 Hey everyone, I am Nathaniel Ruffeljantz from Nintendo Prime and This video is just kind of a quick channel update slash patreon update slash Lots of updates because it's been a while since I've really talked directly to you guys About the future of Nintendo Prime and where I'm trying to take this YouTube channel And any other entities we do and the first thing I want to talk about is the Nintendo Prime Podcast now today at some point today. I have some new equipment arriving for the podcast I have a mixer, which I've never used an actual mixer before I've been trying to mix all the audio on my computer and it's been a pain in the butt a real mixer is gonna help You know it turns out like the mics I thought were broken might be the cord So I need to get some more cords and I don't know if those are arriving today or not But I've invested, you know pretty significant chunk of money to try to make sure the audio quality of that podcast Rises and in addition It turns out that even the Blue Yeti microphone that I typically use for a lot of my recordings I can actually increase the audio quality over what my Blue Yeti microphone does with my other microphones Which are actually cheaper than the Blue Yeti just because they're proper condenser mics and I do have you know independent independent power forum and You know getting them into a proper mixer that has pre amplifiers and all the stuff I'm it's going to be awesome because right now it's been a pain in the butt recording with those mics I thought even that issues recording with the Blue Yeti mic Which I think is a great mic for people who are just starting out and don't want to buy any additional audio equipment Could not suggest the Blue Yeti mic anymore than I already do But for the equipment I bought you know if you're interested in starting your own audio podcasts and stuff all of links to This stuff down in the description in case you are looking into my setup and what I am currently using for the podcast now The reason I want to talk about the podcast is because Over the past couple episodes, which I realized there's only been to about two episodes of the podcast over the last six weeks I've noticed that you guys are really loving the podcast It is quickly becoming one of our highest viewed Things that we do at the channel. So there are two things. I want to really three things I want to say about the podcast One is I really want to get this podcast to become a weekly show I would not have invested The very little limited funds I have into increasing the audio quality and getting proper Podcasting equipment if I didn't want to make this into a weekly show however, I can't guarantee that it's weekly at this point because Unfortunately, I have Bills to pay. It's just kind of the way the world works Which is why on patreon.com we have what I consider to be a pretty low goal to try to make this a weekly show And that is on patreon.com slash Nintendo Prime if we can get to $100 that would enable me to know that there's enough people that care about the podcast to Want to make this thing happen every single week and there's a lot of work that goes into the podcast behind the scenes I know a lot of the video content you see might seem like it's easy It's not there's there's a lot of work even though there's still images. I imagine like the workload can be even higher Especially as we increase the quality on the channel, but the podcast requires a lot of work There's a lot of research I have to do to to To deal with the just the topics we're going to talk about And outside of organizing things we're trying to get Eric over to do the podcast with me I also have to try to consider now especially after the last two episodes How to get other people into the podcast because we're not going to have other people come into the studio very often To be able to join the podcast in person So because we're a video podcast we have them record their own videos in their own audio We splice everything together and editing and it's a lot of work and yes I actually have now as of like two months ago an editor like hired an editor to specifically edit just the podcast and they've done a fantastic job and I'm hoping to make things a bit more streamlined for them So it doesn't have to be so difficult Which is why I want to increase the audio quality and do all the stuff that I'm doing why I purchased this equipment to make things easier And obviously if they ever decided like to move on to another job It comes back on to me which creates even more work for me But it's a lot of a lot of time organizing all this and for just a hundred dollars a month Which is nothing I mean I might ask if you give me a hundred You know collectively a hundred dollars a month is one of our goals on patreon It it just really ensures to me that the time I am putting in is worth it for you guys You guys care enough about this project about the podcast as I do now a Lot of our patreon stuff is actually geared around the podcast itself as an example at the five dollar tier You get early access to the audio version of the podcast which is essentially the entirety of The podcast because right now you know the podcast is segmented over five days the audio version is not segmented It is the full hour and a half two hours two and a half hours all along the podcast ends up being that week Available a full day before it's available to the public now I am considering also releasing a Full video version and this is the conversation I actually want to have with you guys right now We segment the podcast over four to five days with with each topic becoming its own video and I kind of got that idea admittedly from kind of funny games and Because I really like that style giving individual attention to each topic plus It's really really hard to properly title a video on YouTube when you've got five different topics in that video in fact a show I watch pretty often is the Philip the Franco show and He got in the titles his videos after one topic even though in that video he might be covering three or four and There's no really other way to do it so I Just want your opinion on if you would continue to want to see this podcast segmented over four or five days Or if you'd rather see it as one long video podcast kind of like what easy allies does and The cynical Brit does and a lot of stuff total biscuit where you see Just one, you know one on a half hour two hour long video podcast versus the segmented I leave that up to you guys. Let me know what you think down in the comments below and We're adding a new tier based on a fan suggestion to patreon This is a $20 tier and I know that sounds like a lot of money I currently don't even have $20 to submit to this tier if I wanted to But this $20 tier is a special thing to me because This is the tier where you guys can come join us on the podcast You can come you you get to come and guest on the podcast Yes, you're gonna need to be able to record your own video Yes, you're gonna need to be able to even record your own audio and I'm hoping that your video and audio are of decent quality But the idea here is if you submit a $20 pledge to our patreon At least one podcast per month You will be personally invited by me to join us on the Nintendo Prime podcast So even if we have a full four people on the podcast You would be number five or I will end up booting out one of our people and you would be number four to hit our What I feel is the perfect amount of people on the podcast So again, I am just throwing that out there This is a chance for you fans to get your face out in front of the public There are currently no other tiers in terms of you know money You can pledge you can always pledge more than $20 more than a dollar, which is the bottom tier or more than five If you want I thought about throwing in the sponsorship tier, but I don't I don't know if I'm ready to take on full-on sponsorships right now It's just not something I'm willing to consider until maybe I Make this more of a business license deal because right now Nintendo Prime is all on me like ever the business is in my name It's not in any other names. I'm not personally protected with an LLC or anything That's something that I'm not gonna even consider until we're probably over a hundred thousand subscribers now Setting all of that aside There are a couple other things that I am looking at on patreon in terms of stretch goals I believe the $500 tier is where I bring back the boss man series and for those who don't know because the boss man series hasn't been around since February and Before that it wasn't even around for like a year. The boss man series is Essentially another video series with me. I mean, that's what this is my channel But it's kind of a ranty series and you'll see I've done rants, you know And I'll still have my little rants here and there, but this is a dedicated series. It's like an editorial like rant that has me on camera doing a more professional presentation of Whatever the topic may be it's fully scripted and It I mean I even read off a teleprompter my script like it's and I don't even have a teleprompter It's really weird how I do it But I make it work and it's something I enjoy and I do try to make sure the editing on those episodes are of a higher quality Especially since this is a stretch goal. So I mean you're paying to see us Have this higher quality video content and this is a weekly show. So it would come out once per week And I believe the thousand dollar stretch goal I'm pretty sure that is the weekly news recap show Which again would have me on camera and would just be recapping all of the biggest Nintendo related news From that week every Friday or Saturday. I haven't really decided on what day that would arrive But that's if we ever get to that goal I don't know if we're ever gonna reach even though the hundred dollar goal let alone the five hundred and thousand dollar tier and then I get crazy after that because Now we're delving into areas where um, I don't honestly think we're ever gonna hit But if we do that's awesome as an example the three thousand dollar tier is where I launch a second Gaming podcast that talks about the rest of the video game industry and this would be a bi-weekly podcast And it will release all in one segment Just because I don't want to overshadow all the Nintendo stuff we do. I mean we're Nintendo Prime That's where our focus is going to be But that other that that secondary podcast would be just that it's a secondary podcast That lets you know we do pay attention the rest of the industry I try not to be super super biased to Nintendo even though we are a Nintendo entity and as people say, you know It'd be nice if people held Sony and Microsoft for the same standards I do hold Sony and Microsoft for the same standards But you know are not gonna see that on Nintendo Prime typically outside of a podcast like that So and whether or not that kind of podcast would lead to the launch of a second channel and other things I have no idea that so far in the future. I'm trying not to think about it Beyond that, I just want to address a few other things going on in the Nintendo Prime community Some people have noticed that I've gotten a little bit of my facts incorrect in some of my recent videos Over the past week and I do apologize for that I am not someone who wants to give you factually incorrect information. I do not know everything I know I do not know everything and I know sometimes we think we know everything and then new information comes up And we turns out we really didn't know anything I mean think how many times the global warming thing has gone back and forth, but oh global warming is caused by man I know it's not yes it is no it's not and there's been facts supporting all the sides on that And you know now I'm a firm believer that we at least are a big contributor to global warming Even if global warming does happen naturally in history has shown that it happens naturally like history shows We're overdue for an Ice Age as an example, so But I I do not like getting things factually incorrect So I apologize and I own up to it like if I get things wrong let me know I want to make sure I'm doing everything 100% right for you guys for the community now Other aspects I'm learning as our YouTube channel is growing and by the way, thank you so much for subscribing is the idea that I Should quit YouTube and the idea that As one person DM'd me on Twitter that I should go kill myself I realize that this is you know a very this is a 1% part of the community And it's something that I've dealt with over my years. You know, I haven't been in the industry for 20 years Without dealing with some of this stuff before but that was at Zelda Informer primarily and Zelda Informer has like a million followers It has 40,000 people viewing the website every single day And I was like the face of the website for almost eight years So I kind of knew that backlash was coming and I still see it sometimes on the Zelda Informer Facebook page but It's interesting seeing it in such a small community like Nintendo Prime And it's not just exclusive to YouTube it leaks over to Twitter. It leaks over into Facebook. It leaks over sometimes into my email I'm hoping it never leaks over into my home I would hate to see people show up to my home making threats that would suck but Yeah, I don't like it. I can't stop it people. This is the internet. It's going to happen But I just want people who do see this happen To you know, not not worry too much. It doesn't bother me. I'm okay With the backlash. I understand when people get angry when I get stuff incorrect. That's fine You should absolutely be mad at me for spreading false information but understand that I'm not doing it intentionally and Just because you disagree with my opinion on some things doesn't necessarily mean I should quit YouTube You should probably just quit watching my YouTube channel. I mean What I do at Nintendo Prime is largely opinion-based. Yes, I report on Nintendo news I talk about Nintendo news I have a whole website Nintendo Prime net that is kind of on the back burner for me But that's you know where I'm gonna have like just like straight news reports and all that stuff But what I do here at the channel is talk about Nintendo. It's talk. It's opinions It's you're going to get the news, but you're also going to get my thoughts on that news And that's just my style of doing things. That's what I've always wanted to do It's honestly what I wanted to do it's all that informer And it really took me realizing the YouTube format is the proper way to be doing this in the first place And I probably should have been here on YouTube for years now doing this Nintendo Prime thing But whatever better late than ever So yeah, I do all that stuff. I don't really view myself as a gaming journalist anymore I used to be a gaming journalist at Zelda Informer. I would definitely classify myself as having journalism experience I was editor-in-chief. I was in charge of a whole writing team and yes, I even have a writing team for Nintendo Prime a small one but It's it's not something I view as what I am now. I'm a youtuber. I'm a content creator now That's what I view myself as all my all of everything else is kind of secondary like I manage social media I create main memes at times and I you know deal with Staff members that are writers and not writers and blah blah blah blah. I manage people I have a lot of a lot of experience with that, but I'm a youtuber. I'm a content creator. I'm here for you And beyond all that I just want to know So I just want to briefly bring up why I don't have Gameplay I guess Associated with my videos why they're still images this is because of Nintendo's creators program primarily the Nintendo's creator program is fine You get 70% of or 60% I think because I'm not I'm not a full partner Because I'll never be a full partner with the creators program even if I wanted to be Because it would mean I have to really restrict the content I make because it can only be the games They have white listed and anything that doesn't even use a game play like the Nintendo Prime podcast would be claimed by Nintendo Why should I give Nintendo? You know 30% of my revenue off of the prop off the podcast that doesn't make any sense When it's completely original content with none of their none of their trademarks or anything in it. So when we look at YouTube Nintendo claims a bunch of money They claim all the videos that have their their content in it And I don't have any problem sending some videos through through the creators program You'll notice if you look at over the last few months We do have some videos that have Nintendo footage in it And we randles through the creators program and we see you know a $10 kickback from Nintendo or or whatever the case may be The problem is when you're a channel that is trying to that's very topical very opinionated Very trying to keep up with the current flow of things when you have to send things through the creators program It could have delays of several days and by the time the video gets approved by Nintendo for the creators program The topic you're talking about might not be relevant anymore So we don't really use Nintendo footage because we don't want to delay content To you and obviously, you know, we don't make much on YouTube as it is So we would like to maximize the revenue stream so I can continue to bring this content to you every day now Beyond that a lot of other studios have issues as well We tried putting Puyo Puyo Tetris in a video once and Konami claimed it and we tried Talking to Konami about it. They were not interested in it. They're just like Nintendo They don't even have a creators programs any video that uses their footage from their their content ID games You just cannot make a revenue off of so we're not doing that now We could just do straight indie games But again because I'm trying to keep up with the greatest and latest Nintendo games or some of the AAA games that come On Switch It's hard for me to buy enough indie games and I get I'm worried that as an example the only indie game I own and switch right now is snipper clips and Nintendo for starters Nintendo content IDs snipper clips, but let's say I still own the binding of Isaac Which I used to own for switch Every single video for the last two and a half months would just feature binding of Isaac footage And while some of you might think that's awesome because you love the binding of Isaac I feel like in general I would get bored as we're our fans get bored if that's the only footage I'm recording and posting for two and a half months in every single video. I don't think that makes a lot of sense I don't have the budget to continue to do that Maybe someday when I have a bigger budget and I can buy more a bigger variety of indie games on switch or on 3ds Then I'll be able to expand What games that you see and eventually be able to have indie game footage and be a big supporter of indie games But right now that's just not feasibly possible The other solution is right now to have me on camera more often like you're seeing right now In the backgrounds like my computer and some amiibo Not a lot of Nintendo stuff. This is kind of like a small section of my office slash studio but That's another solution is just having me on camera more often and it is something I'm considering because I am the Face of Nintendo Prime I am Nintendo Prime like when people say Nintendo Prime I should be the very first thing they think about or maybe on the podcast you just think Eric is that sexy So that's why you come to Nintendo Prime. That's fine. He's a beast but Yeah, it's it's something that is an ever-evolving process here at Nintendo Prime and I'm hoping as we grow as we see more higher revenue streams and look through patreon through AdSense or whatever the case may be That's when I plan to start upping the quality of the videos right now I'm focusing on the audio quality But I really want to focus on the video quality as well And one aspect that holds back the me being on camera thing is well I don't actually have a proper camera this footage you're seeing right now I believe I recorded it in 4k 30 FPS I'm not 100% sure but it's being recorded with my cell phone and it gets really grainy and cell phone footage is Extremely hard to work with in editing Is not at all what I want the future of Nintendo Prime to be So yes, I do you know once again once the revenue streams catch up and I'm able to support my family Plus have that extra money to reinvest back into the company like I do with the audio equipment I do want to get a proper camera and that'll obviously up the quality of the podcast and You know be able to ensure that I could do more more content like this And maybe even a video log once in a great while when I'm doing like right now Today would be an awesome day to do a video log as I am Attempting to going to be setting up new audio equipment and reorganizing the entire office space and studio and make it all fancy And again the studio is in my office. So I don't know is this a studio is the office. I think it's both And someday I would love to get into like an actual separated workspace from my home I mean we got to have like a million subs by then That's we might never even get to that point. I mean game explains not even at that point We might never get there, but yeah, I love what I do it in center prime Thank you so much for supporting our content Check us out at patreon.com slash Nintendo Prime if you happen to have some disposable income and want to show Well me a little love either to support my family or just in general supporting what we do here at Nintendo Prime I'm trying my best to bring the best possible Nintendo content. I can to you I have so many ideas for top 10s in gaming theories and Just general editorials were the rants or whether they're high researched ones. I'm currently working on a product review of The the rad power stuff. I've got two of these bad boys that I'm trying to Do some battery testing on and try to give you guys some awesome solutions for battery banks for your switch This content is all time-consuming and takes up and takes It takes up my day, man And I love doing this content. So if you love it as much as I do I hope you find it a way to support us whether it's just watching our content Subscribing to our channel or supporting us more directly through patreon. Anyways folks I am Nathaniel ruffle jance from Nintendo Prime. That's gonna do it. I'll see you In the next one