 shushing. Oh sorry why uh why are you here? You told me there was a birthday. Hmm a birthday a birthday. I can't think of whose birthday it could be. Yeah come on in. Happy birthday to the switch. Look we got party balloons. We got things dangling from the ceiling. Even if you want to worm your way back here. Oh I'll just get a shot of it later. Look we've got happy birthday around the back here. It's you know it's like a Mario themed birthday extravaganza. If you could just step back that way a little bit. We've got drinks but we also have snacks so uh would you like anything Kim? Would you like a drink or something? Are they his friends? Then yeah that's all the birthday boys right there and girls birthday boys you know. But we got we've got some delicious G Fuel on tap. All the G Fuel you could possibly want. We're mixing flavors today so it's going to be a little bit of you know anything you want but it's a big day you need energy for it you know what I mean and if you want energy for it you know code beat them up to gfuel.com they're just a little bit of a shameless plug but you know they are doing a whole promotion right now where whoever sells the most G Fuel gets a shaker cup and I've always wanted a shaker cup because I really love G Fuel and if you could help support me it would actually mean a lot to me. I mean I did go through the entire effort of hosting this entire party after all so that's good. Tastes delicious. Do you want a snack? Anyone hungry? Sure. Okay well take your little party plate here Kim you want to just hold that out in front of the camera there. Some delicious G Fuel pop rocks for you. You can go ahead and um a little bit of a fun dip situation so anything else nope just gfuel code beat them up get 30% off right now help me win the competition I'd really appreciate it look at all the people we have to try and beat. So it is the switch's birthday and I wanted I wanted I wanted to do something special so we're going to take a look back at the switch and the last five years but also take a look at this year and the future of the switch because it's going to be really exciting and it also was very exciting I have not had nearly enough G Fuel but I'm going to use this camera now so okay bye. Wait hold on a second you didn't you didn't do your party hat here you go there's one for you there's one for you and there's one for me and then you know what we'll put one on the camera and that can be everyone at home yeah there you go you guys can't sit shut the that's what you guys are wearing so hold on I went out of all the effort to get these and I'm gonna have to clean this later sir happy birthday happy birthday all right thank you Kim just get a they pop in your mouth all right cope but in all seriousness or as as serious as we can get with a thousand balloons in my room it is the switch's five-year anniversary and we've had a ton of fun with this console and I want to celebrate it I usually don't do these anniversary milestones but it's half a decade I can't believe I've been making videos about this console that long on the hunt to find a switch see if anywhere has any actual pre-orders left for the switch we did it buddy yeah switch with breath the wild we did it we did it everyone switch also in all seriousness I wasn't kidding about the G Fuel thing it's like a whole tournament there's blackouts and knockouts blackouts and G Fuel is delicious zero calories zero sugar energy I mean I got three cans right here it'll get me through the next week if you've appreciated the five years of content I've given you for free just saying there's a link below I really want to appreciate and celebrate Nintendo and the switch today and the joy that that console and its games have given all of us but it's a little hard for me to walk down memory lane without also looking at my content and what we did with the switch early on nobody thought well I did but nobody else seemed to think the switch was going to be all that successful and looking at it now that is insane hi guys how is everyone to pick up my Nintendo switch and Zelda and most likely that is it the Nintendo switch launched March 3rd 2017 with one of the strongest launches I think a console has had I mean it released with a new Zelda but not just a Zelda Breath of the Wild which since has become a pinnacle of open world gaming experiences and many games open world or not that have released since then have been measured up to that masterpiece but on top of that we also had Super Bomberman which well it was there I am set sooner one two switch I can't believe that's still $60 launch day was strong but honestly it didn't take long for a plethora of quality games to start releasing on the console in 2017 alone we had Super Mario Odyssey Mario Cart 8 Deluxe Platoon 2 Xenoblade 2 Arms 1 2 Switch Snipperclips Fire Emblem Warriors Mario and Rabbids Pokemon Tournament Golf Story Hollow Knight and Stardew those two games alone I feel like the switch helped make them the success that they are Steam World Dig 2 we got a Minecraft Switch Edition Overcook is still a staple of the console Wargroove enter the gungeon it was clear in that first year that not only were first party exclusive games hoppin on Nintendo's new hybrid handheld console but Indies also had a ton of opportunity to hit the system and blow up I saw a statistic that Steam World Dig 2 sold 10 times more on Switch than it did on Steam the Indie scene not only was very successful on the switch but I believe it's what helped the switch be so successful early on there are so many great games on the Nintendo eShop right now that don't have physical releases and downloading them digitally is the only way that you can play them there was a bunch of other random games that released on the switch in that first year and it's funny looking back how fondly I remember those experiences because you got to remember I know it's weird to say this like we don't remember five years ago but handheld gaming before the switch was the 3DS and then before that Game Boys it wasn't exactly the technological pinnacle of gaming at the time don't get me wrong there were fun experiences but they kind of looked like this all of a sudden we were able to play these games on the go it was a huge step up so even though a lot of these games if they released now you probably wouldn't think much of them but playing fast RMX on the switches launch in 60 FPS was crazy games like Mighty Gun Vault Snake Pass Binding of Isaac Wonder Boy Blaster Master 0 Puyo Puyo Tetris were all games that are burned into my brain of memories of playing them at home on the TV on the tablet on the bus when I was going around Canada exploring because I lived there when I got a switch I bought my first switch is Canadian maybe that's why he's so apologetic about his joycon drift so I just put $45 on my own money down I put it on the line I bought a game that I know is going to suck I essentially just wasted $45 and of course you had your terrible games when we started to realize that while the switch is cool and it can do a lot we've never seen before it has its limits and it was interesting in that first year discovering the limits because you know we didn't really know where the ceiling was at the time Breath of the Wild was crazy but then we had something like WWE 2k18 where you couldn't have more than two wrestlers in the ring at the same time or else the game would chunk down a five FPS and very quickly a lot of publishers that planned games for the switch started to think maybe this isn't a good idea Steve was supposed to come out in 2017 that never happened can we take a second to look at these trees if I take two steps forward they change look at these shadows they're loading in and out right in front of my face but it's funny how much those games again I remember them because there wasn't the thousands of games that there are now the first year were strong and we had some great titles but it wasn't until a year or two later it started exploding and I do want to look at this year as we get into the video because it's funny while we've had some great years since and I would argue some years that are comparable this year on switch is already set to be the best that we've ever seen but before we get to 2022 I want to look at some videos that I made and the experiences that I and I think it reflects the experiences that you and we had early on with the console if you were an earlier doctor oh I second I'm thirsty it's gotta get my jug of G fuel there's three different flavors in here I don't recommend mixing three G fuels by the way or we should put a disclaimer there recently with the NX being really being revealed and the Nintendo switch and everything that's going on with that and a lot of people going back and watching my is the we used to watch the video and leaving a lot of comments like do you think it's still worth buying the Wii U with the NX or the switch not being backwards compatible so I went through and grabbed a few videos of the uh in the history of beat em ups and should you buy a Nintendo switch or Wii U five years ago that's the first video on my channel I could find with the word switch in it I think this was my first switch video and I mean again the NX it's just recently been announced I don't know what they have planned for the system I don't know if the system is going to be terrible the concept and the possibilities and the Nintendo being Nintendo it's gonna be fine it's gonna it's gonna be a good system with a lot of good quality titles it's funny looking back at this now I'm trying to convince people the switch is going to be fine like after the Wii U the thing I always tried to nail home was yeah the Wii U failed but even if you got even if you bought one right at the end of its life you would still have as many exclusive games to buy and play quality titles to play as any other console like it doesn't matter that no one else bought it if you buy it you'll have fun with it there's more than enough to play on it the hybrid nature of the switch is what I initially always saw as the obvious this is going to explode this system is not going to be the Wii U mark my word if in like five years from now this system is the next Wii U and you want to go back to this video clip it and then take it and put it somewhere online and say wood hawker has no credibility but I don't feel like I'm gonna be wrong this time I knew it was gonna be good I knew I just knew in my heart of hearts I'll be honest I if you had I had no idea it would be this successful like it really has but it's a major major success one of the best-selling consoles of all time I wouldn't have guessed that after the Wii U but I knew it was going to be way better than the Wii U in the last nine months since release they have sold 10 million switch units so I live streamed waiting at eb games on the day an hour and 15 minute stream I mean back then there wasn't that many people watching I doubt there were more than 50 people in chat but I you know I went I got the switch it was not a super exciting video I tried really hard to hide my credit card and everything at checkout so the phone was at a weird angle it's kind of horrible to watch back because other than the fact that you're literally there for it you don't see anything okay so we're all done all right thank you so thank you have a nice day thank you what's your name zane nice to meet you zane I appreciate it I am I'm gonna run home now and it's funny to think that that was five years ago today and how much my life has changed since then and the fact that the switch has been everywhere with me I mean I'm married now I'm in Texas now I went to Japan with my switch I took my switch back home to Australia and I played my switch with my high school friends who are you always used to play games with growing up my switch has honestly been by my side every night I go to bed because I take it to bed just in case I want to play something before I go to sleep and I don't always do but it's just a routine now that if I'm going to bed I grab my switch and I've done that for five years there are a few things that Nintendo probably could have done better there's a random video I found five things I would switch about the switch I would switch the battery life on the on the tablet apparently you can run Zelda for about three hours on it so what I wanted to watch this video for is I couldn't remember the five things I wanted to change and it looks like the first one was I wanted a better battery you're welcome let's see what number two is but I don't like the name the name oh I'm sorry wood you don't like the name it's not a bad name and it makes sense with the whole theme of the console which is switching the controllers all the time let us change that right away for you would let us change it right away there's no way it's going to be a success with the name switch not a chance I don't think anyone's going to catch on to that now you and I both know when this system came out I went a little overboard making videos about the switch and not the video games the switch I made way too many videos about the actual switch so how about I make one about the games okay so this is really where it all began I started covering switch things early as you've seen you know I was talking about things I would change things that I want but it was when I made five Nintendo switch games that are worth the price and five that are not when everything started to take off when you go back and watch some of these videos that I'm talking about today they might have 10 20 30 000 views now because people have gone back and watched them gotta remember at the time they weren't getting that many views I was a very small channel but this was the one it blew up and there's a lot of reasons it immediately did pretty well not a million views but pretty well it was just at about six months into the switch people started to look at the console and see oh there's a new Zelda there's a new Mario Odyssey there's you know Mario Kart 8 Deluxe there's some things going on here but what else is there what games are worth buying and again nobody was really talking about the switch back then people still didn't think it was going to be a success so when people went to YouTube and searched what Nintendo switch games are worth buying there was like two or three of us making videos about it at the time and mine was one of the only ones people had nowhere else to go I was it for the longest time I mean one of a few but you know what I mean there was also a video called the Metroid Prime 4 coming in four months maybe maybe Bandai almost has this thing finished and we can expect to see it between spring to summer 2018 I didn't even I didn't even watch that one I man we've been on a wild ride with that one Nintendo all right we could talk about 2018 19 20 and even 2021 but I don't really want to have a five hour long video I thought it would just be fun to look at the switches release and then look at its fifth year it's actually kind of freaky when you look at it and you think about it because this year is almost like a repeat of 2017 but even better we already had Pokemon Arceus which I think is one of the greatest games on switch and so much fun and jumping ahead to the end of the list we just got two new Pokemon games Scarlet and Violet announced for the end of the year just let's just throw Breath of the Wild 2 in there immediately and it is funny looking at the first year breath of the wild fifth year breath of the wild two keep that in mind as we go along we're also getting a brand new Kirby game and I don't know if we're getting a Mario Odyssey or a sequel to that I think it's coming my theory is it's going to launch with whatever Nintendo does next but I think it's funny that the new Kirby looks a lot like Mario Odyssey which was also released in 2017 we're getting Splatoon 3 so is the writing on the wall for that one Splatoon 2 in 2017 Mario and Rabbids 2 Mario and Rabbids 1 was 2017 Xenoblade 3 Xenoblade 2 was also 2017 you don't you see it's weird it's a weird year but it doesn't end there Fire Emblem Warriors 3 hopes is releasing this year and we also had a Fire Emblem Warriors in 2017 on top of that Nintendo Switch Sports which is just cool I mean you could compare it with one to switch but why would you it's just this is just better also while we're on sports games we're getting a new Mario Strikers which is just incredible on its own Golf Story a cute little indie that took the world by storm and still a Switch exclusive released 2017 and was supposed to get its sequel as well so even the indies are coming out and repeating the last five years was sports story in 2022 on top of that that Sonic Frontiers game is supposed to release I think my god I sound like a broken record but I think that Sonic Forces game was 2017 Advanced Wars 1 and 2 is getting a reboot triangle strategy I know Octopath was I think 2019 but it's still an incredible game to be getting in the middle of everything else this year you can even look at the new Mario Kart 8 Deluxe DLC tracks I mean the game released in 2017 and for some reason now in 2022 we're getting a bunch of new content for it and then if we do finally get Silksong like this year like we're supposed to we also got Hollow Knight in the first year 2022 is a repeat of 2027 but like souped up to 11 I think there's too many games even I don't know how some of these games are gonna survive being released crammed in between other releases it'll definitely be the best year the switch is ever seen I mean just judging by that lineup we know this already either way I don't see anything ever competing with this I mean look at that it's insane you know I planned out pretty much this entire video up until now and I'm now realizing that I don't really have a way to end it I get pretty emotional when I think about the switch and the last five years because I mean the switch changed my life you know it really did Nintendo and all the content that I've made how it's intertwined with my life it's my favorite console of all time it really is Nintendo's history and lineage all wrapped up in a one I remember when the switch was revealed they did a whole montage of like we've taken this from the NES and this from the 64 and this from the Wii and it's all led up to this moment and honestly it really did all lead up to that moment for Nintendo I had this thought the other day but Nintendo always did the handheld and the home console they did both independently and then as soon as technology met a point where they could combine both and they could have that competitive edge also tied up in a hybrid console where they could have their portable and their home all in one and stay competitive they did it as soon as they could they did it because it just it just screams Nintendo so thank you Nintendo and the switch for the last five years thank you to all of you for watching my content for the last five years and whatever the future does look like for both Nintendo and my content I'm excited to experience all of it with you and just in general happy birthday to you happy birthday you should have seen you should have seen the guy's face when I was buying all these balloons you should have seen how insane I looked when I was coming out of party city look that crazy do I