 Hey everyone, welcome back to Nintendo Prime. We have a five pack of amazing stories for you today, ranging everything from the next big Nintendo Direct event. We also have some news on Zelda. We have news on Smash Bros. And news on major third party games coming to Nintendo Switch, including one highly anticipated game that people really just did not expect. So without further ado, let's jump into our very first story. And that story deals with Super Smash Bros. In fact, the next one. So Masahiro Sakurai over here, did this video talking about the team behind Super Smash Bros. Brawl. And in here he actually talks about the next Smash game, believe it or not. That game of course is one that is currently not announced but presumably will exist someday. And as we get to the next generation of hardware, these conversations are gonna ramp up. So we're gonna go over to Nintendo everything that sort of put it all together in a more easily digestible format. They're worried about reading closed captions. So let's take a look here. And over on Nintendo everything is a Sakurai can't imagine Smash Bros. without him and thinks it's going to take some time to figure out how to make another one happen. And as we scroll down, we'll get to the exact quotes from that video I showed you earlier. It says Sakurai stated, the question is, what happens next time? I mean, whatever comes after Smash Bros. Ultimate. One option would be to separate the series itself from the original creator. But for now at least, I can't really imagine a Smash Bros. title without me. You might think that's a natural stance for someone in my role, but I say so speaking objectively. I feel the same way President Awada did when we formed the team for Smash Bros. Brawl. At present, we don't have someone who can simply take the reins. Smash Bros. is a massive, important title for Nintendo. So it's fair to assume there will be another one at some point, but it's going to take time to figure out exactly how to make that happen. For my part, I'd like to keep working with Nintendo, however. Now for most people, this is probably music to your ears. There's gonna be more Smash. We don't know when. There doesn't seem to be a rush to do it now, but they'd like to be part of it. But the interesting part is that, while obviously talking about Sakurai and his importance to Smash, not everyone's in agreement here when it comes to how important he really is and if he should continue to maintain a stranglehold on Smash can't exist without me. We have popular content creator over here, Arlo, going into some details here where it says if you're a creative company and you have directors helming huge franchises who are rapidly approaching retirement, which by the way, I know that Sakurai is semi-retired or at least taking a break. I don't know that I would say that he's retired, retired. He's actually much younger than people even, you know, like A.G. Aonuma, obviously way younger than Shigeru Miyamoto, so he's gonna be around a long time, so I don't know that he's rapidly approaching retirement. He just doesn't make a lot of games, so that doesn't mean he can't continue to make Smash. Anyways, not actively training up talent beneath them is a humongous failure of management. Why Sakurai doesn't have one or more trusted protégés is beyond me. Then he goes on to note, I can only hope that Nintendo has and more forward thinking than it sounds and that people in mind to take the reins when the time comes. It's probably natural for Sakurai to have a hard time imagining the Smash without him, but I'm 100% confident it can be done. Now he's not the only one here who's be glanced over at Andre from GameXplain, the founder of GameXplain. Maybe the next Smash Bros. game just won't be directed by Sakurai and it wouldn't be the worst thing ever. Now if only someone could convince Sakurai of that and that's an interesting stance, like it's one thing to not have a protégé ready but to be like, hey, we don't want Sakurai to run Smash, what? And so this juice man, Vaan goes, why though, if it's working there's no need to change things up just yet. Just like people like Harada that's been on Tekken forever with each game being as or more successful than the last one. And Andre simply responds selfishly, I'm bored of Smash and I think some new blood could help shake it up. Ultimately Sakurai should do what's best for himself but I hope he doesn't feel pressured to do it just because of expectations. And watching the Sakurai videos over time here I don't really feel like he feels pressured to do it. I think he just wants to do it. He thinks Smash is his baby and yeah, he hasn't necessarily trained anyone up. Now on the last Super Smash Ultimate game he did start to allow some of the staff at the development studio, Bandai Namco to actually take on some of the role of testing characters but just because he's allowing that to happen doesn't mean that he's got anyone in mind to actually be a full on director for the game and he could fall back to a producer role. So it's gonna be interesting to see if maybe that's a focus on the next game where he's obviously still doing a majority of the stuff while training somebody else. I also find it weird that people are kinda mad at him for not training up anybody else as if that's his responsibility in the first place. So look, Smash is gonna continue with him without Sakurai, it's too big of an IP. But I think Smash is in a great place. It literally just became one of the best selling games over 30 million units, so by the way fighting games can't even dream of doing those kind of numbers even multi-platform arcades, et cetera. So I don't know, I'm pretty happy with the direction of Smash but whatever, let's get into our next story. Now before I get into this next story guys I gotta tell you about our sale happening with our channel partner into the AM and if you go into the AM.com slash Nintendo Prime 10 you can get 10% off amazing shirts like this but you know what I said there's a sale going on, that's right they have 40% off of their basic line and their basic line are things like this. They're some of my favorite shirts actually because as much as I love their print shirts they have all these basic t-shirts. So this is kind of a sort of gray basic t-shirt. You also have, let's see here, I don't have these in any particular, we have a black one here that I wear all the time. We have sort of a gray slash green sort of shirt going on, we got this red one as well. This red one's also cool because it shows off they have the classic V-neck designs as well. These shirts are super, super soft. 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PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Switch were newly added as platforms. Now it's interesting because, well, Switch has never been a platform. Like you could argue PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, they had the original Red Dead Redemption, but Switch has never had it. So why would Switch be added? And they have a preview. Now he does note it's not indicative of platform availability. It being here doesn't mean it will be, but it is fun to note that it is there. And there's the Red Dead Redemption value in there. And then here's the platform selection, which doesn't make any sense because Red Dead Redemption, again, never been available. Like look at that, Nintendo Switch, right down there in the corner. Yeah, I don't really understand what's happening here with this. So I find it interesting because he's responding to himself where he talks about there was a new site update and that it includes Red Dead Redemption Rockstar version, the code name being RDR1RSP, and he's just getting seen Red Dead Redemption 1 Remaster SP with a new logo here. So what does any of this mean? Well, right now, not a whole lot because this project hasn't even been announced. It has been previously discussed on my channel and by people like Stefan Detillo that Red Dead Redemption 2 was in development around 2019 at some point for Nintendo Switch. I have a direct source on that. He has sources on it, but it was canceled. They just didn't go through with it, but we haven't really heard much about Red Dead Redemption in general, like the first game coming to Switch and it's totally possible because again, it's Xbox 360 PlayStation 3 games. So we're not even talking about a game that can't be on Switch, it just isn't. And if they're making a remastered version, maybe they wanna bring a slightly updated version over to Switch. So we'll have to see if these website updates amount to anything, but it is fun to speculate on continuing to get some major third party support even though this would obviously be for an older game. Now next up, we have to talk about Pikmin 4 because we have some sales data in and let's just say Pikmin 4 is crushing it at a level. We have never seen Pikmin crush before. First, let's get into the Japanese sales since we have exact figures over there. This one coming, I'm getting this actually off Kimetsu here. These are the Femitsu sales update and it said Pikmin 4 opens up to 401,853 retail units. And as we scroll down here, we can see the list of the current top 10, top 11, and you see Pikmin 4 right here at number one. Seriously, the kingdom at number two, almost at 2 million. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. You're seeing Splatoon 3 Switch Sports and Final Fantasy 16 down here as well. So you're seeing a number of amazing Switch games selling but this number is important for a few reasons and the biggest of those reasons would actually be something that our good buddy Stealth 40K put out on Twitter. And that is that Pikmin 4 has had such an enormous launch in Japan. Here's what it compares to the original games in Japan. So Pikmin 1 only moving about 101,000. Pikmin 2 moving 162,000 and Pikmin 3 moving 93,000. Now, one game missing 90 years, actually the best debut and best selling Pikmin game. And that is Pikmin 3 Deluxe, which he puts down here. Pikmin 3 Deluxe sold 171,349 units at launch and is at 2.5 million overall. This is obviously significantly higher than that when you're talking about 401,000 units. It's just something that's unheard of. Is it the Switch effect? Is it the Switch effect combined with it also being a really great game? But here's the thing, that's not the only sales data we have because we do have some data in from the UK. So let's go ahead and take a look at that. And in the UK, after we hit allow here, we're seeing from gameindustry.biz that Pikmin 4 debuts at number one in the UK box charts. Two new types. Now, again, we have to read this for context, of course, because, hey, Pikmin 4 doesn't get exact sales figures here. So let's take a look at this, posted by Sophie McAvoy, McAvoy, staff writer here. So as Pikmin 4 is taking the top spot in the weekly UK physical charts, the latest mainline entry in the Pikmin franchise sold 45% more than Pikmin 3 Deluxe did in October of 2020. Pikmin 4 has been well received since launch with many critics praising the quality of life improvements and new features. The next highest new entry was the Sims 4 Horse Ranch, which debuts at number three, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, and you can see the list here where it's FIFA 23, which is a very popular IP over there. That's at number two, Pikmin 4 at number one, Sims 4, there's Tuesday the Kingdom at number four, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Hogwarts Legacy, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, right on down that list. So the biggest thing here is that Pikmin 4 is just having a massive debut. And to note, the sales in the UK and Japan do not include digital data. So that's even more impressive because some of the other titles do include digital data. So that's pretty awesome and I'm really, really happy for Pikmin 4. So this next story is really just one I'm slipping in there because I haven't really talked about it. And that is that Oracle of Seasons and Ages has now launched on Nintendo Switch online. It does still use the end game password system for those who are maybe, well, maybe they'll ditch it and go with something more modern. Nope, it still uses that. If you don't know what it is, play the games and you'll find out. Well, beat the games, I guess, and you'll find out. Now, that all being said, it's also interesting to note that while Jeff Grubb did tell us we would get something Zelda later this year not related to Tears of the Kingdom, I honestly do not think that these Oracle of Seasons and Oracle of Ages game launches are it. And the reason being that they were already announced. We already knew these games were coming. We don't know when. This is how Nintendo handles NSO. They will like put up a trailer or whatever and announce something and have a bunch of games and then they just sort of trickle them out when they want. I highly doubt that he wouldn't even said anything if it's just the Oracle of Seasons and Ages, something we already knew was coming. Like seriously, we knew it was coming for the end of the year and now here it is. So I'm really glad they're here. They're amazing games. And for those who don't know, fun fact, do you love Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom? Well, Fuji Bayashi, the director of those games, the one primarily responsible for them, these were the first Zelda games he ever directed. Oracle of Seasons and Oracle of Ages. He began his career at Capcom. So fun, fun little fact toy there. Now if you remember at the beginning of this video, at some point, I told you that there was some sort of Nintendo Direct madness happening and okay, it was a tinge of a little bit of a fib because it wasn't really a Nintendo Direct. It was a Pokemon Presents. And it appears that we have an exact day for Pokemon Presents thanks to a data mine leak from Pokemon Masters EX. You know, the leaks come from all over the place. So we have over here coming from Loris Eternus Stay. So Eternus Stay is zero. And you'll notice when we translate this, he says afterwards, if you want something more explicit, there is a campaign called Pokemon Presents which starts on August 8th at 3 p.m. So here is the data in here. And as we can kind of see, there's your campaign Pokemon Presents with the start date and end date. And apparently this all lines up to August 8th. A Pokemon Presents isn't really shocking or anything. We shouldn't be surprised, but this is just a really, really weird way for Pokemon Presents to leak. Like a game getting an update and in the update through a data mine, they somehow mentioned a future Pokemon Presents that hasn't even happened. What just kind of wacky world do we live in that this is how we get a leak? We've had leaks of insiders claiming they've heard things that people have told them. And then here we just straight up have, you know what, whoopsies in an update for a mobile game, we just accidentally left Pokemon Presents in the code. Oh, well, it is what it is. Hey look, we're getting a Pokemon Presents next month. Cool, probably getting an Nintendo Direct in September. Cool, so there you go. I guess there isn't a lot of games coming to Switch in August. No massive games anyways, probably some good indie games. Nintendo did put out a tweet earlier, advertising their August lineup, which looked pretty sparse to be honest, but whatever. And everyone, that's gonna do it for today's video. I really hope you enjoyed the stories. If you happen to enjoy this video, I would appreciate if you would drop a like and subscribe to the channel. And you know what, maybe go down in the comments below and let me know if you'd like me to do more of these combination news videos. I'm not gonna promise any sort of dedicated schedule to them. You guys know I like to focus on individual topics and doing some deep dive research, but on days when we don't have a super big topic, sometimes it's nice to come out here with a bunch of news stories, just to kind of give you a plethora of wealth of Nintendo goodness. So let me know what you think about this and I'll catch you in the next video.