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I know you guys Have been following us for a while, but this is the very first podcast after we hit our patreon goal for the podcast So now this podcast is weekly and every single week. We're gonna be trying to bring on guests Speaking of guests. We have mr. H. M. K with us today Hey guys, how's it going? I'm but I'm so glad to be back on board with this podcast And I'm ready to talk on some really cool and toast up that's been happening the last few months and for this month as well Yes, we have some awesome topics for you today And I am also joined as always by mr. Eric Moore I was going everybody and we're gonna try a little something different with this podcast as we're now making it weekly a lot More structured and I'm gonna try not to talk over people. Yes. I hear you guys's feedback All right, so let's just hop right into it. We have some awesome topics The first time we're gonna talk about this week We're over six months away from the switch releasing, right? so a half-year mark a little past that and I want to kind of take a moment for us to reminisce on you know the switch so far and How it got here. It's obviously been a success so far and Kind of look at why we think it got here and what were some of our favorite games or moments for the switch in the past six months and then What we're kind of looking forward to the head in the 2018 because I think obviously all three of us are really looking forward to Mario Odyssey But we have a topic specific of all Mario Odyssey later. So we'll gush about that Little bit later the podcast old teas So well, I guess we're just over like yes, it's okay How do you think the the switch is doing and how it got to where it is today? You know, I think the switch is doing extremely well Especially after the failure and the catastrophe that was the Wii U You know, Nintendo it really seems that Nintendo decided to cut and run At one point during the Wii U's development or not even development, but during its last fan, right? Erie there we guys hyped up for the next system the Nintendo NX when it was called that way back when and Since the the switch has come out and were past six months of it being out and about They haven't disappointed, you know, and it was back on top in terms of you know Getting those consoles out constantly being out of stock that huge demand and now we're at a point where we're getting it like triple A or otherwise really good games back to back to back every month on the month You know, we started out with Breath of the Wild with the launch of the switch Then we got Mario Kart 8 deluxe then we got arms split 2 and 2 poking DX And we're gonna get some more Odyssey this month and then next month where I'm To to be mistaken December we're getting Cedar Blade Chronicles 2 and that's a huge game And you know that these are games that I would never have expected to be released within the same year Especially the next big Zelda and Mario games, you know They're doing a lot of things right with the switch I that's why I feel like it's been a bigger success than what then the Wii U ever was You know, I feel like they put their they put too many Eggs in the basket that was the Wii U. They were like so much on hey guys This is a console for you hardcore gamers and like here here's new Super Mario Bros You this is gonna sell our console because new Super Mario games always sell well, which they do But then they learn the hard way that's not, you know, that's not everything that goes into promotion And what goes into good content for a video game console the switch got all that right within the first month They told us what the switch was from January They hyped us up. They let us know what it was what it can do the first game to come out that the big triple-a title was Breath of the Wall which added so much buy value to the switch and they kept releasing great games great Accessible games multiplayer games online games every month on the month so Nintendo was very smart on handling the switch and even though they brought back games that were on the Wii U like Mark a mark a deluxe and poking tournament deluxe they bought they bought in better versions of those games and Games that can truly thrive on a system that has a future in my opinion otherwise like, you know, say for the Wii U That's why I'm really waiting for like Super Smash Bros For Nintendo switch a lot of people are saying that oh, let's get a new Smash Bros game I wouldn't be mad if it was just a port with a couple of new features added in because with the switch games can truly thrive When they couldn't on the Wii U. So that's what I think I think the switch is doing extremely well Nintendo knows what they're doing to make it do extremely well, and I'm really excited to see what goes on into 2018 yeah, it's awesome. I don't know how you explain it better than that What's even crazy to add on top of that is some of the third-party support. It's been getting now You know, yeah, everyone's been talking about doom lately because that's you know, maybe Technologically one of the biggest announcements for the system. That was so crazy when they announced doom and will fisting too I'm like you guys have to be kidding Right, I could not believe it like I rocket league get got it Minecraft obviously cross play. Hey great cool I'm glad you're on board Doom wait wait wait. We're talking about the same game that you rip guts and blood out of everything, right? Right Nintendo wanted that they went to your studio and asked you wait wait wait. I thought this was a family console Remember everything's for kids. Yeah, right right? Right, you know that It's it's really interesting to me just looking at this year They're the only caveat I you know like HMK you just mentioned a whole bunch of reasons that it succeeded Oh a big reason being the library Just an insane launch year that this might be the best launch year for exclusive titles on a single platform Maybe ever Just in terms of not maybe not sheer number of titles But the sheer how big those titles were and how consistently they have been releasing I mean, we're talking about this now and What we saw Mario Odyssey to come we still have a massive JRPG and Xenobite Chronicles 2 We didn't even mention Fire Emblem Warriors is still coming There are so many big exclusive titles still coming this year and we've already got you know More than a handful that I have hit and have sold well And have helped keep the switch sold out until recently of course. Yeah, but still I mean it's it's been held Even over six months and you know, they're still I mean, they're barely sitting in stores It's not like they're it's not like you can go walk in and see like 20 or 30 sitting on the shelves and what some places maybe The thing is like what let me know that they caught up with stock obviously is Amazon They have both versions have been available on Amazon all this past week Which means yeah, they're they're obviously catching up with stock, you know, there was a new report out there We talked about it about how maybe they're producing 2 million units per month possibly at this point Who knows like they obviously have to prepare for the holiday season and you know catch up with the man. So One thing I thought was interesting. You mentioned smash man I'm scared for smash like On one hand, I would love for it to be like a Wii U port that brings in all the 3ds stuff and adds a couple new characters like ice Climbers or whatever on the other hand There's obviously the counter argument that you know a new smash game has to come eventually whether it's a switch or whatever comes next and It feels pretty even whatever comes next switch switches I don't want to talk about what's next right? Right, but I believe I could be wrong, but I believe Sakurai is officially done with smash You know what's that with the thing with Sakurai, you know, like I Understand why he thinks and why he says that he's done, but he said he was done before Yeah, but before I at least I got the impression based on how he talked in the because he said that weekly column in the feminine Based on how he worded things it sounded like he was mostly staying on as a favor to Iwata because they came up together in the industry And a lot of it largely like the reason we even have smashes because of the water So I feel like as much as he kept saying he's done with smash before he had a strong reason to keep doing it As a favor to Iwata and I'm sure Nintendo was tossing plenty of money his way I mean I'm sure money was not a problem to convince him, but I honestly think he's at that point now where Iwata's gone He might feel like he's created the best smash game he possibly can We know it's painful for him to develop the game because he is so meticulous He wants to make sure every character is balanced himself. We know what that's done to his hands over the years not good And I think he's ready to make his own game and he doesn't actually work for Nintendo So he has no obligation to continue to work for Nintendo Just my take just might obviously we don't know because we haven't heard anything about smash at all since they got done with the DLC So I'm a little worried about smash not so much like this generation I said they could just port the old one because it was on the console that didn't sell well Even though, you know, I think the only hesitancy is that it was also on 3ds and 3ds obviously sold well So there's that whole do we bring it over even though we have a version of it that sold well I don't know what their thought process would be there, but you know, just like when I can eat deluxe It's going to sell well It's switch. I mean, it's beyond a smash and HD on a popular system is probably gonna sell with Smash Bros But the reason I bring that up is because as amazing as this year has been I mean I could not have ever expected a year like this Man I I'm actually a little worried for 2018. Mm-hmm. How do you follow this year up? What smash I Mean yeah, but smash smash isn't good It doesn't equate to Mario Kart Zelda and Mario Especially when Zelda was like one of the most groundbreaking or at least influential Zelda games since Ocarina of Time Then you have Mario which looks like it might be the most influential Mario games in Super Mario 64 And then you have Mario Kart 8 deluxe which again, it's a portable Wii U game But it's widely considered to be the best Mario Kart game to ever exist So it's like you have three of potentially some of your best games You've ever made in some of your biggest franchises smash no matter how good it is It isn't gonna make up for all that and I mean you could argue maybe you know because they did announce Pokemon and Metroid I Just don't think those titles are even coming in 2018 I think if they had those two with smash and they spread them out throughout the year That'd be that'd be great because then they can mix in their other games like Yoshi and Kirby And I think they have a new brand new fire emblem game coming Obviously an animal crossing would be a huge announcement for switch Yeah, and that would take off really huge in Japan because they love using switch and portable mode But at the same time from what we know right now anyways, I know we're not even at 2018 We still have E3 to come we still have the game awards. Nintendo usually does something big at the game awards every year There could be announcements coming there's going to be announcements coming But I do worry that Nintendo put all their eggs in this launch here And now we got to wait two years before they have another year like this. Yeah, you know, I want to that's very you know It's very logical to think that way Because you know, you know game development and what we've seen before and history tends to repeat itself You know some I feel something within Nintendo's infrastructure clicked when you know Kimishima just sat in that chair And then he's like, okay, we're not playing games no more You know, so like, you know, as you said before a year like this was Unprecedented how unprecedented would it be for them to continue to to try continue the streak into 2018 So this year like you said, we got Mario Kart. We got a poking fighter. We got a new Zilbeck game We got Zelda. We got Mario Odyssey. We got all these great games But a sequel to simple to a new IP and arms, you know, we do know for a fact that next year We're getting three big titles in Kirby Yoshi and Fire Emblem. I want to you know It's you know, I think it's safe to say that Metroid and Pokemon is on that gray area if it's coming out 2018 or maybe 2019 Whatever gonna be yeah the grounds for that like if we see a huge gameplay for either one of those titles then there you go Right, like could you imagine like this year? We all the stuff we got this year then next year we get Fire Emblem We get Pokemon we get Kirby we get Yoshi get Metroid all the switch in 2018 And then you know the cherry on top is like smash and then like my argument was smashed because that's only like what you said about Sakurai and then you know When we get a new smash game and Sakurai come back I feel that that the the biggest reason why I think why smash will come back in 2018 as a port from the weavers Is that one it doesn't have to stress Sakurai out, you know, if they're gonna get new characters He can come back and work and work not as much as he did originally on Smash 4 For those DLC characters. He can have Bando Namkai Bando I keep saying Bando Namkai Bando. Yeah, I meant Namco Bandai They can oversee the development of this port for the switch and then that could be something that could take the stress off You want and remember Nintendo? Really and I mean really wants to get on the eSports Money train they really want to jump on eSports They've shown up with arms and even though arms, you know, I had a great launch Like I hardly see any play by play arms. I'm not saying it's a bad game is just you know, no plays arms You know, but people are playing Splatoon and then Nintendo's really trying to get into the eSports league thing Yeah, I and that confused me. It confuses me that they're doing that because until they start offering cash prizes It's not serious. Mm-hmm, right? I mean think I mean League of Legends and all these other eSports They're giving away millions of dollars at global tournaments and Nintendo's like we'll give you a belt Oh, let me throw a caveat on that cash prizes that are actually there Oh That was bad. Yeah, but that was though. Yeah I think we did a podcast on that before so I'll try to throw a link to that on the YouTube video But yeah, it's that's the only thing I worry about is I love the eSports scene. I think it is legit I think it's massively popular and I get it I mean, why do people love watching people in the live stream games like watch me live streaming They like watching professionals go at it and play games. They love to the highest possible level So it's the same reason that like sports fans like watching sports Yep Watching athletes at the highest possible level play a sport we love and doing it and impossible things is awesome and It felt weird to me that Nintendo was pushing eSports while not being willing to financially back eSports And then at the same time you like the smash community trying to get Nintendo to even recognize them And they're like, yeah, we'll bring you out and have you at a tournament, you know before e3 But we're still not gonna really reckon we'll allow you to run your tournaments in this It's almost like they're YouTube policies will allow you That's right, but we're not gonna pay you anything right That's what I worry about with eSports in general. I I want Nintendo to embrace eSports I think swatoon and arms and smash and even Mario Kart if they really wanted to be Pretty much any of their massively multiplayer games could be eSports There are people serious enough to do it, but I mean they got to get behind it Even if they're running a fan, you know like fan donation like you donate money and it gets you a ticket and the donations Go to pay for it. Like whatever at least have something that Nintendo officially supports where winners get paid Mm-hmm Right and and yeah, that's how my only take otherwise. I Love like swatoon too is ripe to become. Oh, yeah in eSports. Oh, yeah Soon as they showed when they showed off the switch originally and they had swatoon to show, you know kind of Photoshopped I guess or edited into an Evo setting. Oh, man. Yeah, I'm just like please Nintendo That's only happens if you provide prize money. Yeah, please well I mean they almost did kind of an eSports thing with with their tournament That they had and it's really cool like especially the arms tournament e3 Right, like oh, you got to meet the developer or meet the main guy behind the director shake his hand get an autograph Yeah, the belt But that's not what eSports is like a thing that people do for a living Yeah, cuz it just like real sports It takes a lot of practice right and if you can't find a time you can't financially support yourself doing it You're not gonna have the highest level possible competition right right and I know right away You're not gonna have sponsors like you know some of these guys are yeah Some of them survive because they have some sponsors Mm-hmm because for some reason melee just stays popular Smash 4 has picked up some steam but it's I Don't know I would love for Nintendo to truly embrace it Just like I would love for them to truly embrace a real account system Yeah, and real online features and an ability to message my friends But you mean voice chat actually on switch yeah to turn this back around to To the So much about the future of switch because like it's unknown, right? We don't know what's gonna happen in 2018 and I think one positive thing in Nintendo's favor And this is just something I assume they're doing Is having basically all of their in-house games releasing on switch I don't think they're really developing much in-house for 3ds Like Metroid Samus returns and yeah, they have a new Pokemon game coming this year But then they have a Pokemon game coming You know for switch as well, and we know gamefreaks working on that It's we reached a situation where I think once they combined their development teams And now they have a system that combines handheld and home console together I think the one aspect is that you're not gonna have to worry about the next animal crossing coming to 3ds or switch Is there any doubt it's coming to switch? Yeah You know that's a massive game I mean my my consumer 2018 was obviously like out of all the games that the HMK listed off for for 2018 Even throwing Metroid in there none of them are big sellers, but Pokemon right and none of them are your actual big big titles Yeah, a lot of those are more like niche franchise. I hate saying that about Metroid Prime Oh my god, it hurts me. It hurts me but Metroid's always been a niche franchise I mean some of the best-selling games only move 2 million units I mean day one Mario Kart 8 destroyed that. Yeah. Yeah So it's like that's what I mean like they had all these big hitting titles this year It's like well, I think get Pokemon in the next year. That's great But there isn't really another smash is kind of it's weird. Nintendo has a lot of niche titles and then they have like five huge franchise So but that's the thing I think animal crossing is actually at the level of a big seller I feel like at the sales numbers of new leaf Oh and I think people are ready. I think it's been ready for a while that amiibo festival stuff and whatever Stop just give me a real animal crossing game. Come on But but turn to the conversation back around to what like this year and the success we talked a lot about games games games What about the system itself? Because I'm of a belief that you can have a fantastic line of a games, but if people don't like the hardware It's really not gonna matter. I feel like that was also part of the issue with Wii U Yes, we you also had a game history like I feel like this year almost equaled the output It really did. Oh my god And that's how just like there's a lot of games on Wii U that I still love to support it And that's gonna be a topic for another podcast, but I really the hardware itself Like the naming convention just so brilliant. Oh, yeah, I mean, yeah, it's in your face You know, it's not it's not a thinker like Xbox isn't necessarily in your face about it being a gaming machine Even though extreme box whatever yeah, PlayStation, you know you play but okay You know, we you was like, okay, what does that even mean? It's a made-up word. Yeah You know the 10 to 64 was all about the graphics and You look at all the history of the gaming conventions and then all of a sudden you get to switch And it's quite literally telling you what the system is almost. I mean, it's just like 3ds a 3d. Yes, yeah But I think that was a smart move I didn't like the naming convention with 3ds Because I wondered at the time if people would just say oh, it's just like another new Nintendo DS or something But whatever it ended up working out for them after they massive price cut Yeah, that launch price. Yeah, 50. Yeah And it's not even that it was 250 at launch it no games Yeah, yeah, like no big hitting games at launch and that's kind of I mean that that gets back to obviously switch We had Zelda, which was obviously maybe the best launch title ever I Know Mario 64 obviously is going to make a strong argument because there was like no games on the 64, but Mario 64 but theoretically Breath of the Wild was pretty much the only game on switch too. So well Street Fighter 4 or don't start to that sold really well And then we got Mario Kart 8 like a month later So like if that was switch had these consistent big releases. Oh, right, right, right, but like all story Go story go story right away the beginning though. It was pretty much breath of the wild and And he's breathed a while So but that hardware man the switch name the novelty of on the go and at home I mean, it's not something that people haven't tried before They just failed at it, you know, you had Vita and PSP, you know being able to stream games from the system But there's obviously issues about streaming games from the system. Now you're throwing in the moniker of you have to rely on internet connections and Routers and if you're not in the same home, then you really got to rely on some really good stuff. You're at a hotel Good luck streaming your PlayStation 4 games. Yeah Geez, it doesn't work. I mean, it will it'll stutter like crazy. I've done it. It's not It's not pretty Nintendo. You just take it out and go. Yep Just make sure you bring a power card to plug in in charge. Yep Just so convenient and and everything about it seems like Nintendo listened to Everything I mean, they somehow brought back motion controls when everyone one of them to ditch motion controls and nobody cares. Yeah How How how am I able to still play just dance? 2018 With full motion controls using the joy cons just like we motes and nobody cares Nintendo found a way to make it not care. Yeah Like the brilliance in that design where they still gonna have the motion controls from games I just answered and stuff that people wanted, but they realized that's not necessarily like the appeal And I was worried too like when they did the one presentation They were showing on HD rumble. Oh, you can feel the ice cubes You can do that. I'm like that's really really cool. And I think HD rumble when it's used well is fantastic But obviously those are not why people are buying your system No So the fact that they packed like a full controller, you know, obviously analog triggers aside I know there's people who really want those they packed a full controller and a portable device That has all these multiple ways to use the controllers And I think even taking the joy comes out and play them sideways my kids have done that and played some Mario Kart And I've even done it and it actually worked out better than you know people all you get cramped It really wasn't that bad. There's something I'm gonna do for five hours straight. No, but in portable mode it my switch doesn't last five hours Yeah No, so that's not really a problem. What's it's really nice like all my pro controllers dead I like I could just take my switch and take out the controllers play some multiplayer And obviously it's not ideal for every game every some games you get less controls and all of that But I just think the switch just everything seems carefully planned out on it I think the only the only flaw is the kickstand Yeah Not so much, you know, I know some people say oh, it's flimsy It's not so much that to me. It's that it's just poorly located. They could have two of them That would have fixed a lot of problems or just like one big one Like right in the middle. Yeah, one big one in the middle. It would have been nice But I mean whatever it's such a minor. I mean it works for it It's just I know some people who have taken on a plane and like planes have turbulence and it just falls right over Yeah, right, but whatever. I mean it's such a minor complaint No, I'm not buying the switch because the kickstand sucks. Oh, right. Um, you also got to bring up the switch bend depending and the The dock the dock scratching. Yeah, and the and the Why can I think of it correction doc was not poorly designed if there's Add with some like some little pads. Yeah spaces like little spacers or like little felt Like strips like that's the thing that everyone's doing in their switch. Yeah, and I feel like because they're using the plastic screen I would it would have been nice. I don't expect this but some phones do it now include a glass protector for your switch, right? Not that they're there's five bucks or under and not that expensive but Still it's kind of like it's a plastic screen easy to scratch. Yeah, and then the joy con Being Yeah, I mean As I explained there's there's been issues in your life as there is with any new hardware I mean, I don't remember specific issues with the xbox outside of The red ring of death. No, no, but xbox one. Oh, yeah Obviously red 360 is red ring of death like crazy. But the xbox one itself I guess it's only issues were that the os was clunky and no one really knew the direction of the system Because of microsoft's terrible terrible terrible messaging until phil spacer took over just terrible messaging PlayStation the big issue with that was mostly the sticks A lot of people had issues with the thumb sticks cracking. Yeah, and uh, I remember that that's I mean, it's not the ill breaker. It's not broken, you know, people can go buy covers for them But it's still it's like you buy a new system and three weeks later your stuff's peeling off You shouldn't achieve that right and to be fair the new they haven't done that now for years Like all their controllers now are fine, but right right at least with the switch here. None of them work Technically nothing broke the system. The left joy kind was probably the worst Yeah, I mean, I know bend gate and bending switches looks scary But the systems don't work right a left joy con that you could argue That's like uh, you get three feet away and suddenly you lose connectivity. We can't play games. Yeah I mean, it's it's and even with bend gate though. I there's I mean, it's not like the whole thing It's folding in half. It's it's slight bends unless your giant mom and do it on this live on stream Oh, why would you ever do that? Oh god? You try to well, you try to show off Well, does it bend? Oh, yeah, it bends. Oh, look my joy cards fall off in then later on He notes. Oh, by the way, I dropped my switch and it just broke the plastic tabs. That's why the joy comes right off, but yeah, no, I mean I mean that that's there's always pitfalls and this is part of the reason I always as much as I'm I'm I'm How do I put it? I don't follow my own advice. I always tell people don't buy systems at launch Wait a few months to until one, you know what the issues are and two, you know, they're going to be fixed And three, you know, because you know what the issues are, you know, if it's something you're willing to put up with right And everything's under warranty and at least Nintendo of America is doing a fantastic job of fixing all the problems for free Um, and most people I know that called and got their issues fixed got their stuff back But then the same week if they sent it on monday, which is really impressive Yeah, uh, usually you're not, you know, you're goodbye for your system for a couple weeks But they're like, nope, we haven't fixed and we sent it out on wednesday and it's back to you on friday Uh, and that's great. Um, nintendo did nintendo america at least did a really good job of that But yeah, that's why I always said don't buy systems at launch. I know it's hard This time was hard specifically because we you was out of production and breath of the wild came out Yeah So it's like you can't really buy a brand new we you and some places don't really have many used ones anymore and New switch and if you didn't pre order the switch Exactly, yeah That's that's the only problem with this Up till now if you didn't buy it basically at at launch, you're not gonna get one. You weren't gonna get one for a while Yeah, so that's why it was really difficult just because I think that game specifically is what made it like, okay Maybe I need to make an exception But still my general my general advice is like even now people think about getting the iphone 8 or the iphone 10 like wait Wait, you know a few months and see what the issues are And then get it when they fix it or if you know, it's an issue that you doesn't bother you Oh, you can get an android. Yeah, you could get an android. Yeah, I mean there's new circle not to google just had their There were conferences announcing their new google pixel phone Um, although again, they decided to go the apple route, which upset a lot of people. No headphone jack Why I can't even remember what their excuse was apple was oh, it's antiquated, but yet apparently yeah, they're trying to phase out The They're like they're trying to phase it out, but yet no one's offering a mass consumer option. That's alternative to it It's just by wireless, but people don't want wireless because it's batteries and you gotta remember to charge it and lose them and Right, right. Anyways, I'm not saying that if you use wireless, that's bad. That's his personal preference, but Uh, most consumers. Yeah, just go buy a five dollar pair of earbuds and you're good for exactly You don't have to go out and spend 75 dollars to buy a pair of wireless headphones Eric and I over here wearing headphones. It's like I can't use these without a dongle And if I have to use a dongle and they include a dongle that tells you that people still need the port exactly Exactly So don't get rid of it until people don't need dongles anymore and every and the dongles are using are converting that port into a lightning Or a usb c or whatever Oh, anyways, um But yeah, I just think you know if you Happened to not mind those issues or you didn't come across i'm like I was actually surprised at a launch unit And I never had the left joy-con problem because it's something like a lot of people had it. I didn't get it Thankfully, you don't you don't know eric would know if he has it because he's never played it in anything but portable, right? So you very well could you should probably check that before the warranty? Yeah, probably I could borrow you a joy-con if you need to I have a pro controller. Yeah. Yeah, no, I know But yeah, this first Man this first six months this first year really is just amazing nintendo has done almost everything right Um, the things they've gotten wrong No, uh voice chat. I don't think there's any I mean, I've seen a lot of people trying to defend it. I think you guys are just fanboys Um, because I don't know how you can defend. Yeah, no voice chat, especially after it's already been proven It can work locally on the system Uh, so I mean there's no reason not to just have it Uh, not be able to message friends. I'm waiting for the online system I'm like nintendo hasn't given me a reason to believe they're gonna get it right just because they start charging money for it Yeah, there's that it's like I think nintendo's whole goal in releasing the app and voice chat was to try to be like here Here's some good will No, we're gonna show you we know what we're doing but But it didn't work well even with even after the patch. It's like, yeah, but there's still issues Still issues that need to be addressed And the primary one being that I have to use a second device to voice chat. I have to use a second device for lobbies And and even with the voice chat, you can't you can't get into just a lobby outside of a game Uh, again, I mentioned this earlier. No way to message your friends Um, no cloud saving. I think that's a huge one because some people who send their switches in What they end up doing is just giving you a brand new unit and you lose all your data There's all your save data you can recover your digital games, but you lose your save data So it's like, yeah, now it's nice games are tied to your account. The save data is still tied to the system um So they have some work to do there. They also have work to do with like universal account systems and Trying to use your account on multiple switches There's some some issues to work out But the thing is a lot of it's just kind of flown under the radar because What are the headlines switches selling out all the switches hit 70 000 sales last week in japan Mario odyssey's coming looks fantastic. Yeah, platoon is great. Oh my gosh Look at these sales numbers third party games are coming like all this good news is kind of drowning out to be like There's still an underbelly there where things aren't quite there But just as long as you don't forget about them. Yeah, that's the thing It's something that they can get away with now. Yep Long haul I don't know if they can But for now while there's enough good content coming out to distract everyone sure Um, so yeah, it was a great first year. I guess the general message is this is like the best launch year ever for a nintendo platform in my opinion Um, this is maybe even the best launch year ever for any platform You know just taking all of them into consideration and the game releases and the novelty of the device And the attractiveness of it and everything they've done has been so perfect Just remember folks are still issues And we hope they just get fixed over time We hope we need to keep reminding nintendo the issues exist Yeah, and we can't just tell them that we accept this because all the games are so great We can have our cake and eat it too. Yeah because everyone else gives us the cake except for when the cake is why Oh man