 Welcome to the Nintendo Prime podcast episode 62. This is going to be one of the most entertaining 62. That's older than my grandfather. This is going to be one of the most amazing podcasts of all time. I'm sorry, younger, I mean. Not just because of what the subject is this week. We're actually looking back at the first year plus a switch. There's a whole bunch of switch news that landed about all this crazy stuff and sales numbers and blah blah blah blah. I kind of want to reminisce on Switch and everything as much as we can. It's going to be very, very entertaining because we're live streaming this publicly, which we normally don't do. When we do that, it's a good time for us to advertise. Hey, look, if you would like to see this live stream normally every single week. Patreon.com, Nintendo Prime, $10 a year. Give us money. DARREN has had a few too many tonight. What? No. It's going to be a very entertaining night. In fact, I couldn't let him drink alone, so I might randomly take some watermelon smash shots every time that DARREN finds... I can't say every time he makes me laugh because I'm going to be so piss-ass drunk. Every time I'm laughing hysterically and can't stop, I have to do a shot. Listen. Listen. You're going to be so piss-ass drunk anyway. We don't drink on the podcast. You do now. All right. Welcome to episode 62 of the Nintendo Prime podcast. As always, you have Mr. Eric Moore over here. Hello. And the piss-ass drunk guy in the background is Mr. DARREN Har. How's it going, everybody? Sort of like C&D for a moment there. Bringing that energy. Yeah. That's the energy that's going to be throughout this podcast for the duration of it. The duration. I see what you did there. DARREN. All right. So the first time we're going to talk about when we're looking back at Switch and everything coming through today, all the sales numbers and all the crazy stuff happening, what does Switch mean to us? Or does it mean nothing? Because it's an inanimate object that's ultimately irrelevant when it comes to the grand scheme of life. Yes. No. You can't take that shit with you. You're going to go to your grave. You can't take anything with you. For all you know, there is no word you like. Actually, yes, you can. I have nothing. You can be buried with it. This is true. I suppose, but I want them to surgically insert it. They're really going to transfer with you in the afterlife. Like really. I want to subscribe to your religion buddy. Tell me in what religion you have that Nintendo is in it. The religion of the prime. The religion of the prime. Hey, you know what? If we declared Nintendo prime as a religion, it's tax free. Everything. Mind blown. All the loopholes of religions. Right. And you only need one follower. I will be that follower. I sure you don't want to be the rabbi crickets. I mean either way. I don't know. Eric, what does Switch mean to you? Are we going to be able to do this? Hey, this is what's happening to me. Eric, what? You own a Nintendo Switch product trademark symbol, am I right? I do. You do. And how you have owned that piece of equipment for about how long? Since day one. Since day one. So you're saying since March 3rd, 2017 you have owned a Nintendo Switch? Somewhere in that area, yes. So you have owned it for over 365 days, is that correct? If that is the date, then yes, that is correct. I am correct in stating that fact. Okay. So, after having a year of intimate relations with this console, how would you rate it on a scale of one to twelve? Orgasmic. Orgasmic. I don't think that registers as a number we do. Hey, he said intimate relations. Mr. Nathan Jantz, you have owned a Switch for how long? Since day one. So, March, oh my phone just went off. Since March 3rd, 2017 you have owned a Nintendo Switch trademark symbol. Yes. And on a scale of one to 13, how would you rate your relations with a specific video gaming console? Unsure. Unsure? What? I didn't throw you off. What? Oh lord. Unsure, he says. What? Like they're freaking Xbox 360 better than? Next to my intimate lover, it's the only other thing in my bed. Huh? There you go. But that classifies as a somewhat. I didn't know we're talking about classifications. We're talking about classifications. When did this come into the equation? I guess I'll try to talk about what Switch means to me. Yeah. I've talked about it in another podcast but we've never had just a whole podcast dedicated to this before. Switch has changed my life in many ways because Nintendo Prime existed before Switch. We even knew what it was, you know, whatever. But us doing what we do at Nintendo Prime in terms of maybe being able to not have to work full time at another job, Switch has a large reason that's possible because its popularity helped our channel grow. Not just how popular it is but how much I enjoy talking about the product and the games on it. Because obviously it could be popular but if I don't like it, I'm not really going to spend a lot of time talking about it, right? Very so. Example, 3DS. To be fair, I actually like 3DS. I just think I've been over it for at least two years. Yep. But yeah, it's really changed my life in so many ways but not just job wise. If you just look at my enjoyment of video games, I love playing on high end 4K PCs. I have one. I love playing on Xbox and PlayStation and on 3DS but something about Switch made me get into gaming in a way that I haven't been probably since high school where I'm buying multiple games a year. I used to buy like A game a year. Madden. And sometimes two, Madden and then Zelda. But now I'm really expanding my repertoire of games. And in the genres that I haven't played in a long time, Zero Blade Chronicles 2, I haven't played a JRPG since Final Fantasy XII but I only played that because my roommate at the time had it. I haven't bought a JRPG as they suck. JRPGs are like the scum of game RPGs. A JRPG. That turn based or the scum of all video games, I'm sorry. So you hate Fire Emblem? Yes. I'm trying to think of another Nintendo turn based. Turn based combat is a sin. Turn based combat is a sin. So you hate all of the Mario and Luigi games? I enjoy the Mario and Luigi games. Turn based combat. No, no, no, no, no. Listen to me. I enjoy every aspect of the Mario and Luigi games except for the turn based combat. I enjoy this quirky story, the settings, the environment, but the combat I am not a fan of. I'm guessing you're not a fan of Mario plus Rabbids Kingdom Battle? I bought it. I have played it. I have not beat it because I'm not a huge fan of the combat. No. Which is turn based. It's okay for turn based combat to not be your thing. I happen to like turn based combat because turn based combat is all about strategy. Lots and lots of strategy because you can have strategy in action games, but a lot of times when you're playing action games, like a Zelda or Dark Souls or whatever the case may be, there's a lot of reading and reacting, whereas strategy you can stop and think. If I go over here and do this and do this move and jump off this character and attack with a certain weapon, what are they going to do in response? It's like a chess match. And unlike a lot of turn based games don't give you unlimited time to make those decisions. So unlike in chess where sometimes you're on a timer and you gotta think a little quicker, a lot of these turn based games you don't. I kind of like that. There are turn based games that do have timers, of course. And that's why JRPGs have always kind of been a thing. The funny thing is you said turn based exhibit chronicles isn't turn based. It's live action, which is kind of funny that somehow we got to you hating turn based combat when we were talking about a game that doesn't have turn based combat. Then where did I get turn based combat from? Because we talked about JRPGs and how much you hate Xenoblade and then I mentioned Final Fantasy XII and you're like, I hate turn based combat. It's Final Fantasy XII. And actually, ironically enough, kind of live action. But you associate Final Fantasy with turn based probably because a lot of the old games were turn based. I do. I've never played an old Final Fantasy game and I refuse to because I know I will not beat it. I won't be able to get through the turn based combat. Sure. So getting back to the topic, as I said, expanding how many games I'm playing. You know, again, Xenoblade as I talked about, Mario Bros. Kingdom Metal, you know how long it's been since I played a tactical game like that? I mean, I played the original XCOM. That was the last time. And that's a long time ago at this point. I'm trying to think of some other genres. I was just going to say platformers, but I mean I owned a few platformers on Wii U and stuff. Oh man. Now I'm really racking my brain over the games I own. I own so many of them. I'm trying to pick out specific genres and I'm drawing blanks. Golf story. Another one. Sports RPG. I haven't played, I don't even know if that's a genre. Sports RPG. I don't know but it should be. And I haven't played that since Game Boy days. Why not? Yeah, just even just dance. I only own 2017. I'm actually mad. I want the newer one. Way to go. I need a bigger SD card. Micro SD card, sorry. But yeah, it's just expanded my gaming where I'm buying tons and tons of games. You know, this past week I just got Self Park, The Fractured Butthole. For starters, it's Self Park and it's funny. So yes, please. But it's just, these are games that I didn't, it wasn't buying before. Even though I owned L.A. Noir before, I probably would not have bought it if it had been a game that releases today unless it was on Switch because Switch is providing a convenience for me that I never, I never do I wanted because I had a 3DS, right? I had that convenience of you could play games anywhere. I'm like, I'm 31, going to be 32. Something about busting out the 3DS in public. Just never really sat right with me. And I don't know why because there's plenty of adults that play it. Plenty of college kids that play it. But again, college kids, 30 plus year old man. I'm starting to think about getting to the age of 40 where I finally get to say it. No. But I'm not there yet, so I can't say it. So it's just, it's made gaming more acceptable, more like full console gaming, more acceptable in public, I think, than ever before. I see, it's actually strange that I see this because of where we live, how small this area is. But I took my kids to the mall and they were playing in the play area and I'm sitting there and I'm just like checking my phone and watching my kids as they're playing and going on the slide. And like to my left and right were different people not related to each other. Playing Nintendo Switches while their kids are, now, should they be playing Switches while their kids are running around? I have no idea. You're on your phone. I mean, I'm on my phone, so who am I to say, but I have like the one eye of the phone, one eye on them kind of thing. I don't know if I could do that with Switch personally. I get two into it. Like on my phone, I'm not that into it, right? I could play Taps or Spaceball. You don't have to look. I ain't even have to look. I found a way to get that referencing. God damn it. We're gonna get through one podcast without referencing it. Yeah, it just, it has enabled me to be just a gamer again. And because it just... So aren't you freaking special? No, I'm not special. That's the thing. I'm really not. I'm thankful. Because I didn't realize a product like this. Aren't you thankful? I am. Thank you very much. No, I can go on to that. I know it's provided a lot of opportunities for just us to hang out and whatnot. And we've been hanging out a lot. Doing some wacky stuff. I know for a while there, when I was down in La Crosse at school, we just, you know... We go months without even talking to each other. Yeah, right? Just living our lives because we know we can't see each other or do anything. Yeah, right. So it's unique. Yeah. You know, I mean, definitely unique console gets people to play with each other for sure. You know, there's nothing like playing a game of Cowich's Co-op. And what better games to play like that than Nintendo games? Switch Joy-Cons. Right. Bring it over to someone's house, split a couple Joy-Cons off, and play a couple matches of Mario Kart, you know? Yeah, play a couple rounds in 1-2 Switch. Yeah. Milk that cow. Milk that cow, baby. Unlock that. Unlock that safe. Do the catwalk. Mm-hmm. This game is so weird. But it works. Yeah. Or build something out of cardboard together. Yeah, why not? And play music at the end. Why not? It's crazy what some people do at Labo. They're like, they're playing like real songs on there because, you know, you have X amount of notes and they just make it work. This is sweet. This is really cool. I think I heard some journey music being played on it, which I'm just like, now we just need a robot voice singing song to make it all work. Make it all come together. Or Mario, I suppose. Someone tell Charles Matinee we need him to sing some journey in the Mario voice. If you're watching, Charles. Come on. Yeah. Does anyone else have anything to say about what Switch means to us? Yeah. Martin. Insert crickets. Yeah, right. All right. We'll go to our second topic then for this looking back at Switch through today, week. Has Switch done anything to change the way we play games? Because it's always been at least my entire life that I can think back of. There's basically three primary ways that you've gamed and kind of a fourth one smart devices came around. So you had your portable gaming device that you played on road trips. Your Game Boys. PSPs. Your Game Gears. All that stuff. You had your under box system, right? Your Playstations. Your Nintendo. Your Xboxes. Your Sega's, et cetera. Atari back in the day. Then you always have the PC. Sit at a desk and play on your computer. And then smart devices came along and said, no, now you always have that device in your pocket that you play touch games on. But we're here in 2018. Considering if the Switch, being what it is, that hybrid nature, has it done anything to change how we play games? Or are we just doing what we've always done? Like, if you've always just played your games portably, well, now you're just playing Switch portably. Or if you've always been someone who just sits on a TV, are you just sitting on a TV playing Switch? Has it actually changed how we game? I mean, I've had, you know, handheld and home consoles for a while, but honestly, as of this moment, I do both, you know. I always thought I would play on the TV most of the time. But with certain games now, for an example like Cluster Truck, that's not really a story-oriented game, or a game I'm, you know, paying attention to the soundtrack to or whatnot. I'll throw some Netflix on the TV and play a little Cluster Truck in handheld mode. You know, it depends on the game if I'm playing Breath of the Wild. I'll throw it up on the TV and devote my full attention to it. So it's kind of changed the way I play some games. You know what I mean? Sure. For sure. So I mean that hybrid aspect is really just, is a game changer. Sure. Because I mean, some games, you just couldn't play portable before, portable before and now you can. So it, you know, some games if I want to play them portable, now I will. There you go. How about you, Eric? I've always been mainly a home console guy. Yeah, I've had my 3DS Game Boy, Game Boy fans. But I've always been like the main console, home console player. And this, I have yet to still dock my Switch. Wait, no, no, no. Oh, you took it out of the box? No, no, it's, the dock's been out of the box. But... You have your plasma hooked up now? Yeah, and yeah, it's... It used to be a storage, so... Yeah. No, I have docked it in your dock. Well, I know you've done that. I haven't docked it in my dock yet. But... So now it's mostly, I've played pretty much straight portable. Which is crazy. It's like converted you into a portable gaming. Pretty much, yeah. Not that I have anything against playing it on the TV. I just haven't really taken the time to hook it up. That's pretty much all it is. Well, plus maybe it's one of those aspects that, you know, you're not out completely on your own yet. So like when you have your own place, and then you have like that giant TV in the living room, you know, you might just come home to like, all right, I took this movie to work, I'm gonna just dock this bad boy, and... Yeah, for sure. Maybe I'll finally play Zelda on a big screen for once. So there's also that case as well, where I think after college and everything, and as you're paying off your student loans and doing all that stuff, that, you know, just even your time in front of a TV has diminished so much. Oh, yeah. That switch came at an opportune time for you, because since you don't have the time to just sit there in front of a TV much anymore, switch is just enabling you to find those moments the game, whether it's on a lunch break at work or wherever, you know, maybe you don't happen to be driving for once, and someone else is taking you somewhere to a family's house. No, for sure. You bust it out. And it allows me to actually play console quality games now. Yeah, portably. Yeah. So... And I feel like that's an important aspect of it, because there's still a lot of switch naysayers. There's always going to be, because people think when you play console quality games, you should be aiming for the best possible experiences. And it's funny when I hear that, because I'll hear this from people who are PlayStation 4 fans or Xbox fans or whatever. And I'm always like, why are you saying this but you don't play PC? Yeah, right. The only people that I feel like have an argument there are PC gamers, because they do get the best of the best. So it's like, if you're going to argue that you shouldn't play Switch, because you should play these games in the best possible way, why the hell are you playing them on those systems in the first place? The same argument exists. Yeah. I mean, obviously, conflict loses its side. So, here's the thing. I have always been, much like Eric, I'm a console TV gamer. Well, that's the Xbox PlayStation and it doesn't matter. I've always owned every single Nintendo handheld. I used to play them a lot when I was a kid. As I grew up, not so much. If it was a new Zelda game, sure. But that was really it. I would dabble in a few other games, but for the most part, I didn't play much of my handhelds once I got out of probably not even, probably once I even got into high school. I played a lot of GameCube, played a lot of Xbox 360, a little bit of PlayStation 3, and then it just kind of kept expounding from there as I got older. And that's kind of what I did in PC gaming. I've been PC gaming almost, well, not almost as long as I've been playing on Nintendo, but shortly after becoming a gamer because of the NES and the Game Boy, I started PC gaming. And so I've always been a PC gamer as well, like my entire life. PC and Nintendo, that's kind of always been my combo. Like, get PC and Nintendo, then every now and then grab an Xbox or you know, you got a good sale or something because maybe you want to play this game. Now, Madden isn't on PC. That's kind of a big thing for me because I used to not, my Xbox is where Madden was on PC. But it was one of those things to me that when I got Switch, there was one aspect I knew wasn't going to change. I was still going to play it on TV. That's primarily because of my job. My Switch has docked a lot because I'm recording footage all the time, even if I'm not, even if I'm playing the game for fun, right? I keep thinking, you know what though, I should record the footage of what I'm playing anyways because you never know when I'm going to need footage of that game. Like today? Like today. Kind of sucked. Today I wanted footage of Fire Emblem Warriors. I owned Fire Emblem Warriors. I have played it in the past. I had footage for it but I didn't have enough storage so I threw the footage out and deleted it and now I got frustrated because I wanted it today. And you might think, oh, you have the game. Just go play it and record some more. Well, yeah, but it's currently archived and it's archived because I don't have enough storage on Nintendo. So like I have to sit there and wait two and a half hours to install it to get that footage. How am I waiting? It's just not going to happen. That's another reason that I actually want like a 500 plus gigabyte card so I could just have all my games installed so I can get that footage whenever I want. But part of it's also that I wish I would have kept it in the first place. Well, wait, wait two hours to get it installed to what, maybe 10 minutes of video. Yeah, so now like any time that I have some free time and I'm in my office, not necessarily working. Like maybe I'm just, maybe I'm just watching Netflix and getting away from the kids or something. If I'm playing a game, I won't record footage. But what Switch has done is, like this is one reason I brought this up. Switch has changed how I play and it's not converted me from being like a console or a PC gamer into just playing handheld. But what it's done is it's made me not want to go back to a life before hybrids. I don't, I do not want Nintendo to release a standalone under TV box anymore. Nor do I want the little reach a standalone handheld. Great, I don't. If I have it my way, at least for the foreseeable future, this is what Nintendo is. A hybrid company. Giving me a system that gives me the, maybe not the best of both worlds. Because again, Xbox One X right now is the best for under TV. And maybe not the best mobile experience necessarily because I think I think iPhone X is now and stuff like that. They're starting to surpass it a little bit in terms of power. But it gives me enough of the good stuff from both worlds to satisfy me. As you said, console quality games on the go. Yes. Great. Breath of the Wild for those who aren't aware is the best selling Zelda game ever released. Ever. Dang. And it feels weird even saying that, but it's a console Zelda game that I can play anywhere I want. Heck yeah. When I'm on the crapper and pausing and listen to live stream, I'm not pausing. That game's coming with me. It has been proven by arguing with myself. Yes. You know, whether it's on my couch, whether, you know, when we're going to E3, I'm really playing Hella Switch on the plane. Oh yeah. I'm probably watching a movie and playing Hella Switch on the plane. Heck yeah. Because I can do both now. I can have the movie play in the back of the headrest and then I can also play my Switch. Yeah. As I eat, well, as I eat the free peanuts they give me. Yeah. Actually, we might, the first flight, we might get free lunch. Oh yeah. So it's actually in the middle of lunch. I'll probably sleep beforehand. Oh, right. Because the lunch options aren't usually that great and where we are. Probably expensive. If we want to do first class. And probably expensive. No, I think the lunch is included. Oh, really? Okay. Yeah. But I mean, it's like those pre-packaged things. Okay, why not? It's better than nothing. But I'm one of those people that actually uses Switch for what it is. It's a hybrid. I play under my TV and I play on the go. I play in my house on the go and on the TV. I have a little SwitchCon dongle thing. Still works technically. It's a little finicky since some of the new updates. I don't know if there's a firmware update for that thing I could download. I know all about the bricking. I hear people screaming at me now. You keep saying, don't use those things. It bricks your system. I'm aware. It's my choice. Thank you very much. If I brick my Switch, that's all on me. And you could actually get a brick switch fixed now. We now know what causes it. Or at least what part of it's frying out that you need to replace. But yeah, it's changed my life because I never played handle gaming really much besides the Zelda game. And I was actually even falling out of playing console games altogether. When I gamed, it was PC. Most of the time. Not because I had a lot of time in the PC game even, but just because I, kids, life, when I'm in front of a TV, I just want to lay down and Netflix and chill. I don't really even think about playing a game. But when I was around my computer, I think, oh yeah, I'm doing this, doing this. I need a break. Let me turn the game on quick. Let me get steam game. Let me get Age of Empires up. Let me get whatever. And now I'm like, I can't remember the last time I sat down and played a PC game. I'll probably see a Thieves just to try it out. I don't, with a free trial I had of Game Pass, I can't remember, you know, before that, you know, yeah, I have Age of Empires 2, you know, HD and stuff. I can remember instances I played a little bit, but I don't remember the last time I had like just a long gaming session on my PC. Yeah. And I kind of miss it admittedly. But, then I don't because I'm so satisfied with Switch. It's because there's so many experiences. I mean, the top eight Nintendo games on that platform, I love all eight of them. And that includes games like 1, 2 Switch. Includes Arms. It includes Kirby Star Allies. Whoa. Which some people really don't like and don't think it's a good game and I'm like, I don't care. I had a blast playing it. Maybe my standards are lower than yours, but then again, my standards are lower than most people. I just want to have fun. If I'm having fun, then that's all that matters to me. Obviously, there's certain franchises like Zelda I can get picky about, but that's because those are also the games that I am like, I'm deep in, like deep in the lore. Like Kirby, I'm not deep in the lore. Kirby, who gives a crap? I just played a Smash Things Around, suck them up, and play with some weird powers. That's what was weird though because Kirby's up in the yard and you couldn't do that and I still enjoyed it. But I enjoyed it even though it didn't feel like a Kirby game. It was really weird. Interesting. Maybe you enjoyed it because it didn't feel like a Kirby game. Just like Majora's Mask. Dun, dun, dun, dun. And there goes there goes some subscribers. Or like even Zelda too, right? It's an RPG. Completely different from Zelda 1. But yeah, I guess it's just made me more of a gamer and it's done it in a way that I am actually surprised. I thought when I got Switch I would basically use it exclusively handheld outside of when I'm doing something for work. I knew I'd use it for to record footage or stream but I'm like, I figured that's the only time. But I've actually played it on my 4K TV. I haven't done it on the TV upstairs yet but I've done it on the 4K one down near the big screen. I have done it at a hotel TV even. And I find myself just using it in the like if I have a TV readily available that no one's using, I'll use the TV. But if it's not really available or if I want to watch something on it then I'll and I did that with Wii U even but Wii U I felt like I'm tethered in my living room. This just makes it, I can do this everywhere. Right. And I think that's what's so great about it. I am a fully converted hybrid gamer now and I never want to live a life where I can't be that. So I actually dread the day that Nintendo decides their new innovation isn't going to be hybrid. Great. Thankfully I probably don't have to worry about that for like the next decade but that's kind of where I sit. You never know? I guess we'll go to our third topic. Did we get Darren's opinion on that one? If it's changed him? Yeah, he was the first one. Okay. Yep. Yes, we did. Sorry. Oh, I think Darren's coming down right now. You want you to do something about that? Are we losing Darren? All right, hold on. Let me chuck one more. Okay. There we go. There we go. You know what? Just for that, I'll give you a little shotter. Hey, Martin, insert the Popeye theme music there. This is green, I just realized. Yeah. Hey, look through me. Oh, jeez. But this is red. All red. This one's for you, Darren. Hell yeah. Sure did the pumpkin instead. All right. Oh, man. So our third topic. What do we want to see from the Switch in the future? We're talking games. We're talking features. What do we want to see? I mean, let me give you a bit more specific. Let's first sit on features. Nintendo Switch is online. It's coming later. Mm-hmm. What the hell do we want that thing to be? I don't know. Give me regular voice chat, man. Yeah, right. Regular voice chat. Is that it? That's all you care about? That's it. As long as I get to use my headset, I'm good. I'm good. Don't care about matchmaking, cross game chat. I'm trying to think of some of the standard features. The ability to join people's games without having to necessarily load up the game. You can see someone's playing it like, oh, someone's playing multiplayer Splatoon. Well, you know how you can tap on them and join a match when you're in the game. But how about I see that and I go to their profile and I just select the game and it boots me into it to the match. Or spectating or Twitch streaming or achievements or a zillion other things that Nintendo's never done. That everyone else is doing. Just voice chat. Just voice chat. Yes, voice chat. That's all you care about. Just all the above. Those other things wouldn't hurt either. Yes, all the above. Okay. All right. You got any thoughts? Honestly, at this point in time, whatever we want with it, Nintendo's going to go in the complete opposite direction. So, is there a point to even want? Well, there's always a point to want. Right, yeah. Because while Nintendo's very stubborn company, they do usually improve things at a snail's pace. Yes. But they do it based on feedback. So there's a point to want. It's weird because I say that, and then they brought friend codes back. And I'm like, why? Who asked you to bring those back after you got rid of them on Wii U? But we did keep asking for a universal account system and Nintendo account kinda is that. It just doesn't have any of the functionality of a universal account system. But all of your purchases are at least tied to your account. Explain how big a deal that is. Your purchases on Wii U were never tied to your Wii U account. They were tied to the system. You could transfer your account to a new Wii U, but that did not transfer your purchases. You had to do a Wii U system transfer to transfer the purchases over. So say you were all digital on Wii U. You, then for some reason your Wii U breaks. And you decide you know what, I'm gonna install my account on another system. You can't transfer your purchases because they're all tied to the system that's broken. That's even worse by the way than the fact that we don't have backup saves. Now you lose your games. Yeah. You don't just lose your save files. You lose your games. But whatever. Nintendo realized that was a horrible, cause they tried a new account system for Wii U. They were like, okay, that was dumb. We're never doing that again. So now with Switch you can, you get all your purchases back at least. So it's a true universal account system in that sense. But again, they crawled to get there. They went through we know better. Now they do full, what was it? You can now add friends off Facebook and Twitter I think. And that also on Switch. It's another way to friend them. And it's like, to get to that they had to create Miiverse first. They had to be like, no, we know social networking better than the people who do social networking. And granted, there's a lot of things I liked about Miiverse. They even knock in the service. There's things I didn't like, things that could have been better. Nintendo clearly didn't really understand social networking, but there were still some cool aspects. I like the drawing aspect. That's something I wish that Twitter would add. Or like let people, especially if you're using a phone or tablet, let them draw. Let them draw a tweet. Natively. You can always draw a tweet. But like if you do it on Twitter. But besides that, it was just kind of like Miiverse was kind of a neat idea, but Nintendo realized that we shouldn't really make our own social network. We should work with the ones that exist. So they get there. So yes, it does matter what we want. Probably not now. But for the next Nintendo system. Yeah, right? Yeah. But let's assume that even if they don't listen this year that they're going to listen by the time Switch Pro or Switch XL or whatever comes out. What do you want? Do you want just standard features? Or is there like some new-fangled idea that you're like, standard features are cool. Won't this be better? It'd be interesting to see how VR would play on it. VR? Not that I'm, you know. Sure. I've never really actually played it. Well, I mean, they had a patent for a headset for VR for Switch. So it's definitely something they've tested it, you guys. It's a possibility. I mean, it worked the same way VR works on phones. Switch I don't think has in my opinion a good enough quality screen to do it. Well, doesn't mean they can't do it technically. Right. Yeah, it could be a future thing. I mean, it'd be a little bit more convenient than PlayStation VR right now, which needs like an extra headset plus the system, plus converter boxes, plus a zillion cables. This would be a cable-less experience, which is, again, you can get that with your phones. You already got your controller and we need to do that. Yeah, already more shaking controls, yeah. Yeah, and you wouldn't need a camera because you could use tracking, head tracking of the actual Switch and the Joy-Cons. Yep. So, I mean, again, it's a lot like phone VR. It's not as good as, you know, like HTC Vive or whatever, but I mean, it's there. It exists. Right. Right. It'd be interesting to see how that would work. Google car board, baby. Nintendo Labo VR. Why the hell did it take me that long to get that? Hey, let's put that in. Yeah, submit that idea to Nintendo D3. Hey. Yeah. I gotta kill it in Nintendo Labo VR. It doesn't even need to be good. Yeah. Nintendo Labo had to be good. It's the fun of getting there. Yeah, right. You build your own VR headset out of nothing. Congratulations. And then you can play some and then you basically just play like the the AR game from 3DS where like you could shoot heads and stuff like that of your friends. Yeah. Like you get their social media profile images in and then you just peep peep peep peep. Oh, this is so good. It's the game. Yeah. Oh, right. Right. You built it. So, like you feel special. Yeah. Actually, to be honest. Yeah. That's the way it kind of was a lot in Nintendo Labo things, at least from not my personal experience what I've talked to people who have it. It's like 90% of the fun is building. Mm-hmm. And the rest of it's just actually doing something when you're all done. They say the piano is obviously really cool. Yeah. You know, limited because, you know, you're limited with how many keys are, but it's still cool and I've even seen some people who dare to own two switches build two pianos and try to do left-hand, right-hand and actually create chords and stuff. And apparently it's crazy because you can also do different sound effects and get them in the right key. Like, do musicians, they figure out how to make music. Oh, yeah. You take the shot glass and they'll create a song from it if I tell them to. Oh, yeah. So, like, they do crazy things like that. But again, it's still kind of a novelty. All the garage is cool. I haven't seen any great garage creations yet, but I think that's because using garage where you make your own stuff and you put things together I've seen the guitar, but it's almost like even though I've seen the guitar, I've seen so many people do a guitar that it's like, okay, that's not really you using garage. Nintendo taught us how to make that, so you're just making that. Basically it's just like the piano. But I do feel like there's going to be some crazy creations coming down the line. We're in the experimental stage right now. People are just figuring out what the IBO is. So let's see what happens later. And I think that would do like a cardboard VR out of that. I mean, why the heck not? You already put on fake cardboard goggles for the robot, so why not? Why not? Oh, yeah. So I'm doing what I'm not supposed to do. Help. Where'd he go? I'm reading the chat, but I'm reading the chat because I saw something that Mark mentioned that I want to bring up. He says he has an idea. I'll let a third party make Nintendo's accounts because Nintendo fucking sucks at it. Yeah. My whole thing with that is I'm of mine that at least for me, because we're talking about what do we want to see from the platform in the future in terms of features. I want mine, it feels weird saying this because I don't necessarily want them to stop making hardware, but I wouldn't mind if they just teamed up with Xbox and they just said Xbox Live is the backbone for the account system. Because it has everything you want already, standard-wise, and then you could have Nintendo's charm on top of it all. And even though some people might be like, oh, I don't want Game Pass, but Game Pass would only be for games that Microsoft releases anyways. Right. So their back catalog and new games Microsoft wants to do, so it won't affect Nintendo and it would just be an option. There's an example like before Game Pass was a thing, there's EA Play on Xbox. I actually like EA Play. It's like five bucks a month and you get access to a whole vault of games that never get deleted. That's great. And every now and then, they add the latest games like six, eight months later or whatever. And you know that as a vault purchase. If you want to play the game now, yeah, go spend 60 bucks or just wait, it's going to be in the vault. And I like that. I'm not saying that Nintendo should do that for your console, but it's funny because EA does it for five bucks a month. Nintendo's like, yeah, five bucks a game. Yeah. Eight, 10, 15 for some. Sold. Wait, no. Or we're just going to HD remaster for $60. So it's just, I would like to see that approach, I guess, where I would like to see not necessarily Xbox stop making hardware. I actually think Xbox should continue to make under TV boxes that are top of the top line. Be the Apple of TVs. Build, bring that top on the line device. Don't over-priced, of course. But bring the top of the line device. End up getting the Nintendo games even on that platform. I don't know if Nintendo wants to deal with up in 4K or whatever, but get them on that platform. But then, conversely, Xbox games are on Switch. And Xbox is the backbone for all of it. With Nintendo, obviously, having to have a 50% stake in all that revenue and stuff from Xbox Live. I don't know how that would ever work out, but that's kind of a situation I've been dreaming of ever since we found out about Xbox Live being used on Switch with Minecraft. So it's like, they already have Xbox Live technically on Switch. It's just on one game. Right. But what if they did it as a backbone? That's definitely interesting. And especially because since it wouldn't mean that Microsoft and Nintendo were the same company, Nintendo could actually do partnerships with, like, Discord for their voice chat. And even though, like, Microsoft has a relationship with Discord, they don't use it for voice chat or anything like that because they have Skype. But if anything, forget Microsoft, partner with Discord and make them your official chat service. Let it be locally installed on your Switch. There's your solution. You don't have to do any legwork. You just have to let them put the app on Switch and let it run in the background. Boom, voice chat solved. Yeah, right. Cross game chat solved. Everything is solved. Discord already does it. Yeah. Yeah. I got no... Now, I don't care about myself but achievements. And it would be nice to have. Yeah. Nintendo has some achievements on my Nintendo, but they're not, like, accessible on the Switch. Although, you can go change your DNS servers and access the web browser. Fun fact on Switch. It's so simple. You literally change your DNS to this one guy's DNS that runs it through his server and asks for an authentication and when you go to authenticate, it brings up the Switch browser. Hey. And you can browse the Internet. Hey. It actually works quite well. It's just a standard Android browser. Although it doesn't work with YouTube videos. Although there's a workaround for that and then you can end up watching YouTube videos on Switch. Might attempt to do that during E3, like that Monday when we're watching streams to see if I can stream one of the streams on my Switch. Oh, that'd be interesting. Through the web browser, through the YouTube pack. Just for an extra stream in the room. Just to see what happens. Just to see what happens. See if audio comes out. Hey, look. I have this stream taken care of. Treehouse, you are exclusively being streamed on my Switch. I'm going to do it in front of you at the Nintendo booth. Hey. I'm watching you guys on my Switch. How are you? How do you not know about this? Yeah, yeah. What are you going to do? Turn off DNS servers? You ain't touching that. He's going to find, they're going to find your exact switch and brick it. Yeah. So, I don't know. I mean, outside of that, I would say I'd love all the standard features. They're not going to do it. I would love them not to charge at all, but they're going to charge. The big thing is we know they're offering games. I want the games to be worthwhile. I'm not sure I'm really that excited about an NES game with leaderboards. It's like, that's cool, I guess. It brings that arcade feeling back. Well, until somebody hacks the Odyssey? Yeah. Well, they didn't really have to just use in-game glitches to get the highest possible scores you can get. So, I don't know. I'm not really that excited about it. Maybe because I've played all those games a zillion times already, so it's like, you're just giving me something I've already played and bought two, three, four, five, six other times. So, like, why am I paying a subscription service for games that I already have? Especially at the rate they're giving them to you. I think it's a lot for more, not necessarily for us. Well, yeah, for people who haven't. It's for people who haven't. Yeah, yeah. And I wonder, how many Switch owners haven't played a Nintendo system before? Or not even Nintendo system, just like NES, SNES. But NES, SNES, I've been available on every Nintendo system dating back to Wii now. Oh, well, yeah, I don't know. So, like, it's not even new to the system. Virtual console has brought it to Wii, DS, Wii U. Just not Switch. Yeah. That's another thing. I'm of mine now. I've said this before in another video. I don't want virtual console anymore. I'm done with it. I'm done. Hate me all you want. I don't want virtual console. Okay. And it's not just because I don't think they're going to do it. I think the video I said is that I don't think Nintendo is going to do virtual console. Here's all the reasons why. But now it's a want. I don't want virtual console anymore. Okay. Because I realize that the one issue it presents detracting you from other games, I don't think is a big deterrent for game sales, but it's a big deterrent for me from buying other games. Would I have bought golf story if I could have bought Mario Golf on the eShop? Probably not. Yeah. And it's just a me thing because I'm going to want to dive back into that well and play all these games. And it'll detract me from experiencing new things. And my big thing with Switch that I love so much right now is how much it's introducing me to new things that I wasn't playing before. Even at their old ports, they're not that old of ports. Yeah. Besides Skyrim. Yeah. And now the world ends with you. And now, oh geez, bad not a one I suppose would be a certain older port at this point. But you know what I mean? Like it's bringing me into new experiences. So I'm kind of thankful virtual console isn't here because I'm not so sure I would be playing those games. And the thing is you might be like give consumer choice. That's your choice if you want to play those games. Yeah, it's my choice. But I guarantee you if I bought those virtual console games, I ain't beating them. I've already beaten them like two or three other times. I ain't beating them again. I'm just going to want them just to say I have it so I can play it because I'm going to act like I want them. Like Secret of Mana played it on this next classic. When am I ever going to turn a thing on again and play Secret of Mana? No idea. I don't know. Maybe never. Yeah. Because it's nice to thought you almost enjoy the thought of just having the game readily available all the time for me personally. Versus actually playing it a lot. That's the way out. This is why I realize it's early on. For the better occasions you actually want to play it. Well, I realized that early on in virtual console I bought a ton of it early on and then I realized I'm not really playing these games. I'm just buying them from nostalgia because I used to love them and it's not that they're bad but it's my desire to continue to play these games that I've beaten a bunch of times just isn't there. I turn it on once relive some memories and I'm like I'm good. Yeah. But then I don't buy anything new. Yeah, there's that. So I'm actually kind of almost thankful because it got me over that rut of I'm just re-buying these games I've already bought and but never gonna play and then said I'm buying new games and I'm actually playing them. Imagine that. Whoa, no. So yeah. Hate me how you want. No virtual console. I'm cool with that. Darren, any other features you would like to see added? Is he dead? We might have lost him. I think Darren died. We might have lost Darren. Darren! Darren, are you passed out, my buddy? We might have lost Darren. Oh, Darren passed out. I think we lost Darren. Darren's gone. All right. Well, I guess that means we go on to the next topic. Yeah. Last final topic. He made it to half the podcast. Hey, hey, not bad. So the last topic. All things considered? Yeah. Not bad. What improvements hardware-wise now? What we want to see in a revision of Switch? Well, obviously, you know, your newest top-of-the-line, you know, chips and everything. Okay. Graphics-wise, cards, everything. Sure. Are you considering the consequences of that? What? That it's going to be more expensive? Yeah. You don't care? Okay, maybe not top-of-the-line, but, I mean, better? Better? Better? Better? Better? Better? Well, if you think about, like, smartphones, top-of-the-line, overpriced for a lot of cases, but top-of-the-line, you know, they're selling them $800, $900. Yeah. Like, I'm not saying Switch is going to go that high. Right. But, I mean, $500 might not be out of the question if it's, like, say, like, obviously the top-of-the-line Tegra chip announced the X2, but by the time they start to go to assembly, it could be the Tegra X3. Right. Which might be a $500 system if they put that in. Right. Uh, well, you know, why do you always got to do this to me? Well, because here's the thing, like, talking about what we want, I'm a person that balances what I want versus what it means to have it. Okay? So, it's going to increase the price, but what are we going to get for that price increase? Right. What do you think we're going to get for that price increase? What would you want? Like, you're, like, obviously the most up-to-date chip, but what do you want that chip to be and do? Like, what, how does it enhance the switch? Right. It, I guess, it just allows you to play more things at a, more games at a better frame rate and, you know. So, are we talking, like, finally, every game's 1080p 60fps? Right. Is that what you're kind of talking about? Yeah. Because at 4K 60, I think, global-wise, is the long race at least. Right. No, for sure. For consoles. So, besides, like, specific indie games. Right. Okay. What else would you like to see in a hardware revision? I, or do you even want a hardware revision? That's a good question, too. Right. Um, I think it's the right time for one. I don't know. Probably another couple of years, maybe a year and a half, too. Okay. So, like, 2020? Yeah. Somewhere in the near. I'm trying to decide if I want something that's got a different size screen. I don't know whether I want it. Bigger or smaller? That's what I'm trying to figure out. Because, I mean, if I go any smaller, I'm already sitting at cell phone. Sure. My piece. Right, exactly. So, do I go bigger? But if I go bigger, how much does that change the portability? Well, let me grab my switch. You keep talking about it. Yeah. Like, is there anything else? Um, no, not really, actually, but, um, I don't know. No. That's it? It'd be an interesting to find a way to actually find a better way to carry it on your persons, as well. I mean, besides being in a massive carrying case. What do you mean? Like the 3DS. It's nice that you can just slip it in your pocket. I can't slip it in my pocket. Yeah. With the Joy-Cons. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, but I'm, I'm, yeah. It's not any more bulkier than throwing my phone in my wallet. Right. But what I'm saying is, is I'm more worried about like the joysticks on the Joy-Cons. Well, if you put them in jeans, like you would. Yeah. Yeah. Nice baggy shorts. Yes. That's totally fine and easy. All my clothes are baggy. Yeah. Well, besides my jeans. Right. But I don't even put my 3DS in my jeans. Right. Well, I barely put my wallet in my jeans. I'm being honest. I don't even know if I put my cell phone. I think it's like put it in a different pocket. Well, the thing is, like for a bigger screen, I mean, you got the bezel. You can just get rid of the bezel and make that harder the screen. Right. So that's what I'm going to do without changing the size of the switch. Yeah. That would be nice, actually. Because it is a pretty large bezel, which is like what tablets used to be, like, and I'm not sure why they did that design-wise. Maybe it was cheaper. I'm not 100% sure. Maybe they were worried about some of the components and the initial design with the Joy-Cons connecting. The rails you know, the rails go into here. They don't go to where the screen starts. Right. So, you know, it is something that maybe it's just they knew maybe there's a maybe there's a couple of plugs or something that have to be that are won't fit behind the screen. Maybe. I don't know. Because if the screen is a little bit deeper than the actual bezel is, maybe there's something, some plugs or something on like that the chips or something that hide behind the bezel. Yeah, maybe. You know what I just realized? What? For those who don't know. Besides the fact that we're missing Darren? No, no. That's why I threw the headphones out. I don't even mind, though. I'm replacing the back plate of my switch with this white one and I was just thinking about this for hardware revisions. How cool it is that I'm putting my own revision in with this because when I'm at E3 I can meet him over the same white if I meet him. Yeah. Won't that be sick? It would be. Then you could just never use your switch again. I know that's the problem. I think what would happen is I would buy a new switch and then put this on the back and put it on display somewhere. Right. Or you could just take the back off right now until you can have the actual I guess means to buy the new switch, I guess, but yeah. You just buy a new back and put the new back on that one. Yeah, I just buy a new back and swap it out. Right. But just speaking of it, I want a white switch. Yeah. I'm making my own. Or how about I don't want to do that. How about actual face plates and stuff? It may have to be back plates. What? I mean, you know what I mean. You can do more with the joy counter than colors, Nintendo. Right. You can like put patterns and stuff on them. You know, the back plate of it, you know, there's no reason the back plate of it can't see some theming with a little switch logo still relevant. Right. There's no reason the docks. Like, it's weird in Japan. Got a themed dock. Mm-hmm. And I'm like, why are we not seeing that more off? Why is it just pro controllers and then joy con colors? Yeah. Right. It'd be nice to have like dockskins. Or. Well, I mean, there's docks. Well, yeah, but those aren't officially Nintendo. Yeah. That's the thing. There's docks. There is the there is the Nintendo like officially branded plate. You can get that either Breath of the Wild or Mario that kind of like that's an accessory. Right. That's not like a special edition. Mm-hmm. And they did it a lot with 3DS. So like that's one, I'm talking about that because that's one thing I would like to see hardware-wise. Even though it doesn't change the hardware itself, it makes it more collectible. And I like that. Yeah. I like systems being a little bit collectible. Yeah. Outside of that, obviously I want to get rid of bezels. Yeah. I want at least the Tegra X2. I think they can get the Tegra X2 for just more storage. Yeah. More storage. That's huge. I don't know how much is enough. I don't know where the cost would be for consumers. Mm-hmm. I want to say 500 gigabyte but then or 528 or whatever it has to be for Flash. But at the same point, is that going to make the system cost $600? Then I'm like, well, I would pay that but how many others would? Should there be a Switch Pro that has like a 4K dock? I don't know. Should they even have a dock with extra power in it or should they have a Switch Mini? I've always been against a Switch Mini but then you talked about the portability and putting in your power. That's not happening unless it's a Switch Mini. Right. And it would have to have joy-con that don't come off and you'd almost have to get rid of the thumb sticks and replace them with the sliders that 3DS has. Yeah. And is that something we really want? Is it still hybrid because it doesn't have the actual board inside the docks not very big but then it's not compatible with anything else and then it might not have the detachable joy-con which is a big deal. Right. So there's a lot of a lot of stuff going around with Switch where I'm not really sure what to think about it in terms of hardware revisions beyond screen, bigger screen that's 1080p with Tiger X2. How much RAM is in a Switch? Four. Four? Maybe up to six or eight? I'd like to see six. I think eight is ideal if they can get enough other better CPUs. Right. But without better CPUs I don't have any more six. I think six would be good because even if even if all they do is take the two and use it for the OS that means they're straight up four available for games all the time. And more RAM also can run things in the background like discord. Right. Oh. Yeah. Right. Right. Yeah. Also hardware wise man I would like to see a Switch that gets rid of the plastic clips. No. So this stops happening to me. Notice how I did not press the buttons to loosen those. I realize not everyone has this issues and it means my clips are broken. But they broke because they're plastic. Now I'm not seeing like I'm going to replace them with metal and I understand design for metal but there are devices out there that I have metal clips that work with metal that can be just like switch and work. So I would like to see a design that improves upon that includes metal clips with a rail that cannot necessarily wear down as easily. All you do that is different hardness of metal and stuff like that they can make it happen if they really wanted to a little bit more expensive than obviously the plastic but I mean I paid seven dollars I think for the off brand because they're from China but like seven bucks for two little metal nubs it's like Nintendo could have found a way to make that happen I'd like to see better kickstand yeah or even better placement I mean why is it off to the side heating okay because you have the heat pipes here you have the charge port here so you're kind of running out of places to put it what I would like to see is one here and one here one of those oh yeah yeah that would actually see how you get this well you wouldn't have it you'd have one that would be a weird design but it works but it'd be a lot more stable yeah it'd be way more stable I also would like to see a kickstand that supports multiple angles so right now you basically get one angle officially yes if I can get this out yeah it's actually nice my clad isn't broken yet but this is basically the angle you get but I'd like to see one that lets you go lower maybe like this like this or even almost standing up completely straight for different situations but right now you get one angle right so I kind of I don't think that would be even that hard you just have a extender on the arms that you can just yeah I mean there's there's kickstands like that on other devices that work not on my phone my phone just has the solitary kickstand like that that's my phone like for a device like this that I actually want to stand up a lot right it would be nice to have it on the hands one thing obviously is a joy-con option that has a D-pad you don't have to include it with the system but it has an option to buy at the market officially I think that's an obvious one doesn't have anything no a Nyko is releasing one but you can't use it wirelessly it doesn't have any of the other joy-con features like rumble or anything got it so it's basically just you have to use it like this all the time which is fine for some people who only use their switch that way but I mean you can buy a joy-con cases that you take this off and you actually add a D-pad where these are it actually works quite well but again that's all fans are doing that Nintendo should have that officially supported I also wouldn't mind Nintendo this is more of a pipe treatment I would like to see them support multiple micro SD cards at once have two or three slots if I could put in my 128 I have in here now with my two other 32 gigs that I just have laying back because me next to 64 gigs of storage right and then this is a dream and raid zero basically so the views that is one hard drive instead of three right but still it would be nice just to be able to plug in multiple oh no for sure because then people would be like oh did I get the 256 would I just buy two 128 for cheaper well there you go it gives you options or you buy two 256 or two 400s and you end up with almost a terabyte in here exactly I mean that would be nice and that's something I don't even think would cost that much to add an extra micro SD port in there and a controller or change the controller so you can have multiple I would also you know headphone jack on the joy cons probably on the bottom of the left one since we had the IR camera here having one down here because then even though they can keep the headphone jack up here when you use the portable but add one on the controller and you put them in the and you put them in the grip which I don't have laying around here that way you can do local voice chat or use local headphones without having to run a cable to the switch or not even on the joycon itself but on the grip it could be on the grip sure that's another way to look at it because if you look at the Xbox controller where the voice chat comes in sure it's in the middle but there's also people who don't use the grip they just they use your joycon like this yeah there's that you're just like this it'd be kind of cool to use the cord running but if you want that local headphones why not so that's another change I would like to see also on the pro controller obviously I don't know why there's not one on the pro yeah that's a little weird well if they don't have voice chat why do they need it just to listen to headphones some people prefer gaming to headphones you know you get a fuller sound yeah that's a Nintendo I'm just fancy now other issues I've had it'd be nice to actually have something some sort of electronic that has a screen come with an actual screen protector put on them already no they're never gonna do that they'll never put it on they'll never pre-apply because pre-applying a screen protector means that they're admitting their device needs a screen protector we all know that so it doesn't there's plenty of people don't use screen protectors well those people are weird some of them don't have like look at me even I get this much in the corner like all these fingerprints are not as big of a problem without the screen protector I'm creating some problems using the screen protector but I'm also doing it because I don't want to scratch anything or break the screen but some people don't have that issue at all it's all about options you actually are taking away an option by saying look we're just gonna make you already use it and already have it as an example the new camera we just got the G7 over there it doesn't come with a screen protector for the LCD screen I mean I have some for it that I'm going to apply but it's not there pre-applied in the box the only reason why I say that is a lot of times when you especially like right here you get bubbles and crap in it well this is this happening because it's actually crap oh right no I know that it wasn't doing that before but but it's also when it's applied hopefully right away you don't have dust and dirt and other crap that some of us like that's not in the factories yeah that made in the clean room over there hey they could be using air to blow on it why they put it on I don't know um bigger battery yeah I don't know how there's like no space in the thing but maybe they just make it slightly fatter or something I don't know what I think they could do is just add an attachment that you could put on the slip on the back plug into the charge port you mean that already exists there's already things that do that so why would I need a tender for that I don't know I would rather it just be just be a full a full without it it's just I would like that on the system I would like to not to add something to it oh yeah no what in a bigger battery um and you can't tell me you can't do it because like even my phone battery right like the one that the camera battery the one that came with this 1200 mAh the battery that I bought extra for all of them are the exact same size but higher capacities they can find a way to make it higher capacity if they want um so I would like to see higher capacity battery would it be nice though like I think these are what 4,000 I believe I'm not sure um I would like to see 10 but would be what would be actually really nice is if we actually improved our battery devices overall well we need it'd be nice to finally make some major advancements in battery technology um there are some advancements that exist out there but they're not even close to being consumer ready um but yeah it's I'm trying to think about any other heart I'm like I'm just sitting there staring at this thing I mean the dock we can always tell about the dock being a slightly better designed um they've already added the pads on the inside and I actually like the look of the dock overall um but you know they could do some probably some things that doesn't really make a difference um yeah for those who don't know the wifi is actually slightly faster there's a network card on there slightly faster wifi than it does handle the ethernet because the ethernet port doesn't work as a 3.0 port it only works as a 2.0 port oh boy um so yes even though switch has 3.0 ports they're not actually supported so they all run at 2.0 speeds and 2.0 speeds are slower than your wifi if you're in a place where you're at the edge of your wifi obviously wire it but yeah that's another thing like actually have proper USB 3.0 support and just include the ethernet in the things you don't have to use 3.0 and then you get your full ethernet speeds um so like as you see there's a lot of little things but those little things can add up there's ways to improve this that are not that expensive I'm not saying that I actually I understand why it's a plastic screen instead of a glass one um it's for durability because you might be able to easily scratch it compared to glass but glass shatters plastic doesn't you drop your switch if it's glass you might break the screen whereas you drop a plastic it ain't breaking the screen you might get a scratch but you ain't breaking it it ain't gonna shatter right um but yeah I mean I get it but it's so I'm actually okay with the plastic screen that doesn't actually bother me like it does with some people um but I'm also willing to put on my own screen protector that makes a difference as well but like I would have did that anyways even if it was a glass screen I still would have put a screen protector on oh for sure that's why it doesn't matter to me because no matter what I'm putting a piece of glass on top anyways so put a glass on top a glass on top of plastic I honestly can't tell the difference because I'm touching version wise um you know I kind of like everything I guess the way it is I would like digital or not digital uh analog triggers um but the other thing too is that the game cartridge door seems a little flimsy yeah I haven't had too many issues with that it's just it not that I have issues with it it's just seems flimsy I think what's in here with Odyssey right now yeah yet, but I've seen people were like after a while of opening and closing this thing like they can't get it to go back down flush like mine does right now It keeps sticking up a little bit and it's not so much that it really matters because it's just a cover doesn't Right, but if they don't even need it like we didn't have covers on our game right now I know but it's a little it's a OCD thing. It's like oh, yeah Something's wrong with my switch. Yeah, um, obviously, I don't know. I want to get that game so that late shift Just came out today. Oh nice. It's like a movie, but you make decisions rapid-fire throw. Oh, dang Then he has seven different endings and dang Yeah, that's actually by the way spoiler for those that are watching now live or you watch us on Monday That's gonna be our Wednesday stream. We're gonna be playing late shift So it's gonna be fun and we're gonna as long as it is like an hour and a half or two hour movie Whatever it is It's a game where I make decisions and it just keeps going it doesn't stop to wait for you to make a decision It'll just make the decision for you if you Well, I guess I that I guess it's because every decision point there is there also is the decision to do nothing Mm-hmm, and that's the decision that happens if you don't do quick enough So I'll be trying to respond to chat. I don't know if I can pause the movie Hope I can pause the movie to read the chat if I can't it's gonna be like, uh, I Fucked up and everybody died. Yeah. Well not ignoring you guys, but yep playing this everybody died. Yep, man. Oh Can you think of any other improvements you might make to the hardware? Um, you know, no, not really not really. No You're doing it again Yeah, I know walks. I've seen if someone else had a suggestion I know someone mentioned that the joysticks They're downgrade from we you and they are But I don't actually want them to be full joysticks Mm-hmm and The reason that I don't want them be full joysticks like the pro controller here Because the pro controller, you know, these are full full on joysticks. It's like what we you had Is because I am taking this thing portable and and the higher and bigger the sticks are the more likely they are to break Mm-hmm, and you might say oh, but that's never happened to my controller I'll be asked how many times you throw a controller in your backpack into friend cells And it's stuck in a certain position or the stick is cracked or the knob is broken off I've had that happen my entire life. Uh-huh. I don't want that to happen to my switch So like the higher the sticks are the higher the chances that might happen so I actually I think this is a good compromise between full joysticks and The slider mm-hmm, like I don't want the slider, but I don't This form I don't want full. I honestly didn't even mind the slider Like I'm like Going the way I want Right, right You know, I thought about the idea of like adding a camera Then I'm with you. We're seeing like video chat. I'm like, okay Yeah, the only thing I care about is maybe a camera on the back. So then like when you're portable You could do some AR games. I mean kind of cool like that would open up some possibilities Okay, I care about yeah like Pokemon go, you know If you have that hooked up what you know Wi-Fi wise to your phone or something you're walking around you can play Pokemon Go on here. That might be kind of cool. Yeah Especially if Pokemon switches on here and they interact Pokemon go somehow that would be interesting But I don't know just kind of some thoughts I have on how I would improve it just in a lot of little minor ways But if they're just little things that add up I know some people want a stylus. I guess that could be a thing For people who really want it. I honestly don't care After about a week and a half. I lost him so Man, this is so good. That's on the back plate that I'm replacing. What no crack No, a little scoff. I know right a scoff. Oh, but right by the headphone somebody see that. Yeah. Yeah, okay Make sure there's no damage on the part and not my cracks on the front You all you oh, yeah, sir. You've a crack on the front. Mm-hmm I have no cracks on the part that I'm not replacing which is the front. Mm-hmm. That's good. I'm my joy come Well, I don't know. I don't know what the Yeah, I don't know I don't know what's considered the front and how much how far it goes up to the well you got See the front the front wraps around you can kind of see the line right there. Okay separates. Oh, yeah Yeah, that's definitely a plate mine's definitely on the front. Yeah, so Yeah, mine's on the back. So you can see I got chip out of this corner. Yeah, and then crack Yeah, that's fun Again, we're doing a video on that for kids. That's gonna be awesome kids and life. Yeah, replacing it with this It'll be great Can't wait to do a video on that. I've never taken apart my switch. So this should be fun I might even I thought about it I'm not sure if I want to do it take apart the joy con one joy con have one blue one white Mm-hmm mechanical Well, we'll see Because if you look at the inside Oh, I don't know that they're over there They're actually like kind of complex a little bit versus on screw a back plate screw doing on done. Yeah, right? know what you could do is You'd have one blue one white and then you put some Nintendo Prime stickers down on the bottom corners there You and I know because I don't have any yet I need to get some for the headphones. Yeah, I know you just put I gotta find one like a size I gotta measure the one here and then you put one here and you're good at the bottom of the joy con No, no, no, I actually think I'd like it if I had the blue one Well, yeah, but still it would work. I actually think that I would just do only on the white one Yeah, it's kind of like an offset thing. Yeah You know, it's an idea or I get some custom one of the ones that he's made that has the wraparound bomb logo Oh, yeah, all the way around and then over on here. It just says Internet Prime. Yeah, there you go guys You guys got hooked me up with some custom jobs out there Now now now that my switch is out of warranty. All I want to do is modify Angles not not hacking it right just modifying the look. Yes, so bad All right, if only I could switch off the memory module for a larger one That would be great to be can't do that because they're all locked to the board. So, of course Yeah, I might also find a way to maybe better the cooling Because I haven't an issue yet, and I have no bengate issues. I don't think But I do know that for some people when they play switch for a while the notice it gets really hot on the back And you'll see that with your phone as well But it seems more noticeable on switch. So and it feels weird because it's got a fan So shouldn't it be less noticeable? So maybe some way to improve the cooling I don't know how they do that. Maybe maybe they go to a vapor chamber design Yeah, instead of using active fans I think because that's what Xbox one X uses and obviously that could be a little bit more pricey But then again in this form factor, there's phones that are starting to do it now. So If phones can pull it off why not switch, right? I mean multiple it's worth it's worth a try and experiment at least Someone out there now and now I'm giving ideas for people to be like, you know what? I'm gonna try to replace the cooling with my own vapor chamber. Hey, let me know how it works I'm willing to modify this bad boy now. Let me tell you heck I'll take the Tiger X1 chip on and put an X2 in and see what happens It probably won't be compatible. Probably not but but ooh De-soldering and re-soldering the Tiger X2 I wonder if someone's tried it yet Maybe. Part of the Tiger X2 device and took the Tiger X2 and tried to solder it into the switch Over the instead of take out the X1. I don't know if it would even work Probably not because I've designed for it, but Would it actually make things faster or it just run at the speeds of the X1 Yeah, yeah Find out more on next week's Nintendo Prime hog head That's gonna do it for this week. Thank you guys for tuning in. I am the center of a dance from the Nintendo Prime This is Eric Moore. Oh, you can follow you where at Twitter Yes at Twitter on Twitter at emo 8790 and you can follow us at Ninty and I nty Prime on Twitter or my personal Twitter at any chance don't really I don't know why I bring it up Like I barely ever tweet on it, but I do tag myself on the podcast We've just because I don't know. There's the corporate account The personal account the corporate account I use like a person Yeah, you know, yeah that you got in trouble I mean I am Nintendo Prime. 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