 Hey everyone, welcome to Prime News, we've got a jam packed show for you today with five massive stories, as always we've got timestamps down below so you can skip around to the news you care about most, Nintendo addressing leaks and trying to do something about that, stuff about some huge sales data, getting to play a current really popular game on Switch absolutely for free and even having the time to beat the game if you like, some huge sales data coming in, potentially two different IPs going weird places, one a massive IP coming to Nintendo Switch from Nintendo and then one Nintendo actually releasing possibly the first ever native exclusive over to PC. What is going on? Now before we get into that, we are on our road to 80,000 subscribers, when we get there giving away a replica Master Sword with an actual steel blade from Breath of the Wild, along with a replica Hylian Shield and Deku Shield from Ocarina of Time, yes those giveaways don't even begin until we get to 80,000 which is kind of showing you what we have coming up for that. Also by the way, just a minor small note, nobody has to care, it is my birthday and so you can actually join our birthday celebration tonight at 8pm central, we're going to be having a live stream for that and having a ton of fun, but you're here for the news, so let's get right into it with our first story and this is that Nintendo is actually attempting to combat leaks at the company, we all know about all of the leaks that happen at Nintendo, one of the leakiest companies in the world, right, not really true, I know we talk about the Nintendo insiders, we can talk about all of the media and the games and the hardware leaks, Nintendo doesn't actually seem to care about that stuff, that's not actually what Nintendo is concerned with and they're not really addressing that because they just don't care, it's basically free marketing for them. What they do care about however though was a couple years ago Nintendo actually got hacked and this hack was a giga leak, that's what it's referred to online, if you look up Nintendo giga leak you're going to see a whole bunch of stuff out there, this hack included a ton of personal information on basically every employee at Nintendo, not just personal email contact addresses, but actual emails, internal emails of different employees, we got to see a bunch of prototypes that never came out, we learned about games that were made and maybe never came out, we learned about the background of some games that did come out and so much more, it was obviously outside of the personal information a really neat thing for Nintendo fans, but also something that companies never want to see happen and brings up a lot of concerns with people's personal data, hey if Nintendo's personal staff files can get hacked, what stops people from taking our credit card information and our account information and everything else, so it is a big concern and obviously a big concern internally because what's going to stop this from happening again, well Shintaro Furukawa at the recent shareholders meeting addressed this very thing because it's obviously a huge concern for shareholders because what happens if financial data starts to leak out there and hurts the bottom line for shareholders, obviously that's going to be a big concern for them, so here's what Shintaro Furukawa said at the recent Q&A investors meeting, we are taking a variety of initiatives to address information security threats and vulnerabilities, for the services we provide, initiatives include cooperating with outside specialists and conducting diagnostics to check for security issues, in addition as part of our internal system for information security, we introduced the information security management system in 2017 which didn't stop the giga leak and has set up our information security committee, policies for information management have been established and we have adopted both physical and technical countermeasures, in addition we work to raise awareness of information security among our employees, the training and other means, basically hey hopefully no one in a high level accidentally gets hacked and boom all the information's out there, so obviously this is going to be a big concern for Nintendo for many many reasons, I know many of you fans maybe wanted the fact that insiders and Jeff Grubbs and all Emily Rogers of the world can just get shut down and Nintendo would send their ninjas after them and take them out but turns out Nintendo doesn't really concern themselves with leaks from manufacturing about new systems like we got with Switch Lite and Switch OLED they don't concern themselves with leaks on video games you know like Donkey Kong, Metroid Prime, remake whatever they don't care about any of that stuff what they actually care about is obviously their internal documents getting out and preventing that and obviously personal staff information and their customer information so that's where Nintendo is focused and concerned they don't really care about all the other stuff which is basically free marketing so yeah so for those that want to do something about a different type of leak well sorry for those that are actually really happy Nintendo is aware of and addressing this stuff especially after the Giga leak yeah this is mostly a positive story you want Nintendo to take security serious as cool as it is some of the information we got out of the Giga leak it's still not the sort of stuff that we should really have to know about so it is what it is and let's move on to our next story so Nintendo and Ubisoft are doing something really really interesting in Europe and why it's only Europe only I don't know but from July 7th through July 10th you can download the entire Mario plus Rabbids game not the DLC just the base game and play the entire thing in fact having played Mario plus Rabbids if you really want to you could probably beat the game in those three days now that you could beat it including the DLC but the DLC is not part of this this is just their most recent game trial being added to Nintendo Switch online obviously only in Europe and I find this to be rather fascinating clearly the intent is to advertise Mario plus Rabbids get more people to actually try the game so they might be interested in Sparks of Hope which looks to be a significantly bigger game the file size difference is literally three times larger at 7.1 gigabytes versus like 2.1 it's a little bit larger than three times for Mario plus Rabbids Sparks of Hope being just a significantly bigger game than the original Mario plus Rabbids Kingdom Battle so again I actually think the first game was really really damn good I love the hell out of it but I also love XCOM and other games like it Fire Emblem is sort of kind of in that realm but not as action-oriented so look I really enjoy these kind of games so I naturally loved Mario plus Rabbids Kingdom Battle plus the Rabbids don't bother me and yes the game has been heavily discounted many times I've seen it as low as $15 in the e-shop at times I think it's around 20 bucks right now physically and digitally again it's not a super expensive game to get and Ubisoft did discounted the way they usually discount games we're not the way Nintendo does however there are many people that weren't even willing to try the game even at those discounted prices because they just didn't think they would be interested but guess what for free you could actually play the game July 7th through July 10th and notably Switch is region free so you only need an account registered in some European country and everyone across the world can actually play it for free that's what's cool about region free so the game trial might be Europe specific but anyone with the switch can actually enjoy it so there you go I hope you guys give it a chance because I do think sparks of hope is gonna be incredible and I don't want you to miss out on that incredible game just because you were scared by the concept of what this was and never gave it a try free to try you might as well give it a go next up Capcom actually announced some cool numbers around Monster Hunter Rise so for starters Monster Hunter Rise is now sold 10 million units it is officially the second best-selling Monster Hunter of all time only behind world the best-selling to ever appear in a Nintendo platform and yes these sales do include PC and switch and we aren't sure on the exact split we do know they announced 8.5 million in sales on switch some time ago so we aren't sure if the additional sales that got it past 10 million what if it's 9 million switch sales compared to 1 million PC we don't know obviously no majority of the sales are on switch but we don't actually know the exact split at this time that being said they also announced that Monster Hunter some break which came out last week hey guess what it's all 2 million which is actually really really good for standalone expensive DLC so congrats to them for that also by the way the DLC got an 87 on Metacritic for switch and the original game got an 88 so they're very closely rated obviously massive quality control here and you want to know how big of a success Monster Hunter Rise is I know we can say oh it didn't sell as well as world it is the fourth best-selling game in Capcom history this is the company with street fighters the company resident evil and here we have the fourth best-selling game Capcom's ever made by the way Capcom's made three Zelda games before no not anywhere near Monster Hunter Rise Monster Hunter Rise is a massive success story and obviously shows that the partnership between Monster Hunter Capcom and Nintendo is likely going to strengthen moving forward even though Monster Hunter is no longer like an exclusive thing they had an exclusivity contract by the 3ds and we days they don't have that anymore but clearly there is a massive benefit for Capcom to make exclusive versions for for the Nintendo platforms that you know also RMPC I think that this has been a fruitful relationship and is likely going to continue but they're going to also continue on other platforms well Monster Hunter World has sold more so there's going to be a Monster Hunter World 2 or some other continuation of that as well on the other platforms I'm sure at some point but man I'm sure Capcom's got to be really really happy today with these sales next up is an interesting one because this isn't a rumor this isn't a leak in fact there's not really any rumors in today's show instead what we have is actual information from Nintendo and this information is pointing to a major IP coming to Nintendo switch from Nintendo's back catalog and that major IP is Donkey Kong now yes there are rumors surrounding a Donkey Kong game in development for Switch dating back to last year but we haven't heard any new rumors about that game but what we do have now is confirmation that some sort of Donkey Kong something is in the works for Nintendo Switch and this is because they went ahead and applied to update the trademark for Donkey Kong back in May and that trademark got published on July 1st and it includes new verbiage that is very specific to Nintendo Switch and this verbiage has been used on other IPs that Nintendo has created new games for on Nintendo Switch and if people wondering if this verbiage means something about a P like a mobile phone they actually use different verbiage for Fire Emblem and Super Mario and stuff like that to infer mobile phones so this verbiage does seem to be talking about a Nintendo Switch even though it doesn't say switch my name because they want to obviously be all-encompassing for future devices so here's what the new verbiage says the trademark now covers downloadable programs for portable and electronic consoles and last I checked Nintendo Switch is the only portable and electronic console Nintendo has actively been supporting 3ds has been discontinued so this is really exciting and obviously gives a hint that Nintendo's been working on Donkey Kong or multiple Donkey Kong projects could be ports could be remasters I know we got Tropical Freeze and they didn't have this trademark update at the time of Tropical Freeze so kind of makes me think maybe not a port but it could be a remaster or a remake also could obviously be brand new Donkey Kong stuff so something's in the works that doesn't mean it's ever gonna come out this doesn't mean it's gonna see the light of day or that it's even gonna come to the current switch maybe it's the next Nintendo platform but what we do know at least from Nintendo this is their own verbiage something's happening with Donkey Kong and that's always exciting to think about after all one of their biggest success stories early on was the original Donkey Kong arcade game now our last story is this is what Donkey Kong is cool and this next story is weird and it's weird in a way that shocks me because I never thought that we would see Nintendo natively support a game on PC from their library basically ever we all know switch and pretty much everything on switch can be emulated pretty easily on a decently powerful PC and even on Steam Deck not everything works perfectly on Steam Deck but I think it's a matter of time look Nintendo games have been on PC for a while just unofficially Nintendo has never actually released a PC version of one of their games but they made an update to a game recently they released this update download it's whatever that has people scratching their heads not because there seem to be any major additions in this update however data mining of the update which hey once the updates out there anyone can access the data if they so like reveals something that hasn't been announced and is looking to have a hell of a lot of support and that is Mario Kart 2 or apparently is being worked on natively for PC now the original part of the data mine people quickly dismissed and it was that they've now added mouse support out of nowhere and people thought the mouse support could have been just a developer tool right like oh yeah you know when you're working on this game of programming this game and testing this game a lot of times that initial stuff's gonna happen and you know a PC application so mouse support makes a lot of sense to emulate touch support however here's the problem with that that's not the only support it got they actually included a bunch of native PC emulation streaming which is not needed for development purposes you do not need to do that at all the only reason to do that is to make the game play natively on PC and it apparently includes you know resolutions like 1920 by 1080 which is a TV based resolution not a phone one this is wild that this is actually being worked on at all and leaked into this update and I often wonder why the hell would Mario Kart 2 or a mobile phone game be working on support for PCs of all things and I honestly don't have an answer for you I know Mario Kart 2 or has been rather successful I think it's success stories actually slots it right behind fire on them here the final heroes is successful from a monetary perspective whereas to her has a much larger install base but I find this fascinating that they're they're thinking about bringing to her to PC I get that it's not going to impact anything with the switch or any sort of switch sales for Mario Kart 8 deluxe but it is wild to me that we could be seeing Mario Kart 2 or native on PC before the end of the year and I'm not really sure what the purpose of that is I guess Nintendo maybe with their mobile games doesn't really care if they end up on PC because it doesn't impact switch and maybe they just look at it as another avenue to advertise the next big Mario Kart game you know Anna on switch or next gen or something I honestly have no idea what Nintendo is doing with us I think it's a really interesting story and I'm very curious if it does get an official release on PC what that means and what Nintendo's logic and reasoning is going to be for doing so sure many of us can come up with our own reasons why this makes a lot of sense there are plenty of mobile phone games you know great shadow legends and stuff that are totally available to play on PC I just I'm very curious why they're making this decision and how they're gonna make it available are they gonna have their own game launcher are they gonna you just be able to get it right through steam is it just still gonna be a free downloaders or something you gotta pay for I don't know man this is wild and if we somehow ever add controller support not just mouse support that's that's like next level you're just full I'm playing a Mario Kart game on PC officially hot damn anyways folks I'm Nathan de Rovelle Jets from Nintendo Prime I want to thank you so much for tuning and hopefully you enjoyed today's episode of Prime news again I hope to see all of you guys at my birthday stream tonight at 8 p.m. central time I'll have that set up probably before this episode even goes live and it'll be the featured video on the channel so hopefully I see you guys there otherwise you know what I'll be able to have a glorious rest of your day I got a lot of stuff I got to get to today that's not even related to my birthday it's not really much of a celebration my birthday in general today just a small lunch with my parents but hey you know what the older you get the less your birthday seems to get celebrated so it is what it is until you hit like those big milestones you get the big 5060 I'm not 50 I'm not 60 you know where people start to celebrate every decade they're still in this plan I ain't there yet I'm not quite that old feel like I still got a little bit of youth left in me all right guys catch you in the next episode