 Hey everyone, I am Nathaniel Ruffa-Jantz and this is Prime News. So our first story of the day, the lead story of Prime News is an update on Diablo 3 for Switch. So you remember last week we put up a report about how there was a tweet from Blizzard that had a light Switch cover that kind of lit up and turned off with a Switch worth it being turned on and off, on and off. And a lot of speculation was this was a tease for Diablo 3 and Switch. Now the first update to it is something we never actually covered and that was that Blizzard gave an official response a question about it and they said that's silly that anyone saying that it has anything to do with Switch. It was just a tweet they did for fun. And I didn't really report on that or do an update on it before because I didn't buy it. I thought it was kind of BS if it was up to me. And it seems like my thoughts might be true now. This is technically a rumor, but you decide how much you want to believe the source. The source is Eurogamer and they are now reporting. They aren't even calling this a rumor. They are coming flat out and saying this is true. Eurogamer is reporting that Diablo 3 is indeed coming to Nintendo Switch. They said the official announcement for this is several months off. And you know what else is several months off? E3, I guarantee you that this is right now at least being planned for a semi-big announcement at E3. Again, it's another old game port. So how big of an announcement is it really? I think a bigger announcement is just that, look, now Blizzard supporting this platform. First Bethesda, now Blizzard. What other Western studio is next? Bethesda started with an older game like Skyrim and is now bringing Doom and Wolfenstein and New Colossus. Eventually we might get a day and date game that's released on all platforms and Switch at the same time. Hopefully this is a sign for Blizzard. I know a lot of people want Hearthstone, they want some other stuff. And it is what it is, but hopefully this is just like the starting point. We're starting with Diablo. See how that does. Bring more after the fact. But anyways, that's what they say. They do note that their sources were not sure if Reaper of Souls and Rise of the Necromancer expansions are included in this, although Eurogamer did note. It would be weird for them not to be. They've included these expansions and ports to other platforms before. So just because there's no news on it right now doesn't mean it's not happening. We're months away from it being announced. So yeah, I'm gonna probably be released this holiday or something like that. If I had to guess. Now again, rumor, rumor, rumor, truckloads of salt. I'm gonna tend to lean towards Eurogamer here. I know Eurogamer does not always get everything they report on correct. They have gotten a lot of stuff with Switch correct, but there's some stuff they've stated in the past that hasn't come to pass yet. Maybe it will. But what I will note here is I love Blizzard games. I love them a ton. I have played every single game they have ever released, including Diablo 1 and 2, but not 3. I've never bought 3. I've never loaded up 3. I've never owned it. I've never done anything with it. All the Starcraft games, the Warcraft games, including World of Warcraft, and all that stuff, Overwatch and Hearthstone. I've played all of them. I'm not gonna say I've played all of them extensively. Hearthstone is an example. I've just played a little bit. I haven't really dove deep and spent dozens and dozens of hours to understand the full intricacies. Intricacies? Yeah, that's the word. Intricacies of how that card game works. But I will say that I love Blizzard content. They are one of my favorite Western studios. And them along with Bethesda are kind of like the beginning of the Western studio support that I want on Switch. There are certain IPs I want from EA. There's a lot of stuff I actually want from Ubisoft as well. But Bethesda and Rockstar Games and 2K and tossing in Blizzard. That's really the trifecta of the huge Western studios I want to see on Switch. So I'm hoping that this is true. I'm gonna believe it because I want it to be true. But again, it's up to you if you want to believe that story. It's gonna be interesting to see how pricing works on the game. I'm hoping it's not too expensive. Might be a little bit more expensive because of the cartridge factors, assuming there'll be a physical version. But even then, I'm hoping it's not a $60 game like Skyrim was. I feel like that was a mistake. But speaking of pricing, man, our second story. Get ready for this. I'm gonna have a little bit of a rant here. Deals with Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze come into Switch. Now, Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze, as we know, is coming to Switch. It's coming with a new character named Funky Kong. Nintendo on the box are actually calling it a new Funky Kong mode. But if you know anything about Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze, that's not how it works. Each character in Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze isn't a mode. It's just a character with unique abilities that changes how you play a stage. They have said there's no new levels coming, no new stages, no new worlds. So I don't know why they're calling it a mode. I think it's a little misleading in the marketing, Nintendo. I'm just saying, adding a new character. Anyways, beyond that, what's interesting about it is a bunch of retailers have now started to put up pricing for the game that releases on May 4th. And that is, unsurprisingly, $59.99. Just like Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is. Just like we know Hyrule Warriors Definitive Edition is going to be. And I am now of the mindset of many of you that these Wii U ports and just gaming ports in general on Switch, but Wii U ports, I'm going to stick that specifically because Nintendo controls the pricing on that stuff, is too expensive. Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze in the wake of the release of Kirby Star Allies and eventually this Yoshi game coming soon should not be $59.99. It's not a brand new game. They're adding a brand new character. Like Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, I understood the $60 price because they scrapped an entire multiplayer mode and actually added a new mode to the game. Not just new characters, a new mode. And then they unlocked all the characters and all the tracks and stuff right away. For anyone who added on Wii U. But for Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze, they're just giving us a new character to play around with and it's a highly requested character that a lot of people want to play with. And I understand that, but is that character worth a premium? And what is that premium? What's Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze worth to most people on Wii U these days? You know, $20 maybe? And I understand you're not going to charge $20 for Wii U ports, especially of games that Nintendo values highly like Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze. But I don't think, like, I understand having a higher price on the Wii U ports than a lot of people want because of the cartridge and that cartridge, you know, in turn is going to make the digital price a little bit more expensive. But beyond that, I don't think Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze should cost more than $40. In fact, I don't think any Wii U ported game that was exclusive to Wii U was more than $40 on the platform, regardless if it was a Nintendo or a third party. That's right, Bayonetta 1 and 2 should only be $40. Now actually, if you work out, you know, because if you buy one game and, like, digitally, if you buy one game, you get a discount code for the other and it turns out that, you know, it does work out to Bayonetta 1 and 2 if you buy both, being $40. But so again, I guess they're kind of doing that sort of, but it's only if you buy both do you get that kind of whatever. My point here is that I think Nintendo is overcharging and they're doing it because they know they can get away with it. I understand from Nintendo's point of view where their mindset is at. The Wii U audience is dinky when it comes to gaming, as much as I would love to have 13.5 million subscribers on this channel and that would make my day and, you know, we get millions upon millions of views on every Prime News and everything we do, our live streams might be the biggest on the platform and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. We put Etika to shame probably. Etika will be chasing us instead of us chasing Etika during our adult time on Prime Time. But that aside, I have to say that 13.5 million in the gaming sphere is really, really small when it comes to system sales and Nintendo doesn't view, essentially what Nintendo is saying by releasing these games at $59.99 and then trying to give us new content to give an excuse for Wii U owners to buy the game is that they don't have any respect for their core audience that bought a Wii U. Now they are a business. They're looking at this from the business side only and the business side only is that, look, that 13.5 million people did not make us a success we are selling this as a brand new title to Switch owners that never owned a Wii U because they feel a majority of the Switch audience never bought a Wii U but you know I am majority of the Switch audience never bought a Wii U because a lot of the Wii U audience which were previously or maybe even currently if they, you know, or whatever are some of your most loyal fans and I was one of those fans and I feel a little insulted even as a Switch owner that owned a Wii U that Nintendo wants to charge $59.99 at a time when Kirby Star Allies is only $50 and that's a literal brand new exclusive 2D side scrolling game I understand that Tropical Freeze might be on another level and I get that, to me, Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze is the greatest 2D side scrolling platform game of all time Yes, I've heard you people telling me Celeste is better I haven't played Celeste yet so I can't make any pouching for or against that I know I have already, that's just my fandom coming out Reality is I can't tell you if Celeste is better but from my money, I know Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze is the best or maybe the second best is Celeste, I don't know but reality is that just because it's critically acclaimed and using one of your core things, I mean Kirby games get critically acclaimed as well and use one of your core mascots and stuff I honestly don't get how a brand new game could cost $50 but a Wii U port costs $59.99 I'm sorry but Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze even if you want to argue that Mario Kart 8 Deluxe was worth $59.99 not only because you got to weigh it with the price point but because of the new mode well the thing is Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze doesn't have the same kind of additional content being added to it as Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze I'm sorry is not as big of a game as Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze would be considered a B tier game in comparison to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe so it shouldn't even cost the same as Mario Kart 8 Deluxe in the first place but whatever, I'll give you a pass for wanting to consider that game to be a full AAA game but now we're talking about a game that's years old we're not talking about Bethesda here charging $60 for Skyrim again they seem to have done that several times over the history of re-releasing that game but we're talking about Nintendo here milking their consumers knowing they can get away with it and the reality is that I understand Nintendo's business side because they're going to get away with these price points we're going to lap it up I mean I'm not buying Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze I might buy it at $40 so they kind of maybe lost a customer in me and I'm someone that loves that game but overall there's going to be enough people that buy it at $60 to make Nintendo justified for doing it so business-wise it is a very smart decision for them to set the precedent that all Wii U ports are going to be $59.99 but I also think that they might see a boost and maybe even an extra million in sales per game if they drop the price down to $40 and then do the math does that make up for the $20 loss on all the other copies I don't know I'm not a mathematician or an accountant over here Nintendo can maybe crunch those numbers but I just feel like even if Nintendo this is how you know that Nintendo doesn't care about their consumers because from an emotional perspective Nintendo should realize that their most faithful fans bought the Wii U they feel burned by the Wii U some of them have bought a Switch and they're happy with it but they're feeling burned now that when they want to get their favorite games from Wii U and Switch they have to rebuy them which some are even willing to forgive you for because they didn't have a universal account system before but now they're like, yeah, but so about rebuying them why are we paying full price three, four, five years later $40, I'm telling you $40 is a sweet point that still puts it at the same price as what a brand new 3DS game is I think all of us can kind of sort of I know a lot of us would like to have it $20 or under I get that but cartridges are more expensive new platform porting I get it, this isn't free to do so $40 I think is a fair price for any Wii U exclusive game that was originally $60 on the platform just my take, Nintendo's probably not going to care but I'm actually interested in what you guys think about this down in the comments below so our third story for today is kind of a two fold thing because one is that Kotaku and several other places have confirmed that Call of Duty Black Ops 4 is the next Call of Duty game coming out this year so with Kotaku and many, many places it's not just Kotaku, IGN so many places are now confirming that this is a thing there's even a clip of James Harden who is likely being sponsored by Call of Duty and probably going to appear in some commercials wearing a Call of Duty Black Ops 4 hat to the game last night yeah, Black Ops 4 is coming and why that matters for us is because somebody who I am I've never heard of before actually Direct Feed Games on Twitter has come out and said I previously stated I would share news and celebrate the Switch's first birthday as promised here is some info after talking with several sources I can now share with confidence that Call of Duty will come to Switch in 2018 now you might be asking yourself who is Direct Feed Games well for starters I found out from YouTuber PlayerEssence who did a report on this earlier that his name is Nate so I'm Nate, he's Nate you can always trust the Nate because Nate is great moving on that lame comparison I have no idea who he is he's on Twitter he says he does 1080p and 60fps frames per second Direct Feed Game Clips got a YouTube channel you can check out that kind of stuff I'll put a link to his YouTube channel in the description but more importantly I'm going to put a link to his tweet and normally just like the guy named Marcus Sellers who I've had many people come to me and on this story in particular someone is going to mention me oh Marcus Sellers actually said that this was coming to Switch too the dealio is that with Marcus Sellers I don't know of him either however Direct Feed Games I am going off of PlayerEssence on this PlayerEssence in his video on this is vouching for him he has had contact with him I trust PlayerEssence therefore I trust what he has to say about Direct Feed Games and this Nate fellow who he has personally talked to a few times and apparently has gotten a ton of things correct on Switch in fact I am now going to be following Direct Feed Games more closely to see what other rumors they might get potentially correct in the future we obviously don't know if this one is as for the importance of Call of Duty coming to the platform well I think it is a big deal obviously but we will see what happens I am assuming this will be something that gets announced at E3 that is kind of when they announced Call of Duty anyway so a big E3 announcement hopefully day and date that is the big thing for me is day and date release please full version hopefully approved for the Nintendo's wish that is funny how I have to hope but yeah that is a big deal so I am actually going to end this Prime News just bringing up a topic from yesterday and that is the My Nintendo Rewards program there is a lot of people that voiced that they were upset with the My Nintendo Rewards program and the Gold Point values and the pennies and some people said when they go on the Switch eShop to spend their Gold Points that they can't even spend all of them on a single game some of the games they are limited and say you have 1,500 Gold Points you feel okay that is 15 bucks you have Kirby Star Allies and you go to buy it and they only let you spend 700 or something it is only getting 7 bucks off which if that is true it is weird I haven't experienced it yet I have only purchased one game with my Gold Points and it let me pay for the entire game but it was a smaller indie game so it might not be something that is a major concern for some of you guys but what I will say is setting that aside since I haven't verified that because I don't have enough Gold Points to verify it I am appreciative that Nintendo has a rewards program let's just start there Sony does not have one Microsoft does not have one Steam does not have one Nintendo is under no obligation to give us a rewards program and for anybody anybody clamoring I wish Club Nintendo was back Club Nintendo was better we are never going to get a Club Nintendo again but let's clarify Club Nintendo's Glory Days were SNES N64 and Gamecube Days Wii Forward it really started the topple down I know there were still some good stuff but it really started the trend of basically becoming a digital platform and you can even argue that the digital platform Club Nintendo was better I understand that and we need to give my Nintendo time to grow into itself but what I will say is that if you are going to offer a rewards program at least offer one that feels valuable to the consumers let me give you some issues I have and I'm going to compare this to other rewards programs that exist for gamers Amazon Prime is a rewards program it gives you a bunch of benefits from Amazon like the Prime movies and the music you can do for free so you don't even need to have Google music you can just use Amazon music and all that stuff and discounts and 2 day shipping and blah blah but what's really cool for gamers and why you should get Amazon Prime if you're a gamer and you shop online on Amazon is you get discounts on games when game peripherals are restocked when Switch is being restocked they were selling it first Amazon Prime members and all that great stuff and you always get all the pricing changes that every other Amazon Prime member gets it's just really really neat but it's not a rewards point system it's just look we're just going to give you this stuff because we can because you are a gamer that is part of Amazon Prime we want to entice you to maintain your Amazon Prime membership okay that's fine but the second program we're going to talk about really blows the water even off of that and that is obviously the gamers club at Best Buy probably the best rewards program every brand new game is cheaper bonuses on trade-ins you can return games I think within a week or 10 days or whatever it is I'm not actually a gamers club member this is what I've been told and actually end up getting a vast majority of your money back and then put that towards another game it's really really crazy how that program works and how they're making it work but it's working for them it's an affordable program and it's definitely something that I suggest people look into if you have a Best Buy route however I think Nintendo's rewards program because it deals with a point based system more comparable to the power-up reward system a GameStop now I am a GameStop power-up rewards member in fact they have two new members shipped here at GameStop let me get out my my card here so I am an elite pro member alright they just launched I think they launched this year I can't remember but basically I get extra points over a normal rewards member on stuff and sometimes like on their pro day they had a pro day earlier like there's some exclusive items and discounts for elite pro members it's like it actually it's a way for them to get more money out of people on the pro membership that's really what it's about because I think it used to be 10 bucks a year and this membership's 20 I haven't paid for a membership in probably a decade I always get enough points per year to just re-up my membership but the point is that they only have a single currency with their system it's just all the power-up reward points and yes you get like 20 points per game or per dollar on what you spend in store on new products and yes it does lead up to like to get 60 bucks or whatever to buy a whole entire game it being you know 4, 5, 6 grand just like it is on the switch you know where depending on digital or physical whatever the case may be you might have to spend 4, 5, 6 grand to get 60 dollars in currency assuming they let you even use the 60 dollars in gold points and you get that within a year I mean that's a lot of money to spend in a year on gaming but some people are crazy and do spend that kind of money but even if even if you did that the thing is I don't spend that kind of crazy money at GameStop yet I multiple times per year already this year by the way I have 32,000 points earned just this year on my power-up reward membership and you want to know why it's because of the single currency with the my Nintendo program my problem is that they have two currencies in the first place platinum coins you have your gold coins gold coins are what you get for buying things platinum coins are what you basically get for doing anything else you get achievements because some games have achievements although some people are saying they have issues with the new Kirby demo achievement whatever the case may be with that I obviously haven't done enough research but anything you do surveys you do little things on their show on their website whatever you can gain I actually have way more platinum coins than I do gold coins my issue is that on GameStop you can do surveys they have special days where you get triple value on trade-ins and that also applies to the points you get on your power-up rewards card so I take advantage of all of that and I end up only spending maybe $1,000 on gaming stuff a year at GameStop and in return for that I end up getting like 50,000 to 100,000 points per year just because I do all the surveys I do all this other stuff that gets me the additional points I feel like if Nintendo would just combine it into a single currency and let you use that entire currency I probably won't have as much to complain about but as it is Nintendo is making it so you could only use gold points you can't combine them or convert them and unfortunately the gold points are just it's such a low value it feels just like with the pricing on my tropical freeze it's almost like a slap in the face to your loyal members and I understand we should be appreciative because Nintendo doesn't have to do this at all and I am appreciative that they're at least putting in the effort but the way it's going it almost feels like customers will be less upset if they just stop trying to think about a customer loyalty program like my Nintendo is it supposed to make your customers feel valuable this to me when I feel less valuable to Nintendo on Nintendo's platform then I feel as a Nintendo customer at GameStop on GameStop's rewards program that's a problem to me you should at least be on par with one of the industry leaders in rewards programs so and the thing is GameStop even recently changed you used to be able to get a bunch of physical items like GameStop too like you could at Club Nintendo and now it's all digital currency which granted you can still convert it to GameStop digital currency then you can go buy those things off their website Nintendo doesn't have a way to do that because they don't by the way Nintendo you need to let people shop at the Nintendo New York store online that's why you don't allow that to happen I think you're missing out on a ton of revenue making people go through Amazon or eBay or other places to buy officially licensed merchandise when you already have an in-person retail store come on how hard is it to launch an online store there's one if you guys are a Pokemon fan you guys have heard of Pokemon Center right go buy official merchandise and Pokemon stuff off of Pokemon Center why isn't there Nintendo online store for that and like their official websites and buy like used you know or refurbished systems and stuff like that but that's not the same as like merchandise so whatever anyway maybe Nintendo's just afraid to do all that because maybe there's a whole lot of logistics I don't know all I know is a Pokemon could do it Nintendo could do it I just I feel like they just aren't valuing your money as much as they should especially when you spend 60 bucks on Nugget on Tropical Freeze and Hyrule Warriors or whatever other some you know Wii U games are coming which is probably going to be all of them Band-Aid 1 and 2 oh boy alright folks I think that's going to do it I am Nathan Robert Dutch from the Tanner Prime and if you like this video you know what to do and if you hit that dislike button subscribe for more content and as always folks I will catch you in the next one because I don't always have hope right here beside me I need a first stop but I'm holding it in me I've been wondering why I can't decide what to do with the rest of my life hope as always been there for me we both know that friends don't come easy