 Hey everyone, welcome back to Prime News. Holy crud has been a while, has it not? A lot has happened in my life, but let's not talk about that because we're here to talk about the news. Hello, there's a Nintendo Direct coming. Duh, you know we're talking about that a little bit. But first, let's get into what has basically been a confirmed thing. It's the rumor it will probably be talked about in the Direct, and that is Assassin's Creed for Black Flag and Rogue Remastered are listed for Nintendo Switch by a Greek retailer. Now that in and of itself is just an interesting tidbit, not necessarily newsworthy, until the huge X of reset era fame and also an analyst, a professional analyst inside the industry, he puts out a lot of things on Twitter as well. He has come out and said it's real. So yeah, Assassin's Creed 4, Black Flag, Remastered, Rogue, et cetera, all that stuff is coming to Nintendo Switch. And this isn't even announced for other platforms yet. So I assume it's gonna come to those as well. I fully expect to hear about it in the Nintendo Direct, along with some prior rumored stuff out there, like Overwatch and stuff like that that we've talked about. So some cool stuff. Let's just get into that next story. This is actually just a real quick one. I wanna remind you, Final Fantasy VIII Remastered is available on Switch today. Right now, this is big because it's never been re-released since its original release way back when. I actually played it originally on PC. So it's great to see this game come back. And as I said, it's available now, right now on Switch. Like if you've never played Final Fantasy VIII, now's the time to do it. So what are you doing? Like even if you have a PlayStation or something, like go buy this game. It's great. It's one of my favorite Final Fantasy games, one of the most underrated Final Fantasy games in my opinion. Astral Chain came out last Friday and we don't have sales figures yet in Japan or the US or anything like that. But we do have the charts from the UK which don't give us any numbers, but do give us a ranking in terms of which game sold best. And Astral Chain is debuted at number one in the UK. Now, this might not mean anything other than the fact that a Platinum Games game has never actually debuted at number one in the UK. So this is a big deal. It's a Switch exclusive game. It's at number one and it's the first Platinum Games game ever to debut in the number one spot in the UK. So that's big news. Congratulations Platinum Games. Congratulations Nintendo. Definitely looks like you smashed it on your hands. 87 plus on Metacritic. It's going great. I know the review bombings happening. And speaking of that review bombing, Hideki Kamiya, you know, the lead guy behind Astral Chain had something to say about this because a fan tweeted at him in Japan about how he might, you know, do you hate Sony? Are you, you know, kind of this guy that just doesn't like Sony gamers? Why isn't Astral Chain on Switch? Well, Hideki Kamiya responded and needless to say, he wasn't taking any bullshit. Here's what he said, directly quoted. Well, it would be great to have Mario Zelda and Metroid on PlayStation 4 too. As for me, do I hate PlayStation? I'm just a developer fulfilling my contractual obligations. So I don't know. Maybe you could try asking my publisher and investor, Nintendo. In other words, all of the review bombing and whining from Sony fans is bullshit. Nintendo bought and paid for this game. They co-developed the game. They literally funded the game 100% and they hired Platinum Games to be the lead developer. Nothing about this game is possible to come to PlayStation 4 unless Nintendo said, hey, take a game we paid for and put it on someone else's platform, which isn't going to happen. This is the kind of Sony buying a game from Platinum Games and then saying, hey, why don't you go put that game on Nintendo? It's not going to happen. Like it's such a ridiculous notion that Hideki Kamiya, Platinum Games, hates the PlayStation platform. When they put so many games on the PlayStation platform, Nintendo bought, paid and co-developed this game. What more are the Sony fans understanding? I understand being upset about not getting a high quality game on your system, but who are you really upset at? Why are you upset at Platinum Games? What did they do wrong? Nintendo approached them, gave them money, signed a contract with Platinum. So be mad at Nintendo, I guess. Then again, what are you mad about anyways? This is the way the industry works. Sony buys exclusives all the time. In fact, Sony doesn't have that many internal studios, so almost every exclusive game they have, Death Stranding, was bought. So, apparently Terry Bogard from King of Fighters might be making an appearance as a Smash DLC character. Now, this is kind of a longer story that's been going on for at least a week. Basically, Nintendo of Europe, oopsie, when they were listing the Smash Pass on their website and listing characters from SNK, they didn't really list the character name, but basically that a character from SNK is in the group, was kind of in the fine print. And that's been deleted off the Nintendo UK, Nintendo of Europe area, but it doesn't matter. The internet found it and that's it. Everyone knows about it. It definitely appears a character from SNK's library is coming in, and King of Fighters is one of the biggest franchises they have. Terry Bogard being one of the biggest characters from that franchise. So it does make a lot of sense, but where we're getting the Terry stuff from specifically actually comes from Vagabond over on Game Facts. He has actually been the one who leaked Ridley and he also leaked Simon Belmont as games coming to, or as characters, I guess, coming to Super Smash Bros. DLC. So yeah, basically he has been spot on. I mean, I know Ridley wasn't part of the DLC, but you know what I'm saying, right? Before we knew Ridley was in the game, he leaked it. So the bottom line is that we're pretty stoked to see this happen. I know there's actually been a little debate on Twitter about why are we bringing back these old characters and all like Smash is a celebration and I don't really want to debate that right now. It's just a celebration of gaming. You can want your characters and not get in. Other people might want Terry Bogard and he might be getting in. So just stay tuned, you know? We have a direct coming up. So we might have a lot of clarity on this very soon. The numbers are in and Pokemon Go had its largest month in terms of revenue and players since September of 2016 last month. And the reason that's happening is because the game's just gotten a lot better. They keep adding more and more Pokemon, making it more better. You could battle more people and they just made everything better. The game today is closer to what the promise was back in 2016. Well, yeah, it's close to $3 billion in gross revenue. $3 billion to put this in perspective. That is equal to one video game at 60 bucks a pop selling 60 million copies. Pokemon, let's go Pikachu, let's go Eevee, sold 11 million. So just putting this in perspective like for the Pokemon franchise and gaming on the whole, Pokemon Go is huge. It is one of the largest things in gaming still to this day. So if you're wondering why we're still talking about it and reporting on this, it's because these numbers are astronomical and there's never been a mobile port of a major IP like this that's ever been successful and there might never be another one as successful again. Nintendo certainly failing at replicating it. Dr. Mario actually had a horrible debut and is the worst launch mobile game for Nintendo yet with revenue and installs. So Nintendo can't seem to crack what Niantic did, but man, Pokemon Go. So we've been talking about it since the very beginning. There is a Nintendo Direct happening tomorrow at 5 p.m. Central Standard Time. It is 40 minutes long and they will have a focus on Sword and Shield and Luigi's Mansion 3, but they did say they will talk about games for the rest of 2019. This is basically what they do for every major Nintendo Direct. They pick two major titles, but they talk about everything else. And then when they say it through the end of 2019, they always end up teasing something for the next year outside of the period they're talking about. Now, if they do talk about something like Animal Crossing, I think that would almost be a bit expected at this point because it does come out early next year. Emily Rogers also put out there that there is a mystery game. It's exclusive to Switch landing in December. That should probably be unveiled tomorrow as well. Smash DLC, Banjo-Kazooie release dates, all that stuff. We're gonna find out everything tomorrow, so I don't really wanna say much more because I'm doing a live stream on this. Actually, I probably already did it at the point that you're listening to this. And we obviously have the Direct tomorrow, so just stay tuned. There's gonna be a lot of great news tomorrow. It's gonna be a huge day here at the channel. Speaking of Banjo-Kazooie, we might already kinda know when it's going to be coming, although it could be Shadowdrop Nintendo Direct. Obviously, things happen. Basically, advertisements for it have appeared at 7-Eleven in Japan next to Advertisement. So Link's Awakening for obviously September 20th. No, that doesn't mean that's the day that Banjo-Kazooie's gonna come out, but what happened in the past with these ads as Hero was advertised in the same way at 7-Eleven's in Japan, and at the end of that advertisement date, a week later, Hero came out. So yeah, basically it sounds like we're getting Banjo-Kazooie before the end of this month. Again, we'll find out tomorrow. I can't guarantee. We'll find out tomorrow. I mean, maybe we'll find out tomorrow. I have no idea. To be honest, I just really know what Nintendo's doing other than killing it. Hell yeah. Anyways, welcome back to Prime News. It has been a long time. Comment, subscribe, comment. There'll be more skits in future ones. I had to rush this one because, hey, I gotta talk more to the Direct on a live stream. So, woo! Let's go. Oh, seriously, Link.