 Hey everyone, welcome back to another episode on the channel Nintendo Prime. We have a lot of great stuff today. It is the 20th which you know what that means, the Green Bay Packers play tonight. But more importantly, it is Monday, the start of a new week and let's start it with a lot of energy and a lot of cheer because we have three really really interesting stories including this game back here, yeah, probably coming to Switch, we'll talk about that. We also have a potential new UI design for Nintendo Switch or at least a concept for one that Nintendo, you better be paying attention. And then yeah, we got a little bit of a massive sale happening on the Nintendo Switch, each out to talk about in celebration of a certain something, a certain anniversary that we're going to get to here. Before we do any of that, I got to remind you, we are giving away a Nintendo Switch or the white version, that's right, you can see this white, by the way this fine ass sweatshirt, you can get down in the description. But setting aside a little self promotion there, we are giving away a Switch OLED, all you need to do is be one, subscribe to the channel, and then two, check out our live stream on October 1st, we have a link to that live stream down in the description as well in the little section that says giveaway, so you know what to do, be subscribed and head to that live stream during that time, we'll announce the winner live during that stream. Alright folks, before we say anything else, hello, my name is Nate, let's get into the Switch news today. All right, so first up we have this game back here. This game, in case you aren't aware, is Alan Wake remastered and it was unveiled during the PlayStation Show case, the state of play they had. And what's interesting, obviously, is that this is a classic game coming back. And really, when it was unveiled, I didn't think there was really any shot of this potentially being any sort of Switch news. But something has happened as of today. It has now been registered by the Ministry of Justice in Brazil with a rating. So it has basically been rated like it would be for the ESRB. So when you get a rating like this on a ratings board, that's pretty much as official as it can get without being unveiled. Now, this has happened to several games in the past. And oftentimes when it's a major third party game like Alan Wake remastered would be, it gets unveiled at a Nintendo Direct. Yes, I just went there. Now, I don't know if we are getting a Nintendo Direct. This month or this week, next week or even next month, I presume there'll be one before the Switch OLED comes out, but that's just a presumption. I don't know. But usually something like this would be announced in a Direct. Now, the big question obviously with Alan Wake remastered is, will this be played locally, you know, right in here, you can put a physical card in possibly even, or will it only be available as a streaming game? We have had a number of streaming games come to Switch over the last two years. I think Hitman 3 was one of the last ones to come. But we know we have Guardians of the Galaxy as well coming this year. That's also going to be a streaming game. So it could potentially be another one of those or it could potentially be played locally. I would probably lean towards the streaming and based on the fidelity of this. But again, this is a PlayStation 5 trailer. I wouldn't necessarily expect that if it was going to come locally to Switch. And Alan Wake is an older game. So I could see how maybe a remastered version could come locally to Switch and play just fine. But again, we'll have to wait and see what happens when it's announced and if they announce it as a streaming game or as a local one. I obviously would prefer a local even though streaming would look better. But streaming will also be better on Switch, especially on a TV in docked mode with the Switch OLED. That's one advantage people aren't talking about with Switch OLED is because it probably has a full one gig ethernet port on that. It'll actually be really great for streaming games, a full 1080p at really high settings on your TV, like basically a game streaming stick. It would actually be really good for that. So we'll have to wait and see. But Alan Wake remastered. Looks like it's coming to Switch. We just have to wait for the official announcement, which again is likely coming in an intended direct. And I will make one note here. I am a little bit frustrated that these third party major games, even to this date, four or five years into Switch are being delayed and being announced for Switch. So it could be a special announcement in our direct. I just don't like it. I don't understand why Switch versions of games need to be treated special. Like if it's coming to Switch, just tell us when you announce the game. You don't need to like wait for Nintendo to announce it. I don't know. It's a weird thing that's been happening all generation. And I really hope it goes away at some point, which some people know that probably will because we might not be getting third party games for much longer, at least not in 2023. I feel like 2022 might be the last year for the major ones. All right, moving on. We have a sale actually going on at THQ. This is this is a pretty exciting sale. THQ Nordic is celebrating their 25th anniversary and they did announce a SpongeBob game last week that we talked about. Actually, I think we talked about it on Saturday, but they have a massive sale. Some of their games up to 70% off on the eShop. So speaking of SpongeBob, SpongeBob SquarePants Battle for Bikini Bada rehydrated was originally $29.99 is now 30% off for $20.99. Darksiders War Master Edition was $29.99. Now it's 55% off for $13.49. Same for Darksiders 2 Definitive Edition. Darksiders Genesis was $39.99 is now 55% off at $17.99. Legend of Kay Anniversary Edition was $29.99 is now $8.99 on the eShop at 70% off. The Book of Unwritten Tales 2 was $29.99. That's 67% off down to $9.89. Battle Chasers Nightwar was $39.99 down to $11.99. That one's 70% off as well. Monster Jam Steel Titans is also 70% off down to $8.99. This is the police and this is the police too. Are both 70% off and both cost $8.99 each. Rebel Cops is 67% off and now down to $3.29. Spinks and the Cursed Mummy, really good game by the way, is down to $9.89 that's 67% off. The Raven Remastered is down to $9.89 at 67% off. Titan Quest is down to $13.19 at 67% off. Battle Worms Chronos is down to $10.49 that's 65% off. The Blob and the Blob 2 are both 65% off right now. Down to $10.49. MX vs ATV All Out is now down to $26.79 that's 33% off. Chronos Before Ashes is 25% off. Now Costing $22.49. Kingdoms of Amalur, I always push to the front of the net. Re-Reconing is now down to $29.99 that's 25% off. Another really, really good game. Monster Jam Street Titans 2 is now down to $29.99 aka 25% off. And Destroy All Humans is down to $31.99 or 20% off. And also that's another really good one. So THQ Nordica is a bunch of really, really good games. That's the big sale they have. So take advantage of it if you've been waiting for THQ to come through for you. So I think all of us can agree the Switch UI could use some sort of overhaul. Now look, as I look at the Switch UI as it stands today, I don't think it's the worst thing ever. It's very bare bones, but to just get straight to playing the game, it's pretty intuitive. It does need folders. I know some people wish there were themes. I care less about themes, but I do care about folders. I do care about maybe also having some additional information on the games when you hover over them because right now it's literally just a hud over, hit A, and then it just, oh, do you want to update or do you want to start the software? Do you want to do this? Do you want to do that? Do you want to do that? Like, it just kind of gets repetitive and there's not really useful information beyond update or start software. As an example, is there a new DLC for it? You could have something like that pop up, but that's not the way it works on here. It's pretty bare bones. But here's the thing. A person out there has put up an update from Reddit. User Porcorusso, I don't know. I'll link to it down in the description, made a new version of the Switch UI that is based a lot on Apple's iOS. And I actually just updated my iOS to 15 today. So I have to see how I like that. I do kind of like how the notifications are working on it. But anyways, the point is they did an Apple-ized version of Nintendo's OS. And I got to say, it's pretty interesting. He actually, the ones we're showing you now are ones that are updated because he took user feedback on his first batch and made some new ones. And this one shot here that I'm showing you shows obviously folders. And this is obviously a thing we've all wanted are folders. I mean, you can see it's very Apple-inspired with the rounded edges and all that. But seriously, folders. Nintendo, come on! Like, look at this! Folders, you open the folders, you can view all. You can look at the things you have organized in those folders. You can view more options there, open and close, etc. All of Nintendo's stuff at the bottom is basically just, you know, all that UI at the very bottom is just repurposing Nintendo's current UI. Except, mind is to switch on my logo, which for some reason isn't there. But yeah, that's one look. And then here's another look just directly at folders, you know, in full screen where you can kind of see, you know, where there's a folder called Indie Gems. And then inside that folder are a bunch of subfolders. Again, folders within folders makes a lot of sense. We could do stuff like this on the Nintendo 3DS. So what the hell? Moving on, we can see another close-up of a view all inside a folder where you can kind of scroll through. It looks like they have five games in there. So yeah, that's just, again, another look at folders, which is a big thing people want. And then we get another look here. This one calling cozy slash chill. So this is obviously a folder that has more stuff in it, like more than five. You can show like an expanded view of more than just five on screen for people that want to see more games at once or a folder that obviously has this amount of games. So this is a cozy slash chill folder that has all the various games in it. So folders are one thing. But then here's some little game information. So when you open a game, you could get all this. You could hit A to launch. See, it says A to open at the very bottom, right? Otherwise, you could see some quick achievements you might have for it, which again, achievements is something that many people want on Switch, but don't exist yet. You can see news. You can see a DLC button, software information, software update. All of this right there conveniently, and this looks like based on the icon in the top left, an actual physical cartridge in there, that this looks like a very neat way to organize and present useful information to someone before you get into a game. Because right now, it's literally started the game or update. But what if there's DLC? Well, you might not know unless you go in the game or unless... I like this. I'm sorry. I like this presentation a lot. And so that's just a personal preference. And then obviously, here's a grander look at something like the eShop. So we see the one above with Awada there. That's obviously a look at profiles and all that and friends and stuff like that. And there's not really a good look at the friends, but there is a good look at the eShop here. And my lord, would this be welcome? So we see featured. And then what do we see in featured? Oh, there's Breath of the Wild at the top. Like there should be. And then look, suggested games. Suggested games. Come on, Nintendo. But then you see bestselling, recent releases, great downloads, bestsellers. I don't know what bestselling and bestsellers, what the difference is. Maybe that terminology probably needs to be changed up for two different things. But yeah, very intuitive, very sleek, very clean. And people really like this. Now, not everyone likes the iPhone UI. And I understand that, you know, I've got an iPhone right here and I've used the iPhone and Android. And I think they all have useful things. They're all very similar. iPhone is just a lot more rounded edges, but it's just clean. And I think people would like to see an update now. There's not really rounded edges on the current UI. It's, you know, it's straight edges. And they could do this UI design with just straight edges too. I don't think anyone would care. I just think that people want to see an update to the UI that's meaningful. And obviously to the eShop, we need an entire eShop overhaul, if I'm completely honest. But yeah, people just want to see an update that shows that Nintendo seems to care. Unfortunately, Nintendo doesn't seem to update their UIs in Gen. They seem to usually do them when a new system launches. So any feedback on their current OS, if they're going to use a modified version of it for the next go around, they will make all the major changes then. But yeah, I would like to see them update it. I don't know. This is just something I really wanted to point out because it's still kind of a shame they're awaiting to this day for some basic features like folders. I know some people want to see themes. They want to see music come back. I understand all that. But folders is an organizational method that needs to be there. I mean, when the switch launched, you couldn't even organize the order your games were displayed in. At least we could do that now, even if it's rudimentary. But folders, Nintendo. It's not rocket science. Folders. All right, folks. That's all I got for you today. Thank you so much for tuning in. I am Anthony Robe, just from Nintendo Prime, and I'll catch you guys in the next video.