 Oh ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to Nintendo Prime, it feels good to be back here bringing you some fresh Nintendo news and I know some of you are going, Nate did we really just go three days without videos and two weeks doing this voiceover gameplay for you unveiling your brand new set and it's just a brick wall? Well not exactly, maybe we'll get more to that a bit later cause technically the set's not done but we're here to talk about some news because yeah some big news has happened in the last couple of days, we'll talk a little bit about the Kotaku situation later, that's right there's a situation with Kotaku, but first let's dive deep into what's going to happen here with the future of Nintendo Switch, the system right here, yeah there's a new one coming, probably not for a year or two but it's coming, it's probably an extra generation and we have some real information this time and not just your run of the mill rumor, so that's really cool, before we get into that I remind you we are actually giving away a Nintendo Switch OLED, a PlayStation 5 or an Xbox Series X, head to that link down in the pinned comment or in the description, alright so look, this is the Switch OLED, this bad boy came out last year and there were so many rumors surrounding this platform really starting with Takahashi Matsuzuki that got the ball rolling all the way back in 2019 talking about Nintendo's next system having 4K, having other feature sets like DLSS and obviously eventually leading to what we got here, 7 inch OLED panel, the kickstand but we never actually got that 4K DLSS, he claimed that there were like 10 or 11 different studios making games for this more powerful platform and that he expected it to get announced last year and come out and it never did, instead we got the Nintendo Switch OLED but there's nothing wrong with the Switch OLED on the surface, it's basically a revision of the original Switch, well people had wondered was he lying, is there some truth to this, Nintendo has said they're working on new hardware but they're not going to talk about anything, well here's what happened, Nvidia over the weekend got hacked and got hacked bad, they've already publicly come out and commented on admitting it happened and admitting that they're being held for ransom, the people who did this are actually seeking a huge chunk of money from Nvidia or they swear they will release the Kraken and make it so all of their GPUs can now become mining cards, for those who don't understand that we're not going to dive too deep into it, they have locked down their 3,000 series of cards to not really be efficient at mining so gamers can get their hands on it during the shortages and they're basically saying hey we hacked you, we have all the information, we can unlock it, pay us money or we're going to do just that, so very interesting but what came out of this for us and why we're talking about it here is because in these documents the few that they have put out there publicly to show hey look we actually did hack you and here's our proof and again Nvidia already admitted this happened is some information on the next generation Nintendo platform, I'm calling it next gen not switch pro because it is way too powerful to be just a switch pro, switch pro is always supposed to be a minor upgrade, this is significant and we have exact details because on the code base of this is some files called NSN2, now that's very interesting because the original switch was called NSN on the back end that's what their chipset was called, I'm not really sure if it means Nintendo Switch Network or whatever the heck the code name means but that is what it has been called this entire time getting back to when we first discovered it in 2017 after the switch came out, so NSN2 obviously is a completely different set something for Nintendo and what's interesting is when you dig into the files here holy crap one based on ampere you know what else is based on ampere the 3,000 series of GPUs that's right that's the current you know 3060, 3070, 3080, 3080 TI, 3090 that's the series that this is being built off of it will have DLSS 2.2 at least that's what the current version was in these files and yeah this whatever platform it is that Nintendo and Nvidia are working on will also obviously have 4k capabilities now I'm not gonna say 4k screen but likely 4k upscaling for output on a TV and yeah this is just really interesting ray tracing by the way was brought up that wasn't even part of rumors last year ray tracing is actually in these files as well so using ampere technology obviously ray tracing would be part of that so this is way way more interesting than I ever expected this to be and obviously significantly more powerful than I expected it to be now it's going to obviously be cut back power limited it's not gonna be as powerful as like a 30 you know 60 in a you know a laptop like this or whatever but what it will do is allow us to play PlayStation 5 games on the go or at home on a TV comfortably because they're using AMD technology and all they get to use is the AMD FSR super resolution which is great by the way there's nothing wrong with that Nintendo's actually using that technology right now but it's not as good as DLSS which is actually a hardware based way to increase performance and resolution yeah it's honestly Nintendo's in the right for in terms of how to do it best by working with Nvidia in this case now we obviously don't know the information the CPU there's no CPU information in here Nvidia doesn't make the CPU they get it from ARM and kind of implement it in and this is obviously a chip that doesn't exist anywhere there's not like a laptop equivalent or a desktop equivalent that we can go like okay this is what that will be because there's no clock speeds listed here there's no teflops or anything else that we can sort of guesstimate at what this is going to be we just know it's ampere architecture DLSS 2.2 which is the latest version and it was worked on literally a week ago in fact we actually discovered through the files that these files began all the way back in 2019 suggesting that that is around the time Nintendo started to develop their next generation system again not gonna call us a pro when you're going from this which is Maxwell you know a couple generations old to ampere that's a massive leap in technology one that only happens with brand new systems so this has got the world buzzing Nintendo's not happy reportedly anyways that this stuff got out because Nintendo doesn't like exact information like this getting out so what happens now well pretty much nothing Nvidia is gonna deal with this hack and they're gonna probably not pay the ransom and deal with the consequences from there try to figure out who did this and sue the hell out of them but that's neither here nor there what really matters is what's going to happen for the future of switch and that's the very very interesting question that I don't have an answer for and I don't know if you guys have an answer for it either it's very hard to think when this system could come out is it 2023 is Nintendo going all in right now you get those DLC updates for my credit deluxe through next year could they be they're gonna be ending because they're launching a new system next year are they launching this new system in 2024 and the thing is if they wait till 2024 there's already going to be a new Nvidia architecture like ampere is exciting to hear about today but will ampere be exciting in two years because you know the chip this is using was 2015 and released in 2017 so you might go man it's crazy they're using ampere but it's not going till 2024 that's right in line with this this was current technology in 2015 and then it came out two years later so if it's current technology today and it comes out two years from now it's the same pattern it also makes it more affordable and thus it actually makes sense but what's cool about that is PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X are still gonna be relevant in two years in the middle of their life cycles kind of see what Nintendo is doing they're releasing these sort of in the middle of the competition's life cycles oh now we got you and we can sell into your next cycle kind of interesting Nintendo strategy here and I really really like it plus obviously I presume they're not going to go away from the handheld portable concept hence why they're still going with NVIDIA in the first place so I really like what Nintendo is doing I think this makes sense I think this is smart and it's nice to at least have some concrete details here coming from a legit leak rather than just baseless speculation or having to trust reporters like Takahashi Machizuki which I'm not saying I don't trust you but I am saying it is a bit hard to just yeah this is right and then obviously us youtubers get yelled at when it ends up not being right but then was it right this whole time but you just miss Keke they did when it was coming out because I'm sure there's depth gets out there right there has to be at this point was coming out in two years now this last story I got you're glad to the notes a little bit here because I got a question for you guys is this the end of Kotaku now we have Kotaku content on our channel we actually covered ported over a video that they refused to put anyone on their website back in the day for we use showing that kept the first video footage of the Wii U system so we long time ago took that and put that on our YouTube channel because I didn't think it was fair that people were forced to go to Kotaku to watch it in their ad riddle mess of a website that was it was almost impossible to get through I actually couldn't watch the Wii U video on there it was that broken even with ablocker so like I had to like dig into the code base and find the direct link and when I realized how hard it was for me to watch it was that hard for others as well so I said you know what Kotaku come after me I don't care took their video put it up on YouTube didn't even make a penny off it was no ads or anything but what's interesting is over the years Kotaku's developed a reputation it's really gone was going downhill before the former editor-in-chief Stefan de Tilo left and Jason Shryer left and it's only gone more downhill since they really politicized a lot of their content which people some people enjoy that I suppose there obviously is a crowd for it but a lot of gamers get annoyed when politics and personal agendas are just injected into gaming news however something's happening with Kotaku and I just want to briefly talk about this because I personally think this might be the end so a massive work strike is going on right now called GMG Union where a majority of the staff at Kotaku and other associated websites all under the same umbrella company like Lifehacker and Gizmoda are fighting for better wages and benefits as always and of course the reputation of many of these sites has actually nosedived over the years which makes you wonder what remains of their established audiences might start finding news elsewhere and not return and that's really where I kind of see this going is look I'm not saying don't fight for better I'm not saying don't stand up for your rights and better wages and better work treatment and fine right you guys do what you got to do I don't know what your wages and current benefits are now probably better than mine so I'm not gonna sit here and talk about it too much in that regard that's your personal finances personal you know treatment at your workplace but I will say you got to be a bit careful because already people weren't trusting those outlets and then there's already not a ton of these paid journalism gigs out there and guess what if people discover they can get their news other places and get it better and more informative and they might find out they enjoy that more whether it's from youtubers or other you know news channels and video game channels and tech channels you might come to find out that when the strike is over if it ever gets over there's no audience to come back to and that's why I think this potentially is the end of Kotaku and I don't think that is getting the leader anytime soon and there's obviously still some inherent value there you can just go click on any recent article there see I'm not saying go visit them but you can go there and click on some articles see they have much comments so they have an audience but the thing is how long will that audience stick around they've stuck around through a lot of other big S but if all their favorite writers are gone what then and I think that's what we're left with today and I think that's why you got to be careful sometimes knowing the position and power you have when you strike again not you know I'm not saying they shouldn't maybe they're treated like shit maybe maybe that's why they don't keep good staffers like stepping the Tilo Jason Shriver around because they don't pay competitively because the benefits suck but also gaming journalism jobs are kind of dwindling down as YouTube kind of becomes a place to go and not everyone's made to be on camera not everyone can handle the pressure not everyone can handle the stress that comes along with this and the constant being in front of people directly I can tell you someone who used to be a writer used to be a journalist it was hard reading some of the comments it's even worse when the comments can sometimes not even be about the things you say to be about how you look it could be about the way you carry yourself or the way you pronounce things but you don't have to worry about when you're typing oh I know how to spell words I know how to use them properly but then when you say them you might enunciate them weird you might have a strange accent you might not be attractive so people don't like to look at you it's it's a really weird space thankfully my audience has been pretty understanding but we've been at this a long time you look at some of my early videos God dang I had no camera presence I know what the hell I was doing I would probably be like this just staring at the wall oh hey hey guys how's it going this is probably the best side of me that you would ever see like oh man Nintendo Prime look at this all right folks I am the thinner of a chance for them to drop or the yes or what you're doing let me know what you think about this kind of basic set but I really like this there's a couple things still to happen but don't worry we'll have a full studio tour here I think by the end of the week if not next week there's still some things we're waiting on to finalize it but it's looking good it's looking clean we're gonna be back to pretty much a normal work schedule here that means that Nintendo Prime podcast should be popping off tonight barring any unforeseen difficulties I don't have the audio working on that set yet we got some of the fun angle with that but I want to thank you guys so much for tuning in you guys have been absolutely amazing I couldn't ask for a better audience thank you so much for the patience to get back on camera hopefully everything sounds great here and I'll catch you guys in the next 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