And I think we all as a community myself included need to remember that rumors are labeled as such on my channel for a reason You clearly see the label rumor in brackets at the beginning Especially on things that I have absolutely zero confidence in and the gaming Intel one was one that I had zero confidence in and I have to just let you guys know right now. Then no, we're not getting an antenna direct this week That's obvious at this point. I do believe we're gonna get an antenna direct in April not because of any rumors But because of the stage leak from Nintendo them leaking the stage builder for smash Joker not having a release date yet Clearly there's at least going to be a super smash rolls direct let alone a general direct We you know cadence of Hyrule is supposed to come out this spring and if we keep waiting it's gonna be summer So obviously we have to have some sort of announcement for that So honestly, I do think an April direct is likely But I think that's just based on Nintendo's track record and based on what's currently going on in their news cycle To be fair, we all need to put our expectations in check when we hear these rumors What I think happens is we get overhyped We start expecting too much and then we end up getting disappointed with whatever Nintendo does deliver when they decide to deliver it And I am again not at you know liberty to say that I'm not part of that problem last year Some of you might remember this I actually got very disappointed that a smash direct was announced before a general Nintendo direct and I had no reasonable expectation or no rumors out there to guide me towards that But in hindsight, it's kind of a misguided notion because all these directs are are advertisements All these are are just commercials they're just massively advertised commercials that we get hyped for and Honestly, the fact they wanted to reveal more about smash before a general direct probably shouldn't have upset me as much as it did And I think moving forward I just need to be more careful and more choosy at what rumors I choose to report now Remember when I do label something a rumor it is unsubstantiated Unverified information that's literally what a rumor means it means it might be true But I there's nothing I can do personally to verify that information So I will continue to label things properly moving forward, especially from sources that I absolutely I'm not Confident in at all But I also think I need to do a better job at avoiding sources and researching sources that have a bad track record Unfortunately gaming Intel has a track record of revising stories So it was a lot harder for me But now that they got this so dead wrong they're off my bookmark list and we will not be reporting on the rumors moving forward I just want to issue kind of an apology here And we'll go into a grander discussion on this later in an individual video about rumors about hype about you know all all the stuff that we the difference like speculation and conversations and Talking about things that I might expect in a potential direct or whatever Versus actual rumors that seem to upset people when they're wrong Some people don't care they like all the rumors in the world and I feel like we need an open and honest conversation about that So look forward to a video on that probably sometime tonight If not a live stream about that very topic, but I do want to say sorry For reporting from what is obviously an unreliable source and all I can promise to do is do better moving forward Anyways, folks, I am with any ruffle Jans from Nintendo Prime be sure to enter that Super Smash Bros. 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