 Hey folks, we got a 4 batch of Nintendo news 3J, well really 3 stories and a bonus story from Sony because we're going to have a special PlayStation related live stream later this week. We're going to have to get into that. But before we do, I want to remind you that we actually are on our road to 100,000 subscribers. So if we hit 100,000 subscribers by the time Tears of the Kingdom comes out, we are going to give away a collector's edition of Tears of the Kingdom. That's that art book, the steel book, the poster, those pins, that really cool looking box. Obviously a copy of the game. That's really awesome. I hope you guys decide to like and subscribe and let's get into the news. And our first story deals with a massive story that broke earlier today. It's an update on an earlier report last year that there was going to be a 10 year partnership between Microsoft and Nintendo for Call of Duty. But that was just more of a verbal commitment. There wasn't anything legally binding about it. Now that changed early this morning as Phil Spencer and the head of Nintendo, Shintaro Furukawa, signed a legally binding document about Call of Duty. This was announced by the president of Microsoft, not just anyone, the actual president of Microsoft on Twitter. Here's what he said. We've now signed a binding 10 year contract to bring Xbox games to Nintendo's gamers. This is part of our commitment to bring Xbox games and Activision titles like Call of Duty to more players on more platforms. This does suggest by the way this deal might include more than Call of Duty, but let's get into the image that he put up with it. Microsoft and Nintendo have now negotiated and signed a binding 10 year legal agreement to bring Call of Duty to Nintendo players the same day as Xbox with full feature and content parity so they can experience Call of Duty just as Xbox and PlayStation gamers enjoy Call of Duty. We are committed to providing long term equal access to Call of Duty to other gaming platforms bringing more choice to more players and more competition to the gaming market. Now this deal with the Microsoft is looking to close the Activision Blizzard deal this summer so this probably won't kick in until 2024 just for development reasons. And sure if Nintendo doesn't release a new platform next year that means the first Call of Duty would probably be on Nintendo Switch. People are wondering how any of this is possible. How can Call of Duty be on Switch? Well I remind you, Call of Duty was on the Wii at one point and the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 were significantly more powerful so it's not like this big impossible task. I also want to remind you that they're not talking about a cloud version of the game and we can look at the actual statement here to know they're not talking about it. It was supposed to have feature and content parity, fine you can do that with a cloud version, but you can experience Call of Duty just as Xbox and PlayStation gamers enjoy Call of Duty that wouldn't be through the cloud. That would be through local play. Also they're committed to providing long term equal access to Call of Duty. It's not equal if it's only cloud because you're not online you can't play it. So yeah this is for a full local version. The wording is very very specific. This would be a localized Call of Duty for 10 years committed to coming to Nintendo platforms. I think this deal could get extended beyond that. They get to the end of the 10 year deal and you renegotiate to sort of see if this still makes sense to do or what the future of gaming is in a decade. But this is really cool. They've obviously offered a pretty much the exact same deal to Sony who, well we know Sony has said in the past that it's completely inadequate which I find to be really weird. Also Sony right now actually has an advertising deal in place for Call of Duty for like the next two years. So I guess it's not like good for Sony because they want a marketing deal attached to it. I don't know. All I know is that Phil Spencer the head of Sony and several others are meeting behind closed doors with regulators out in Europe today and that's probably why this was announced this morning to give more leverage. Of note when the story broke many other outlets are reporting that also today two different labor unions representing employees at Activision Blizzard have actually come out in support of Microsoft buying the company and have noted that in all of the publicly available discourse from the government worrying about monopolies worrying about this there hasn't actually been anybody talking about the state of the employees that work there which was something the federal government in the US was suing Activision Blizzard over. So it's one of those things where in all of this the government bodies didn't even consider the people that actually work at Activision Blizzard want this deal to go through. Their work conditions can improve apparently that's a pretty big point that I think I would take in consideration as a governing body the well being of our citizens you know that is something that we should consider not saying that Microsoft is the best company to buy it but if they don't buy them someone else will that's just the way it's going to go. The only way Activision Blizzard can avoid all of the lawsuits that are pending against them is to get somebody else in charge and sort of offload those to long term lawsuits against Bobby Kotick and all the other people that were involved with unfortunately mistreatment of employees. Let's move on to our next story and this is supposedly a potential leak for a new Mario bundle launching on Mario Day. We're going to talk about why that's really interesting and fascinating compared to our report we did earlier. This comes from a user on Twitter that I don't really know that much about but it basically says a premiere there's going to be a new release preview. A new Nintendo Switch bundle will be launched soon in Europe including a Nintendo Switch console Red 2022 version. Super Mario Odyssey game with a digital code and something related to the Super Mario movie and they show what looks like a redacted potential preview image we don't really know if this is even real. Now this is interesting that it'll be launching on March 10th because if you guys remember we actually did a GameStop video where we talked about how they had a system listed in their back in for March 10th. Maybe this is it. Maybe it's a brand new Switch bundle. That is entirely possible. Of course this person is only talking about Europe. They're not talking about the US but it's releasing there. Probably would release here. That's my assumption but that's assuming any of this is real. We don't obviously know we speculated of course that it was probably for the Zelda edition system for pre-orders but maybe it's not. Maybe it's more in line with a Mario bundle. Of I mean I'm just glad it's not a Mario Kart 8 Deluxe bundle. You know forget disappointing over it not being Zelda and it's another Mario thing at least it's not Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. I swear if this is wrong and it turns out to be a Mario Kart 8 Deluxe bundle Nintendo you can bundle other games. All right we should have Breath of the Wild bundles by now. Mario Odyssey bundles animal like you should bundle animal crossing in with the animal crossing switch. We've kind of reached the point that we it's just it's a very strange generation where we just keep bundling the same game. Next up to the absolute surprise of nobody a Pokemon presents has been announced for next week. It's happening on Monday the 27th and we'll have 20 minutes of Pokemon news incoming. This is where we're going to find out if there's any Pokemon games coming they're going to have news about other Pokemon things the apps and the movies and the show but I'm hoping that they got some Pokemon game news in here well this is it this is the event where we find out what the Pokemon company is doing game wise in 2023. And our last story deals with Sony. Sony announced a new state of play today they actually announced it in a weird way they didn't do a lot of social media hubbub they actually just announced it on their blog it's really weird. I think they've now put it up on their Twitter but it was like hours later whatever Sony's announced a new state of play for this Thursday at 1 p.m. Pacific featuring 15 minutes of Suicide Squad killed the Justice League five PS VR two games and new looks at games from third party partners we will be live reacting to this of course on Thursday and I just want to note that obviously they're being very specific at what they're showing state of plays tend to not be as grangious as Nintendo directs they're very obvious like watch this if you're interested in PS VR two or obviously specifically Suicide Squad killed the Justice League we're going to live react to everything we're going to see how it goes we'll see if Suicide Squad's another game will be picked up for PS5 or not it's cool I'm not interested in PS VR two but you know what I like to keep up to date on what's happening with it so I guess we'll do that when I want you to do if you mentioned into the video is go down below and let me know which type of Pikmin is your favorite you can Google search you can look them up if you don't remember all the different Pikmin types from Pikmin one two and three maybe it's the new type coming up that you don't we haven't really played around I'm just saying go down below in those comments click clack away let me know what your favorite Pikmin type is and why I like to see some descriptions added to this thank you for tuning in and I'll catch you in the next video