 All right, hey everyone, welcome back to Nintendo Prime. We've got eight big stories for you today. But you know what? Before we talk about the stories, drop a like on this video. That's right, if we get 1,000 likes in the first 24 hours of this video, we will give away a $5 eShop gift card to a member down in the comments. But we're not done with giveaways there. Also, we have a giveaway going on for Prime giving. We're giving away a Switch OLED bundle, as well as $100 to a charity of your choice. To enter all you gotta do is be subscribed to the channel, and we will have details later on where you can see the winner get announced. Now, that being said, let's get into the news from today. Our first story deals with a headline that's been floating around all day because the investor Q&A from Nintendo has now been published and we pretty much covered everything that mattered already, but this was tossed in there. And I guess it's becoming headlines, so we're gonna talk about it because Nintendo does talk about their next-gen platform. Just a smidge. If you're looking for exact details, you're not gonna get it yet. But here's the question. I'd like to hear your thoughts about the next generation of hardware, both its concept and launch timing. Shintura Furakawa responds and says, we are not able to comment about the next system at this time. It is now the fifth year since the launch of Nintendo Switch, and the total hardware sell-through has exceeded 90 million units. We recognize that the system is at the midpoint of its life cycle, which some people take the suggest. There's five more years to Switch, which maybe there is. I mean, does anybody know? The launch of Nintendo Switch OLED model has also been contributed to continued sales momentum, and we are now offering consumers three Nintendo Switch models to match their play styles and lifestyles, as well as a wide range of software. With this, we believe a foundation for growth has been laid that exceeds what we previously considered to be a conventional hardware life cycle. With regards to the next game system, we are considering many different things, but as far as the concept and launch timing are concerned, there is nothing we can share at this time. And again, that concept and launch timing one is something we covered on our previous day. So yeah, what did we learn here? A whole lot of nothing. Nothing has changed. Nintendo is going to melt the Switch for as long as they can, and we'll see. They have three models out there now. It's a little bit ironic because the OLED model and the base model serve the exact same audience, so it's weird how they say, oh yeah, a wide variety to serve different audiences. It serves the same audience. So they're just going to say what they're going to say until they phase out the original model. In my honest opinion, Nintendo has never said they're going to phase it out, but it kind of feels like they're going to phase it out. So we'll have to wait and see. That is, for some reason, making headlines, as if this is headline worthy, but whatever. It's one out of eight today. Next up, we have the Golden Stick Awards, greatest game of all time. This award isn't given up very often, but here, let's read the summary here from Nintendo Life. It says, future publishing's Golden Joystick Awards has been a mainstay of the UK games industry for a while now. The awards actually first began in 1983. And this year, we're being offered a chance to vote for the ultimate game of all time, to mark 50 years of gaming. Just get this stage set. The Golden Joystick Awards assembled a judging panel of industry experts and legends, including Kata Sahiro Harada from the Tekken series, Debbie Bestwick, MBE from Team 17, Gary Penn from DMA Design, a.k.a. Grand Theft Auto, Keith Stewart from Keza McDonald, both from The Guardian, Shahid Ahmad, former lead of Sony Strategic Content Division, and a wide range of journalists from futures gaming brands, such as Edge Magazine, Retro Gamer, and GamesRadar. This team had to narrow down an initial 150-game shortlist down from the 1.1 million odd video games that have been released since the arrival of the computer spaceway back in 1971, the first commercially available game. This list was then whittled down by the judging panel to 20 games, taking into account elements such as critical reception, legacy, commercial impact, social impact, and their own personal view. In case you are wondering, here is the final shortlist, and there's a glaring omission here I think some Nintendo fans might bring up, but let's get into it. Minecraft, The Last of Us, the original Doom back from 1993, Tetris, Super Mario 64, Street Fighter II, Space Invaders, Portal, Pokemon Go, Super Mario Kart, Grand Theft Auto V, Super Mario Bros. 3, The Legend of Zelda, Breath of the Wild, Halo Combat Evolved, Dark Souls, Metal Gear Solid, Half-Life 2, Call of Duty 4, Modern Warfare, Pac-Man, and SimCity1889, which by the way, SimCity is awesome. Not so much the modern entries, but the old ones. This list obviously has some glaring omissions. Where the hell is Ocarina of Time? The highest rated game of all time. We only have one Zelda game on there, but three Mario games? Really? It is what it is. This is their list. As you can see, there are a few additions there from the world of Nintendo as well as some notable omissions, but as future is quick to note, there was a method to the madness, so here's their method. The judges repeatedly faced this challenge. How many titles from a particular franchise should be included? How do you assess which game from a particular series deserves elevation above all others? These decisions were long debated to a depth you might not believe, but by leaning into the judging criteria listed above, quite often a game was chosen that's not even technically the best in its own. Which is weird. If it's not even the best in its own series, how can it be the greatest game of all time? I would feel like a basic criteria to be the greatest game of all time is to also be the greatest game in your own series. So it's interesting that they excluded that from the judging. Also, you could argue maybe only one game should be included from a franchise. The game they think is greatest in each franchise. And then you could say, I could understand why Ocarina of Time might be set aside if the panel thinks Breath of the Wild's bigger, but we have three Mario games. No Pokemon games except for Pokemon Go. Now, Pokemon Go is a phenomenon and I'm not going to ignore the mobile phone market, but man, this is a very strange list. Some of these games are obviously ones you always hear up there. Super Mario 64, Doom is always rated up there really high. I think Minecraft does deserve to probably be on this list. Halo Combat Evolved, that's always on there. The original Modern Morpher, Half-Life 2. I mean, Pac-Man, you're talking about some of the greatest games ever made, but man, I just, I can't really get behind a lot of this list, but we all have our personal list for what are the best games of all time. So you know what? Go down in the comments and let me know. Your top three best games of all time in your honest opinion. All right, this next story is about Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shiny Pearl, and I'm just going to give a small spoiler warning here. I don't think there's any major spoilers in this news bit, but I am warning you, this stuff is coming from a data mine. We will consider data mines to report on. We're not going to consider actual gameplay leaks and all that, and I know the street date's been broken everywhere. So we're going to go into some data mine information. Again, consider a spoiler territory. Just get to the next timestamp if this isn't something you're interested in. But first off, one of the big things we learned from the data mine is it's made with a Unity engine. This has resulted in a lot of structural changes with how data is stored compared to Sword and Shield's data storage. Moves that were unavailable in Sword and Shield have partially made a return in these games. Hidden Power is back. Mu and Jirachi are given in the games. Both are Shiny Locked, Three Fall, Flawless IVs. Data for species above 493 are not in the game. Platinum Forms do exist. Special Quirks from the original also make a return, such as the increased slash decreased encounter rates to certain days. Starters are not Shiny Locked, but the starter selection screen will not indicate if they are Shiny. You have to receive them and check them to confirm if they are Shiny or not. Archeous is not captureable in Brilliant Diving and Shiny Pearl, and then a ton of other legendaries can be encountered in the special post-game zone. And that's it. That's all the information I'm going to give you guys on any of this stuff. It is what it is. Take this for what you will. That is the information as presented today. All right, this is kind of a bonus story. I'm just kind of slipping this in here. It wasn't in the timestamps. Nintendo released a list of like what's next on Nintendo Switch. And we're not going to go over the out now. Here's the chart. But what's interesting is what's upcoming and just the way they have things listed. So, show me how we tend to say five. We know that's next week. Big Brain Academy, Grand Theft Auto the Trilogy, Danganronpa, Pokemon Brilliant Diamond, Shiny Pearl, Pokemon Legends Arceus, Triangle Strategy, Advance Wars 1 plus 2, Reboot Council 2 and 3, Marvel's Rabbids, Sparks of Hope, Kirby and the Forgotten Land, Dying Light 2, Banetta 3, the sequel to the Legend of Zelda, Breath of the Wild. I love how there's no logo because they haven't given us one yet. And then Monster Hunter's Rise, Sunbreak DLC. So, again, it's just kind of cool looking at the future. I didn't want to make this like a big deal story. So, let's get into our actual next story, which is a rumor from Samus Hunter. Samus Hunter is back and here's what she put out on Twitter. I heard about a Pokemon presentation for in-depth look at Legends and a new Brilliant Diamond, Shiny Pearl trailer. This one should come earlier, possibly this week in the works. So, yeah, some sort of Pokemon presentation likely coming before the end of the year, I guess is what it sounds like. I'm not surprised there again. We not only have the Brilliant Diamond, Shiny Pearl this month, we have Arceus coming in January. That's not that far away. So, just something to consider. Also, she says Monster Hunter fans are in for retreat two before the end of the month if all go according to plan. So, according to her, there's some plans for some sort of Monster Hunter news by the end of the month. Again, really, really neat stuff. I think that this is really cool and we'll have to just kind of wait and see. Again, this is rumor territory. Put your tinfoil hats on. Let's move on to the next one. All right, so Definitive Editions, if you guys didn't know, do exist on Switch for Nintendo games. Breath of the Wilds with two and two actually got Definitive Editions released earlier this month, although they haven't released any other territories. But according to Samus Hunter, again, so consider this another rumor, plans are in the works to bring those titles to the West next year. She also claims that for the West, Xenobite Chronicles 2 plus Torna DLC will be coming next year. And she claims almost all of this is due to Nintendo increasing production of 32 gigabyte cartridges. It allows them to put everything back together for a nice solid re-release. So, essentially, Nintendo needed the 32 gigabyte cards so they could pack all the DLC in and re-release the games. Again, I think this is a way to obviously reinvigorate sales a little bit. It also gives them a chance to, hey, look, maybe the price of the original games might lower to 40 bucks, but then they come out with the DLC, you know, full on thing for 60. So, I do think this is just a way for Nintendo to double dip. I think it makes sense. I think anyone looking to get into these games who have never played them, obviously the Definitive Edition would be ideal. So, yeah, I think it's really cool. We'll have to wait and see what happens. We do factually know they exist in Japan. So, you know, even for rumors, like it seems pretty likely we're gonna get them outside of Japan eventually. So, this next story, I just wanna address some of the 3D Mario news reports out there. Some people talking about, oh man, they're gonna do magical things with the next 3D Mario game. Let's get into what actually was said. This was said in the Q&A section by Shigeru Miyamoto. He says, as for the difference between 2D Mario and 3D Mario, let me explain by describing the background for the development of the Wii game, New Super Mario Bros. Wii, which was released in 2009. At the time, it felt like each time we created a new installment in the Super Mario series, which by then had expanded into 3D, it became more complicated. After the release of Super Mario Galaxy in 2007, the goal was to develop a more accessible 3D Super Mario game. And the result was New Super Mario Bros. Wii, a basic side-scrolling Super Mario game that even new players could easily play. That later led to the release of the even simpler Super Mario Run game, a mobile application released in 2016. When we developed software, we strive to incorporate new elements. But at the same time, we want to make it easy for even first-time players to have fun. Recently, people of all generations have been enjoying the 3D Mario game, Super Mario Odyssey, released in 2017. As for 3D Mario going forward, we want to try expanding further in new ways. And it's that last line that seems to be making headlines. And I'm not really sure why. Let me explain. He's just saying what he's always says. Nintendo's always trying to expand all of their IPs in new ways. It's also interesting how he views 3D, like he views New Super Mario Bros. Wii, a side-scrolling Mario game as a traditional 3D Mario game. I find that really fascinating that Miyamoto views it that way. But either way, yeah, I don't think this is much to do about nothing. Nintendo does experimental new things like Mario, Zelda, pretty much all their IPs all the time. So, yeah, they're gonna do more new experimental things of Mario in the future. Oh my gosh, welcome to Mario of the last 30 years. All right, our next story, Nintendo has actually begun their holiday advertising. That's right, folks. Not really that exciting of a story, but they have teamed up with Christina Aguilera, singer, songwriter, et cetera. You guys might know her from Jeannie in a Bottle, babe. Oh my God, I'm gonna rub me the right way. Sorry, sorry. Don't rub me the right way. You sick bastards. All right, so they also teamed up with Brie Larson, who a lot of you guys probably know from her being the Marvel character in the MCU. So, yeah, they teamed up with her. Brie Larson shows off Metroid Dread. I can't show you the commercial. I'm really sorry. Copyright claims are like crazy on these things. So Brie Larson is playing Metroid Dread, whereas Christina Aguilera takes more of the family take, where she's focusing on things like Animal Crossing, focused on things. I think she at one point was playing Super Mario Party superstars. So yeah, she was talking to her kids on a phone call, then she plays later with her kids, obviously a more family oriented commercial. And she's a really safe family oriented brand. So, yeah, I think it's kinda cool. I also, it's crazy that Aguilera is still relevant. I mean, Brie Larson hasn't done anything in a little while, but at least people know her from Captain Marvel. So like, what about, I don't know, maybe I haven't followed Christina Aguilera's career enough to know, although I know she does have Christmas albums and stuff like that. Kinda like Mariah Carey becomes a bigger deal around the holidays. So, kinda cool. Moving on to our last story. So our last story today is actually about a new website set up by a user on the Nintendo Switch, Reddit, and it's called Deku Deals. And basically he set up a way to find deals on Nintendo Switch's games. Now, these deals are basically mostly just first party games, but it's just a great kinda quick check to see what's available on sale. To give you an example, he's got stuff up there like Fire Emblem Warriors being down to $36 at a retailer, Super Mario Odyssey being down to $36, not even on Tropical Freeze, down to $43, and many more, including Nintendo's Black Friday deals. It's not gonna be the most comprehensive list. It's not gonna have every Switch game known to man, and it's not retailer specific. Again, we are gonna have videos on retail specific holiday sales coming up. So like, hey, the best deals at Target, the best deals at Best Buy, the best deals at Walmart. We're gonna kinda do videos for individual retailers like that just to kinda make it easier. It's kinda hard to digest when you throw it all in one video. But yeah, this is kind of a place that's trying to get a jump on that and at least give you some of the top rated Switch games. I guess let's put it that way in some of the deals. He's gonna try to keep it up to date. Right now, as I said, there's some deals in there I wasn't aware of, and that's why I'm bringing it up. Maybe it's just to add to your bookmarks to check once a week or something, and just see what happens to be on sale as we get closer and closer to the big sales season here in North America. Also, it does look like it focuses on North America, by the way. Could be wrong though. Maybe there'll be deals for other countries in there as well. I'm about the one updating this list. So, hey, it's something. Woo! We did it, folks. We made it to the end. Pat yourselves on the back. That's amazing. We made it to the end of this video together. I wanna thank all you guys for all of your support. 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