 to the Nintendo Prime Podcast season two episode 24. It is the day before Prime Gaming Fest. So because of that, we're going to keep this podcast on the shorter side of things. Plus, we're already starting a little bit later because I was, well, we were out making runs for Prime Gaming Fest. If you saw or are watching the video version of this, you'll notice there's a different camera layout because, again, Prime Gaming Fest, like technically, if I just wanted to be Eric. Hi, Eric. Oh, look, here's me. And then there's both of us. Yeah, we got some fancy stuff set up for Prime Gaming Fest, but you know what? That's not what we're here to talk about today. We're actually here to talk about games and gaming events. So without further ado, let's welcome in all of our guests. First off, we have Daring coming back. You know, who's just Nuggets in six, apparently. I'm just making a face. I'm just really happy about that because the heat and the heat fans thrive off everyone betting against them. That's how it goes. So they take it and Redskins fan, dude. I know that feeling. Well, literally every round, we've been heavily heavy underdogs and have won every round. Every round. Every round. Every round. And even now, we've got a tight game ahead. We've had some competition, too. So if we win it all, we'd be literally all the best teams. I've won some good money betting on the heat in this postseason. So we'll see. But Denver in six, apparently. All right. Speaking of the Miami Heat, how's it going, Andres, restart? Good. Good. Yeah. Just watching the game. I've been still playing Zelda. I'm getting excited for Pikmin. I'm probably going to start a new run of Pikmin 3 soon. And yeah, it's been a good time. Nice. Then we got a battle bit since he's been here. Paul Gale Network. How's it going? Pretty good. Been playing plenty of shares in the kingdom on my side. Just hit 150 hours and probably not too close to the end. Well, I could, based on what I did, but I don't plan to anytime soon. And of course, been playing Street Fighter 6. So yeah, things are good. Nice. Nice driving me on again. Yeah, no problem. We also have, apparently, Nick with no K. Yep. Everybody gets it wrong. Forget the bearer part. Just Nick with no K from the joystick drift podcast. How's it going? It's going good. I'm a little tired because I started a full-time job last week. And this is like the first full week. So I'm still getting adjusted to the sleep schedule. Haven't had as much time to play Zelda as I wanted to. But I've snuck a couple hours in there, here and there, getting Koroks, doing side quests, that kind of stuff. That's good. That's good. And we're doing the, what have we been playing lately section? Apparently, we're just throwing that out there right now. Well, we did say we're trying to make the podcast a bit quicker today. So I guess we're just fighting it all. Apparently. Apparently, I've been playing Tears of the Kingdom like everyone else. I've been playing Tears of the Kingdom and there hasn't been any other video game turned on. Yep. I've been, I'm at the, I'm basically at the end of the story. I was going to do a lot of side stuff before, but I got impatient and I did some of the last bits I needed, but I'm waiting to beat the game until I do some more. I'm well over a hundred tries. I got quite a bit more to go. Today, I did take a break from Zelda to play Diablo 4, played that for a few hours for the podcast and I am so ready to get back into it. I can tell I'm going to be obsessed with that game. So nice. Just don't be like the one guy who was the first in the world to get to level 100 and his ISP went out and then he lost all his progress. That's brutal. That's very brutal. And then, you know, I can't forget him. We have Eric. Hey, how's it going? Good. Good. Oh, wow. Giving you the zoom in. Yeah, right? Yeah. How you doing? I'm surprised the camera hasn't exploded yet. I mean, I'm surprised it hasn't overheated yet. Oh, there's that too. There's that. Anyways, how's it going? I'm good. I'm good. Playing new games? Here and there. Here's the kingdom. Yep. Get a little bit in. Absolutely. I think I'm almost to the first dungeon. Yeah, Eric. I think he's finally over 20 hours. Yeah, congrats. Yeah. Now, the funny thing about this is not going to be talking about too much Prime gaming fast stuff, so the M will just tell people to show off. That's pretty much it. One of the punishments on the wheel might make me and Eric cry or cry for each other because Yulia came up with the ultimate punishment. We have to delete our save file. Okay. Oh, okay. I saw the tweet this morning where you asked people to submit and I thought, what if you deleted your save file? But I was like, no, that's too brutal. That's no. So what people might not understand is during Prime gaming fast, we have a wheel of death and pretty much it's guaranteed to spend no matter what, because any Nate versus Eric segment, any one of those video games or challenges we do, whoever loses has to spin the wheel. But also we spin it for every additional $100 total in super chats. So the chat can also make the wheel just spin like crazy. And we put a lot of way new stuff on it this year, just crazy stuff. And Yulia is like, that would be the ultimate punishment, won't you? If that lands, one of you has to delete your save file. Neither one of us have eaten the game. I'm way further in than he is, but also for him to get back to where he is now at the pace he plays will probably take him another half year. Neither one of us really want to lose the save file. Just am cry. I'm just kind of hoping it never hits. So let's just say that's a lot of things on the wheel of punishment this year, the wheel of death, because we're hoping that one doesn't hit. But you know, knowing our luck, it'll be the first one spin. Oh yeah, for sure. And don't worry, it will be deleted live. You will see that it is gone. So Nate, how many hours do you have on yours? I couldn't tell you right now. It's upstairs. Probably like 75. That's still pretty beefy. Those are rookie numbers. You gotta build those up. Okay, Darren, you don't have three children and a wife. I might. I just they're nobody with three children has time to even play modern warfare two. He said he might. They just might not be with him. Maybe he's in a sperm bank donor. I'm pretty sure there's at least one, but I'm pretty sure but don't know. Oh boy. The seed has been spread. All right. That's all. That's all. That's all we got out of that conversation. Let's get into our first topic. And apparently I destroyed the glass on the back of my phone. Oh, yeah, live reaction. Nate cries. No live reaction. I got replacements. Anyways, all right. Let's get to the first topic, which is Nintendo Direct. Maybe something. So Jeff Grubb, finally somebody who typically knows some things, put out there on the giant bombcast that he has heard rumblings of a Nintendo event in July. Now, he's not sure if it's a general director or a partner showcase or a direct mini. Of course, he's not going to know any of those things yet. And he obviously noted that rumblings immediately necessarily will happen, but this is usually how it begins. You get the rumblings, and then we start to hear what type of event it's going to be. And then we hear a date. That's usually the order in which things go. And apparently some of the other insiders have kind of noted that they're starting to hear some things too. Generally, they hear the things because third party companies that are involved are talking about it. So it does sound like Nintendo is going to be doing something in July. And I mean, it makes sense. I obviously lean towards it being a general direct because they don't have anything after Pikmin. And like last year, people always point to last year, we got the partner showcase. Yeah, we knew about Xenoblade. We knew about Splatoon 3. We knew about Pokemon. We had three huge games we already knew about. Yeah. And in BANETA, they announced that after June. If you really want to be technical with six, Pokemon Scarlet and Violet. I don't know if even if those two rabbits two games so Anyway in terms of content, but what's going by are actually sizable. It's just that other stuff, but anyway the content was good Yes, so the point I was making is that it's sort of this unfortunate thing where We don't know anything last year we actually knew quite a bit of games that were coming in Even if we didn't have a release date for band at a three that was one reason people pointed out We need a direct dude and have that release date, but we didn't know about games this time around We got a counter argument it's picking four and then Some third-party games, I guess that we already know about Agree with me Well, um, daked theme center saying it's what you and three and better to three were TBA I'm a sitting but last year, but the thing is we had footage for both games and they were announced that's coming out that year Like we knew they were coming out three was TBA was because They moved the date of Xenoblade. Yeah. Well, it's not necessarily it's not necessarily a counter argument It's more like an observation. Yeah So we knew about it We knew it was coming we knew Splatoon 3 was announced for 2023 We knew Xenoblade was announced for 2023. We knew Pokemon Scarlet and Violet like all these things were known to be coming We don't anything that it wasn't like they told us earlier in the year Metroid Prime for 2023 No, no, they didn't but it was it was Pikmin 4 and that was it so I my opinion right is There's a direct happening this summer But if it's not a game if it's not a Nintendo direct like a general direct It's either a a new type of direct that we haven't seen before right where it's like maybe like a first-party mini or something like that Or a switch to one which I think is unlikely, but I'll throw it out there or or it's a game specific direct We're really big game is coming out this holiday and then the others are just social media stuff That's what I was leaning towards was probably a game specific direct because I mean if they just have One game direct when they have Pikmin 4 I agree. I agree. I'm just putting it out Possibilities like right right like I'm just saying like if there isn't a Nintendo So the thing is you could say oh well We'll get a partner the problem with a partner is a partner direct is meant to just announce third-party stuff Sometimes you might get something like an age of calamity, which is like a third-party collaboration, but Caden's a high rule maybe yeah like stuff like that but when you look at what we don't know about August through December a Partner direct and maybe one game announced through social media is not going to fill that up so Either a Nintendo is going to completely break all patterns and just announced their entire slate through Twitter their entire slate or We're getting a Nintendo direct like that's That's what I think and Nintendos at gamescom when they're usually not they said they're gonna have demos at Nintendo live 2023 They're also working with PAX West all of those things happen within two weeks of each other so it's it's one of those situations where Nintendo is planning to show games at events We don't know what the hell they're planning to show because they got to have games announced to show They're really don't know what it is PLC which would just be very weird. They're really promoting the crap out of that Nintendo live too because I saw they were like doing Pre-registers for they are pushing all kinds of stuff. So like there's got to be something there that would make me say Yeah, I want I know I know Okay, I think the radio silence makes people uneasy like ponderous We talked about this on your podcast a couple of days ago The legend of Zelda tears of the kingdom is so big that it could last Most of summer without anything else dropping. It's a talking point. So I think Nintendo is trying to not muddy the waters by Having so much new right now to talk about Let's here's a kingdom have its time in the Sun and then Have maybe not a June but maybe a July Nintendo direct let it bake Let it soak let it be the only thing that people are thinking about not to trick people and saying there's nothing coming in the fall But don't even put it on people's minds because some people with a finite budget Maybe I'm not gonna wait until or maybe I can't buy Zelda because I'm looking forward to that fall title more No, have everybody talking about Zelda everybody soak up Zelda and then have that little direct So, you know history shown 10 out of 11 summers Nintendo has one in June all 11 for 11 summers have one. So I think something's coming And like you said Nate also, why would they put so much investment in the showing up at gamescom and Pac West and everything? If they're not gonna have anything new to play at the booths Why would you go to the show to play something old? And for those people who don't know gamescom is E3 in Europe And Nintendo has not Typically gone to gamescom. They actually usually don't So the fact that they themselves announced they're going to gamescoms like they wanted people to know come here We're there we have something. What is that something? I don't it could just be a single game They've done it before back in 2016 or it could be a heck of a lot more. It could also be The people like talking about but what if it's hardware could be hardware and they want to draw as much attention to these events as they can because Got new hardware coming not saying we're good. That's gonna happen. I think that's probably more on the wishful thinking list then Reality but they are going to have something and they have to have it announced I mean they could announce it all through Twitter. You know, Nintendo does that They've been doing it a bit more lately over the last couple of years than usual But even then they still had directs despite doing that. So I Think they still see the value in them and the only the big thing for me I think I'm why they might wait till July Nintendo sort of likes to have the cycle to themselves and If they can get clear of all these other people and then just have their own news cycle I think they like that because there's one thing that to remember is that PlayStation and Microsoft are literally in the middle of their generation right now, so Chances are although. I know Sony showcase didn't necessarily impress everyone They're probably gonna have another one later this year. Please. That's what the journalists are saying and Was probably gonna have much more first-party and Xbox is literally having back-to-back directs one of them just for a single game Yeah, the other one for all their other games Xbox clearly feels like they have a lot of games the show which they own a ton of studios So wouldn't be shocking if they did even if they're not coming this year And you know, maybe Nintendo's like hey, we don't want to get wrapped up in the middle of the generations of these systems We're gonna go and we want to go When everyone's done talking about you guys, I mean the press around Starfield is gonna be massive too They're dedicating a whole hour to that showcase. I mean the headlines, you know all the major media outlets I'll finally know what the game is. That'll be exactly. I mean they're Promises, but every glance of it is just a walking sim. So I right Let's actually see the game. I wonder like what are we doing? Yeah, we're in space. Cool If it's just a game about being in space that's probably pretty boring just ask astronauts that are out there like cool visuals But it's pretty boring. You don't really do anything prediction prediction metric prime force coming up this year and it will be considered pretty much unanimously a better game in Starfield That's a big ask I mean, I love Metroid I think it's a big ask because I believe that Starfield is great But like Nate says so far looks like a walking sim so I could eat my words. Hold on. Hold on When you say it could be great when you say Universally better than Starfield. Do you mean like reviews performance like it just performs better and launches? No way he was talking about sales numbers He was totally talking about the fact that 95 for Metroid Prime remaster This could be a 95 Metroid Prime for that could be hired. I mean maybe Starfield probably has more interest in general Yeah, no way Are we sure about that I wasn't necessarily speaking on sales, but maybe the sales of the maybe Metroid Prime 4 will top Metroid right. I hope it does Oh Let me tell you something here, okay for all the Most of the switch audience never played Metroid Prime and then Metroid Prime remaster came over 40 bucks and only sold the mill I'm telling you the audience still isn't really there Like that's that's a good amount of for a small sure time But with Nintendo just out of a financial briefing and didn't really add to the numbers I'm just going out there that I don't think it's selling really that much anymore. So All right, quick counter-rex is I don't want this to be a long argument Remasters in general sell worse than the the actual modern series great examples even the crime was a definitive edition Has not sold better than the other xenoblade games You would think it would because it's such a great game, but people just don't buy remasters as much They just don't not as much as the actual game. So that hurt. How many sales does it in a way to in the way three have I Will do that right now is approaching three million and I think um three is like it's approaching two God double check. I think I think you're right. I'm not I'm not doubting the reason I bring that up is We're talking about We're talking about a series that Both of them sold less than Metroid Dread So I'm just throwing out there that I just don't think it's gonna sell Metroid Dread I'm gonna stand by that and I'm just It is what it is. No does that mean by the way that doesn't mean starfield's gonna sell any better Remember starfield doesn't have the PlayStation audience to sell to and it's got game pass It's got to sell on xbox and pc where it's gonna be on game pass on both So the sales numbers might not be now the player base numbers might be big It might have a big player base. They're gonna have a 10 million player base. It might only sell two million copies Yeah, that's the sake of the whole of Metroid It's a different marketing strategy I'm talking about Critical quality. I'm talking about critical. That's what I knew. That's what you meant. I don't we went to sales I was like, oh do not start arguing Metroid sales Do not yeah, but first off also a lot of Microsoft Don't necessarily sell well either. So again, that's up for debate, but we're not going to debate that today All I'm saying is you look at the history of Metroid Prime games Historically, there are some of the highest rated games of all time Right up there was zelda and in many cases actually better than zelda. That's saying it will be better than tears of the king for the reviews I'm simply saying that Metroid prime is consistently a game of the year caliber Rated kind of game and I don't think prime 4 is going to disappoint. It's going to be right up there It's going to be one of the highest rated switch games of the year. So you're on the prime 4s this year If it releases on that train See, I think Metroid prime 2 and 3 have to have a bundle together Bundled for like 60 bucks not quite of the Metroid prime remastered caliber But just you know the two of them together ship it in 16 by 9 call it 60 bucks and release that before Metroid prime 4 But if you do that I think it's too much if you have all three of those games releasing in this year because we already had Metroid prime and then that's four You know Metroid titles So I'm kind of on the fence of like Metroid prime 2 and 3 this year and four next year as I cross gen launch with Nintendo Switch 2 and Nintendo Switch But I don't know I wouldn't mind Metroid Prime 4 this year If it has been in development on the retro studio side since October of 2018 or so That's going to be a five-year development cycle unless if it's already done But I think if it's already done, we would have seen it at a previous E3 So I don't think it's done yet But just I think it's recently done That's a massive development cycle This could be their Zelda breath of the wild moment not in terms of sales not going to sell 30 million But of that quality that paradigm shift into the new what's next to see from Metroid Maybe it's a combination of first person and third more than just you know more fall mode Like it's it's hard to say but I think Metroid Prime 4 is going to be hot With good sales and High critical exclaim I'm excited By the way, I'm really excited for Metroid Prime 4 I'm just I've never been sold on Metroid games selling well until this day. They've all sold about what I thought So until I want Metroid Prime 4 to sell so well Oh, it's all right If it's following the prime formula, I think we kind of know where the prime formula goes I'm I'm I'm on which by the way is excellent is high rated. In fact Could be rated higher than tears of the kingdom that might sound crazy tears of the kingdom's a 95 just like Primary master this year. I'm just throwing that out there. It's a those didn't pay attention It's a 95 a metacritic now. They have the same rating They're within percentage points of each other. So prime 4 could be rated higher But it will be right higher because less people will review it Because there's less reviews of Metroid Prime remastered in tears of the kingdom so Hey, it's true, but they're less outlets review Metroid. It's just I don't know why Okay, I understand you're saying and I'm not disagreeing But I think it should be noted that prime remaster is definitely going to have less reviews in prime 4 It's a remaster for a 40 dollar digital release that was shadow dropped with minimal marketing Obviously, not as big of a deal as prime 4 Not as many people are going to review. I still don't think there's gonna be people are gonna review prime 4 I mean tears of the kingdom is arguably the biggest release of the entire switch generation. So That is true It's hard to argue at the moment I'm arguing right. It's currently the fastest selling right? So it's it's that's just where I don't know scarlet invite. I'm just I will say I know About the remaster is not selling well Xenoblade definitive edition is the worst selling on the switch Thank you Definitive edition has 1.6 million Xenoblade 2 has 2.4 million and then Xenoblade 3 has 1.8 But 2.4 is old Xenoblade 3 Is the highest selling in japan of all three which I thought was a very interesting fact That is interesting comparing cross comparing Xenoblade The original came out on we very late in the generation But metron prime didn't even get brought to the us. Yeah, but metron prime hasn't really had an escort too Retro prime while it got re-released as a trilogy pack on we Hasn't been remastered in 20 years until now. So like there's a larger gaps. You figure there'd be a bigger fervor For a 20 year old game that literally Most of the people alive planes, which weren't even alive when it came out Just I'm just kind of I'm just throwing out there like it's a brand new game as far as those people are concerned Xenoblade came out when I was 10 Xenoblade's also currently a highly cultivated franchise, right? Like they've been supporting and building that for years now metron to kind of come in back But also also right primary the the the the jury's still out on primary master We don't know how the sales are going to pan out It's it's at least it's more than halfway to the sales of Xenoblade definitive edition, right? Like it's already passed a million. They're both like Xenoblade definitive edition is probably not going to hit two million primary mastered Mike We don't know yet So, you know, it could by the way, this is that the remasters in general sell less Sure sure, I I think that is absolutely fair That being said That's your prime for direct in july No, that's not No, that would I would love that. I really would love it. Well, that's what I was alluding to earlier as like Okay, so my my thinking was like like I'm talking about very low percent chance, right? But like my thinking is if this is meant to be like a Um transition year, right and Nintendo's not going to have like a lot of really big releases The big release Wouldn't be a big release But it would still be hype and that would be metric prime four you put alongside a few remasters Like that could be like their their big thing, right? So maybe prime four if they're not going to do a normal direct that would get its own direct And then they'll kind of you know, just throw a few social media announcements for like maybe like a zero and a couple other things That's like An alternative option to us not getting a direct But I think that we're getting a direct so I'm gonna double down and say we're getting a switch to your presentation before august That's there we go. That's that's been my thing. I put it on twitter. I think yesterday And I will say If they're going to a holiday with just a couple remasters in prime fort now No, you're you're just letting switch die then That's no insult to those games by the way. Those aren't system cells. You're just letting And they're not supposed to be just letting their system and and and this and this This ceo said he wouldn't let that happen. Yeah, he said that that was so like if that's the case and you're dropping You're dropping switch to well, there could be cheers the kingdom dlc pokemon dlc like those are the dlc don't sell systems, man dlc don't sell systems. Yeah Yeah, dlc is gonna be wind waker Do you not think They just patched when raker hd had It was a leak you just got taken down I think if metro prime four because camera one went down so highly rated They could gather some of that first person shooter audience if everyone's talking about metro prime four if it's that good like Not, you know, no more than 11 million people ever bought a solar game before Ah, that's an adventure game of a guy in a green tunic and swords and stuff. Ah, not for me all of a sudden it went from Be 7 to 8 tops 7 8 11 ish if you combine a couple, you know, uh You know different versions to 30 32 maybe, you know so metroid Barely hitting that 3 million mark if it's good enough And I don't even say like oh, that's a small percentage chance. I think it will be good enough I think retro studios with seeing at how many people they've been pulling in from different studios I think it's going to be good enough that if it is that hot It will gain the clout more people will want to review it because it's a talking point But then that could be a system seller not in the tens of millions But you know enough to keep nintendo in that conversation of the holidays because they've got the Cool first-person shooter, even though if it's probably a fpa, right? Oh, no, maybe I'm putting too much faith in metroid, but I'm kind of like andre's here. I think it's I don't like to do well like the positivity. Yeah I'll also point out that My my youtube channel is andre's restart and metroid prime 4 had to be restarted. So you know Did you restart it? That's like me say in my my my channel name, you know, nintendo prime and it's Exactly Even though I'm based on amazon prime, but yo, what if the sub title for metroid prime 4 is restart? What if it's metroid prime restart? Yeah, yeah All right, so is there any other games we think could possibly be unveiled at a direct next year Yeah, here's my my big brain Maybe we don't get anything this month. That's okay next month At some point they say hey Here's nintendo switch 2. Here's a bunch of really cool games. Then they go to gamescom and say hey We're gonna let some people go hands-on with nintendo switch 2 You hear all these people who are games come think it's cool. You get to use it at nintendo live 2023 In september with all of these cool new games, but if you can't go to that you can buy it in october And that I think that's their game plan For for the year I like can you uh, just get hired by the nintendo right now. Hey, I got the plan I like uh There's nothing I dislike about that which is why it's probably not gonna happen If if I mysteriously disappear and you never hear from me again The nintendo ninja's killed me because I got everything accurate. It just seems too good to be true It seems like you know that's all through that because it's such a good plan Well, then what's what's the game launching with it? What's the game launching with it? I think it's got to be something mario Especially after how good the mario movie's done. They got a they got a good Yeah, you launched new hardware with a new mario game the year mario came out Then you're you're at that point. You're just repeating 2017. You got the sequel to zelda You got a sequel to mario odyssey on new hardware. You keep the momentum going you drop a 4k zelda update Repackage it with the dlc announced with dlc that comes at the game awards when tears of the kingdom inevitably wins game of the year They can do game of the year edition with dlc Done Listen nintendo i'll quit my job right now if you want to hire me Like I got I got no problem doing that I'll say that we we do oftentimes get hardware announcements from nintendo in july Switch OLED was announced in july don't i'm saying i think light was also announced in july So you're saying there's a chance Yeah, there's a shit. I gotta remember jeff grub just said rumblings of something happening. Yeah Just saying doesn't know what it is new hardware. It could be switched to direct I was like, oh, there's you know a third party. You're right. And they would probably show third party games on it like Hogwarts legacy And I gotta say I've been a switch to doubter I didn't think anything was gonna happen this year as far as a reveal or a release or anything But every week you guys gradually wear me down and now i'm on the hype train. I'm like, yeah, it's coming You see way it's here. I'll convert people to my train of thought with my big rain plans Thank you. Oh, I I'll just say that I I'm not really on the bad wagon currently I want it to happen, but I I'm on the bandwagon in the sense of like I really want it to happen But if it doesn't happen, I won't be heartbroken because I got zelda this year I need games I mean unless I unless prime gaming fest makes me lose I mean, it seems like we might Have a person that's fine darin, but there's a lot of people who only play switch Yeah, they need games And not all of them plays zelda Here's the kingdom dude. You can sink like 2 000 hours. I know you but not all of them plays zelda, man We're not selling 125 million zelda for dude. You should sink like 500 hours into that Okay, so the 5 million people that buy pickman 4 come on. We gotta get some other for everyone else Oh, they just dropped new virtual console games. So you can play those Here's where here's where my theory gets a little spicier pickman 4 already looks great But imagine if they do a july switch to your presentation, they say hey pickman 4k It can look even better. You can buy it now and keep playing But when the new console comes out in october, there's the play switch it over And take your 610s with you baby team 2023 let's go You're submitting your application to nintendo's marketing department Right, right now 4k prime restart If you want I can There you go every new game like, you know the n64 ever so many titles were just had 64 in it So the new one is just going to be a prime prime restart just Metroid prime 4k pickman 4k Splatoon 4k You know play chronicles 4k Super mario 4k everybody's 1 2 4k We Forget about mario card 9 everyone's like is it 9 to the 10 is 11? No, it's 4k. It's 4,000 Or maybe our 84k It's just about forks in the road. That's the new gaming fork. Yeah, here we go Okay, well, we're getting a little off the rails here uh, so All right, so it's a new hardware that that is what dicks going with over and over probably mario with it Let's go. Let's hold out hope because the hope is there I love it merely because nintendo hasn't communicated to us any other reason not to have it They just say Hey We have pickman 4 coming. Are you excited? We just told you make characters character creation tool Excited being so quiet. Why yeah That's what I mean though like nintendo Here's like we just don't know the the whole reason that you can have hope for Hardware is because we don't know of anything else happening and we've never really entered this part of the year Where we're like, we don't really know what the second half has beyond like this is really weird And the last time it was like this was understandable because covetous happened in 2019 2020 so we're like we kind of understood why there was a gap for a moment But that doesn't exist like there's no reason now the only reason that some people can come up with this Well, they're preparing hardware and they just don't want it to overshadow the currently announced stuff up to pickman And then they'll announce so I I don't know I'll say two things July direct like in the middle of july and they they let's say they have One more banger game this year metro prime 4 and they can also do a bunch of pickman 4 stuff and throw some minigames in there I will also say this that's a presentation That's a presentation if they announce new hardware in july before pickman 4 comes out and pickman 4 Isn't that's what i'm saying ready day 1 and 4k and instead is like being sort of left behind on switch It feels so bad for pickman 4 Well, that's what i'm saying they may not announce Pickman 4 might sell 5 copies and they might be everyone on the scale They may not announce switch 2 in the in the july direct if they're if they're Holding on to that and waiting for later in the year I mean if they have pickman 4 and one other game for a holiday like What prime metro prime 4 then that's that's a that's a showcase in and of itself You know, you throw maybe a remaster in there like zeno blade chronicles x, uh, you know, uh tears of the kingdom Are you still holding on hope that x is coming? I would love it. I'm hoping I'm hoping I feel like we would have gotten it already if it was coming Or There's a last part of our game was great people complained about it, but I really enjoyed it Do you think they save a direct for after pickman 4 and let it be out late July right week after Like the tuesday wednesday after I still think it'd be first half of july if they're on it. Yeah Yeah, there's no way in my opinion Plus you can use it to hype up pickman 4 too There's so much more we need to know about that game so Not to mention that they like to have the september direct and the longer you wait to have the summer direct The more awkward that timing becomes unless it's no hardware, then there's nothing awkward about any of it Then they don't need a september direct honestly Hardware drop all their games in august They'll still need a september direct because they need to announce what comes out in the beginning of next year They don't have to do it in september. They can do it november. They can do it december sure Old school nintendo used to do them randomly all over the thing What in january 2024 tomorrow? Well, the thing is they may want to have a january game But here but here's the thing if they announced new hardware Who's to say they wouldn't already announce games that would come early 2023 with that announcement And then they can wait all the way till february. That's a lot of announces to make Like how is it a lot? It could be three games You have a launch game Then you have a january game and a march game Hold on a second. Okay. Let me let me address that we're talking about a switch to announce an event taking the place of a direct Which means it also is going to account for the announcements we were to get for the second half of the year So by that logic you're saying we're getting What two games for this for the rest of this year and then one in january like that doesn't make any sense if it No, no, no Because you're still discounting that they'll still announce things on twitter They don't have to announce everything in the direct that's coming this year They've shown they're willing to just do We'll announce this and it's out in a month We'll announce this it's out today Like Nintendo's gonna stop doing that. So Okay, but I think they're gonna announce that like hey metroid platform is gonna come to be cross-gen And we're also gonna have a mario game at launch and then hey our next big game is gonna be this We have mario kart whatever we're gonna blow your mind coming out early 2023 and they show us a tease of that you know Along showing us the rest of the booster course pass I'm not gonna be hearing the night that nintendo can't make announcements Wow, because they clearly can and have and have but but the fact the matter is the majority of their games are announced in directs Like I mean, let's let's let's think about it. Um january fire emblem announced in a direct February curbie and metroid announced in a direct march bayonet origins not announced in a direct announced at the game awards April advanced horse announced in a direct may zelda in a direct June no with everybody want to switch pikmin. Yes. So only one game Only one game was announced via social media that's come out for this year And the other game was in at the game where everything else is in a direct point and that's that's just this year That's kind of usually the pattern for most years. So to think that then tells me to fill up Like two to three months for the second half with just social media announcements when we are going to get a direct of some kind I don't think so that just doesn't make sense It would be a pattern shift If nintendo really wants to If they really want to dominate the space they do a direct in july and they do one in september just say screw it Just do but that's that's probably what they're going to do It made the september one. Maybe it is it is a little bit later Like that's totally possible, especially if there is a new system for sure But I still think that the point is the point. I'm trying to make is that The door that we usually have like three periods in the year where there's an influx of news I I verbalize it in that way. Okay. That's not always a direct. It just usually is right so The early part of the year is going to kind of give us what we need to know leading up to the summer the summer Information usually is what we need to know for the second half of the year And then that late year direct, which is almost always september. It actually it is always september That lines up It gives us a little bit more information we know for the holiday stuff Like just a little bit extra advertising and it starts to build up the early part for next year And that's kind of how the cycle goes So even if we do get a big direct that this late july or whatever or late summer They still need to start to tell us about things to come on the early part of the year before the year starts At least that's how they've always done it beforehand throughout the switch era So, yeah, I still think we're getting a september direct If we go on in july, I don't think so And I'm just going to throw out there. Maybe it's not that would nintendo have a new hardware if it's new hardware That's my caveat if it's a new hardware announcement in july Then I don't think they will Because nintendo will be more willing to show quote unquote next gen games Maybe even a couple at the game awards And that is how they tied you over into going into 2023 until the february direct Now that's a caveat that is new hardware if it's not Then I don't really know because obviously they could announce they could blow their load and announce everything For the next six months just do it right now and get it out of the way They could announce some things the bigger ones and maybe do remasters in september Announce those maybe you have them. I don't know like I don't know This is the weird thing We like I this is over there talking about all the patterns all the time like nintendo does this and some of this We're not in a pattern at the moment Because we are in a moment that nintendo doesn't usually put themselves in We know we were in a pattern If we were in a pattern, we would already have a direct like we we would already have had it Or had it by now Which so it'll be within a week or so the murmurs for july are from one person If Nate the hate comes out tomorrow and says general direct next week. Well, then The pattern is the same. Yeah, so I'll I'll see if my stance has always been late june to early july before the rumors Just because that's what makes sense because one e3 is canceled and tend to like to do things to the beat of their own drum so Through the early june timing and then two because they do want to space things out as paul alluded earlier because it teaches the kingdom Yeah, yeah, uh, I do want to mention this though on the note here's the kingdom Because like sometimes you like to think oh and it tells me really quiet. What does this mean? Sometimes it just means they're being weird because they were quiet about tears of the kingdom for a really long time for what reason There wasn't any new system There there wasn't like it wasn't like because the game was bad They didn't tell us about the depths Just because like they marketed the sky and the sky is actually like a really small part of the game It's a cool part of the game. It adds a really nice dynamic to it, but it's like it's relatively tiny compared to everything else Yeah, yeah, I mean it's it's like more relative to the story of anything and even then um, yeah, so Nintendo's marketing sometimes it's just like I think we can't look too. We shouldn't look too much into the silence. It's just them The differences though, we still knew about games Like he didn't maybe didn't weren't marketing Zelda, but we knew when it was coming. He had a release date Well, they waited on a long time to give us we knew when we knew about beta and other origins at the same time We knew about Kirby. We knew about fire emblem. We knew about all these other games, too And right now we know everybody's want to switch Just announced Which I mean honestly could be game of the year We don't know I mean No better truth has been spoken. I mean, what else is there to say? I think before prime gaming fest It's too bad that that game is not out for prime gaming fest because every wheel option could be played a different mini game On everybody It's it's the wheel of punishment. Not the wheel of torture paul. Come on. Okay. Okay. I watch nintendo Look, I'm just gonna pretend i'm not hearing what i'm hearing right now Every stream of yours for some reason people will be like eric and nato want to see you twerk Everybody want to switch is going to have like five different twerking mini games and then the fans of probably But it's coming out to 30th. So you all watching right now. You just missed it I think one I think if everybody is one to switch Can bring in I know some people have said like oh, it might have like jackbox elements I think if it can do that it might actually be good Because then you're not limited to just how many joycons you have or passing them back and forth Anyone can get in with it on their phone. I know the game tester said it was bad But i'm not gonna say anything until I see game. I don't know what the game tester said about one two switch I'd like to have context how they reacted to that Because I might be one of 10 people on the planet that actually really enjoyed one two switch It did not regret buying it at lunch. I really want one. I actually enjoyed it now There's a caveat to this. This is a party game But unlike a lot of other party games where it's like one two three four players This one can let you have hundreds of players and I was an after school teacher So when we had free time I would have 30 40 students together and we'd all be playing one two switch and it turned out to be an absolute blast Everyone loved it. So you see all the jokes about it being played at the rooftop parties. Yeah Let me tell you people in college dorms aren't getting together to play one two switch But if you get a group of children or family together to play it It's a really damn fun game and like that's kind of what they intended and almost nobody knows that many people to Do that So I was in the unique situation to experience one two switch the way they actually sort of advertised it except we weren't on a rough And uh, it was awesome People loved it. It was so much fun. So I actually think one two switch isn't that bad Maybe not 60 bucks should have been lower price or 50 bucks. I think it was it was 50. Yeah, yeah Probably should have been a bit lower price. I think it should have been a packing game But some people argue well that would have killed would have killed what exactly I don't know you're talking about That's that's like saying people won't buy twilight princess because we sports was packed in like just okay point is That it should have been a packing game and I don't think it was going to sell that well But maybe I unironically actually Enjoy it because I understand it's meant to be played with a lot of people And I'll do that one time and I'll have a lot of fun I don't know I guess we'll see I do think it's really funny that I'll probably try out. What is it 30 bucks? Yeah, yeah, I mean, I'll probably just get it just a more big curiosity I think it's funny in 2023. We got a we got two sequels to two 2017 switch launch games in Tears of the Kingdom and everybody's one to switch one of them was $10 more the other one was $20 less What does that say about the game? I don't know. I do think it's weird that they just dropped it like that was the most Unenthusiastic tweet I've ever read about Nintendo. No exclamation points. No nothing just everybody's one to switch No trailer no screenshots. We have a horse pre-order here some cell phones and you're like And like you it's just one of those Nintendo doesn't believe in what they just announced because they just announced it without showing anything It doesn't even have it just announced it. It's been over a week And they still have shown nothing We're getting closer to launch and we there's a gate guys There's a first party Nintendo game coming up this month and we haven't seen anything we've seen a logo If they feel this badly about it Why put it out at all like if they don't Recoup some development cost whatever Recoup some depth cost Out of the way, so maybe it doesn't fit in with what's going to come in an intended direct mini And that's why let's let's show it at disappointing announcement if it was in if it was on a direct or something Yeah, right because they'd be like, oh, this is the big game. We're launching the direct now just Well, thanks for setting that you know what though it could be it could be like the last director although Pikmin 4 notwithstanding. I actually like the Pikmin 4 opening But right after that it went into like this kind of a low For like 10 minutes and then you got to the second half and it just killed it So I guess you know what you could just start bad and still redeem yourself later Nintendo showed that last direct And I think that last direct just makes people more excited for the next one because We have a lot of months and stuff We don't know about things and so it potentially could be a really big direct Like the last one felt like sort of a bigger direct But we'll see we'll see what happens. Is there any chance we get Zelda ports this year? No No, no with tears of the kingdom If there's no new system It's an outside chance probably not But I mean Look if they're going to rely on ports and remasters plus Metroid Prime 4 then I mean, yeah Dropping a wind waker hd this holiday might not hurt. I would appreciate the princess hd Yeah Yeah, but again, we just went over that about The originals so then we shouldn't shouldn't rely on ports and remasters. It would also be the second time. It's been ported in hd And I don't know if this is the first time it's been ported on a system people own I just think the way Do you count the Wii like look I played the Wii 11. I mean come on I really really want them to package it in with the The midna amiibo the wolf link pack it in again Pack it in baby. Let's go I got that one too. That was good. Uh, we're gonna quickly get to our last topic here and wrap things up So obviously Nintendo may or may not do something this summer. We probably all think they'll do something But we don't know what because it's too early. It's just murmurs at the moment What we do know is there's a whole bunch of other summer showcases going on a bunch of them I have an event sort of like planned around some of it. So you have summer game fest coming up We have cap comms got a direct xbox event starfield direct as well Uh, ubi soft has ubi soft forward that apparently will have at least one game assassin's creed. So I mean there's It's better than it's better than like that that the last time there was e3 And they just did walking simulation for two hours. It was I don't know what ubi soft is doing there Uh, we also have other stuff the vulver digital direct Can never forget about them because even if you don't play their games the directs themselves are highly entertaining. Yes, sir So do we have any excitement? What's the temperature in the room for just everything else going on? That isn't necessarily nintendo, but you could include some nintendo stuff like plucky squire was announced last year at this time And that's coming to switch because the people excited for that How are we feeling at the moment? I'm only really excited for either I think it's based on the rumors. I've read it's either going to be tomorrow or sunday They're supposed to be announcing a persona 3 remake and then some form of persona 5 t We don't know what it is So anything persona this weekend would be great, but other than that i'm kind of like i'm i only play nintendo So there's like i don't really have a stake in any of the other console games Yeah Go ahead No, I was just going to be another downer and say i'm a hardcore nintendo fan so like Like the non nintendo games that said my interested They sent a semi interest me already know like i want right like resident evil and final fantasy 16 and that's pretty much it So I mean, i'll be honest. They didn't hear us five. I watched I watched all of the playstation Showcase and I thought all of those games looked the same Like it was very hard for me to tell a distinguishing between like, okay We're moving on that visual But other than that I was like no these are all those visual styles. It's just it's just so popular with someone It's rare to see they're more unique That's a screen Yeah, I mean I play I Odyssey was one of my favorite games and when vel hal came out I enjoyed it, but I didn't enjoy it as much so i'm interested to see where this one goes And i'm really interested to see how star field pans out. We talked about how earlier The footage we've seen makes it look like a walking sim so far So, you know, if they're going to show off an hour of star field content It makes me think that they have quite a bit to show So i'm i'm pretty hyped for that That's definitely going to be something that'll pick up when it comes out and andre you mentioned the new final fantasy. I'm also pretty excited to To see what that's all about and to to get my hands on that too. So there's there's three non nintendo games that i'm Looking forward to seeing footage from this summer It's going to be a good good year for gaming and especially If nintendo has a game or two for this holiday season, I think I'm going to have my hands full with games from every company everywhere. So plus there's that rumored Star Wars open world game that's been talked about a little bit that i'm still waiting to hear about So pretty excited on the gaming front for 2023 Yeah, I think what excites me the most about the showcases is because I don't follow all the other companies as closely For me, it feels like so much new all the time. You know, if I disappoint this one I'm like, hey, dude, I don't know about that game. The show is perfect for me. All right So like I love I love this time of year because even if it's something previously announced It's probably something I haven't heard about and you know, I do own all the platforms As you can see behind me with the xbox playstation 5 and obviously my switch So it's really it's really cool for me just to find more games Uh to to play like, you know, I I am primarily a nintendo gamer But I yeah, I play if it's a game that looks good and I want to play it. I'm going to play it I don't care what platform it's on Maybe that's just a luxury. I have but I don't buy everything. I tell you that definitely don't buy anything I got like two ps5 games. All right, like I definitely don't buy everything But it is uh, you know, like as an example I am looking forward to spider-man 2 because that is one of the games I have I do have played on place if I played the spider-man and miles morales And I loved them. So I am looking forward to that but Just looking at the rest of the showcases. I mean, there's so many good games. I think what surprises me Every year that I I watch this stuff is How many of the games actually are coming to switch because I always go in expecting none And I walk away with like, oh no gotta switch logo another switch another switch logo. What is going on? Now Nintendo Here jeff kealy's plea he did an interview recently And he he literally called out nintendo and said they're the only major company He can't seem to get to work with him on summer game fest, but will work with him on the game awards He's like maybe if we put a little public pressure on nintendo to Act act like they're with the rest of the industry beyond just accepting awards. It'd be great So yeah, jeff kealy just kind of threw out there that he has actually tried talking to nintendo to get them to To show at least one thing and uh nintendo just chooses chooses not to but he did say they have had conversations So it's one of those When nintendo feels the time is right and I probably feel like it's more like once new hardware's out there Uh, maybe nintendo might be more like, all right, let's Let's show let's come to the park like I have a feeling as an example If if cheers the kind of was a holiday game And they weren't doing a direct nintendo would just drop the zeal of the stuff at At this event because it can hang with all the other games are going to show but um Yeah, I think it's one of those things that nintendo's waiting for the right time And they kind of do that with the game awards, too Yeah, they're always there to accept awards But when they have a year that they think they have a game that's worth showing there next to all the other big games They do it They just did it last year like they they will do it So Jeff kealy just trying to get them to be like, hey if you're done with e3 like that's that's nudge nudge nudge Maybe give us at least a game a year that would be great. So Well, we'll see what happens in the future, but obviously nintendo didn't want to do it this year So maybe they'll do it next year if they drop new hardware this year Could be that I do think a lot of it is just new hardware and nintendo want to make sure they have a game They think that fits with that audience my uncle zelda would have fit with that audience, but you know They weren't showing zelda any of these summers I remember in the last of 2019, dude Um, did they ever show it any summer sunset? No, no they did not. Yeah, they did they showed it in 2021 I remember because I I absolutely lost my mind Yeah, they closed they then they closed with a with another trailer that showed us nothing again Yeah, I mean it was another nothing burger. So I guess they technically showed a nothing burger to remind people that exist Looking back. They showed us the main theme. They showed us this end They showed us recall and they showed us the dragon's tears technically they did show us all of that without us knowing what it is And they said 22 the biggest line Spoiler The tears of the kingdom. I understand the title now by the way, and I haven't beaten the game It's just become super obvious at one point. What the point of the title? I don't know how I still don't know how it's a spoiler though Like there's no way for you to be spoiled unless you played the game. So I I still don't I still hate that excuse when they say we can't tell you the title It's a spoiler. I I think I think too many people put too much stock into that to that quote It was just pr speak So I think they also probably just needed a good answer as to why they didn't I also I don't think they had a title yet. That's two years. Really? Um, um, honestly, honestly based off I think they probably knew where the story was going back at e3 21. So I mean, they probably knew the direction They had at least had the tears done because they showed the little animation of the Yeah, yeah, yeah They did And I mean side note I'm At the end of the story and I still have no idea what's gonna happen and I'm hoping that some things Get resolved. So I mean it could take on a whole new meaning at the end I don't know if anyone hears beat the story, but I I just want to say that um I've seen a lot of people say that So you're just kicking them retcons a lot I don't agree. I think people will we will debate this in the gaps. Um, we will debate this another day if I ever beat the game Because I have to beat the game Nick, what was that face was that face and oh, how dare they or you disagree do you agree or disagree? I totally disagree with you. I finished the story and even even just going off the memories, right? I don't know how this fits in the timeline. I've seen a couple theories that are like It's so far. I gotta beat the game. I can't fully comment till I beat the game. So I got I'm gonna have to make that but we will we I guarantee you that we will have a spoiler cast at some point this summer And it will that will probably one of the topics that we talk about I mean if you want to heavily story related if you want to talk about retconning stuff I mean 90 of the stuff from the 2019 reveal trailer is not in the game So Which that was Twilight Princess too. I mean granted. It was four years ago. A lot can change in four years Yeah, that was that was more of like a proof of concept. They're like, hey, we are making a game Yeah, it will come out in the future In the future, uh Have you said that mice and it's just gone Yeah Yeah, not looking good for your heat right now by the way. I'm sure you're aware You don't need to tell me that Darren's Darren's heat uh, no, let's just put it this way. The run either happens now or Let's check the score. Oh Yeah, the run happens now or it's over Revitate, don't you 16 points down with six to go the thing is there is the best team There's a chance because of the best code. Yeah, they're the best closeout team and so if there's an complete collapse It's possible. I guess we're gonna cover it's unlikely It's very yeah, even heat fans don't it's unlikely, but if it happens, you'll just be like Yup, it's what we do 10 10 points is one thing Yeah 16 it was it was just 20 so they did just knock it down five points, but Yeah, I mean they did it twice the box Oh, they did they've done it a lot. It's what they know. They know they can it's not that they can't do it It's just this one feels So the the other ones that they came back on it wasn't quite this less of time left, but who knows who knows All it really takes is Denver misses everything and you start drilling every three you take, you know You can't stop the joker, baby. That being said That being said oh that was a clanker I gotta It's not pretty it's not pretty guys. Anyways, uh Just to throw out there because This time of year, you know nintendo fans. Those are always wondering like what to pay attention to well the last time we got any like like Real silk song news was that an xbox event really? so If you it's possible we could see more silk song stuff Also because of how many games didn't make it in microsoft's 12 month window Phil Spencer went out there and said yeah We're never doing that again Never announcing that all the games coming are coming out in the next 12 months because over half the games miss the 12 month window so Which by the way most of it wasn't really microsoft's fault. It was all the third party games that promised they would come out in that window and I just didn't uh, so The microsoft I guess learned a lesson that you know other companies have had to learn along the way Don't promise things that far out That being said there's a lot of exciting things that sometimes happen for nintendo. It's just If the only thing you play on switch is like nintendo published games then this time of year right now is probably not that exciting And this whole month might not be that exciting if the only game we had to look forward to is everybody's want to switch from nintendo published games that being said We could get dlc drops won't get announced this week though and If you're into other things like third party games that could potentially be on switch indie games This is a great week because there's a bunch of indie showcases Most of those games come to switch So it could end up being a quite lovely week for some switch owners. Did you see the shredders? Sorry, did you see the shredders revenge update? No, I haven't seen that dlc like ninja turtles was an awesome game. Yeah Yeah, that was that one, you know, that's literally the kind of game I would love to just sit down get some pizza and play with my with my That's the kind of game that is though. Yeah It's exactly been that they love pizza. So it's yeah, yeah, all right It's you're fitting right in it kind of would like take me back to the 90s Which would be cool. Yeah, I might not pretty much how I was a little kid I was in the single digits just for the record But it was cool in the 90s. I was in negative digits. Don't Always I wasn't even alive yet. Yeah, I was doubled it. I like I don't want to even talk about I don't I like the 90s, but the more I remember over the more I realized that, you know, we're Slowly creeping up on that being over 30 years ago. So I remember it like it was yesterday, buddy It was a long time ago yesterday at this point playing ocarina time as a sophomore in high school. Yeah, that was me Yeah, it's good times. Good times though. Anyways Uh So yeah, anything else anyone's excited about with any of these showcases. I mean, there's ones I didn't even talk about It's like if I get perfect dark from xbox and it looks good, I would be very happy because I will say We have a capcom presentation. That's 36 minutes long Maybe we finally see that resident evil that was supposed to be made for switch That would be Pretty epic Uh, I mean it's a 36 minute presentation. They got to have something. So I'm just Capcom is one of my favorite developers, but presentation wise over these last summers Presentations have been rough. They could bust out a new mega man x and that would be and then they can't lean on Oh, we got months under summer. No, you just released the final update for that. So it's not some break So what what are you gonna show me? I'm kind of excited that they wanted to do a showcase because to me that means they have something to show But then we remember all their last showcases and you're like, oh Um That's true. You have to imagine that something's on the way That's like you said in the past But if we actually think about it all of capcoms like they're like their last 10 major game releases have actually all been Outerly fantastic street finder their presentations Have kind of not been and I don't know how how are you releasing this many great games, but then your presentation sucks I don't I don't get it. Maybe that's it They maybe they think that's the key our presentation has to suck so our games remain good Release the games first and then do a reveal or a trailer on the games that already came out Like yeah, it's just a dlc updates because like because street fighter six gets something like here's the next round of characters. Yeah Uh, what else do you do? Here's an update on resident evil 4 I think it would be maybe some sort of monster. We are possibly hunter could be something related to one of the roster hunter games I have no idea what one Your final fight would be fun. You know, we saw streets of rage get it into turtles get it Capcom's one of those companies that have so many ip that they can Really dig into the past and anything they would do people would be happy about I feel like that's the way with Microsoft and rare if they utilize rare With here's a new congressman for a day Oh Here's a new uh, yes, don't even Here's a new last core. We know we get perfect dark. Here's a new killer. I don't even Microsoft is worried with that statement We can't just release the game and have people sway over to xbox and leave play station If you properly utilize rare for the last 20 years You could have done that because the nintendo gamer that wanted Rare titles that they loved They the xbox platform would have been come their next machine and maybe they would have been buying too, but you know, you you do updates of those titles once every few years and you would have built that audience up um Yeah, I think I think rare microsoft games are some of the like those are some of the games that That stick out to me the most right like even um, cfv's right like that's that's something made by rare That you know, I I kind of keep tabs on you know, it it does appeal to me as it I don't like I don't want to say I don't like microsoft games. I do but I don't like the typical cliche You know the bro the bro the game thing. Yeah, I mean that's it's not I do like here's halo. Yeah. Yeah, I mean I do like playing call of duty and halo occasionally I do but Not every like that's not my thing. I like it when when games kind of stand out when there's something unique and they're more of the Fiction sci-fi fantasy root and not let's just you know make another call of duty or FIFA game so You know those appeal to me more. So for sure. I I kind of I see where you're coming from with that Andre, the heat's down by six Who's making a valid one team is Six why spoil it? You mean you mean 16. What are you talking about six? It ain't six if they Yeah, you're you're wrong. I have the game. He's an alternate reality. Yeah, you're an alternate reality My app is wrong. I'm looking at my phone My app is like 30 minutes behind six would be crazy. Yeah, that would be insane right now because there's like Me leaving the podcast to watch. Yeah, six would be I'm ending the podcast. They're gonna watch the end Um, I'm not even I have I have one other thing that I'm looking forward to that I know is happening. That's not a rumor like persona Tomorrow they're showing the trailer for the new fortnight season. Yes, they are That's that's about that's the only thing I know that's happening four nights on switch I I have two hundred ninety hours on fortnight and switch I played a little bit of this season. I enjoyed it not as much as the season before but you know I might hop back in a little comeback when they when they added zero build Yeah, no, I only play Yeah, I never liked the buildings aspects. I always thought it was unique and cool, but I suck at it So zero Here's where I got I got stuck as I played some fortnight tonight and um I didn't realize how similar fortnight and tears of the kingdom are And you just got to hear me out on this one I was I was diving from the battle bus and I tried to press r to dive faster And as I was running through like stuff I kept looking at platforms above me and pressing l to do a send and I couldn't do a send I'm like, oh, okay. So then I would try over to send in modern warfare too I've been trying to ascend in real life Like we just saw it read the other day. It's like, oh, oh, I can't do that I see stuff and I'm like, oh, that's too far away to ascend through But there's a there's an area underneath it that's a little closer and I could go through that and go all the way up This game has broken me mentally because the thing it is it is exciting because when you play tears of the kingdom And you have to get used to new abilities your brain is like creating new pathways Because you're coming you're coming with a new way of thinking And it's kind of fun with it. That's one of the reasons why I love like trying out new games in general Because it's forcing you to think of a new system Like that's not just with video games of the board games sports game Like there's like a new set of rules It forces you to think of things a different way and tears of the kingdom It's to another level. So yeah, it kind of Kind of deludes you from reality Yeah Yeah Well, I'm gonna use things this Left to recall myself back into bed Yeah, I think that actually is going to do it for the podcast today. I still have a lot to get ready for prime gaming fest So, uh, by the way, you guys check out prime gaming fest It is this when we end this podcast the live version It will actually kick you to it so you can set your notifications Uh, this begins on thursday at 8 a.m Going to 8 p.m And it is like that again on friday and saturday And sunday lots of giveaways lots of stuff in fact I think every person on the podcast right now, but the real dern over there Is actually going to be a guest on the show at one point. Just waiting for my invite That's that's pretty exciting to see paul gale. I'll just start nick with no k You know Look if my xbox guy doesn't come through for sunday. I might have to have you on just so you can I don't know You're the only other person I know that plays stuff that isn't Nintendo So I don't know it might not even be the right person just for the record. I like playing non-intendo stuff I just haven't had the time to I haven't had the time to play tears of the kingdom So that's why if I have to delete my save file the next four by the way tune in because That there might need to save files being deleted and I might cry You shouldn't you shouldn't have imposed out upon yourself. You know what's fun about it You know, I will say stand about it if it does happen I'm trying to I'm trying to spend a positive if it happens to me I think it's safe at this point for me to stream the entirety of tears of the kingdom start to finish And not if people yell at me about spoilers So I don't think so not at this point if I'm starting brand right now No, you're a lot. You're allowed to stream the game. You just can't put a spoiler Well, I can't here's the thing People refuse that like I would start off with 300 people and then it would drop to 50 The moment anything story related happened and it would just never recover That's I think it's safe now I don't I think people won't leave now because they they know more than me It'll be out for a month almost so yeah No, they'll they'll know more than me. That's the people that'll tune in other people will be like, all right I played through now I can watch Nintendo Prime play And they're all gonna wait for the one shrine that I took that I said in my one video That is not the correct way to do it That is not the intended solution and they all told me I'm wrong and then they're all like wait a second If he thinks that's not what do you think the solution is and I'm like, oh I gotta replay that shrine for you then don't bet so there could be a silver lining No, no, I do not want to I'm so close to like I feel like if I just if I go hit hit hit that last one dungeon thing I haven't done yet in the story that I'm really after that probably not that far away from actually completing the story if I just wanted to and I don't want to feel like I'm now this close to completing the story to now infinitely more Anyways That's just gonna make me stay up all night tonight trying to complete the story palm rush through All right guys, well, you guys should go ahead and uh follow all of our guests, uh, nick and okay, where can they find you? Well, you can find us over at the joystick drift podcast on youtube We're also on instagram and all that fun stuff. I would plug a video, but we're a little behind We ran into some technical issues this week. So we couldn't put out an episode. I'm working on it But when you work 40 hours a week, it is a little difficult to find the time to edit that podcast So it's coming out eventually And I pretty sure we're recording at tears of the kingdom like spoiler cast this weekend So for those who have beaten the story, you can look forward to that We're going to go into everything and I can guarantee you we do not all see eye to eye on things So it will be a very interesting conversation And then here's the heat I'm about to make this a single digit game With under a minute left putting their bench guys in because they're hitting threes now Anyways, they're still not gonna win, but they might but they're gonna make it look like it was a tight game It's what's it's what's about to happen. They might No, no, it's just I I already know they're not coming back. There's no, all right Let's end the podcast Paul gill network where can they find you Paul gill network on a youtube and twitter and YouTube has a little bit of a variety of things that I do from martial arts to some video game unboxings And coverage and on the twitter side of things a lot of video game Sales talk and dropping some unique numbers and some perspectives and that kind of thing on the video game industry Nice Andres restart. How about you buddy? Yeah, andres restart. That's my youtube channel So you can go there to watch the nintendo theories and discussion. I put out a pick bin for trailer analysis today We'll see how that one goes. We'll see. Yeah, there's a little little trailer and uh I'll be talking about metroid prime 4 or nintendo directs and choose the kingdom timeline shenanigans Later this week. So there's a lot planned Yeah, stay tuned. So you want standalone videos go watch all these guys channels because I won't be making it Uh Dern i twitter need me to skip you. Uh, eric come on twitter. I'm on twitter at real d er and you can follow me Follow me there, please He's gonna show up in the chat and be like, why am I not on why am I not on? Yeah, definitely I should have made you fly out here for the whole show You could have been on all the time. I would have too if you let me Yeah, I would have Yeah, I would have just taken off or you would just want to play tears You wanted another week off from work to play tears the kingdom. Let's be honest. I would do that there too I'll take my switch from me All right, eric you can find him on twitter as well at emo 87 90 or Just stay tuned right here the next four days Live 12 hours a day. You're gonna see a lot of eric and I mean a lot Almost as much as you might see bamma hut gifting memberships because he's now gifted 10 Like the last like I don't know two minutes. So maybe he'll keep that going With uh prime gaming fest. We'll see thank you guys for tuning in. Uh, we'll catch you Not, I don't know maybe not the same time next week. We'll see it's a little bit in flux I gotta get through prime gaming fest