 We're working. Hey everyone. We were muted in the stream. We're muted. We got it. Hey, this is why, this is why we're testing all this everyone. We have a massive E3 show coming up. We can't have a podcast without some issues, right? And the issues were me. I messed up. Nothing crashed this time. So, yeah, welcome to the Nintendo Prime Podcast, episode 12. The only person who got to hear my little voice mod stuff was Mr. Jake. We got Jake Randall here as a guest today. And then we got Eric Moore to my left and your guys is right. Hello. So, yeah, we got a packed show for you guys today. E3 2021. We got going to go over the full schedule because now E3 has finally released the full schedule. We get times for everything. Obviously, we have our own E3 show. I'm not going to go through our show though. We're just going to focus on what E3 has going on. We're going to do predictions for all of the bigger companies. I did gather up all the information on some of the games that are already announced by these companies. And so we can talk about that and if we're going to see those games and then any other games you think we might see. Obviously, I know a lot of you guys want to know what the hell is going on with Nintendo, but there's a lot of companies at E3, so we'll see what happens. We'll also be talking a little bit about some other E3 shenanigans like signing up and not getting responses. And I don't know how the hell they're going to approve fans at this point because they're not even getting through content creators. So we'll get to that and what the pitfalls of that might be. And then we're going to talk a little bit about YouTube success and failures and trolls and how as YouTubers we deal with this kind of stuff or try to ignore this kind of stuff, how it can affect us. Obviously, mental health is a big thing for everybody. You got to keep your minds fresh. Try not to get too down. Yeah. And then we'll do a small little Q&A. It's not going to be a super long one. I don't think. Who the hell knows? But we'll do a little Q&A and we'll take some questions from the chat at that time. We got Jake Randall over there drinking some hot chocolate apparently. So that's exciting. I got myself a little bang energy thing and I think you, what do you got? Dr. Pepper Zero Sugar? That's right. We got three different types of drinks going on around here. All right. So I guess, let me go to my topic list because which order were we doing this in first? I can't even remember. That's right. We're going to talk about a little YouTube stuff. So first off, congratulations, Jake. I'm blowing up like over the last, what was it like, say, seven, eight, nine months around that time? You started doing all the PlayStation 5, trying to help people out? Yeah, pretty much since I started doing pre-orders, the pre-order stream, so like back in September. Oh, that was a mess. That was such a mess. Oh, yeah, it's launch. Oh yeah, pre-orders will be like tomorrow and everyone's just taking them right away and it's just, oh. Yep, and they all dropped. Yeah, it was September 17th. Sony said they would, all the pre-orders would be September 18th. And then Walmart just dropped that day. And then all the other retailers were like, oh, we'll just drop two. But the first thing that started me blowing up was a week later, September 25th, GameStop did pre-orders again. So GameStop's site is still not the best whenever they have restocks, but this was like their very first time doing it. So their site was just possible to get through. And I was streaming that. That was my first like PS5 type stream. And what ended up happening is a GameStop employee gave us a link in the stream that allowed us to go like through the backdoor of GameStop's website. I had 3,000 people in the chat because at the time I only had 4,000 subscribers. That was like seven months ago. So I've, you know, grew like by 135,000 subscribers in seven months. But everyone in the chat that wanted to get the PS5, the entire chat got it because that employee gave us that link. And so that started the whole thing of me making relationships with employees at different retailers to get pre-orders in. And then obviously once the console launched, every time there's a restock. Yeah, totally man. Like I have a PlayStation 5 and it was actually thanks to one of your streams you were doing at the time a few months ago for Target. Because I was trying to get my kids on the bus and all of a sudden, you know, I know that Target's all like, oh, it's local. But also you got to go through online, which I hate because you're competing with millions of people for like your local retailer that has one system. Awesome. At least that's what it was around here. And I was ready to give up as I get my kids on the bus and I go down to my studio and here you are being like, don't give up, do this, do that. Next thing you know, oh, hey, I got to check out. Oh, hey, it's ready to pick up now. Well, I guess I'm leaving. That's the beautiful thing about Target. Yeah, they're the only retailer that does same day pickup. Yeah, so Walmart can make you wait like a month to ship it. That's why it's not bad. You can make you wait like a week. But yeah, Target's the greatest because I do the streams and then I see people like just tweeting at me all day with the pictures of them getting their PS5s. And it's awesome. Sure. Yeah, it's pretty great. So, yeah, obviously you blew up. You got all your retailer connects and all that. I would be, I'd be remiss if I didn't say any retailer connects saying anything about Switch Pro. Switch Pro, no. The only thing I've heard about Switch Pro is actually from your video. From my video. Again, we don't know what that means. No, no idea. It's purely speculative, but still that's, I mean, that's something. I mean, whether it's the Switch Pro or it's just going to be a really cool announcement. Guys, I recommend if you came here from me, from my tweet, you're not familiar with Nintendo Prime. I recommend watching his video on GameStop that he just came out with recently. Yeah, I think I was the first person to talk about that thing. And then just out of nowhere, everyone's like, oh yeah, they called other local GameStop and they all confirmed that, yeah, something's going on in those days. Nobody knows what they're double staffing. And from what I know, GameStop doesn't like double staffing. They don't like staffing periods. No, they don't like, well, they're always trying to cut budgets and everything. So for them to be planning over a week in advance for double staffing for the beginning of two days, it's kind of like, okay, well, the only times I recall double staffing are massive console pre-order days or something like that. And that's where the speculation comes in. Oh, is Switch Pro going to end up getting announced? Because it's the same day as Nintendo on the 15th. So like, is it going to get announced that day? So they're expecting a huge amount of traffic for people to try to come in and pre-order it those two days. Or as other people have said, it's PlayStation 5 going to start being available in retailers. So that's another thing. GameStop or Walmart will be the first ones. So that's another speculation that's out there. And based on, I've talked to two different managers and I've had a lot of people say that they talked to regional district, a whole bunch of different managers. None of them actually know what this is. It came from corporate. So yeah, nobody actually knows what's happening. That's all guesses at this point. I have a feeling the managers that are talking to people will have a better idea next week. What's actually happening because I presume they're going to know beforehand because it'd be kind of a mess if they have all the staff and they have no idea what they're doing. So you'll probably hear maybe even before the 15th next week what this event actually is. So to be clear, it doesn't mean it is PlayStation 5 drops. It doesn't mean it is Switch Pro drops. It doesn't mean it's something though because they don't even double staff on pro days most of the time. So it feels weird that it was probably not a sale. You can think what major game might lead to a bunch of pre-orders. I don't even know. I mean, for Nintendo, maybe they drop a date for Breath of the Wild 2 and take pre-orders immediately and they know how much people might come from that. I have no idea. Again, it's happened at the end of the year. One thing that's interesting though is that it's just GameStop. We're hearing this about, right? Just GameStop. If it was Switch Pro or Breath of the Wild 2, why wouldn't all the retailers be on it? Why wouldn't we be hearing more? I feel like I certainly would have heard something more. That's why I feel like maybe, again, speculation, right? But it may be a PS5 restock because that would be specific to them. You know what I mean? Maybe they have them toward that other places don't have because that's how the restocks kind of work. But yeah, when the Switch Pro does get announced, the reason I haven't heard anything is because a lot of my contacts are in the warehouses at the store. So once they physically start getting the Switch Pro, after the pre-order point, that's when all my inside info will be really useful. But for pre-orders, we're all kind of in the same boat. You know what I mean? Yeah, so for my viewers out there, assuming Switch Pro is real and it's a thing that comes out sometime this year, you're definitely going to want to go over and follow Jake Randall on his Twitter and on his channel because he'll be up all the inside details on how to get either pre-orders in or post-release when drops are going to happen. He's got all the connects to figure that out. And obviously, watch his tip videos. I know a lot of my audience is still trying to get PlayStation 5s. Telling you, I thought the tip videos were going to be bullshit. Can be completely honest. I thought I figured it's the standard stock thing. Sign up for an account, get your credit card ready. So you're ahead of people that don't have accounts and don't have credit cards ready. And that's basic stuff. You should just one-on-one try to get it. Right, everyone knows that. And then I watched your videos and I'm like, nope. Every retail is a different way to try to force your way through the checkout process. It should be that way. It should be as simple as just click, click, done, but that's not the way it works. Because the sites are overloaded. There's like literal, like actual life hacks, right? Like actual tricks, very specific and detailed that give you like a thousand percent better chance. And I've kind of dedicated my life to figuring them all out over the last few months and then just sharing that information with everyone that I can. Yeah, that's nice because guys, he's one of the guys that's basically fighting back against the scalpers. We know the scalpers have bots and are doing all this crazy stuff. You know, even getting access to the website, well, the websites crash because they get to the back end because the bots bypass everything, even though all the sites claim they have bot protection. Look how many of these systems are available. Look at the pictures that pop up on social media about a guy who just popped off a hundred of them from Walmart and he's selling them on eBay. Like this, it happens regardless of the protections in place. So it's nice that we have people like Jake Randall. And obviously there's other accounts on Twitter. I know that always post up stock resets for this and Xbox Series X and stuff like that. The S actually, I saw in person starting to think the Xbox Series S is pretty easy to get now. I actually saw it. Oh yeah, the Xbox Series S. Yeah. Yeah, the S is definitely easy to get. I think it's in stock at Best Buy right now if anyone wants it. You have to choose a store that has it in stock near you, but it's been in stock for over a week straight at Best Buy. But yeah. Yeah, I saw it in person and I was like, oh, that's good. That's not the system people are really clamoring for. So I'm not too surprised there. But yeah, I was lucky. I was fortunate that I did get a pre-ordering for Xbox Series X, but that's because Microsoft didn't allow the local retailers to hand out pre-orders ahead of time. So I actually got to go in person and pre-ordered it. So that was kind of nice. I also, I tend to get two pre-orders because somehow while I was in line, I got a pre-order for one at Target too. And then I also got one at GameStop. Anyways, and then to talk about how like there might be a PlayStation 5 drop, obviously at games that we don't know. Yeah, we're all guessing. One thing I've noticed in the past, I don't know how many like consoles you've tried to like go in person to pre-order in the past or like going on launch day in the past at different retailers. One thing I've noticed when I go to like a Best Buy or a Walmart, because those are kind of the two stores in my area, they don't really increase their staff for any of it. They just poll whoever they want from other departments if there's a problem. So I'm not sure like why GameStop increases their staff or some things or others, other than they're obviously a gaming specific retailer. I'm going to have the most for it. Well, it's all online, only at all those retailers right now. And so it would make sense for GameStop to increase their staff if they're going to do in person. In person, yeah. Either reservations, like even if the console is already out, maybe they'll do in person pre-orders. So you can go to us because they did that before. Yeah. In December, they allowed people to go in store and even though the console is already out in December, they essentially did a pre-order in person to get a console. They also did, they had consoles in store, but it was only two per store. And that was for all consoles. So it was either like two PS5s or two Xbox or one PS5 or one Xbox. It was two total consoles and they had people like, obviously you had like dozens of people lining up outside the stores. There was fights right here. And that's why they haven't done any in person since then. Maybe they have a plan to make that better this time. I don't know. Maybe they're going to do, again, we're speculating here. Maybe they'll let you come in and put you on a list. And when it gets to be your turn, you can then buy the console. Because at the end of the day, I think a lot of these companies like to be the hero when it comes to the PS5 restocks. And one thing I've seen is like a couple of weeks ago, Walmart dropped the PS5, right? And people were really frustrated with that drop. I mean, even if it's a good drop, people are frustrated. Most people aren't going to get one statistically. So near the end of Walmart's drop when people were venting, Best Buy drops. And I've seen retailers do that where like if one, if you know, people are really mad at one retailer, you know, the other retailer likes to swoop in and be the hero. You know, because they'll never forget that. Like if someone gets their PS5 from Best Buy on that drop, they'll never forget, you know, that Best Buy got from their PS5. So, you know, that could be the kind of thing that GameStop's doing. And hey, if it works out, you know, I'm all for it. Like, you know, GameStop, you should get your clout. You should get your respect, you know, as long as real people can get their consoles. And that's the other thing I actually wanted to mention about my guides is that literally the reason I love those guides so much, I'm like really proud of them is because they do not help scalpers or bots. They're literally designed from the ground up to help a real person that doesn't have access to those tools that just, you know, goes on the website and tries their best. Like all of us, it literally just helps them get one console each from the retailers. They help real people. And I've bought like half a dozen of each console and I've given them all the way for free on my channel. And you know, I don't use bots because every console I've purchased, I've done it live. So like on the live streams where I'm streaming, trying to help people so you can literally see using my tips to get it. So that's why the tip videos are really great, I think. Yeah, that's great. Cool, yeah. So obviously, through all this, you've obviously, you know, grown your reputation and grown quite big. I think what, 269,000 on Twitter? And then, what do you have on YouTube now? Like 137,000 subscribers? Yup, that's right. Something like that, yeah. So, you know, like my channel too as well, done really, really well over the last few months, grown, you know, by 15,000 subscribers or so and not quite the growth that you got. But both of us are seeing, you know, our own modicum of success on the platform and all that. And obviously, with that success, which is great as it is in the communities you build and how amazing people can be, I know you've had, you know, a lot of amazing people, especially on your lives and all that. And obviously, we also deal with our fair share of, is it trolling, backlash, whatever it is? Like I know, I see you tweet out sometimes, like, you know, when you bring up, you're bringing attention to cystic fibrosis, which you happen to suffer from more power to you for, you know, doing your best to kind of live with that and overcome some of the shortcomings that adds to your life. And then helping others, you know, raising awareness and all that jazz. Because not everyone is as fortunate as you this dealing with that. So, I find it interesting when you put out tweets where people are unsubscribing or telling you to stop talking about it, just focus on this. And I've always appreciated that you seem to be like, you know what, this is something I care about, this is something that affects me personally, and I'm not going to let other people try to force me to not draw attention to it with my audience. So, do you get quite a lot of people kind of talking down to you about that because they don't care about it and they'd rather you just focus on, hey, get me a PlayStation 5, otherwise leave me alone? Or do you get other types of hate as well sometimes? Like I know I get all sorts of hate, like when Switch Pro didn't drop last Thursday, it's like, I never said it was for sure dropping last Thursday, it was just a report on somebody else who said it might. So, it's kind of like, there's a lot of people out there that try to tear people down when they see some success. So, how do you handle those situations? Yeah, no, that's a great question. So, first of all, I just want to say that, I mean, I do get hate, but I have to say, it's like less than 1% of my followers or subscribers or whatever. I'm really lucky and blessed that my community and the people that somehow find me on YouTube and Twitter are some of the most incredible and wholesome people. And I don't know how I got so lucky because the internet is a really toxic place, but somehow like just these really kind people like find me and I really appreciate it and they support me and they love me and I'm glad for that. So, before I talk about any of the haters, I just need to acknowledge that. And because I love them so much, they give a lot of meaning to my life. But when you have 400,000 subscribers slash followers combined, almost half a million, 1% can still be a lot, a lot of people. You know what I mean? Especially if you're in a live stream in the chat or whatever or you're tweeting, it's just so easy, especially the people, I think that follow me on Twitter that don't watch my YouTube or don't come to my streams because then it's really easy to dehumanize me, right? And not see me as a person, just see me as this Twitter guy, which I get that. But like when I get that hate or whatever, it doesn't bother me. I kind of just use it as an opportunity to clarify my position more. Be like, hey, this does matter to me. It is important to me. The only reason I do restock stuff is because back in September when I had like no subscribers, I was doing it because I thought it can maybe help people. That's always been my thing is to try to find ways that I can help other people in the world. And if you look at my channel trailer or whatever, I talk about why that is a little bit, but basically I hit a low where I almost died in the hospital from cystic fibrosis. I was hospitalized for almost two months and I couldn't walk. I was coughing up blood every day. I had surgery to try to, basically put bio beads in my lungs to try to stop the tearing, which is why so much blood was being coughed up. I have a feeding tube. I get calories. I mean, cystic fibrosis is no joke, but when that happened two years ago, I thought I was going to die and I was really upset because I had been lying to my friends and my family about how sick I was and I didn't have anyone I could talk to about because I was keeping it all inside. So I finally let it all out and was honest with people about how I was doing and before I even got any feedback, and this is before YouTube. I wasn't doing YouTube two years ago. I recently started YouTube, but I got all this, like I felt like a burden was lifted just because I was honest with myself and then my friends and family, what I was afraid of is that my friends wouldn't want to hang out with me anymore because they'd be like, oh my God, Jake, you're way too sick. We have to be careful with you and I just wanted my friends to love me for me and not have anything change and then I also was afraid that my parents would be disappointed in me for some reason that I was that sick, which doesn't make sense, I guess, but none of that stuff happened. Everyone showered me with love and for the first time in my life I was truly happy. So which is crazy, right? Like I was at my rock bottom and then all of a sudden I just felt amazing. I felt all this love in my life and I felt spoiled with all the love. Like it was so incredible and I decided I was like, if this could help me so much with what I was going through, like everyone deserves this kind of love and not everyone gets it. Not everyone's lucky enough to have the friends and family that I have. So I made it my life's goal to, and again, I wasn't doing YouTube at this point. So with any small way I could, even if it was helping one person at a time, I wanted to do things that would help other people. Maybe it was sharing my story, whatever and then in September when the pre-order started, again, this isn't changing the world but I was able to help people get a PS5 or an Xbox and it was a small thing but it was helping other people. So that's why I've continued to do it because I found something that even with my disease and when I can't physically do a lot I can stream and I can help people with the restock. So I want to do that but I don't just want to do that. I want to raise money for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. My biggest goal is that any parent out there that has their child diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis like my mom and the doctors told my mom that I would live to be 10 years old, I want them to see me and be like, hey, look, your child could have a full life. I'm extremely happy and that's why I'm raising money for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and other causes as well. Anything I can do to give back. So when the haters come out and they hate, back to your question now, wrapping it up here. I didn't mean to go in the full story. I just felt like the context. Okay, let's go to the context, yeah. Right. Yeah, important. When the haters come out, I just want to explain that and the thing is, before I started doing all this I used to be a hater too. And the reason I was a hater is because I was so depressed because of how physically sick I was. Like even though I was blessed with friends and family, when you're physically doing that poorly, it takes a big mental toll. So sometimes I would be that bitter person on the internet that would say a comment like that. So when I see people doing it to me, I just imagine what they're going through and I want to respond to them and acknowledge them, but not in a way that like I'm calling them out or whatever, in a way where I'm explaining myself and maybe connecting with them a little bit and maybe not, that's fine. They have to be ready to accept that themselves, but that's what I try to do when I see the haters. And a lot of people are like why do you acknowledge the trolls? Why do you feed the trolls? And I guess, you know, if it's really like intense trolling, I will just ignore it, just block right away. And even if I block someone, it doesn't mean they're a bad person being negative and I don't want to see that stuff. So, yeah. So I guess that's kind of how I try to deal with it. Yeah, no. One, thank you so much for retelling your story. I've heard it before because I've been paying attention to your channel ever since back in the September days when things started really going off. And I've watched every one of your videos. They always make you a little sad sometimes when like you you'll, you've done a couple of videos on like the sister fibrosis and it'll get like, you know, 8000 views where then you'll have like your PlayStation 5 target video do like 40K. I'm like, guys, this is so much more important than getting to PlayStation 5. But, you know, that's okay. You know what? I appreciate those 8000 views so much. Oh, absolutely. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, what you're passionate about is what matters. And, you know, I tell people that like at my channel, like, you know, I don't have, you know, a big cause like you have going on, but it's one of those, this podcast to me is like one of the central products that my channel puts out and whether, I mean, we had times where it was the lowest view content on the whole channel. I didn't care because it's what I enjoy doing. And it's kind of cool because as you've obviously grown and using your your success to obviously try to help others, you know, we are doing things as best that we can do to try to give back that's one reason why we have such a like a massive giveaway happening during our E3 is because people sometimes like the haters they'll go out there and be like, oh, you're just doing this for like, no, I actually didn't plan for it to be this big. We put a thousand bucks towards it. And then all these companies are reaching out and being like, hey, like we want to give you more stuff to give away to help people coming out of COVID and help these people who can't afford $70 games, can't afford, you know, accessories or consoles. And like, we want to help you, you know, give back as people enter summer and hopefully get a little happier as, you know, the world starting to slowly return back to normal. So like, you know, I don't give back necessarily as much as I want. And I, I, it wasn't joking when I said I brought this up on a stream. It's like, it'd be cool if I got like enough, like at some point that I could buy like a homeless family, a house or something like that and just give it to them and say, I already paid it all off. I've got your, you know, your land fees taken care of for the next like five years. You guys, you know, enjoy trying to get your life together and, you know, bottom line, it's your house. You can sell it at the end if you want or do whatever you want. You know, just give you a leg up in life. And I, it's not really even like a joke. It's just, I know that I'm far away from me with the provide something like that. I got to buy my own house first. I have this goal that's solely morphed over the years of my channel where I want to give back as much as is reasonably possible because I realize I am in a fortunate position. You know, I just even looking around just at this setup I have with multiple cameras and like, what have we got? One, two, three, four computers sitting right in front of you. Like, you know, I got the PlayStation 5 Series X and Switch and like any game I want, I'll just buy it. Like people. I love your set. It's so nice. Yeah. So like, yeah, and this was a whole lot of pain in the butt. And this set actually evolves every day of E3. But we'll worry about that during E3. We haven't even gotten to that part yet. Right. Yeah. But, yeah, like it's just nice like to have a fellow person on who's just, you know, trying to use, you know, your growth for this. Because I mean, I'll full on admit, you know, there was a couple years back. I didn't care. I will give them back. I just was kind of selfish as a YouTuber, which isn't a way to be. And it took a lot of personal growth to like realize my shortcomings and issues I had going through because I had some mental health issues. In fact, you know, I know he's had mental health issues as well. And realizing that I was kind of using, taking out my issues on my channel to try to like make money. And that just isn't, that's not, that doesn't sound like me. Like it would have been when I was in a good mental space. And that's why I always tell people, you know, whether it's a physical thing wrong with you or just mental, like you mentioned the mental toll. Like you need to take care of yourselves, guys. First off, take care of yourselves. And then once you've gotten yourself taken care of, that's when you can start taking care of others. And that's why I feel like I'm actually in a good space now. And now I'm like, oh man, what was I doing? I should be giving back. I shouldn't be taking. I'm fine. My family's good. I'm in a good spot. What was I thinking? And I was thinking I needed a way to take out. You shouldn't feel guilty about that either. We all have a journey, right? Yeah. And that's the thing. We do all have a journey. So speaking of the journeys, let's maybe translate. I want to talk a little bit about how I deal with haters because I don't always deal with them the best. Yeah. That's kind of how we got connected too, by the way. It was haters on Twitter or whatever. I saw a tweet you made and it just hit home for me. I knew exactly how you felt. And yeah, I'll let you tell it. I'll let you tell it. Yeah. I don't even remember the exact tweet. I remember when you responded to it, I was like, whoa, you're going to realize that. Yeah, I can't remember what it was. It was something either about how the mental toll it was taken, how it was. I was going to take a break from reading comments. Or it was just a comment that someone made. I can't remember if it was just something where I said, like, you know, I don't really get the point of this. There was one I even put up today where I was like, you know, like, I don't understand, like, this guy is complaining about my channel while admitting he subscribed to my channel but doesn't like me, doesn't like me talking, doesn't like my videos, doesn't like anything, which is like, then why were you following me? That was one from today, right? Yeah, that was today. And I'm like, why are you following me? And it's like, well, I mean, clearly they were probably following me for a giveaway or something to win. And it's like, okay, well, yeah, I'm going to be more appreciative of the people that follow me for my content and those that just want to win something. Because obviously if you don't enjoy my content, and I'll tell that to anyone right now, if you come over from Jake and you're watching right now and you don't enjoy my personality, enjoy this podcast, it's cool. Don't subscribe to my channel. Don't watch the video or anything. Like, enjoy the content creators you got around this world as far as I'm aware, just once. So like, use the time, the way that you want and enjoy the content creators you want. I try to sell this to a lot of people and I've been doing this more and more lately when I see negative comments like, oh, another fake switch pro thing or another this or another that and I'll just be like, hey man, like, why don't you go find something that you enjoy doing or a content creator you enjoy watching instead of wasting your time watching or in a dark spot like you kind of lash out with that negativity to be a hater because it feels like I don't know it doesn't make you feel a little better or I'm exactly sure part of it how you how you treat other people is a reflection of how you feel about yourself. Sure. I agree with that. Yeah. And sometimes it necessarily isn't you know them being a hater per se. It's them that might be the only interaction that they get during the day the negative comment even though it is a lot of times they'll get backlash back on them it is the only interaction that they will get for that day. So, you know, it's sometimes they're just trying to get a little bit of attention because they don't have it anywhere else and they're going about it the wrong way in my opinion but again when you're not in a mentally stable position if that's the only interactions you can get with somebody you got to take what you can get you know and then and then for my real life experiences like when I because I go out and have some drinks once in a while at the bar I'll notice there's like people who are in a rough spot in life and they they'll talk about it maybe they're looking for sympathy I have no idea I don't really care if you're in a rough spot you're in a rough spot do what you got to do to make yourself feel better as long as you're not harming anybody else but I'll see sometimes these people want to like make them feel better if they can bring other people down to their level you know and I'll notice that like there's YouTube channels out there obviously that can make some some videos trying to knock me down and I notice if I ever respond to them it makes them like the happiest ever because they just wanted a response and they just wanted me to feel bad and I wonder if it's just because they don't feel great about their life so like they like that they could take someone else down to their level or something like that it's weird and again it doesn't mean that they're bad people it just means that they might be in a bad place you know we don't know anyone's story behind the scenes and that's part of why I responded to haters but one thing you said which I think is absolutely right is like you said if you don't like my content why don't you just unsubscribe or you know for me if I post something that's not PS5 related God forbid why don't you just on follow because like you said there's plenty of Twitter focus on the drops I've always made sure that my Twitter account is Jake Randall it's not Jake Randall PS5 restocks it's not PS5 restocks it's not Jake Randall your personal PS5 slave it's just Jake Randall it's my you know it's my Twitter and if you don't like it on follow me but to your point I think you're right is that they do want the response so it's not about on following if they don't like it it's about trying to get a dig in or get some interaction or drag us down as well so they feel better about themselves and again I can't judge it because I've been there in that mental space so I 100% get it and I that's why instead of bothering me I just I want to like I said I want to share that love like I'm really corny I'm a very I'm a very cheesy person I don't know you've been to my live stream so you know this with the finger guns and the hype sashes and all that stuff but I really 100% believe that so and keeping that in mind and obviously like I lose my cool sometimes too like sometimes stuff gets to me especially like the really toxic ones for me are when people say I'm faking my cystic fibrosis which obviously like I have videos that show my medical records I've shown my feeding tube and my port and my chest on stream before you can't really fake that but those are the ones that sometimes I lose a little bit so like we're all human right like some stuff is going to get to you but when I when I remember like when I was in that mental space and I recognize that maybe that's where these people are at or maybe they just haven't faced the adversity to have the sympathy or empathy that you know kind of makes you a full person that's what helps me get through it I'm like okay it's about them it's not about me yeah but yeah a lot of what you said so sorry I know when it gets to the next topic that's totally fine so yeah I mean haters are going to hate they might have reasons for they might not have reasons for I have no idea they're going to do what they do personally what I do find amusing sometimes is like when I do respond or like I do put something on on Twitter how some people be like oh man he must be getting depressed about I'm fine guys if I was getting depressed about it I've already been there I'll literally I'll say I got to take a break I got to step back I need to get away go spend more time with my children or something and reality is most of it I find amusing like the one I put up today I just thought it was amusing that a guy wanted to like unsubscribe who literally in his comments said he never liked anything I was doing in the first place I was like when he's watching your video yeah but you're watching my videos like there's another guy who's been saying how bad my content is for like a year and I'm like that's cool and you're still watching I mean the haters you count my favorite comeback because this isn't negative this is like a positive my favorite comeback is just thank you so much for giving me some watch time and a comment to actually boost me in the algorithm I appreciate it so much yeah right and they respond again and be like oh my god this is doing so much for my channel I appreciate you I'm gonna have to use that next time well I mean yeah I'll either shut them up or make them look kinda foolish yeah I mean a haters view is just as good as a normal person's view so I mean yeah and Twitter they don't care if you dislike they don't care you interact with it in any way it helps with the algorithm so it's great even if you don't watch you can just pause and comment YouTube uses as you like this video you're gonna be suggested more of my videos you're gonna then wanna get angry about that and clicking comment some more which spreads it to other people so thank you yeah yeah so the ones that have been been in my comment section for months that are just you know you guys whatever thanks I'm gonna have to remember that one that's clever I like this alright so I guess we can get into some gaming huh no time no time no time kidding kidding because obviously E3 is ahead and as all gamers know that's a pretty exciting time of the year we'll see how exciting it is this year it's a very different E3 this year because for me one of the obviously everyone gets excited about game announcements I mean that's you know we like to know our favorite franchises our favorite games or we get surprised and all the debates over who won E3 and obviously not having Sony there and I've been a pitfall since 2018 but Sony is gonna be a summer games fest with some sort of games I have no idea maybe they're just gonna advertise Ratchet & Clank maybe we'll see more of Horizon Forbidden West or something else they have cooking they have a whole bunch of games announced we'll see how many of them hit their release dates or their release timing I guess a lot of them don't really have dates right now that's kind of weird next year is really weird right now with the games now that I think about it it's really it's a really strange time as an owner of a PlayStation 5 Xbox Series X it's a really strange time that I don't really know in any of the games I want to play are coming besides Ratchet & Clank well yeah well I mean I mean that's hopefully what we'll find out in one week from now right I know I know what it feels like we're six months in and I'm still like waiting to like when's this stuff coming yeah yeah I hope we get a release date for Horizon at least I think that's gonna be Horizon Zero Dawn is my favorite PS4 game of all time nice what I'm low-key hoping for my second favorite PS4 game of all time is Persona 5 I'm a huge JRPG fan and I'm low-key now that Persona 5 just got rated for Xbox it looks like it's coming to Xbox you know who knows if it's ever coming to Switch that's its own thing but I'm just thinking now that it's been out for so long and now that Shin Megami Tensei 5 which if people don't know Shin Megami Tensei 5 is the main series Persona is the spin-off of Shin Megami Tensei but now that Shin Megami Tensei 5 has a release date for November what about Persona 6 though that would be amazing and again it would be annoying if they dropped a trailer and then four years later we still haven't gotten the game but I would just be super hyped for Persona 6 oh absolutely so that's that is the exciting thing because we're gonna be focusing on some of the bigger companies so sorry if your guys this company you're looking forward to isn't being talked about like I didn't digital the kind of show but maybe they're not part of E3 they tweeted out June 12th with one of with their lady they put always huge fan of so many of the games they publish Katana's Zero is I think the most underrated game like of this generation I don't know if you've played it absolutely so there's gonna be a number of companies we don't cover guys we're gonna focus on the big ones today we will be doing a pre pre E3 show just Eric and I on Friday night where we will get into some of the smaller companies and when I say smaller like we're not going to talk about Gearbox today but like they're not necessarily small but the the amount of games that they create and publish are smaller obviously people know I think they're the Borderlands company I think they are no Gearbox or Gearbox is what's Gearbox again I forget I looked it up earlier the franchise I know they have one franchise I know that they're gears gears war I don't think Gearbox is Gear's war Son of a bitch pretty sure Gearbox is not Gear's war because they wouldn't have their own showcase Gear's war zone by Microsoft anyways as he looks it up and proves that I was right about Borderlands so we have we have UbiSoft to talk about that sure it is I told you see I need to talk to the guy that like covers games for a living just because I cover Nintendo come on now man all right so we got UbiSoft we'll talk about today we'll probably talk about some Square Enix let's see here I got stuff for Capcom I've seen Nintendo Microsoft, Bethesda we'll just kind of like go through the list so first up I'll just tell you guys what the actual E3 schedule is for each day because they just publish this today we finally have times for everything all these times they have listed are in Pacific time so at 10 a.m. Pacific time on Saturday, June 12 that's when they have the official pre-show happening at 11 a.m. Pacific time they have the UbiSoft forward pre-show which is really crazy they have a whole hour long pre-show so it's like almost as long as the actual event I don't okay, anyways then they have the actual UbiSoft forward at noon Pacific they have the pre-show before the UbiSoft pre-shows too at 10 a.m. the pre-show of the pre-show and here's the thing guys we have our own pre-show before the pre-show before the pre-show and that's going to be a crazy day pre-show to pre-show and the thing is the UbiSoft the UbiSoft pre-show supposedly is going to be focusing on games and updates to those so we'll get into some of that because I have some notes on UbiSoft I have a lot of notes on UbiSoft surprisingly and then they have UbiSoft forward as I said at noon Pacific time then you have Gearbox E3 showcase that's going to be at 2 p.m. Pacific time and that must be pretty short one because at 2.45 they have the games beat session and whatever those people are going to be doing that's actually the shortest day of all of E3 so that's something to keep in mind that's actually kind of nice for us that we could kind of do 4.45 p.m. is almost 5 p.m. our time and then we have a two hour post-show and we're not probably wrapping up until 8 but it is what it is compared to the other ones that might be early well and I also have to we for an hour yeah you got a dish I'm going to run a solo show around here with Mr. Pumpkin in the other chair and then we have Sunday June 13 that's obviously the big Microsoft Dave you're looking forward to what the hell Microsoft got going on or Bethesda's got cooking this is the one you want to pay for so they begin what 8.45 a.m. Pacific time is the official E3 pre-show and no there's not a pre-show of a pre-show here there actually is we're good this day besides our pre-show at 9.30 a.m. Pacific time they have 24 entertainments a Naraka blade point I actually don't even know what that is so I have some research to do in the some of this stuff that's happening so our pre-show can actually talk about it because I literally have no clue what that is 10.00 a.m. Pacific time they have the Xbox and Bethesda game showcase gonna be a lot of good stuff there we'll probably have a lot to talk about with that one 12.15 p.m. we have Square Enix and then at 2.00 p.m. we have Warner Bros. Games Back for Blood at 2.30 p.m. PC gaming show which I love the PC gaming show it's actually part of E3 this year not running alongside it where you have to decide are you gonna watch the PC 3 hour long gaming show or are you gonna watch E3 so I'm kind of I look like they're actually shorter this year only two and a half hours compared to the three so and then go right into the Futures Game Show at 4.00 p.m. and that's how also Sunday wraps up one and a half hours right but yeah two and a half hours that looks like for the PC gaming show I thought it was one and a half is it one and a half this year well maybe they're gonna have a between session it's 2.30 to 4.00 no it's one and a half you got you got me one and a half it's all good just making sure I get confused I didn't know because when you said two and a half I didn't know it was going into the Futures Game Show I think it's ending before right because when they initially announced it it was the PC gaming show plus the Futures Game Show and now they separated them out so I'm not sure if they're gonna run like be in the same thing and run off of each other I'm a little confused on it but we'll see what happens I'm just glad that it's actually part of E3 and that's what E3 ends and PC gaming show is always interesting we're not going to talk about it today but that's usually where you'll see a bunch of games coming to PC you'll see it's a really interesting show usually filled with a lot of fluff but this year it looks like it's more concise so maybe that won't happen on Monday this is kind of the day where there's basically two big companies going both of them third-party but they start their pre-E3 broadcast a pre-show at 8 a.m. Pacific time then at 9 a.m. Verizon's doing something I have no idea what Verizon's doing probably showing off a phone playing games I'm showing off hey look at this cool internet you can get to your house that only works out the time I don't know Verizon's doing something 9.45 I'm surprised they even got a half-hour show part of this but in televisions there I don't know if you guys realize the system they have coming out and how underwhelming it has appeared so far to anyone who's looked into it but hey in television the television amico is going to be there so I look forward to that I suppose at 10.45 we'll react to it the new console technically is a new console so maybe we'll be shocked I have no idea I definitely haven't gone hands-on with it I've only read about it so at 10.15 a.m. this is where you get into one of the big ones for the day we got Take-Two Interactive they're doing a panel so it'll be interesting to see how that one is different from the other shows obviously Take-Two you know you get into Rockstar and 2K and all of that so these are sports games it would be cool to get an announcement of like a GTA 6 I don't know they're porting GTA 5 again so I don't have it at 10.00 a.m. we got Mythical Games at 12.00 p.m. we got the indie showcase that should be fun indie showcases are always fun what's Mythical Games what's Mythical Games when I was looking them up earlier they looked like just another indie studio that has one game called Block Party interesting okay I mean what I mean how do these time slots are based on what companies wanted what they paid for so like they wanted to be separate from the indie showcase and do their own thing so I'm sure there'll be live gameplay or something happening for that one yeah okay I'm intrigued yeah so we'll see we'll see I've never heard of the game so it'll be my first time thinking I'll look at it and then the indie showcase obviously that should be really good I don't know how many they have packed in because it looks like it's really short but yep and then you have Freedom Games at 12.30 and then who I've never heard of but maybe I have heard of I've never heard of at 1pm and then obviously the next big one for the day we have Capcom at 2.30 that should be a nice one which is really cool because it's actually kind of short so I don't know how content is going to be yeah it's half an hour they already announced that they're going to be talking about Monster Hunter and Resident Evil so that'll probably take a good chunk of it and I'm curious to see if they'll have enough time to maybe announce some new stuff I'm always hoping for Mega Man Legends 3 or just port 1 and 2 and we'll see because Nintendo's director is only 40 minutes but they always pack a lot of announcements into it so we'll see how Capcom does it they've done a few digital events this year but most of them focused on singular games so we'll see what happens Razer at 3pm Razer does have a gaming phone by the way guys so I expect them to talk about that but they also have accessories and gaming accessories and show up their latest headsets and keyboards and mice soon they just want their own segment to end the day and who knows they might be partnering with certain games and you might be able to see some games there too and then obviously Tuesday's the big day I know a lot of my followers are looking forward to because that is the day of Nintendo it's pretty much the only thing that happens that day sorry Bandai Namco I know you're also there too but we've got I'm excited for Bandai Namco because Tales of Arise looks amazing I love the tales of here's the thing seriously and Scarlet Nexus comes out this month it's like two weeks but I mean the big thing everyone sees Elden Ring but I right that's really I mean they have Elden Ring I can steal the show because they're going to be like one of the final big studios I think they are the final big studio going so they got the pre-show at 8 o'clock remember Pacific time for everyone 9 a.m. is Nintendo's direct and then they have three hours of Treehouse so literally it's pretty much four hours of Nintendo that's the longest anyone has a time slot for so we'll see Nintendo sometimes in Treehouse as well they've done this in the past of E3 so we'll see what happens they have a lot they have a lot of time to do something we know they're going to be gameplay at least then Bandai Namco follows up Nintendo at 2.25 p.m. so that's one of the last big ones and they have like an hour slot it looks like so they might have a lot to talk about and then we got Eureka Studio who I didn't look up I'm presuming they're an indie studio because I don't recognize them but I don't know what I'm talking about next week yeah I've never heard of Eureka Studio either and it's funny there might be you can't see it but their studio is spelled it's not like Eureka it's Y-O-O-R-E-K-K yeah that's weird it might even be pronounced it maybe it's Eureka yeah I don't think Eureka anyways maybe they have made a here's the thing some of the indie games I played I don't always know the studios behind them so it's possible maybe I have and then we have at 335 so I mean it's a really short thing so they gotta be showing off like one game they got like a five-minute spot so I'm sure they got like a like a four-minute showcase of whatever game they're working on then at 335 they have games five-minute what oh you're looking them up no I was just saying you're right it's yeah I didn't realize it's 335 it's literally the shortest spot of the show it's surprising that they even have that and they're they wanted to be sandwiched between Bandai Namco and GameSpot apparently they didn't want to go on the same day as the rest of Indies so we'll see maybe it'll blow our mind maybe it'll be the game of the show I have no idea they will steal the show at that five minutes you never know dude if it's something I mean I don't think the studio is that big but if it is like something that drops like an Elden Ring type of surprise you never know I mean all it could take is just one announcement I mean think about it like what if Breath of the Wild 3 that would steal the whole show it would steal the whole show if they announced it that's obviously a massive long-tenured franchise but I'm intrigued by what they have on Steam a martial art open world adventure game alright um built with Unreal 4 engine alright I haven't heard of any of their games the titles but I mean I'm intrigued by that concept yeah I'm intrigued they obviously paid for that five minute spot all to themselves to not be part of the indie showcase and they're like nope we want our own five minutes so we'll see what happens um then we have GameSpot Play for All showcase we'll see what happens there GameSpot those showcases almost every single E3 usually have developers on and gameplay and all that um IGN usually does as well I notice IGN doesn't have any of their own slots here but they are a partner media partner of E3 they have their own like pre-show show going on same time we do same time EESA does so they'll have their own stuff that's the hard thing what you're following E3 is like there's so many places doing all these shows and getting dev interviews and all it can be really hard to follow at all um we're going to try our best during our show to try to make sure we don't miss anything important because there's always lulls and maybe during those lulls we can draw in you know maybe a big names on IGN we're going to have a lot of stuff happening to see if we have to flip over to different streams um which assuming we don't get in trouble for that we'll get in that later um and then an award show probably the thing I'm least interested in that's a 445 but how else are we going to know who wins E3 how else are we going to know who wins E3 unless the E3 tells us who wins E3 E3's going to tell us who wins E3 which is cool I think it's probably more important for the developers and the publishers like to get recognized than it is necessarily for fans to really care but it's going to start fan wars it always does could you imagine at the end you know who's not going to win E3 at least the credentials to co-stream the event oh yes we will get to that oh you know what you brought it up let's just talk about that right now then we'll go back to our predictions so um you've been commenting with the E3 guy on twitter when they put out tweets and saying something to him I have and he went back and forth with me a few days like I think on saturday he went back and forth I haven't even gotten a response they responded to me last week and they said it's weird but he just doesn't reply to me and it's crazy because he tweeted reply to this if you need help with your registration yep and we tweeted I would have never replied if he didn't tell me to and then he ignores my replies when you're like the top reply it's weird um so like uh so for those of you know what we're talking about there's these ways to register for E3 then content creator registration and then fan registration which all registration is open right now um when I when I asked randomly I came over to tweet or they weren't even asking about it I just tweeted and I said hey when am I going to hear back about content creator things you know I don't know if I really care about being an official co-stream partner but it would be kind of cool to know I'm not going to press conferences and running this whole show so I don't know if I'm going to get in trouble or not uh so I'm like hey can I just get a response either way it's a yes or no it is what it is I just want to know because they said you would respond with yes or no when you signed up for it and they said well we're finishing up media over the weekend uh you know we will get the content creators on Monday well it's Tuesday it's going to be well and two you're not going to get through to fans who are trying to get in as well uh and I think that's why they're ghosting me on the replies because I think that they are not going to get back to anyone yeah and see they responded to me which made me think oh they're going to but the way the guy put it is oh yeah was that last week that they responded to you yeah last week yeah see I didn't reach out till this week so I think after the weekend they realized that we can't handle this you know what I mean yeah I think the ESA is doing like they always tell us when we go to E3 in person oh yeah use our app use our app log in on their app it's the most useless thing useless thing ever it's not going to help it's going to confuse you more than it helps like it's done like you want to spend like because we're out there all three days basically the first day okay yeah it's getting lined for like the one big thing we want to do besides that walk around and scope the place out and figure out what the hell you're doing no one's going to be able to access anything whatever virtual boost you have all the information is going to be released by these companies independently anyways any trailers any screenshots they're not going to need the app but what we do need as content creators is potential permission to actually co-stream it now they have some official co-streamers which are clearly massive creators they reach out to ahead of time to partner with just like with media companies like okay well you obviously reached out to them independently and they're part of it so what about the rest of us E3 is as big as it is because of content creators in general these days anyways way back in the day before social media sure it was on TV it was broadcasted it was you know you needed like G4 TV to even hear about E3 back in the day but nowadays it's content creators that spread the word and we are obviously heavily ingrained in the video game community and I mean I'm streaming the thing either way I just hope that after one day they don't decide to strike me and then that's it I can't stream anymore for the rest of E3 which the only thing I'm really worried about is Ubisoft because of Just Dance but every year you got it for anyone who's streaming this event who's streaming Ubisoft you need to pay attention the moment you see anything that remotely looks like someone dancing hit mute yep because you will not even stream Ubisoft they just literally someone that I follow on Twitter that have like 15,000 followers that just you know post like gaming news and stuff like that you know I won't mention their account because I don't want them to get negative attention but they literally just retweeted they retweeted they didn't tweet this themselves they retweeted someone else that had posted a leak of an upcoming Ubisoft game and they got their permanently suspended had to start one from scratch and it's not being reinstated so I feel like Ubisoft's like really bringing the guns this year not in a good way so I'm avoiding that one right so they do stuff like that and every year I've streamed them I've gotten in trouble for the Just Dance stuff which it's not really them it's the music companies that ding in at Ubisoft themselves because Ubisoft will tell you every year it's safe to it's not you that's the problem with the strikes it's the music companies it's weird too because Ubisoft partnered with us to do giveaways during E3 like they partnered with us and wanted us to give away some game codes during E3 for all platforms so like one of the few giveaways as we have going on for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X happens because Ubisoft partnered with us so if there's games that are out on there you know Assassin's Creed Valhalla well so it's automated with them right like they just you know they won't manually oh you know we gave these guys stuff to give away so we won't you know it's just automated they're just gonna everyone that's why I'm avoiding it the person told me we can't wait for you to live react to our stuff and I'm just like if I do I'm debated I'm muting your entire press conference just put the CCs on and like putting it in its own little tiny window and we just do whatever the hell we want to do and we'll talk about what's happening on screen but like I'm afraid to play any audio I'm afraid to mention even advertise that we're streaming and that's the thing that's why I want to co-stream because literally I don't want any money I don't want any revenue that's fine each three you can have it all I just want to be able to live stream the event and it's crazy that they haven't responded to me because I don't have the millions of followers like you know like the the partnered ones they have but I have done live streams on YouTube with over 200,000 people in the chat and those aren't even official gaming events those are just me doing my streams over a million views on my launch day stream you know my PS5 launch day stream which is insane the chat's just like popping so fast you can't even read messages even a slow-mo doesn't matter yep and yeah exactly so it's just like obviously like I feel like I have a lot to give to them and I don't even want any compensation I'm just excited because I love video games and I want to stream their event and that's why it's frustrating to me yeah it is and like I said anyways I'm just going to roll with the punches I don't want to be like it's funny because I thought you know if I find out they're going to punish people for streaming this if you're not an official coach streamer which I kind of feel like hey if you don't get back to me yes or no I'm just going to presume it's a yes because I can't say you didn't tell me no yeah right but it's like you know and I don't want to lose my streaming ability but I thought do I do do I live commentate this hey we can't stream sports but we can live commentate the plays as they're happening and talk about it with people and react and I'm like oh I could live commentate the entirety of E3 and not show anything but also like you could literally just hop over and watch it for free on their YouTube channel so like why would you watch my live commentating of something that you can already watch somewhere else so it's like you know I'm just going to risk it risk it for the biscuit they say but like these things ever end up being monetized like they might start out monetized but they always get claimed so there's some company somewhere that claims I don't care about like actual copyright claims on my videos especially live streams claim away it doesn't bother me it's the strikes and that's what I want to like the only thing I'm afraid of during E3 is if we're not official co-streamers we'll be good strikes that impact like us for weeks you know you get one strike it's like that's not cool now granted every strike I've ever had because of the E3 stream I have successfully repealed it but it's taken 48 hours mm-hmm well that's most of E3 so right I mean and the other thing is I'm in such good standing with YouTube I don't know if it's worth it for me to risk it but the thing I'm considering doing for E3 it's on the weekend but maybe on the Monday and Tuesday I stream looking for PS5 restocks and then we keep it like you know in the corner like what you said mm-hmm if I don't get any like official authorization to co-stream it I honestly I haven't decided what I'm going to do well there's also if I don't stream I'd be happy to come on as a guest over here in between streams I'll be sure sure I've got no problem that we always have room for more guests if you want to come on for some of that stuff especially on some of those like the Microsoft I think it would be nice to have you on there talking about some of the stuff that you might know a bit more about than I do definitely we have some people come on for the free show but I have nobody coming on for after Microsoft's done them but as they've done they actually talk about what they showed people that are really excited about the stuff besides myself like dude if they show a vowed I'm going to be so happy that's one of my most hyped games from Microsoft right now but yeah so the one thing you could do this is just as a a friendly suggestion and I see some content creators that do this that are bigger because they can transfer enough for their audience what they'll do is if they're not sure they'll just stream it on Twitch because they don't care if their Twitch account gets temporarily banned I'm not in the best standing with Twitch is the thing so you're already banned on Twitch no I'm not already banned but so one time I was going to stream on Twitch because YouTube was down so I made it Twitch and instantly got 10,000 followers on Twitch in like 10 minutes and then YouTube went back up so I've never streamed on Twitch but I have a Twitch account with a ton of followers but the problem my problem with Twitch I don't know if you know this about me I don't have the best relationship with Amazon and Twitch is owned by Amazon Amazon doesn't like me because I've leaked some things they they're out of the way to make sure all my affiliate links that I was able to do for a time they banned me for life from their affiliate program that's how I know that they're not a fan of me and so I would never trust having success on a platform owned by them you know what I mean yeah yeah well it's just a way to possibly react and if they ban you they ban you well I was going to say who really cares I mean they already don't like you stream away but it's also partially it's also you kind of showing support for them by being on their platform and driving viewers to their platform too in a way it's kind of a give or take and then you know like if he's able to get all those Amazon Prime subs you know like oh thank you for subbing thank you thank you thank you and all of a sudden they're like yeah we don't like you we're taking all that money away have a good day yeah and they would do that they've done some very petty things to me already but I don't want to but yeah yeah yeah no I I totally I totally get that thankfully I'm still in good standing with them but not I haven't really leaked much from them but I think a lot of it I'm still in good standing because my affiliate account with them is actually through Zeldin former which no longer exists so like technically it's a Zeldin former affiliate account but it's in my name so I can get away with it because technically my name is the name of my business so it's kind of a work around I don't know if they realize I'm using it on the there's no stipulations in my contract I can put the links anywhere I want they say so till they yell at me they'll kick me out someday I'm sure interesting maybe they'll do that one day and then they'll realize that I'm posting them from my YouTube and ban that account as well but we'll see I mean oh jeez what I don't understand is like when Amazon gets petty like that all the affiliate account is yeah you make a little bit of money but you're also driving sales to their platform that's a massive positive like okay we don't like you because of this but also if you can drive us sales that's great but yeah there's companies out there that can be extremely petty as an example guys I love Nintendo will never be a Nintendo partner at all yeah because they're petty well also I feel like Nintendo has kind of redone how they how they do the Nintendo partnerships like you know obviously I'm sure you follow beat-em-ups when he got dropped earlier this year and they but they did that to so many people and now I feel like they will only partner with very small channels who are extremely like 10 out 11 out of 10 12 out of 10 family friendly all the time mm-hmm you know what I mean that those are the only ones I see that still are Nintendo ambassadors oh yeah like that that's the thing people want me uh well it's kind of weird too because I think a guy a player essence I think is actually still a partner with them and I was telling that weird because he could be quite crass at times in his live streams I think Nintendo's just ignoring his live streams can't ignore mine they're all over my channel they get a lot of views and I drink in almost every single one besides the podcast so they're family I warn people I'm like hey be of age drink responsibly and I feel like I should do because I don't want to encourage underage drinking or anything like that I'm in my mid 30s I'm not I don't have to worry about that stuff but I do have children who I don't even let my own children watch my YouTube channel even though my content I don't think it's really that bad it's just one of those yeah but you watch it and then you might catch a stream and you'd be like oh man he's having a lot of fun well yeah I'm having a lot of fun but like you can't have this fun I see I consider myself family friendly yeah I would consider myself family friendly but I don't do that to please any brands I the reason I do that is because a lot of like parents that are trying to get the PS5 or grandparents will watch my streams and then show me to their kids and then like the kids will love the hype sessions or whatever and when I have so many people watching my streams I always think about the kids that could be watching and I just want to be a role model for them sure you know what I mean I would love to get really silly on streams and something I have sometimes I do like a late night stream at like 2 in the morning where it's just gameplay it's not a drop stream yeah and then things can get a little risqué but for the most part I just you know I want to acknowledge those and one thing that I just want to acknowledge in the chat is someone says so player essence is family friendly which is hilarious and he was just on Nintendo's like official channel I think it was playing Monster Hunter but he's actually he's actually a really good friend of mine I talk to him all the time so I would say yes I'm gonna say he is family friendly and Nintendo made a great decision because he's amazing I'm actually me and him have a video coming out this week so yeah that's good that's good man yeah just like I drink on stream it's not gonna happen it's okay I don't really care all you get in the ambassador program is early access to games I'll buy them it's cool and Nintendo by the way doesn't hate me or anything they have the goal and Harris they still talk to me and everything and let me know about events and stuff so it's not like they hate my channel they realize my audience is primarily 18 plus it's probably always gonna be primarily 18 plus because that's the audience I care you to there'll always be some children of course it is the way it is can't be a Nintendo channel without having some children I get them DMing me all the time and they get annoyed with me because I don't respond and I'm like look I have a feeling that you're like under the age of like 15 I even then you're under 18 I really don't want to talk with you that's when trouble happens even if I'm just helping you get a switch pro or something like trouble happens if I feel like you're underage I'm just gonna leave it alone yep that's all you gotta say but you set the expectation I think really well for your channel as well if I set the expectation you know that I wasn't family friendly better than I would be more okay doing it but I don't and then what's happened is all these families and I am kind of I do like to my personality I like to be silly sometimes but I also I like to be real a lot of the time and I guess like kind of wholesome I'm not trying to make a joke my own ego whatever just like who I am as a person yeah um so I really embrace it I like that but that's why YouTube's amazing there you can there can be anything like super family friendly to super not family friendly and anything in between yeah that's what I like about this platform is you know I always tell people like I took my kids to when they the last day of school they had like an after school lunch at the park or whatever and we went there and like there was like three kids from one of my kids classes that came up and be like I know you you're a Nintendo Prime and I'm like you're eight why are you watching my channel like do your parents know you watch me and they're like no my parents don't know anything I do and I'm like okay well that doesn't surprise me you're talking to a fellow parent would you like me to talk to your parents about that but let them know that like yeah I would say in general if you're not watching my live streams you're probably safe there might be a swear word that drops once in a while but bottom line is I always tell people I'm gonna be me and this is what I tell my kids because they've heard me swear and I try to be you know I'm usually a family friendly guy like I'm on this whole podcast I haven't even said one swear word yet but I will sometimes and I'll drink with some of my kids look there are certain things that at certain ages become more appropriate than at other ages and when you're a kid number one thing you need to learn is respecting people and respecting who you're around and then obviously knowing the time and the place for certain things and you guys are five eight and ten none of you guys know exactly when those instances are okay and not okay and I say you guys all go to private Catholic schools you can't swear a school ever you just so you guys know I went to those same schools it's a no no but you're on your own you're a teenager with your friends one day I don't care have fun so it's one of those situations that it's kind of like you know they have to grow up and learn and that's what I tell the friends I'm like hey look I'm not saying I'm the worst YouTuber you could watch there's obviously a lot I wouldn't call them trash tubers but they're definitely YouTubers that I don't think children should be being influenced by but unfortunately everyone knows it happens in parents I always say that a lot of this is just a message to all parents out there you pay attention to what your kids are doing especially at these young ages when you get your bones and all that like pay attention because you have no idea what's influencing them you know when I heard that the parents didn't even know they were watching me I was like how they should know like they might still say it's fine to watch me but they should know that's happening they've probably seen Nintendo in the name and they're like yeah and then I worry about that too and it's kind of like yeah but still like and the thing is like as people probably say in the chat your content is mostly family friendly it is to an extent but like I do swear sometimes I'm not going to not be me I always view this as this is kind of like my escape from having to be a parent I don't do this as a parent I do this as myself there's parent nate my way around it is sometimes I will use some innuendo innuendo I heard Cecil say in the chat that are you family friendly there's some innuendo in there yeah yeah so sometimes I do stuff like that but then I don't acknowledge it like so I'll say it and then I won't like laugh at my own joke or say it like a totally straight face random sentence but people in the chat that armature will pick up on it it's like those old cartoons right they'll pick they'll pick up on it and other people will just be like oh and like it's funny when I do something like that and like I can see like a totally serious thing they're like oh yeah me too or whatever I say yeah so you love you love to see it that's always fun but I love that story that you getting recognized because that started happening to me recently and it's wild when that happens so I typically only wear the bandana for YouTube it's like a YouTube thing but sometimes I will wear it out especially like like if I'm just like want to just like throw some gel on my hair and like put my bandana on not take a real shower but if I wear the bandana out like sometimes I feel like I have a greater than 50% chance of getting recognized just because I'm kind of in a small town in New Hampshire so like the first time I got recognized was literally my first stream like my first big stream on launch day when I went to pick up my PlayStation 5 that I got in that stream at Target the other kid waiting to get his PS5 I was like dude we secured the bag and he's like did you just say secure the bag now he's like oh that sounds so familiar I actually wasn't wearing my bandana either he's like wait were you were you streaming today he's like dude I only have my PS5 because of you and it was so crazy and then like last week I was at Target and then this this guy might have been in his forties or fifties was like hey just so you know he came up to me when I was looking in the video games and he's like you know my daughter's autistic and like one of the things that really helps her a lot is having these games game consoles to play and I just I love what you're doing he almost made me cry I wanted to talk to him longer but I was there with my little sisters and she was she really wanted to get out of there but we talked for a little bit but that was just so special yeah and one of the things I'm really excited about now that the quarantine's I'm fully vaccinated is conventions and being able to to meet more people and stuff like that I think that'll be really, really fun yeah it was kind of cool because this is one of the first times I was recognized in public as Nintendo Prime which was my children which I wish that wasn't the first time but it's also one of those I used to work I used to run a really popular Zelda fan site they got millions of views a month I was the editor in chief for like a decade and I would get recognized everywhere I used to run that back in the day wow okay I didn't know that yeah so yeah I would go everywhere and I'd always Walmart, GameStop there are people right Eric was there once I think one of the guys at Walmart recognized me as the guy who runs Zelda which I thought was weird because I run a website my face isn't really out there much but they recognized me anyways I don't know really how that happened it was kind of weird but it's not like I hid they must have Google search me or something those days ended and I was doing Nintendo Prime eventually people stopped recognizing me and then all of a sudden now they recognized me as Nintendo Prime which I kind of like because I was working for somebody else then now with that fresh cut you got going oh yeah I did not look like this back in the Zelda days at all at all I got the fresh hair right now dude I've only had this beard going for like god six months otherwise my whole life was clean shaved wow I don't know what I was missing this is the look this is the look this is all wrong yeah can relate can relate I mean I didn't start growing my beard a couple of years ago well it's one of those I went to Catholic schools that required you to be clean shaved and then I worked at McDonald's for a while they required you to be clean shaved so it was like you know I just kind of kept it that way and then my fiance is always like oh yeah I like you clean shaved like you've never seen me not clean shaved how would you know and then all of a sudden yeah I didn't I didn't shave I mean, she takes one look at me and she goes, Nate, that is hot. You are keeping it. I'm like, so done, done deal. So my my thing is the reason I didn't grow a beard is because like it grows in not patchy, but asymmetrical. So like this side can be like fully in even all the way up to like underneath my lip. But this side is exactly as it is. It's just always like that. So like it would look like, you know, like this would connect. Yeah, you got to like really realize if I just shave every day, that little part and just make it look symmetrical. Yeah, that's all it will be good. It'll be good. That's what it is. Yeah, there was like, his mind comes up a little up here and I shaved that one. Obviously, he goes down in the neck and I shave that up and you can get a line. Yeah, it's just all about maintaining the look and maintaining what you think looks good, especially when you're someone else in the chat. They're getting bonus beard tips right now. They have bonus beard tips. Yeah, I'm just talking about our favorite beard creams and old and I have a dye coming in because I got a few gray hairs and I just want to see what it looks like if I die because I haven't I didn't get to grow. I dye my beard darker gray hairs. I'm open about that. I dye my beard darker because I'm blonder. You can kind of notice a little difference, right? Yeah, my hair is a little more blonde. So I dye my I dye my beard. Yeah, and I was well, because I never I never got to enjoy this when I was younger and it would have not had the gray. So it's like a few gray whiskers like, you know what, let me just go a little darker. My fiance wants me to try straight black. We'll see. It might be too contrasty, but that's what she wants to try. We'll see. I'd be interested to see. Well, the great news is if it doesn't work out. I mean, you just you can't just kind of washing it out. I was reading about it's like, yeah, you can do it and you can just do it like once a week and you're fine. And I'm like, well, and then it's how easy is it to get rid of? You don't like, oh, it's super easy. Just use this, use that and it's gone and you're back to your normal look. And it's like, well, that's easier than when you dye your hair. That's for sure. Right. Because I've done that. I've done frosted tips. I've done a lot of. Yeah, yeah. Long frosted tips. I'm 90s kid, man. He was he was the boy band through and through through and through, man. Bastery boys for life. Bastery boys for life. All right. What? I got gray hair, too. Somewhere. Where was it? Well, you you clean shave the other day and look like a pure bison 12 year old boy. I lose I lose 10 years when I frickin shave. I know you look like you were back and just going through puberty again. All right. Crazy. I wish I could shave and look that young. Yeah, it's not the way it looks for me. Let's get a little bit to some of these predictions for E3. I will start with Ubisoft. So I just want to get into this is the stuff that we know that know they have going on or have announced in the past. So for the pre show, they're going to be focusing on current games. They have a new season for For Honor coming out on the 10th. So that's this Thursday when the, you know, potentially they might even mention it during the Summer Game Fest. Watch Dogs Legion's got a zombie mode and their invasion mode got delayed to August. So they might end up talking about that. And they also have Aiden Pierce from Watch Dogs 1 and Wrench from Watch Dogs 2. Those are playable in July. So those are some things they might talk about. Besides that, I have no idea they have a bunch of games going on. You know, Rainbow Six Siege, I have no idea. There could be other stuff. For their full show, they do have Rainbow Six Extraction already talked about. For those who wonder, what the hell is that? That's previously known as Rainbow Six Quarantine. They changed the name Far Cry 6 that they've announced. And there's been a leak out there, supposedly for the Division Heartland hasn't been confirmed. But the leak seems pretty solid on that. Ryder's Republic is a sports MMO that was supposed to come out in February. Got delayed indefinitely. Don't know what's happening to that. They might do some Assassin's Creed Valhalla DLC because they have like a roadmap for Valhalla, there's not supposed to be a new Assassin's Creed game this year. So it doesn't mean they won't show one or tease one, but they've already announced there won't be a new one this year. They're relying on the Valhalla DLC. We know that there's a Star Wars game that they kind of sort of announced they're working with Lucas Films on back in January. The Massive Entertainment Group, the one that makes the Division, supposedly is working on it. Don't know if we'll see it, but that is something that they did confirm was happening. So that's when people are all like, wait a second, EA doesn't have exclusivity on Star Wars anymore? Nope. They pulled that after all that Battlefront 2 backlash and pulled that in a hurry. But didn't EA make the last Jedi? Yes. Yeah, EA still makes Star Wars games. Absolutely. It was an exclusivity contract. That was the first time we found out that, oh, they don't have exclusivity anymore. Well, yeah, you think Disney liked getting messages from fans about bad stuff? I really wish the NFL would follow suit. Nick Forrest said in the chat what I was thinking, which is this is Nintendo Prime. What about Mario Rabbids 2? Yeah. Or just like, you know, maybe they can't collab with Nintendo on it. But maybe like now that we've seen how fun a Rabbids game can be, because I had never played one before that. Maybe, you know, they do a Rabbids game and do a collab with one of their other, you know, Ubisoft franchises. They could. I really love that the gameplay. I think they did an amazing job. Oh, Mario Rabbids Kingdom was great. It was one of my favorite Ubisoft games in a long time. I mean, they have a lot of good games. You know, like they have the Avatar Project, they announced back in 2017. It's supposed to be the official game for the Avatar franchise. No idea what happened at the settlers. I was really looking forward to the settlers. I like these city building games that was supposed to be out in 2019, then 2020. Now we have no idea what the hell is going on with it. Skelling bones supposedly got rebooted. Sucks, I was looking forward to that one. Beyond Good and Evil. I'm not familiar with the skull and bones. Yeah, skull and bones. So like when they came out with Assassin's Creed 4 and they were doing that, that whole ships at the sea thing, they kind of decided, hey, what if we took this and turn it into like this giant pirate game and make our own new IP out of it? And they did that. Well, that's such a good idea. The pirate stuff was so great in that game. Yeah, so they did that and they announced it and then it vanished. And now rumor has it that they had to reboot it. So I don't know when the hell we're going to see that. Probably be rebooted as a next gen only game, I assume. Oh, man, that would be that would be amazing. Yeah, dude. Yeah, Beyond Good and Evil. Everyone remembers that 2018 reveal. You know, we were kind of anticipating it, but also are they really going to do it? It's been so long and now it's been a few years and we still haven't seen anything and now you wonder did it enter development hell? I have no idea. Right. Because it was a cinematic trailer. We didn't actually see gameplay. So it's like, you know, newbie soft tends to do that a lot where you get these cinematic kind of trailers and the real game ends up not necessarily looking as good and I don't really care if it looks as good. I just care that it exists. I love that franchise. Right. Roller champions. That was supposed to come out this year. It's supposed to come out last year, but then covid. That's coming to switch. That is one that's been previously announced for switch. Nice. Yeah, then maybe teasing a new Assassin's Creed game if they want to tease it. I don't know if they will, but that's just the stuff that we kind of know about. That doesn't mean there's always stuff we don't know about. And that's always what gets, you know, exciting sometimes are the things that we don't know about. You know, because they have like that one racing game I always forget about that hasn't had a new game in a while. So I don't know like the thing that's not on the list is obviously Mario plus Rabbids Kingdom Metal 2 that's been talked about in some circles as that might exist. Some have suggested it's not Mario, but it's Donkey Kong plus Rabbids because it's Donkey Kong's 40th anniversary. But they had that Donkey Kong DLC. Are they expanding on that? You know, for that. I mean, maybe they could expand it to its own mode, but some people didn't. I don't know. Some people didn't like that DLC. I thought it was fine. Yeah, it wasn't as good as the original game. But I mean, I'm sorry when you have an opera singing, rabid, boss title, like nothing. That was so epic. I remember like when that happened and like I wasn't ready for it. And I was I was and I was just like it kept happening. I was blown away. That was so cool. They did such a good job. So did you ever play? Was it Conqueror's Bad Friday back in the day? I did. I did. I own it. I have I've never beaten it, though. Have you ever gotten to the Great Mighty Pooh fight? Yeah. OK. That's what reminds me like a throwback to that. Yeah, because it was this it was the guy singing an opera voice about himself and the Great Mighty Pooh and how, you know, I'm going to throw my shit at you and all this stuff. And you're like running around and you're fighting him. And every time you progress in the fight, he sings some more of the song. And that's exactly what happened in the rabid's game, was every time you progress a little bit, he'd sing more of the song and he's always singing about himself. And it felt like a really old mage back to that game. That was one of my favorite games as a kid. So it's kind of like, man, that's awesome. Yeah. I've seen a boss fight like that. That makes sense. It was it was really cool in Mario and Rabbids, though, because obviously, like the graphics are just so like. Yeah, so beautiful as compared to what Conqueror's was. Conqueror's amazing game, wicked fun. But that's what really got me was the spectacle when I got ported. Yeah, it was it was really good. Yeah. Back. Although they messed up the multiplayer. I'm always going to say the multiplayer of the 64 version of Conqueror was way better than the next one. I don't know why they changed it. But the single player was better on Xbox because it just looked a lot better. That's another one like, hey, Microsoft, you know, if you're never going to make another game, please, let's remake it. That'd be great. That's for for smash and the banjo. Oh, my gosh. As as Jake said, you have for smash for sure. Yes, I could just see. I could just see him winding up with the frying pan. I just go and now we have, you know, the new render for Banjo-Kazooie and that's in Smash and looks fantastic. It's like, man, can we just get some Banjo-Kazooie again? Yeah, like obviously they can. They got banjo, so rare characters are on the table. Right, right, right. I keep hoping for Conqueror to get in, but I don't know. We'll see. I know some people want Master Chief and stuff as well, which I totally understand. I think Microsoft would be fine with that. Yeah. Whether or not Nintendo wants to do that, I have no idea because I feel like, you know, this is getting ahead of ourselves in the Nintendo top. But if you put Master Chief in Smash Bros, I feel like there's going to be this expectation from Nintendo fans that, well, then what Sony character are we getting? Because that's Microsoft's mascot. Are we going to get, you know, Ratchet and Clank in there or something? And it's like, I don't think Sony is going to play ball. It's got a feeling that they're not going to play ball with Nintendo to put a character in Smash, even though there's like no negative thing that happened. It doesn't actually hurt their sales. No, if anything, it'll bring more attention to their franchises, especially to Nintendo. Like Ratchet and Clank, I think would be a perfect one to draw for Nintendo fans to. Yeah, I don't think that Nintendo would do that because, you know, they're OK with Banjo doing it, even though Microsoft owns that, because there's no Banjo games, I guess. And also Microsoft has been cool with Nintendo letting some of their games come to the switch. But Sony, you know, they wouldn't. I don't think they would add a character to Smash to promote a game that would never come to their console, right? Like Ratchet and Clank, if they added that to Smash, that would just help Sony. Sure. It really wouldn't help Nintendo at all. You know what I mean? Yes and no, because you could get a lot of people buying that DLC character individually. And Nintendo would make money off of that. And it could potentially draw PlayStation fans to it. If people liked it so much that they got a PS5 and realized, oh, I like the PS5 so much better than the Switch, then they're going to be buying games for the PS5 instead of buying games for the Nintendo. I think it would hurt them in the long run. You know what I mean? I think it's a give or take because I think you also have Sony guys that might be like, oh, wait, the best selling fighting game of all time now has my favorite character. And maybe I should go buy a switch and check it out. It's only 200 bucks to get a Switch Lite. But really, though, like if you're a Sony guy, like, and you haven't gotten a Switch with with Smash Brothers with all the characters they have by now, would you really buy a Switch just for a ratchet being in Smash? You know what I mean? I have no idea, to be honest. Like for me, it's kind of like, look, I'm a big Zelda guy. So like, if there's something Zelda happening on a PlayStation 5, I'm going to go buy it. But that's also I'm also a hardcore fan. So maybe I don't know if I should like has hardcore fans. I have no idea. I'm sure they do a little bit. I'm sure every franchise probably has the hardcore fans that will go anywhere their IPs at. But I don't know. I mean, by the way, guys, like it's well known that Switch is massive crossover audience with PC gamers and PlayStation and Xbox because a lot of people like it as a companion system because these systems aren't portable. This one is. But obviously people only have a finite amount of time. I can own all these platforms, but I don't have time to always play them all. So that's kind of how it goes there as well. So I have no idea. I don't think Sony would play ball. Anyways, I don't really think it's. Well, they didn't even play ball with what Minecraft in cross play. Oh, that's not get into the cross play stuff. So why would they play ball with? And then the recents? Well, I don't want to go with that one. So that's frustrating. I think Sony would ever play ball with that would be. Well, Sony won't play ball with Microsoft. That's obvious, but. Yeah, I just, I don't know. We'll see what happens. I mean, they do have cross platform play now, but then they have some weird contract things in it. I don't understand what Sony is doing. I mean, I get what they're doing. They want everyone to just buy a PlayStation and play on PlayStation. That's what they're doing. I can't blame them for that. That's all right. There's nothing wrong with that. I have a PlayStation because of it. So yeah, and I like the PlayStation five guys. It's fun. It really is. I keep saying this. I'm like an hour away from finishing Miles Morales because I haven't sat down and actually finished it off because I'm just, I don't know what I'm waiting for. It's like, I'm enjoying it so much. I don't want it to end. It's like me and worthwhile. Because when it ends, I know I'm moving on to the next game. I don't really replay games as much as I used to any more than I'm a parent. So it's kind of like, I don't want it to end. So I'm just kind of salivating the ending of that game. Even though I know it's all over the internet. I've avoided it. I've avoided the spoilers. So, good job. Yeah. I mean, I always say to people like, oh, I mean, I don't think it's that hard to avoid spoilers. Just stop looking for stuff about that game. Don't click on anything with that game in the title. Done. Ending of Miles Morales. Okay, don't click. Right. Right. You know, yeah, someone might message you in spoiler. I guess you can't do anything about that. No, but I'm a Nintendo guy. So I guess it's easier for me to avoid spoilers for other consoles. Yeah. Plus I enjoy spoilers for Nintendo. Maybe I would enjoy spoilers for other systems more if I, I don't know. Anyways, do you have any games you want to see from Ubisoft besides the Mario plus Rabbids stuff? From Ubisoft specifically. Well, obviously we're going to see more Far Cry 6 and I'm not like the biggest Far Cry fan, but I am really excited to see, I forget his first name Esposito, the guy I'm breaking bad, Gustavo Frane. I think it's really cool that he's in the game. So I'm interested in it for that. But also just based on the trailers and stuff, I bet he'll probably get killed off like in the first hour of the game and not really being it that much, even though they're using him heavily in the marketing material, it seems like the story will be based on his son. But I'm still really excited for it. It looks like a, it looks like a true next-gen game, but I believe it's coming to previous gen consoles as well, right? But still, I'm definitely looking forward to that. I hope they change up the formula a little bit because that's why I'm not too big on Far Cry recently because it seems like the sports games of like shooter games, like it's just copy and pastes. Same thing every year. There's not really a deep story to it. It's, you know, the Ubisoft formula. You go find a tower, scout out the area, you know, do a bunch of side quests. So I, you know, I would love to see them kind of evolve that a little bit. Yeah. Eric, is there anything you're looking forward to from Ubisoft? Obviously, I'm assuming Miles is Rabbids. Just Rabbids. Just Rabbids. Anything Rabbids. Anything Rabbids. Anything Rabbids. He's always liked Rabbids. Yeah. I'm a stupid humor guy. And that's right in my way. Even the show. Even the slapstick. Oh yeah. Non-talking comedy in the show. Yeah. Yeah. I think it would be interesting to do, to see like a Zelda Rabbids crossover with swords instead. Don't even tease me. You might as well just saw me as Zelda Dungeon Makers coming and I'm just gonna. I mean, that's a possibility. I'm gonna have to walk off the set. Yeah, right? Yeah. I mean, that's a possibility too. That'd be awesome. And we've talked about that. Yeah, we have talked about it. Cause they have a, they also have a partial one. Right, right, right. But I would say to that, I mean, I don't have the systems that, you know, most of these games run besides, I guess, a PC. But, you know, so I, well, what's that? I guess a PC. What, a PC gaming now real to you, bro? PC gaming now real to you? I use the PC games all the time. I barely game now the way it is. What? And that's the switch. And you don't even have kids. Duh, duh, duh. Yeah. Well, my kids like games though, so it gives me excuse to play even more. Right, right, right. Wow. So, I mean, to really say that, I have anything exciting expected, unless there's like a big game that's coming to Switch. No, I mean, just rabbits. Man. Yeah. No, sorry. Oh. I'm like, I'm like, what the heck is this? All right. They're doing this in Persian too, but they just announced the best away. Oh yeah, this is not going to be there. I know. I was like, I was really looking forward to that, the Sansa time. I want to see what they do with it. Because I know there was some tepid reception when they first showed it. And it's like, okay, well, then you're reworking it in a bit. Let's see what happens. And I was a big Prince of Persia guy back in the day, especially when that the one they had on GameCube, I can't remember which one that was. I played the hell out of that one. And they have a few. I didn't play them on GameCube. I think the Sansa time was the one I really got. There was a trilogy on the PS2. Yeah. So I'm assuming those were on GameCube as well. I got deep into Sansa time. I love that one. So, we're not going to get that at E3. I'll give what we saw of this. At least they're tempering the expectation of like, hey, look, we're not going to show these and like, don't expect them. I like that. Just like Capcom said, hey, you are going to see this. Okay, cool. It's kind of, you know, I always tell people hypersponsibly, especially after everyone gets so upset over Switch Pro, it's like hypersponsibly. I've heard you say that before. Hey, these companies are helping you hypersponsibly. They're letting you know. You're going to make T-shirts, right? Yeah. Like, they're letting you know. The only one who's not is Nintendo. They're not even teasing a game they're going to show like they usually do. They usually have their E3 built like, oh yeah, we're going to have Odyssey here. We're going to have Zelda here. We're going to have Luigi's Mansion. We're going to have Pokemon here. And they're like, we're not telling you anything. So good luck hyping responsibly for Nintendo when they're not even hinting at anything. Complete mystery. Yeah. The thing about Nintendo though is like, if they just have one really cool thing, it makes it up for them. You know what I mean? As long as they're last like 15 seconds, right? They show a logo that says Metroid Prime 4, even though it doesn't, it's not coming. Um, you know, like they didn't turn 17. If they just do that, like people are like, oh, Nintendo wins E3, blah, blah, blah. You know what I mean? It was like the last Nintendo Direct. People were kind of like, okay, yeah, whatever. And all of a sudden, oh, we have one more thing. You always have one more thing. And when you don't, it shocks people. And then they just between three and you're like, no kid, nobody saw Splatoon 3 come. Okay. Cool. Like, Splatoon's become a massive franchise now. 10 million plus dollars though. Yeah. I think what Nintendo could do that would really, I think cause like a lot of hype is they announce, you know, there's two fighters left in Smigish, right? Yep. So they announce both of them and then say, there's another fighter pack coming with six more characters. And then at the very end, they announced one of those. So three total. And I think it would be cool if they announced like Crash Bandicoot, Tom Nook from Animal Crossing. I think would really help sell a lot of copies of Smigish. Cause you know, there's so many Animal Crossing players that don't play Smigish at all. But maybe they would once they find out that isn't going to be Tom Nook for you. I don't think there's a huge crossover at all. Yeah. And then, yeah, and then something else. Maybe like Waluigi and they're like, and there's going to be five more characters that will announce this year. I think that would just be. You're just saying everything that people want at this point. Man, no wonder people like you so much, Shane. You just give the people what they want. What they want to hear, what they want to hear. It's, I mean, that's why we're here though. It's fun. It's fun just to like talk about our wish list, right? Like, even if it's not likely to happen, like that would be the fun thing. Like I'll tell you right now, my Sony isn't going to be at E3 obviously, but worse, maybe they'll have a state of play or something during E3. But if you want to talk about really what's never going to happen, which is my most wanted thing, is a new PlayStation handheld. Yeah, I don't think they're going to do that. Steam might have one. They're definitely not, but how cool would it be? Yeah, yeah. I felt bad. Or even just a device that can't run games on its own, but can run them off your PS5 with remote play really, really well with Wi-Fi. So like, it could be like a PS5 portable. You know what I mean? You're actually using your PS5 hardware to run. Because Microsoft has that remote play feature with tablets and stuff, and I've been a little bit underwhelmed. He does too. I've been a little bit underwhelmed. I'm going to have a hard time getting controllers to sync properly, even though they're hooked up to the, I don't know, maybe it's a me problem. Could just be a me problem. And I know Sony's got the remote play features as well. I've just never gotten either of them to work well. So like a dedicated device that's designed for that, to me would just be, yeah, yes. I would just be so excited. I literally, I just built this PSP basically from the ground up. It's like a custom shell, and I put a brand new screen, brand new buttons, I modded it. So it has like a huge amount of memory built in. There's already like 200 games on it. Cause of like the, I backed up my whole library basically and just like put it on here. So I've been doing this project and I'm just, so this has like got me really excited for Sony handhelds again. And I'll have a video on this at some point. It was a massive undertaking. Like, have you seen people who take apart the Switch Joy-Cons? Yep, I've done it. It's like that, but even worse, cause it's an entire console. The parts are like, you can't even see them, they're so little. But anyways, that's like doing this project has made me just really want that Sony to make another portable again. Yeah, I owned a PSV and a Vita. Ironically enough, they're like the only PlayStation platforms I really dove into. And I, back then anyways, and I do miss them because it was kind of nice having also platforms that tried to push a bit, a little bit of that bleeding edge of the mobile space were not that, you know, I'm fine with Switch, I know there's more powerful mobile chips and more powerful this and more powerful that. It's kind of cool to have that. But you know, Sony was the company that tried to realize the home console gaming on the go. I always felt like the only reason they missed the mark or didn't find the success, I feel like they should have was because when you played like, I don't know, the Uncharted game they made for Vita, I think it was, or was it PSP? What are the two? Gold and Abyss. Gold and Abyss. The first Vita games I ever beat. It was amazing. Yeah, great game. But then like you go and you play, you know, the other Uncharted games on PS4, and it's kind of like, you know, it's just a great game. But it feels like it's a slice out of the much bigger games. At least that's what I felt like to me. I would argue that the Uncharted game on the Vita runs and looks way better than the first Uncharted on the PS3. Sure. Not better than Uncharted 2 or Uncharted 3, but for that time, for that time, I think it was 2013. Because I mean, that was really, really good. They have like basically a game that looked better than a PS3 game running on a handheld almost 10 years ago. That's insane. Yeah, it was absolutely insane. I remember playing some MLB games on it, and then I'm like, man, this is as good as the console stuff. I don't know what the hell's going on here. Yeah, I think for Nintendo, I think the reason why they're succeeded is because everything's on that platform. It's not a separate, like you're not getting Breath of the Wild on a home console and then getting Link's Awakening on the handheld. Nope, it's all one. And not saying that Sony could have did that. And obviously they did the remote play as well with Vita and stuff, with PlayStation 3 and into PlayStation 4. So they tried to kind of make it where you could play everything on it, but it was never local. Would have been really interesting if they would have made some of those PS3, PS4 games. They're bigger ones, fully crossover with their handheld and have like a localized version. I think that would have really helped it, especially if they would have had cross-save feature. But obviously, we don't need that too deep into that. I was not happy with the way. How crazy would it be though, if Sony just dropped that and Nintendo did not drop the Switch Pro? So like after E3, you know what I mean? Wouldn't that just be wild? I'll tell you guys right now. I know Nintendo acts like they don't care about competition, but if it drops and it's now the new hot thing people are talking about, they're gonna drop the Switch Pro the following week. I'm just letting you know, Nintendo ain't gonna let Sony tab all that attention, take it away from them. But yeah, it's not, Sony's been very clear that they're not doing that. I mean, maybe they're gonna shock everyone, but they're not gonna do it at E3 because they're not there. So, again though. Are you leaving some VR at all? Because I do hope that Sony, during the E3 time window talks about the PSVR too a little bit. Yeah, I just don't think they're going to, I was looking at their schedule of stuff. It looks like they have the summer game pass and they don't have anything happening until like later this month. So I don't know if they're- Well, yeah, there's nothing announced now, but I think they just be, you know what I mean? Just say one day that they're just, have it, we could wake up tomorrow and see on Twitter that Sony's doing this. Like a Twitter announcement trailer drop, here's PSVR. Everyone's kind of waiting on that. See, I'm not big into VR, but I'll admit I'm really glad that Sony's deep into it because I think they're making VR more accessible than some of these other, you know, PC based units. And yeah, I know there's like the quest that's all wireless and its own contained thing, but because it's its own contained thing, you're also limited to only certain types of games unless you hook it up to a PC. So- Well, yeah, well I have the quest too. I think it's amazing. And the library is actually massive. And they just announce an accessory that will allow you to play your PC games without a link cable. Oh. I was wondering what they were going to do that because I know the technology is there, it's just no one's- They didn't give a release date. They announced it though. Yeah, that's a big one. That's a big one. So yeah, like I'm really into this stuff. So I'm not big into VR. My kids love VR. Oh my God. The day that I retired my Nintendo Labo VR, they cried and I said, you guys don't even know. Like this isn't, like this is a neat little trick. And then I took them to, because I'm not that big into VR, although Half-Life Alex is pretty good. But when I took them out to, God, what is that? Action City or whatever. And they had VR games there. And they tried out real VR. And I think it was, I think it was the Oculus there. And they were like, this is awesome. I'm like, yeah, I get it. It's not for me. I get kind of sick playing VR games. But yeah, dude, I want to know what they're doing because I believe that VR, well I'm not sure if it'll ever be this ultra mainstream thing. Just like, you know, everyone thought 3D movies and all that stuff without, never really quite hits mainstream. At least not yet. I don't know. I think there's gonna be some day when we literally can put on some masses. I mean, I feel like that's such a basic game. Everyone's tried VR, but that's still one of my favorites. Have you tried that one? Yeah, yeah. That one, I see that one's so fun. Like it, because it feels like you have lightsabers. And I, you know, with the Quest, it's like completely wireless. I can go beat it in my living room. I can beat it in the kitchen. I can beat it before I go to sleep at night. You know what I mean? I just, I love being able to beat it parked outside of a school. It's amazing. Remember when we were talking about Innuendos earlier? Yeah. But anyways, tell me more. Beat it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No one wants to beat it. That one is. So, let's get into Xbox Bethesda. So I went through what they have announced. This isn't quite everything, but it's a lot. Obviously a vow they showed off last July. That's a first person RPG set in the Pillars of Eternity world, which I really like Pillars of Eternity. So I'm really pumped about that one, but we'll see. I've heard they might not be showing it, but the problem with Microsoft, a lot of things they announced seem to be like they're really far away, but they only recently bought a lot of these studios. So I guess what did we expect? Bright memory, infinite. Obviously first person shooter. What's really crazy about that one is people thought the visuals on it looked really good, but this was before the systems launched. That's made by one person supposedly. So it's a one person studio. I don't know how he's pulling it off, but we'll see on that one. Fable 4, obviously the way they presented that made that feel like that was really far away. The one that I thought was weird, we didn't see last July. I thought about that, oh yeah. Yeah. Senua's Saga Hellblade 2. They announced the Series X with it back at the Game Awards in 2019, and we haven't seen it since. I'm wondering, I feel like that might be one of the ones that might be further along than we realized, because that was one of the ones they showed the system off with. But we'll see. Arc Survival 2, people will remember. Oh yeah, that looked amazing. Yeah, that looked really good. And people remember Survival Evolved, not necessarily for being an amazing game, but for being a game that crippled every system it ran on, including PCs, it became like the new crisis. You're just happy if you can run it. And it was on Switch. And let me tell you, it crippled the Switch. Obviously, it cripples my gaming PC. That was a bad idea. Yeah. I mean, it's cool. I guess this was supposed to be a technical marvel that runs on Switch. Sure, it runs. It won't crash. So there's that. At least I didn't have it crash. That game, the thing I don't actually know if it's good is a survival dinosaur thing. It looks so cool and the new one looks so great, but I'm like the first one still struggles to run. So like, I don't know, we'll see. And I mean, it runs fine, by the way. If you guys play like the PlayStation 4 version or the Xbox One version on a series extra PlayStation 5, it runs fine because it was obviously designed for lesser hardware. But I'm worried that R2 is going to come out and just cripple the next gen systems. Oh yeah, we don't have a performance option. We're running 4K, we're going 120, we're just going to destroy your platform. 4K, we're going 8K, 10K. Oh yeah, you're going to remember, 8K on the box of PlayStation 5, not enabled yet, but they're saying it's going to be there. So. Yeah, well it's crazy, the Xbox and Bethesda, that's a two hour and 15 minute presentation. So maybe there's a break in between the Square Enix, so maybe it's two hours, but still. I mean, Nintendo's only doing 40 minutes and we're hoping for big news from them. I mean, Xbox has two hours. So there's got to be something really good in there. Yeah, and Bethesda usually has their own showcase, but now that they're owned, they're kind of combining it together. I feel like that's probably why it's so long. I mean, it could still be a separate thing, like they do like Microsoft. Well no, Microsoft, it's already announced, they're doing it together. They're calling it the Microsoft and Bethesda showcase officially. So like, they're kind of, I feel like they're just going to transition naturally into the other. Or like I said, maybe like a 15 minute break or something. It's still going to be like a whole Bethesda section that whatever the hell Bethesda's doing. Well, and Microsoft has bought so many studios in the last. And there's rumors that they might be announcing more studio purchases or IP purchases. There's a rumor out there. I think that someone thinks they bought Metal Gear apparently from Konami. Interesting. I don't know. That kind of goes along with an old rumor though, where they were talking to Kojima about doing a game and they were thinking about trying to hook it up with Metal Gear because Konami sucks. But I mean, guys, I got no problem with Konami in general as a company, even though they've apparently treated their employees really bad, but all they really care about right now are casino machines. Like that's where they make their money. I mean, they got to have two hours to cover. And notice Konami's not on any threes. So I mean. They got to have two hours to cover how many, you know, dev studios they bought. I'm curious what he's working on right now, what Kojima's doing. I don't know. I mean, I assume something for Sony because he always makes, he always partnered with Sony for things, but I don't know, maybe it's one of those Microsoft rumors are true. I guess we'll find out. I'm sure they'll want to announce it if they're partnered up or anything. You know, it'll be announced in a classic Kojima way. You won't even realize it's him for like, it'll just be like small little teasers throughout the whole two hour event. And then like there won't be any reveal until after when Kojima himself posts a new image of it. And it's like, oh, it's a Kojima thing. Cause that's just the way it is. Well, I thought that blue point was rumored to be working on the Meadowgear solid remaster. Yeah. Like they did with Demon's Souls. Yep. That's what I heard too. Which would be amazing, honestly. So Microsoft Flight Simulator is supposed to be coming. It's already out. We already know it's a really, it's basically the best Flight Simulator ever made. It's on PC. It's fantastic. If you're carable flying planes and you don't want to actually fly real ones and you're like crashing them, there's a fun one. Travel the world, have fun. Very intensive, very hard on PCs. We'll see how it runs on the Series X when that finally comes. And they didn't know it's a release date, but they said it's coming to the Series X. And also, you gotta remember, you guys are gonna talk a lot about XCloud and Game Pass. Like you're gonna hear a lot of services from Microsoft. Well, and one thing that happened today is they just announced that if you have Game Pass, you'll have a free month of Disney Plus. So I wonder if they're gonna maybe integrate that into Game Pass. It's like maybe an extra dollar a month. You can get Disney Plus too, or? Yeah. That would be interesting. I mean, the Disney Plus is already fairly cheap. That's because a lot of the big movies you have to pay for separately. Yeah. Well, what I loved about the way Xbox announced that, did you see their tweet yesterday before they announced it? You didn't, or you did? No, I'm gonna look it up right now. I missed it today. So when they were just hinting at it, they didn't announce it. They said, hey, we have a really big announcement coming tomorrow. We were gonna make like a video event to stream it, but I think we're gonna do something more low-key. And that low-key was referring to low-key? Yeah. It's the new Disney Plus show. The low-key show. I love that. That was good. That's good. I like that. That was good. That's a good one. I'm gonna see you get back to my notes here. They have Stalker 2 announced, which that was a shock because that franchise has been dead for a long time. Standard Decay 3, so one, I'm really excited about Perfect Dark. They're rebooting that. Nintendo fans, if you're at least in your 30s, you should remember that one way back in the N64 days. Yeah, basically the sequel to Golden Age just without the license. I mean, there's been an ever ongoing debate on the N64, what was the better one? Golden Age or Perfect Dark? Yeah. There's two very distinct camps about that. And Perfect Dark kind of got buried a little bit because Golden Age was just a bigger IP name, but Perfect Dark coming back. I mean, they're rebooting it. I hope they don't mess it up, but this is Microsoft and they're pretty good with shooters. So I'm hoping. The one thing Perfect Dark did have. I mean, literally Perfect Dark is the sequel to Golden Age. It's made by the exact same people. They just didn't have the James Bond license anymore. And it ended up creating its own very cool thing. You know what I mean? Yep. We had the one thing with Perfect Dark that I wish that Golden Age did have was the ability to do bots in the multiplayer. And time spliters had that too. Yeah, that was the part that I liked a lot better about Perfect Dark. Because they both had their pluses, they both had their minuses, but I remember one major bonus with Perfect Dark was the ability to do the bots and stuff like that. Yeah. And that was back when we were just starting to get first-person shooters actually, like being a thing on home consoles back then. So that was nice. And obviously went next level once we got full online with Halo and everything else after that. Speaking of Halo, obviously Halo Infinite's gonna be there. I don't think that's even, no one has to debate that. It's supposed to be coming out. It's a big holiday game. It's supposed to be a launch game. It's on the box of the Xbox. Like Halo Infinite's coming this year. Of course, it was supposed to come last year. Maybe we'll get delayed again. I have no idea. Well, find out. They did a showcase on that not too long ago, so. Now, is that gonna run on the Xbox One as well? Or only? It was supposed to originally. See, that right there makes me feel like it's gonna disappoint people. Because if at any point in development was being made with that console in mind, you know what I mean? It's not gonna be all next-gen. It's all based on architecture. That could run on previous gen. And for this game in particular, the expectations are just sky high. Yeah. It was supposed to be an Xbox One game when it was first in development. They pushed it because, well, the Xbox wanted to do that well and they wanna push the X. And they ended up not needing it to push the X, of course. Who knew that COVID was gonna create such high demand and all the scalping, but yeah, it's Halo Infinite, man. Yeah, but Breath of the Wild was a game, or a Wii U game. And... Yeah, but see, the power difference, like, okay, so the Switch is more powerful in a newer architecture than Wii U, but it's close enough that you don't expect a big leap. Like, what Splatoon 3 looked like compared to Splatoon 1 and 2 just shocked me, which makes me wonder if they were actually showing it on a pro, because... That looks so fundamentally advanced compared to the prior Splatoon games. It's like, either you just now got a budget or you're running on something that isn't what we have in our hands right now, because that just looks way too good compared to the prior two games that are running on the same hardware. But... The one thing I will say about Halo Infinite is that when they showed the first trailer before the series X launched and everyone made fun of how bad it looked, when I watched that, like, if you played the original Halo games, that felt like the first couple Halo games, and those games were so fun. I looked at that, and I barely noticed the graphics, because I was like, it gave me that same feeling, and I was like, oh my God, this is gonna be so fun. So I think it's possible the gameplay could save it and make it a really fun game. It looked fun even in that film. Gameplay is always king. I always say that the game is great. I think people will be disappointed anyways, is what I was gonna say, just because the graphics will be, you know... Because people look at Halo, one, it's literally like the mascot for Microsoft, and always been, you know, even though it's not quite hyper-realistic, it's always been kind of there, hey, this is what looks good. This is like a showcase game for a platform. This is what you put on the box of a series X, and if it doesn't have that next-gen feel to it, it's gonna be kind of like, yeah, okay, the gameplay is great, but like, when people were criticizing it last year, it wasn't the gameplay. It was the visuals they were all mad at. And the thing is, personally, as a Nintendo guy, I care more about the gameplay, because I don't think 343 has nailed the Halo-style gameplay yet, and if they nail that, I'll be thrilled. The word also had the- I just think the expectation for this franchise is that the gameplay is 10 out of 10, but the graphics are also, like, I don't think people prefer better graphics over gameplay. I think they need everything to be amazing. That's what people expect because it is. PlayStation 5 and Xbox is both. You want both. Right. Yeah, so we'll see what happens. Obviously, people would probably have more faith if it was Sony making it instead of Microsoft, but the Sony's just really racking up the Ws with the big games they're making. Insomniac in particular. What? Insomniac in particular, which is owned by Sony. Insomniac. Oh boy. You know, them and the Naughty Dog team is just... Yeah, that's another thing I'm really excited for during the E3 time period is maybe some kind of announcement from what Naughty Dog's working on. No, some. I would love anything related to Uncharted or Last of Us, but I would love something brand new as well, like anything. Yeah, I hope they're doing something brand new. I feel like that's when they really get their creative juices going. You know? Yeah. They, the ATHARC, thank you so much for your $2 Super Chat I saw there, saying that we want Perfect Dark 2, not Perfect Dark 02. Well, they're rebooting the original Perfect Dark, so you might get your wish down the line if that one takes off and succeeds for them. Which it might, you never know, because I know there's gonna be some old school fans, I wanna check it out, and then there'll be obviously, I mean, I almost feel like Perfect Dark is gonna end up being the better looking game, like visually than Halo Infinite, because I'm pretty sure it's gonna be made exclusively for NextGen slash PC. So I think that, because I don't think Perfect Dark reboots coming anytime soon. I don't even know if we're gonna see it at E3. I feel like it's like a 2023 game, maybe. Give a couple year break from Halo to get to that, and see what happens. I've got an update, by the way, on the E3 co-streaming situation. Oh, oh, what's up? They just retweeted a content creator that just got approved to co-stream, and they only have 20,000 Twitter followers, which I mean, it's a lot, but it's not that much. Yeah, I almost have 20,000. I'm at 14.1, 20.2. So that's interesting. Great, so I'm looking at it, and this is no offense to any of the content creators out there, but no, like I've seen them, so they got this one. Earlier, they had a video of a couple other content creators. I really hope that they're not gonna make this situation. I hate bringing this up, and I don't know if they're doing this for sure, but it feels like a, if most content creators don't get contacted, or even let known if they're okay to streaming or not, the ones they're showcasing is showing a lot of diversity, which I'm all for diversity, but I really hope that's not how they're choosing what content creators can co-stream or not, is based on what makes them look the best in a social justice sort of world, because obviously me as a cis white male, well, I'm not great for diversity, so. I hope that's not the case. I don't wanna accuse them of that, but I'm looking at the three. They sure have three different content creators today that can co-stream, and all three of them represent diversity, in all three sectors. Four, sorry. Yeah, I see that. And so I'm not, I don't wanna accuse them of that, but it's one of those, well, if I want, you know, I... I'm happy for them. It's a bit of a stretch, but I'm just kinda like a bunch of us are getting approved to co-stream. I'm really happy for them. I just want... Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I just want all the different content creators to get it. Yeah, I don't wanna knock other content creators. Absolutely. You know, it's just like, hey, like, so PSI, secure the bag. I ain't gonna, I don't care. Like, have fun. I'm glad you get approved. It's just kinda, I hope that they're not picking and choosing based on that, whatever makes them look good. Cause I think what would make you look good is approve everybody. That's what makes you look good. Right. Like just have no bias. Even if it's someone that, you know, has a bad reputation, who really cares? You don't have to put their name on your website. Just let them co-stream, who cares? But they're probably in any ways. And then their audience, you know, will watch E3. I mean, it's just, in theory, it only helps you. Yeah, right. Like, don't you want attention? Like, especially since E3's had kind of a rocky reputation over the last handful of years, they try to handle letting fans and not letting fans that Sony's decided to leave because Sony doesn't agree with how E3's doing things. It's kind of like, you know, you should just want all the attention you can get. And the other thing is like, wait, this is crazy, but it's true. I have 250,000 followers on Twitter and a lot, I tweeted something about E3 today. And a lot of them didn't even know what E3 was, which kind of blows my mind, but they didn't. They genuinely didn't. I have replies asking what E3 is. Three of the last four years, go to E3. My kids have no idea what it even is and they play games because they don't follow people that are covering. We could definitely bring new audience to their, to their children. We have something to offer. We're willing to do it for free. It's just, it's crazy. Yeah. You figure like, I'm a Nintendo channel. I know there's going to be some kids watching. Hey, don't you want kids to know about what you're doing? They might show up for my giveaways and be like, wait a second, what's all this stuff happening? Exactly, it's a huge event, you know? Whatever. I'm really annoyed by that E3 Twitter account in particular. Just not replying to any of my things. And with you, you have such a massive audience in comparison to me. It's kind of like, once you want the attention from that audience that doesn't even know what you're doing. Yeah. But, I mean, they don't have to do anything for me. I mean, that's entitled for me to say that. That's the thing, like yourself, me, and I'm self-made, we're all self-made. You know, it's just something you get frustrated about. Yeah. It's one of those, like, I don't want to ask like one of those entitled content creators like, I mean, they created a thing specifically for content creators. It'd be nice to hear yes or no. It's said when we signed up, we will hear back yes or no. So I just want my yes or no. They don't have to give me a reason. I don't care. I keep trying to just log in on the website. It says, we will let you know definitive an answer soon. Yeah, yeah. That's what it said. They literally are telling us they will let you know yes or no. They don't have to give you a reason. I don't care. I just want to know. I just want to respond, even if it's no. And it's like, okay, I can get the Twitter guy to talk to me and he agrees with me that they don't know what they're doing. And that's, he literally told me that. I told them that what they're asking for, because I mentioned like, what's this proof thing? I need a contract with myself. I don't have a contract with myself. Here's a picture of me holding E3 badges that say Nintendo Prime on them. I don't know what you want for proof that I'm Nintendo Prime. You have my email, contact my email, contact this. Go to the channel. Look at the channel. Go to the channel and look at the picture of me. I don't know what more do you want? You want my social security number? I don't really trust you with that, so. Especially with the next topic. Oh yeah. So it's kind of like, I don't really know what they're doing. And the guy kind of admitted that I told them that what they're asking for for proof and evidence. And he said, oh, he tried to reassure me that like, oh, that's, they don't really need all of that. They're just kind of like trying to cover their bases. And I'm like, look, I've gone as media. I get having to have a license and a business card or something like, I get that. I would have almost preferred they had us to business cards because you can fake make business cards online and it doesn't really matter. But like it was, it's weird. The whole registration thing was weird. And it's like, what's your primary social? Well, like for you, what's your primary? Well, you have more on Twitter than you do on YouTube. So like, what would they consider your primary? Where are you gonna actually be streaming the thing? Or like- But it's funny, they asked like, let me see like evidence of live streams that you've done with like lots of viewers. And I have live streams that have had more views than some of these approved content creators have had when you combine all of their live streams together their total views for their entire channel. Yeah, maybe their whole channel. Their whole channel. I have more from a single stream and I have like 10 streams like that. Yes. Whatever, I'm venting, it's fine. Yeah, no, it's okay. No, it's fine. It is frustrating. Like we're covering it in regardless and just hoping that we end up getting away with it because I don't know, I have a lot of companies that are at E3 partner with us that might be pretty upset that we get blocked and can't help promote their stuff because of this. So like, the companies might even get mad at ESA but the bottom line is, I just wanna yes or no. I honestly think we're gonna be fine because I've streamed it every single year, never had a problem besides the Ubisoft Just Dance stuff. So I think we're gonna be fine but I know Nintendo doesn't care. Right. Nintendo's already like literally, they don't have any copyrighted stuff in there and they said all content creators can use their stuff. It hits me on a couple of smash reveals, honestly. They hit you on a couple of smash reveals? Yeah, I've had a couple streams claimed but never a strike for it. And it was always smashed. Oh, okay, then yes. Yeah, that's same thing. Same thing here. Smash or Pokemon seem to always be claimed. The video's removed but no strike. Yeah, all I care about is the no strike. So like Smash and Pokemon, the Pokemon company always claims and I don't know who does their stuff for Smash but I mean, I know who makes it but I don't know who's making the claims. I can't remember because Nintendo themselves or if it was Bandai Damko or I have no idea, maybe a music company, maybe they hire someone to do the music. I don't know. Either way, they never strike me. So I don't worry about it with Nintendo because as you say, I don't care about the revenue per se from the ads and all that. It's cool if I get it but when I'm live streaming I don't care about it at all. I just am excited and wanna share it with my audience, my community. It's a frustrating thing. So again, I'm not trying to accuse the ESA of certain things. It just seems ultra convenient what they're sharing on their profile versus the people that haven't even heard yes or no. And we're not the only ones. There's a lot of people that haven't heard yes or no. I've received so many, every time I tweet about it, I'm like, yeah, when are we gonna find out? We're probably not gonna find out before E3. And then I wonder, what about the fans that are registering? Like how the hell are they dealing with that if they can't even get through the content creators? Yeah. It almost like, I understand that they don't know what they're doing and you know what I mean. Well, they have no idea what they're doing. It's almost insulting that like, they haven't respond to probably like 95% of people that have applied. And then they're retweeting the streamers that go through at the same time while ignoring all the streamers asking what can we do to have our decision get sent to us. You know what I mean? It's just like, that's the thing that makes me frustrated about it. Like if they would just shut me down or whatever, it would be fine. But it's ignoring like legitimate questions and then like kind of like showing off the people that got approved. So I can tell you, based on my conversation with the guy who runs the social media, he's got no say over anything. It doesn't have any answers anyways. But a lot of the, he said a lot of these things that they have coming are like, they're scheduled out by the company. So it's like the company at ESA wants these tweets to go out. He doesn't really control it. So the guy you ever see replying to others is actually just their social media guy who doesn't really know anything. He just gives feedback to the ESA. But it's weird that he chooses not to respond to you. I wonder if that particular person doesn't like you for some reason. Yeah. You know, it's kind of like a personal vendetta. Like he doesn't decide if you get approved or not. But it would be nice just to get acknowledged that hey, like yeah, content creators will be wrapped up by Friday. Okay. So fans are screwed. Yeah. The ESA is always, this is the problem they've had. Like just in general with E3, that a lot of companies, including Sony got frustrated with is that they don't seem to know what they're doing. No. They've tried like different things to keep E3 relevant. Like how to have a separate fan event. Let's do this. Let's have fans come all the time. Oh, then the media complain. They don't get enough time. We'll have the media get in early. They had so long to prepare too, right? This comes once a year. It's not like they're doing this every other month or every month. Like you've had like a full year. And granted COVID's happening, but you've literally had nothing else to worry about. But this one event, why didn't you do the registration three months ago? Yeah. I think what happened with this E3 is I think after it got canceled that year, because remember they held out for the longest time on canceling it when it was very obvious to everyone else that it's going to be canceled. Like you can't, or in a pandemic, we're not even supposed to leave our house, we wait until like three weeks before to announce the cancel. It's like, dude, everybody knew. Everybody knew. Why did you wait so long? Because you kept hoping? Well, that was hope was not fruitless when the government, especially out in California, was telling you to stay home. Like it didn't happen. But here's the thing. I think they were hoping that, oh, well a year from now we'll be able to do back in person. Which in theory, they could have did in person this year. Like a lot of things are opening back up. You could have required people to be fully vaxed. Like we're going on a cruise next month. Everyone on the cruise is required to be fully vaccinated and have a recent COVID test. They could have done stuff like that to have an in-person show. But I think they were hoping the whole time that we could just go back to the way things were and they waited as long as they possibly could. And then they got into like February of 2021. They're like, oh crap, we don't have a plan. We can't let E3 not be around for two years. People are going to forget about us. We need to do it. Oh, Microsoft and Nintendo told us behind the scenes they're on board. Okay, cool. Let's try to make this all work and make this all happen. And we have no idea what we're doing. And they made, but as soon as they knew the event was happening, regardless of who's coming or who's not coming, obviously they could have started the registration. Yeah, easily. Media registration should have started months ago, period. This shouldn't even be happening at this point. Right. The second one was announced, should have had media. And by the way, media has been complaining as well. Like media registration, they're supposed to have gone through all of them by as of yesterday. And there's media members that are still waiting for responses and have said it on Twitter. It's like, this is just, it's kind of they're picking and choosing and then they promise to respond and they don't respond. And media is also wondering, like some media, some all is like, what's the point? Like we're not live streaming it. So do we even really need your access? We'll just talk to the companies directly when they circumvent you. And I think that's what ESA, like they're trying to make everyone go through them and they just can't handle the volume. Well, I mean, just look at the past though too, their website for registrations. Oh my God. It's like a 90s website. Yeah. It hasn't been okay. It looks all clean on the front. Then you go into the media registration and you're like, okay. Like this was, this was like, this was made in like forms. This was actual forms. This was a first year development student that designed this webpage. And you wonder why all the data leaked that one year. Yeah. Yeah. And now that I didn't really leak this year. Yeah. So for one of our topics guys for this, we'll get to our Nintendo stuff and we'll finish off Microsoft and all that. But one of the topics that we had to talk about today was actually specifically about this guy named, whatever I put on my notes, I have Matt Brown. He's a media member and he's approved for media. And he noted how on E3's media portal, how he can look up anybody and you'll get phone number and addresses. That is not a leak of data. It's not the public, but in theory, it's the same search that content creators can use and the public could use. Well, and they actually have leaked in the past. Yeah. They've had massive leaks, massive leaks of the whole media. It's like, okay, it's not necessarily a bug. It's more like an oversight and like you shouldn't make that stuff available to anyone. Like, okay, maybe you can look up, is this person going to E3? Is this person part of it? Fine. But like you don't have to give the private contact details and addresses. Addresses, yeah, no. So like, now by now it might be fixed. I don't have access to it because they haven't approved me or not. So I don't know. So maybe they've already fixed it by now because it's not technically a leak. I'm glad that it got pointed out. But it's kind of like, it's just more oversight and them not knowing what they're doing. And when they keep hyping up the virtual booths and everything, it's like, guys, nothing's gonna work. Just watch the streams. Go to the news websites that have the screenshots and the trailers and the dev interviews. Don't even worry about the E3 app. Like if you're a fan, there's really no point to register. You're not gonna get anything useful. I'm just letting you know, I've dealt with the ESA now for like four years that you're not gonna get anything useful out of anything they're offering if you're just a fan. Yeah. Bro, I'm really struggling with this content creator is just to get, hey, it's cool, go stream it. That's all they got to say. It's cool or it's not cool? Tell me it's not cool, I'm gonna risk it anyways, but whatever, that's on me then. Then I know I'm probably gonna get dinged. It is what it is. I told Eric, one thing you can do is... So many companies, like someone's gonna ding you. You know what I mean? That's the problem. Well, here's the thing. I've never gotten dinged during a stream. It's always immediately when I end it. So I told him... I've gotten during for the smash ones. You did for the smash one? Yeah, but what I might do is I might... If I don't get official co-stream status, instead of doing all the companies who I don't know what their policies are, I don't know if they're gonna have the automated things to ding me. I might just do Microsoft and Bethesda, the Nintendo, and then if Sony decides to do their own thing, I'll do Sony, but I might just only do the big ones. That might be my... Microsoft, I don't think I've ever been dinged for anything with Microsoft. They're very streamer friendly. I mean, they rely on social media in general. Microsoft is just very friendly to social media in general. And then Nintendo, they're always friendly during E3. You might get no ads on a video, but they're not gonna strike you. So I've never had a problem with that. They used to be really strict about it. Like, years ago, it was really bad, but now they've led up on all that after tons of fan backlash over it. Well, I mean, it's... Well, what happened is YouTubers stop reviewing their games, stop covering their games, because you even sort of snip it over the trailer. If you had a my new... Like, I play Nintendo music at the beginning of my day. People always wonder, when I'm playing the Smash Bros. theme, you can play the Smash Bros. theme? Isn't Nintendo gonna get mad? I've never been dinged for the Smash Bros. theme in two years. Yeah. Why? I don't know. Nintendo just became less restrictive over the years, because they started realizing, we can't let... You know, Nintendo's already really behind with online services. They can't also be behind on letting fans hype up their stuff. Right. Social media can create sales, and I think they finally realized that at one point and decided, okay, we gotta back off a bit. The Pokemon Company hasn't figured that out yet, but Pokemon Company is... But the thing is, just Pokemon doesn't need... No, and they don't use Nintendo. When you get a claim from the Pokemon Company, it's not Nintendo. You get it from the Pokemon Company. They are very restrictive of everything. And they don't need it, though. That's the thing. So, they don't care. I cover Pokemon Legends Arceus, and they tried to strike me. I repealed it, and then YouTube said, oh yeah, you're allowed to live react to Pokemon Legends Arceus, because there's already been court cases that you can live react to trailers, even movie trailers. If you're a live reaction, not just re-uploading, you're allowed to do that. And they tried to ding me, and I repealed it, and YouTube said, oh yeah, your face is on there. You're react, yeah, okay. No, they can't claim us. So, I lost streaming for a day. YouTube didn't take that long to respond. Credit to YouTube on that one. YouTube does sometimes have some real BS responses. Like, I go to repeal, and within seconds, your repeal's denied. Oh yeah, we reviewed your content. Dude, you didn't even have time to review my content. This has literally happened in five seconds. But like, that was one time where they're like, oh no, you're reacting to a trailer. You can do that. You're fine. So, I think it also depends on who does it. I think there's a lot of lazy people, like Google, that just like click buttons that are just done when they do these things. You know how many appeals they have to get, like, proven it on the stuff? So, I can't imagine how hard that is to manage. Maybe they actually required proof of this stuff. You know, when... Well, my thing is, in the manual reviews, I think if they actually took the time to manually review, they would only ever get through, like, one 58th of the claims that are... No, combated. And then like, to actually copyright, copyright, actually like, strike things. Well, to be fair, YouTube created their own problem with it, by having it all managed by bots and anyone can copyright claim anyone. That's what I'm saying. If they would have actually had to have proof to strike you and stuff like that. Well, the reason they do it is so they can wash their hands legally. It's all about Google not being involved in any legal problems. But that's the only reason they do it. They say, you have a problem and our repeal system didn't work. Take it to the law. No one, you know, most people don't have the money to do that. So, it's kind of a vote. Well, I think I'm a little lucky because I haven't had to do this, but I have made some good contacts at YouTube that I guess they're really a big fan of me of what I started to do with my live streams. Because I think it brought a lot of people over from Twitch and like, they just hadn't seen my numbers before, especially for my size of my channel at the time. And so they've given me a lot of support. Like a lot of their like executives will retweet me or like, quote, tweet me and stuff. And like, give me congratulations for stuff. So that's why I just have like a really special place in my heart for Google and YouTube. And that's another reason, you know, not just my thing with Amazon, but the other reason I don't wanna stream on Twitch ever is because... You have a good relationship. I'm not like a YouTube shill or whatever, but they've been very, they've treated me well. Like if they ever did something that was like BS to me, that would be different, but they've been really respectful and helpful to me. And so, you know, it's just, it's a win-win. My only, so I only have really one major gripe with YouTube. It's not even the copyright system because I'm so thankful for YouTube. They provide this platform. I used to host videos, like self-host videos like on Zeldinformer. I know how much bandwidth it takes. I know how expensive it is. I know when you have a million people check out your video on Zeldinformer, next thing you know, you owe your server company 15 grand. I get it, okay? This stuff's expensive. I'm not stupid. But it's like, I'm so thankful for that. And they provide a platformer in the audience and it's all free and we don't have to pay for anything. And then they never had to add revenue share. That never had to be a thing. They decided to do that. And it's great. I love it. So I'm so thankful to them. And they have helped me. I want to, especially on Twitter, if I reach out to their Twitter, you know, they're different. Yeah, the team YouTube Twitter, yeah. Yeah, they always respond to me. But I did have one issue last year that really, really grinded my gears. I don't know if you're aware of it because you might not know who I was because it was in that same month of September, my channel got a bunch of attention from Super Mario 3D All-Stars. We just blew up. We had a number of videos doing hundreds of thousands of views and we were just gaining subscribers out the butt and all these views, according to their backend stat system, were coming from the browse and suggested videos feature. So it's coming from YouTube's natural features. And so we had made, you know, I've talked about this publicly, I guess, we had made like over four grand that month, which I'd never seen that kind of money on YouTube ever. And most I had made before that was like 500 bucks. So I was like, and there was all ad revenue, which was awesome. So I'm like, this is cool. While we get to two days past the month, all of a sudden for three weeks of the month, my views vanish and so does all the money. And I talked to YouTube, I talked to customer support, I worked my way up the chain and all of them tell me it's a bug, then it's not a bug. Then your views were faked and you bought them from a different website. That was something thrown at me as an excuse. And I'm just like, okay, well, my backend shows me, here's all my evidence and my proof that all these views, before you took them off my channel, all these views were coming from your own systems. So if there's a bunch of bots on YouTube that... It's their bots. It's their own bots. Yeah, it's not me. I didn't buy any, like when they accused me of buying views, I was like, I don't even know where you do that. Yeah. I literally don't know where you do that. All my views came from like the U.S. And when I Googled buying views on YouTube, they're all from like weird countries. They're not from the U.S. So I'm like, I don't, okay, I don't understand what is going on. And to this day, they literally just washed their hands of it and said, you know, and I always worried about that. Like, now my channel is doing well again. Like, is YouTube gonna come back any one of these days and just be like, yeah, we're gonna take away 90% of your views for the month. They claim you didn't make anything. I always worry about that. But it hasn't happened since to their credit and to their credit. I don't know what happened. Maybe this was to make up for it. One of their people got involved since January and on of the new year. We seem to be in their, I don't know if you're aware of this. They have different tiers that they put YouTubers in for the kind of ads that get served to them. So most of these small YouTubers are, you're kind of in the crap tier and you're getting like two, three dollar CPM. Not, you know, you're not getting, you're not getting the big brand name ones. You're getting all of the mobile games and stuff like that. And ever since January and up, we've been in like their top tier. We're getting all of the, we're getting the Nikes, we're getting the Nintendos, we're getting the Microsofts and the Raid Shadow Legends and Honey and we're getting all the big ones that we've never had before. So like, I thought, huh, we're too small for them to care. But somebody was like, that wasn't right. You know, it's really, really funny that it's not just a quick note is, you know my buying guide videos of how to buy a PS5 or Xbox when the retailers restock the tips videos. A lot of people will comment, like when they watch the Target one, they get a Target ad before the video or like the Walmart one, they get a Walmart ad. And I just think that's hilarious. Yeah. So I thought it was kind of cool that I think somebody must have bumped us up because we weren't exactly getting a lot of views by January and all of a sudden we're getting all these really high end ads at a time when I know as a YouTuber, January, February, March are the worst months of the year for ad revenue. They always are because you're post holidays. And here I am doing better than I did during the holidays because I'm getting higher quality ads than I got during the holidays. All right, well, somebody at YouTube thought it was BS what happened to me and just bumped me up a tier. We'll see how long, how long that lasts for. Like Nintendo, I have a channel manager and what they do is it's not, it's like, I guess it's kind of like an MCM but they go to the companies themselves and they can choose what the pre-rolls is. So if they can get companies that pays more than what YouTube pays, they just sell off my pre-rolls to them. And I have no idea how it works. It's, I have no idea what companies I use. It's all just done behind the scenes. Yeah, I used to have an MCM, whatever. Well, I got off them because, maybe it's just that my channel was small. It never felt like they did much for me. They just took 20% and I made more once I got them. That's a lot. Yeah, these guys only take 10 and only have certain things. A lot of things I keep 100% so. Oh, that's nice, yeah. Yeah, I've had some MCM contact me that seemed a lot more friendly than the one I was working with. Like one said, look, we really want you. We'll go 90, 10 on everything. But if you hit 100K in the next year for subs, we'll bump that down. We'll put it right in the contract and it'll be month to month. It'll automatically bump down to 95, five. And on top of that, what makes us different and I don't want to be an ad for them but they basically said, hey, what's cool about us is like we know you have a family. Like it sucks when you have to wait an entire month to get a paycheck, right? You get one giant check and then that's it. I'm like, yeah. And he goes, well, you can literally take out what you made yesterday in two days. We'll just prepay you and we'll take all the risk if YouTube jacks your money. So I saw YouTube jacked your money back in September. We would have been out of money and not you. And I was like, that's kind of a different thing. It's still one of those I haven't done it but it's one of those. I think when I get to a certain level, maybe I'll re-look into MCNs. Right now it's okay. But it would be kind of nice if I didn't have to wait for one big check. And also, by the way guys, I'm not like the best at necessarily budgeting things all the time. So when you get one giant check and you know you gotta wait a month, it's kind of like, okay, pay bills and then how much do you hold on to inside of side? But yeah. Anyways, and for me, most of my money goes back into the channel these days anyway. So thank you LAX by the way. I see your $2 which I did earlier. It says Master Chief for Smash. A lot of people want Master Chief in Smash. I totally understand that. So finishing off Microsoft, I think what, Roller Champions? Yeah. You were down through at least. That's Ubisoft, sorry. Here it is. Shredders, they have coming. That's a snowboarding game. Looks really good. I don't know if it's gonna be as good as 1080 back in the day. That's the snowboarding game. I always think of as 1080 snowboarding. But you never know, it could be really good. And then obviously Bethesda. I mean, Starfield, they've already pretty much confirmed we're seeing that. Might even come out this year. Ghostwire Tokyo's a game they have announced. Elder Scrolls 6, which- Oh, I'm excited for that game. That looks really good. Well, Ghostwire Tokyo looks good. Elder Scrolls 6, which of course I don't think we're seeing this year, but you never know. And then they have the Elder Scrolls Legends card game that's coming out later this year. I feel like they wouldn't announce Elder Scrolls 6 after what happened when they announced Halo and had the late a year. I think they're gonna be very careful and make sure that Elder Scrolls 6 has some gameplay that looks like next-gen before they- Yeah, I don't think we've seen it this year. Maybe not even next year. Kind of like Starfield. Have we really seen Starfield? Like, if we think about it truly, have we actually seen the game? No. No. We've seen some screenshots and some leaks and like an initial... So it's kind of like, is it gonna blow our minds? I don't know, because it was probably primarily made for old systems, not new. So we'll see. Anything coming out this year was probably primarily developed on old systems. So it's kind of a... You know, and the thing is, you say that, but then you see what Sony's doing, like, yeah, they're all cross-platform, but I mean, they're kind of really incredible. You know, Ratchet and Clang on PS5 looks incredible. At least from what we can see. It's not new to that, but... I'm excited to play that one for sure. You know, it's funny that Head Cell over at Pusami Games follows me on Twitter, but I still didn't get a review copy. Got to hit up the DMs. He doesn't have a PS5 yet. He's following me to try to get one. Nice. Nice. So yeah, obviously I didn't throw on here because I'm not sure if they're gonna show it at Microsoft's thing, but they might because Bethesda... They're gonna let Bethesda... They'll probably show off Deathloop. I feel like Bethesda, even though it's a PlayStation thing, they might show it off anyways because I think Bethesda is gonna be allowed to do whatever they want. Microsoft, you know, I know they paid 7.5 bill, but they're not gonna start bossing Bethesda around. So Bethesda wants to show off Deathloop during E3 and during their conference they're gonna do it. Because it comes out this year and they gotta advertise it. And I know you could wait for a Sony event, but it's also, you know, there's a lot of people that are really, a lot of Sony fans that are really not happy about that Bethesda purchase. So throwing them a bone during E3 when PlayStation is supposedly not there, I'm being like, here's a game for you guys. Here's how awesome it looks. We didn't just not do a good job on it because, you know, it's not going to Microsoft. Like, no, we actually made a really good game for you. Here you go. I could see them actually, you know, showing that off during this event too. Because, by the way, there's gonna be a number of third-party games during this showcase that are gonna be on PlayStation 5. You're gonna hear PlayStation 5 during E3. It's not like you're not gonna hear. They're not gonna ignore it. I'm really saying there's so many rumors for Final Fantasy right now. There's like that Dark Souls, Final Fantasy Origins. You gotta see Final Fantasy 16. They just changed the mobile versions of Final Fantasy 3 and 4, like on the App Store, to like distinguish that they're mobile versions. So like there's rumors that those are gonna be like remastered in a collection. And as you can see behind me right here with my Final Fantasy 7 figure display, it's my favorite game of all time, the original. So I'm super excited for Square Enix because they're doing almost a two-hour presentation right after Xbox. I'll probably, even if I don't get co-streaming, whatever, I'll probably stream Xbox all the way through the Square Enix show at least. I mean, you might as well. Yeah, because I, oh, I mind just for Square Enix. I got what, one, two, maybe three Final Fantasy's possibly being shown off, including Final Fantasy 16, everyone, which is Sony exclusive. So that's another game for Sony. If you guys look forward to it, they decided to show that off. Square Enix also has, let me see, Legend of Mana that comes out later this month. So they might, they might tease that as a way to advertise it. Neo, the world ends with you, comes out in July. Life is Strange. They also have Dragon Quest 3 remake in the Octopath Traveler style. Yep, yep. Project Triangle Strategy, by the way. I don't know if it'll be shown here on Nintendo, but that's going to be something that's going to be shown at one of the two, if not both. What a terrible name. I hope they changed the name. Well, that's what we thought about Project Octopath Traveler and they just dropped the project. So... Octopath Traveler sounds a lot better than... It does. Project Triangle Strategy, drop the project. Triangle Strategy. No, they're going to drop the Triangle Strategy. It's just a project. It's just a project, no. Yeah, we'll see. That's the one that does feel like, okay, you can get away with Octopath Traveler. Triangle Strategy don't really sound like a game. It sounds like a... I don't even know what it sounds like. It sounds like a card game. Yeah, maybe. Maybe a card game, I don't know. Triangle Strategy from Square Enix. Let me see it. It'll probably sell well either way. And what I like is that it's technically not a sequel. It's actually like another new IP, supposedly. It's not actually supposed to be a sequel to it, which is weird because they said they're going to make a sequel to it. Well, because it's basically their Fire Emblem clone. Yeah, yeah. That's why it's Triangle, because that's the same combat that... Yeah, that's the mechanics of Fire Emblem. Yeah, yeah. The raw paper scissors mechanics. So Life is Strange, True Colors. That was announced before. Looks really really good. Project Rocks Paper Scissors, I love that more. Yeah, right? All of that. Project Rocks Paper Scissors. So yeah, Life is Strange, True Colors. Looks really really good. Life is Strange was a really caught people off guard. How good that game was. Very story heavy indie game, but True Colors looks better than ever. And again, if you really like really heavy, story driven narratives that go into some dark stuff, Life is Strange is always a good one for that. So that comes out in September. They can show that off again. The Square Enix is publishing that one. They got Final Fantasy XIV, Endwalker coming out in November. They got obviously the Life is Strange remastered collection that's supposed to come out this fall. Babylon's Fall, that game looks good. Game looks good. I don't know if we're seeing it, but damn does it look good. And then they have Dying Light too as well. There's probably some others I'm forgetting. When I think Square Enix, I always just think Final Fantasy because I don't really think of them for anything else. Yeah, and Dragon Quest. And Dragon Quest, yeah. And the thing is, are they gonna announce more Dragon Quest stuff? Like a new, are we gonna get a full-on reveal of Dragon Quest XII that just blows our minds? Because Dragon Quest XI did very well. Well, they already revealed Dragon Quest XII. Yeah, yeah, I know. But something that blows our minds with it. Because I wasn't really blown away when they showed it. I was like, oh cool, we have a new Dragon Quest game coming, but they didn't blow my mind. Well, they did what Metroid Prime did. They just showed the title. Yeah, so I want my mind to be blown because Dragon Quest XI, that was good. Yeah, I would also love it if they localized, they announced that they were gonna localize Dragon Quest X offline. Oh. Because Dragon Quest X is MMO, but they announced that they're making an offline version that's all single player. And it's been Japan only, but if they take that single player version, like why not just bring it over here? You know what I mean? It would build a pipe for Dragon Quest XII. That in combination with how, you know, well, Dragon Quest XI did, I just feel like it would just be a smart move for them. So like, Eric, is there anything in Square Enix that you ever liked as a new growing up? I don't think you really play many Square Enix games. No, not at all. It's crazy, they have all the Western games now too, like Tomb Raider, Just Cause. We've got a lot. Yeah. I mean, played a little bit of Tomb Raider back in the day, but if that wasn't them back then. No, I don't think it was them back then. I don't know if they even still controlled Tomb Raider. I think they sold off that studio. I don't know, but I don't think I played much for Square games, so. That's okay. Jake, what's like the big game you're hoping to see from Square Enix? Like the one you're most, I'd see a big Final Fantasy VII guy. You know, they have a bunch of, you know, new content coming out this summer. You answered my question. That would be the one I didn't mention. We already know this is coming, Final Fantasy VII Remake part two. Yeah. We just haven't seen anything. So that's what I hope they like end their show with. Sure. I think that would be amazing because I won't go into spoilers, but a lot of people, I'm shocked how many people don't know this, but maybe it's because they didn't play the original. I don't know. Final Fantasy VII Remake is not a remake. It is a sequel to the first game. And it's a sequel. And I won't explain why, because that would involve spoilers. But now going into part two, it was a genius way to remake the game because it puts you through basically all the same events as the first game. So it's like a remake, but it's also a sequel. So it leaves the first game intact. And that like, that's so beloved. So it lets that still exist and the universe completely canon. And so I love how they did that. But now the way that part one ends, going into part two, the story will diverge a lot more and be its own completely unique thing that's like less nostalgia based and more like brand new story. So I'm really, really excited for them to show more of that. Well, that's a wait and see. Yeah, you're talking to someone who, I'm ashamed to admit this, I've never played Final Fantasy VII. Well, and I'm sorry for you. Crap on it last week with the way that it was coming out. No, no, no, no. A lot of my crappied on it is from the lack of knowledge, right? My thing is, I don't like games that come out in parts. But his explanation makes sense. Your explanation makes sense. Yeah, why it's in parts. But for me, it's like, I hate when games come out in parts because all it is to me is an excuse to get $60 per part and then re-release it as a complete collection later for $60 again. And don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that, by the way, guys, I'm not saying, I said this last time, Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VII, probably totally worth the money. I haven't played the original, haven't played this one either. I plan to play both of them. I'll probably pick up Final Fantasy VII on, I think I already have it purchased, Final Fantasy VII on Switch because they did bring it to Switch the original just because Final Fantasy VII has always been a sour point for me because it's supposedly such a generational game but it happened right when Square told Nintendo to F off and they went exclusively to the PlayStation. And I was a big Nintendo guy growing up and I was like, I played one through six all on Nintendo, looked so forward to seven and then they took it away and said, no, you need to go buy a different platform to play it. I'm not gonna do that. So I've always been kind of sour about it since then because that was back in the console war days, I was also a kid and I've kind of held it against it this whole time as it doesn't mean it's a bad game because I love Final Fantasy I through VI and I've come back, Final Fantasy VIII, I played Final Fantasy VIII, it was on PC, I was PC game it. I played Final Fantasy VIII on PC. I just never went to Final Fantasy VII because I was always so sour that I felt like Square just ripped that from me. Now as I got older, I realized Nintendo had some bad policies and all this stuff and I didn't understand why companies were leaving Nintendo went one support of more viable options. I think the big thing was they were gonna do cartridges that would have taken like 25 cartridges which cartridges cost more than CDs. It took three CDs, which can hold way, way more data. You know what I mean? Final Fantasy VII on the PS1. So the amount of cartridges would have just been it was impossible. Nintendo made it impossible for them. But the reason Final Fantasy VII is my favorite game of all time, I played that game when I was six years old. My dad got us a PS1, I was born in 91. And he got Crash Bandicoot, that was my first game ever which I loved. He also got PlayStation Underground Magazine which came with a demo disc every month. One month, I still have it behind me. I got a demo disc that had Final Fantasy VII on it, demo, and I wasn't allowed to play it. But one day I snuck and I played it and it blew my mind. And I played that demo probably like thousands of times and then we ended up moving. My parents got divorced. I moved around a lot when I was young. And my next door neighbor, his older brother was like this huge JRPG like nerd who was awesome and he had Final Fantasy VII. And I was like, oh my God, that's that game. And so he lent it to me. I was like seven years old so I could like read fully at this point. And I played that game and it changed my life forever. It is to this day the best story I've ever experienced in any form of media. So it's better and richer than any book I've ever read and any movie I've ever seen. And what's disappointing about it is like other games like Final Fantasy VII Crisis Core or the movie Advent Children do nothing for me. Like barely scratch the surface. But that original game on the PS1, it's just, it's so intricate and like you just get lost in it. And so the remake, I enjoyed it, but again, doesn't do much for me compared to the original game. But that's why I'm so glad they did the remake in the way I described it later because it's just more lore to it. It just, it lets you see the characters that actually look like human beings instead of like block people. But yeah, so that's why I love Final Fantasy VII so much is why I spent like hundreds of dollars on these figures behind me. Because it literally, that's why I have all these games is because of Final Fantasy VII. That's what truly defined me like as a gamer. And also like I play that game right when my parents divorced so it helped get me through a tough time as a young kid. So there's just lots of reasons. Yeah, I mean, that's the way it is with being with certain Zelda games. Cause like I was playing way more, like when I was a kid, there were other games I played way more than like Zelda games of gold and I played the hell out of that. Mario 64 for the hell out of that banjo. I'm just, I'm just going back through a bunch of rare games I played too. But like it, for some reason certain games and that just happened to be Zelda, I was playing during some really rough times going on in my life at the time. And that stuff just sticks with you cause it kind of helped you get through those times. There's a great fan made film on YouTube called Escape that everyone needs to go watch at some point in their life. It's a great made up take, but also very much hits home with someone who, it's a little girl whose parents are fighting and she's struggling in school because nobody understands what's going on with her personal life at home. And she escapes to play. In this case happened to be Zelda, but it didn't have to be Zelda. It could have been any game. She escapes to play that game where parents break her GameCube and then when she falls asleep, she's dreaming and all of a sudden she's in the world and living that world and her dream and escaping from this family. I have to, this sounds amazing. Yeah, it's such a great fan film. I think it won some awards. Everyone should watch it. It wasn't even the Zelda party. To me it was just that, my parents argued all the time, lots of stuff like that that affects kids. Could you send me a link later? Yeah, I'll send you a link too. Yeah, it's a great, it's a great film. Everyone should, I feel everyone should watch it. I think even if that's not your exact scenario, like they're arguing really hit home for me and the expectations your parents put on you after they just got done with the big argument and then they won't want to yell at you because your homework's not done or something as you're playing the game. It's like, yeah, you guys were yelling for the last two hours and how the hell am I gonna do homework, you know? But parents aren't thinking that way, right? And I know that now as a parent myself, I try very hard to never argue ever in front, and we don't even argue really, now that I think about it. But if we did have a disagreement, well, like, hey, we're not doing this for the kids. Like, it's not, I went through that. I like refuse. I will automatically refuse the situation because I went through it. Let's just say guys, when you're in a relationship, just the girl's always right. Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it, it ain't worth the argument. As she's watching the thing, she's about to be like, oh my God. All right, I mean, it's cool. Remember that one time in the podcast when you saw it was always right? That's the end of the podcast. Yeah. The other thing is, they never forget either. Oh, they never forget, I mean, they'll remember everything. That's okay. I love her, she's awesome. We're actually a really good team, but it's one of those, it's one of those, you learn things over the, over the years sometimes, especially when you go through things as a kid that you don't wanna repeat as an adult and you start to realize it's not worth it sometimes, sometimes it's just better to let things go that really, if you think about it, don't really matter. My parents- Well, that's true in any aspect of life and in any relationship, whether it's romantic or personal, but letting things go is really important. Yeah. That in communication. It really is. Yeah, sorry, I'm getting a bunch of emails right now because I emailed guys, so we have a, during our E3 coverage, these things will happen regardless, even if we get shut down for some reason. We have gaming competitions going on for Mario Kart, Smash Bros, and Splatoon, and today I selected the 11 people randomly that are gonna do the Mario Kart one, so my emails are just popping off right now with people being like, oh my gosh, hey, I'm gonna be in your Mario Kart thing, here's my friend code, and it's like, okay. Yay, yay. I get it, it's exciting. That's incredible. They're playing for $20 E-Shop gift cards. The Smash guys are playing for like $50 E-Shop gift cards. I get it, it's exciting. I'm glad that people are getting back to me. I was worried a little bit that I was gonna select people that were never gonna respond and then how do I deal with that? You know, how long do I give them to respond? Because E-3's coming up and the tournaments are this weekend, but I'm glad that that's working out. So, because I wanna announce it too, so like people keep thinking, oh Nate, did you pick anyone? Yes, and if you didn't get an email from me, then you weren't picked. That's the only response I can give you right now because I have the real names and I can't share the real names. I wish E-3 was as open as you. Yeah, you signed up, right? You're gonna be popping off on Smash against me. Let's see, so where were we with that game? So we were wrapping up Square Enix there. Obviously Final Fantasy VII Remake, anything for you, part two would be great. For me, as someone who, I mean, I'm gonna play Final Fantasy VII, part one and part two here coming up, but I'm more looking forward to Legend of Mana. Yeah, there it is, there's the pet. Oh yeah. I go get mine, but he might take out all my equipment. He's like the size of the table. Oh yeah. He's a great dame. He's a great dame, so. All grown. He just woke up from his nap, so that's why I picked him. But one franchise I've always loved is the Mana series. So Legend of Mana coming back out on 6.24, that really excites me. And any sort of Mana announcement, I actually would like to hear them say they're making a new one. That would be awesome. That would be over my wheels. Like my second favorite game of all time is Secret of Mana. So that was one game that we played there. Oh yeah, because that was a multi-player game back on SNES, yeah. So like, yeah, I'm hoping they announced something from the Mana franchise. I'm not confident they're going to be on more remakes or ports or other ways to remake games, but it would be nice to finally get a new announcement. I think that's what I'm most looking forward to from Square, it's potentially a new Mana announcement. But we'll see. We'll see. I mean, as a Switch guy, hey guys, Square Enix has been showing more and more support towards Switch, so as long as it's not Final Fantasy, everything's on the table basically for Switch. And even Final Fantasy, I mean, the disappointing thing was like the last thing they did for Switch, besides port-old games was the remastered Crystal Chronicles and then they bungled that. So I'm not sure I'd even trust that they bring Final Fantasy to Switch at this point. Yeah, that's upset. See, that's the game you really remember was Crystal Chronicles back in the GameCube days. That's the Square game you love the most. And they bungled, they bungled that big time. Oh my God. All right, let's move on to Happier Times. Capcom. Chrono Trigger. I mean, that's always a thing, but to remake Chrono Trigger or Chrono Cross. Oh yeah, Chrono Trigger. Next question would be pretty amazing. That would be pretty cool. So we got Capcom next. So what's interesting about Capcom is they actually had a data reshut that they fill out of their games they're planning to do for the next few years. Oh, whoops. So Resident Evil Village DLC, I don't think anyone's surprised about that, of course. The big one is like the Resident Evil Outrage. That might be that supposed rumored Switch Resident Evil that's like Revelations 3, but it's not Revelations 3, but it has the same characters. I don't know. Supposedly the one guy on Twitter, Dusk Golem or whatever was like, hey, yeah, this has like the same budget as Resident Evil Village. It's gonna be a big deal and it's exclusive to Switch. And I'm like, we'll see about that because the Revelation games were exclusive too and then they moved them. So even if it is, I feel like just be a timed exclusive thing. But I can see like Capcom, Capcom's had a lot of success with Switch. So I can see them being like, yeah, we'll give you an exclusive RE game that's built for your platform. Do you think Capcom, well, I know Monster Hunter Rise is gonna be coming to PC. Do you think they're gonna, given how well it's doing, do you think they're gonna have ports for that for other systems? I also know that Monster Hunter Rise was made and optimized for Switch. So, so Monster Hunter Rise, according to what I understand from it, Nintendo paid them quite a bit of money to make it a console exclusive thing because they wanted to go multi-plat. Nintendo said, how much money to make it a console exclusive? And I said, well, do you want it to not be on PC as well? This is gonna cause, and they're like, we don't care about PC, put it on PC, but we want our platform first PC later. We want you to build it for our platform. Make it better on PC if you want, but build it for our platform, which they did and it's really great running. It's one of the best looking games on Switch. Honestly, I still can't believe when I play it that this is actually a Switch. I finally just started it last week and I've already put 40 hours in in a week. Well, that's what Monster Hunter does. It sucks you in, doesn't let you go. Yeah. And that game is performing really, really well. And I think what's maybe caught, I mean, Capcom's already said that they're just out of this world happy with how it's performing. I'm like, well, yeah, because it's performing the kind of numbers the world did on multiple platforms. Like that's how it clearly was a great decision for it to be this timed exclusive thing on Switch and built for Switch because Switch is moving units of it like crazy. So, you know, and then they have Monster Hunter Stories too coming. So I think they, I think it's one of those things that I don't know if guys ever go to other platforms. I told you the JRPGs, I love Pokemon and stuff. So that's basically Pokemon with Monster Hunter. Yeah. I'm excited for that. So I don't know if Rise as it is right now will ever come to like PlayStation and Xbox, but I do think like a new version of it. I remember like Monster Hunter Switch right there. Nice. Oh, I'm jealous. I'm jealous. Oh, I got all of this. Obviously it comes with the dock too, but I got the pro controller. Yeah. I've got all the Amiibos. Oh, here we go. Very nice. Yeah. Oh, I know. It's like one of the biggest Amiibos. Yeah. Yeah. He's not like super big, but yeah, he's cool. Well, I mean, I think I think the Guardian Amiibo. Technically the giant yarn Yoshi Amiibo that's like, that's like a foot and a half tall. That's like the biggest Amiibo. There's a Texas Pikachu one as well. Nice. It is pretty big, but yeah. So yeah, I got like all the Monster Hunter stuff. Was so excited to play it. I got all this on release day and then didn't get to start playing it till last week. But there's the pro controller there. That controller is beautiful. Even if you're not in the Mops of Hunter, I love Dragons, it's like that's just, it's so sick. So yeah, Monster Hunter Rise, I don't know if it's ever gonna come to platforms, other platforms in its current form, but I feel like they're gonna have like, like you remember like Monster Hunter, like three in the Mops of Hunter Try and the Mops of Hunter, what, like they, like do multiple versions of the games over the years. One of the, they're gonna have a version of Rise. I think that's gonna either come to other platforms or this is the big thing people are kind of waiting for. Are they gonna announce the Monster Hunter World two? Yeah. I mean, I think that makes sense. I think they will at some point. Because what they did when they went to other, when they brought it back really, people were gonna know Monster Hunter was on Sony and then there was an exclusivity contract with Nintendo. So it was kind of bouncing all back and it was really popular with the handhelds in Japan. So like it was this kind of back and forth of where the IP is gonna be and then it had a 10-year deal with Nintendo that expired and then they did World and when they brought it to the actual home console space, what they wanted to do was be, well, we don't wanna bring the traditional gameplay, we don't think that's gonna transfer well. Let's do something that feels good for Western gamers. And they did that and it worked. It's got some of the core elements but the gameplay has some differences that are catered more to not the original, like if you play Rise and you play World, there's some fundamental gameplay differences. A wire bug in particular. No, the wire bug. That was a brilliant addition. It's also so much easier to ride in Mount Monsters and Rise. Absolutely, absolutely. So like. All right, go ahead. No, no, it's all right. What are we gonna say? Well, I was just gonna say like, anytime Cap, I mean, their presentation is so short, which is disappointing. They've already said they're gonna talk about Resident Evil Monster Hunter so it kind of doesn't leave a lot of room but there's so many cool things they can announce. Like they just ported Devil May Cry 5 for its own PS5 version. So like now they've had experience with that, like Devil May Cry 6 coming. Or you know what I mean? Or maybe like a remake of like Devil May Cry 3 would be awesome. Like for me, Mega Man Legends is like the series, like the third one they've supposedly like we're almost done with on the 3DS and then just canceled it and hasn't talked about it in like 10 years. So now that we've gotten like every other Mega Man or under the sun, I would love to see either my number one would be Mega Man Legends 3 and maybe they could do a collection of the first two games to kind of help market it and get people into it. But also the Mega Man Battle Network series that was on the Game Boy Advance, which there were six of those games. So I don't know if they would do like a whole collection or maybe just port like a couple of them but those were some of my favorite games. Cause again, those were essentially, you know, turn-based RPGs, but you won like a grid in the battles. But yeah, they were really fun. Man. Yeah, that's what sucks about this data breach. When it came out, I was so hoping it was gonna have Mega Man. It didn't. Now by the way, data breach isn't gonna have everything guys because it's basically like they had and the data breach there was that Resident Evil Outrage or Remake for Resident Evil 4, which I don't think anyone's surprised by if you look at how they're remaking Resident Evil games. Final Flight Remake that's coming out in 2024, Dragon's Dogma 2, Monster Hunter 6 that's supposedly coming out in 2023. Don't know what that is. If it's gonna be called six, I have no idea. Maybe that's World 2, but I don't know what that means to me. Street Fighter 6 coming out supposedly next year, then obviously Monster Hunter Stories 2. I forgot about Street Fighter. Yeah, so a new Street Fighter, which I didn't surprise, it's been a while since we've gotten the new ones. At least I'm glad to hear Street Fighter 6 and not another Street Fighter 2 Ultimate Mega Deluxe Edition. They milked the hell out of Street Fighter 2 and I get it. It's one of the best Street Fighter games ever, but I think fine. Well, the other thing I forgot to mention is Jeff Grubb said that they might be working on a Mega Man battle network collection back in January. Nice. Maybe of last year, because he announced that and Paper Mario at the same time. So. Yeah, that was the last year then, yeah. And he was right about Paper Mario. Yeah, oh yeah. So that, I mean, it would be interesting if they were working on that. Yeah. And then Monster Hunter DLC, which I mean, that's not, again, not surprising that it's a game that's sold six, seven, eight million. They're gonna have DLC. Right. And they always do DLC for Monster Hunter games anyway. So that's not enough of a surprise. You're gonna be interested in if it's as good as the DLC that came out for a world because that was a really big DLC, what they did with that. So we'll see. So yeah, that's Capcom. That's the least what's leaked. There's obviously Capcom has a ton of IP. It's kind of, you know, you talked a lot about how you're really over some Mega Man something, at least something that's like maybe new or a really good collection. We haven't really gotten yet. Games that haven't gotten the attention that they deserve, that the battle networks of the world. Eric, is there anything that tickles your fancy from Capcom? I know a lot of my friends are into Monster Hunter. I haven't played a few of them. I own one, never really got into it as much as they did, but. Well, once you get into it, you're sucked in. The gameplay loop just keeps you going. So I see the appeal. It was fun when I played it, but I just never fully, fully got into it because it was right, you know, during a really busy time in my life with stuff like that. So it's, yeah. And I see some people in the chat are gonna have like Marvel versus Capcom. That's another one. Like we just haven't had that in a while. That would be nice to get another one of those. I don't know if they're gonna do it. I have no idea. I have no idea what the fighting game landscape in general looks after like Smash Bros. Ultimate just blew up the expectations for what fighting games can even do. Like no one ever thought a fighting game would sell 20 million. Like it's just insane because it was always such a niche franchise that had such a hardcore base and all of a sudden they just opened it up to the world. And Smash has always done that. It's always been like the best selling one. 20 million is like a whole another level. Smash has never come close to that. So it's like, we'll see. I'm hoping there's a trickle down effect I don't know if there will be but I know there's obviously fighters from other games like in Smash. It would be cool if there was a trickle down effect like the next Street Fighter. More people give that a chance, right? Because like they remember the Street Fighter characters in Smash that maybe they played with. So I don't know if there really is. I know there's been trickle down effects where characters in Smash have helped Nintendo games sell. I'm not so sure it's really hit with the third parties because those games aren't on the Switch necessarily. Like by the time Snake came to the thing like they weren't any new Metal Gear games coming to Nintendo platforms at that time. So it was kind of like didn't really boost sales for anything because there was nothing to boost. So we'll see. And again, I also like to do that just with their own characters, right? Like bring in Dante from Devil May Cry or, you know. They could bring in Mega Man, whatever. And they could even have that be a separate mode where you can use like characters like that. Like they could easily do that. The only thing is it would be awkward. You couldn't really let them use their weapons. Yeah. But it could still work, you know. And that could be a fun thing. Yeah. I always thought they should have did like, cause there's been rumors about Rare Replay coming to Switch for all these years. I thought when they announced Banjo-Kazooie we were in the perfect time to announce a Rare Replay for Switch. It'd be like, Banjo's part of that. That's a great promotional tool to push Rare Replay which a lot of Nintendo fans would already be interested in because so much of that back catalog of Rare was on Nintendo when we grew up with it. But again, we'll see what happens but also makes sense that they didn't because they announced that during E3, right? Like to make or like, so to make it like hype but they also had all their other games that they were trying to hype up. So that would have, you know what I mean? They're very careful with how they release games. They don't ever release them too close together. They let the hype build up. And then, you know what I mean? They all, they never like do multiple releases like in the same month. So I forget whatever it was they were probably trying to push at that point but they wanted to probably do that cause they know how beloved that character is and they could win E3 by announcing that character but I think that announcing a Rare Replay at the same time would have split people from buying whatever they were trying to push cause everyone would want to buy that especially if you grew up or were around for the games that are on that compilation. So I think it makes sense that maybe like they did it and that will get announced at some point a Rare Replay. Absolutely, yeah. So before we... Maybe like when they have a draw in a month. One question for you. You think XCloud is coming to Switch? No. All right. Yeah, that's fine. All we know is there was negotiations. Doesn't mean it actually went well. Yeah, I mean, but we look at that Epic and Apple lawsuit right now where all this information is coming out. I mean, there was negotiations for... Samus. Epic to buy all of Sony's biggest first party games that are PlayStation exclusives to come over and Sony was just like, no. So yeah, there was negotiations. And I'm sure it was more than that with Nintendo and Microsoft. Well, yeah, because it was a Microsoft person that was talking about it at the time. So it was coming from Microsoft side of things but it was also Nintendo got it redacted and I was like, okay, but all Nintendo said in the redaction is these are active negotiations. Doesn't mean the negotiations actually finalized. The only thing to me is that puts anything behind it besides that, because that's the first thing that really hinted, oh, maybe XCloud might come over because they're actually talking about it. Was the Phil Spencer? I don't know, not even the Phil Spencer having to switch in the background thing, whatever. There was that Microsoft event, I always forget what it was, where they had the Series S, the Series X and then the Switch just prominently, that's it. Three systems, that's all that's in the background. And it's like, okay, why are they putting the Switch on the same level as the other Microsoft platforms right now? That was kind of the big like, yeah. I think there's something coming, but again, like the easiest way for me to try to figure out what's gonna happen is like, what is true and likely? Like what are the facts that we already know and the facts we already know, like if you're looking at it from a company's perspective is if XCloud came to Switch, people would spend less money on the eShop, they would spend less money on games in general and Nintendo makes so much of their money from their software. I don't know about that. Yeah, they're selling Switch really crazy. Yeah, remember, it's a streaming platform. But you look at the gaming, there's so many 20 million plus sellers. Sure. There's so many eShop sales that bring in so much money. Why would you do, you know what I mean? Like, so that's why I just feel like that's not gonna happen. But I feel like on Switch in particular, especially because it has really crappy Wi-Fi. That like, it's a streaming service and there's gonna be a lot of people on Switch who would be like, even control, right? You can play control on Switch right now, they're not gonna do it. It's too expensive, 60 bucks. And I get that this is a service. And I mean, I already have a game pass subscription and I'm wobbling at XCloud if it comes to Switch. But it's like, I feel like there's a streaming crowd that likes streaming and then those that don't. And I don't think streaming replaces playing games natively. Like, XCloud isn't gonna really, like if you own a Series X and you happen to have XCloud packed in with your game pass ultimate, you're not gonna use it. It'll just download the games and play them locally because it's better that way. No latency, especially from online multiplayer games. Whereas on Switch, a lot of those games can't run on there anyways. So I feel like most of the games that game pass won't affect the eShop because the eShop's still gonna have best way to play games, play them locally on your Switch. But here's a bunch of third party games you were never gonna get anyways. Yeah, I just don't think there's enough money in it for them. Why? As a consumer that all the value is there. Well, the value is great. Of Nintendo themselves. Well, it also depends what's the deal because Microsoft is paying. The thing is, Nintendo doesn't need that. You know, if like, if the Switch was struggling, like the Wii U was and they needed something to help get people more interested, they don't need any more hype. They have their own games. Switch just sells like crazy every month, even though it's a four-year-old console. Wow. You know, like maybe that's why we haven't done anything announced. They're just keeping that in their back pocket. So Furukawa. If they ever feel like they need that, they would bring it. Yeah, Shintaro Furukawa was a businessman more than, he's never made games in his life. He was an accountant. Exactly. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. But I think that it actually benefits, the reason that I feel, and this is, it's okay to disagree, we're all good. The reason that I feel like Furukawa actually is more likely to do this is because the reason third party games are doing day and date is because Microsoft wrote them a fat check. And if they go to Nintendo and say, here's a fat check, plus you get 40% cut of any new subscriptions that come through your Nintendo online service into our thing. Is Nintendo gonna be like, well, if this blows up, we also make bank on it too. Plus they wrote us a fat check on top because all Microsoft cares about is getting more people to be on Game Pass. I get, I get- Yeah, I think that would hurt. I think that, I still think that would hurt their other software sales too much to make it worth it. The hurdle to me is that I would rather have a hundred percent, you know? Yeah, the hurdle to me is that Microsoft wants not just XCloud and Game Pass to be there. They want the full Xbox ecosystem and I'm not sure that Nintendo's gonna be okay with that. That's why- That's the, my trepidation is you're gonna have to have Xbox Live fully on Switch along with Nintendo Switch online service. And I feel like that's kind of a, unless Nintendo decides to dump their shitty online service which is probably what they should do, right? But that's besides the point. That's why- I'm not gonna go down that road. Nintendo, I don't know what they're doing with that damn thing. That's why I could see like a Nintendo specific XCloud. Not necessarily the full XCloud, but an XCloud tailored specifically- Well, couldn't you argue then that maybe what they should do is there's a lot of games on Game Pass that can run on Switch. Can you set like screw XCloud, let's just put Game Pass on there and have like an exclusive group of games that can run natively on Switch. Yeah. And that's what you get instead of getting the full library, I don't know. Maybe that's the other direction you're going. It could just be literally like Master Chief's coming to smash and that's what you get. It could be a two. And it could just literally be something like that or you know, Microsoft has let some of the indie games they paid for come over. It could just be as simple as, hey, we have like maybe we're running a Master Chief collection over because it can run on your platform on Pro or whatever. And we just, we just want more people to play and make money off of our old games. I have no idea. Phil Spencer seems to be fine with his games at the end on other platforms. As long as you'll have to have an XCloud. The thing that I think Nintendo sees is that now that Microsoft has Game Pass, very few people are buying games from Microsoft. And that's what Microsoft wants. They want everyone to sign up for the service. So Nintendo does not want people to just do the service and stop buying their games. Like, yeah, people will always buy Zelda, Mario, whatever. But I mean, as a consumer, like if you're subscribed to XCloud on Switch, how much more likely are you gonna be to browse eShop sales and do it when you have like a similar bunch of games that you could just play for free at that point? So I don't know what would happen on Switch specifically because we don't know it's not there. We don't have any data on it. We're all just, you know, hypothetically talking about what we think. Right, that's why you use the data from the console where it already exists. Yes, and the data according, this is Microsoft. We don't have data from anyone but Microsoft is their service. Game sales are up on Xbox Series X after Game Pass came to it, not down. Because Game Pass, what people forget is it offers you a discount to just outright own the game. And games on Game Pass don't stay on Game Pass forever. I'm not saying that the games aren't up, but I'm just saying they would be up a lot more if Game Pass wasn't an option. That's just my opinion though. Well, yeah, and all I could do is go off Microsoft's data where they said, here's sales before Game Pass, here's sales after Game Pass, Game Pass sales have increased. I don't know if that's gonna continue because I know me, I am not buying a game on Xbox. I don't have to, I have Game Pass. That's me personally. But then I also go, would I own an Xbox Series X without Game Pass? Would I even be bothering to play the games? But then again, though, too, how many games in a year are you buying? Versus you pay how many dollars? They're making more money off the subscription. Overall, long call, if they get a big enough user base, and they ever, that's their goal. They want 100 million plus people on Game Pass. They're gonna make more money off of that per month than they would off those normal game sales. If I buy one game per two, three months, I'm probably spending more in the subscription over the year than I am buying the couple of games that I might play. People justify paying for Game Pass at 15 bucks a month or whatever, Game Pass Ultimate because all that you need is basically like two or three AAA games you like, and it kind of justifies the entire price. But it's also one of those things where, I just know me as a Game Pass user, I don't really have a reason to buy games on Xbox. But at the same point, Microsoft was also not necessarily getting sales before Game Pass because no one was buying Xbox. And Microsoft doesn't really care if you buy an Xbox, they care that you get a subscription on anything, whether it's Android. They wanted it on Sony and Sony said, no, PC. They don't really care where you're playing in their games anymore. They just want you to use XCloud and Game Pass, which is why I always go, okay, if they view themselves more as services than a system, I don't know, like, if you just ignore the Xbox Series X, which I don't think will ever sell as well as the Switch does, right? Probably crossing 100 million units bare minimum. Who knows where the sky limit's gonna go after that. Don't know if it'll ever get up to DS and PS2 numbers. We'll find out how relevant Nintendo can keep the Switch for a number of years. But I also go, if Microsoft cares more about the services, if they can work it out than Nintendo, it's really just a value add to Switch. It just makes Switch more valuable. They actually do value Switch. They're consumers, but I don't think it's a Nintendo. Well, I don't know. I feel like if you're selling out every console you make, you need to add that. You know what I mean? Yeah, I know. Why do you need to add something that splits your profits? I think I just disagree a little bit because I feel like if Switch had XCloud, I don't need to buy a Series X. More people need to buy Switches. No, I agree with that. It was a consumer that 100% makes sense. Now, basically, I feel like I'd be spending, the subscription I'm spending on Xbox, I'd still spend it on Nintendo and I'd still be buying Nintendo games that just get more money out of me. I feel like a lot of people would do what you do with Xbox right now and would just be fine with just playing those games instead of buying more games from Nintendo. Like I said, they'll always buy the Zelda's and Mario's. Well, yeah, Nintendo games are always going to sell at the end of the audience. Yeah. They'd be less willing to buy other games when there's this huge library already there. I suppose, I don't know. In my opinion. Which is what you said you do with the Xbox. So I should say all the third-party games on Switch and none of the third-party games that aren't exclusive are selling like super well on Switch anyways. Only the exclusives are really blowing up on the platform. So for me, it's like, well, the exclusives would still blow up. So if you can't really get like a third-party game. That's a good point, actually. That's a good point, I see that. Well, if you can't get NBA 2K that consistently comes out, you can't get that to sell multiple millions of copies on a hundred million dollar system or a hundred million unit system. It's like, well, then does that matter really? If you could just play it on Game Pass. But see, my argument is some of those exclusives that aren't huge, that aren't the Mario's, that aren't the Zelda's, those exclusives that are selling well right now would not sell as well when you have the whole Game Pass library. So like the more niche ones, you know what I mean? The ones that aren't as popular. Why would you buy one that's not super popular when that's what I'm saying. Like that's, you're kind of like making my point a little bit, is like they are selling so well right now. So all the ones that Nintendo gets 100% of the profit on, all the exclusive ones, they are selling so well right now. You know what I mean? Yeah, I guess. To me, like the exclusives are gonna sell. I agree with some of your points too though. Yeah. It's more, I mean, guys, this is all hypothetical. No one really knows, and we don't know if this thing's ever gonna happen. It was negotiated at one point. Okay, cool. That doesn't really mean anything. Normally negotiations and patents and things come up that never become reality. It is what it is. I mean, like you said, epic versus out, look at all many things that Epic attempted to do and none of it ever happened. And now like they wanted Samus to be in it and now the rumors are out that like, yeah, Nintendo was like, nope, not happening, which I always thought was a little weird. I think Nintendo should let Samus be in Fortnite. I think Metroid can use all the attention it can get and you literally have, you literally push Fortnite on your Twitter. You have a literal Fortnite, like bundle with a custom console. I don't, but again, the rumor has it that Nintendo wouldn't do it because Nintendo is so protective of their IPs. What if, what if there's a My thing is how many people would buy Monster Hunter Rise if they could just play Monster Hunter World for free? How many people, even Metroid Prime 4 is hype as that is. How many people would play that if they could just play any Halo game for free? You know what I mean? Like I'm not saying it's not going to eliminate sales for those games, but it will hurt their sales numbers, right? Like, you know what I mean? And think about how many games like that there could be samples of. Let's say you put, let's say world was on switch through Game Pass or through X-Cloud. Let's just forget Game Pass for a moment because that's technically a separate service. So just through X-Cloud. Okay. And let's just say, you know, okay, fine. They have a fee you can pay, you know, per year and then you can stream X amount of games. Cause I don't know what Game Pass is except it's not streaming, but it's going to be part of, we presume it's going to be a part of the full X-Cloud package when it launches. So you get, you get, let's say you get to play this game for free and you end up having say 20 million switch users inside the trial world and play it for free. And then you have a new Monster Hunter come out that's exclusive, not part of the service. I think that actually has a chance to increase interest in buying that game because you didn't spend any money really to play the other one. And now you're like, well, what's this new one? Yeah, I disagree with you. It's kind of a, who really, I'm getting, who really knows? We can, we can go around and around with us all day. No. Specifically because Monster Hunter is the game where you get really invested into whatever version you're playing, you know what I mean? Yeah. So if you're, if you're, if you love world, you're not going to switch over. Okay, so like if Rise was on like the other platforms, do you think it would sell that well because of world? Oh yeah, I mean, I'm sure in the, you know, the sales, whatever the switch does will be better than any other platform for Rise for sure. And if world didn't exist, I'm sure Rise would sell like crazy on the other platforms. Monster Hunter, by the way, Monster Hunter always sells, I swear. If you look at the sales, it's still consistently up there. Yeah. Used to be, used to be bigger than Zelda till Breath of the Wild happened. All right. Let's dive a bit into Nintendo here. We've already kind of touched. I love that whole thing, by the way. That was really fun. Yeah, that was fun. I love debate, that's cool. I wish we had a debate earlier because like I'm looking at the time and I'm like, man, I have only got so much more time here. Yeah. What if, what if- Yeah, me too, honestly. But that was fun, I enjoyed it. What if, what if we're all wrong and the reason why the Xbox or Microsoft to switch thing is there's this Metroid Halo crossover? Oh my God, don't even, don't even, don't even give me wet dreams. There we go. Okay, I don't need- There, end of that discussion. All right, fine, fine. Eric, we just ended, we just ended the Xbox. Is that your prediction? Is that your prediction? You wanna lock that in? Sure. Is that on that? I guess, I need to. So, yeah. I know I am. But, I wanna say, how much do you believe in this right now? I don't. Will it into existence? Why not? Yes. Oh my God, that's what they did with, that's why they rebooted Prime 4 because they're crossover. Yes. And they delayed Halo Infinite, it's gonna be a crossover. It's a crossover. I mean, people might forget the visuals in Halo Infinite if it's crossover with Metroid. Yep. Yeah, it's all coming together. Yeah, that's where the visuals are held back because it's going on Switch too. Yeah. Ah, see, crossover. Oh boy. Nintendo. You gotta get Metroid in 4K. All right, anyway. Nintendo. So, Nintendo. We've already touched base on Nintendo a number of times throughout it because obviously that's what my channel's primarily about. But obviously Breath of the Wild, let's just go over the, I currently announced, quote on quote, exclusive games. Don't always know when some of them are coming. Some of them we do have dates for. Breath of the Wild 2, Bayonetta 3, Metroid Prime 4, the big three that we have no idea what the hell's happening. Mario Golf Super Rush, it comes out later this month. Should be gonna be 10, say five. Now that that's moving for November. No more heroes three. We got some people to come on August. Sports Story. Finally got a tweet about that recently that finally we're gonna start hearing some news about that soon. That's the sequel to Golf Story that's exclusive to Switch. Discover Story HD, we know comes July 16th. Pokemon Brilliant Diamond, Shining Pearl. We know that comes November 19th, I believe. Pokemon Legends Arceus that releases January 28th. Project Triangles. They've got a lot. Coming out on 10, say five is also November. And so they're doubling down some months. Yeah. Yeah. Project Triangles strategy, then Splatoon 3, that's 2022. And then Yo-Kai Watch 4, which we haven't heard about in a long time, but that's supposedly coming exclusively to Switch. It's some. Wait, but that studio went out and had to close. Yeah, I know. Level five. Yeah, I know. So someone else is taking it over? Yeah, supposedly. Got it, okay. That's supposedly somebody's funding. I feel bad because Yo-Kai Watch at one point was really getting big and then they just bombed it in the last game and then the studio just couldn't really recover. Yo-Kai Watch 3 though, like looked up was one of the best looking games on the 3DS besides like, the only other game I can think of that looks better on the 3DS is Resident Evil Revelations. Yeah, Resident Evil Revelations wasn't like, maybe the de facto best looking game on 3DS. Yo-Kai Watch 3 was like right there. Oh yeah, Yo-Kai Watch 3 was good. I felt bad when that one didn't sell very well. I feel like, I think they tried to release them too quickly after each other, in my opinion. Like they were trying to feel like they were the Pokemon and I'm like, you're not Pokemon. You can't get away with yearly releases. Yeah, and also like the second one had three different versions. The joke that Yo-Kai Watch is for right now, by the way, the actual version is one thing, but then you add the third. If you watched the Yo-Kai Watch 4 trailer, the joke with it when Pokemon Sword and Shield was announced that everyone's like, Yo-Kai Watch 4 looks better than Sword and Shield. And people really still feel like that today. Oh yeah, I don't know if it looks gorgeous. Yo-Kai Watch 4 ever, I hope so. But we'll have to wait and see. I know there's, just a super check, I'm gonna take her 610, thank you so much. So what caused the Wii U failure games? Okay, we're not gonna go down the Wii U path today. That's a whole two hour conversation. Maybe that's something we can have Jacob for a future episode and we can dive down. The short answer would be, the games did not cause the failure because the games do well on the Switch. It was definitely the marketing of those two things that you offered. We're not even gonna, there you go, there's conversation over. Don, there you go. Quick answer. It was called the Wii U. Let's just start with that, all right. Moving on. Remember, here's the Wii U. You already have that. Hold on, remember, they called it Wii U. Okay, towards the end of the Wii Life thing, there was something called Wii U Draw that totally tanked. And that was a game with an accessory, with a tablet. And then this thing was also called Wii U. So I'm just saying that, like, in correlations, it sounded like an accessory. Well, and again. And they focused on the tablet and marketing. It just was not good. They were just so excited with how the Wii did, like, compared to the GameCube, that they were like, yes, we're back. We have to keep milking this. And it was like, mm. Right. They didn't realize the Wii was trending down. People would have actually been like, okay. Right. But the problem is they couldn't. The majority of the Wii sales were in the first few years. Yeah. Right. But then again, parents again, they hear like back in the day, our day, Nintendo, everything was a Nintendo. So when they heard Wii, you already have a Wii. Oh, is this was an accessory? Yeah. Why is this accessory so expensive? Is this like Wii Fit? Yeah, right. Exactly. So yeah. Talking about the Switch Pro, I do not think it will be called the Switch Pro. Well, no. Because they have a Switch Pro controller. And again, parents would be like, oh, does this controller only work for the Switch Pro then? Yes. So that's why I don't think it's gonna be the Switch Pro. New Nintendo Switch. It won't be the Switch Deluxe because they have all those Wii U Deluxe games, right? Super Mario Brothers, U Deluxe, Pikmin 3 Deluxe, and then they'll be like, oh, does this only work on the new system? Yeah. So I think whatever they call the new Switch will be something they haven't used yet, if that makes any sense. Possible. Yeah. So I'm trying to think like, when they done the upgraded ones, and they called it the DSi, weird brand name because of Apple, don't know what they were thinking with that, whatever, literally it made it sound like it was an Apple. Maybe that was the whole point. Maybe they wanted it to sound like it was an Apple, premium Apple device, but that ended up not actually doing very well for them. And then the new 3DS quickly took over sales, like almost overnight, people stopped buying the OG 3DS. And they called that the new Nintendo 3DS, which makes me think like, if they're gonna reuse any previous marketing, it would be the new, called the new Nintendo Switch because it's not confusing, except that it is, because sometimes people think that means next gen, but it's not next gen, it's not Switch 2, but Nintendo doesn't use numbers really. So I have no idea, Super Switch has been thrown on there for the last time they used Super. The XL would make sense because they used that for DS and 3DS. And that's like, but the other thing they could do, and that kind of also implies that it will still play all the same Switch games. But the other thing they could do, which I would love, which they won't do, is call it the Switch Heavy, because then you have the Switch Lite. I like it. Yeah, I like the Heavy. There you go. It makes sense with the marketing, right? I like it. The Heavy, the Switch, and the Switch Lite. Yeah. And just like on the Switch Lite, they don't call it a Lite, by the way. It just says Nintendo Switch on it. The Lite's only on the box. Oh yeah, interesting. So they keep it in, because they said a family of Switch systems, so no matter what it's called, it'll just say Nintendo Switch. Until the next gen. I hope there's a, do you think there's gonna be a next gen Switch-like system or do you think Nintendo's gonna go away from the hybrid? No, I think they'll continue to do it. They might do it in a completely different way, but I still think, you know what I mean? Like, if you look at the Wii U, how like you put stuff in the system that was connected to the TV and like you take the game pad away, and you could use both screens, right? That's the one thing the Switch can't do is use both screens, like the Wii U could. So I think it would be cool to have, like maybe their next gen console, something like that, so you could have like 4K or whatever. Regular games just like the Switch, but maybe some games that can do, and that could be their next gimmick is basically bring the Wii U back, that kind of thing, now that it might be cheaper to do, like so you can play with two screens. And what would be amazing, I think, is if they added a DS player, which is the thing that I wish they would have added to the Wii U, a 3DS player, like the Game Boy player on the GameCube. Because you can't really add a DS player to the Switch because it's one screen, but with the Wii U, you could have added a 3DS player that would take 3DS cartridges, and then you could play on the two different screens. So there's just so many things. And Nintendo, like it sounds crazy, but they do crazy stuff like that. You know what I mean? And you mentioned like earlier, way earlier about the Quest and getting like a wireless communicator with the PC, so it's still fully wireless, but taking advantage of your PC's capabilities to run the bigger, more intensive VR games. That could be something that Nintendo's looking into being like, hey, if we can have a device that's with your TV, then you have this, and the device is just a communicator, and it's a wireless thing, you could potentially use both screens in that fashion without having to get too crazy with the setup, you know? Right. Yeah, there's a lot of things that they could do, but I do think they will have, it will be some sort of hybrid where you can have a handheld that you can take with you anywhere. You don't need to be connected to whatever is connected to the screen, like you can just play it completely handheld, or you can play it on your TV. But the thing I think they might add is some extra features like those ones we just talked about. The only thing that scares me is the only time they really got iterative and did like the same thing over again with some new features was DS, the 3DS. I'm scared, I'm just gonna say, screw it and do something entirely new, and they're gonna take away my ability to play console games anywhere I want. You're the only ones doing it besides the $1,000 portable PCs that are like the size of my head. I'm scared, Nintendo. Don't scare me because I'm a parent, and I need this. I think I care about handheld games so much, now I do. I think what the switch essentially is, is just we've gotten to the point where they can make their handhelds play console games. So I think the way Nintendo thinks about it is, their next console is just a handheld. It will always be handhelds going forward, but now they have the technology where it's the games can run just like console games, so there always will be a way to output that to your TV. Yeah. So they're essentially always handhelds, but they will always be able to be played on the TV, and the technology is so advanced that there'll be console quality whether you're in handheld or TV. You know what I mean? Yeah, I know what you mean. Real quick, we will take four total questions from the chat because I didn't mention there'd be a Q&A, so let's just kinda squeeze that in. We'll take four questions if you wanna add on Nintendo Prime or whatever to ping it. I'm reading the chat right now. I know there's a slight stream delay. If you guys wanna add in the chat, we'll take four questions quick. We're not gonna spend, don't ask anything that's super in-depth that's gonna create an hour-long debate because I don't have that kind of time, so sorry. We'll take four questions, Vic, and then we'll wrap things up that you know where you can find Jake Randall, which is pretty easy, just type his name in. Pretty simple to find Jake Randall. As long as you spell it correctly. I don't actually know if there's any other Jake Randalls. There probably is, maybe. There's like a basketball player. I don't think so actually. I think if I Googled, I'm gonna Google your name right now just to find out what happens. Is there any other Jake Randalls? There's also a character named Jake Randall on an episode of iCarly. You might find that on Google, but yeah. iCarly, nice. But no, if you search me, you'll find like literally tons of news articles from IGN, Comic Con, just like about PS5 restocks. Yeah, so I see your Twitter comes out number one, your YouTube comes out number two, which I guess makes sense. Then your Instagram. You click news, you'll see like all the articles. Yep, that's you on Instagram. Then there's another Jake Randall on Instagram that probably isn't you, unless you have two accounts. Oh, yes. I had one from years ago that I lost the password for. Oh, there you go. That shows up on page one. So, Jake Randalls, this one probably isn't you. Jake Randalls men's basketball recruiting profile. That's the basketball player I was talking about. That's the basketball player, yeah. There you go. So there you go. You will find something else besides him. He's all the top hits. I look good back to the chat. Oh, you're quick. Can we check on someone in the chat said, is there a new Kirby game? And I know there was the rumor for Kirby, but also Donkey Kong. I'll let you take that one, but I'm just curious to hear what you think. There's been multiple sources. Okay, so Kirby in general is not even a rumor. There's a new Kirby game being made. The rumors, there's two of them being made, but there's for sure one, because the Kirby team has done a number of interviews over the last year, where they said, we're working in a new Kirby game and we're trying to make it the greatest Kirby game ever. We have no idea what any of this means, other than they're working on Kirby. And I think they're trying to do something. Like we got fighters last year. Inside fighters in a data mind was a reference to 3D Kirby. And people are starting to wonder, is it gonna be a return to like trying to make a 3D platforming Kirby? Like they did with Donkey Kong, but like try to do it right and make it popular. I have no idea. Kirby of the wild. I have no idea. But there is definitely a Kirby game being made. We get a Kirby game every year anyways, but like, I think they're working on a big one, whether or not it comes this year, I don't know. But that is something that we already know they're doing that. And the rumors are there's two Kirby games being made. I don't know if the other one's a Kirby pinball or some sort of- Dream course two. Dream course two. Come on. And then for Donkey Kong, I think, I believe Samsung might've been the first person to say something about Donkey Kong, but there's been so many other people that have come up and be like, Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong. They're making a Donkey Kong. That part of the Mario Odyssey team split off and now they're making a new team and doing Donkey Kong. 2.5D, 2D, 3D. No one really knows what the hell this thing is. It's just supposedly coming this year, which I guess makes sense because of the 40th anniversary of Donkey Kong. We'll see. I know a lot of people want it to be 3D Donkey Kong because we've only ever had one of them. If people think if they took a second crack at it, it would be way better, especially if the Mario Odyssey team's making it. But it's a lot of, we don't really know. It's just a lot of people saying it's happening. So have you heard the latest rumor with that, that Donkey Kong? What's the latest? Break some news. It's not a 2D or a 3D. It's gonna use the drum from that Kato game and it's gonna be like a drum beat. Which would be so disappointing. I would hate that. Yeah, that's, I don't know what to believe anymore. We're so close guys. Like today is technically still Tuesday on my end. We're a week away from Nintendo. Technically less than a week away. Like 12 hours less than a week away. But still, oh boy. So some questions. Not a question, I just noticed you fixed the shield. Yeah, the Hylian shield thing back there. Someone asked me, are you giving that away? Yeah, and then they got disappointed when I told them it's not a real shield. It's a wall lamp. And they were like, what? No, it's still freaking awesome. It's still awesome. You don't see it lit up right now. I probably should plug it in during the shows. But anyways, just like I should have the Xbox and PlayStation stuff on. Oh yeah, we forgot to do that too. I always forget to turn those on. I don't know why. I had batteries in them for a reason that we never turned them on. Let me get to some actual questions here. A lot of people say not a good question. They're just really happy that we had a good stream. This is a question. It looks like a question for Jake from Amor12321, one of our members. He says, I will pro have supply issues thoughts. Switch pro, I assume he's done most. Yeah, I mean, there's no way any company like Nintendo or Microsoft or they say can release new hardware and not have stock issues right now for many reasons like component shortages. The fact of how like much more gaming people have been doing since COVID, like there's tons of reasons. So it's definitely gonna be hard to get. Like even when the Switch launched in 2017 there wasn't any of this stuff going on. There wasn't the shortages and the Switch actually wasn't that hard to get. But a couple months before the Switch they released the NES Classic and that was actually the thing that was being scouted for more than what the Switch cost at launch. And it was like a $60 device. And so even back then with none of this going on like Nintendo device was hard to get. So it's definitely gonna be difficult. But however, I will say that it might make things easier a little bit because a lot of people only want to buy one console. They're not like crazy like us. They don't have to have an Xbox, a PS5 and a Nintendo. So when the Switch Pro gets announced, whatever it's called a lot of the people that really want that might stop going for an Xbox or a PS5 and go for that. And kind of will spread it out a little bit more. So it might help everyone. And the fact that the PS5 and Xbox are in such high demand might make people not wanna go for the Switch Pro because they still are trying to get their PS5 or whatever. So it might make the Switch Pro a little easier to get. But in general it'll probably be really difficult. Hopefully we'd have no idea what kind of production Nintendo has done. But I will say this, they've been able to manufacture plenty of regular switches throughout this entire, not the beginning of the pandemic, but like in 2021 you haven't really seen it sold out anywhere. And so whatever components they're using, they're able to get them. So we don't know exactly what's gonna be in the Switch Pro. It's also important to know with Nintendo at least for the normal Switch, we'll see with the Pro, that a lot of the component issues that all the companies had across the world is when the pandemic was coming on, they thought they were gonna need less because they thought people wouldn't have money. Not realizing that people are stuck at home and wanna be entertained and are more likely to buy electronics. So they had their order numbers lower. And then when they needed to get more because oh my gosh, the demand's insane, there wasn't any space for it. Whereas Nintendo, like coming in 2019 was already having at the time the peak year for Switch. So they already had massive orders for Switch in for 2020. And they just never adjusted it when the pandemic had to say, hey, we're still gonna have massive orders in because why would we stop? If nothing else, we'll carry those orders in the next year, we'll sell them in 2021. So whatever orders they have for Pro, they would have made those last year. So they could be confident that, hey look, we're gonna have enough. And also there's also some speculation out there from a, it's not really speculation. It's a legit rumor from a Vandal outlet in Spain that suggested that Nintendo is actually going to not release it worldwide this year. It's going to be staggered, specifically to try to control supply issues. Well, that's what Sony and Microsoft did too. Like it just, the PS5 just dropped to India like a couple of weeks ago. Yeah, yeah. So we'll see. It's one of those, and the thing is scalpers play a role in all of it because they're gonna think they can make a lot of money on it and they'll also push it to be a bit scarcer. I mean, there's just reality. Scalpers do it with every system launch even before the pandemic paid. It just didn't last quite this long all the time. It's kind of a special unique situation at the moment. We'll see what happens also as well. I know there is new manufacturing plants trying to get built, but I think then, and what I mean that I mean chip manufacturing plants and the, but the problem is the first one to be built isn't gonna be finished until 2023. So they can only make as much as the factories can put out and they can't increase their output for a couple of years now. So this could be a problem. I mean, Sony's already put out there that it might be hard to get one all the way into 2022 and beyond, because at this point they have no idea. They have no idea how hard it's gonna be to get PlayStation 5s for so long, which by the way for you is great. So people follow you for that stuff. It's kind of cool to be like. Kind of honestly, I would rather have no YouTube subscribers, no followers on Twitter. I would rather. And everyone has a PlayStation 5 that wants one. Yeah. I hate that I have to do what I do, to be honest. Like, I'm not worried about what happens next. Like maybe I won't even do YouTube on term. Like I said at the very beginning, like in the intro, like all I want to do is give back to others and try to find way to help other people in the world. And I'm just like hands off the wheel, like letting go. Like, and just like letting the universe kind of guide me to whatever that happens. So I'm really, I want this to end as soon as possible. Just like everyone else at the end. And guys, this is one of the things to make these tip videos and give all the information to make it easier to buy them is because I want people to buy them. I want this issue to end. So I've had some messages from people when I announced earlier today. By the way, thank you so much for coming on. You were a guest replacement today. I really appreciate the last minute replacement. Yeah, no, they've worked out so well. And after I met after I said that, okay, you're going to be on and I put it on Twitter. So people DM me being like, oh, they're trying to like say negative things about you. And I said, yeah, I know. And I just said, you know, you know, he's just doing all this to make money. And I'm like, well, look, obviously it's probably helped in financial ways because that's just the way it is. But here's the deal. I don't think he actually cares about that aspect of it as much as you might think he does. At least based on what I'm seeing from his content and what he says when people like want to unsubscribe or assist the fibrosis, he's not going to stop. He doesn't care. He wants to use a platform to help people. And you just kind of confirmed it right there. Like guys, it's beneficial. You can argue to his pocket books to keep having the scarcity and keep helping people which can benefit him in ways that keep growing, get up to 270,000, get up to 500,000 people trying to follow you. Like that's great. But also he'd rather just have no followers and just no one has a problem getting this crap. And that's what he's saying right now. When this eventually ends, because it will end someday, right? It's not going to be scarce forever. Whatever he decides to do next, whatever the universe brings to him, whatever, maybe he turns this whole thing into just doing charity. Who the hell knows? It's one of those, it's awesome. He's not in this to get popular. So people who are naysayers, I think that he's just someone taken advantage, shut the hell up. That's all I can say about it. I hate when people talk that they don't know you. Yeah, no, it's funny. Like obviously, like I have cystic fibrosis. I don't use affiliate links, right? I think I'm like the only restock person that doesn't use affiliate links. And the main reason why, despite besides being blacklisted by Amazon, I have access to the other affiliate links, but I follow, like my phone just blows up constantly because I follow so many of the Twitter accounts, but also discourse. I have so many things that I follow just in case something slips through the cracks. And when a restock comes in, I will just tweet out that person's link because you will get the notification faster. And sometimes those seconds are important when it comes to a restock. And then if I take the time to go in my drafts and just do my affiliate link, it might be a couple seconds that I could do that, but I literally don't care about the money. And so whichever way is faster is the way I'm gonna do it. And then I never, I literally never ask for donations. The only things I ever promote like that involves any money on Twitter are charities. All I do, I'm like, hey, if you're happy that you, people put their Venmo and their PayPal out and I just put links to charities, always. People have asked for my Venmo information. They've asked for my Cash App and I've never given it out. The only time I ever get donations is when I do a live stream. And again, those are just people that are choosing to do it and the features on YouTube. I'm very appreciative of that, but that's the only way. So it's like, you know what I mean? I'm not like, I never like to say, oh, I know when the next restock is donate and I'll do it or I never like kill people like, hey, if you got it, like feel free to donate. No, I say, hey, if you got it, like my pin tweet so we can get the word out there more so we can help more people. But yeah, but people, you know, haters gonna hate. Yeah, that will be why I had the topic. I was like, you know what? I'm throwing this topic in there what we talked about earlier. Cause I'm like, I just thought like, hey, you know what? I get it, you get it. Everyone gets it. It's just the way it is. All right, so a couple of quick questions. Someone asked who the heck is sitting next to me. That's Eric. If you don't know him, cause you're new to the channel and all that. That's how I eat. Some days he has more to say than others today. Some of this stuff is something we've talked about before. So some of it is, you know, kind of here's the thing. Like it's really weird when you already had all this hype build up to E3, then you get to your final podcast before E3 and you're like, okay, so how do we repurpose the same things again before E3 when we have a whole E3 show to put on? Or we get to repurpose it again, except we'll eventually have things to actually react to. But that's one reason why I included so many conversations that specifically I wanted to have with Jake, cause we got into some great YouTube stuff. We got into some great E3. And I have no problem with it. Quote unquote drama, not really drama, but kind of drama. Like why are we not hearing back from them? Kind of things. Whatever. It was great. One more question. Let me grab a quick. I saw it earlier. So Tony Kanami Kuransas, do you think Nintendo of America will be tweeting about a Pokemon presents tomorrow? So there's traditionally been Pokemon events in June before E3 going back like a decade. But we're also like, there's a summer game fest on Thursday. There's some stuff happening on Friday. And I don't know that, I mean, the Pokemon company probably doesn't care about any of that stuff. They'll just gonna do what they always do. They just don't care about anybody else. But also I wonder if because we got the release dates that they aren't actually going to do a presents and there's just gonna be game. I was thinking the same thing. It's like they gave us a nugget so people won't be asking for that during their E3, you know? Yeah, so I'm almost like, I know there's been rumors and reports and obvious like, oh, they've always done it, but I don't know. It kind of feels like a weird year where because they get like the release dates, I thought we're gonna be one of the big things for it. Well, people won't soon. You know, it probably wouldn't be too long after E3 if they don't have one before, you know what I mean? Yeah, it could be E3. I've no, I mean, it's possible they could announce tomorrow and do it on Friday. I mean, it's always possible because we don't get a lot of headway to this stuff anyways, right guys? Nintendo traditionally, they give you a day warning or a two day warning. They don't let you know a week ahead of time. So it's one of those, of course, they couldn't announce something tomorrow. Just like they could drop the pro tomorrow as in, you don't know, Nintendo's the big mystery. They don't give you a lot of warning or any warning. Like when they announced the Switch Lite, they just dropped it on a random Wednesday in July in 2019. No warning, no nothing. Oh, look forward to announcement tomorrow. Oh, you know, they troll people. Oh, you want a Nintendo Direct? Oh, too bad. Here's Chibi Robo on fire. You figure that out. And then the next day's the Direct. Like, you know, not even announced, but like clearly they were teasing. And then people thought, oh, well, look what they were doing with, by having the Kikwi being tweeted out and like, guys, they're advertising Skyward Sword HD. You're reading, you're starting to get a little crazy now. You're reading too much into these tweets on a game that have been consistently advertising. This isn't the same as Chibi Robo on fire. Well I think that's what people do with Nintendo though. More than any other company, like video game company, people read in between the lines for Nintendo. You know what I mean? Try to find things. I guess take or six, seven more to the super chat to try to get one last question. I'm looking at Jake's wall. Do you even game, bro? I have one or two games, but I doubt it's a couple. I decided I wanted to bring out a guy who just knows all about retail but knows nothing about actual games. It's just, you know, that background, that's just a green screen. He was just doing that special for this podcast. No, no. Yeah, exactly. No big deal. All right, well that's gonna wrap up the podcast. We can obviously take questions all night, but I gotta get going here because I gotta make sure the house is picked up for the fiance gets home. She works till midnight, gets home at 12.30. What do you got to say? You have something to say, Eric, hold on. Eric, what do you got to say? Jake, I'm gonna do this. Is there a special charity for cystic fibrosis that you generally work with? Yeah, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. I will go with it. So what I'm gonna do on behalf of Nintendo Prime Podcast, I am gonna donate $100 to that, to start off the E3 Giving. Oh wow, thank you so much. Yeah, we just, to start off our E3 Giveaways and Giveings. Is it the CFF.org? Yes. Yep, I'm gonna drop a link in the little one. That'll be a tax-seductable donation as well so you can write that off. I honestly don't even care. Well, thank you so much. Eric, I really appreciate that. I wanted to do that to kick off our... Thank you guys so much for having me. Are you sure you're giving, because people that know there was another charity that was gonna be brought up during our E3 broadcasts as well that I was gonna surprise people with, they'll still be a surprise, but we'll definitely bring up the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation as well again during E3 when we have our massive audience. Because we, I'm glad that Eric did that because the whole part of our E3 giving is to get back. I didn't expect you to give $100, but that's awesome. You know what, screw it, I'm gonna match it. I'm gonna do what I'm gonna do. Just screw it. Thank you. I got money coming in this week, I'm just gonna do it. Yeah. I'm so happy that I just spontaneously was able to be on the podcast. And I had an amazing time hanging out with you guys. I've been so isolated because having Cystic Fibrosis in all of COVID, like I haven't been able to be social at all. So I just had a wonderful time tonight. Thank you so much. No problem, thank you for bringing it up. I hope we can get down to some more episodes. It's really nice because I see you spend so much time talking about how to get systems and I think it's nice to get more time to talk about games than you sometimes get when I watch your streams. I'm like, man, you know, I know he's helping people. But yeah, look at all his games, clearly games. Let's see, some games. Well, I'm putting out a video tomorrow for my like 12 E3 timed announcements from Sony that I would love to see. Like stuff we didn't even talk about tonight, like Hogwarts Legacy, you know, which has been pushed back, but also you mentioned Ghostwire Tokyo, also Stray, Cannonbridge of Spirits, there's so much stuff. So that's a little thing. Well, I'll talk about games a little bit. Thank you, the eighth arc for the $25 Australia. It says five for YouTube, he sent 20% to the five brochures. You should have took that 25 and went right to the link into the link, yeah. Because that money gets mixed in with everything, but I'll throw an extra 20 on top of my 100 to cover that for you, that you'd thought, but you should have, we should have went back to this little library. There wouldn't have been any fees taken out. You could have actually gave straight up 25 bucks to him instead, but that's okay. But still, I thank you for that. Yeah, I know, you're one of our regulars and all that, so thank you so much. All right guys, so I was gonna wrap it up. You guys wanna find where Jake Reynolds at? We got links to I think his Twitter and his YouTube down in the description. If you guys wanna check that out. Otherwise, I thank all the new people that checked us out because you came over from Jake's Twitter or whatever. And I hope that you guys enjoy watching his content and his future content that he ends up doing. If you're trying to secure the bag, whether it's a Series X or it's a PlayStation 5, he's the man to do it. That's how I secure the bag. What was switch heavy? Watch out for the switch heavy. I gave away a PlayStation 5 last January. I was unable to successfully get one, so I said, screw it, here's the money. Go wash Jake Randall, go buy it yourself. So the first that I get away PlayStation 5, I literally just handed him like 550 bucks to go buy it. Go follow Jake Randall. Get it at your local Target. You'll have better success than I will maybe. So maybe not, I have no idea, follow him up. So thank you guys so much for tuning in. This was episode 12 of the Nintendo Prime podcast. I know there's some people that have been complaining to me behind the scenes about not having the episode of Spotify. I apologize, I'm three episodes behind on getting the audio version up. I know, okay, it's been stressful. E3 has been kicking my ass, but I might plan tomorrow before I do any video content is to get all three of those episodes up. So hopefully you're looking forward to like 10 hours of listening because there's a lot of podcast going on. All right guys, you guys have a lovely night and thank you again, Jake Randall for stepping up big for us today. Yeah, absolutely. And I just got to say, we just hit 1 a.m. Eastern. So that means that deals of the day are up at Best Buying GameStop. Sorry. Whoa, whoa. My retail line kicking in. Oh, check him out. Drop in the deets. All right. Yeah. All right guys, catch you later. Bye. Later.