 yesterday's switch version 4.0.0 released new OS version and implemented some new features and we talked about it in a prior video but we hadn't tested these features yet and more importantly than testing of the features which you're gonna see throughout this video me doing some various video captures and maybe going into settings and looking at some new stuff apparently we have some updates to these features that one one particular item is available for you use right now but was never discussed by Nintendo the other is an update to video capture where Nintendo is going to allow you to record more than 30 seconds in the future so this comes from Kotaku specifically their UK branch and it says according to two sources speaking to Kotaku UK the plan internally at Nintendo is for this feature to be expanded once a few conditions have been met Nintendo wants to keep video capture limit to 30 seconds until all first party software supports video capture and third-party adoption of the system level feature has been rolled out to a number of larger games making use of Nintendo properties in this case you're thinking like a mario plus rabbit's kingdom battle fighting the warriors etc while any developers starting today could patch in support for video capture in their games our source to say the Nintendo will be actively approaching developers who have made use of its characters aforementioned fighter of the warriors and mario plus rabbits kingdom battle with a view to get those games supported early adding support would be done via individual game patches like the one seen today for Mario Kart 8 deluxe once those conditions have been met and the feature has been shown to be functionally stable on consumer systems the plan is to add options for larger recordings of one minute three minutes or five minutes selecting one of these larger recording slots would require you to allocate a larger amount of space for a rolling recording this would be handled by a switch firmware update after which all games with 30 second video capture support would be able to make use of larger recording times without needing to be repatched on the game level our sources did not give us a time frame on the support expanding and they did say that their focus for now is on seeing as many switch games as possible supporting the feature so that's just awesome what are the big criticisms of the 32nd thing is that it's just 30 seconds right sometimes you want to have more than a 30 second clip maybe you defeated a boss in Breath of the Wild and what's a boss face take longer than five minutes maybe you want to share like a five minute clip of your boss battle instead of just a 32nd clip well it sounds like you'll be able to do that eventually and these shares I didn't say this in the story yesterday I found this out after the fat these shares are for your purposes of obviously replaying locally on your switch or to share directly on Facebook and Twitter now Facebook and Twitter Twitter especially really compresses videos a lot so don't be surprised if you go and you upload your clip to Twitter and it just doesn't look as good as it does on your switch that's to be expected but on Facebook it'll look much better although Facebook again has some bad compression as well but it's a lot better than Twitter this is just a really really cool update and I'm glad that Nintendo is forward thinking with this right that they already have the patch enabled to use longer times and 30 seconds that they plan to get a bunch of game support at all their first-party games and apparently all their you know partnered games now it will be interesting if Nintendo allows third parties like straight up third party games and indie developers to just do this I don't know that right now all this discussion seems to be about first-party games or partner games but it'll be interesting to see if this can expand into more than that which I hope it really does I hope Nintendo the way they've been embracing third party this generation I assume once they get everything smooth over with their own properties or their own properties that are featuring or other people's properties that feature their content like even Skyrim with the the Breath of the Wild DLC stuff in it will they'll probably end up supporting video capture in that as well but beyond all of that there was another interesting update with the firmware that Nintendo never even talked about and that has to do with USB slash wireless USB headsets in docked mode now this only works in docked mode it obviously because you need the USB connectors but right now you can plug a USB headset into your dock and use it you can voice chat through it which right now the only voice chat availability is the certain is a specific lobby mode for local play in Splatoon 2 hopefully that expands beyond that but Nintendo is still trying to push their Nintendo online app with voice chat so it is what it is it also enables you to use a USB wireless dongle now to be clear you've been able to technically use like a wireless headphone with your dock the entire time you just needed to buy a bluetooth adapter which plugged into the audio jack port on your switch the problem with that setup is well you either have to externally power that thing because you can't power it through your switch dock or you would have to have one that you charge as an example I have one that you charge and the battery life isn't sort of the greatest on those kind of setups so having like a USB dongle version of wireless headsets gets around some of the issues so this this could mean that you could use potentially USB wireless bluetooth or just some some wireless headsets come with their own USB dongles so this is just a really cool thing that is interesting because Nintendo seems to be recognizing that this is an option people want and it seems to be working with almost every single USB headset people are attempting this with or USB headphones I wonder if this is maybe even a response to third parties as Nintendo is getting expanded their party support I'm sure some third parties but you know told Nintendo hey look like that absolute cool idea and everything but our players want to people who play our game play mostly in dock mode and we want like they're gonna want to just use their dock right they're gonna want to voice chat locally through dock that's what I really think this is for now this is obviously a better solution than the phone because the phone in order to get game audio you have to run an audio cable from the headphone port into a dongle and then you have to run audio from your phone for the voice chat into that dongle and then plug your headphones or headphones and or you know headset into that dongle instead now if you just have USB headsets you just plug it right into your dock and go that's obviously not ideal that's why I actually am a bigger fan of the wireless USB capabilities but this is just really really cool that Nintendo even thought to add this in because there's been a lot of complaints about voice chat and while we still don't have local voice chat there's not outside of that one mode which might even still be a mistake in Splatoon 2 there really isn't local voice chat this obviously is going to allow for headphone usage like more expandability with headphones instead of always having to use ones that would plug directly into the audio jack on the switch or it's gonna allow for local voice chat let me let's just say what it is this change allows for more readily available local voice chat on switch for games that want to do it so we'll see what happens if and when a game releases that decides hey you know what we're gonna circumvent that Nintendo switch online app and do our own voice chat and we might even release a headset for it because why not I'm excited about these changes I hope you're excited about these changes overall I got to say that this is probably been one of the most significant OS updates and I know some people are saying damn Nintendo is just adding all these features into force people to get off the versions of the OS that are hackable and maybe that's true I feel like Nintendo was going to always update the operating system not just because everyone does it but because let's be honest when the switch launched the OS while it was super clean and really fast was missing a ton of features and the support for USB headsets the support for video recording it's nice to think like even the video recording stuff they had to have thought about this ahead of time I mean they included a capture button I'm sure they weren't thinking hey let's just use it for screenshots it'll be really interesting if they ever implement YouTube type stuff like they did with Mario Kart 8 on the Wii U and I would love I don't know how this could happen but if Nintendo could somehow have Twitch streaming that would be insane even if there's no camera you can still use USB headsets and I don't know just I feel some goodness coming here from Nintendo that they're recognizing hey look people want these features so let's do it this is a Nintendo that seems to be listening they still some stubborn attitude with certain things I mean come on we still have that you can still only voice chat in Splatoon through an app but it's getting better thank you Nintendo anyways folks I'm Nathan Ruffin Jets from Nintendo Prime if you like this video you know what to do and if you disliked the video hit that dislike button subscribe for more content like this and folks I'll just catch you in the next one