 Hey everyone. So today we are going to talk about three really big stories and we're gonna call this a prime news episode. Although, I mean, maybe the way that Nintendo does things with Nintendo Direct Mini Partner Showcase is we should maybe call this a prime news mini since it's just three stories but it's three rather big stories. Some really crazy stuff Nintendo is doing in terms of helping people fix their Nintendo switches. Some dumb stuff happening with Xenoveray Chronicles three collectors edition. Oh, and by the way, somebody is really, really pressing Nintendo in a very weird way, weird, at least unusual maybe is the way to put it to remake a bunch of classic Nintendo games including F-Zero and there's also some stuff out there about, so you know, dropping some updates on NSO. So I guess we have four stories but whatever I'm Nathan Robodance from Nathan and Prime, if you enjoy this video be sure to drop a like and subscribe. I really hope that you do. We're on our road to 80,000 subscribers. When we hit 80,000 subscribers, we're actually gonna begin a new giveaway for a Breath of the Wild Master Sword, an actual steel blade master sword, a Hivean Shield replica and a Deku Shield replica. I can't wait to give those away but you know what, that's not what you're here for. You're here for the news. So let's get right into it with our first story. So Nintendo is launching a brand new repair service in Japan and this service is so amazing. I really hope that this is experimental so they bring it to everywhere else because it's super cheap. It's sort of like an extended warranty but better in some ways. Let me actually go straight to the article from Go Nintendo. Japanese Nintendo Switch owners can now subscribe to a new service in Japan called Wide Care by paying 200 yen or about $1.50 USD a month or 2,000 yen, AKA $15 USD annually. Nintendo will fix your Nintendo Switch system at no additional cost and this includes stuff like fall and water damage which is often not covered by warranties and other incidents that would result in hardware failure. Once you subscribe, you can fix your system six times a year, two times maximum for a main unit replacement. So they have to replace the entire Switch unit. You can only do that twice. As long as the damages don't exceed 1,000 yen or $740 USD. All right, this is a per year thing. If you exceed that number, then you will pay the excess amount only. Shipping cost is also covered in the service so shipping is free as well. The website gave us the prices on how much some of the parts cost just for reference. So to get a brand new CPU will cost $13,200 yen or roughly $98 USD. To get a brand new LCD screen, they're not looking at the OLED one, just the normal one, is gonna be about 8,800 yen. That's gonna be $65 USD. Other parts which can, you know, don't include the CPU and LCD. So various wires, buttons, maybe the main board. That's about $4,950 or $36.50 USD. If you need parts for your Joy-Con, Joysticks, whatever buttons, that's gonna be about 2,200 yen. That's just for a single Joy-Con or about $16 USD. Kinda gives you an idea of what you have to spend if you exceed that $740 USD mark. Furthermore, for the monthly plan of 200 yen, only those who are still under the manufacturer's warranty period, one year after purchase, can subscribe to it. So basically you need to get past that initial one year warranty. Otherwise, you can subscribe to the yearly plan which is open to everyone regardless of the warranty. So if you wanna do the monthly plan, you gotta wait till your warranty ends. You wanna do the yearly plan right away. Nintendo really doesn't care. They probably figure most people that are gonna grab the yearly plan that will obviously extend past the one year warranty period. So this is a really, really cool service and I'm very surprised Nintendo's doing this. Nobody else in the industry seems to offer a repair service like this that is this cheap. And up to six repairs per year, that is an insane value up to the point that they will literally replace your entire main switch unit twice per year if they need it. So if you're a child, you drop it, water damage, you can have that happen twice and they will just replace it. That is crazy and really, really good on Nintendo. I don't know what spurred them to create this service because it is so user friendly. It's hard to fathom that this is a profitable thing for Nintendo, but still, this is incredible value and I really hope that this comes to other territories. Obviously, if they were gonna try and experiment with a new repair service like this, they'll start in their home country, but yeah, this is amazing and if this comes to North America, it comes to Europe, comes to China, this would just be absolutely incredible. So kudos to Nintendo for offering this out low. Totally did not expect this coming out of there, shareholders meeting, but hey, this is a really great service and really, really good for customers. So kudos to you, Nintendo. Our next story is, well, it's weird. So Nintendo did announce ahead of time that Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Collector's Edition would be available to purchase again yesterday on their My Nintendo Store online, which is fine. They also didn't actually go out and publicly announce what time it would be at. It was a really random drop. You had to follow people like Wario64 on Twitter or something like that if you really wanted to find out exactly when it was going to be available and to Nintendo's credit, they said there would be a splash waiting page for you to get in and actually pre-order and it did sound like a number of fans who really wanted Xenoblade Chronicles definitive edition, collector's edition, whatever they're calling it, actually got their hands on it. So that's really, really good. It ended up working out that a lot of people did. Of course, it still was a limited quantity item and because of that, scalpers did have a field day. At the time of recording, there were like 285 listings or something like that or 35, maybe it's 235 listings. At the time of recording on eBay, all of them averaging around $300 USD. There are some that are a bit lower at around $220, but then they compensate by giving higher shipping costs. So all of them have confirmed pre-orders. They show the receipts, the emails, et cetera. And it just goes to show that obviously scalpers are always gonna have a field day with anything that's limited quantity. And look, that's their right. I think that this does fall a bit more on Nintendo than the scalpers. And I'm gonna say this for one reason and one reason only, I don't really see a reason when Nintendo is the sole provider of this collector's edition that they can't just take as many pre-orders as possible within a set period of time. We talked about in the past, a limited run games finds a way to take an entire month of pre-orders for literally a limited run of a game before cutting them off. I don't see a reason why Nintendo couldn't at least give us a week, right? Give us a week to get a pre-order in and then you can just make as many of those collectible items as needed to fulfill those pre-orders, especially since the collectible items don't even get shipped till later this year. So say someone had to wait till December instead of waiting till September to get those items. Hey, I think a lot of true fans as the Unibake Chronicles 3 will be more than willing to wait. So this is one of the situations that's sort of self-created by Nintendo just having a limited quantity in the first place instead of not just giving us a set period of time of at least a week where you can get in all the orders you want. They did limit it to one order per Nintendo account, but Nintendo accounts are free to make so that's not gonna stop scalpers. I just unfortunately hate that companies still do this knowing how scalping works, especially here in the US. I don't really understand when Nintendo's a sole provider why they can't just let as many people order this as possible in a set period like limited run does, but you know, Nintendo continues to make baffling decisions sometimes, even if it would have been really consumer friendly to just give us a week to pre-order and then cut off pre-orders. But what are you gonna do? This is the way it is. And because of that scalpers are gonna have a field day and some of them are gonna make thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars as this becomes the only way to get your hands on it moving forward. Now this doesn't mean Nintendo won't open up other windows to pre-order this in the future, but the fact that it's random, they're not sharing times which I know they're not sharing times to thwart scalping. I just, this is just a mess to be completely honest, but hey, I'm glad a lot of people were able to get their pre-orders in. Let me know down in the comments if you got your pre-order in or if you even desire this version of the game. So next up we have a really interesting story. So have you ever wished that you could go to Nintendo's investors meetings and get into Q and A and ask the president of Nintendo a direct question. Have you ever wished that you could be that person? What would you ask if you were in that position and you were talking to Shintaro Furukawa himself, the man, the myth, the legend that runs all of Nintendo? What would you ask? Maybe you'd ask him about new hardware. I mean, investors already ask about that, so that might be a little bit of a waste of a question and you're probably gonna get a non-answer like investors got back in February, hence why they didn't really ask about it this time because yeah, it was a non-answer. I mean, investors did ask. Maybe you wanna ask about the increase in raw material spending. Well, I mean, an investor actually already did ask that and Nintendo gave a lengthy non-answer explainer that are basically just stockpiling supplies. Okay, fine. What I find interesting, however, is that when a fan got this opportunity, they didn't just ask any old question. That's right, a super hardcore Nintendo fan, as they call themselves, got into Nintendo's shareholder meeting by spending $43,000 to get their hands on 100 shares of Nintendo. Yes, it takes at least 100 shares to be invited to the investor's meeting. So once you get 100 shares in Nintendo, now you guys know what it's gonna cost. 100 shares in Nintendo will get you into the investor's meetings and give you an opportunity to potentially ask a question. Now, this person wasn't actually going to get to ask a question. However, Nintendo this time, as they do once in a while, decided to take on bonus questions, which is not a guarantee. There's a set amount of questions, usually the biggest investors get their questions in. However, because they took on bonus questions, this fan actually got to ask their question. And what did they ask? Oh, nothing big, no big deal. Chintura Furukawa, hey, are there any plans for Remakes, Remasters, or new F-Zero games? How about Button Katoes? Snowboard kids. That's a pretty fair question. If I'm completely honest, and I'm sitting there in front of the president of Nintendo, I would probably be like, yeah, man, where's my F-Zero? Hey, what's up with Metroid Prime 4? I mean, that's probably something I would have mentioned. Like, hey, no one's talking about Metroid Prime 4. What the hell is going on with that game? Like, you know, it's a typical fan question, right? Like, hey, these highly requested games, what's up with that? You know, you could also ask, I know me personally, I probably would have threw the Wind Waker in Twilight Princess HD, and I would have phrased my question somewhere along the lines of, so, we know that you guys have ported a significant amount of the Wii U exclusives over the years to the Nintendo Switch. There are a couple notable omissions, things like Xenoblade Chronicles X, but with a new Xenoblade game coming out, I'm not so sure that that's a priority at the moment. However, I do wanna ask you, the Wind Waker in Twilight Princess HD, right now, only exists in that HD form on the Wii U, but we've seen other games like Skyward Sword get the HD, Tremant Lynx Awakening get remade. What's up with that? Why don't we have the Wind Waker in Twilight Princess HD on Nintendo Switch? You know, typical fan question. Well, there was a typical response, at least from Shintaro Furukawa, who responded to this question about F-Zero and such, and said it is realistically difficult to develop new titles and remakes, including sequels for every Nintendo game that people request, but we are very grateful and appreciate the expectations our fans have for our games, which is a pretty expected response. They get requests for every game under the sun, then they're not gonna be able to do 99% of them. However, Takahashi, you know, in the order of Nintendo hierarchy, it's basically Furukawa, then Miyamoto, then Takahashi. Takahashi actually gave a slightly different response that opens the door a smidge, and says, we are always considering how to develop new titles and remakes that can be enjoyed by many players. Again, still sort of a non-answer, but more of a, hey look, we're really glad that you are asking about these games. You know, we're always considering ways that we could do stuff like that, which is, that's kinda cool. His fan got their moment in the sun. Whether or not they're gonna hold onto those shares so they can be at the next meeting, I have no idea. Apparently they sold shares in another company in order to be able to afford these shares. You know, Nintendo shares are probably gonna be dipping in price for a little bit, but, you know, if a new hardware gets announced or something else, maybe they're gonna shoot back up and the fan can actually profit off of those 100 shares. Nintendo stock is usually a pretty stable stock to hold onto, so it's gonna be really interesting to see if this fan decides to show up for the next meeting and hopefully get bonus questions in or if they're gonna buy even more stock to maybe rise up the chain and get their questions as, you know, regular in every investor's meeting. But it was really, really cool that a fan did that. Pretty crazy. I don't have $43,000 to throw away to do it. Plus, I mean, this person lives in Japan, so it ended up not being like a big travel cost. But for me, I'd also have to travel all the way across the world. But yeah, pretty crazy, if I'm honest. Now, our last story actually just deals with the Nintendo Switch Online. So we talked about this on live stream last night, but I wanna bring it up today for those who missed it. There were four new games added to Nintendo Switch Online right at the end of June. They dropped them last night in typical Nintendo fashion, and these are for Sega Genesis. And I gotta say, pretty good update. They dropped Comics Zone, Target Earth, Zero Wing, and Mega Man the Wily Wars. And I gotta be honest, all four of these games are pretty much bangers. So when it comes to adding games to Nintendo Switch Online, this is probably one of the best, you know, collection of four games at a time. They have really added to the service in some time. There's a lot of really great games on Sega Genesis. It's really unfortunate. We don't see the same sort of attention to detail over on the Super Nintendo or the Nintendo 64. But hey, the good news for a lot of us is a lot of the amazing games that were on the Super Nintendo from third parties are also on Sega Genesis. And we're getting a ton of third party games for the Genesis app. So eventually we might get some of our favorite Super Nintendo games just in that form, which is fine. The Super Nintendo and Genesis were pretty interchangeable back in the day. There were some quality differences between the games. Obviously slightly different control schemes, but for the most part, you know, you get the Lion King on Sega Genesis. It's pretty much the same as the Lion King on the Super Nintendo. So I do think that this is a wholly good thing, a great collection. Mega Man the Wily Wars really takes me back. So Comic Zone is also a game I've never played, but looks really damn good. So I don't know, man, I might actually fire up the app just to play that one. You guys know I don't play a ton of retro games I've already played. So like Mega Man the Wily Wars, I'm glad it's there, but I've also played that. But Comic Zone, I haven't. So I might actually put a little time into that one. Anyways, folks, thank you so much for tuning in. I am Nathan Robledjance from Nintendo Prime. This was Prime News. And yeah, I hope you guys have a lovely rest of your day.