 Hey everyone, sorry, I'm not sitting at the usual set for this video Honestly, I am setting things up for a anniversary stream tonight So tonight is you're celebrating the fourth anniversary of Nintendo Prime as a YouTube channel Hopefully you come in join that stream. It should be live around 8 30 p.m CT maybe a little bit earlier hope to see you guys all there because of that all my setup is now like Stationed I would say stationed the battle station for that So since the camera is out of commission for this video I think it's okay because I have some stuff to talk about here And I want to start off by mentioning that I don't care what people's personal preferences are and I say this because Everyone has their own personal preference on the games. They enjoy right whether you are playing on PlayStation Xbox PC Mobile phones the switch whatever you're playing on maybe you're your VR Where was not one of those Oculus Quest things like completely like you can play completely wirelessly no PC needed Like I don't really care what you're playing on right? It doesn't matter me. Maybe you go to old-school arcades Maybe you like to buy arcade cabinets Maybe I don't know maybe you're on like one of those old-school digital You know handheld only games only has like one game on it like an old-school game and watch or something, right? I I don't care what you enjoy playing right because personal preference on the games you enjoy are You know, they're just that they're personal But in this case the reason we're talking about this is because not because Someone has a personal preference for what they enjoy, but it's about why they dismiss games and a Grander conversation on if there's a problem with games on Nintendo switch So this comes from a rather popular youtuber named the uncle Al show if you ever check him on YouTube He does a lot of funny videos and parodies and skits And he did a conversation piece a while ago talking about how he thought you know a handful of Nintendo games are just you know Not worth 60 bucks and we'll get into that in a moment But first off he on Twitter here he put on a tweet He says okay This is going to make me public enemy number one which I mean there's quite a few people that weren't happy with it But as you see it has more likes than tweets replies all that jazz. So Honestly, I think people are more agreeing with him So we'll see where I stand and where you stand at the end of this video. But he says But I'm working on a video and I want to share this. This is Nintendo switches lineup Impressive isn't it any game company would kill for a lineup like this? All right? So let's first off look at this lineup and then we'll go down the list. So, you know, this lineup has you know Mario Odyssey But for the wild Hyrule Warriors Definitive Edition Hyrule Warriors, Age of Calamity Captain Toe treasure trackers Mario plus Rabbids King the Matter of Fire room three houses Pikmin three deluxe Tokyo Mara sessions F. E. Encore 1 2 switch Pokemon new Pokemon snap Kirby star allies. So you can see the whole list here, right? This is a pretty good list. This is not technically You know all of the exclusive games on switch. There. There's some other titles missing out And I find it interesting because you know, you could say well, you know the titles that aren't on there Don't matter like Bravely default to right? That's not a Nintendo game where it is exclusive to the platform So it is part of that Nintendo library of games as it were And there's other titles, you know, like he includes my golf super rush on here You know, where's the mention of worthwhile to mature pine for whatever because my real super rush isn't here either So we'll just go with this list, right? This list is fine. This is a generalized list This is not close to the complete exclusive list, but hey, it's a good starting spot, right? So let's go with this list. All right, and he says now, let's remove remakes and ports. All right So fine. This is a common criticism of the Nintendo switches library, right? The common criticism is a majority of it is remakes or ports So let's go to his next list here. All right. He says these games are 100% made for switch Talk about that in a moment because he's actually kind of wrong Still a pretty healthy lineup of Mario. I mean games, right? All right, so let's let's take a grander look at this one So as you see, there's a bunch of games missing because there's actually been a lot of Wii ports But you know Odyssey's still there. He's still a breath of the wild Pretty solid list. This is all basically switch exclusives. However of note Breath of the Wild is not a switch exclusive. So when he says, you know, these were games 100% made for switch Breath of the Wild was made for Wii U and then it was brought to switch. Now. Yes It released on both simultaneously, but everybody knows the development history of this. This is not a made-for-switch game This is a game made for Wii U That was delayed to launch on switch because Wii U failed, but anyways, this does not actually fit This but you'll see later why he leaves Breath of the Wild on here So he says let's narrow it down even further. So so here you go So this is a pretty solid lineup, right? You know, you get your first up new jump Pokemon games I don't know why you got rid of the let's go games those literally. I mean, I guess because it's a remake I suppose of sorts, but there you go. This is the list. This is his list Anyways that he has come up with I can understand get rid of the Wii when you're trying to judge the value of switches Offerings getting rid of the Wii U ports. I get it. I don't think it's fair, but I get it. All right, so Then he says next let's remove any game that Nintendo has been using the finish it later strategy for alright, so The finish it later strategy is what I find to be very interesting because his videos out now and he talks about in the finish It later strategy games like arms games like Splatoon 2 games like Animal Crossing New Horizons you'll see that's no missing and What he did in eliminating those games that he's saying that these games are not worth $60 at launch because these games continue to get content updates after launch Now what I find dumb about this is one Breath of the Wild Literally had paid DLC after launch age of Calamity literally has paid DLC coming this year Mario Odyssey had free content with the Luigi stuff added after the fact what I'm finding here is I Think there's a certain preference that the Uncle Al show has For what he thinks games Should be the idea of adding new content to multiplayer games because all the games you got rid of are multiplayer games The idea of adding new content to multiplayer games over time is a longevity thing It's not about whether the games were 60 bucks at launch It's about keeping players engaged over a long period of time and if you look at all Online multiplayer games across the entire gaming industry They're all doing this to say a game isn't worth 60 bucks at launch because it purposely creates non-stop Engagement for years ahead is a bit silly All right, like isn't that a silly notion? It's an online Multiplayer game it wants to keep you engaged beyond launch so if you take all the content planned for something like Splatoon 2 and you Crush it all together throw it in there day one. What's keeping you engaged? past the first week You don't have new weapons to look forward to you don't have no gear to look forward to new maps to look for You don't have anything to look forward to getting added to your experience moving forward So what is the point of throwing that all in there and when you look at the history of online multiplayer games? It's almost always been this way now back in the 90s. We had expansion packs, right? That's what they were called. They were called expansion packs on PC You were playing a PC multiplayer game. You didn't have all the content day one. You got expansion packs Now look, there's obviously some things where he talks about in his video on all of this where hey Some of this content we saw references to this content in the thing meaning this is all cut content from the game one You can't prove it's cut content just because there's a one-line reference to a character all you can prove is hey They were planning more characters. It doesn't mean those characters were ready to go day one So you can't factually say it's cut content unless you can prove the character stuff was in the game Not just the name of the character But like the actual character itself was in the game and just unnot locked right like so We you can't definitively say that the content was cut to bring out later Just because it's been referenced in fact people have actually found out in the original releases of some older games age of Empires there was references to future expansion packs in the base code. Does that mean that content was cut? I don't see that criticism coming. This is just what happens with online multiplayer games There's always more content added years down the road, you know months weeks years down the road to keep you engaged That's the point. They've been doing this in the game industry forever. This isn't a Nintendo thing So it's fine If that means multiplayer games are not for him if he just wants to admit Multiplayer video games aren't his cup of tea. Cool Cool, at least the $60 ones Maybe he's fine with the war zones and the fort knights and all the free-to-play ones because hey He didn't pay any money to enter but I'm just saying that you know I think it's a little disingenuous to just say hey these games aren't worth 60 bucks just because I Don't like the delivery model of online multiplayer games because this is what the whole industry does Other companies aren't getting a pass. Hey, he mentions in his one video. See if these see if these look at that It didn't have an end game. It got trashed Yeah, you're right Critics did not enjoy it at launch some of it is because the core gameplay mechanics Without that added content felt boring Okay, wow Nintendo's games might not have had all the content you want at launch the core mechanics felt engaging Maybe there was a core mechanical issue if it needed the content to justify all of the mechanics now That's not me knocking see a thieves it did get updates He did get content today It is a much better game and it got a second life Thanks to game pass and second life thanks to live streamers and it's sold many millions of copies and is considered a success by Microsoft so see a thieves is fine. Just because critics didn't you know Universally love it at launch doesn't mean you know that Nintendo games always get a free pass arms was not universally loved at launch I'm sorry. Go look at the review ratings. It wasn't universally loved at launch Okay Anyways moving on Now he wants to narrow it down more starting to look a bit barren But still not completely quite a few solid titles here now This will be more subjective this entire thing's been subjective. That's what I find funny about it Let me remove games I feel aren't worth $60 because they give you quality updates that keep you playing for years Anyways, he says now. I'm going to narrow it down To the must have games now remember This is completely subjective when you talk about must have games because I'm looking at this list right here You the personal opinion Mario Odyssey must have breath of the wild my favorite game of all time clearly a must-have age of calamity as A Zelda fan it's must have if you're not deep into Zelda and really care about breath of the wild Maybe not, but if breath of the wild makes your must-have list. I feel like age of calamity probably should Mario plus Rabbis kingdom at a freaking amazing game. Definitely a must-have for me fire emblem warriors Okay Okay, what I don't understand is how fire emblem warriors which factually got DLC after the fact is on this list Where the hell is fire? I'm on three houses. Oh wait. He moved it down here. Here it is fire one three houses Fantastic game fantastic game to me must have fire. I'm a warriors I could I'm not a huge fire emblem fan kind of hit or miss but I do own the game once you switch I would probably say you wouldn't consider that must have that should have been a pack-in new Pokemon snap It's a niche game quality game. I own it. I'm enjoying it, but it's more niche, right? It's a photography game It's a very good photography game, but It's a niche product I wouldn't say necessarily must have more of a nice to have all right Yoshi's Crafted World I think it's actually really really good. I think if you have kids and you have a family It's a great family game as a solo game. Maybe not so much, but you won't you're playing with your children Like I did it's pretty solid Super Smash Bros. Ultimate I think everyone knows that's a quintessential game Paper Mario I this is the one of the titles on switch. I haven't played So I'm I don't really have an opinion here or there Paper Mario yet. It is something I plan to get to eventually But it is admittedly like the one game on this list that I haven't really dived into Xenobite Chronicles 2 I mean that's a full game at 60 bucks. That's a quintessential game I feel like it's a must-have, but again, it's gonna come out of the taste if you're not Into the kind of action JRPG game than it is. All right, Luigi's Mansion 3 Fan frickin tastic. It might be my favorite entry in the whole franchise. Love it. That's quintessential to me The Olympic games are always gonna hit or miss this one. I think it's a solid one But I don't know that you did you consider it must have but it's a fun party game Same with clubhouse games clubhouse games 51 I don't know how many you guys have actually played it because it's just a bunch of classic games, right? But you can play multiplayer online multiplayer playing his friends playing a local multiplayer It's a fun. The this the clubhouse 51 games literally couldn't be better than what it is It is basically the perfect Classic game collection and the many different ways it lets you play with multiple switches and online and I want you know Two players on one switch. It's really cool I got to admit while this is not what I would call a must-have game because it's more like Repurposing games that people used to own board game wise For what it is. It's practically perfect But again, I personally wouldn't say it's quintessential because you know backgammon and checkers and chess and all you could play these games Obviously without a switch. So Astral chain. I mean what needs to be said there besides everything Everything you know what I see missing. Where's Damon X machina poor Damon X machina if Astral chain is here. Where the hell is Damon X machina Nintendo paid and published that one too Paid for that game and publish that one too. Where the hell is Damon X machina? See so I'm saying this list isn't complete And then you got Pokemon Sword and Shield now Pokemon Sword and Shields device of I think every Pokemon release at this point It's divisive. Obviously these are really popular. There's millions of people that love it There's millions of people that are kind of so so on it and I'm sure there's some people that really really hate it I don't know. I have not tried them beyond a demo. I thought the demo was fun But again, I think by them, of course, I've been kind of falling out of Pokemon for a while It's not necessarily Sword and Shields fault but I will be legends Arceus. I'm all on top of that. I also Pokemon snap So I something about the mainline series been turning me off But you know, maybe Pokemon legends Arceus is so whatever. I feel like this is a pretty solid list of a Lot of must haves and then some you know, hey in certain situations. That's what they're for All right, so now he's gonna go down to his own must have list And he says this is it no fluff. No half-baked filler games No meh to boring lazy slash bad games the switch part the switch library largely consists of ports Remakes and middle of the road sequels in the short term. This has done wonders for Nintendo So let's look at this. I Mean look at the games. He took off Look at the games. He took off. I mean look at this and then look at his prior list. Okay Take a hard look Take a hard look Look at this. Where's all his actual chain? I mean, this is subjective, right? These are when he breaks it down These are to him the quintessential switch games, which by the way, that's not that bad of a list if you think about that That's six. What is that? That's eight games So basically a little over of almost almost two major games on average per year He finds to be quintessential. He finds to be must have he finds to be worth the money again completely subjective But to call all the rest boring lazy slash bad now again personal preferences. I get it I get it. I'm the cat not the guy for personal preferences I'm guessing that he really enjoys games much more on Sony Platform Sony it focuses a lot more on single-player experiences focuses a lot more on jam packed 60 will now $70 experiences sometimes cheaper Miles Morales was a little cheaper also a little shorter So I'm assuming that he prop based on what I'm seeing here. These are all Basically single-player experiences. I mean smash being the kind of exception in here, but Luigi's mansion It's got a co-op mode, but let's be honest It's practically a single-player experience fire on the three houses single-player experience It's gonna be chronicles to single-player experience Hyro Warriors each calamity again has co-op But it's basically a single-player experience These two are obviously single-player experiences. I know there's some there's some faint co-op in Mario Odyssey But again Mario plus rabbits has some multiplayer aspects, but let's just be honest It's primarily a single-player experience. So what I see here is that he really enjoys $60 jam packed single-player experiences Then he doesn't even enjoy all of I mean he didn't enjoy astral chain apparently astral chain. What what is boring lazy bad? filler I Don't understand it and then there's other games out here like obviously animal crossings on on here and we're getting that Well, I don't get this list now. I get personal preference. I just wish he could just admit I think the uncle Al show just needs to admit. Hey, you know what? I Just don't really like Nintendo games that much I think I think that's okay I don't think we need to trash the games Because they're not what we want right and again, I know people are gonna say Nintendo Defense Force all this jazz It's fine. Again. I don't care that this is all he prefers to play when I look at the PlayStation 4 library There was only about eight games. I thought that I were quintessential for me. So it doesn't factually mean There's only eight great games. I can recognize other games are really good and other games are really great Even if they're not for me Right, like I that that's me though. Not everyone's like me, right? I can't I can't you know fault people for not being like me says if it weren't For a lot of these critically acclaimed ports filling in the gaps the switch exclusive lineup probably wouldn't be looking too hot People are now noticing that games like Animal Crossing which launched with minimal content aren't filling themselves out properly There has been some criticism that we haven't had a major update for Animal Crossing that adds like Significant features from prior games, but I also feel like that's disingenuous to Animal Crossing New Horizons in general Animal Crossing New Horizons already has a crap load of features never seen in prior games to me This is kind of like bitching. Oh my god They didn't release updates for Breath of the Wild that added dungeons to the game Even though it does a shitload of stuff that's never been done in Zelda before like I feel like it's just It's kind of a disingenuous statement to our two bitch about Animal Crossing having seasonal events and seasonal updates and And in no major updates when it's a life sim At I it was clearly to me worth 60 bucks at launch I mean even if you were done with the game in a week, which I don't know how you can be because every single month There's new stuff to do but anyways Moving on to his next his next comment He says the switches also been greatly helped by the novel concept of the portable console gaming I can I could definitely agree the whole concept of bringing console quality games on the go Definitely a selling point for the switch, but that's an idea. You can sell on that premise alone once Then we've been there done that the switch to would be just that why would you bother upgrading? Because the games are gonna look better be bigger bigger storage and you'll be able to get more third-party multiplayer game One thing one thing he doesn't talk about any of this is all the third-party games that are on switch. I Mean switch has a massive third-party library So why would you do that again? Why I don't know why do people? Okay, to me this is like arguing. Okay, that's a novel idea that works once So the Game Boy only worked once the Game Boy advanced didn't work the DS didn't work the 3ds didn't like The novel idea of taking console games on the go Why would that only work one time? How like how do you wrap your mind around that and say it only works one time? I don't know again his personal opinion And he goes on to say this is when the game library will be instrumental into future system success and switch to Won't have a failed systems library of games to fall back up So will the trickle of game releases grind to a halt? So he's still kind of going on the you know, even though he admitted when he removed all the ports and remakes that There still was actually a pretty decent library of games He just decided that all those games are worth a damn to him You know see I'm saying like yeah, there's a pretty big library games on switch So anyways, so will the trickle of game releases grind to a halt with switch to or maybe we'll just keep keep getting Ports of older games next up. He says I guess this is just a really long-winded way of saying that I'm a bit Disappointed with the switch library thus far and this is where I want to post you Are you guys disappointed with the switch library as well? Some of you guys probably are and again Personal preferences matter because personal preferences decide obviously what's of value to you and what you enjoy I'm just a different kind of person even if I'm not super into a game I can appreciate what other people are and admit It's a quality experience even if it's not an experience that I would enjoy, right? I think Call of Duty Warzone is actually a fairly decent game. It's just not something I'm bad into at least not right now So I'm just just one of many examples I could give so yeah, I I honestly think that I'm not disappointed by the switches library I've had a lot of fun and I'm not even disappointed with the Wii U ports I'm looking forward to Skyward Sword HD because I don't have a Wii anymore and being able to use traditional controls I don't know. I might prefer motion still but it's nice to have the option especially when I'm on the go So I I don't know. I mean value is in the eye of the beholder, right? To me it looks like the Nintendo has been taken an easy route with many other switch releases Yeah, this is a very calming common criticism. He says game development takes a ton of time I don't take that for granted I'm not saying that every game needs to be Breath of the Wild because that would just be unrealistic Okay, if every game was Breath of the Wild switch would have like two games because that takes hundreds of millions of dollars and you know It's 500 plus staff in five years I'm not saying that every game needs to be Breath of the Wild But number of these games feel like they exist simply for the sake of existing look Yoshi on switch It's not great, but here Yoshi's Crafted World isn't that bad It's not that bad of a game. I Think like he doesn't he just doesn't have five value in this because Yoshi's Crafted World is a family game So for someone like him, I could see where like this is a whole What it kind of feels like he's complaining because switch has variety Variety is a problem now just because it doesn't appeal to you personally Yeah, I don't know Then he says I think the illusion is starting to wear off for a lot of people I can't help but feel the switch too. I mean the illusion is totally wearing off That's why switch is literally peaking in sales and Nintendo has a projected 30 million units It's selling this fiscal year. Yeah, the illustrious wearing off Is it really? We're in the peak years. The luster is just as strong as it's ever been Anyways, I can't help people feel like the switch to will be fighting more of an uphill battle But I guess they'll always have that big Mario game to grab everyone's attention then all bets are off He goes on Talks about you know, try and you know try to avoid a whirlwind of vitriol And I'm sure some people were pretty a lot harsher than me Um, but yeah, I honestly want to throw this to you guys. What do you guys think about his take? What do you think about my take on his take? Um, I personally think the switch has a great library has a lot of variety I think that there obviously some shortcomings for Nintendo and some things. I wish it had differently and things I want them to improve. I am not just a shill I there was a commenter the other day when people think that Nintendo pays me behind the scenes Let me tell you, Nintendo, they don't even send me copies of games and you think they're paying me My god, I wish I'll work for you Nintendo. I'll you can pay me to be a shill I mean at that point I would just Literally come straight out and say hey all my content sponsor my nintendo. Um, but yeah, that's just me You guys let me know what you think down in the comments below long video But I hope you guys have a good time and hopefully I'll see you guys at tonight's birthday stream Catch you guys in the next video