 Hey everyone, welcome back to Prime 5, your 5 biggest Nintendo news stories in the last 24 hours. And today, we actually only have two big stories, well it's kind of weird because one of the stories is Nintendo's financial report and there's so many mini stories within that big story that I didn't think we needed a whole lot more, although we will talk about the brand new Pokemon trailer that just dropped today because I'm impressed and I'm going to explain why I'm impressed when we get to that news. Now before we get to that news I want to remind you that hey we are on our road to 80,000 subscribers so I would appreciate if you drop a like and subscribe to the channel. Also I want you to leave a comment down below and tell me, hey what version of Switch do you own? Version 1, version 2 which is that red box Switch, do you own a Switch Lite and or a Switch OLED or is this some sort of special edition? Let me know. Now let's get right into the news. And our first story deals with a brand new Pokemon trailer that dropped today. This trailer is basically four minutes long and it features the Ed Sheeran song Celestial and I gotta say I wasn't sure on the song choice but as I watched the trailer I get it. See it seems to be a huge recap trailer of everything they have shown so far with a few new locations tossed and they also unveiled a book feature or so close to launch for 10 days away. I'm not going to dive too deep into the book stuff but they didn't really talk that much about it in the trailer. There was a big emphasis in this trailer on adventure which admittedly the song helps you get into so hey that's why I said it's a pretty good choice. It seems to emphasize a lot on treasuring your experience. This is a line repeated many times in the game at least based off the trailer. It sort of gives off that vibe that this is the greatest Pokemon adventure we have ever created and we hope you treasure your time with it. That's not a quote or anything it's just something that this trailer gives me the impression that they are very proud of this game and think that it might be the best thing they've ever done. Not their own words they've said it's just the feeling this trailer invokes. Now am I generally excited for two straight Pokemon games? I'll check my pulse later because that's just unheard of for me. I've been out of Pokemon for so long you know I'm an infamous gen one or I suppose and yet I was super excited for Pokemon Legends Arceus and yeah I ended up really loving that game. I ended up living up and exceeding my expectations and now we have this open world Scarlet and Violet where some people just like with Legends Arceus knock the visuals or this and that but man does the gameplay look incredible. Does the multiplayer gameplay look incredible? Does the multiple branching types of stories you can do whether you're going with the traditional gym route with the Elite Four or whatever they end up using or if you go the route of treasure hunting and finding specialized Pokemon. This looks so exciting to me I haven't been this excited for a main line like traditional style Pokemon game in so long and is this even traditional? I feel like it's more like an evolution of the traditional but obviously people consider this a normal release it's a dual game release like usual. I'm really excited for a Pokemon and I hope you guys are too. If not that's okay it's not for everyone. It really wasn't for me for nearly 20 years but now am I back? I guess we'll find out when I play the games later this month. Now before we get into our next story I'm going to remind you of today's sponsor or really partner Ewin Racing. Ewin Racing makes amazing chairs like the one I'm sitting in right now and on down. 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So if you go and you click on a chair and you see oh original 300 knocked down to 240 or whatever it'll be 20% off that 240 I know they had some sort of Thanksgiving sale going on well guess what they have a 15% code off on their $230 chairs we have a 20% code that works on the entire website so our code is actually better for their cheaper chairs I'm just saying go ahead and check them out if you're thinking about getting a new desk chair today and let's get into our next story so Nintendo dropped their financials for quarter two of the current fiscal year of 2022-2023 and it's a doozy guys there's a lot there's good news there's bad news and we're gonna kind of go with the possibly bad news and we'll end with the good because I feel like we should always end with a positive sandwich that positive and negative news right so let's get into these financials so some light work first before we get into any of the other stories Nintendo of Europe is being expanded they are taking Nintendo of France Nintendo Benelux and Nintendo Eberka and I'm sorry if I'm mispronouncing these names and combining them into Nintendo of Europe which were renamed to Nintendo of Europe SE France and Benelux will join in July of 2023 and Eberka Eberka or however you say this is joining in August of 2024 the idea is to simplify and accelerate decision-making something that is pretty slow between the different branches today so they're consolidating some branches of Nintendo into one to just make it easier to manage I think that's probably a good thing now Nintendo and mobile game company that they have partnered with in the past Denna are forming a new joint venture called Nintendo systems that the objective of this company is to strengthen the digitalization of Nintendo's business which will include research and development along with the creation of value-added services to further reinforce Nintendo's relationship with consumers this could be Nintendo switch online related this could have to do with the online app they have on phones there's a lot of things that could be in the works here obviously we don't really know what's going to come of it yet there's some speculation out there my good friend Mike Odyssey did a really really long speculative bit in his video today if you guys want to go check that out but I don't even know where to begin with this speculation because there's not a lot here until we start to see what sort of things they're working on now the new joint venture between those two companies so Nintendo systems is scheduled to kick off on April 3rd 2023 so not too far from now now let's get into some of the actual numbers and the negative bit of news I guess if you want to call it that and that's going to be the switch sales numbers so total switch sales are at a hundred and fourteen point three three million up from the a hundred and eleven million reported last time so you can see you got about three million and sales in this last quarter Nintendo saw a nineteen percent decrease in sales so far this fiscal year compared to last and they blame this on a semiconductor shortage ironically later in their report they note the semiconductor shortage has improved and in all actuality well this is Nintendo's own charts they have manufactured more Nintendo switch units in quarter one and quarter two of this fiscal year than at any point in Switch's life breaking production records for two straight quarters so it's hard at least for me to fathom blaming the semiconductor shortage for why sales are down when you're making more switches than ever it doesn't line up that being said it seems as if they're maybe telling a little bit of a fib to avoid headlines before the holidays as the nineteen percent decrease in switch sales is not seemingly due to any shortages to couple with this Nintendo has adjusted their forecasted switch sales for the fiscal year from twenty one million down to nineteen million if that number holds it would be about a four to five million drop in unit sales from last fiscal year with seemingly nothing coming up at the moment to turn it around to give you an idea the new Pokemon scarlet and violet switch is readily in stock right now at several retailers including Walmart and Target often Nintendo's official website and having a new special edition readily available to still buy this far after it launched still is unheard of for the switch in the past so there is that despite the sales dipping and nothing really being able to turn it around to get back to previous highs and by the way nineteen million sales is still absolutely incredible in a year but it's just showing a decline this gets back to basically pre-pandemic sales of twenty nineteen then probably will sink further next fiscal year for honest that doesn't mean switch has no momentum and here's where we get to the positive this is because software continues to sell at incredible rates so let's dive into that good news so here's updates on some newer games from this year Splatoon 3 sold seven point nine million units total that's absolutely incredible and almost doubled up the first game over a half way to Splatoon two's lifetime to date sales as well in you know a very short time period so that's awesome Nintendo switch sports is at six point one five million so really good for that game as well of course well behind like we sports and we sports resort but hey it's still really good Mario strikers battle league sold two point one seven million this actually beats out the game cube strikers game but does fall short of charged on we for now again obviously that was on the market much longer so we'll see a battle league can surpass it next year Zinnabade Chronicles 3 sold one point seven two million so far it is the fastest selling Zinnabade Chronicles game ever and while it's still half a million or so behind Zinnabade Chronicles 2 lifetime today sales it's pretty it's pretty much going to pass that at some point maybe even over this holiday season now they had 15 different games so far this fiscal year so in two quarters sell at least one million units that is incredible ninety five point four one million pieces of software sold in this previous quarter which is a year over year increase of one point six percent so as I said their software is doing incredibly well we can't ignore that fact now let's get into the update to their top ten sales so Mario Kart 8 deluxe sold forty eight point four one million units as their number one seller of course probably will cross 50 million this holiday animal crossing new horizons is at number two at forty point one seven million units super specials ultimate has sold twenty nine point five three million units I bet it hits thirty million after this holiday season the legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild is sold twenty seven point seven nine million units clearly going to cross twenty eight million I don't know if it'll quite get the thirty before we get tears of the kingdom but time will tell Pokemon Sword and shield comes in at twenty five point three seven million units Super Mario Odyssey is next at twenty four point four million units Super Mario Party is right after that at eighteen point three five million units then we have Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Pokemon Shining Pearl having sold fourteen point nine two million units Ring Fit Adventure chiming in at fourteen point eight seven million units Pokemon let's go Pikachu and Pokemon let's go Eevee round out that top ten at fourteen point eight one million units and to give you even another update because you know we talked about Xenoblade Splatoon I forgot to mention this one Kirby in the forgotten land has sold five point two seven million units it is now officially the best selling Kirby of all time and this is such a big deal because we have not had a Kirby sell this well since the nineties so yeah Nintendo you're on to something with Kirby in the forgotten land we better get a sequel in that style or something with just as much care hopefully you know in two to three years now I do want to let you know there were no new updated numbers for Metroid Dread which means RGT-85 technically won his bat it probably sold over three million but his bat was basically based on the fact that hey Nintendo's not gonna update the official figures maybe ever so here we sit and we don't really know the exact numbers of that game so anyways well this also isn't new news tears of the Kingdom is on their upcoming software list and is still listed for May 12th it's just a financial report this is the first time it's had a release date on a financial report Advanced Wars is still TBA as is Metroid Prime 4 and Pikmin 4 is just reconfirmed that it's still coming in 2023 so all that being said that's our Prime 5 today I hope that you you know got your fill we're gonna be live streaming today you might have already missed it by now but if you didn't we're gonna be live streaming Sonic Frontiers on switch for a launch stream I have not played it on switch I've not played it at all so I'm very curious how this game holds up to the play well on switch there's been a lot of negativity around the switch version just chilling online you know with you know like Digital Foundry out there oh yeah you should play any other version but switch if you can that's Digital Foundry's opinion that doesn't always mean that it's the correct opinion so I guess we'll find out first hand you guys can tune in and see if you want to pick up Sonic Frontiers today but I don't know watching me play and see what I think about it all right guys that being said thank you so much for tuning in I am Nathaniel Rebel Jansson from Nintendo Prime and I'll catch you guys in the next video