 Today we're going to have a conversation dealing with Nintendo and their next platform Nintendo Switch 2 and even the current platform Nintendo Switch because there seems to be prevailing thoughts as there are every time we're entering a transition period into a new system for Nintendo that not only is Nintendo going to drop the ball, but Nintendo of today is actually a really crappy company making tons of anti-consumer moves which we'll talk about that because yes Nintendo has made anti-consumer moves as has Sony and Microsoft and Valve and pretty much any for-profit business, but yes Nintendo has made them and I don't live in that denial. I don't feel like Nintendo as a company needs a strong defense force for really anything. They're a multi-billion dollar company that's doing very well for itself and in the midst of its best single platform generation of all time and I say that even if Switch doesn't surpass the Nintendo DS in sales because it's already crushed it in software sales so yeah it's the most successful individual platform Nintendo's ever had and they're in the midst of some of the most success they've ever had as a company. They had a billion dollar Mario movie this year just in theaters not counting any actual at-home sales of digital or physical and yeah they're having very successful theme park launches as well so Nintendo's in a very healthy place I don't need to defend a multi-billion dollar corporation but what I do want to talk about is this notion that seems to always come up as we approach switching over to new generation that the current generation is not that good and now in hindsight a bad generation and this notion that Nintendo can't repeat what they just did with their success and that they hold gaming back and that they are in general a problem and maybe should even go third party I find all these arguments to sort of fall flat on their face and it does dive a little bit into fanboy wars right you know the people who truly care about this stuff tend to be those that are mega fans of another company and look make no mistake I love Switch I don't really have it down here right now it's actually up in my room that's where I usually play it but if you look behind me there's a PlayStation 5 and an Xbox Series S so I play other things on other platforms including PCs so I try to dabble in everything because I want to stay as up to date on gaming as I can and not just be like oh I'm a Nintendo YouTuber so that's what my focus is going to be I do feel like it's good to you know see what's going on in the rest of the industry now before we dive deeper I am on my road to 150,000 subscribers so I would appreciate if you would just subscribe to the channel drop a like and maybe ringling that dingling so we can get notified or you can be notified I guess of every video that I upload now let's look at this from another perspective there are lots of videos like this and I'm just gonna throw one example out there and I want to just note this is no shade to any YouTuber out there I am not trying to bash them or throw them under a bus it's just using you know fellow content creators I just think provides a bit more context than just grabbing random fan comments from a bunch of no names that aren't on camera so as an example we have a video today from ReviewTechUSA some people call my dad little weird we're around the same age anyways we desperately need a next-gen Nintendo Switch and you can see it's got the Metal Gear Solid collection in the title and look I understand that that collection is uh you know kind of a mess on Switch it's a 30 FPS when it should be at 60 FPS but if the argument being made and again I didn't watch his video but I'm assuming he's going to bring up the Metal Gear Solid collection because again it's in the damn video with thumbnail well that's a really bad argument because every single Metal Gear Solid game in that collection released originally on worse hardware than the Nintendo Switch that kind of means the Nintendo Switch hardware isn't the problem it's the lack of effort on the part of the developers porting the games to bring it in 60 FPS I'm sorry the Nintendo Switch is twice as powerful twice as powerful as the most up-to-date Metal Gear game on there and the system it released on yeah I can run at 60 FPS it's just a lack of effort but you know it's running at 60 FPS on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X sure of course it is because those systems are overpowered they just ported it and did it at 60 FPS with no effort it's no effort to just overpower things this is what happens with emulation no effort if you're running a souped up system compared to the original would the Switch version need a little bit a little bit of effort to hit 60 FPS yes is it somehow the hardware's fault no because it's already significantly more powerful than that entire collections library of original releases and guess what it's not a remaster they're just all ports they're just a bunch of ports it makes no sense so this is where I sit back and this is just one of many examples where people are choosing to go after Nintendo or go after the Nintendo Switch and talk about graphics or talk about frame rates talk about how their games are somehow not high quality um Pikmin 4 last I checked had the same review scores as Final Fantasy 16 this year a PlayStation 5 exclusive need we talk about tears of the kingdom being tied with Baldur's Gate 3 for the top review score of the entire year so those are just two games released this year and we still have Mario Wonder and obviously Mario RPG coming back as well so we have a solid slate of games from Nintendo maybe not their greatest year of releases ever but still a pretty good slate and that's not even talk about Fire Emblem Engaged that released back in January uh and I mean you look you bring up Kirby and Advance Wars if you guys want I don't know that those are as big of a deal but in an origin though is at least a brand new game but the point is I don't know why Nintendo seems to be uniquely attacked in the way that it is consistently and I'm not trying to argue that PlayStation and Xbox fans don't go at each other's throats of course they do there's a lot of e-peaning out there a lot of uh you know certain measuring contests going on that lead to shall we say uh interpretations of things that just aren't true uh is the Xbox Series S really holding back everything well according to Phil Spencer he said they don't have any such policy anymore that things need to have parity between s and x now they did have that at one point but basically we're not getting Baldur's Gate 3 coming to Xbox this year there just won't be split screen multiplayer on the Xbox Series S but it will be available to play on there and this is like a really big move for Microsoft basically saying you know games don't need to be parity between s and x that's awesome actually that's actually good news for third-party developers and this isn't to say all those developers that have been complaining about it are wrong it's to say well if there was a policy change from Microsoft it's certainly not available in the documentation which still has the old policy and there's probably something Phil Spencer just decided quite recently due to Baldur's Gate 3 so I would expect documentation updates soon and then third parties being very very happy with this change but when we look to Nintendo it's interesting thinking about the Nintendo Switch it is using old technology it's from 2015 but at the time that it came out even in 2017 early 2017 it still was the best dedicated mobile gaming chip that there was outside of dedicated full-size laptops right obviously laptops are just significantly larger and aren't meant to be held in your hand hence the term lap top right so it was interesting at the time that Nintendo actually had a fairly powerful handheld system that looked pretty decent when docked on your TV and when we talk about the future of Nintendo and what's going to happen with Nintendo Switch 2 when I talk about how you know the specs of this next system look like they're probably going to be on par with a PlayStation 4 or a PlayStation 4 Pro while docked and then they also have the addition of DLSS at least DLSS 2.0 oh and by the way FSR as well that we can't ignore yeah Nintendo internally used FSR 1.0 but guess what game just released an update on Switch using FSR 2.0 No Man's Sky so we can't forget that even with the LSS the latest FSR technologies can also actually work on this hardware and especially on the upcoming hardware for Nintendo and people tend to forget that whatever Nintendo releases is going to be much newer from a technological perspective than what PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X put out in 2020 and when I say newer it's because the tech they were using while quote-unquote new at the time was actually sort of developed the year before and this is stuff that according to all the leaks from Nvidia and the stolen data which that's really you know I do feel bad for Nvidia that that leak even happened it's very obvious the new chip heading into Nintendo Switch 2 is using newer technology than what's in these systems so there's going to be technological advantages from that as well that so far developers mostly take advantage on the PC side of things more so than the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X so the Switch 2 is going to punch above its weight and it's going to do quite well remember when we talked about how Doom Eternal is an impossible port Doom 2016 impossible port though Witcher 3 an impossible port well now imagine Call of Duty running at 60 fps on the next switch and looking almost as damn good as the PlayStation 5 version thanks to DLSS or FSR techniques on your 4k TV just imagine a world where you actually are getting cross-gen gaming between all these games I don't know the platforms because Nintendo Switch can actually carry its own weight and no I'm not foolish Nintendo Switch isn't about to be a 10 or 12 teraflop system but if you think teraflops are all that matter I really encourage you go watch this digital foundry video where they finally dive into the nitty-gritty about teraflops and how it's really not a great measurement of performance or even theoretical performance so yeah well Nintendo Switch might you know well dock top out at three to four teraflops of performance that's not really an apples to apples comparison to the 10 to 12 teraflops on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X is just not a apples to apples comparison they're using completely different technologies with completely different techniques and really as long as Nintendo doesn't skimp on something like RAM I think everything's gonna be okay now I am worried because Nintendo does tend to skimp on RAM if they only go with 8 gigabytes of RAM when they can easily go with 12 or 16 yeah that's going to be a problem and it's fine to have concerns that Nintendo is gonna fumble this transition in some way and deliver a half measure system instead of a full gen upgrade but I pause at you to say that these concerns are premature we're talking about a hypothetical next generation Nintendo system that Nintendo has only confirmed exist but hasn't actually said anything publicly about it yet it hasn't really been announced well now once it's announced if you want to fear monger if you want to trash it because you're worried it's gonna ruin your precious steam deck and outperform it or it's going to you know make the xbox series s maybe not look as great because look at this it has like that sort of power but it's on the go yeah it's something that I could see a lot of fanboys latching onto but Nintendo isn't holding back gaming all Nintendo is doing is offering an alternative way to enjoy video games outside of this typical spectrum that we've been locked into for 30 plus years Nintendo is just saying hey you don't need to be locked to your tv and you don't need to be locked to being on the same wi-fi network as your system hello playstation what are they calling that thing now it was project q now it's got some other name and it's $200 I don't know it just does not look appealing to me at all and highly doubt when I'm on hotel wi-fi I'm suddenly going to connect to my ps5 and get a really great gaming experience I yeah I've got a lot of suspicion that it's not really any better than it was when they tried to do this with the Vita but what I am going to just note is that Nintendo is in a healthy place releasing more games than ever and I think what frustrates me is I saw a video again I don't want to call out this content creator especially because they're much smaller and I don't want a lot of hate going their way but they made a video where they talked about how Nintendo was lost on its creativity and they they're very nitpicky and picking very specific things they love from say the GameCube era and then nitpicking that similar franchises on switch aren't as innovative or even the same franchises they'll compare something like Paper Mario and the origami king to Paper Mario on the thousand-year door but yet they'll ignore all the games that happened in between that actually led to origami king being a better than expected Paper Mario game because Paper Mario has fundamentally changed since the GameCube days and they'll talk about all the lack of creativity all the ports of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe instead of a new one but they'll ignore the massive creativity shown in Breath of the Wild and in Tears of the Kingdom or they'll they'll talk about the water jet ability and how creative and inventive that was back in the day for Mario on the GameCube but then they'll ignore that hey Cappy is just as inventive of a mechanic where you literally take control of dinosaurs and other beings in the world to do things that Mario has never been able to do before it's just as inventive of an ability but you don't want to give it credit because you feel slighted because you have a lot of nostalgia for a certain era so this also goes out to some Nintendo fans that also feel a bit slighted at times because we have a lot of fond memories from when we're a kid and I want to just note your if you're like me and you're an adult you're never going to be a kid again we can keep the kid at heart we can still act silly and have fun and have a good time and laugh together when we're live streaming and have all that good stuff but bottom line is you're never going to be a kid again and the things you experience as a kid can never be replaced because those things help shape who you are today and we are it's a much harder to change who you are today than it was when you were heavily influenced as a child so video games today can be even more inventive but have less of an impact on you because you're not a kid and you're not as impressionable as a young child is so sometimes we let games that yes are very very good games in their own right from our childhood cloud our judgment on what's happening today is Zelda any less inventive today than when the Wind Waker came out on Gamecube? Hell no! Hell no it's not less inventive is Mario less inventive today with games like Mario Wonder and you know things like uh you know Mario Odyssey compared to back in the day hell no of course not as animal crossing less inventive today than it was on the Gamecube no Nintendo even still does new IPs and arms and oh my gosh Astral Chain Nintendo owns that IP that is a owned IP by Nintendo brand new that came out this generation very very inventive very inventive Xenoblade Chronicles 3 not showing massive inventive new changes from the original Xenoblade back on we of course it did and of course it has and of course there's been evolutions along the way how about you know if you're going to talk about Donkey Kong and porting Donkey Kong and and just there's no new Donkey Kong well what about the fact they took Kirby into 3D platforming the same thing you praised them doing with Donkey Kong back in the day they did it with Kirby sometimes we just have this nostalgic outlook for the past that will never ever be able to be replaced and we need to be able to look beyond that to see what's going on today so all of that is to say welcome to Nintendo Prime let me know what you think about the future of Nintendo in the present and in well the future and uh you know how how do you feel about these conversation points I brought up that did I make good points or am I just talking to talk and set a bunch of irrelevant crap you guys let me know I'll catch you in the next video