 Hey everyone welcome back to Prime News our special Monday edition and before we get into the news we got 8 wonderful stories for you guys from the gaming sphere mostly related to Nintendo with a hint of Google console news. I want to mention that we are currently giving away a Nintendo Switch Super Smash Bros Ultimate Bundle. There is a gleam.io link down in the description for that and given that away for a while when we hit 50,000 subscribers we'll finally announce the winners of that. We also have a second giveaway going on right now to celebrate our 100th episode of the Nintendo Prime podcast so be sure to go watch that episode of the podcast we'll have that linked in the description as well and through that video there is actually a link in the description of that video to the giveaway. You might be like well why don't you just link the giveaway here. Well it's a podcast giveaway so you probably should go check out an episode of the podcast specifically the episode that announces the giveaway to enter the giveaway right. I mean at least that makes sense to me it is a podcast for them to give away. Anyways that being said let's get right into the news our first story is about the Google GDC announcement coming tomorrow. We know they are doing a live stream at noon central standard time tomorrow. We will be streaming it here at the channel giving you some live reactions. I don't even know what to expect beyond some news on Project Stream. Well they have some stuff set up at GDC in fact it's almost an entire floor of a building at GDC and they have some interesting things set up although obviously none of the stuff they haven't announced yet. So there are some cases out there that look like they could hold something like a video game console. Now they're not labeled yet so I'm not sure that it actually is a placeholder for a video game console it could just be for a controller or something of that nature but there are pretty big display cases which you typically see right after a video game console is announced. Now a lot of people have been projecting that Google is just going to announce a streaming box or a streaming stick but with a box that big it looks like it could be potentially a traditional home console so that's very very interesting. We also got to see glimpses of what appears to be the logo for the system and it doesn't really look like anything in particular you know it's not the G that you would expect from Google it's kind of like a swiggly line it might mean like a tornado type of thing a vortex no one really knows until the names announced it'll probably make sense once the name is announced so I think this is very very interesting stuff and again just just a reminder tune in tomorrow for the full reveal of what Google's plans are to enter into the video game space. Gearbox is added again specifically tweeting out a photo of bullet storm full clip edition as some sort of tease for an announcement they are going to be doing at PAX East in about 10 days and the thing is is no one's really sure like all their other announcements that this is gonna be a sequel or if this is just a tease for bullet storm full clip edition potentially coming to switch because like the tease they did earlier where they had a blurred out image of what very clearly looked like Borderlands 2 the only system Borderlands 2 wasn't on was Nintendo switch well the only system that bullet storm full clip edition isn't on is switch so again these could be multiple announcements for switch we can't set aside the potential we could be looking at a sequel prequel something like that as well it's been a long time since we've seen anything bullet storm related so I don't know gearboxes is bringing the goods at least port wise and potentially with new game announcements as well almost like this might be their E3 they do have a panel a little showcase themselves going on or they're gonna be announcing all this stuff so it's gonna be pretty interesting to see what comes of all these teases I think they've teased five games so far two of which pertain or at least potentially pertain to Nintendo switch and Borderlands 2 and bullet storm full clip edition so yeah I guess we'll find out next week Nintendo is doing something interesting with Splatoon 2 yeah that 2017 game that is still going yeah wizards just won the Splatfest and all that we don't do reporting like that in general congratulations wizards I was happy to contribute to some of those wins that being said there is a demo landing for Splatoon 2 tomorrow a demo a couple years later what's up with this well it's a one-week only demo and you'll be able to play basically all of the online you know modes including things like ranked matches and stuff like that and you'll be able to play it against people who own the actual game so you are basically playing Splatoon 2 free for a week and now we know Splatoon 2 to play online requires a Nintendo switch online subscription so what Nintendo is doing is anyone who downloads the demo is being emailed a free seven-day code for the Nintendo switch online service and this code can be used even if you already used your prior seven-day trial for the Nintendo switch online service so it's interesting I'm not sure if it's a code you can just hold on to and keep for a while and then use it down the road when maybe there's something else you want to try out on the service before you buy it but I think it's really cool that they're allowing that to happen during this this trial period obviously with the goal of getting people to buy Splatoon 2 and getting people to buy the service long haul they're also offering a 20% discount of Splatoon 2 during this week if you play the demo on the eShop so 20% off if you tie out the demo so it's actually a great time if you're thinking about getting a digital copy of Splatoon 2 you haven't jumped in yet it's going to be the cheapest it's ever been and you're going to be able to try it out for free with that that week and it's only $20 per year for the Nintendo switch online service I know I'm not gonna sit here and tell you the Nintendo switch online service is a great service and you should put put your money into it but if you find yourself with 11 Splatoon 2 and you have Smash and you've been kind of waiting to play that online maybe you're thinking about online in the future for games like you know Sword and Shield I mean I don't know to me there's enough games that make me feel like I have to have the service so yeah I have the service I also have Xbox live primarily just to play games online even though they actually have some cool features on games of gold is actually really neat Nintendo has a similar thing it's just for old games so I don't know as I talked about in a video earlier today Nintendo has announced a nindy showcase happening during GDC not at GDC but during GDC on Wednesday the 20th at 11 a.m. central standard time of course because that's how I frame all the time frames for me that being said I think this is a really really cool thing that's happening it's gonna be 30 minutes long there's a lot of indie games probably gonna be talked about they kind of do one of these every fall and every spring is about the timing that we get these sort of nindy showcases nindy direct kind of things so I think this is really cool and I can't wait to see what they have in store hey if anything else well at least have a jam packed prime news episode that's gonna mention some of my favorite games from that nindy showcase on Wednesday probably not all of them but I'll probably pick you know five or six of them to kind of briefly bring up as games that I think are looking really really cool and maybe you guys should pay attention to so you guys remember a week or two ago when they kind of announced new stuff happening with Octopath Traveler right there's that mobile prequel game that has you let's you play with like all eight characters at once which is something you can't do an Octopath Traveler on switch and then they said there was a new Octopath Traveler game or something like that in development for consoles and when I talked about it a lot of people went to the comments and said hey remember they didn't say this is for switch or they didn't say it was just for switch they didn't mention switch at all so don't be presumptuous Nate about a game that was exclusive to switch in the first place well it turns out that my presumptions were right they some representatives from the Octopath Traveler team did an interview with Famitsu magazine and according to every translation of it I have seen they say directly in a question asked about Octopath Traveler on switch a new Octopath Traveler on switch they specifically say yes we are developing a new Octopath Traveler game for Nintendo switch now they did not say it's exclusive to Nintendo switch so you can still a whole lot hope if you're a PlayStation Xbox PC fan that it's going to branch out but switch owners rest assured that you are getting a brand new Octopath Traveler game on switch sometime in the future now let's address why I originally said I called it a sequel here's the thing they're releasing a prequel on phones there's the current game what else is next that's my logic you can disagree with it but a prequel current obviously the next one's a sequel you're not gonna do a prequel to the prequel are you that doesn't it's either a prequel or a sequel there's not really anything else so yeah Bethesda has announced they are going to be at E3 again for the fifth year in a row doing the Bethesda E3 showcase on June 9th at 7 30 p.m. Central Standard Time this is exciting stuff they specifically mentioned in the notes but they will be talking a lot about Doom Eternal no surprise Doom Eternal is supposed to land this year cross-platform and everything including switch should be day-in-day on switch so that's exciting for switch owners even though we have to see how performs we're gonna know at E3 I guarantee to be playable at E3 and I will try my best to go hands-on with that game and get you all the footage and impressions I can and maybe even try to a hands-on with a PlayStation 4 Xbox version of it just to kind of give you that comparison of okay well I played the switch version that's what that looks like here's what this one looks like and let's talk about the differences there and how we feel about that for this current generation Doom game that being said there's gonna be other games obviously talked about as well because I say more more more and they have this this fray this phrase they're using called be together I don't know if this is referencing Fallout 76 I really hope it's not referencing Fallout 76 or another massive multiplayer experience like that that just is a big let down but they do mention that they are gonna allow more people than they've ever allowed in before to watch their show live including fans not just media so there is a potential I might be attending but we'll see I think there might be more value for me and for you guys if I just live stream react to the event rather than attend it but if I find out there's some stuff that they're doing in person I'm not talking about swag I don't really care about the swag but if there's like demos and stuff they're gonna have available that you can play afterwards then I obviously would want to attend so I can get my hands on that stuff but we'll have to wait and see who knows maybe we'll play our cards right and like one of me or Eric will go and the other one will stay behind and do the livestream maybe we'll do both more is always better right so recently a Super Smash Bros. Ultimate modder well known for several different mods they've already done to the game to basically add additional characters was digging through the files of the game and they discovered a file in the world of light mode with 16 empty character slots or at least it was 16 it's more like 15 now because well one of those slots was filled by piranha plant when piranha plant released this is interesting because it does suggest that there potentially is 15 more characters coming now we know one of them is Joker and we know there's some other DLC characters coming as well but there's no plans currently announced publicly after that so this does suggest we could see up to 10 additional characters beyond the currently announced DLC this does potentially give us a chance to see characters going on to next year and the year after in fact there is a potential here that we're looking at two or three years worth of different DLC packs with five characters each to me this is an extremely exciting proposition and it's gonna keep smash hype going for years to come being that this game is called smash ultimate it's probably the only reason I'm willing to give a little bit of credence to this file that was found because being called Super Smash Bros. Ultimate feels like you need a really long shelf life because it's hard to top the ultimate version of your game right I mean there's always those ultimate definitive edition with gold stars and you know platinum rating ones out there but let's just be honest Nintendo usually doesn't do stuff like that then again we got Kirby's Deluxe like Kirby's epic yarn ultra deluxe edition I extra epic yarn I believe I mean I who I guess who I thought well I mean just a new Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe as well and okay so Nintendo's doing those kind of things too but Smash Bros. is a new game so it's gonna be a while before stuff like that happens to smash so Takashi Izuka the leader of the Sonic franchise at Sega did announce over the weekend that there is going to be a new Sonic game in fact he specifically said a new Sonic game is currently in development for the main series that's right the next big Sonic game whatever it is is in development now the Sonic franchise has had its ups and downs with its mainline games you know some people really love colors back in the day then they didn't really like Sonic Adventure so much maybe you did like Sonic Adventures I don't know what you like only you know what you like Sonic Forces came out and I thought Sonic Forces was actually pretty good but some people didn't dig it then there's Sonic Boom I think most people agree that Sonic Boom didn't feel like a Sonic game anyways let alone whether it's not it's a good game or not I guess it's up to the IO holder but I honestly think that Sonic has just kind of been all over the place and then we saw things like you know that the the fan made Sonic game that became official at Sega and then at that ended up becoming an official product and it became one of the best Sonic games released I don't know the last couple decades that's how long it's been since Sonic has consistently been great so I'm very interested as always when a new Sonic game is in development I'm not surprised there's that Sonic the Hedgehog movie coming which I know some people are not too excited about and now there's a new Sonic game coming we do have Sonic Team Racing coming as well we got some new details on that as well over the weekend just some look at some cars and some different customizations which I do think are really really cool but honestly I'm just ready for the game to be here I don't know that we need to know anything more about the game it's kind of like Mario Kart we don't really need to know more just get the game in our hands and that'll be here this summer so cool beans yes I just said cool beans once the last time you heard someone say cool beans I feel like I was like 12 I want to thank all of you guys for tuning into this episode of Prime news I am loving what's happening in the world of Nintendo this week lots of cool stuff be sure to turn on that Google Stream tomorrow go watch our 100th episode of the Nintendo Prime podcast and then enter the giveaway related to that don't forget about our ongoing giveaway for the Nintendo Switch Super Smash Bros Ultimate Edition especially if they're adding all those new DLC characters on the next few years you might as well get that limited edition system that's gonna cost you upwards of 450 to $500 to buy it on your own now because Nintendo never did a second run of that system Nintendo what are you doing we all just want to have these special editions we don't really care if they're limited but I guess for collectors that's a good thing alright folks I love your faces and I'll see you in the next video or you'll actually see me in the next video I mean I don't actually see you or do I