 Hey everyone, how's it going? Welcome back to Nintendo Prime. We got four big stories for you today But before we get into it Yeah, we do have a current giveaway going on you get under the description or the pink comment to enter also I do have kind of a secret big giveaway planned for the holiday season I know many of you out there are struggling I just want to note right now that the only requirement that's going to exist to be able to get into our Massive holiday giveaway is gonna be just being subscribed to the channel So yeah, just subscribe and by the way set your notification bell if you feel like it as well because we have a lot of content Coming your way that you're not gonna want to miss that being said Let's get into today's news So our first story I need to give a bit of a warning on this story does contain foul language It is not my words. It's theirs. We do allow obviously some More mature language, I guess we'll say when we're doing our live streams But for videos like this, we'd like to kind of keep it mostly clean But unfortunately, that's not the case with the story I'm not gonna be bleeping anything out because I don't believe in doing that if YouTube wants to ding me and take away My ads it is what it is. What matters is the actual story in full context. So David Jaff has been in the news Because he has been insulting Metroid dreads design specifically the fact that walls and you know Floors and ceilings that you can shoot and then destroy are not marked. They're not no visual Indicator on the actual wall or ceiling or floor that it can be destroyed He thinks this is really really horrible design. Now if you're wondering who the hell David Jaff is I don't blame you. He hasn't done anything in a while in the game industry of note But he is one of the main minds behind twisted metal and God of war So he is an industry veteran and he basically called up mercury steam and Nintendo for being really bad with game design Obviously fans didn't take too kindly to this and explain to him the many ways he was wrong including this That the game tells you to shoot at walls and then presents that exact mechanic to you right away So it's one of those situations where did he just forget what the game told him to do and it does all the time I don't know but Let's just say We have his response and we're gonna give it in full light He ended up posting his overall response by the way He's doubled down and tripled down on his stance this whole time But he had a response to people who disagree with him in particular fans of Metroid And we need to read this to understand More of his mentality so he put this response up at Neo gaff and here's what he said I don't imagine myself to be anything that sounds like a you problem pal and I for one am getting sick and Fucking tired of insecure gamers who act as if they do know as much as working Professionals I've had hate games and failed games But you ain't had any games at least most of you So I'm sorry if it insults your ego, but I know shit You don't just like you know shit. I don't about your line of work. It's not a brag It's just how experience works. It doesn't make my opinion any more or less valid than your opinion But it does mean that when I bring shit up I have experience to back it up and so I mentioned that Deal with it or don't but stop being such insecure bitches about it Hell you want to make games and think you can you know so much nice It's never been easier to make your own games. Go do it or shut the fuck up about it Related look. I have a channel about games in game design I'm not looking to do anything other than express my views on my channel now Do my views happen to be based on decades of working in the industry as a designer and as a director slash designer on a few Really big games? Sure, and so I use that knowledge just like I'm sure many of you are using your background as someone who may have played Every Metroid since the NES version we all bring our own history to our ideas Content work and life in general as for the multiple room thing. I accepted. I was wrong This is a point that you know, he's trying to give himself credit for And admitted I was remembering it wrong in my last video I remembered it wrong and instead of the 20 to 30 rooms I recall being open there were only four and I said I was wrong which I was so what I think some of you all are Projecting when you say his ego won't let him lose or change his mind I'm wrong a lot about shit on my channel and when it's pointed out to me I take it back and as needed apologize and in this case I was wrong But I still stand by the other complaints. I think it's bad as I You don't that's great agree to disagree But I got to say I've never encountered such a whiny ass fanbase as I have with Metroid fans and I say this as a Nintendo fan a guy who is Excited to buy Mario Party next week and review Unseen because I love the series and the characters that much a guy who bought Metroid Excited to get into it as much as I was into Link and his adventures Sadly for me. It didn't work out a good fucking God The obsession with defending a game that you didn't design or work on is staggeringly concerning Jeff Let's just say Wow, there is so much to unpack. I'm not even sure how to react other than the same He has a massive Disrespect for gamers and gamers opinions on games I Can only say the following and I can respect his opinion that he thinks the walls and the ceilings and stuff should have visual Indicators on the actual walls and ceilings themselves. I get it It's it is something modern gaming has been doing for a long time and while it's a bit hand-holdy It is what it is. Some people are just going to prefer that method versus Metroids which doesn't necessarily give you that sort of visual indicator We can argue there's other visual indicators, but it is what it is and it's okay that he doesn't like Metroid That's not that's neither here nor there But I will say this David Jaff said something controversial about a game The controversial thing he said was not very well defended because he showed a gameplay clip showing off You know a hidden area that he how the hell is he supposed to know about it and as he was playing in Metroid Dread He was playing it not only poorly which I play games poorly But he wasn't even aiming in the 360 degrees or 180 degrees. Hope you want to look at it Way that you can a metrogen. He wasn't using this laser sight and he was having a hard time shooting enemies fine I get it. It happens, right? We I'm not criticizing his inability to play the game But if you're gonna be super critical of a mechanic in the game At least show your competency at the mechanics. You don't have an excuse for Ultimately to me this just means David Jaff is not good at games that are difficult that don't tell him Exactly what to do 100% of the time, which again is fine But people were obviously gonna be critical because you are a figurehead in the industry Whether you want to be or not, but you keep reminding people repeatedly in your response. How important you are and use that to go ahead and insult gamers in an unprofessional manner insult Metroid fans Yeah Guess what the internet's gonna have hate when you have a controversial opinion. Welcome to the internet David Jaff What do you think happens when you know a controversial opinion that goes against the grain? you're going to get the ire of a lot of gamers and That sucks and sometimes a lot of us gamers will say things that we probably shouldn't but You're outright dismissing the very people that play the game bottom line is you cannot like that game design Doesn't make it bad game design Okay, that's not how game design works. It is a trial and error type of design. That's intentional And taught to you early in the game and clearly millions of people don't have a problem with it Now it's fine that you do and you might feel that your problem with it is bad design Other people are gonna feel in their opinion your problem with it is that you want your hand to help These are both valid opinions you being a veteran game designer Does not make your opinion more valid than the people actually play in the game See this is a fundamental problem with his entire argument He thinks he's up here and you're down here. Oh your opinion is just as valid, but mine's defendable He's not really he's saying your opinion just as valid as well saying your opinion is not as valid as is Here's the bottom line games are made for gamers This is why a gamer's opinion on game design can matter just as much as the people who actually design the games Because who are the people that have to deal with the result of those designs the gamers So gamers opinions on a game design a element of game design in a metro a game is as valid as yours Because they're the ones that have to experience and play it you didn't enjoy your experience with this design choice And I'm just talking about this one game. I'm not mentioning that it's been an every metroid You don't agree with this design choice Other people think it's the right move and it makes the game more difficult and adds it air of challenge Challenge that they enjoy and you don't and that's okay. Why can't we just leave it at that? Why do we have to go ahead and try to make? Gamers sound like their opinion on game design of a game They're playing design that makes that game enjoyable or not doesn't matter that they have to go make games to get it No, they don't if they enjoy the game as it is They like this feature in the game by nature that makes it good game design for them But what am I gonna do? I'm not gonna hurl insult at you man. I Respect the work you've done in this industry. I just wish you would respect the fans that you make the games for Their opinions matter because this is their entertainment medium not yours You make the games for them to enjoy if they enjoy it Ergo, it was probably good design. It's fine to be hyper critical Just don't insult people along the way and insult their intelligence and act like their opinions matter less than your own None of them matter more than my opinion doesn't matter more than yours and yours doesn't matter more than mine Can't we just leave it at that? So another weird thing has been happening FIFA you guys probably know FIFA if you're a game here You probably know it more as a video game franchise ran by EA If you are a soccer slash football fan You know it better as the giant organization that runs the most popular sports league in the entire world Now there's other cups and other leagues and all that but FIFA is the big boy the top dog They're like the NFL of that sport. All right. So here's the thing We knew there was something going on between FIFA and EA for a little bit now because EA publicly announced that They are looking into rebranding FIFA moving forward. We weren't really sure why we just assumed Oh bad FIFA FIFA wants double the money. That was the report FIFA wants double the money Bad on FIFA boo FIFA boo the money-grubbing multi-billion-dollar organization, which also applies to EA boo on them Well FIFA came out and fired back and let's just say they are very upset with EA Here's what FIFA said FIFA is bullish and optimistic about its long-term future in gaming and the eSports following a comprehensive and Strategic assessment of the gaming and interactive entertainment market It's clear that this needs to be a space that is occupied by more than one party controlling all rights FIFA has also determined that the overlaps between virtual sport and FIFA's football Competitions must be more closely aligned in this respect FIFA is excited about using the FIFA World Cup with four billion viewers and the FIFA's Women's World Cup with an audience of 1.2 billion as platforms to launch integrate exciting new games and eSports Opportunities in other words. They are tired of being exclusive to EA Sounds like a broken record, doesn't it? Disney pulled exclusivity of Star Wars away from them. I hope the NFL does the same And pulls the exclusivity rights away from Madden. Now look, I'm not saying that I want the FIFA Games to stop from EA continue to make your soccer game You might have to call it something else now because FIFA doesn't want their brand to just mean one thing They want it used across multiple games, but you know how good this is for gamers? FIFA can now use its branding and everything else about it in multiple games of multiple companies This is going to lead to better competition in this market And by the way as switch owners, you know, exciting this is because EA has treated us as second-class citizens Since day one with FIFA keep getting legacy additions. Oh, no, this is the best mobile screw-off They're making an excuse to not give us current versions. Well, guess what now? It can be put in the PES It can put into other games that can now use the FIFA branding to help Inspire their games to be even better and they can become front-runners this hurts EA and it helps gamers and If you enjoy EA's brand of football games, that's fine as well But guess what they're gonna have to make them better now because their strangle hold on the FIFA IP the FIFA licensing is gone So now the players the likenesses the leagues the World Cup can all be present in other games You done messed up EA to the benefit of all of us So I guess thank you for that now this next story is about this video back here and It's ratio bad Nintendo's switch online expansion pass has 16,000 likes the 74,000 dislikes No, Nintendo's not gonna change the pricing. I know they're not gonna change it You know they're not gonna change it and there'll be millions of people that end up spending it anyways as we saw with the n64 Controller selling out like that, but here's the thing. I Don't really think the price point is worth it now Maybe you're someone who's just super looking forward to playing n64 games online and it didn't matter what they charged It was gonna feel worth it to you You'll see people in the comments telling you oh, it's just four dollars and X cents per month Oh if you have you know, if you're on the family pass It's only ten dollars a year That's assuming you have eight people and you're splitting the cost which most people with family passes do not it's I Get it right in the grand scheme $50 or $80 isn't a lot of money. I can't even fill the gas tank in my car for $80, right? So it's not a ton of money to spend once a year No one's arguing that the total amount of money is a lot in the grand scheme a hundred eighty dollars for X-Farx live gold plus game pass. So basically game pass ultimate for a year Isn't really that much money either But it's not about whether or not it's relatively a lot of money compared to putting gas in your car buying Groceries paying your electric bill. It's not about whether it's a lot of money in comparison to that It's about is it a lot of money in comparison to what everyone else in this space is doing and yeah You aren't giving us basic online features and you want to start charging very close to what Xbox and PlayStation charge for a year without Giving us modern games every month or the guarantee of even adding games and 64 and Genesis every month There's no guarantee that's gonna happen There's no guarantee that you're gonna actually do anything with this improved online infrastructure. You supposedly have There's no guarantees of anything getting better Voice chat localized on the platform adding the ability to message people There's no guarantee you're going to add any of this So because of that people are upset You're charging a lot of money relative to other companies and not giving us as much value and that's ultimately What you're gonna get your criticism. So it is what it is Nintendo ain't gonna change But I hope they take this feedback At least not just the dislikes but the feedback in general that people are talking about why they dislike this price and Take it into consideration when they make new additions to Nintendo switch online in the future That hopefully exist doesn't we don't know if they're gonna make any new additions or this last story is just kind of a quick one So Sora came out in Super Smash Bros. Sora from Kingdom Hearts released last night in Super Smash Bros Crash the e-shop all that jazz it happens, right? Every time a really popular Smash character comes out There's a little e-shop snuffoo for I don't know an hour or so, but here's the thing Cool Sora's out. Everyone's loving them playing them enjoying Smash Bros. But you know what also happened Super Smash Bros. Ultimate hop backed up into the top Three on the Nintendo switch e-shop showing that Sora from Kingdom Hearts is selling Super Smash Bros copies. It has been a long time over a year Since Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has been in the top three on the Nintendo switch e-shop here in the United States It's a rarity for that game to get back up that high on the charts But Sora made it happen This also makes you wonder how many people who bought Smash Bros. Are going to sell the Kingdom Hearts collection coming to switch Which again, I think this is going to be impacted by the fact that it's streaming only so I'm not even sure it's a fair thing But we'll see maybe Smash Bros will force people or not really force but encourage people to actually massively buy Kingdom Hearts on switch even if it's only streaming Time will tell but clearly Sora was obviously the right choice financially for everyone involved Square needs to be ecstatic about the attention that Sora is getting and Nintendo's got to be ecstatic that this final character is selling so many extra copies. Maybe millions Also, by the way, Metroid Dreads still at number one. That's pretty badass Alright folks, that's gonna do it for today's video. Thank you so much for tuning in and I'll catch you in the next one