 I think things are working. Yeah, you guys can hear us right? Everything's good. The audio is good I'm gonna do the official kickoff for the podcast here in a second. I just want to confirm the audio is good We just had something happen right before it in live with our control center Audio is good. Hey, everything's good. All right, we're good to go. All right Hey, everyone welcome back to episode 46 of the Nintendo Prime podcast Whoo? How's it going? We're we're we're a day late in a dollar short. We are I am your host as always the tender of a chance And to my left you guys is right is mr. Eric Moore. Hello everybody. Oh boy. We're getting excited Times around here. I'm looking at the calendar. I feel like we're roughly six ish weeks away from Prime Gaming Fest Don't I don't know yet, but we don't have dates yet, you know Jeff Keely made it sound like we were gonna know about the middle of April It's the middle of April and we still don't know when the dates are tomorrow's work Right, it'll be exactly as a fright exactly the middle But yeah, I we have no idea when he's gonna announce Maybe it won't be till next month Even though he said news would be in the next few weeks and that was three weeks ago So who really knows we that's one thing that we just don't know yet when it's happening I'm really really hoping to tap it in the first half of June rather than the last week of June because I'm gone And that would suck if I got to try to move all that around but whatever We are going to have the show no matter what you know Eric's got to run it solo with toad as his host Lord might the fly Mike Perez in to come close to All right guys So what was the internal prime podcast a few little notes before we get going today is I have a little bit of an announcement Every episode after this week will as far as I'm aware I always have three people All right, so me Eric and a third person now this third person won't necessarily be part of the podcast every week But you can almost consider them a new Sort of closed Yeah, I mean, I don't know how you really call it because they're not technically gonna be here every week But they're gonna be filling in when we don't have guests And that person is Nintendo Academy aka Mike Perez You guys might know him if you don't go check out his YouTube channel. He will be the official I'm filling in anytime. There's no guest even if a guest cancels he will fill in moving forward so You're gonna see a hell of a lot of him around here on our Wednesdays Because it also gives me the confidence every week that I don't have to necessarily dig out a guest. I Could just say we already got three I don't I don't need to dig for one and if I dig for one, maybe they become number four Maybe I just decided to make him a permanent part of the pocket. I have no idea We'll see I got to have some further conversations with them But that's gonna be that's gonna be nice. It's gonna be nice I need to have a bit more talks to them behind the scenes to get everything locked in for that stuff But I pretty sure it's gonna work out just dandy I know he has the time. I know I have the time. I know we'll make it work I know this is not our usual podcast night, but that's okay. We weren't gonna skip the pie Do you guys think we're skipping the podcast? Be honest if you were in the chat these things I mean Eric was here I was we technically could have pulled off the podcast yesterday I was really frustrated with the late cancellations. We had we had three different guests at one point yesterday And then at one point we had none besides me and Eric and we still could have put together the show But I had this thing where if I'm extremely frustrated I don't want to then go live Because it's gonna come through in the show and it's gonna ruin a show It's just Eric and I hanging out So we just hung out and play video games last night plus got out that bonus video last night about people who don't like switch in 2022 and People obviously took it the wrong way because they didn't watch the entire video where I noted at the end that all that Criticism that I was arguing back against was completely valid and completely fine There's actually nothing wrong with it people like what they like like there's nothing wrong with being critical of these companies Contrary to popular relief and the name of my channel. I am not a Nintendo shill I do not work for the company. They do not pay me if that Nintendo won't even talk to me So me and Nintendo aren't exactly like this. All right. That's just not how it works I just really enjoy Nintendo games and that's why we have this channel. So Let's get into what we kick off every podcast with that is what have we been playing lately now I know one game Eric and I've been playing and we'll be the show. Yeah, 22. Yeah playing in an Xbox. Have a good time I mean, we're big sports fans. We're big baseball Basketball NFL. He loves hockey over there, too Oh, yeah, so any any sports games like that are always going to be enjoyable to us And we're we have our own created teams on in the NL and we're gonna work our way till it's gonna be interesting to see How it works work our way to the world seriously. I've never actually done it this way No, you what it's gonna be interesting to see how it how playing against each other works It's just it's just a switch screen. It just was yeah So it's gonna be really interesting and fun to do that and see what happens I You know, we both youngified our teams or went with young guys with a lot of potential and you know We're sort of cheating so we can have really really good records and have our players not suck and hopefully progress after year one I might get to a point that we don't have to like Do that we're whole I'm kind of hoping after year one they progress enough But we don't know because most of the progression happens like after the season's over It takes into into factor all their training and then all their stats and everything goes from there But we'll see what happens with that So yeah been playing that but I know you've been playing something else. What what have you been playing? Still playing Kirby and I beat the story He's ahead of me, baby. I am apparently Yeah, no, it's actually really interesting ending Although I got to be fair to be fair. I've been helping Yulia with higher with fire. I'm a warriors Yeah, so I haven't got like I'm trying to play my I try to play my switch and then I look over She's like I need help. Okay. I got you honey She's really bad at her directions of the map because how quick because how fast you move in there She like gets confused in which direction she's going. Yeah, okay, honey. Go this way then go that way I can't even say go left right. No, no, I got a point this way then that way then that way now Go behind you then She loves the game, but I mean I understand she's not used to twin sticks She's not used to that fast of movement Yeah, warrior games are but but she's doing good. She might actually have beaten it last night or will tonight. I'm not sure We had we had a bit of a scare With the fiance we're getting to that towards the end of the stream. I Was almost riding solo the rest of my life. So that's a fun one. I don't even know about this Yes, Eric doesn't even know about this. We'll talk about that story towards the end of the year in story time Story time, but uh, yeah speaking while speaking of story time the actual story of the of the game is Awesome, and then it sets up a great after story as well. So you're gonna you're gonna like it Yeah, I heard the post game is great. Yeah, it is. I haven't got through yet. Well, it's not gonna take me long to get there It's just this is technically the post game that I'm in or not to what but don't know So you're not pretty sure I'm pretty sure it's post game Cool well, that's fun. So so you I've gotten to the point now that you are you beaten the main part of Kirby even though There's more Thoughts on the game. Oh Updated thoughts phenomenal even better than last time Yeah, I mean I have enjoyed it a lot and that's saying something because I mean, I Enjoy gaming, but it isn't as much as is you know kind of what I used to So to actually enjoy it like fully fully enjoy a game like I've Looking forward to playing it at night almost every night and that doesn't happen really a whole lot anymore So it's it's phenomenal Cool So outside of I'm gonna be the show and my one Madden League. I mean I uh, I Haven't really touched my switch much in this last week as I said every time I go to pick it up I see happen to be sitting next to Julia when she needs help a fighter on the warrior So almost is like I'm sort of playing fire on the Warriors all over again through her even though I've already played the game. I didn't beat it though. She's actually good. She's almost Yeah, she's she's if she's gotten to chapter 23, which I believe is the final chapter in the game She will be officially ahead of me because I stopped right before the how does someone stop right when you're at the end I don't know something another game must have came out or some major life event was to happen I derailed me then somehow I never got back to actually beat it So she's actually gonna beat it which is quite impressive and she's beaten on normal She started on easy because she wanted really easy. She didn't want the enemies to attack her and then she's like what the hell They don't even move. I'm like, I know. Yeah, so then she put it on normal and she actually likes it We'll see if she upset out when she's done. Maybe she was on Hyrule Warriors. I have no idea but So I I haven't actually played a ton of switch games again. I won't be the show is pretty good I mean, of course, it's pretty good. It's pretty good every year. It's one of the best sports simulation games You know that that exists. So that's not really shocking. They're sort of it's like talking about NBA 2k It's really good. They're those are both like equal tier really really good simulation games So it's not it's not like Madden where there's stuff to bitch about nitty-gritty The only thing I will say is I wish there was a way to force win And like when you're sim in the season Because you can do this in Madden you can do force wins So like if you're if you're starting to franchise like we are like this is just how we play my way Everyone wants to do that but a lot of people don't want to like play a hundred and sixty two games to get to the playoffs It's a lot But they don't also want to shorten the season because then that lowers how quickly your guys can progress So it would be cool if you could like force the win. You don't force the stats but force the win For the whole season that would be really cool And they and will be the show has never been a game that does that that would be a feature I'd like to see that's such a minor right major major major major flaw that I Absolutely do not like about this game is when you're setting your lineups You put a guy in the lineup and it just auto assigns a position to him even though he plays a position That is the yeah that way this criticism is all valid for switch because this game's on switch Yeah, and It's interesting when you look at the lineups because like we would trade for a bunch of players And they would have clear positions. We have a first base We have a second me and it's fine if they don't put in the guy that we want to play But there should be a second baseman playing second base, right not a right fielder I move them from my bench to the lineup and all of a sudden it moves my second baseman to right field and it's weird It's no sense. I got it It's such a minor thing and we could fix it really quick once we realize it like I had Jose Reyes playing at first base when he's a right fielder for a long time and it's like It's annoying that the game would just keep him at their position when you put him in when you don't have Anyone at their position in the lineup yet. That was the thing if there was somebody already playing that position in line I'm fine. You're gonna slap it Slaps a DH first and then goes to another position But that's not how how it works again a minor thing You don't have to set your lineups that often not that big of a deal, but still Those are the little things when a game is that good That could just take it to that next level that little extra attention to detail Just like the fact that guess what there is as an example. This is really irrelevant, but DH is now just a universal thing across baseball So we don't shouldn't have to set lineups for pitchers because they don't exist anymore Yeah, I think that was still just in there from it's a carryover from last year Well, it was kind of still borderline on no, I will give him credit though. It doesn't run that way in the game, right? They've they've they've constantly kept the DH. Yeah, I was worried they might like because again the rule might not have been official The other thing is too is that they may allow you to turn off the DH If you don't like the DH they may allow you to turn off which would then allow that Those lineups to become valid. So that's actually probably what it's for who knows. Oh, I know. It doesn't really matter to me Everything's working as as intended and having a lot of fun and the the thing with that game is there are so many ways to customize it The way you want to hit the way you want to pitch the way you want to run base paths like everything is customizable So even if you don't like all the defaults I didn't just change it or something you like like you don't like having to use a meter Or you don't like having to use the control stick to do crazy pitches Fine. Don't just have it be the old school pick a spot in the zone hit a button and throw it there Like you can do that. It's okay. We don't do it that way. We we use the meter pitching because it adds Enough and that's enough variance. Um, yeah It adds enough it adds enough variance that you're not exactly sure if the pitch is going to go I mean, sure like you can miss a little bit to the left and your pitch could be in the In the top right corner you miss a little bit to the left next thing you know It's all the way on the other side of the plate So it's enough variance that it when we play each other it should it should actually Not make it obvious everything shouldn't just be in the heart of the plate Basically and everything's not always going to be perfect on the corners or right out of the zone It's going to be it adds a little bit of skill. All right So Yeah, and we'll be the short 22 great. Uh, I have played it on switch now It is solid Uh, they released a patch that fixed a lot of the problems I was going to complain about So now that those problems are supposedly fixed. I haven't played it yet since the patch. So, uh I probably have very little to complain about. I mean, yeah, it's 30 fps versus 60 I it took me a bit to adjust with mba2k It's fine Maybe we're I'm just playing on too easy of a setting but it's fine for now Maybe on the most maybe on the hardest settings, you know, that stuff matters, but I'm doing all right. Um, I want to make sure we shout out brian c Thank you so much for the $9 and 99 cents super chat man. He said podcast is going to be awesome Glad to see the nintendo academy more yet. He's going to be on almost every week. Um and getting married tomorrow So i'm super excited. Oh nice. Congrats. I didn't even know you were engaged. I didn't even know you were dating So congrats to your husband and or wife and or both. I have no idea But congratulations And uh, I wish you well brian. See great. Enjoy that. Hopefully you have a lovely honeymoon planned if not right after later this year Um, enjoy man. That's awesome. Get into the finish line partner for life Wife. Hey, hey, I try not to make presumptions. All right. I don't know you man. I don't know what you're into I didn't even know you were dating I don't even know who you are Is your is your name actually brian? I'm I have no idea Does the c stand for calhoun or does it stand for calamari? Yeah No or call me maybe Frank call me maybe um All right, so Uh all of that being said let's get into our very first topic and eric. What is our first topic? You even remember Uh, I know I have to detail it over It's the uh That breath of the wild two may be hinting at a second switch Or the next level switch whatever the heck you want to call it switch to switch pro You didn't turn the switch. Yeah, so this was a news topic. I covered on the channel earlier this week And it essentially just all comes from speculation from digital foundry For those who don't know who digital foundry are there a youtube channel and also an entity that works for euro gamer Um, that does a lot of tech analysis of trailers and gameplay Um, and they're able to uh make a lot of Not assumptions but a lot of um Good analysis out of it And it's it's funny because some people get mad at digital foundry because what they do seems to fuel Um console wars a lot. Oh my gosh the game runs better on xbox and playstation. Oh, man It only runs at 25 fps on switch switches. Shit. And yeah, if you listen to the video They're not usually trashing the consoles. In fact a lot of times like when things are, you know, like the witcher three a lot of Oh, it's a blurry mess. It's this it's garbage on switch. Oh, I watched digital foundry. It's so bad in the in the video Digital foundry is actually they're like, you know what on switch this actually works. It's actually very playable I'm really enjoying it But that's not what you would get if you only read it from the fans So I think digital foundry sometimes gets too much shit Uh when it's really just coming from the people watching the videos not from themselves If you actually just listen to their Opinions and their in the viewpoints. They're much kinder about it and actually Sometimes note the frame rate dips end up not mattering As much as you might think they do but that's neither here nor there Obviously, it's all subjective opinion, but they finally had a chance uh in their latest podcast episode to Analyze the new breath of the wild two footage So for those who don't know breath well too when it got delayed There was footage in the delay one of it showed off the master sword We looked at that earlier But some of it was old footage. The thing is that old footage Which is from e3 of last year was updated over the footage from e3 of last year and most people didn't catch it They just assumed it was just clips taken from the old trailer mixed in with the the master server and it turns out It's actually different and upgraded in a way. How is it upgraded? Well, there's volumetric clouds, which are very taxing very difficult to running code Not the first time they've been on switch though and apparently Perfect anti-aliasing now this is notable because some people have pointed out Well, there's been a game that said anti-aliasing from nintendo before it was zeno by chronicles 2 Zeno by chronicles 2 also had volumetric clouds and conveniently monolith soft is helping make zelda games So of course this makes sense a couple notes one while there's volumetric clouds in zeno by chronicles You're zoomed out way away from them Rather than dealing with all of the physics of them up close like you are in this game So there's a difference there and that it's going to be more taxing because you're closer to it They had to put more detail into it than they didn't like if you look at the clouds in the trailer Look at the clouds in zeno by chronicles 2 the clouds in breath of the wild. They're significantly more complex and jam packed and more dynamic in some ways Some ways not every way guys As for the anti-aliasing they do use a form of anti-aliasing in zeno by chronicles 2 and zeno by chronicles definitive edition But it's not perfect anti-aliasing in fact, it's still pretty blurry and there's still some jagged edges It just smooths out certain edges according to digital foundry In the footage given to us. It's perfect anti-aliasing Every edge is smooth though Every single edge including link's hair that's flowing in the wind It's all perfectly anti-aliased which that's hard They noted the xbox series x and they probably noted this because I was they recently tested some games on it That it struggles with perfect anti-aliasing that most video games Do not have perfect anti-aliasing They do have you know 2x fx a or like they have Certain but not perfect. It's not there's always going to be some jaggies somewhere. The question is if you notice it or not According to them in this footage there was none now I'm not technical enough of my know-how and the footage is compressed and so Is the compression mess it with it and making it look like it's there when it's not I don't know Uh, it definitely looks a lot and I noted this before the game looks a lot clearer than it did in The original breath of the wild It looks like it's running at a higher resolution for starters And I noted that it doesn't look like it has that many jaggies apparently it has none So that's all what they speculated is that it seems like this game With the volumetric clouds combined with perfect anti-aliasing and obviously what everyone's already noticed with the higher resolution That this is probably not running on the base nintendo switch hardware At least what we are seeing isn't running on it doesn't mean the game doesn't run on it But that what they are showing is running on potentially newer harvard. They do note It could just be re-rendered on a pc. I was gonna say I was just thinking that But they also went on to note as as soon as I said that because I've said this before too Nintendo hasn't really ever done that They always when they're showing gameplay show what it actually looks like on the system It's interesting Just something to keep in the back of the mind that a lot of other companies do that all the time we see Fake visuals all the yeah fake visuals all the time or in engine, but notably Not actual gameplay notably not on ps5 not on xbox just in engine. Okay, so you rendered it out on some high end 30 90 ti PC that's cool You do that, but that's not actually what it's going to look like for a vast majority of people That aren't rocking 30 90 ti with 1200 900 k s's and ddr 5 rocking at 6000 megahertz. Okay, like It's just not what it's going to look like for most people for some on pi mpcs. Absolutely, but not not for everyone But apparently nintendo doesn't really do that very often i've noted I know they don't do it very often I think there's like one instance where they've done it and they didn't do it for a really original breath of the Wild and they didn't do it So it seems doubtful they do it for this game And it's brought people to wonder hey look there was a lot of smoke About a more powerful switch last year from a lot of Reliable sources. Let's forget about Let's forget about the samus hunters of the world. Let's forget about The new marco maros and the random four champ posts How about jeff grub? Actual journalist. How about takahashi machizuki? Actual journalist. How about tom phillips? Actual journalist. How about I don't know forget. Nate the hate even although To be clear Nate the hates why a lot of people get mad about switch bro Why do you think people get mad when a new more powerful switch is brought up? Because we were already let down once with the uh Switch OLED It it quote-unquote led down It was hyped up so much that It it felt like so so what what cause what do you think caused the majority of the hype? You were here for we talked about a lot. I know I know it's just was it us It was our problem. We're the ones that caused all the hype. I mean You said we're part of the we're part of the cog. We're part of the cog. We didn't uh hype responsibly on that one um Like we probably should have but uh no it's I think it's just the the possibilities of What could be in in in the talks of what could be And then you kind of just build yourself up to start thinking that this is going to be And then when it's not It hurts So there's two things I think happened Um, and this is speaking to someone who was covering this Takahashi machizuki saying that this was going to come before the end of the year This is last year Um, and then him noting that he knows 11 developers that have a dev kit Including and then he named one and that one went on to deny it But the way as was noted at the time the way they denied it left him so many loopholes Because they can't talk about right unreleased unannounced hardware. They can't they're under nd Under nda is like even if they had it they would have to deny they were named So they got to deny and they denied it in a very clever way So did nintendo in a very clever way that really just leaves the door open um but That made some people mad because he said oh it's coming this year and then we got oled and the funny thing is Everything he said about oled was true seven inch oled panel new kickstand ethernet port slightly bigger seven inch panel And all ended up being true. It just didn't have the new so c in it which In trying to be fair. It sounds like he was mixing sources from Developers and manufacturing all the details he got about the exact panel and the kicks all came from his manufacturing sources Details on the 4k and dlss came from developers So something he just assumed it was the same platform So that's bad on him for not noting that this comes from one from these source from developer sources. This comes from manufacturing sources It might be the same platform, but it might not be Probably how he should have approached it in his reporting. He just assumed it was all that's me being fair Obviously be super critical. He said it was coming. We didn't get a more powerful switch And then the big one that people got really upset about e3 last year Did you remember I mean it's being announced imminently The week leading up to e3. No imminently being announced and if not The week before to be announced at nintendo's show imminently yeah So here's what happened kaka hachimachi zuki said The developers are pressing nintendo to reveal it Say nintendo was going to reveal it at e3 if you go back and read his reports He never said it's going to be revealed at e3 He said developers are pressing it Nate the hate as much as I love the guy He's the one that said It's imminently going to be announced And within 24 hours he was already going back on what he said Because he realized oh shit He went back and reread the he reread his sources and went wait or or just said oh my god This is spreading like wild but I just literally made everybody in the world expect this thing in the next week I don't actually know what's being announced the next week. What the fuck did I do? What was the bad word choice? I don't know. He literally he talked about that length on his podcast He like why he said imminent and then all of a sudden in redouble checking his sources. He realized. Oh, shit They never act like my sources never actually said nintendo's about to announce it It was basically he basically heard exactly what takahashi machinzuki heard Which then they do believe did he hear anything? You you you guys can be judged a judge or a letter of yourself But he basically heard exactly what takahashi machinzuki said is that developers are pressing nintendo to reveal it Not anything that says nintendo's actually revealing nothing from nintendo was saying they were going to reveal it It was Developers want this damn thing on the market and you could understand why developers want this damn thing on the market It's more powerful runs their games better. Why the hell wouldn't they want it out there? I mean it's possible that uh he also just shot a shot and uh Took a shot. It took a shot and it was in 24. I was like 24 hours. Wait a minute. This shot was too too too deep too deep Too deep that was a that was a that was a full court shot a full court shot. Yeah one and 10 billion chance of it If it hit If it hit he's also he's also genius But no the fact that it didn't hit was uh, yeah So I think that is what's created a lot of the animosity is A lot of legit people like takahashi machinzuki talking about it and saying it was going to come last year And then one particular trusted insider saying it's going to imminently be announced and that being dead wrong And then takahashi machinzuki only being half right Um, which is why I still give takahashi machinzuki credit because i'm sorry guys when the guy says seven inch panel from sony And it's a seven or a samsung Sorry seven inch OLED panel from samsung and it turns out it's a seven inch OLED panel from samsung When he says it's going to have a kickstand like a surface and it is a kickstand just like a surface device Says there's gonna be ethernet port on the dock and there's an ethernet port I'm sorry when he's getting exact details right I'm gonna be a bit more forgiving that he that the 4k dls S part wasn't right Not even did he get the the size of the panel right? He got the did you get the whole The manufacturer, but did he get the actual part number right to yeah, I think you got something like that right too So that was the thing like clearly It's proven that takahashi machinzuki had real Sources that's why I'm less dismissive and less angry at him My thing is and I'm sure he thinks in hindsight is assuming that what he was hearing from two completely different sources was the same device And it's also possible that it was in the beginning Yeah, there's also that chip shortage just kind of chip shortage could allegedly like all that OLED could have originally meant Been meant to be the switch pro. Yeah, and then we can't deny that possibility Decided yeah, and then maybe Nintendo thought they'd have enough made chip shortage would be over and it wasn't So it could have started last year as our plan by the end of the year is to launch the switch pro and then Okay, well, we have enough panels We just don't have enough of the chips So we're not gonna we're just gonna release this as it is try to get a sales one for the holidays Not that they needed it because which was already selling out, but um, whatever So getting back to the topic Digital foundry is in their humble opinion stating that Breath of the Wild 2 looks like a game that can't run on the current switch By the way, one thing they didn't talk about The level of detail draw distance I noticed this looking at the footage. It's and going back and playing Breath of the Wild It's like in Breath of the Wild there's a lot of pop in the trees pop in grass pops in But in this game, especially scenes when he's in the sky and looking down You can see trees and awfully far away away and pretty clear some of that you say is higher resolution But some of that's also the level of detail draw distance is farther One thing to note and this is plain devil's advocate Breath of the Wild was a Wii U game Very true. Wii U is not contrary to popular belief As powerful as a switch The chip set inside switch is more powerful than Wii U so With five six years now to optimize the game on a brand new, you know Take that engine get a fully converted brand new system as we're seeing with Splatoon 3 Which looks significantly better than Splatoon 2, which was probably made primarily on Wii U A lot of these improvements could just be finally the engine had been fully optimized for switch Yeah, that's very true too. But if the engine's fully optimized to the point that it has full anti-aliasing When no other game on switches pulled that off One I don't I fully believe in Nintendo's developers can pull miracles off in their own system. Yeah But that's the part that gets me That it that everything looks like it's sticking at 1080p, although note Digital foundry found one 720p scene No, boy So it is using dynamic resolution between 720 and 1080 Still Dude, yeah, that's insane What do you think after going through everything the past the current? What do you think? I want to hype responsibly But I then again, I also want to go apeshit and not hype responsibly because I want another switch But I have still have my og and I'm really Not wanting to buy another one if I don't have to you know until a second one comes out so What do you want to be different? to get a new switch I mean power. I mean it's power a little bit more power a little bit better Which allows you to play a little bit better games allows you to bring more stuff over which I mean gives you a lot of other things. I mean the night the better screen is probably gonna be nicer But the better screen in and of itself isn't enough for me to get a new screen A new switch basically you're only buying a new switch when there's more power And that's that's it when games run better Yeah higher frame rates when you can see some benefit to it like and we'll be the show being able to run a 60 fps will be nice, right? right for sure Um Store storage space would be nice to more storage space would be huge Yeah But no, I mean I did a video yesterday on people criticizing switch and legitimately all the criticisms are fair not enough storage space um in 2022 it's pretty weak power wise Uh, I do find comparisons comparing it to the steam deck to be a little off-putting And I say that not because the steam deck isn't comparable But the steam deck is a Well it didn't come out until this year So it's literally a 2022 device compared to a device that came out in 2017 right It's five-year difference. I don't know that it's fair to compare a device that comes out five years after another and say Oh, yeah, look at all much more. Well, it's been five fucking years. I hope it's a lot more powerful Let's worry about comparing steam deck to the next switch And even then the next switch doesn't come out for three years Is it fair to compare steam deck one to the new switch which might be even more powerful than the steam deck because it's using even newer technology like That's why I don't I don't always know that it's always fair to make those comparisons when they come out They're drastically different time periods Um, and the funny thing is the nintendo doesn't care about any of this Like we're talking about how zelda might lead to a more powerful switch this holiday or next spring And yet nintendo doesn't care. They're laughing to the bank Uh-huh Kirby sits at the top of the sales charts In the uk for like four consecutive weeks, which has never happened for a curbie game the We just got reports that uh nintendo switch for the first time in like half a year Is the number one selling platform in europe last month In all of europe the entire european nations all combined switches the best selling platform again It's been at the top of the npd charts for a majority of the last four years And again for the majority of 2022 so far. It's obviously the only platform people seem to be buying in japan I know ps5's had a couple weeks where it's done. Well, but Doing well hasn't even passed switch once So we could talk about the power we could talk about this we could talk about is this going to happen Or we want this or we want more storage The general populace is telling you We're good with the waste switches So good. We're still buying it now And buying it more than everybody else and that's with it being supply constrained in many territories It's crazy absolutely crazy So I do I think that breath of the wild too is running on better hardware. Maybe It's fun to think I think there's a lot of we want new hardware So we'll look for anything we possibly can to justify it Like that's something we have to be careful of Right like anything that we want. I will look for anything to justify confirmation bias that Which we're going to do our next topic which Delt with some bias of my own and some people that got mad at me about it No way because we have bias We all are biased So if you had a better Are we going to in the next let's let's be fair. Let's say next 12 months from now until breath of the wild too comes out Sometime in that time period. Are we getting a new more powerful switch? I sure as hell hope so I would I want to put an 80% on it Just because just cuz I'm gonna be a pessimist and say fucking no one ain't happening I see the sales and I don't know why Nintendo would do it Until there's a slowdown in momentum. I mean If this was Sony, I would say oh, yeah, they got one coming easy. This was xbox. Oh, yeah They got they got one coming easy. This is apple. This is any other company that makes devices. Yes But it's a nintendo and while nintendo has a history of really seeing more powerful platforms All of them have come at times when they needed more momentum. Well, they don't need more momentum So according to nintendo's own history It still wouldn't really work because they're at the top of the world And nintendo likes to rest when they're at the top of the world, which I don't think is the correct thing to do I think they're missing out. I think they could really help switch his reputation With some of the more core gamers out there if they released it Even if it's just a mid gen upgrade if they released it and extended switching to the two three years But they gave us something that makes people happy in the moment People will be willing to wait three years for the real next gen at that point then But didn't the didn't the new president say well, they're the current president say something for a cover They're not gonna rest in their laurels Like the old old run and that's what makes it so exciting As an example nintendo just dropped 40 million dollars usd for land adjacent to their current headquarters To build a new research and development building that's 12 stories high 38,000 square meters of floor space Uh, it's not going to be completed till december of 2027 and the 40 million was just in the land which You know, somebody was oh that sounds cheap. Okay. It really depends on where you're buying the land um For business development. Obviously they bought it right next door. They bought it right next door to them Depends how much land they bought for Well, it's a thing like 40 million sounds like a lot to us, but it's for business development in a major city. So It probably is on the lighter side But I don't know a whole lot about real estate there and nintendo is right next door And nintendo is really highly respected even by the japanese government. So They could have got a deal break. Yeah, but I mean building the building is gonna cost them hundreds of millions If not billions of dollars to build that building. That's why it takes five years It's going to be a top of the line research and development building That doesn't sound like a nintendo resting Research and development is where their new systems come from research and developments where their new game IPs come from research and development is where all their partnerships with third party companies that get us Made out of three and get us astral chain and you know, get us things like autopet traveler All of that comes through their r&d department Hey, where did switch online come from technically from their r&d department Would be great if they had a bigger r&d department so they could do better, right? Like they're obviously building this building because they're going to be expanding their r&d And that's great. And maybe they're going to expand their game developers too So they want to have like their main headquarters and expand the team there and then kick r&d to its own building And then expand the team there and maybe nintendo is about to grow by 3000 employees, you know four years from now, which that's good Five years from now. I guess when it's completed That's good Um, I'm happy with that So it doesn't sound like he's resting because He's expanding the company When they are by all routes at least two-thirds the way through the generation And he's reinvesting the money in themselves, which sounds like a confident company that isn't resting And while he has talked at length about not wanting to fall off a cliff nintendo has a history High highs and then immediate low because they don't know what to do once they're at the top Maybe shouldn't turn for our common losses. What knows what he's doing? Maybe he'll break the mold Maybe we will get a more powerful mid gen switch in the next 13 months despite the chip shortages Maybe we won't maybe it won't even be with invidium. Maybe they're working with a different company I mean nintendo's mentioned the past their um Research and development is being invested in things like virtual reality Oh, well, you know, lol lab. Oh They're researching vr now They didn't stop looking into vr after virtual boy. They're not stopping after lab. Oh What was nice? Oh, it should turn for kava said last year in an investor meeting during a q&a session. He said We're investing heavily in looking at technologies outside of our company And you already saw that with the invidium partnership in the first place So I think he's trying to make nintendo more in tune with what the fuck is going on out there Why is our cloud why is our cloud gaming worse than the competitors? Why do we seemingly have issues with a lot of internet browsers with our wi-fi chip? What is up with that? Why has that been a problem like guys? I wasn't running the company when switch came out or you know where we and we you Why do we keep having wi-fi chip issues with so many damn routers? What are we doing wrong? What's everyone else doing right that we're doing wrong? Why does cloud versions of kingdom hearts run so shit for us but runs fine for other people? on other systems what Where's the mistake in our infrastructure? Why are people bitching about our online services but not bitching about xbox and playstation? What are they doing right that we're doing wrong? And I think since our fork I was very in tune There's a lot of there's a long laundry list of people that have will give them their ideas of what they're doing wrong I can I can guarantee you that all I have to do is listen to their customers And they will certainly find out what the hell they are doing wrong So we'll see Get into our next topic because obviously we have no idea what's going to happen there, right? Bandai Namco Okay Um, Bandai Namco has been partnered with nintendo a long time. Um, they have a partnership going Decades back Bandai Namco as an example For those who don't know you ever want mario baseball games bandai napco is like the only company that's ever made them Every mario baseball game we've ever seen going back 20 years Maybe about bandai namco obviously with a partnership with nintendo because you can't use mario Without nintendo's permission So bandai napco has been doing the stuff with nintendo for a long time. They did a couple donkey kong Arcade games back in the day not the originals, but but some sense those days They have if you ever see mario kart at an arcade No matter which version it is there's two different versions bandai namco exclusively is the company that made those And and several other things they've they've touched a handful of ip's over the years Star fox is an example, you know, they famously were the developers behind star fox assault, which actually didn't sell very well Now star fox adventures with star fox assault Um, and what came up in some recent hiring post Collected by certain media that's like nintendo everything Was that bandai namco is hiring Like three or four positions right now That specifically are for a nintendo switch game A nintendo switch action game a nintendo switch Remake remastered Action game These are all from the job postings now. You might go. Okay. Well, they're remaking a bandai namco ip then right like obviously They could just be remaking one of their billions of games absolutely Many pac-man right but Notably in these job listings They are actually not being hired by bandai namco Even though you're applying through bandai namco They're being hired by nintendo To work at bandai namco Now nintendo doesn't just hire employees for other companies. That's interesting. It's called nintendo's funding a game That's an action game. That's a remake or remaster And these are contracts that are going to be jointly with bandai namco and nintendo to pay their salaries Because nintendo's paying for the game to be made dodgeable so It's led to a lot of speculation on what this game could be This is where I know where people got mad at me Some people not everyone I noted. Hey, I hear action game. I hear adventure game I started thinking man. What's one of nintendo's major action adventure games? Da da I mean come on zelda, obviously now I have an affinity for zelda I have a bias for zelda. So as we noted before When you want something you will find reasons to believe you're going to get that something and I want all the zelda remakes in the world all the zelda remasters in the world I want ocarina time with georg's mask and hd. I want oracle seasons oracle of ages the minish cap even zelda too I want them all remade and re-brought to the forefront like we got with links awakening Like we got with win raker and try to print this hd. I want to see this copper sword hd I want to see this happen to all of the zelda games So of course, I'm going to look for any hint that it could be happening and It might not be that It might not be any it could be star fox adventure. That's another action adventure game It's rumored that they were originally working on metroid prime 4 before it got sent back to retro Maybe they're working on a remake or remaster of one of the metroid prime games Hey, we know those are supposedly a metroid prime remake or something almost done Maybe bantanamco is the one that's been working on it. Maybe Maybe it's one of a billion things kittaker is uprising some people have mentioned Even the lamentant napco has no history with it. They have no history with a lot of things I've had all the things they've worked with nintendo on Had no history with it before they worked with nintendo on So it could be zelda It could also be one of I don't know probably a dozen or other things. You're taking pac-man open world But why would they need nintendo for that? I don't know But that's why it's not it can't just be a bandai ip because nintendo would be paying them to make their own ip Like bandai napco if they want to make their game, they'll just make their game That'd be awesome Just run around chomping dots. Yeah So there's just a lot of speculation around it What this game could be and I I honestly have no idea obviously I lean toward zelda because Nintendo's have five different companies work on zelda remakes over the years five I mean one thing you did touch on was they did touch some donkey kong arcade games And there has been the rumor of the new dog of a new donkey kong game somewhere in the works Oh, but if we're gonna start believing that rumor well that rumor also said it was the mario odyssey team making it That's very true too, but maybe it crossover. I mean crossover crossover. Yeah Hey, you know Just throw it out there just one fact by the way bandai napco made mario kart tour Just see you guys are wondering. Oh that mario kart dlc. You gotta wonder The bandai napco or they want to make it all the dlc for mario kart hate deluxe Throwing that out. There's a possibility because we still don't know who k64 remake as Matt says Yeah, that could be that could be interesting. I mean all we know is it's an action game that If you look at the it looks like it's some sort of action adventure game based on what they're hiring and what their jobs are Going to be the adventure parts more assumed. It's literally stated. It's an action game Um, but when you throw adventure in that kind of leads you down the path of zelda Metroid And then old school games they don't make anymore like I don't know dog going 64. I guess or star fox adventures like games. We haven't seen in a long time Um, but I also know nintendo when they do their remakes they tend to remake games. They think are going to sell really well And like I don't see that star fox adventures is going to sell well today zenerbreak chronicles the thinner division to me made sense because zenerbreak chronicles two almost doubled its sales So people might want to go back and play the original But like every game that gets remade is usually one nintendo knows they can bank on sales for so or remastered like links awakening Fair bet they links awakening was going to sell at least as much as the original links awakening because Hey breath of the wild was huge and it's a zelda game on switch So I don't know Like eric, do you think they like do you have an idea of any possible game this could be because I'm always going to default to zelda because I'm a zelda guy. I mean I just was looking up one could be a star tropics remaster remake that'd be awesome Just thought of that off hand because that kind of fits that same feel And we haven't had star tropics in a long time So if they did something like that it would almost feel like hey, we're gonna new ip At that point. I mean, that's what it would feel like because it's been so long There was a sequel to it at one point that didn't sell very well, but um And a lot of people get excited about kiddicker's uprising because they really enjoyed that game But I was also a sora game and I just don't know that he would Be a cool abandon. I mean the thing is ben and that was worked on smash So like the think he would be cool with it, you know, that's like another connection you could throw in there But also doesn't intend. I think it would sell well. I don't know I don't Like it's not a new game. That's the only thing we know for sure. It's a game. We've all played before at some point We just don't know what it is So We're all just guessing we're all gonna guess things we want pilot wings. I'm sure Yeah Like That's the thing we're all just guessing out at what it can be all the only thing we know is it's either a remake slash remaster one Or the other because that's what's in the listing and it's for nintendo switch And nintendo is the one hiring the employees for band and amco So it's band and amco developing paid for by nintendo for some sort of remade game Cool. That's what we know. We just in this action game possibly action adventure It's such a broad which it's intentionally. Oh, right, right, right And it's not like retro studios who like put out a new banner art and everyone started freaking out. Oh my god Look at this. There's just new Metroid banner when they're just using it to advertise hiring people to make Metroid Prime 4 Which you start to think if they're still hiring people to make Metroid Prime 4 five years later I don't know if that's a good thing I'm not so sure that's a good sign But you know, maybe it is I have no idea I'd be very interested Has anyone asked kitten crista Who left nintendo a few months ago who now do their own pockets anybody bothered to ask them if they know If metro prime 4 has been progressing has it even hit nintendo america has nintendo america even had a hint A metro prime 4 Yeah, I don't know that be I mean you figure they would because retro studios is making it right like that's in the us That's under nintendo of america's management But then like if they didn't even hear about it and they worked at tree house Yeah, I'm not saying these translation But you would figure they'd know because they know about every game coming out. So I don't know probably doesn't mean anything for next year. Of course if it's if it's 2023 game Might not be known at tree house yet um So, yeah, that's I don't know. I just find it fascinating anytime you can speculate Unreleased games that we now know are in the works It's fun I like the abroad of star tropics though I always forget about that one. Mm-hmm The watch is going to be something totally obscure that nobody's thinking of right right right No, it'll be some like horror game or something eternal darkness coming back Because the tenor owns that too, right Who knows watch all it is is it's a Bandai Namco ip that nintendo's paying to be exclusive An exclusive remake of a Bandai Namco ip Always possible Again, it's so vague in the hiring post. We just know nintendo's paying Yeah, yeah, it's what we got That's about what we got It's cap com. No, so I don't know if they allow that. No, no cap cap come dream man. Yeah. Yeah, I saw you look at that Capcom handles cap cap. Yeah, um next up We have A government body Forcing nintendo sony and they would have forced microsoft and microsoft didn't already change their policies on it To change how they handle their online accounts Now this is the competition and markets authority out of the united kingdom So for now it's only affecting the united kingdom There's obviously a lot of high hopes because a lot of these companies like keeping standardized policies across all regions That they will end up applying this to the us Where we're at where we live There's always hopes there's always hopes through that the us government Takes note of the importance of this because this is I think an ongoing issue Beyond video games and that is subscriptions And then being set to auto renewal the moment you join The competition and markets authority out in the uk did an investigation of the video game market And there's a law in place. I forget what the name of the law is that states pretty simply that you cannot force customers into auto renewals And Everyone does it you sign up for netflix. You're on auto renewal you sign up for switch online auto renewal playstation Now we're auto renewal xbox auto renewal every it's always auto renewal every subscription service Has you set to auto renewal and it's gotten to the point that because everything does it we know everything does it But they try to do and the whole reason they do it is because they want money And they're hoping that even if you don't use their service you forget you're subscribed and you pay for the next month And then maybe you get angry about it for a second But you're not in a position to do anything about at the time You're at work or whatever and you forget about it and then you get charged again And again and again and I can tell you it's happened to me Oh, yeah, it just happened to me today. Yeah the espn Bill came through and I'm like wait a minute We're held this 70 dollars come forgot about it's what it's a once a year thing too. Shit. It's a once a year thing And it's like, yeah, I know that we use it. We read the espn plus But we forget when it's coming. Yeah, because I wanted to change that I wanted to change it. So it was the Bundle of the hulu disney plus and oh, yeah, why not? It's so cheap. It's such a cheap upgrade Why not do it? I wonder if I can't contact them and see if I can and I wonder what because because we share it So I wonder if I already have disney plus and hulu combined. I wonder if we can just Even if I cancel mine and just whatever. Yeah, let's do it all together. Yeah, let me make too much. Especially since that I think it's a year sub Yeah, I think versus what you know what I'm doing for month. Yeah, so I don't know. It was what we figured that out later, but yeah So they basically In wake of their investigation Nintendo has announced Nintendo of the UK has announced that they will no longer Be forcing people to be auto renewed. You will now have to manually select auto renewal and sign up or after you sign up Sony has announced they haven't announced they're going to get rid of auto renewals yet Although it's pretty safe to presume they're going to they said they're going to get more transparent about It so people know they're signing up for auto renewal and then they're going to contact customers Who have been with them for a while who haven't been using the services? To let them know to cancel Which sounds cool on paper and so you realize sony's also upgrading all of their services with new tiers And that seems like an excellent opportunity to grab customers that probably weren't ever going to change tiers and say, hey In case you didn't know you haven't used our service in a while. We're upgrading our services Why don't you join the new why don't you join the new tiers and get all these extra things? That might make you actually use our services or It will give you a discount so you upgraded that one and then forget again Let's put it this way We can't give sony nintendo and microsoft who changed their policies and got rid of auto renewal back in january We can't give at least in this case sony and nintendo credit Maybe you want to give microsoft credit they did it before they were forced to But we can't give sony and nintendo credit for what they're doing or Having something that sounds nice like contacting customers who didn't realize that they're still paying for something that they don't use As if this is a good thing when they're being forced to do it They didn't do anything about it until the government stepped in and made them So thank the cma and thank the uk government don't Give credit to nintendo and sony now If nintendo gets proactive about it and sony gets proactive and they apply it across all regions You can give them a little bit of credit because they're not waiting till those specific regions force them to do it but Let's just be real All of this is about making money auto renewals are about making money. Everything's about making money It's not about what's best for the customer. It's about what's best for them So I know I don't like auto renewals I do and I don't I like it when it's something I want to as an example When it's something I knowingly use all the time in netflix Renew it. Yeah. Yeah, I want to I don't want to I don't want to be somewhere where I can't change my card quick and can't use netflix And you know what's cool about netflix like if I have a card on there And for some reason there's no money in that bank or in that account netflix give you a grace period and then they email and let you know They send you a text or whatever and they're like, hey just so you know like your building go through You can still use netflix for the next few days just get it sorted out I like that that's friendly. That's cool. You did try to auto renew it if I didn't have the money cool Like but that's something I use all the time and I know what it costs And I'll decide if and when they ever reaches the price point that I'm not willing to pay right now netflix That's so much great content. I'm more than willing like all the price x they've done I'm like, okay, but then they keep giving me more and more content I want to watch so then I'm not really bothered by the price x because in order for me to get the content I want you're gonna hike the price. That's just how it's gonna go You're not gonna keep getting hbo level content at the rate that an insane rate The netflix fits it out And not expect prices to go up like cheaper than hbo, but does 30 billion times the amount of content they do Okay, well, yeah, that's gonna cost more So it doesn't bother me as much as some people always bet you about it I'm like, look, it's too much for you. Just cancel who cares. There's all the services go watch disney plus It's one of the cheapest ones Yeah, yeah it is but they also don't produce as much content So yeah, you get the give and the take But So I'm not saying auto renewals should go away clearly it should be there But it should be something that we opt into and aren't forced to opt into or just sometimes In such fine little print hidden in a user terms of service page That's like 50 pages long that all these companies know nobody's actually sitting through but lawyers And actually reading these terms And it's hidden somewhere in there that you're automatically renewing Oh, and by the way, some of the automatic renewals are like, oh, yeah And by the way, after your first three months the price jumps up eight bucks and it doesn't tell you anywhere else That happens on so many services by the way, not Sony nintendo microsoft, but And what's funny is after this was announced the cma came out and said, hey, we applaud the companies for taking these steps Also, by the way, all you other industries You might want to take note because you're next Yeah, basically we're coming after you basically it's like look you haven't changed like netflix you haven't changed yet Don't worry. We're going after the entertainment industry next like It's law. It's in the uk. It's law. You can't do it They haven't punished anyone for it because they got to investigate right, you know, how are they doing how shady is it? You can have the option auto. Yeah, it's not saying you can't have the option. It's just and it can't be a forced opt-in It can't they don't want it to be like automatically checked that customers don't even realize clicking next next next They have it right shouldn't be that way for sure and you shouldn't be paused To be like, are you sure? No, if I didn't check the fucking box, just go I paid I gave you my money already. Let me watch now. Let me enjoy You don't need to ask me again to auto renew. Guess what? You know what? I'll decide I want to want to auto renew when it expires and I still want to use it So I don't know that's just me. I think this is all a good thing and I hope This this lands worldwide. Well, what are your thoughts in general auto renewals? And uh, just your general thoughts about what the CMA is attempting to force because it's just law. They have to enforce it No, for sure. Um, well CMA I'm like when you first said that I'm like country musical country musical, right? Yeah, what CMA what the hell does that have to do with anything? And then you said that Nintendo's going country. Yeah, right? Um, but uh, auto renewals are nice When It's something that I like you said before it is something that I want to use it on And I know what's going to happen. I'm going to constantly use it Premiere prime example premiere and photoshop use it all the time Yeah, it's a subscription Now if I ever switch to an apple device, I'm just going to get a final cut and just pay a one time $300 fee and be done with The subscription, but that's yeah, nothing here no there for now That's my option you don't have the option on this final final cuts on something I can use And I don't like the alternatives on pc Computer premiere, but again, I use it all the time. Of course. I have to have an auto renew Right. I can't make youtube videos without like literally, right, right? I'm screwed Like it pays for itself. My youtube channel makes more than enough to cover. So like, yeah But think about some of the ones out there that we just don't want to renew Even example viral sweep if I paid for it for a month for e3 I don't necessarily want to be charged again the next right exactly And I never clicked the fucking button to auto renew in fact, I specifically canceled But because it's such a low like it's 50 bucks, right? But that's such a low fee. Am I really going to go to court over it? No because the fucking The fees to file the fucking court thing costs more right than the 50 and they know that Yeah, they know you're not going to go to small claims court over it Because it costs more money to bring it to court than what you're trying to get it when you win They pay for those fees. That's fine. But Yeah, but you're still out that money at the end of your all that money up front and then on top of that You're already out the money of them and then you're out the money up front again And then the time and then is it really worth all the hassle and then you got to take off work to attend court cases Which yes, which may not be in this area and you can actually get compensated sometimes for taking that time off But then you're leaving out the court somewhat that compensation is worth and That's assuming that you even win that it doesn't just get thrown out Or the company just never responds And then what happens when you get taken to small claims court and I know because I've been taken to small claims court and I didn't respond Is You just get a default judgment that says oh you got to pay him that that money back And they didn't make me pay back lawyer fees and it made me pay back anything It was just like a 20 bucks. Someone came after me for 20 bucks. It was fucking stupid Wait, I just had to pay him 20 bucks. They lost more filing For that 20 bucks then I had to pay them back So in this thing these companies might know that they can just let it go to default judgment And then you don't get They don't have to worry about your lawyer fees. They don't have to worry about anything. Yeah, so it's just It's dumb So these companies know that they know that the fees are too small that no one no one's going to do anything about it They'll just hope they can't but like when I cancel it And it still charges that pisses me off. Yeah, that is that is no like you you had your card on On I can also this viral super gleam that I owe one of the two and I literally canceled the membership and deleted all cards There was no cards in the account at least that I could see. Yeah I go to my account go to payment settings. There's no cards. No, no, that was no, that was the uh, or was that google? That was google. Yeah, it was by the way. I want to pay google right. It's our email service. Yeah, I want to pay them But I he he covered it one month because he didn't realize that I was paying extra Every month for the email address he uses so he's like, oh, hey, I'll cover it this month on a big deal Yeah, you know, because I pay five bucks a month for him to have an email You know and again when it was like 12 bucks 12 20 it wasn't it's not like I was mad or anything No, no, no, no, yeah, you just you're just like hey, man What the hell's going on? What's going on? Have you not switched the card? Like you haven't switched your card cool Just you know remind you switch the card over and on big deal you pay for this all you've been paying for for years It's whatever but it's one of those situations where I did switch the card and then When you told me kept charging you I went in there deleted all cards and then it charged you again the next month and I'm like Okay, there's no cards here. Well, okay. Look, I'm not mags. I know I want to pay it. It's I was gonna pay it when my email warned me that I was past due Which now it does I don't keep cards on there anymore When it warns me it's past due I call them and make a payment over the phone So I don't attach any cards to it After this whole fiasco because apparently deleting cards Doesn't actually do anything about it. So I had to call them and then they finally What was the glitch in the system? Like maybe it is. I Yeah, not my problem that it's not my problem. That's a glitch in the system That is a glitch that needs and this and this is your friend need to be refunded Then you're gonna have to pay the past due fees in the fat fat last five months or whatever. I'm like, no That's not the concern wasn't the concern was just hey, I took the card off That's also that should help not how that about Yeah, the right thing to do is say I will refund you for all the months that you had to delete and not charge you for it Right, exactly. Let your multi-billion dollar company. You just let it go. Right. That's what amazon would do Yeah, they would just let it go. Hey It's not even that much money in the first place The customer was trying to pay but wanted to pay with a different card It shouldn't be that big a deal no cards on the system shouldn't be that big a deal, but yeah But again auto renewals and that's what happens because yeah, of course I have it set to auto renew at the time Not anymore, but I did then It was default I didn't realize it was auto renew when I first signed up for years ago, but You know, it's one of those that I use it every month So I'm like somebody I'm really gonna complain it's on auto renew But I didn't know it was on auto renew until I got charged again the next month Oh, man, would I get to spend 10 bucks at google? Then you're sitting there trying to figure out what the fuck that's the worst part of auto renew Because some of them use like third party charging services and you're trying to no fucking random 75 dollars out of my bank Some company out in to bet What the fuck is that? Yep. No. Oh, here's my bank calling me. Hey, did you mean to have the shirt? I don't fucking know Yeah, it's possible. It's possible. Let me check every fucking thing. Let me check my internet browsing history Let me check my email every fucking thing. I've signed up for my whole goddamn life and find something They cost 75 dollars. Yeah, and let me figure out if it's them Well, because that well and the thing was too is that the espion came through paypal So I'm sitting you're looking at a paypal charge for 75 bucks. I'm like, yeah, I didn't pay for anything with with paypal I haven't used paypal and God a year. Yeah, it's usually if we're sending money back and forth. We're not using them while we use paypal Sometimes 90% of the time well, I think there was one time I sent you money on paypal because I needed to get it all onto a single card and right. It's just I don't have multiple paypal accounts. I used to be able to do it myself, but Um, but still like paypal is not, you know, something I even commonly use anymore um, I use it for Possibly shady website shady websites. Yeah, they have because because people I bought a cat feeder off a website that I wasn't quite sure if it was like a legit website and uh, they had I got, you know, the tracking everything blah, blah, blah And uh, went to the post office and it said it was in chip. I'm like, hey, can you look this up? What they're like, oh no, it's coming through ups. We don't do anything or FedEx one of the two and we don't do anything with them I think it's FedEx. Yeah, and uh so I'm like They're like, it's probably a scam. I'm like fair enough and uh, I contacted paypal and it said give us 48 hours to respond They responded in an hour with instantly refunding my money and uh, because I attached screenshots. I attached Emails to saying that I you know, I contacted the seller this that and because the seller didn't have any like personal information on paypal Um, they just like yep. Here you go. Yep. And that was an hour back. I mean, that was that's I had a similar situation with paypal And they it wasn't quite an hour Because I had some other evidence in proof. Uh, if you if you remember when I tried buying those, uh Triangle lights. Oh, yeah. Yeah from that one website, uh that It looked legit. Everything else said it was legit, but I had never bought from them before the ship from New York I'm like, okay Well, I'm using paypal for this right because I've dealt with paypal for a long time with business accounts And I have a business account and they're very friendly to people with business accounts because they want you to keep your business with them um, and they are and It was back and forth back and forth for a couple of days because I actually wanted the products I'd rather not get a refund right no exactly I wanted the fucks going on. I want to know this is a real company that I get scammed and and then they had real information So they feel like okay. Well, this seems like a legit company, but Okay, well, I never got my product and then they gave me a tracking number that never tracked and they won't respond to any emails And now they don't even have a contact form that it just vanished off their website. So I don't know. Maybe they were and I kept saying To get benefit of the doubt because this this was happening and this was in 2020 They could have been a real business that went out of business Because a lot of businesses went out of business in 2020 and 2021. So I I try to say look It's possible. This was a real company in new york And once all the stay-at-home mandates and all that stuff and like it could have just killed it So it's possible that they just never took their website down and I ordered they're not really around anymore And so no one's even paying attention anymore. Right. So like I'm like, but this is like 300 bucks I would like back and after so it was a little bit more than an hour But it took me about two days and then got my money back and and what that that's one thing About paypal that I like for any subscription service is if you have a subscription service and you use it through them to pay And you never wanted to pay you could just tell paypal. I didn't mean for that to go through Oh No problem. We stopped it for you so they can't charge us anymore and here's your money So a paypal is kind of kind of nice in that way too. Um, that's Paypal's not always 100 cents people get their paypal contacts and all that but paypal is The the it's funny is it's easier to work with paypal with fraud than a bank I had a situation with fraud with a bank and that it's fucking banks dude. You got a file police report What's the police gonna do about my online order? Nothing nothing literally when I called the file like we're not gonna do anything I'm like, but they won't do anything with my fraud report if I don't know the police report So I gotta call a police report report fraud on my account Okay, did you call the company? They don't exist. So Yeah, we're not gonna do it. I mean, I know yes, this is my bank's requirement My bank apparently doesn't trust me to provide proof even though what you're going to tell them is what I tell you Right. So instead of working directly with me They want to work through the police department and I never got my money back from that It had to do with an xbox old xbox account on xbox. I sold I never got my money back from it so like Because it was on a bank and the bank wanted me to file a police report like but I told you bank It's not stolen. I sold at the game stop I had to log into my account at game stop so they could verify that it worked And then I and then I was going to go wipe in this and oh, we'll wipe it for you We were required to wipe it and the person never did obviously and sold it as is Didn't sell it and just took it home and yeah, either way Either way I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, but I'm not filing a lawsuit here against game stop because I can't prove There was any malicious intent But somebody with my that xbox spent a bunch of money out of my bank And one cancel my card, please. I don't want to get charged anymore to um Hey, this is fraud I'm you know, I'll fill out your fraud. Oh, we can't even fill out a fraud report until you file a police, but it's not stolen They didn't steal the xbox. I willfully sold it Well, then you need to file a police report against game stop. I'm like For what? And then I when I thought when I thought the police like Are you planning to sue game stop? you know whole This is like 70 bucks. I don't want to sue in anyone over 70 bucks I just want my bank to put a hold on it and give me my money back Like, you know, I don't know how like it wasn't didn't even go through it's still pending Put a fucking hold on on the on the charge This is fucking hard PayPal can do it. Why the fucking PayPal do it and you can't I even need police reports to need this. Why can Amazon do it and you can't I I don't understand Like maybe there's different legalities and laws. Yeah, bottom line is banks are for profit businesses So they for sure. Yeah, they just they just want money Yeah, they don't want to give money back because they probably knew We're never getting that 70 bucks back from wherever the xbox at microsoft or whatever So we're not going to give it to you because the world the money. Yeah, so piss me off. So guess what? I no longer bank there anymore Yeah You're welcome for that by the way I moved to a different bank where I had a similar situation happen and they fucking took care of it the same day So, you know, you're gonna lose customers when they start realizing that they can get better services elsewhere Yeah, yeah, but or they'll just do all you're making online. Yeah, no for a lot of people start doing that Um, yeah, I mean auto renewals to get back to this topic. Yeah our well, that's what it's all about though Like yeah, right. This is what makes auto renewals suck. It's all this bullshit right it And just the hassle that it can get you into. Yeah Um big fucking hassle. Yeah, it's one of those things that it's nice when you want them And absolutely stupid when you don't And the whole world's going to subscriptions for everything 100% so we're dealing with it more than ever Even we did it or my work for support it so it's That's the way the world it's like I'm understanding and I'm tech savvy and I I have a master list on my computer of everything that I've ever signed up for But it doesn't mean I know where they're charging me from So, I don't know It's a it's kind of a hot mess but Hey, nintendo and sony had to update their policies in the uk microsoft update their policy worldwide for it um So hopefully uh, they follow suit they follow through with nintendo and sony doing it worldwide as well I don't know that people make a big fuss about this to be honest Like everyone listening right now whether you listen to the audio version watching on the podcast channel or watching live like Have any of you guys ever been frustrated with auto renewals? On anything whether it's your game consoles or any other thing you subscribe to because all of us have been subbed to something Especially I guess if you're an adult or a soul with a job that has a card I'm pretty sure we've all had one auto renewal that we've looked at and went Son of a bitch that that charge god damn it. I didn't want that charge I forgot about it. Let me go cancel it now So it doesn't charge next month, but I'm pretty sure most of us have had A at least one of those especially ones that are like Okay, like the monthly ones. I think a lot of us know about because it's something we're using Okay But those ones that are like three months or a year a year. Yeah, like you could totally free as an example I subscribe to care.com I describe to care.com so I can find babysitters for my kids Oh, yeah that because care.com runs background checks and everything So I'm I it's just something that makes it a bit more trustworthy than just Going on random facebook groups and trying to find people who babysit or craigslist ads, right? Like so a place that vets and has reviews and I could talk to other people who have hired them um So paid for care.com Totally didn't realize it was auto renewal and got charged another 80 bucks a year later, which All I did was go turn off the auto. I kept I kept The care.com I didn't I didn't dispute them when you ask for a refund But it's like well fine. I'll still use it for the next year because I did use carrot I I still use it once in a while. It might it expires us up coming October Um, yeah, but I still use it once in a while I don't I don't look for babysitters as often anymore because we're just too busy But still it is nice to know like oh if he's not available my parents aren't available We pretty much don't have anyone. That's pretty much it. Those are our only options Her parents will never watch the kids So pretty much my sister doesn't live around here and she won't always now she's got a baby So I pretty much have Eric or I got my parents and if it's no from both of them Well, shit. I gotta pay a babysitter at least 100 bucks Who am I gonna touch? Well, let me talk another prior babysitter. Oh, she doesn't live in the area anymore I want the one that we were using shit. So I still use care.com not here and there Yeah, but I'm probably gonna and I think it's not on auto renewal now So they charge me again this upcoming October when I have auto renewal off that's And that was through my apple device and I've double I I've been checked The phones are the worst culprit by the way. No apps and everything. Oh my god If you guys have never checked and you guys have paid for something in an app Make sure you go and look at your Account settings and look at what you're actually signed up for and what's set to auto renewal because it's all automatic I realized when I went to cancelcare.com that I had like seven other things that have been auto renewing On a bank account that I forgot about because I had the only thing that went to that bank account Was money from amazon affiliate links It's the bank. I no longer use guys But I totally forgot that any money I make off amazon affiliate links was always sent there So there had been like a you know 500 bucks sitting on that account over the last like four years of money Just sitting there that I didn't even know about What should I explain why every time I filed my taxes suddenly I'd have 500 dollars added by the government I wonder why because I wasn't filing the money from amazon because I forgot about it Um And apparently they've just been auto renewing there auto renewing there. I had no fucking glue So I plus I have too many banks guys. I think I got one Six I have six bank accounts at six different banking They all have uses Um One of them is specifically well one of them one of them is the child support. That's a we can't we don't control that So that is what it is Uh, one is that old rcu account. That's the one that I no longer use. Um And I I just leave it open on the off chance That I need to go to an rcu bank to cash to check because I have family members with rcu or if I'm in a emergency situation My mother uses rcu and her name is on my savings account there So she can quick transfer me money and I still have my rcu card. So it's more of a it's a convenient I don't really use it. Um I didn't think I was using it Little did you know? Um, one is a net spend account That uh, one particular company that sponsors me sometimes pays to Because for some reason they won't pay me to anything else including PayPal PayPal we've already talked about that Use it for a lot of my you know, I pay for a lot of my business stuff through it So that way if I ever have any issues, I know that PayPal will help me out um Our joint checking account between me and my fiance is at BMO Harris Um There's not really any particular reason we went with BMO Harris over any other like bank bank Um, there's just a convenient one downtown Right, that was basically it. It was just a convenient one downtown And hey, if I want I can get a Milwaukee bucks themed card if I want Thank you But doesn't had nothing to do with it, but um, and it's the national bank So it's in every state. So I can pretty much find a you know And and they they they had one thing that sold me is they have a Um You can use any BMO ATM with just your phone So if I forget my wallet or lost my card, I could still go and manage my bank account from the ATM and pull money out or whatever So that was something that like other banks that I was looking at didn't have in my area But that's our joint account. You pretty much the only thing that goes there is you lia's paycheck So it's basically like you lia's bank. Yeah, uh, but that's because if people wonder why it's your joint bank account. Well Nintendo prime is a business believe it or not Um, it might sound crazy to call this stupid youtube gig a business, but it makes money I gotta pay taxes on all that money And I gotta pay business taxes on all that money I can't have the money just automatically deposit into a joint checking account You lia starts spending that money before I get all the taxes and all the stuff paid out of it I'm fucked. I don't want to get to the end of year and file my taxes and oh $10,000 Had that happened once five years ago. I never again. So I keep all the money I make on youtube separate from anything else I fucking touch For a reason in a bank account that I'm not gonna tell you guys about Don't need people trying to hack into it the point Let me tell you what it's in isn't gonna make you hack into it But it's completely separate from everything else for business reasons And because I'm eventually gonna have to turn the business into an LLC, which yeah, right I mean, that's a good thing. It means it means that making too much money So I need to protect myself Because what happens in an LLC is that if I ever get sued Or if the business gets sued, let's say let's say I did a giveaway for a PlayStation 5 And the winner never got their PlayStation 5 and my terms state they have up until five years We need to get them the PlayStation 5. That's my legal terms Five years pass. I get sued immediately Well, it's been five years. They could start to they could start to charge me not just for the fact I'm going after me for the 500 dollars for the PlayStation 5. They can start coming after me for emotional damages For winning the giveaway and never receiving the prize And emotional damages can end up being 10 20 30 40 50 hundreds of thousands of dollars This is just a hypothetical situation. It could be anything especially over five. It could be five years It could be anything so if they Go after you and you're a sole proprietor, which I am right now What happens is Everything I own is technically equity to the business the car is in my name It's worth nine grand or our car is If I get sued The car is equity on that lawsuit. They could just take it away All the equipment in here can just be taken away Everything I own can be gone like that off one lawsuit right now So a way to protect yourself is to become an LLC where you still pay yourself but you pay yourself out of your business funds And then all of your equipment can still be a business expense But it can be a charge to the business for the employee to keep So the editing pc all the stuff that I bought if I ever use it for anything that's not business related They can't come after it because it's considered a personal item that I use for work It was bought by the company to use for work But it was also given to set employee as a they called a gift So then they can't take away anything basically they said the youtube channel Can't do anything about that But if I want to start it up against somewhere else they can't do anything about that either So it's a whole protecting the business protecting my family too like it's scary thinking $9,000 my car is gone. It's the only thing I got that can pay it Great, you know my house own it someday gone They're taking so like becoming an LLC separates you from the business So the business goes bankrupt or gets in trouble But by the way, it's kind of clever because some people will screw you over on purpose as a business And let the business go bankrupt Or they get to keep all the money because the money was paid to them as an employee So the government can't touch that money even though the business has no money. Yeah, it's kind of funny how that all works But yeah, also there's more taxes as an LLC. So yeah, I keep kind of pushing it back. Yeah, pushing it back I don't want to pay that extra 15% tax. Thank you so much government. Don't take any more of my money, please Yeah, anyways, um one other thing I want to call absolute bullshit too on like auto renewal slash Um Things too. Yeah, um Looking at the espn auto renewal stuff. Yeah I can't remove my payment Like at all you have to add one before you can remove one some some some stupid sites are like that where if you have no No, I can update I can't I can't remove it in the update. Can you can you just I could change I can't up. I can't remove it. I can't save with blank. I can't remove it. I can't I can't do anything but but and that but like this is real life shit that we deal with guys So like I'm again glad that CMA is doing something about it, but I can can't I can cancel The subscription. This is just what happened where we live in a capitalist world And this is just what happens when it's all about money. They want to nickel and dime everyone So be careful out there Careful out there ESPN is bullshit confirmed, but like this is like true for not just ESPN. I've had this with other with other places This is just a general Yeah, and it's like we use it. It's fine. It's not that he got charged Oh, he was planning to update or upgrade or change something You would have actually got more money out of them, but now it's like well now I already got charged So, right, right. Yeah Fuck you, right Maybe next year. We'll see I just said it on my phone for like a day or two beforehand Cancel the subscription. Yeah, God forbid your phone breaks between now and then you have a new phone Then you lost your yeah, right? Oh, because he knows how all things of the cloud automatically transfer to your next device. Oh, fuck. No, I don't I don't Interconnected cloud. Fuck that internet interconnected. Yeah. No. Hey. Hey, how we're managing our show is in the cloud I realized that but my phone And it's your personal phone All right. Well, I think it's gonna do it guys Yeah, all right I hope you guys enjoyed the show. I know it wasn't like a ton of very specific gaming talk this week A lot of uh Tangents, but you know, yeah, but all the tangents are all interrelated right, you know This is all real life stuff we deal with and nintendo's being held to a standard that I hope Gets applied worldwide for them and hopefully gets applied to all these companies doing this stuff So not all of us can stop dealing with the frustrations of auto renewals at least Like throw us a bone governments and enforce companies to stop automatic renewals without us Intending to opt in Not a hidden opt-in by hitting. I agree you opt in I often know what oh, I also can't use your service if I don't hit I agree Yeah, never how about you just let me sign up give you the money. I wanted to give you And then come back me later and ask me if I want to renew It's not that difficult. That's the way everything should be again Our renewal should always be an option, but an option that we willfully want and we shouldn't have apps and services held back if we don't opt in So we'll see what happens Again, this is just the uk so good news is for our friends out in the uk. Oh, yeah The cma's got your back Ulia story Oh the ulia story. Yeah I'm curious on this one. You did say story time. Yes story time Well, what and this was story time. It's actually scary story time Not like So yeah, I almost became a solo writer For the rest of my life a couple days ago, so Ulia was on her way to work like she is every day monday through friday And She was going 70 on the highway. No big deal That's actually speed limit that is actually the speed limit So like she wasn't speeding at all and it was raining But that wasn't like super bad and then out of nowhere There was a small patch in the rain between where between where we live and where she works Like literally a small little 10 foot patch that came and went Where it dropped a literal sheet of ice It literally looked it literally looked like this fucking sky was falling on you And it just smashed And of course Not to the fuck off the road And she flew because she's going 70 with no warning. This was happening Because it was like 50 degrees out. So like you're not thinking ice Well, it's 50 degrees out, but it was a small tiny little Scary ass patch where it just instantly dropped and then popped right back up right when he got through it Really weird cold patch Almost as if god himself was targeting and saying fuck you You're getting you're getting hit today. Yeah Made her fly off the road All the way across to the other side of the highway where the traffic's going the opposite direction At 70 miles an hour at 70 miles an hour. So through a ditch all the other side was no control Everything's ice everywhere just sliding like a bitch and a semi is coming And According to her abs. I wasn't there Um, but according to her here was her her sliding like this The wrong way and the semi was right here And apparently the gust from the semi like this is how close it was She obviously didn't get hit by the semi. She's still here still alive. Thank god But our car got just past it But the gust from the semi going by was so strong because it was that close to hitting her Then it caused the car to spin like 17 times as it was going down into the ditch on the other side And it's funny because she spun 17 times Right behind a cop car that was already parked on the side of the road who pulled somebody else over So the cops saw it all happen basically um And so she's like down to the ditch freaking out of course because There there was a whole thing that happened where like the windshield wiper broke right before she spun out um Of course, then she was fucking hit by a fucking sheet of ice. Of course, I broke the fucking windshield wiper um So she calls me And she's obviously freaking out. I'm she's like, why aren't you freaking out? I'm like, I'm just trying to be calm Right, you're already freaking out enough if I start freaking out. You're okay. The car's okay. You're okay Nobody got hurt. Okay At the end of the day, no matter what just happened Everything's okay Maybe there's some ice damage on the car. I don't know. I haven't looked at the roof yet, but Everything's okay So at the end of the day How close are you to work compared to home if you're closer to home just come home Or do you need me to find a ride to come out there and drive the car back because you don't trust yourself right now No, no one's gonna give you a ride. I'm like, I don't know my parents are working in Eau Claire. So probably not but hey you know Oh, I'm like three miles from her. I'll just go to work. I'm like, okay. Very fine goes to work um But I guess the cop was all very friendly, um You know first I'm asking if she's okay if she's okay like such a crazy thing You know happening and this man didn't blame her for any of it didn't then assumed she was speeding Um, you know said hey, you know, can can your vehicle get out of this ditch? He's like Did I got a v8 hemi? Off-road the ditch ain't the problem sir. I almost fucking died I could get out of this ditch that ain't the problem um anyways So yeah, you know apparently that close to losing the love of my life to a semi Which wouldn't have been the semis fault wouldn't have been her fault It was a literally as much no fault as it can be a crazy freak mother nature thing Wasn't like she should have expected it because it was 50 fucking degrees out not freezing Had no reasonable expectation that this was about to happen like she was driving Too too fast for conditions or anything. No, it was a literal tiny patch in the middle of the storm That just dropped temperatures out of nowhere insane And obviously with it being a sheet of ice falling down the sky wasn't even knowing it was going to happen Because it wasn't like she saw ice falling in front of her it happened as she got into it So like a crazy thing and of course on her way home the other windshield wiper did the same thing broke And she was next to a semi and immediately almost freaked out. Oh, yeah, because she thought you'll be fucking go again And it wasn't happening again It was just trauma right traumatized and then she was fine being next to the semi Until the windshield I broke in the exact same way the other one did and she's like oh, shit But she got she in there. There was no more ice storm at that point. She got past the semi and then she was okay But it's one of those, you know, and I think she's okay now. She she was traumatized for about a day or so and now At least she hasn't really complained much, you know, she's driven to work now again twice and She seems fine now, but obviously for the first 24 hours. She was in pretty big shock But she came home from work and she gets home at like 12 30 at night. She couldn't sleep And she was up until six in the morning when I woke up So that's But she's fine. Everything is safe. I mean, that's the most important thing is no one got hurt That's number one and number two. Hey, our car is okay. I mean like our car is okay at least to drive I I didn't see any damage, but honestly in that situation, dude call me Well, I was worried about dealing with everything in my In my vicinity. No, if you needed if you needed to ride or something call me if I don't just explain Well, if she wasn't going to drive to work I was I was going to figure out something there was there's more I know that types of attack could easily take off I know I know well there was also the thought that well if that's fucking out there Do we want to drive another vehicle right through it again? Well, that's when you go about 20 miles an hour and call good Well, I know but I'm just saying like there was also my thought that like man if I come out there Does that I can put a hold on the person at risk? If you're past and the storm's not there. I just need her to get somewhere Yeah, I even told her if you can't go to work Can you get is there like a fucking exit you can go to a hotel quick and just stay there? And I will come in the morning after the kids got on the bus and we will figure this fuck out Like it was all like all these situations, but it ended up again. She's fine. She tough through it, but hey, you know, it's a That's a scary situation. You know, yeah Very scary situation To have your life on the land like that out of fucking nowhere where you normally when you hear about accidents Someone's being a dumbass Someone's crossing the medium. Someone's drunk. Someone's high. Someone's you know Driving too fast in the snow or thinks they're a fucking beast because they have four-wheel drive on a fucking ice road Which doesn't matter when you slip you slip But that wasn't the case. This was literally a freak nature thing And uh, she's okay So that was the story and that's why I was saying man I was actually that close like and I was thinking about this just earlier today like man I can't imagine my life without her and then like it's not just my life. It's the kids You know, yeah, but that like but that's like how precious life is guys like image. Oh, yeah like that Oh, yeah, you know, it could be anything. You know, I'm overweight. What are we hitting the heart attack? I mean it could it could literally be anything So life is precious. So enjoy every day. Tell your loved ones. You love them. Absolutely Play some video games have some fun There you guys. Yeah, catch you guys in the next podcast next week. Peace out