 Hey everyone, so I might have a triple pack or so of videos for you the rest of the day That's right a lot of videos. There's just a lot of stuff going on right now We have a bunch of news a monster hunter to get to here later today There was a monster hunter like direct today, so I mean I didn't live stream it But we will be talking about that and there's a lot of other stuff to talk about as well especially from Xbox side of things although we'll we'll we'll get into that a bit later This is actually going to be about Nintendo possibly looking into some sort of cloud gaming Something or other and switch whether it's a service like like xCloud or maybe it's a way to deliver future You know old games kind of like what happens with Sony, so there's something happening here factually This isn't there's gonna be a lot of speculation here But it's based on something that's factually occurring at Nintendo But before we get to that I gotta remind you we're giving away speaking of monster hunter a copy of monster hunter rise along with To $20 Nintendo switch PlayStation or Xbox gift cards to enter head down to the description or the pinned comment. All right, so There's this interesting hiring post that was linked to me Creditfully to Sonic Man the best he actually has a YouTube channel But he linked to the only to his YouTube channel down below actually but he told me about this on discord And I thought this was interesting because Nintendo's looking to hire someone in the United States For a senior architect of cloud application and data and I just thought this is for their their backup services Right. This is this is just a backup games, right? You know, they have that cloud backup service That's really all I thought this was But the more I read into the description of duties the more I'm starting to think Nintendo's Looking into something with cloud. That's a lot bigger deal than just backing up games So here's the descriptions of duties once you get past the initial mumbo jumbo explaining what Nintendo is in their background Description of duties is networks with senior internal and external personnel across multiple areas define long-term Plans for Nintendo of America IT evolution partnering with other IT leadership with a focus on creating well-informed application and data architecture strategy Regularly evaluate cloud services frameworks and best practices work closely with IT security to adopt and implement application and data security best practices support development teams and selection and use of data technologies and practices now That's all cloud stuff right cloud data backup services. I get it. Okay, that's obviously going to be included with the job But that's let's let's read further work with the application teams that have find and implement roadmaps for services and Applications as we transition to cloud Work with application teams to define and implement roadmaps for services and applications as we transition the cloud What? What let's go on before we talk about this participates in the development of a common enterprise-wide cloud strategy Review adherence to our selected architectural principle standards and tools through architectural reviews and or testing helped to maintain compliance of regulations with regards to areas like security frameworks control systems, etc Assist the overall architect team in developing the foundational frameworks for the creation and delivery of software and infrastructure services across Nintendo of America and in some cases across NCL in areas like serverless Applications containers tools and standards including monitoring SLAs and security infrastructure layer to support services working closely with the infrastructure teams security and enterprise scale cloud integration platforms Assessing technical architectures infrastructures and applications to identify Opportunities to document and define reusable processes components objects and data Defining and documenting processes data and objects to ensure the technical solutions take advantage of the fine standards and ensure interoperability between and across Solutions, etc, etc there. There's a little bit more in there You work with the chief architect and obviously you got to have a lot of experience With IT and cloud services and Oracle Microsoft open source technologies a bunch of stuff I'll link to the hiring post down below. I think what's interesting here is the emphasis on cloud Yeah, obviously the beginning that's all about their cloud backup save system all about You know files and storage stuff, but like they're looking into things like enterprise-wide Cloud use now. This is obviously very useful for things like working at home So obviously they're they're working on some services here to make working at home a lot more palpable little and a lot more Efficient that makes sense to use cloud for that. But what's interesting here is When he talks about work with the application to define and implement roadmaps for services and applications as we transition to cloud They're transitioning the cloud not only internally, but like the externally What is Nintendo working on now, we know they have some cloud games already on switch right factually cloud games exist right now You can go on the Nintendo e-shop here in America and buy a copy of Control and play it online 1000% well 100% through the cloud and it actually works pretty damn well If you have as long as you obviously have a stable internet connection Goodness speed all that jazz not a concern in my house. So yeah, it works really really really well a lot better than I think people expected certainly when you were testing out their prior cloud services in Japan That you know, well you're on Japanese servers in America. Obviously, there's gonna be some problems, but you work pretty well and It looks like Nintendo is putting a massive emphasis on cloud not just here In in America also at NCL That is huge Nintendo is like Seemingly going all over cloud inside and out. So what can this mean for the future one? Obviously, we have to we be remiss if we didn't even talk about the possibility of a cloud service I don't know what Nintendo could possibly be planning I don't think when you're hiring a senior person for it at this point This is something you're going to see soon. I think if a cloud service comes it would be five years down the line Possibly but think about it Nintendo could be working on a cloud service right now That's just like xCloud and what if it's basically xCloud and Game Pass put together Now look if there's any company that could get 30 40 50 100 million people subscribe to a cloud service It's Nintendo because if Nintendo does a game pass like Service with a cloud aspect that enables you to play their games Maybe at first on switch, but maybe they end up tying it to you know, maybe you can play it on PC or something You know how many hundreds of millions of people would subscribe to that service Now I don't know that this makes sense for Nintendo in the year now when you got Animal Crossing Possibly gonna hit 40 million maybe 50 million in sales before it's all done I don't know that it makes a lot of sense right now for Nintendo to toss out a cloud Service at least for their first party games, you know like a game pass But do I think working on cloud technologies for something in the future makes sense? Yeah, and I think Nintendo would be idiotic if they weren't So this is very interesting to see of public hiring posts where Nintendo's like dude, we're doing cloud inside We're doing cloud outside. We're using cloud for everything. Let's get it done now on the more Maybe conservative side and maybe even a more likely side Possibly they could take things like the NES app this NES app and N64 app Basically virtual console and make that a subscription service Sony actually already does this so it wouldn't be shocking to see Nintendo decided to look We've been reselling and repackaging our classic games forever and now we're offering them through a subscription service Anyways, if we're all we're gonna offer them through a subscription service. Why don't we make it a cloud service? We already check and check online before you play these games So why not just make it a cloud service and then we can just infinitely add games and that cloud service is easily Transferrable platform to platform. We don't need to Redo and rework and the games every single time, you know that they literally it would make a lot of sense It makes a lot of sense when Sony did it it would make a lot of sense for Nintendo to do it So that it's also something to do so if you're someone who's hoping for full virtual console. Well, I mean it won't be like it was But it could be a hell of a lot better than it is now and that's exciting too now That's a lot to infer from this hiring post But one thing's for certain Nintendo is massively investing in cloud technology What they end up using it for at this point is anyone's guess you guys? Let me know what you think about this down in the comments below. 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