 Alright folks, we have a few stories we're going to talk about today. One of them is related to Tears of the Kingdom, of course, where it potentially might become or has a chance to become the fastest selling Nintendo game of all time. But before we dive into that, we have to talk a little bit about something that's happening at Nintendo of Europe in regards to Joy-Cons. Also a brand new venture that was just launched by Nintendo that could improve future video games. Oh my gosh, we need to talk about this stuff because after all, we're not just a Zelda YouTuber, we're actually a YouTube channel that covers a bunch of stuff about Nintendo news and all that. News has just been a bit light lately, but we do have a couple stories to add on today. We'll put timestamps down below if you want to skip around in the video. Now that being said, I want to remind you we are in our road to 100,000 subscribers. Thank you so much. We just hit 95,000. I'm so, my mind is blown at how quickly this channel is growing. If you guys would like to join, I would really appreciate it if you would subscribe. If we do get to 100,000 before Tears of the Kingdom, which almost seems like a formality at this point, we just gained 2,000 subscribers in the last three days. It's insane. Anyways, we're going to give away a Tears of the Kingdom Nintendo Switch OLED. We'll also give away a collector's edition of Tears of the Kingdom as well, a pin from PAX East and more. I'm trying to add more to the giveaway pool because we're growing super fast and I want to make sure that I can give back as much of the community as possible. So stay tuned for that because at this point we'll probably have some big giveaway event happening either at the end of April or May for the 100K goal. Alright, so first let's get into our first story here and it deals with Nintendo of Europe. So we finally get them making a statement and it's really interesting how they made this statement because it has to do with Joy-Cons and essentially they are going to repair out-of-warranty Joy-Cons for free. This appeared on the Nintendo of Europe website in their support section which is kind of strange because they didn't actually formally announce this the way Nintendo of America did years ago but it is nice to see that they are doing this. Now this doesn't cover all of Europe but there are very specific areas that it does cover. So the UK, the EEA and Switzerland are all going to be covered under this new policy which does bring the Nintendo of Europe policy in line with North America, Latin America and France which already was repairing Joy-Cons for free. Now we all know that these Joy-Cons repairs are typically to address Joy-Cons drift however it will cover pretty much anything that happens to your Joy-Cons so if your joystick just straight up breaks as an example the buttons break, the triggers it just covers all of that so that's really really nice that they decided to do this so late in the switches life cycle. I hope people take advantage of it a lot of us have bought multiple sets of Joy-Cons at this point but hey, you can now send in your old ones get them fixed up get them back almost brand new without having to do any self repairs not that the self repairs are super difficult but our ribbon cables and stuff are involved so you know what having Nintendo do it if they break it they'll just give you a new one so that's pretty neat and so yeah I don't know it's just nice to have that policy in place. Next up Nintendo and Dena have formally opened up their new joint venture called Nintendo systems. They announced this back in November of last year and we weren't really sure what this was supposed to be but while we aren't really sure the end result of the venture is going to be Nintendo seems to be in this collaboration to make their understanding of modern technologies better and in particular when it comes to internet based play so in theory this could see them do more modern features or updates on future platforms and games and obviously within the mobile space as well now they do some text on the official website here they launched today and we're just going to read it so you can kind of see you know what Nintendo and Dena are announcing publicly now this is a translated version so obviously Japanese English isn't perfect but let's go into it it says Nintendo systems was born in April of 2023 led by a team of engineers from Nintendo and Dena to create a system that facilitates the delivery of Nintendo's entertainment to our customers amidst the many technological innovations in the world while valuing the spirit of originality and flexibility members with various strengths engage in lively discussions and work faithfully to create systems with the aim of achieving great results that cannot be achieved by one person alone the technology surrounding the internet is changing at a dizzying pace and increasing in complexity every day in this context Nintendo systems will leverage the relationship of trust between Nintendo and Dena that has been nurtured through a partnership over seven years to create new innovations for the world driven by Nintendo's originality and Dena's knowledge of technology the development of technology surrounding entertainment is expected to continue to grow we will continue to take on the challenge of bringing smiles to the faces of as many customers as possible through Nintendo's entertainment by incorporating a diverse range of technologies so as I said this seems to be a research group that is really even modernizing Nintendo's internet infrastructure and and their systems in play maybe even taking into user accounts and other stuff so I'm really happy to see Nintendo investing in that and Dena does have a lot of experience with it although in a different space they still are pretty up-to-date on modern technologies now this is a nice reminder that Nintendo is also expanding in other ways as well they are building a second building next to their main headquarters in Japan that is literally dedicated to nothing but research and development for video games and that actually completes in 2027 if you don't think this is a serious investment for Nintendo they spent nearly 40 million dollars on the land alone for the building so that yeah I mean Nintendo knows what's up also they are opening up a museum next year in Japan which I think is pretty nifty as well hopefully we get to see some rare Nintendo gems there now our last story today and probably the one you clicked on for because it's our headline title is the the sales of tears of the kingdom so I meant to follow me pre-order sales and we did an update on this not too long ago about how pre-orders are exploding and it's helped the Nintendo switch get back to number one in Japan and this is all true but the sales seem to be getting even crazier and crazier so in certain sections on Amazon you'll see that the top three best-selling things are the Legend of Zelda tears of the kingdom then the Legend of Zelda switch OLED model oh and the Legend of Zelda collectors edition that's crazy to me to see that the collectors edition there wasn't even that many copies and yet it's still jumped to the top but then even if you go to the overall best sellers which will then throw in all the digital codes for games and stuff you'll see PlayStation Xbox one and two you know their $10 gift cards in the digital spots but then you're seeing tears of the kingdom at number three then you'll see the Nintendo switch e-shop cards of Roblox cards and then all of a sudden look there's the Nintendo switch OLED model oh look there's the Legend of Zelda tears of the kingdom collectors edition and then if you scroll on a little further there's the dang Nintendo switch pro controller which is probably only not higher than the tears of the kingdom one because they're sold out so they literally can't but it is outselling the Mario bundle for Nintendo switch and pretty much every other switch game there is so I find this really fascinating watching these this ebb and flow and watching the sales continue to climb obviously with the tears of the kingdom you know hasn't sold out yet might be a really hard to get physically at launch we'll see but it hasn't sold out yet and they're continuing to take pre-orders as it climbs the charts I do find this fascinating because last year Nintendo set a new record with Pokemon Scarlet and Violet a dual release where it became the fastest selling Nintendo game of all time with its opening launch weekend moving 10 million units they have never seen that happen in the history of Nintendo and obviously it would not do have an incredible first six weeks now I don't know that tears of the kingdom can top the six week sales after all you could you're you're completing against like people buying two versions of the same game but what I will say is if there was a game that potentially could open at the same pace or slightly ahead on opening weekend it's going to be tears of the kingdom need I remind you Breath of the Wild opened back when switch launch by outselling the Nintendo switch itself there were more switch copies of Breath of the Wild sold at launch than switches actually existed at that time that is utterly insane that's how much the fervor for tears of the kingdom or I should say that's so much the fervor for Breath of the Wild was back then and it looks like tears of the kingdom might even have more going for it with period numbers even higher than what was happening with Breath of the Wild so it is possible it is not inconceivable that for launch weekend somehow tears of the kingdom could exceed Pokemon Scarlet and Violet and become the new fastest selling Nintendo game of all time which I will love it that would happen since I presume tears of the kingdom isn't going to have all the technical brokenness issues that Scotland Violet had like I by the way I really enjoy Scotland Violet and I'm not knocking those games there some of my favorite Pokemon games actually ever made and the ending to the stories in those games are just very un-Pokemon like in my mind very unique I really enjoyed the story but what I will say about tears of the kingdom is it's probably going to be a 90 plus review game I don't know how high in the 90s it's going to be and so to have that game be the fastest selling Nintendo game ever to me would just be a massive achievement not only for the Zelda franchise but also for Nintendo to have one of your best rated games ever also be one of your fastest selling ever now again and it doesn't mean I think it'll hit 20 million in six weeks let's say it gets 11 million in opening weekend it could slow down after that and maybe it only sells 5 million over the next four weeks because sometimes sales can be front loaded but I still think that would be extremely impressive for Nintendo and the more we're seeing these pre-order numbers go up the more I think this is going to happen now again these are just pre-orders at a single retail outlet we don't necessarily know what the numbers are going to be like everywhere we've seen obviously in Japan that it's become way more pre-order than Breath of the Wild and other Nintendo games but that's again we don't have this sort of data from all retailers because not all retailers publish this data but Amazon's always been a pretty good barometer to predict sales uh and you know what with how soon this is became a top seller and how long it's remained a top seller and how it continues to remain a top seller because these sales are updated daily damn guys I'm pretty excited for the Legend of Zelda tears of the kingdom and what's going to happen I don't be surprised if it's breaking some sort of sales records that opening weekend if not breaking records for best or quickest selling nintendo game ever breaking records for fastest selling zelda game ever I think is pretty much a shoe in anyways guys let me know you think about this down in the comments below I am Nathaniel Rufflachance from Nintendo Prime did you guys finally like me getting some additional news stories and then I know some of you long time followers were like Nate when were you gonna talk about more than just zelda I know guys like I get it zelda is the hot topic we're obviously hitting on the hot trending topic I got a lot to talk about because I really enjoy zelda and I have a lot of things I can say about it I used to run zelda fan sites for a living I did it for nearly 20 years so talking about zelda every day is not hard for me to do especially for an upcoming game but also guys we are a nintendo youtuber not just a zelda youtuber I know some people have been calling me a zelda youtuber lately and I get it but no we actually cover all news for nintendo there just hasn't meant a lot noteworthy besides the mario and yeah early impressions of the mario movie are good but that's about it there there isn't a ton else happening out there right now and that makes sense because nintendo is massively promoting the mario movie and they're massively promoting zelda everything else is sort of falling by the wayside of course that's going to change I presume we're going to start getting an advertising for uh you know reboot camp coming up right advance force one plus two reboot camp don't forget that comes out this month we'll probably get a trailer maybe I have no idea there was an interview by the way for Kirby I guess we'll throw this in as a bonus story the Kirby director of the franchise Shinya Kumazaki did an interview with the game developers conference IGN and just of note he was sort of mentioning that they now view 3d Kirby as something they're going to do moving moving forward but they don't want people to think that's the only thing they're going to do and they said they kind of got comfortable with 3d Kirby gameplay around the time that Kirby's blowout blast which came out on the 3ds in 2016 that sort of made them realize maybe we should do some more 3d Kirby stuff but that we shouldn't expect everything coming out of Hal and the rest to just be 3d uh they're still going to be sticking with 2d Kirby as well the sides rolling stuff so you can kind of see it going back and forth I also think this emits a 3d Kirby takes a little bit longer to make so yeah there's going to be future 3d Kirby games I think that's the big takeaway here it's just not going to be the only kind of Kirby games we get so don't expect a forgotten land style Kirby game every time but don't think that they forgot about that and they're not going to go back to it because of course they are the best selling Kirby game ever so yeah I'm just excited to see more 3d Kirby in the future and you know what it's nice to have that mix of 3d and traditional Kirby I think that's a good way to go about it just like with Zelda here I do think we're going to get top down Zelda again at some point as well and I think that's a good mix of having a Grezzo work on top down while the main Zelda team works on the next big big game after tears of the kingdom so anyways guys thank you so much for tuning in and I'll catch you in the next video