 Today we need to talk about a few stories that are floating out there. One we get to talk about the future of Super Smash Bros because guess what? Sakurai has decided to go on record talking about the future of the franchise, his plans, his what do you think is going to be a challenge and all of that and that's always really exciting. We also get to talk about some updated information on how well Mario Wonder is selling because it just jumped ahead of Spider-Man 2 in a key territory so we got to go over that and then more than that we actually have something that's I mean it's switch to related at least that we need to talk about mostly because I don't like how it's being presented and we need to add some clarifications. Now that being said before I dive in I just want to remind you we are on our road to 150,000 subscribers so go ahead and drop a like subscribe to the channel and take a hammer and smash that bell icon to be notified of all future uploads including our live stream because we will be live tonight at 8 p.m central. Alright we need to talk about Super Smash Bros and the future of the franchise now look I do think that we're going to get a smash ultimate deluxe or something like that early in the Nintendo Switch 2 life cycle but it's very obvious the franchise is super popular and we're going to get more of it eventually they'll have to make a new game. While Sakurai runs his own YouTube channel he's been doing as a passion project for some time now to really good success mostly talking about Smash but also talking about some other avenues of game development and in his most recent video he put in there a little something to do with the well next Smash game here's what Sakurai said. As for what comes next for the Smash Bros series even I'm not sure I feel like we truly succeeded in making people happy with this game but now that Smash Bros has grown to be a monstrous size I'd say it's difficult to imagine an increase of this magnitude happening again. Every time we managed to make a game I had previously thought impossible so I can't say for certain that there won't be another but I do think it will be difficult to push it any further than we have. Now obviously you know he's felt this way in the past you know he felt this way with the Wii U and 3DS Smash game and like how the heck do we even go further than this and then they found a way but now they brought all the characters back together plus new ones and all the different modes I do think it is hard to just keep going in that direction because eventually one you can end up with a roster that's completely untenable if you end up with like 200 300 400 fighters that's just going to be an impossible to manage task for pretty much anyone including Sakurai so it's hard to just keep going in the direction they've been going in and obviously you know they all the different modes like Smash Bros sort of is what it is I think the smartest way and Sakurai's briefly touched on this before that he would do another Smash game and he's totally open to it and willing to but that he needs to get you know Nintendo to maybe understand that it would be something different and I do think that that's probably the best way forward would be a reboot of the series now how they reboot it smaller roster what are the key differences that's obviously something I will completely leave up the Sakurai we all have ideas on what they could do maybe there's more of an emphasis on story maybe it's a different style of fighter maybe they turn it into an arena style fighter I don't know if that will work of course I'm just throwing out ideas I don't actually know I'm not a game developer I don't have to figure this out but it's one of those that well he thinks it's he basically thinks it's almost impossible to keep going in the direction Smash Bros has been going so I do think early in the Switch 2 life cycle we're going to get that 4k up res port of Smash Bros but beyond you know including all the DLC together but I just think whatever's next it's still going to be a while it might even skip a generation I've talked about this before how you know how Mario Kart basically skipped this generation I know we had home circuit but essentially Mario Kart skipped this generation and we're just using the Wii U Mario Kart I think that that might happen with Smash next time around now maybe they go ahead and launch another fighter pass and add another 5 to 10 maybe 15 characters just for the hell of it so there's new content to sell to people but honestly I do think the future of Smash lies in rebooting the franchise but it's going to be up to Nintendo and Sakurai and Nintendo tells him he can't do that and he's got to find a way to top what he's already done well Sakurai said he's felt this way before and been able to do it so maybe he still can maybe he can go ahead and pull that rabbit out of the proverbial hat I don't know but I do think rebooting the franchise and finding the fresh direction for it might be the best way to handle it but it's going to be controversial of course because if you completely change up the way the fighting game works that could be a problem and then if you don't change it enough then people will wonder well is this just a lesser of what we've already had I don't envy the situation they put themselves in with Super Smash Bros Ultimate but I do think we're going to get another Smash game it's just too popular not to invest in it next up we need to talk about well the UK sales charts not only we don't talk about it unless something notable happens and last week which was the launch week for Spider-Man 2 Sonic Superstars and Super Mario Wonder we saw the Super Mario Wonder was actually just behind Spider-Man 2 but obviously for Nintendo games we don't have digital sales well the second full weekend it's really first full week on the market Mario Wonder actually jumped ahead of Spider-Man 2 in the latest charts and is now number one with Spider-Man 2 being number two now this is completely unusual and doesn't typically happen but there's a specific reason for it this time around and that is because while games always sell less in the second week than the initial launch the drop off is usually pretty samey in percentage wise anyways when it comes to the loss of sales right it's right around 70% or so of you know loss from week one to week two well Mario Wonder bucked that trend and only dipped off by 55% so it sold 55% less physical copies in week two than it did during launch that's actually really good you want to know why because Spider-Man 2 dipped off at 69% nice yeah it's interesting because that's a typical fall off and that's not bad news for Sony it just shows that you know what just looking at launch sales has never a barometer for full success Nintendo does tend to create evergreen titles and Mario games are fairly evergreen they're not as evergreen as their spinoffs like a mario cart or a mario party you can see that in the fact that odyssey hasn't had sales updates every single quarter because again it's not selling a million units every quarter but it is something that does typically sell very well for at least six months usually at least you know two to three years before the sales finally drop off you know doesn't stay as evergreen as Breath of the Wild has been able to do that's about first for Zelda to ever be that evergreen or obviously is evergreen to smash roads mario cart animal crossing and all the rest but just throwing out there that this is actually really cool to see mario wonder actually climb the charts i fully suspect when we get our update on thursday from famitsu that it's still at number one unless there's another big game launching in japan i'm not aware of this week that could bump it down but i think mario wonder will probably maintain its number one position maybe for the rest of you know i don't know november we'll have to wait and see obviously we don't know uh there's there's other games coming out that can seal some thunder like super mario rpg also warrior wear i don't know if that's going to take off in japan but maybe that's the exact audience for warrior wear anyways i'm just really happy to see mario wonder doing well i'm sure you are and uh for those of you that got to that final uh badge level folks uh nintendo created their most difficult mario level of all time it exists in mario i don't want to hear about how easy mario wonder is the most difficult level nintendo's ever made is in this game and i'm not kidding and if you've gotten there you know now our last story is dealing with something i find to be interesting to talk and speculate about but i don't like how it's being presented and unfortunately it's all too common especially in the youtube sphere and i'm not calling on anyone specifically but we do have these reports out there about a nintendo switch to patent now i have covered patents in the past and i have speculated on what it could mean like hall sensing sticks for nintendo switch to but in the end when patents for nintendo and someone has covered them for 30 years almost almost 30 years covering nintendo and their patents i'm well aware that if a patent comes out for something that hasn't already been announced that means this is a canned idea by nintendo there are a billion patents put out by nintendo and they're either about a product that's already out or already released or they're just cancelled and this happens to be one of those situations where nintendo clearly had an idea for something they maybe even had a prototype at some point but it's not coming out and that's why this patent is public we're talking about the fact that there's a patent out there showing a dual screen nintendo system that got some people excited especially since the dual screen was optional and even detachable and one thing you can i guess if you want to fringe speculate is just because this particular device will not exist doesn't mean the entire idea of an optional accessory detachable screen couldn't be released i'll give you an idea of how this could work we've seen with nintendo switch online that nintendo will release custom controllers the nest controller this nest controller n64 for the given platform it could be theoretically possible that if nintendo added ds or 3ds games to nintendo switch online on switch 2 that they would then sell an accessory that would make them well basically an detachable screen what would basically be the whole there'd there'd be an optional detachable screen and then that could enable the like the most realistic form of playing the game but again i don't i just don't think nintendo is going to do it even for that yes they would have to make it playable without the attachment as well even if it's in a more limited capacity but that's neither here nor there the point i make it is this is a patent that's out there it is factually filed by nintendo it does exist and they likely prototyped it at some point this is not something that nintendo is actually going to be selling we've seen this so many times in these patents come on it would be different if nintendo switch 2 was announced and then this patent came out because then you could say oh this might be something that they just haven't told us about yet we saw this with tears of the kingdom when there was a tears of the kingdom patent that came out towards the end of 2021 for the game that was already announced but had ideas and stuff in it like shooting your arrows midair and stuff that hadn't been shown off by nintendo yet but it was clearly a patent for a game already announced versus this be a patent for an advice nintendo hasn't even acknowledged beyond saying we're always making new hardware and we're transitioning to what well they haven't told us yet we'll just have to wait but yeah guys this patent's being presented as big nintendo switch 2 news and we'll go into more speculation and hype and ideas you know for this on our live stream tonight if you actually want to have a discussion about it and i think it's fine to discuss it i just don't think it's fine to present it as boom here's this big big switch 2 news because it's not really about switch 2 it is a scrapped idea might have been for an alternate model nintendo switch for all we know i've seen people speculate that this could have been a like ds version of the switch beats the hell out of me guys heck maybe this was actually just a prototype for a possible classic console remember how we talked about the nests classic this nests classic we speculated on n64 and gameboy what if this was more like a ds classic again there's a lot of things this could have been but what it isn't is a product nintendo is actually going to release anyways guys thank you so much for tuning in i am the thander roble jats from nintendo prime and we'll catch you in the next video wait a second dang it name ah remember this is our prime news episode and that was prime news yes first time baby