 Hey everyone, welcome back to Nintendo Prime, we got a bunch of stories, this is actually one of our biggest news videos we've done in quite some time. I kid you not, when I say there is a bunch of huge stories in here, pretty much all pertaining to Nintendo Switch. We do have a few stories for the Xbox behind us that we're going to get to in our very first thing that we do, but before we get into all of that, I want to remind you that hey, guess what, we're giving away some Metroid Dread copies. To enter all you need to do is head on to the description or the pinned comment and click on the viral sweep link and then complete the stuff there and we will choose winners at the end of the month. Also by the way, later this year we're actually doing a massive giveaway that's going to be happening around the holiday season as I try to give back to as many of you as possible. You guys might remember the huge giveaways we did back during E3, let's just say we might be trying to bring it back around again for the holiday season. That's right folks. We want to try to make everyone's holiday just a little bit sweeter. For all those giveaways, we're not going to get into too many details on it yet because everything is still being planned out, but we do know that you will need to be subscribed to enter so hey, if you're not subscribed yet, you know what? I'm going to come over to your house and kick your dog and if you don't have a dog, maybe I'll punt your rat out the window. Let's get into the news. Alright, this first stuff comes basically directly from Microsoft and the first part is that Microsoft's Game Pass actually missed on its planned year over year growth margins so at this point a year ago they had planned for Game Pass to grow roughly 48% over what it was the year before. The thing is it only grew by 37% missing by 11%. The key thing to remember was at this point last year there was still some faint hope that Halo Infinite was going to be coming out this holiday. In fact, Microsoft was pretty adamant about it at the time so technically you can argue some of this growth is because Halo Infinite didn't come out. In fact, I think the largest exclusive game to come to Xbox at least exclusive at the time was like the medium so they're obviously waiting for the big influx of all these studios they bought that have all these games come out to really push Game Pass. So I'm not so sure that Microsoft is shocked or surprised by that 37% growth. It's still growth by the way which is really, really good. So we'll have to wait and see what happens in the next year when it looks like all three of the current platforms for Counting PC are going to have huge years with a ton of new games so we'll have to wait and see what happens then. What's also interesting here is there was 18 million by the way. If you want to put a number on how many Game Pass subscribers there were the last official numbers for Microsoft were 18 million back in January but that's included in this last year so it's hard to really know where Game Pass subscribers are today. I'd say it's safe to say it's north of 20 million but beyond that I'm not really sure what numbers you could put on it. As a side note though, the Xbox Series systems the X and S have had the best launch of an Xbox platform in Japan history in terms of sales to date so that's really good for Microsoft. They did say a while ago Phil Spencer did that they were making some headway into Japan and well yeah this isn't like major numbers that's going to compete with Nintendo or even PlayStation. Still it's nice to see Microsoft at least growing in a potential emerging market for them so there is that. Beyond all of that it looks like Phil Spencer has informed the world that they're not done buying video games too. You remember there's a little bit of a controversy I won't even call it controversial but I would say PlayStation fans were pretty upset when Microsoft went ahead and bought out Xenomax or what's Xenomax I don't know the parent company of Bethesda basically and got in software and everything else underneath all of that including the next Elder Scrolls game. We know about the next major game from Bethesda is going to be exclusive so there's exclusive to Xbox Game Pass platforms by the way if PlayStation would allow Game Pass to be there the games would be there but he had this to say when asked about future acquisitions in a recent interview he said so we're always out there looking for people who we think would be a good match and teams that would be a good match with our strategy so we're definitely not done. There's no quota there's no kind of timeline where I have to go acquire studios by a certain time but if we find a studio where we have a good fit we share what we're trying to go do and what they're trying to go do and if we feel we can both get better together absolutely it's one of the privileges we have being at Microsoft and having the capability to take a long term approach and adding amazing creators to the portfolios is an important part of that and that is a unique capabilities Microsoft does have when it comes to video games is because they're a really tiny branch to be completely honest compared to the whole of Microsoft and Microsoft itself is such a profitable business that they can take a long term approach be like hey look we don't need to be profitable now we don't need to care if gamers are happy with the Xbox Series X now we need to worry about down the road and they are able to basically create their own little video game empire here by buying up a bunch of studios because they've obviously struggled to find their own studios they do have some some internal studios hence for age of empires and stuff all came from but reality is they have obviously had a hard time you know building up studios like a lot of companies do so they're buying up known studios and building an empire that might be like a Netflix of gaming style empire someday so we'll have to wait and see because they're definitely the one company being like hey look but Netflix and Hulu and Amazon Prime and all these digital content delivery platforms for movies and TV have done why can't we do something like that we already have streaming in tow we already have game pass why can't we be that but for gaming because nobody else is really doing it like they are now there's other streaming competitors but again nobody's doing it like they are there's very few companies gonna afford to do it like they are I do think Amazon is attempting to by the way with their streaming service but they don't have the war the same breath of content available on that service that's not even public yet next up I want to briefly talk about this picture behind me this is the n64 controller as unveiled by Nintendo in a Nintendo Direct for the Nintendo switch this is the coincide with n64 and Genesis games coming to switch and yes there's a controller as well we're focusing on this one because obviously it's sold out I think in 15 minutes or less it might even been like three minutes or less once it became available no Nintendo has promised more restocks of pre-orders to come later in October I don't know maybe a launch day beats me it's still gonna take a couple weeks after you order to even get one and it's it retails for $50 it's a wireless n64 controller that we presume has a fixed control stick that like if it didn't fix the control stick and it's still using the original n64 control stick absolutely this would not be worth $50 well people would still maybe want to get it for nostalgia reasons alone plus it works natively with switch without any modifications here's the thing it's sold out no surprise there right I mean maybe when you consider the backlash over Nintendo switch online expansion pack pricing but honestly people will buy this even just to use with their PCs and as long as they fix the control stick it's not that terrible of a nostalgic controller just to have a hand heck people might even use it with emulators here's the thing it's sold out so it's probably gonna sell at the next restock and maybe the one after that and the question is well then how can you get one well places like eBay where it is being sculpted or at minimum a hundred and twenty dollars some being sculpted as high as two hundred and fifty dollars and that some of those listings by the way that are 250 do include the Genesis controller but a lot of them don't telling you that um yeah this is a highly sculpt item and it's always unfortunate when scalpers get their grubby hands on things now by the way I am not someone that believes that scalping should go away or be a crime not in the United States anyway it is your right to buy and resell things that you quote unquote own so I am not going to say that right should go away I do think there are things retailers could be doing to help curb the amount of these that can be bought by scalpers there is always bots and all these things working around these websites that are making it very likely that one person is ordering you know 20 of these things and that sucks but but I do feel there are better measures that should be put in place at a lot of these retailers so I don't know maybe this is just wishful thinking but it sucks that scalpers seem to be running the electronics industry right now I will know by the way though never pay scalper prices for switch OLED there have been regular in-person restocks at retail outlets since it came out not saying they don't sell out fast especially depending on where you live but please if you're trying to get a switch OLED don't pay scalper prices now when it comes to this thing I have no idea when you'll be easily able to buy it it's possible it's also a limited run much Nintendo does these limited run things sometimes which then just really makes a scalping community excited so sorry that it's so difficult for legit consumers to get their hands on these last I saw there was over like 8,000 listings on eBay I I don't know that's like 6,000 too many to me but whatever let's move on to our next story so there's a new column from Sakurai coming out in the Famitsu magazine and in this he talks about how the second fighter pass for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate was actually only supposed to have five characters it means it was supposed to end with that teching character now maybe with when the originally was only gonna be five maybe they would have reordered the characters and had a different one be the ender but it wasn't supposed to have six characters now if you remember every character in these DLC fighter packs were actually chosen by Nintendo at least that's what Sakurai told us before Sora was a bit of a different story because Sora was never actually being seriously considered to be added to Smash Bros. There was too many hoops who jumped through to make that happen now obviously Sakurai did know it was the number one most voted thing in the old Wii U slash 3ds Smash character polls so he knew there was a lot of fan demand for the character but he never realistically was going to put it in the game and obviously with only five characters and those five picked by Nintendo that was it so how the hell did we get Sora in Smash well Sora attended an awards show and there he actually bumped into a Disney executive and the ball got rolling from that point where naturally him being a massive Kingdom Hearts fan and always wanting to put Sora in the Smash broached the topic with this executive and the executive said you know what let's try to make this happen obviously things went from there to you know going up the chain and getting more approvals from Disney obviously going back to Square where there probably was little resistance from Square and bada bing bada boom we got Sora in Smash so Sora was not actually planned to be part of this DLC fact it also explains why maybe there's a few less like mi costumes and other things because they kind of had to throw together some stuff to try to justify like the additional content along with Sora so yeah although getting Doom Guy in was pretty cool it's still one of those situations where it's fascinating just to hear some behind the scenes stuff because we all knew like Sora getting Sora in Smash is almost almost as difficult as getting something like GoldenEye to appear on Nintendo Switch Online there's so many people with various copyrights over that original N64 game that it just feels impossible that an agreement can ever be reached to bring that to Switch despite how popular that would be for Nintendo Switch Online with the online multiplayer so again um Sora happened so at this point I almost feel like anything is possible hell at this point maybe Cyberpunk comes to Switch even though I'm not sure anyone would even be excited about that they can't seem to finish the game even though it's already been out let alone get the next gen versions done and now they're hiring 80 people to try to do DLC for a game that's in my opinion unfinished it is what it is CD Projekt Red big oopsie with that one so this story is a small one well it's not small and important but it's not getting attention nobody seems to be talking about this and I verified it myself um I am about to call out Activision Blizzard I know they're actually probably excited about this right so Diablo II this this resurrected game came to Nintendo Switch great right we got in Diablo games before it's cool you know what's not being talked about right now the fact that for the last four days Diablo II servers have been offline for Nintendo Switch completely offline now server maintenance is a thing bugs can be a thing but Activision Blizzard has said nothing people have contacted them through phone calls they've contacted them on social media they send emails and nobody is able to get a response it's either there's a couple things that might happen here either there really is some serious stuff going on and they're trying to keep it under wraps um so they shut down the servers things like account information leaking or all that jazz or or this is the bad thing the servers could be shut down and they're just not telling anybody so I'm going to call you out at Division Blizzard for one thing and one thing only communication communicate with it might be a small fan base playing this on switch but communicate to them if you have completely abandoned this game on switch and shut down the servers they deserve to know so does anybody else still willing to purchase the game since it's still readily available on the Nintendo Switch eShop in fact if you shut down the servers you should be yanking the game off the eShop in my opinion or Nintendo should boot it off if there is just bugs happening or employee strikes that are causing issues again communication notably servers for this game on other platforms are up and running just fine so it does seem to be a switch specific issue which makes me kind of feel like maybe they've just shut down the servers and they're dumb but I hope that's not the case the game hasn't been out that long um and at Division Blizzard that would be some pretty shady crap stop treating switch people like second-class citizens you release the game on our platform if the servers are going to be down for days and days at a time tell us we deserve to know so Life is Strange is obviously a very polarizing series very story driven it's an indie game the original Life is Strange obviously performed very very well really outperformed expectations at the time and now we have the new one Life is Strange true colors here now they announced it was coming to switch and you haven't really gotten any updates on when it would be available digitally uh until today the official Life is Strange uh twitter account put out an update and it's a welcome one because again as we just noted with Blizzard no communication here's direct communication this is how you address actual fans of your game it says an update for Nintendo switch players excitedly by the way exclamation point we're happy to announce that the digital edition of Life is Strange true colors will release in early December no exact day here but still early December is not too far from now keep your eyes peeled for the exact release date in the coming weeks we'll announce it when we open the digital reorders and again they're probably waiting for final approvals from Nintendo so then they can pick an exact date that's going to work obviously basing it around other releases on switch at that time like releasing it the same day as say Advance Wars 1 plus 2 reboot camp maybe not a good idea but releasing it you know a week later maybe so again this is really good news for anyone really interested in this game I'm sure it's going to run and play fancasticly on switch this feels like a game perfect for the OLED by the way the colors in this game are really going to be so vivid and popping um it's going to really invoke some emotions that you might not get on a non OLED screen which by the way you might have OLED TVs and already get this anyways but still um I think this is really cool uh and by the way speaking of switch OLED let's get on to our next story because there's some expected but confusing news for people who have never dealt with OLED panels before in regards to the Nintendo switch so the switch all that's out in the wild we've obviously been having a lot of fun with it there's been a lot of surprisingly um good uh remarks about it because people were obviously hyper critical of switch OLED heading into launch and now that it's here people actually think the OLED screen is a bigger deal than than initially thought but here's one thing that happens with OLED panels specifically and people are starting to notice this on places like the official Nintendo switch reddit now of note we're not talking about burning of course that's an issue people all know about OLED but burning is very difficult to make happen on OLED panels these days especially when the system hasn't been around long enough for it to become a problem however um someone I shouldn't say someone a number of people have noticed green tinting of the screen this is where it almost feels like there's a green um filter being put over the entire screen uh this is a known issue with OLED panels and by the way it doesn't have to be green it can be red it could be blue um because it's based on how the screen was calibrated and how they placed the colors over the LEDs I know this feels really really weird and it gets super technical so I'm not going to dive into all the details I will link to an article down in the description for people that want to dive deeper into how this tinting occurs in OLED panels and why it's so specific to OLED panels um there if it's just localized um yeah you are screwed um if like if the whole screen isn't a certain color but like part of it is you're screwed now this is normally noticed at brightness settings of 5 10 or 15 percent if you go in between those settings or well above those settings you typically aren't going to notice this this is something that's more noticed on lower um you know brightness settings but uh yeah it's still something that sucks especially for people that like to play in low light situations or they also don't want the screen blasting them and straining their eyes uh so what can you do well first off return your OLED and get a refund and get a new one uh this is a problem that happens at manufacturing and it's not always caught because the level of testing they do on the screens there um is usually done at higher brightness settings so they don't catch this uh also if it happens to be uh the entire screen is green the entire screen is is a little pink hue or a little blue hue there are calibration devices you can buy that can help recalibrate your screen but again this requires extra work on you I would still say bring it back and exchange it and you might say well what if I get another one and it does the same thing keep exchanging it because this is a manufacturing flaw with OLED panels it's well known people freak out about it it happens on iPhones it happens on TVs and it sucks when it does happen because it can be a bit of a hassle to go through a refund or exchange process but don't just accept it and move on now if you're someone who's always going to play in brighter uh you know at the brighter settings anyways I guess maybe you don't care and it's not going to leak into those brighter settings but again it is something that is factually occurring for some people this is a known flaw with OLED panel manufacturing because it's very um easy for this flaw to occur in the manufacturing process it's not intentional even though robots are doing this it's still it requires like 0.001 of a millimeter off it can actually cause this so um yeah just exchange guys exchange there's no other um solution out there you could try to call out Nintendo not really their fault this is just hey it's part and parcel with OLED panels it's not an issue that should be widespread it usually happens on a very small percentage of panels so obviously be on Samsung the manufacturer uh but yeah so again it's just something that uh it to be aware of that don't just accept or think it's going to go away over time because it won't and lastly today I just want to say today is the fifth anniversary of something very special the unveiling of not necessarily this OLED but the Nintendo switch that's right five years ago today Nintendo dropped the trailer that unveiled Nintendo switch all of us and actually gave us our very first ever tease of what would be Mario Odyssey they literally had not even announced this Mario game and they showed somebody playing it in this trailer it really got us all buzzing about the platform us you know showing breath of the wild literally the guys playing it on tv and we're like okay this is pretty cool we got to see the new system and then he picks it up and walks out the door with his dog it was just a mind-blowing moment um at that time because we hadn't had a device that was so simple to do let alone a hybrid Nintendo device so it was really really cool and obviously the teaser Mario helped uh the playing of one two switch on the rooftop and all the jokes of Karen and yeah it was all good good fun five years ago and it's amazing because who knew five years ago this is where we would be today where switch is essentially on the cusp selling a hundred million units and becoming one of the best it's already one of the best selling Nintendo platforms of all time potentially and a past Game Boy maybe catch up to DS we'll have to wait and see Nintendo's obviously on a roll 2022 is looking hacked as 2022 hey March 3rd that is the official fifth anniversary of the release of the platform which means once we're past that day we're into year six baby holy crap and switch is still going strong despite new systems coming from other companies despite the steam deck coming out as well the switch is still doing as strong as ever maybe even stronger although last year technically was the biggest sales year but we'll have to wait and see what happens with OLED and anything moving forward and all the we're not going to get into some of the stuff that rumors and all that so let's just leave it at this thank you Nintendo for giving me a platform that made me kind of fall in love with gaming all over again not an insult to Wii U not an insult to PlayStation and Xbox I just I switched game out at a point in my life when I just had you know I had a son who was just turning one years old uh and I was having a really hard time finding time to game and it's even hard now parent of three full-time college job YouTube um try to find time for my fiancee can be hard we have a meet-up by the way happening this Saturday and I just it was hard to find time to game and Wii U offered me a little bit of ability to play off my TV but I was still tethered to like the one room uh switch really opened doors for me to continue to play console level gaming anywhere uh and I love that so um thank you Nintendo for that there's other things that you need to fix and improve some you did fix with this but um that's neither here nor there I might hear to complain I am critical of the things that I think Nintendo could improve on but ultimately I'm pretty pleased with switch to the point it might be my favorite Nintendo platform at least my favorite as an adult thank you guys for tuning in and I'll catch you guys in the next video