 Hey everyone, welcome to, I guess, this is the Nintendo Prime Podcast, I suppose. Here's the thing, this isn't really episode one of the rebooted podcast, because this is like the pre-episode, the pre-amble, a pre-discussion leading into the first Nintendo Direct we have had in 531 days. I am, of course, Mr. Nintendo Prime Nathaniel Flajans, and for those of you who probably don't know, because it's been so long, to my left and your guys' right, probably, I have no idea, is Mr. Eric Moore. You guys still don't know who he is, it's okay, he's one of my best friends, he's been with the channel in this podcast from the very beginning, and we decided to kind of reboot things a little bit, so welcome to our new set, hopefully you'll like it, it's not fully complete, there's a few more changes, we gotta get some more sound panels, extensive things out a little bit. Sadly Mario is not gonna be here anymore. Yeah, Mario, goodbye, and I don't know if you guys can see a little bit over there, there's some other stuff that's gonna be goodbye. We got the TV now in the middle, it's mostly just kind of the logo, but when we have a guest on, it's possible that Eric and I would just scoot over a little bit and then we'll have the guest appear on the TV, that'll be really really cool. I might try to make it work where like, literally, I don't have to do any post-editing, they'll just be on the screen, but let's not get ahead of ourselves. It's the podcast. I have a really long HDMI cable, but let's not get ahead of ourselves on that actually happening. Still, it's gonna be pretty laid back, we're gonna be talking a lot of video game stuff, mostly Nintendo today is obviously, we're just talking a little direct predictions, direct discussion, and I guess the first thing to really start off with is, how shocked are you that we're getting into Nintendo Direct when it's been 531 days? Not enough to message you this morning that, hey, did you see this? Yeah. And so, I don't know, I'm excited. Well, did you think they were done with Direct? There's been like an ongoing thing that, well, we've gotten individual game Directs. We've gotten the Sakurai Presents for Smash Bros. We've gotten even like partner showcase Directs. We've had an Nintendo Direct mini like back in April, and before that we had the big Nintendo Direct on September 4th of 2019, holy crap. But like with COVID and everything, and as an example, Paper Mario, they just dropped it. They didn't do a special event for it. They just threw it out on Twitter and then it went on to be the best selling Paper Mario ever. You had Hyrule Warriors, Age of Calamity just dropped it out of nowhere and became the best selling entry in literally the entire Warriors franchise. And then you gotta consider, okay, what about Pikmin 3 Deluxe? They sent Pikmin 3 Deluxe out to die. It's now the best selling Pikmin game of all time. So like clearly Nintendo proved they don't need Directs. And I think that is what led to people thinking, well, they don't need them. So why would they do it anymore? And because the Direct name kept being drugged through the mud, connected to partner showcases, then they had like a Super Nintendo World, which is their theme park, and they called that a Nintendo Direct. And we're like, What is a Direct? Okay, so we're getting a Direct about a theme park in Japan that most of us can't attend because we can't even travel outside the country, let alone in the country. I get that it's cool and eventually we'll be able to go and they are gonna make one down in Universal, but down in Florida and stuff. And I think even out in Cali, but it's just, okay. What the hell even isn't Nintendo Direct anymore? And now here we go. Yeah. It's February. Like, it's coming on the 7th, February 17th, 4pm central time. I literally for the first time in 531 days and planning a Nintendo Direct stream, an hour long pre-show, and the funny thing is my pre-show is pretty much as long as the actual Direct. That's crazy. 50 minutes. Let's put this in perspective, folks. This is a 50 minute Direct. They have not had a Direct go 50 minutes or longer since before the Nintendo Switch came out and it was the Direct to hype up the Switch in the launch, okay. So it was the big Direct that had Mario Odyssey, Breath of the Wild, Splatoon 2, Xenoblade Chronicles. The entire first year was in that Direct. And that was the one that was 50 plus minutes. Before that, they literally have never had a Direct go over 50 minutes or even hit 50 minutes. Now they have had a couple E3, like they don't always call them Directs, but digital shows sometimes go over 40 minutes, but they've never had it hit 50. And now here we are, 531 days later, and we have a 50 minute Direct. Yeah. Nuts. Now, to clarify, in case you guys didn't read the fine print, it does say part of the Direct will be talking about new stuff for currently released games, and they talked about Smash Bros. as an example. So let's start there. Let's start there. New Content Pack. Let's start there. This isn't all that's going to be in the Direct, but let's start there. My thought process is there's three games they're going to add new content to. Smash, they mentioned it. We're going to get into character reveal. I guess we can start there. What character do you want revealed? Oh, God. I know my biggest problem. We got Banjo. We got Banjo. So now I actually have to thank you. I mean, Cocker, but that's never going to happen. Well, we thought that would Banjo, though. Yeah, true. But, I mean, is it really never going to happen? I think there's more games out there that'll probably be, you know, picked before that. Maybe. Yeah. I think in particular that might get picked. This would be interesting because he actually was in PlayStation All-Stars, the PlayStation Version of Smash that totally everyone played, right? Yeah. Crash Bandicoot. Oh, yes. Because we are getting Crash Bandicoot 4 and we did get the Insane Trilogy and Crash Team Racing. We got all of that on Switch. Clearly, you know, Crash, the thing with Crash where people have doubted it is because there was a time that that was viewed as the PlayStation mascot. The thing is it was never official. The PlayStation never owned Crash Bandicoot. It was always Activision, but it was only on PlayStation systems at the time. Now it's on everything, so it's like, you know, could Crash be kind of sneaking its way in as a historical figure? You know, obviously people always want Sora from Kingdom Hearts. Right. Yeah. You know, it's just some popular ones. Cocker doesn't even get brought up that much. I don't think people think it's realistic, but I don't really care. I don't care how realistic it is. No, that's what I want, but... If I can get a character that pisses on other characters, I'll take it. Oh, yeah, for sure. I'll take it. And you can have like his final smash, like the bears coming in with the machetes and... Oh, a frying pan. A frying pan. A frying pan. Yeah. You know, or piss on a guy in a urinal. I don't know. I mean, the thing is it's a little inappropriate, but then again, it's a T plus rated game, so you could do it. Have the Great Mighty Pood. The Great Mighty Pood. Come up and swallow him. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, there's so many great things I could do for him, but I think we all agree there's going to be a smash character reveal. And Sakurai himself retweeted and kind of teased, there's going to be some smash news tomorrow. He was laughing at himself. Yeah. He's like, well, yeah. Duh. He knows what it is. It's already recorded. Beyond that, I think Animal Crossing, all right? We've been getting free updates. Yeah. We've been getting free updates for a while, but they've done DLC for things like New Leaf, and we're in New Horizons, we're going to be approximately a year out from when it launched. It is the most popular game in Animal Crossing history by far. It's not even close. And it might even, by the end of this fiscal year, be the best selling game on Switch. It feels like when they say we're going to talk about new content for games that are already existing on the platform, Animal Crossing has to be in there. Yeah. Literally, Animal Crossing was the best selling game on Switch in January. And January was the leading platform on pretty much every country it's in, in January for sales. True. So if Animal Crossing, almost a year out, is still the leading game selling, okay, they got to put DLC out, right? Right. We figured they would do this for games like Aria Odyssey in the past and they didn't do it. But Animal Crossing is different because they have a history of actually releasing DLC for that. So another game that I think it just makes too much sense, and there's a history for, Hyrule Warriors Age of Calamity. They have had $20 DLC packs in the past for Hyrule Warriors and for Fire Emblem Warriors. All the DLC packs have been jam-packed with content. And pretty much every Warrior game, except for maybe in the very beginning, I've had it. And by the way, we are not sponsored by Diapepsy Cherry Coke. Actually, you know what? I just call it Diapepsy Cherry Coke. Yeah. It is what it is. Not a sponsor today. I just need a little caffeine kick and I feel guilty if I drink it alone, so drink. Drink it. Thank you, sir. All right. So that is kind of my thought process that we're going to get Age of Calamity DLC, Animal Crossing DLC, and a Smash character. We know we're getting something Smash. The only thing they ever seen reveal are characters. So do you think there's any other game you can think of that maybe they can be talking about? I mean, it doesn't always just have to be Nintendo First Party, too. Any games that have come out in, like, say, the last year that you're like, you know, maybe they could do some DLC for that. God, I've been sawing a gaming for, since we've basically stopped the podcast. Yeah, pretty much, guys. The podcast died and he died with it. I have had... Paper Mario last year. I mean, that could be... That could definitely get some DLC stuff like that. Goodness. Man, I'm not prepared for this. It's okay. It's okay. Like, this is... This is... The interesting part here is that I think this is going to be the part that people are at least interested in this direct. Not because the DLC is not going to sell incredibly well, but because, hey, look, these are the kind of announcements you could have just threw out on Twitter. We're actually... When we're talking big boy directs, we're waiting for the new content, right? No, no, no, for sure. And this is kind of where I have an idea of what might be happening. This would be a very, very crazy theory, but I'll save it for a little while. Okay. Okay. Let me start talking about the new stuff. Okay. So the other thing that's confirmed is going to be in this direct is updates on all the games in the first half of this year. So that would be from January, which has already passed, all the way through June. Now, we already know some games. Okay. We know Bravely Default 2. That's the next game coming out. Then we have Monster Hunter Rise next month. And then we have New Pokemon Snap the month after that. Now, what's interesting is we've already got a lot of information on all three of these games. Pokemon Snap, they could actually skip out on talking about because next week is the celebration of Pokemon's 25th anniversary. Yeah. So Pokemon Company is going to have a whole bunch of Pokemon stuff to talk about. And they could talk about it then. They could also talk about a new Pokemon game that is supposedly going to be coming out this year. Do you think it's the Let's Go line or is it the Normal Line? I don't know if it's in either. Okay. Interesting. So I want it to be Let's Go, but I think it's just going to be like a traditional remake, maybe? Or I don't know. A new TC game? A new trading card game. A new trading card game? I don't know. Because their board game did just win Game of the Year. I know. I know. Their trading card board game did. Yeah. So it's very well possible. Want to elaborate on that story? I actually just read that. I just saw the headline. They saw the headline. I didn't actually read it. So Pokemon had a new board game style aspect to their trading card game and it won board game of the year or something like that. Yeah. Toy of the Year. Toy of the Year. I think it's Toy of the Year or something. I don't remember. I mean, proving that the trading card game is not just there for collectors to make lots of money, it's actually fun to play. Yeah. And that's what I thought as a kid and I still think that today. I don't know. The rules have probably changed a little bit. Oh, right. I'd have to check, but it's still part of the same basic concept. Yeah. Take out the other guys' Pokemon. Right. Right. I could go for a new trading card game. Yeah. New trading card. The old Game Boy trading card game. That's what we're talking about. Like a new one of those. I'll get a new Pokemon Snap. I don't think anything's possible. Yeah. I mean, I know we still haven't got a new stadium slash Coliseum. That would be another good one that they did. Another just ghost drop. Yeah. But again, that's Pokemon 25th anniversary. I don't think any of that's going to be here. New Pokemon Snap potentially, but I kind of think Pokemon companies do in their own thing. Oh, right. They traditionally aren't Nintendo Direct. So we might not see Pokemon Snap. We're going to see something on Monster Hunter Rise and we're going to see something on Brotherhood Fall 2. Both of those games have had public demos. I don't know how much more we need to see of them to sell them, but they're going to be mentioned. Yeah, they're going to mention them. A minute or two. The Crash Bandicoot game was recently announced, but we haven't seen footage of it yet on Switch. I think we'll see that. Beyond that, I mean, they could choose to show off anything they want. But I think at that point, you're leading into games we don't know about. Right now, we don't know about any major Switch game in April or June. So that leaves potentially two major games that they could slot in there. And these are Nintendo Directs. Normal, regular, full-blown Nintendo Directs. No subtitles, no whatever. Just called Nintendo Direct. Always say, we're going to talk about games in this period. And then they end up teasing games that are outside of that period every single time. And that's one reason we get so hyped for this, because we know they're going to talk about games that are going to be not just in the first six months, because that's what they always do. And it's 50 freaking minutes long. Now, this is something people are afraid of. Every time Smash Bros. gets like a new character announcement, it takes like 25 minutes. No, for sure. Do you think half of this Direct is the Smash Bros. character? I hope not. See, my hope is that they always have a Sakurai Presents show after they reveal a character. And I'm hoping they be like, here's five minutes. Quick look. Boom! Sakurai Presents happening later today. Right. Just leave it at that. Or it happening after the Direct or something. It will be directly after the Direct. Just please, Nintendo, announce the character. It is worthy of being on a Direct. But like, don't dedicate a massive part of the Direct to something we've already been getting consistently over the last year. I think that's more of a, yes, put it in the Direct, but don't make a majority of the Direct about it. And that's my one fear, is that a majority of the Direct will be about one individual game. And I don't want that to happen. Unless, and this is where we get into new content. Yes. Okay. There's a lot of potential for new stuff here because a lot of things happening right now. Eric, you have some thoughts or an idea, something percolating. Why don't you share it with everyone here? I don't even know what it is. So there's what, three things that could possibly happen that could theoretically possibly happen. We talk about Switch Pro. Okay. It is possible. Can't dismiss it. We mentioned this, show it off a little bit, which then goes straight into... They have to release that soon though, if they're showing that off, right? You figure. Because they're going to nerf sales of Switch at the moment they show it off. So they have to release it soon, like March. Right. March 3rd? Yeah. Anniversary Switch release? Right. Anyways, go on. So there's that, which then goes into... By the way, I don't actually think they're going to do it, but it's possible. Yeah. Can't dismiss it. We have no idea. Right. I have no inside information. No, I'm just all hyperspeculative. It's okay. That's what this is about. That's how we normally go. We're not going to go big and go home. But this is how we do it. This is the speculation. Right. Pre-podcast. Right. So, which then leads me to some sort of anniversary edition for Legend of Zelda. Okay. And then from there, we get... Do we get Mario Odyssey 2? Or some sort of... So, my thought is... Some sort of Mario game? Are we more likely to get Mario Odyssey 2 or Mario Kart 9? Oh, sorry. Oh, yes. Good call. Because technically, we can count home circuit live. That's fine. But that's not Mario Kart 9. Right. No, no, it's not. We technically have not had a mainline Mario Kart game that's brand new to Switch yet. Yes. And people are like, but you can't. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is doing so well. Well, about that. Shintura Furukawa came out and maybe he's lying out his teeth. I don't know. But he says Nintendo thinks the Switch is only just entering the halfway point of its life. That means we have another four years minimum of Switch. Whether they extend it with Switch Pro, whatever they do. Four years minimum. Perfect time then to get Mario Kart 9. You got a four-year runway with that. Yeah, for sure. And then right into... Right when Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is about to lose the sales lead. To Mario Kart X. No, to Animal Crossing. It's okay. You can lose the sales lead because actually, we got Mario Kart 9 and that's going to instantly sell for 10 million and we don't got to worry about it. No, no, no. Which then leads into Mario Kart X for the next... Oh, the next gem. I want to see what you're doing there. Yeah. Because of course they can't just say 10. So I think if... So the ideas you brought up, I think both of them are interesting because we talked about how maybe a large section of the podcast could be about one thing. If it's Switch Pro, that would be like 20 minutes. Guaranteed. I doubt it's like, oh, here's a new improved Switch. Go buy it in two weeks and we're not going to say anything else about it. No, it'll be like a 20 minute presentation on that. Or you mentioned Zelda's anniversary. So the 35th anniversary happens on the 21st. So what happens four days after this direct is technically the 35th anniversary of Zelda. If they mentioned Zelda's 35th in this direct, they could potentially make half the direct just about that. That's true. Because look at what they did for Mario's 35th. They had a huge presentation for that. For sure. They could literally make half the direct... Look, it's Zelda's 35th anniversary. We got 3D Zelda All-Stars or whatever they decide to call it or whatever they do for a collection. If they do a collection. We got Zelda 35 where we're racing through dungeons instead of racing through levels like in Mario. You know, we have... Whatever else they decided to throw. I have no idea. Zelda Dungeon Maker. They decided to throw that one out there instead of making it like a small part. Remember, in Link's Awakening, they tested out a Dungeon Maker and it worked really well. Imagine making it into a full-blown game. That could be a thing. Obviously, the big thing floating out there, Breath of the Wild 2. For sure. And that's when we'll see is that happening in the first half of the year or really should we be looking at it as like that's the game to end the show with and it says coming in 2021? Maybe. You know, that's... Yeah. But the thing is, is do you take the... Because I would see them starting out. I don't know if I necessarily see them ending with... You think they kick it off with Breath of the Wild 2? With Zelda. Just say screw it. We're getting the Zelda out of the way now. Like, boom. Opening. Breath of the Wild 2 trailer. Done. Out of the way. No more worrying. Are we getting Breath of the Wild 2? Just do it right away. That would be huge. Just set the expectations high and then just see if you can live up to it the rest of the time. I mean, there's the thing. If they start with Breath of the Wild 2, which Nintendo's done this before. They started with a massive game at the beginning of a Direct. And it's been 531 days. So, I mean, then them starting big wouldn't even be surprising. They start with that. Then what the hell are they capping the show? What's that? Oh, we have one more thing and it's just this big mind blowing thing you didn't see coming. Metroid 4. Ooh. I just see Metroid. Metroid is not as big as Zelda, but they do treat it. Pikmin 4. I don't know if Pikmin 4... Pikmin 4, I don't know if that would be... I mean, God remember, we're talking Breath of the Wild 2, 20 million seller. Yeah. I mean... Mario something is the only thing I can think of. Anything Mario. Mario Odyssey 2. Yeah. Or do they shock the world and go... Do they end it with the switch purple? No, no. Mario Galaxy 3. Ooh. I like that idea. Just out of nowhere. I like that idea. Oh, everyone's all mad. We're not getting Galaxy 2. It's because it's being packaged in with Galaxy 3. There you go. No, everyone's like, oh, we're getting an Odyssey 2 someday. But what if it's really a Galaxy 3 we're getting? We're going back to Galaxy days. Maybe. Maybe. I mean, I'm just hoping because Mario Galaxy on 3D All Stars looks so good in HD. Like, I really want a game built for Switch Up. Yeah. Here's the thing. We're going to get something Zelda. I just have a feeling. Yeah. I don't know if they're going to say 35th anniversary. I hope they do. Maybe they'll just say, look, here's a trailer for whatever. We know you want to see Breath of the Wild 2. Here it is. But guess what? We have more announcements on a direct next week for the 35th anniversary. Maybe. And they can do a Zelda only thing then kind of keep a lot of those announcements for then. Yeah. That's always possible as well. Just like they could say, pay attention next week for Pokemon as well. I was just saying, but are they going to compete with Pokemon? I don't know. Would they put it the same week as Pokemon? I have no idea. Do you think it's possible we could have too much news? Is it possible? I mean, We didn't have E3. And it felt like we really were missing out. Right. There were these Ubisoft 4 words and other events that happened, you know, Summer Game Fest. But it never really felt like we had enough news culminated at one time to create, like, like an undeniable, like Nintendo has all the momentum right now. Right. Like literally PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X are selling out and doing incredible. That's fine. 3.5 mil during launch for Xbox, 4.5 for PlayStation 5, doing fantastic. But also mired in the fact no one can get their hands on them. And currently anyways, if you guys are honest, there isn't a single killer game for either platform. Now Ratchet and Clank might be that killer game for PlayStation. And I don't know what's going to be. The medium ended up not being the killer app for Xbox. Is it going to, are we just waiting for Halo? I don't know. So right now, neither platform has a killer game. Switch has several. And is outselling all of them in unit sales. And it has having a hard time staying on the shelf, but is still more plentiful than the rest. And has three major games coming out in the next three months. Right. And it has a few more speculated large games coming. And we know Band of the Threes in development. Right. We know METRO2 and we know METRO Prime 4. And there's also technically a new No More Heroes in the works as well. Whether or not they consider that big enough to be in this Direct, I don't know. But I know there's some people out there that want to hear about the new No More Heroes game. There's just, there's so much to consider when you were looking at what this could be because normally when we head into a Direct, if you remember back in the old podcast, the olden days, we'd always be like, but like we'll talk, we'll hype, but then we'd like to temper our expectations. Directs never live up to the hype. The only time I recall any Direct actually living up to the hype I had beforehand was the one that exceeded it. And that's when they dropped Breath of the Loud the sequel at the end. And I nearly had a heart attack in the hotel room because it just came out and no one expected it. It was like, no, like this is 2019, it's been two years. No one expected a sequel that quick. Right, for sure. We just wrapped up DLC like a year prior. No one expected to see that. And then all of a sudden it wasn't just like a title splash, like Metroid Prime 4. It was a literal trailer with actual new content. And you're just like, what? Okay, that, and then it was already really, really good up until that point. Then that just put it over there. I see now the cake. The thing is, it's been 531 days by the time this one comes out. I just, I think it's okay this one time 50 minutes, 531 days. I think it's okay for all of us to expect the moon. We're all going to be disappointed. We're all going to be, just so you know, like we're talking, think of what we're talking about. We're trying to switch for all. Breath of the Wild 2, Odyssey, Galaxy 3, Mario Kart 9, Pikmin 4, Bayonetta 3, but we're literally throwing every game we can think of. Let's get a new F-Zero. Just bring that franchise back from the dead, right? Bring the death wheel back. Like just bring everything back. We're getting another Star Tropics now. Suddenly we're getting Mother, we're getting Mother 3 ported over after we've been begging for it for like our entire lifetime. Like we're just going to get everything, right? Everything, we're getting Xenoblade Chronicles 3. We're going to get, heck, member Pandora's Tower back and we were getting that. Heck, we sports, so bring the Wii Sports back and now we're going to get Wii Sports 3. GoldenEye. We're getting Wii Sports COVID Edition or something. Wii Sports COVID. We're getting GoldenEye. They're going to get that GoldenEye leak from XBLA. Suddenly, hey, guess what? We're getting that remade on Switch because somehow we got all the licensee worked out out of nowhere. Even though Nintendo was the one that blocked it last time. The point is that we're hyping this thing. It's going to be the greatest direct, the greatest showcase any company has ever put on. But honestly, I will not say Nintendo owes us this because they've been giving us games even last year. It ended up being an OK lineup. It wasn't great. If we're honest, Animal Crossing and Age of Calamity aside, it really wasn't a great year. Lots of ports. Lots of ports. Pikmin 3. Tokyo Mariah Sessions. Xenoblade Chronicles definitive edition. Pikmin 3, I think I already said that one. I don't know. There was a lot of ports and they were good ports and all of them added a little bit of new content. I think besides Tokyo Mariah Sessions, I don't think they did. But it's like they added new content. The extra content in Xenoblade Chronicles definitive edition, perfect. The extra content in Pikmin 3, all of our missions, great. But like, you know, even now, new Super Mario Brothers, Super Mario 3D World plus Bowser's Fury, so many day Mario titles. OK, long-winded. And the Bowser's Fury mode, which is absolutely fantastic. Yeah, I actually was having fun playing it. It's fantastic. But like, none of them are new games. We have no currently known Nintendo created in-house games slated to come to Switch anytime soon. Zero. Zero. Those three major games coming? Not made by Nintendo. Published? Not made by. We know they're making Breath of the Wild. We know they're making Metroid Prime 4. What else do we really know Nintendo is making? That's it. That's it. We know Retro Studios is making this. Zelda Team is making that. What the hell else is everyone else doing? I don't know. That's what's crazy. Because Nintendo has said nothing for so long, we know nothing. Nothing's leaped out. We have a right to be hyped because Nintendo's teams, even during COVID, had to be doing something this whole time. Eat whole. Something. Eat whole. OK, Smash. That's great. Sakurai's been doing content anyways from home. But what else has been... Nintendo, are we talking... even a new Mario Tennis game, or a new Mario Sports game, Mario Baseball, Mario Strikers. Something like that. It's just something. I know we're talking a lot to Mario. Nintendo puts out a lot of Mario games. Let's just be honest. But it could be a new IP. It could be a Kirby game. We get Kirby games every year. It could be Kirby. A Yoshi game? New Yoshi game. There you go. Another DK? Donkey Kong. It's its 40th anniversary this year. You want to talk big anniversary. Donkey Kong is the oldest IP Nintendo has. Predates Mario technically because it was originally called Jump Man. Right. So Donkey Kong is Nintendo's oldest IP. 40th anniversary. Feels like they needed to do something. And you know what's ripe, by the way, for Donkey Kong? They already had Tetris 99. They had Mario 35. DK 40. Where you're racing in old school Donkey Kong levels. I mean, come on, Nintendo. It's right there. And it was originally a competitive arcade game anyways. It makes so much sense. I mean... To have a DK 40. Even a DK level builder. Oh my... Oh my... That would be awesome. I mean, bring back the DK bongos. Yes. Let's do it. Yes. Let's bongo our way to the top. Yes. Like there's... It's okay, I think, this one direct. To just have our expectations reach to the moon. Because honestly, Nintendo has to have a lot to give us. I think the worst thing that could happen with this direct. Is they spent half of it... Not even half of it. Is that a majority of it, let's say 48 minutes of the direct. They have one, say they have one big announcement. Whatever it is. Maybe it's the Breath of the Wild 2 trailer. I don't know. Which would be hype for me. But let's just say that is the big thing. They throw that at the end. There's your Breath of the Wild 2 trailer coming this year. Okay. Awesome. I'm happy. But if the rest of the direct is literally just stuff we already know. Like games that have already come out. And games we're already aware of. That is where you're like, why did we have this direct? We're talking about DLC. Yeah. And then you're just talking about games that we already have a lot of coverage of. And already have release dates for. Right. Like why are we not talking about what the hell your studios are working on. And then we're going to be like, well when the F is the next direct. When they have to talk about something. Right. Because they have to eventually talk about their own games. Yeah, for sure. So even as much hype as the Breath of the Wild 2 is a capper. It's like, but we already technically know that game exists. Right. No, for sure. Yeah. Metroid Prime 4. It's Metroid's 35th anniversary this year. Now I personally don't think we're going to get Metroid Prime 4 this year. It would be cool to see a trailer. Because we have not seen the game at all. Yeah. Just to know it's alive. No, it has a heartbeat. Right. But things like Metroid Prime Trilogy. That's been rumored to be done for years. Maybe they throw that out in this direct. You know, in HD of course. There's also been a lot of rumors around Resident Evil. And this outrage game. And how it has the same budget as Resident Evil Village. And is supposedly a time exclusive for Switch. Is that unveiled now? Because as far as we're aware, Switch isn't getting Resident Evil Village. Now, Switch did get Resident Evil 7 streaming in Japan. And now we have control as a streaming game in the US. It's possible that we end up do getting Village on Switch. And that can be announced as a streaming game. I don't know how hyped that is going to make people. I think it's better to have it as a streaming game. They just not have the game at all. It's always better to have. Because there's going to be that person out there that doesn't have any other way to play games. And just happens to have good enough internet to stream it. So I always think it's better to have a game than not. Even if I don't think it's a good fit for most people. I think if it comes out on Switch as a streaming game, but you literally own any other platform, you should just buy it for that platform. Yeah. Yeah. Unless the streaming version is significantly cheaper. Which it's probably not. It's probably going to be the same price as the rest. So, you know, another thing to throw out there. Someone floated this out during a live stream earlier. You know, we're both big sports fans. Yeah. What about MLB, the show? They announced it for Xbox. Xbox, yeah. Which we already knew it was going to be a multiplatform. What if the reason it wasn't announced for Switch is because they knew it was going to be in the direct? Now, as a sports fan, I know a lot of you guys out there are going to be like, who cares? Yeah. Dude, as a sports fan, the show is legitimately a great sports game. Yeah. Hasn't been messed up yet. Yeah. Yeah. This will be the one version that does. Oh, this will be the arcade version. Yeah. Yeah. We can't get a full version. There's like when we got Madden on 3DS, it had to be some walkie thing around. It had to be some weird family arcadey. It's like, oh no, if I want NFL Blitz, just give me NFL Blitz. Right. I want simulation football. Right. For sure. Madden's got its own issues at times. Oh, for sure. This year's Madden's been the worst Madden in a while. And that's saying something. Yeah. I can't get back to the glory days. Even like when we talk about 2K5. Yeah. Like, also Madden 2005 has also happened to actually be a really good Madden game. Yeah, 06 is probably the best one. Yeah. When they had the training camp. The training camp was great. Yeah. It actually felt like it mattered. Like, you could actually improve your kickers as an example. Right. In today's game, you literally, your kickers pretty much never get better. But like, then you had a training camp and you could actually do field goal challenges and actually make your kickers better. It was nice. Not just that. It was just easy. Like, they did, what they did with Madden is they took training camp and they made it so you can do between game practices. Yeah. So some of the stuff from training camp is now in the practices. It's just not all of it is. And that's, I think, the problem. They added practices, which is fine. And you can improve your players through that, but they didn't make it so you could do everything. You're not targeting quarterback. You're not targeting the whole offense on the whole, the whole defense on the whole. There's no special teams targeting to improve your puncher and kicker. Right. And, you know, and the fact that I can't put these points in awareness. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, yeah. Oh yeah. They changed that. They changed that. They changed that. But I can't. I still question if that's a better choice in Madden. In these. But this is, this is the chance for, and by the way, I don't want to say Madden. No. But I think that it's okay to be hyped for this particular direct. And it's okay to be let down. I think we all should just expect to be let down, but be okay feeling really hyped headed in because we deserve this. I think the gaming industry deserves this. Nintendo has a chance to show everyone that, hey, you had a year to make a digital event better than us and you failed. Here's how you really do it. Right. We made them anticipate for 531 days and then we just gave them the baller of balliness digital events and now literally, what's a PlayStation 5? Yep, right. What's it? Well, you guys are still fighting over the little squabble when Target releases three systems at 2 a.m. That's great. That's great. Well, you know what I'm doing. I'm playing Breath of Loud 2. I'm playing Metroid Prime 4. I'm playing Odyssey 3. Odyssey 3, right? We're just skipping. Yeah, we're just gonna skip 2. We're gonna go straight to 3. That's the biggest announcement there. You know, I'm just... I think it's time to be hyped. I haven't really been hyped. I've been hyped for certain little Nintendo things here and there over the last year, but I haven't really been hyped maybe since Breath of Loud 2 dropped at E3 in 2019 and it's funny because we only really had one major direct sense then in September. Do you have any closing predictions, thoughts, opinions on what to expect? Because by the way, we're live streaming this thing, so we'll be live reacting and there's going to be a podcast episode coming out later this week, probably this weekend, trying to think about the timing of it. Anyways, we're gonna have a guest on and everything and we'll all be talking about all the direct stuff, of course, and any other big news that drops this week. But I really want to know, this is it. People on my channel, this is the last thing they potentially are watching before this direct happens. Any closing thoughts for them? Oh gosh. You know, as someone, you're as casual of a Nintendo fan or gaming fan as it comes, but even you, dude, it's a direct, like, I'm there. Guys, he might be at the actual live reaction of it because he's that hyped and he never gets hyped for video game shit. Unless it's like, yeah, but then you get let down. What's the last thing you got hyped for, remember? What's the last thing you got hyped for? Come on, get your gamer credit. Yep. Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Remastered. Yes. He was so hyped for it. He wanted to play it. I didn't even own it. I just bought it on a whim digitally to play it with him and it was maybe the worst spending of money in my entire life as a gamer and I'm someone who bought E.T. back in the day. Like just because there was an expectation based on how good the original was and don't get me wrong, some of the qualities are there. Oh, yeah. They messed up the multiplayer which was the primary difference in this game compared to other Final Fantasies and they messed up the core aspect of it. Anyways. So, closing thoughts. Closing thoughts. Let me retouch on a couple things. Sure. That should be really kind of cool though. If they do go with Breath of the Wild Breath of the Wild 2 or some sort of Legend of Zelda. To tie that into Smash releases. Where we get the the God dang it, what? So we get like Mipha and the four champions. That's the word I'm looking for. Thank you, good god. No problem, gotcha. My brain went My Nintendo knowledge wheels have been turning like crazies. That would be kind of cool to see that kind of kick into into Smash. Bringing the four champions or even tie into bringing the four champions in and then have the skins of the original four to tie that in. That would be freaking amazing. As for what I'm expecting Honestly we've covered most of it. It's I'm going in hot Expecting to get disappointed because But just ready to just basically fall over and jizz all over the ceiling in the middle of the We're gonna need lots of change. You know what, I think we're gonna need to bring a stack of pants to get ready to change. We might. Just on the off chance that happens. And you guys know I'll have the shots of flowing because it's Nintendo DirectTime. Dude, I've been waiting so long I'm gonna have, I'm gonna line it up and just be ready for you guys to donate and make me get plastered and have a drunk reaction because I don't care. It's time. It's Nintendo DirectTime. Thank you so much for tuning in to this pre-limb episode. Technically like a preamble to episode one of the rebooted Nintendo Prime Pocket. I did a new logo, by the way. Shout out to the people who may, I don't know, I'll put a link down in the description to the company that made this for us. Really great, great logo. I also made the Nintendo Prime logo you guys have seen on some of the live stream thumbnails. Thank you guys so much for tuning in. I'm the Tanner Overjads. This is Eric Boer and hey, if you're watching this video version you want the audio, links down in the description. If you're watching the audio version or listening to the audio version and you want the video version, go to YouTube. You know I'm a YouTuber, right? Unless you, maybe you just randomly found us on like the podcast app. If you have, go to youtube.com slash c slash Nintendo Prime TV. I can't believe that I still know that that's the URL. Search Nintendo Prime. But then you might get Amazon Prime or you might get I don't know. Nintendo Prime. I hope so. I can't guarantee it. If you search Nintendo Prime. I can't guarantee it. It might bring up the website that's currently down. I have no idea. It's definitely possible. You really should pay the bill on that. I don't know why though. I have no use for the site. Maybe just to redirect to my YouTube channel. Anyway, thank you guys so much for tuning in. We'll catch you guys in the real episode one happening at the end of the week. Peace out. Later.