 Trial version. Trial version. Trial version. Trial version. Trial version. Trial version. Trial version. Trial version. Trial version. Trial version. Trial version. Trial version. Trial version. Trial version. Trial version. Working now? Working now? We good? We good? Should be good now. Should be good. This is what happens when I got like two different computers going on. So I got a computer over here that's handling the stream. I got my chat here, my camera set up here, desk here, so I could have the good camera. However, hold on, I'm going to back the camera up a little bit. I feel like I'm just too close. I'm just too close. All right. Come on, camera. Focus. There we go. All right. Hopefully that's a little bit better. I feel like it's a little bit better of an angle. Um, let me say hi to everyone in the chat. We got Raptors here. Churros, Corey D, Justin, Kwame, Brian C, Logan LaBlox, second, the Future Fan, the Jakinator, Marcus Herrera, big brother, W, Evan one, Sonic, uh, Cynthia, Isles, Mike, FR, Chris Lee, PDS, Liam, um, let's see here. Marco Serrera, my little Morty's, Koopa Slayers here as well. Evan one, Sonic, Joseph Burton, um, let's see here. I don't know if I missed anyone. Cory Bowman there. How you guys doing? I hope you're having a lovely day. Um, here we are, folks. You are in the square. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's the autofocus thing. It's supposed to go away. But it's not. I don't know what's going on. It's not supposed to be there anymore. Let me go check a setting on the camera quick. Sometimes the settings on the camera are just screwy. Where should be gone? The square, the square on my face should be gone for you guys. Is you guys to be messing with the camera settings? All right, the square should be gone. It's still going to show for me, but it shouldn't show for you guys. It looks like the square is gone. All right. Yeah, see, this is just a little bit of a different setup. I haven't done this setup in a while. I'm basically using one of our podcast desks, having the camera point back at my old background right here. I actually might set this up to do videos more often. So I can also do videos with the computer in the background, videos here, and then move the desk for podcast reasons later. All right. So how are you guys doing? I also don't have any lights on me right now. So like it's legitimately just looks orange in my office. So I know I look orange. It is what it is. My white lights actually over here. Eric broke all my other lights. That's right, Eric. You bastard co-hosted the Nintendo Prime podcast, my best friend for 25 years. You motherfucker. You broke my goddamn lights and I tried to go buy a new light bulb. The light bulbs are 120 bucks each. You bastard. You bastard. It's all right. I do need to get some new lights up here. I need some LED ones that can't be broken that way. But all right, let's start with a couple of the topics here. First one is MissClick Gaming. You guys might know who she is. She is a full-time Twitch streamer. She also has a YouTube channel. She was on an episode of the podcast two episodes ago, I think, or maybe it was three. I can't remember. It was about three weeks ago. She is awesome. I've really enjoyed my time talking to her. I've enjoyed conversations we've had behind the scenes. I've been on some of her streams. I've donated to her. I support her fully. She is just really passionate about gaming. I like some of her hot takes on certain things, which some people might not like. And also, yeah, her YouTube channel. So this is actually about what YouTube told her. So her YouTube channel is mostly just edits she does of clips she takes off of Twitch. Every now and then, she'll do some different things. But for the most part, it's just edits of clips from her live streams. Some of them funny edits. Some of them little quicks, like NPC energy, 24 seconds. Clumsy streamer is clumsy. MissClick Gaming is short, 11 seconds long. But some of them are longer, 45 minutes, 33 minutes, etc, etc, etc. So she gets a lot of her reactions up as well to different games and different trailers. So she kind of has a reaction vibe to her channel. But also obviously a lot of stream highlights. So basically unboxings, live reactions and stream highlights. That's what she does on her YouTube channel. There's a bunch of YouTube channels like that. But yeah, she's got 100k subscribers. And so YouTube has a play button available at 100,000 subscribers. It's a play button I hope to have one day. Not because I need it to validate my channel. But it is nice to like, you know, you come down in the studio or in the office in her case and you, you know, take a look at the wall and you just see that plaque, you know, that 100,000 plaque. It's kind of a, hey, look, ma, I made it. Yes, I just did a song reference there. Hey, look, ma, I made it. It's kind of like a look, you know, I'm successful at what I do. And the company that is the back end of what I do, part of the back end of what I do is recognizing me for being successful. So she applied obviously for her 100,000 YouTube plaque because she's at 100,000 subscribers. Now I might have waited a little bit, maybe to hear like 100,000 and 101,000 or something like that to solidify that you're not going to drop below 100,000. But technically, that's not the requirements. You just need to be at 100,000 subs. There is no other real requirements except for your channel to be in good standing and her channel is in good standing. So she applied for her 100,000 subs and she put it on on Twitter, which I don't have set up to show you guys. So I'm just going to read it off. You guys can go check her out at underscore misclick underscore is her username on Twitter. And she said, hey, YouTube said I'm not going to get my 100K plaque. The reason is that her content isn't original enough. Keep in mind, these are her reactions, her stream highlights, her opinions, her unboxings. Apparently, she's not original enough, but all the other reaction channels, all the other stream highlight channels, all the other unboxing channels, they're apparently original and they can get plaques. But misclick, keep in mind that originality is actually not one of the requirements to get a plaque. So YouTube responded to her and basically said, hey, you're not going to get it. Now, might she get it at 120,000 subs, 140? Might YouTube change her mind eventually? Of course YouTube could change her mind. She could probably reapply down the line, but bottom line is YouTube rejected her on the basis her channel is not original enough. That's bullshit. That also means I'm not getting one, right? When I get to 100,000 subscribers, YouTube ain't sending me shit if I ever get to 100,000. I guess I shouldn't presume that. We got to get to 70,000 first, which by the way, if we get to 70,000 subscribers, I am going to be giving away a Nintendo Switch. So hit that subscribe button if you haven't already. And yeah, we have a giveaway going on right now that you can enter down in the description. That giveaway ends tomorrow. Tomorrow's the last day you can enter. So anyways, I feel bad for Ms. Click. Not just because she's a genuinely good person and I can't wait to have her as a guest on the podcast again. I think that as long as the account is in good standing and the person hasn't done anything to offend YouTube, you know, there's certain YouTubers out there and there's a lot of controversy going on today because, you know, Steven Crowder, as an example, got banned today. Not going to talk too much about that unless you guys want to talk about it. But like, there's been controversy like that. And in that case, I don't expect YouTube to give him any plaques, although he's like 5 million plus subscribers. So little beyond YouTube's typical plaques anyways. But I do think that it's kind of a misnomer to not give Ms. Click who I think deserves it, her 100K plaque. She clearly doesn't have to upload to YouTube, okay? She's a full-time streamer. A majority of the revenue she makes is going to be from live streams. She doesn't make a ton of revenue on YouTube. I mean, I'm looking at her videos, you know, 10,000. She has 39,000 I won from a month ago. She doesn't even upload that often, maybe a few times a month. 16K before that, 11K before that, 8K before that. Like, she's not getting tons and tons of views on her videos. I don't even know how much she's making on average for like that, that, you know, what is it? A month ago, that 39K video, she probably made like 40 bucks, right? That 10K video, she probably made $18. Like, she's not making a ton of money anyways. So YouTube isn't like this place that she's making a ton of money on. YouTube is more so, hey, let me spread out on as many platforms as I can. Something never happens on Twitch and she decides to leave Twitch. She can go to her subscriber base on YouTube. Heck, we just saw Ninja, you know, not too long ago, much bigger streamer, of course. He left to go to Mixer, got signed by Mixer to do a contract. Mixer shut down and he was kind of in limbo for a bit because he really wasn't on good terms with Twitch at the time because, hey, he left Twitch to go to Mixer, which led to, you know, Twitch deciding to shell out money on other streamers like Dr. Disrespect that they later tried to get out of that contract and I don't want to get too much into that either. It's a whole other controversy. But then he started streaming on YouTube for a bit and he saw actually bigger numbers on YouTube than he saw on any other streaming platform. So all he really cared about was, let me reach the most amount of people he would have just stayed on YouTube because he was doing insane numbers on YouTube because he's got 24 plus million subscribers on YouTube. But yeah, he went back to Twitch, obviously Twitch resigned him, got him on a deal that he found to be, you know, worth potential revenue and viewership loss that he would have on YouTube and that's where he's at. So the point here is that I don't think there's anything wrong with what Ms. Click does. She's a full-time streamer. She has 100,000 subscribers on YouTube. She uploads, you know, a handful of times a month. Let her have her damn YouTube plaque. Like you're not doing a good job of convincing Ms. Click to put more content out on YouTube by telling her, hey, we basically don't welcome you here. You are not original enough. You are not welcome on YouTube. We are not gonna recognize, we're not gonna ban your channel. We're not gonna demonetize your channel but we are also not going to recognize your own personal achievement on our platform like we do for any other content creator on YouTube including other channels that just put up podcast highlights. You know, there's entire channels like the H3H3 podcast is like a podcast highlights channel. That channel gets a plaque. What's original about that channel? It's just posting clips from the H3 podcast. What the hell is original about it? Nothing. But it gets a plaque. So why can't Ms. Click get a, like there's entire channels out there that literally are not even ran by Twitch streamers that just post highlights of other Twitch streamers streams and they get a plaque. They get plaques and they're not even the content creator on Twitch. They're just a random person like you or me watching a Twitch streamer clipping something and then uploading it to YouTube. And they get plaques for content they didn't even create. But Ms. Click can't. It's bullshit. Now I'm going to start reading the chat. I want to see what you guys think about this. I think it's stupid. I think it's one of the stupidest decisions YouTube has made in quite some time for an honest to goodness creator. Like there's a lot of dumb decisions that sometimes happen by YouTube. We went through our own YouTube controversy last year. YouTube, you still owe me $4,000. Thanks by the way. You fucked my channel but that's besides the point. You like literally fucked them over my channel not just revenue lies. You literally killed the growth of my channel. And that's fine. YouTube's gonna do what they do. Google's gonna do what they do. They own this shit. They have their own rules, their own systems. They're gonna do what they do. I just think Ms. Click hasn't had controversy. She's not a controversial live streamer. She's not a controversial YouTube content creator. I don't understand it. For other people like me where maybe I've said some things that maybe YouTube doesn't like, I get it. But she hasn't. YouTube probably doesn't even like that I'm doing the STEM live stream talking about it. So, I don't know. What do you guys think? Yeah, let's Merlin, Starhugs who was timed out. Let's not attack people. I wanna make this very clear. Very clear. I disavow any attacking of any other person. Whether it's, in this case, the person was attacking. Susan was Jisky, who's like CEO or whatever she is. I think she's CEO of YouTube. Don't, that's not attack other people, okay? Gotta remember, a lot of this stuff is handled by bots. Her denial of a plaque, you think Susan was the one who denied her that plaque? No, it's some low-level underling YouTube employee who did it, who did the review process and said nope. So, I just wanna be clear here that I don't attack other people. Like, even when I bring up things that I don't like about other content creators time to time, that doesn't mean I want you guys to go pick up the pitchforks and attack them. Don't message them on Twitter. Don't go to their comment section. Don't start disliked bombing their videos. Like, that stuff is dumb. It doesn't accomplish anything, okay? It doesn't accomplish anything. It actually just leads to more stress for me because you guys doing that leads to, you know, other people coming at me and I don't need YouTube's, you know, nasty eye turning back towards my channel and basically making it so you guys don't get notified of any of my live streams or any of my videos again. Things are starting to do okay at the channel again. I don't need YouTube deciding, hey, he's talking out against YouTube. Let's start, you know, cussing out the CEO of YouTube and make YouTube get really mad at me just because I called out the fact that, hey, you know what, she should have her damn plaque. Now, great, it takes a while to get the plaque. It's not like she's gonna have it tomorrow even if they did approve her, but still. 40 had to, $4,000, a lot of cheddar, man. It's a lot of cheddar YouTube asked me out of. But yeah, MissClick is great. Like, I don't know, what do you guys hear? Evan wants all this sexual content, not enough videos, just stream uploads, no live streams on YouTube. What's the real reason? Yeah, as I said, they said, the reason that she was denied is because her content's not original enough. I've never heard that reason used ever. Most people are not making original content. At least like, you know, kind of content no one else is making. Example, player essence is probably gonna get to 100,000 subscribers at some point. Is he gonna get denied because he's just making video games news content and opinion content? You know, like, thousands of other content creators, like I do, you know, like Spawnwave does. Like, is he not gonna get a plaque? You know, not everyone's gonna be like, beat him up. You know, beat him up obviously has a very unique way in which he does things. Obviously, you know, you have exactly was has a very different way he does things, but not everyone's going to be that original. Some people just literally enjoy giving their takes on news and reviewing games. Like, that's what they enjoy doing. That is what IGN, GameSpot, Game Informer, all the traditional media sites do as well. They're not gonna get blacklisted, they're gonna get their plaques. What the hell are they doing that's original? Except just copying what content creators were doing on YouTube before those channels decided to come over to YouTube. I mean, I'd like to think my podcast is fairly original, but how many gaming podcasts are there? There's a lot of video game podcasts out there. I like to think mine's original, but it's still just another video game podcast. I don't know. I think it's dumb. I think the real reason, if you wanna know my opinion on this, the real reason YouTube's denying her the 100,000 plaque is they took a look at her channel because they do manually review all plaques. The person who reviewed her channel noticed, oh, she has a lot of stream highlights from Twitch. Twitch is our enemy. Fuck you, you're not getting a plaque. That's what I think really happened was a, forget you. You aren't getting your plaque because you're a full-time Twitch streamer. Because remember, YouTube does compete directly with Twitch. And I think that's really what's happening here. She's being punished for being a full-time Twitch streamer first, YouTuber second. If she was a YouTuber first, but then also happened to stream on Twitch, like Beat'em Ups is a YouTuber first, but also streams on Twitch. Bob Wolf from Wolf Den, he is a YouTuber first, but also streams on Twitch. She wouldn't be punished. But if those guys were just full-time streamers that also uploaded videos on YouTube, would YouTube treat them the same? I don't know. The basement band says MissClick is an amazing person. She gets way more hate than what you'd ever get. Who's hating on her, by the way? Are there people hating on MissClick? Dude, she is a genuine person. Yeah, she has some hot takes you might not like. Some opinions that she doesn't take anyone's shit. Period. But she's a genuinely happy person. More than 10 or so screw people that get a pro by only experiencing improved games on their latest releases. I wouldn't worry about that. No attacking just because you hate someone doesn't mean you need to watch them or stuff. Much less attack them. I know that Nate, but what do you think the real reason is? I gave you what I think the real reason is. That explanation sounds more like a front, but I would argue that because MissClick doesn't post content frequently and that the views show slow to a crawl with an upload dry spell, YouTube feels that she does not invest in her channel as much. Look, there's people, you know, Mark Rober uploads once a month. It shouldn't matter how often you upload. It shouldn't matter what that content is as long as it's not against their policies. All that should matter is that she's active every single month. She's making videos on YouTube every single month. She earned her 100,000 subscribers, period. Yeah, her videos aren't getting crazy views. Guess what, that's pretty normal. Think about this, she's on 100,000 subscribers. You know, she's got about 10, 39, 16, 11, 8.2, 12. Okay, what am I? I'm not like super far, you know, super crazy far behind her. I'm like, well like 66,000, 65,000, 66,000. You know, what are my videos getting? You know, I got 900 on my videos so far today that'll probably be over 1,000 by the end of the day. I have 2.8 yesterday, 9.70, getting past the live streams, those get different kinds of views. 3.8, 4.9, 1.8, 4.1, 1.3, 8.1, 2.3, 2.7, 3. So basically she's just getting the kind of viewership I would probably get at 100,000 subscribers. It's very normal for 100,000 subscriber YouTube channel to only get around 10,000 views per video. That's actually fairly normal because of YouTube's algorithm and systems and notifications. And hold that, my son wants something, hold on. So, hey, thank you Snowyn Meyer for following. I appreciate that. So yeah, I think it's kind of BS. It's YouTube creating rules that are not publicly, you know, visible that sucks. And so misclicks kind of paying the price for it. Let's see here. Beat em ups has a lot of support helping creators. He does now. I don't know if people have followed beat em ups for, you know, before he really blew up. He really blew up like the last two years. But if you go like four or five years back, his channel wasn't that big. And he did a lot of his own work. He did a lot of his own editing. Yeah, now he's got an editor. He's got graphic artists, you know, VFX effects people. He's got people, I mean his channel is huge. You can afford to have those people. He's got people that really make, he idealizes a lot of it. Like he comes up with a lot of the storyboards and the concepts for what he's doing. And obviously he has to provide all the footage and all the recordings. But yeah, he's obviously got help now. But I mean, duh, other people do too. There's other people that have editors. Like it's perfectly normal for a YouTuber over 500,000 subscribers to have a full-time editor edits all the videos. Like it's normal. Is at that point, you know, you're probably getting at 500,000 subscribers. You're probably at least getting 50,000 views of video if not 100,000. And if you're putting out, you know, say two, three videos a day or even just a video a day, you know, you're probably making enough to pay yourself and pay one of a person. Let me see. There is a channel that has a plat and they do Twitch highlights and edit their streams. Exactly, I mean, that's the thing. There are other people doing what Ms. Click does. So they could argue, yeah, she's not original enough. But these other places aren't either. So why do they get their, they're doing play buttons and she doesn't? Again, YouTube might change their mind and, you know, upon further review, a reapplication down the line, maybe they'll give it to her. So Nathaniel Austin, I'm gonna show that comment, but I don't think Herbie and Hot has anything to do with whether or not she should get a plaque and whether or not she deserves success. I don't think how someone looks like physically has anything to do with any of that shit. I understand that, yes, obviously, if you are an attractive female and technically an attractive female, attractive male, you could tend, you tend to have a bit more success, a bit more rapidly, because people like to look at things they're attracted to. That's just human nature. We all like to look at things we're attracted to. You know, you think about the movies, some of our favorite actors and actresses, they're always attractive people, usually. There's some exceptions to that rule. But a lot of them are what most people will consider to be attractive, because even if we're not into them, say, sexually, we still like to look at something that looks good. You know, when you're hiring models for your stuff, even when you're hiring plus-size models, you know, for like certain clothing lines, I might have a plus-size model. Like they're still picking out like the cream of the crop of the plus-size models that look good. So that's just how it goes. So I, but I don't, you know, well, obviously I think being good looking can help with success. I don't think that's why she's successful and why she deserves a plaque. So I don't think it's a too big of a relevant point to bring up. Because of the Switch Pro rumors and the fact that they say any production will begin in July, do you believe the leaker that told you they were already in production? Because of the Switch Pro rumors and the fact that they say production won't be, so I don't, okay, so the people who talked to me about that stuff, I have no idea what to believe, to be honest. Obviously the Switch Pro isn't in mass production at the moment. That doesn't mean some parts for it aren't. As an example, I think they're pretty locked in with what chip they're using. I don't know what they're locked in on what they're gonna clock it at, but they're locked in with what chip they're using. They already have orders in for that chip. That chip is already gonna be in production right now. That doesn't mean that everything is. The screens might not be in production yet. Certain other parts, the board that gets paired with the chip maybe isn't in mass production yet. So things don't just go into mass production all at the same time, it's pretty normal. Certain parts are mass produced before other parts because you have lines and wait times and there's companies eating up all of the semiconductor companies or time right now and then machines, so you really are just getting things done when you can get them done. So I'm sure things like some of the chips that are probably already been manufactured even if they're not locked in on what they're gonna clock certain speeds at and stuff. Anyways, that's all I can say on that. I don't really, I haven't heard from those people in months, so let's see here. Who is misclicked? She is a full-time streamer on Twitch and also has 100,000 subscriber YouTube channel. All right, do I have a retro collection? I have some retro stuff and I don't really collect. I won't call myself a collector. All right, let's get into the other topic. Mario 35's end, it's kind of weird. All right, so we've known for a while that obviously the 35th anniversary of Mario Ends Tomorrow it'll be the last day. You can officially buy certain things. I've talked about in the past so you could still get 3D All-Stars at least probably from the next month, but it's just copies and digital copies that retailers buy up through tomorrow. It's interesting because Nintendo just keeps reminding people like people like it. Like today. Today. It's your last chance. They put this on on Twitter. It's your last chance to claim Super Mario Bros. Wave 2 collectible pin set. Check in below and make sure you finished all your my Nintendo missions. Like it's your last chance because after tomorrow we're not doing any of this anymore. We're just taking away products. Like you're just constantly beating people over the head that hey, we're taking shit away from you for no other reason than fear of missing out. It's FOMO. We want you to bye, bye, bye, bye, bye. Super Mario 3D All-Stars week over week sales shot up 287% in the UK. It is now sitting at the number two sales spot in the UK. Why? Because yeah, after tomorrow it's gonna be harder to get. Sales are probably gonna shoot up in the MPD for it this month because of the fear of missing out. So when we hear the MPD report for North America I fully expect Super Mario 3D All-Stars to be in the top five because yeah, people are buying it because of the fear of missing out. Japan, sales are starting to rise in Japan. Fear of missing out. Nintendo is taking advantage of consumers by saying we're gonna get rid of products that are selling incredibly well. So you better buy them now. So we can boost sales now and we're gonna take this away from you. Well, we'll probably give it back to you in six months but we're gonna take it away from you right now. So you buy it now, don't miss out. I always thought it's an interesting business strategy and yeah, I'm not saying like if you own a Switch you've had plenty of ample time to get 3D All-Stars to partake in Mario 35 and Mario 35 ending is maybe the bigger news. You'll be able to get secondhand copies of 3D All-Stars for a while. Well, what about Mario 35? That's just gone. It doesn't work anymore. It's such a fun concept. It's almost more fun than Tetris 99. I just don't, getting rid of it just, it's such a cool and fun experience. I would like to see them knock over it. I mean, they could always re-release it. Tetris 99 technically has a physical release. They could re-release Mario 35, but I think that's one of the biggest shames is a game is just being deleted. At least Mario 3D All-Stars, it's just three retro games that you could still buy for the original systems and the physical copies are always going to exist. Mario 35 is digital only. They end it, that's it. Mario 35 is done. Now someone's probably gonna ROM hack it, throw it on a PC and have online matches until Nintendo shuts that down too. But I mean, let's just be real, that's obviously not an ideal situation that most of us are gonna be partaking in. I skipped 3D All-Stars since I already own the OG physical games. Yeah, I got one of the physical games back here. I don't know if you guys can see. Nope, it's probably just off camera. I've got Super Mario 64 back there. I got a card of that. Let's see here. I'm actually happy Mario is being beheaded. Bring in Zell, I mean, there's a thing. Obviously the one nice thing about the 35th anniversary coming to an end is, hey, Nintendo can move on. We have the 25th anniversary of Pokemon, some stuff already slated for that, starting, really what it feels like we're starting with new Pokemon Snap in April. Wait, does that come out next month? Is that next month? Holy shit. I already forgot the release. I don't have it pre-ordered yet. Holy shit, yeah, that comes out at the end of April. Damn. We have the 25th anniversary kicking off. We have the 30th anniversary of Zelda, which is basically kicking off with Skyward Sword HD. We just don't know what else they're going to announce. Lots of predictions, lots of rumors, lots of hope, but we don't know exactly what they're going to announce. We do know Breath of the Wild 2 news is supposedly coming before the end of the year. That's not even rumor and speculation. That's what A.G. Ayanuma said to all of us when he announced Skyward Sword HD that we would likely hear more news about Breath of the Wild 2 later this year. So strap in. But at the same point, I don't think we need to delete games to end the anniversary. I think it's just a cop out to try to sell as many copies as they can, as fast as they can, as if the switch is in trouble or something. That's the weird thing. It's like we need to fear of missing out our consumers so they buy, buy, buy, buy, buy, but they're already buying, like, it's usually fear of missing out the strategy for desperate companies. Nintendo's not desperate, so I, then again, it does kind of go with that attitude. Furukawa said every year's do or die for us, so it kind of falls in line with that idea that hey, if every year's do or die, that means we're always desperate. So we're, I guess I can understand that argument, I suppose, it does fit in with that attitude. Then again, I don't play Mario 35 that much anymore. I played a little bit last week. Maybe I'll play it tomorrow, one last time, before it's gone for, you know. Maybe play it until the servers shut off. Whenever the servers are gonna shut off, I have no idea. Midnight, I have no clue what time they're shutting the servers off. Do you think there's someone, data mind must not arise, they could find some clues about the Switch Pro? Probably not, I would assume not. The game was clearly made ground up for the OG Switch. They might have an update, or some things that run better on Switch Pro, but much under rise already runs really good on Switch. I don't foresee them needing to do really anything special there. When you give away much under rise, will it be physical or digital? Probably digital. Much under rise is sometimes hard to get physical right now. Most of my game giveaways are digital because then that's the easy way to make it region free because Switch is region free, so I can give away the game worldwide because I can just can't do a digital code that you can redeem. Surely they're shutting the game down because of costs. But here's the thing, Mario 35 is a value add to Switch Online. After tomorrow, Switch Online is less valuable because one of the reasons to subscribe to it over the last four or five months is gone. So they are making money off Switch Online. So if you take away a product from Switch Online, are you really worried about the cost of the product when you could potentially lose online subscriptions? People who might have subscribed just to play that game? Please, I just want more info about what's allowed to open in shelf space. Shelf space on Switch Online that only has one other game besides like the, okay. Let's see, when are you announcing the winner? April 1st, yes, I know April 1st is April Fool's Day. It's not a joke. It's not a joke. The winners will be announced with no jokes. I promise. I don't plan to do any jokes on my channel. Maybe if some other YouTubers or some other websites do some clever video game related jokes, maybe we'll cover them. Like hey, the best April Fool's pranks today. But I'm not gonna be, I'm not gonna be doing any jokes on my channel that day. We'll be announcing the winners. You expected them to calm down? I have giveaways every month, Crispy. I have an idea of what I'm giving away next month. Again, it's, you know, I don't know, I don't think it's anything special to be honest, but I'll give away next month, too. Let's see here. Can't find a copy of Zoonary Chronicles 2 for a reasonable price anywhere. Yeah, they haven't done a new print of that in a while. You think we get another Nintendo Direct in April? No, I think they're done till June. I'd like to be wrong, though. I'm welcome to be wrong. I don't think we're getting anything until June. Well, yeah, that was my question. I assume it wasn't profitable, but if it was, then you've answered my question. A similar deal with the Anniversary Pack. I don't, can't imagine the Anniversary Pack is not profitable. They sell it at 60 bucks a pop and it's just emulated versions of three old games. How is that not profitable? To be clear, Mario 64, Mario Sunshine and Mario Galaxy are just emulated ROM games sold to you for 60 bucks. That you could literally, questionably, legally play on your PC right now for free. I don't see a scenario where for 60 bucks they're not making money on games that they developed 20 plus years ago. I'm just saying, it's stupidly profitable, for them like stupid. They put these games together in less than six months. It's stupidly profitable for them at 60 bucks. Holy shit. If Breath of the Wild, I mean, gotta remember, Super Mario 3D All-Stars has likely crossed 10 million in sales right now. 10 million, let me put that in perspective. That is more copies sold than any Zelda game not named Breath of the Wild. If Super Mario 3D All-Stars was a Zelda game, it would be the best, well, sorry, right now the second best-selling Zelda game of all time. You can't tell me that's not profitable. That's stupid, I mean, they made more money off of 3D All-Stars and they probably made off of freaking Mario Odyssey 2 just because Mario Odyssey 2 actually required money to make the game. Like they actually had to spend time developing it. So while it has twice the sales, they also had to spend a lot more money developing that game, I guarantee you they probably spent less than $500,000 putting together Super Mario 3D All-Stars. I'm not even joking. Guarantee it was less than half a million dollars to put that together. And they sold like 10 million copies at $60 a pop. Let's just look at $60 a pop. Yes, not all of that goes to them. Well, this is digital. But no, not all of that goes to them. Well, let's say you got 60 bucks any time's up by 10 million. I mean, that's 600 million dollars. Now, yeah, you could talk about overhead in certain things, maybe it's closer to 400 million. They made a lot of money. They made a lot of frickin' money for a game they spent probably half a million on. Not even. Trust me. Profitable. Stupidly profitable. You guys need to be chronicles two for $54 by refreshing game sales pages constantly for two days. That was a month ago. Yeah, so I don't know. I don't know what the shipments are like for Xenoblade Chronicles two right now. I know it started selling out, what was it, after the Myth or a Pyra announcement, right for Smash? That's when it started like, just selling like crazy. Proof, again, that Super Smash Bros can sell games just by having characters included. It's kind of crazy. So people get curious, hey, I never played that game. That character looks interesting. Let me check that game out. So I'm sure they're doing some new prints of that game, but it's still not gonna be like a ton of stock, I know. Every year, basically they do an April 1st Direct as far as I know. Let's see. Just looking. I'm just looking here. They did an April 1st Direct back in 2015. They didn't do anything in 2016 in April. In 2017, they did a Direct on April 12th. And that's it for general Directs. There might have been some game-specific Directs, but general Directs, they've only done two in April ever, and only one of them was on the first. So it's not actually that common that they do Directs in April at all, let alone April 1st. At least that's just a quick look at Nintendo's YouTube channel on their Nintendo Direct playlist. They could have deleted some Directs, who knows. No, no, no. So you answered with Mario 35 was profitable, which corrects my incorrect assumption with that new info. I'm comparing it to the anniversary pen. Just shutting down to open it later. I mean, who knows? I believe you, sir, you're much deeper into this industry. The reason I'm here, thanks for the info. No problem, I wanna be clear here. I've been doing this a long time, right? Oh, geez. My phone, one of my phones so hot. There's a game loaded on my phone, it's been loaded on my phone this whole time without shutting, oh my gosh. Am I killing the battery of my phone a bit or? Holy crap, the battery of my phone is dying. I better get this thing plugged in. Oh, no! Oh well, I'll plug in later. Yeah, I think, I wanna be clear here. Well, I've been covering video games for a long time. I've been a video game journalist. I used to get review copies of games from Nintendo back when I worked in a different outlet. And I have self-created all my success by starting a Zelda fan site at the age of 12 back in 1998. Reality is, I'm still just a gamer like all of you. I don't really have these super deep connections all throughout the industry. I just have been covering things very closely, especially with Nintendo, for over 20 years. So I know their patterns, I know their tendencies. And because of that, I'm able to maybe sound a bit more knowledgeable about things. When in reality, most of what I know, you can just research on the internet, use Google, figure it out. I'm not telling you anything that's not discoverable by anybody else. Now, do I still have some connections I've built up over the years? Sure, I do factually know some actual video game developers at some big third-party studios. The only contact I knew personally that used to work at Nintendo no longer works there, so I don't technically have a contact at Nintendo anymore. And so I have a few connections floating out there that I hear some things from, some things I can't talk about. Some things I can talk about because nothing happened about it. Like Red Dead Redemption 2 was factually being made for Switch at one point. And then they abandoned it. Wasn't told why they abandoned it, just that they did. I'm assuming because it probably didn't run very well. So like, I could say that stuff now because it's not gonna happen anyways. It's not coming. But I don't really, I'm not like this deeply seated specialist out there. As in like Spawn Wave, man. That guy, he worked in Repair. Now I have worked in motherboard manufacturing. So I have factually made motherboards for Xbox 360s, PlayStation 3s, Wii's, stuff like that. I worked in factories that made that stuff. And I worked in Final Inspection. I used to inspect CPUs and GPUs. Like I used to, I've worked in that industry before but I didn't, the machines do most of the work to be clear. So like, I didn't do a lot of repair work. Spawn Wave has done a lot of repair work. He used to do console repair work at game shops and stuff. So like, he's kind of a specialist in that he's an expert at not just tearing down systems but understanding how the systems work fundamentally on different parts and different levels. And then obviously being able to repair and or customize those systems. So he's got kind of a unique skill set that not a lot of people have. My skill set, I don't even know what it is. Why do you guys watch my channel? I have no idea. I always say the reason to watch my channel is for me and that means the reason to watch the channel is for my personality. I can't, you know, my personality is not a skill set. It's just who I am. So I don't really do anything. And I know this as a YouTube content creator. I don't do anything that, you know, oddly enough, Ms. Glick, you know, I'm getting denied because she's not unique. There's nothing unique about my channel. I cover video game news and I give opinions. I don't even review games, really. So I cover video game news, I give opinions and I run a video game podcast, like thousands of other channels. There's nothing unique about what I'm doing, except for me. Maybe if you were like the way I say things, the way I present things, I don't know. But like, I don't have some special unique skill set that enables me to do what I do. I've just been doing it a long time. I'm downloading the Metroid Prime Trilogy and it has less than a gigabyte, but it's taking seven hours. Cool. Let's see here. Can you tell us anything about development or Breath of Wild 2 then? Because that has been in production since 2017. I don't know anything. I don't have a connection at Nintendo anymore. So I know as much as the public does and that is that we're getting news about it this year. I'm assuming it's coming out for the 35th Anniversary Result, by the way. If not this year, early next year. Sweet Life of Diabrandon Nintendo Prime is a lot more neutral than most gaming channels. What does that mean? I wanna be clear here. I don't watch a lot of video game YouTubers. I watch a couple, like I watch misclick gaming once in a while. I'll catch beat-em-ups sometimes. But I don't really watch a lot of video game YouTubers. I don't have time. Yet I find time to watch sports covers. So I guess I have time. I just choose to spend it watching other things. I already report on the video game news. I don't need other channels to tell me what I already know. But what do you mean by neutral? Can you give me an example, Sweet Life? I don't want you to put another YouTube channel on blast. But what do you mean? I'm always curious. Because I don't really watch other channels. I'm not necessarily aware of what they're like a lot. Like I've seen videos from a lot of different video game YouTube channels, but they're just talking about things I already know. Less corporate drone. I do not see Nintendo Prime hyping gotcha games. So I remember when I put Fire Emblem Heroes on blast. Here's the thing. I'm not against gotcha games. You know, I try to examine the human psyche when it comes to things like why we prefer certain types of games. Like why are gotcha games successful? Yes, we know for obviously the game developer it's a big money maker. Okay, we know that. But why do people swear by those games and enjoy them? I don't know. I don't know. I wish I could explain why they do. My fiancee enjoys those kind of games. She enjoys gotcha mechanics. I've asked her about it. She says, I don't know. There's just something thrilling about the chance at something and being rewarded and the disappointment of not getting rewarded just makes the rewards feel that much sweeter. And you know what, to a point I get that. I get that. Why do we buy those gotcha balls from like GameStop or in Japan that have like little figurines in them? But you're not sure which figurine it is and you might get disappointed if you get one you already have but you also might get excited if you get one. You don't, here's the even better example. Pokemon cards, right? Pokemon cards are literally gotcha. You spend all this money, three bucks, six bucks a pack or whatever, hoping to get certain cards that you're not going to get 99% of the time. So like, I get it. When you compare it to like some of my Pokemon cards, I get it. There is kind of this gotcha thing that's enjoyable about spending money on something and not getting like something that is what you want. But that makes when you get what you want so much more exciting. I actually understand that from a psychological standpoint. It's not necessarily the smartest thing financially but I understand it from a psychological, like why that's exciting and how that builds anticipation. So I'm not necessarily against gotcha. I think as long as the game clearly isn't trying to hide the gotcha mechanics. Like if it's built around it but it tries to hide it and pretend it's not that bad. Like Fire Emblem Heroes, it doesn't pretend shit. It's not out here like EA telling you you can get every player you want to build your team in FIFA Ultimate Team without ever spending money besides the initial price of the game. That's bullshit. Sure, if someone's going to be alive for 89 years they could get all the players they want, potentially maybe if they're lucky. It's not really realistic. So as long as the game's not out here trying to pretend, oh you can get every hero in the game without ever spending money. As long as the game's not saying something like that and they're just honest, hey, yeah, we got a gotcha mechanic, cool. So like Fire Emblem Heroes, I don't like that it has a gotcha mechanic but you know what? I get why people enjoy it. Same reason that I enjoy Pokemon cards growing up. I get it. I understand it. Nothing wrong with gotcha mechanics when they're stated to be that way. But when you say like I'm not corporate, I think a better, maybe a better way to phrase it is not so much that I'm not corporate. I mean, I'm not. But that this also stunts the growth of my channel too. I am both happy and critical of companies like Nintendo at the same time. I know that's something I do. I criticize Nintendo a ton. I also praise them a ton when they do things I like. That's what I am. And every time I'm critical of Nintendo, it usually has a negative impact on my channel. Even if that video gets 10,000 views, my channel might lose 200 subscribers. So like it has a negative long-term impact. My channel would do much better if I just did positive content all the time. And anytime someone brought up a negative thing Nintendo does, if I just kind of passed it off and kind of ignored it, you know? My channel would do much better, but that's not who I am. Same thing that sometimes I get Nintendo fans that come to my live streams and they expect me to just trash on Sony or trash on, I mean, definitely Xbox. If you're not gonna trash on Sony, definitely trash on Xbox because they don't have any exclusive games. They all go to PC. Well, they're not all on PC yet. I think that's the goal one day. But I'm not gonna trash on any of the systems. I think all of them provide something. I wouldn't own an Xbox Series X or PlayStation 5 and a Switch and a gaming PC if I didn't think each platform offered me something that's a little bit different than the other platforms. You know, for Xbox, it's pretty simple. It's just ease of use, ease of access. You know, Game Pass games work without issue on Xbox Series X. That's not true on PC. It might be true on PC eventually, but right now, Game Pass has some issues on PC. Not just with certain games not being available, but even some of the games are available. There's a lot of disconnect issues and other things. I don't have that problem on Xbox. It's almost like Game Pass is kind of half baked on PC, but it's not on Xbox. So it's a pretty compelling reason to own Xbox just for Game Pass. Plus, there's always that ease of use. You know, why do you console game versus PC? It's just, in some cases, it's just easier. In some cases, I don't want to take my gaming PC and hook it up to my frickin' TV every time. You know, just keep it hooked up. I'm like, I got other things to hook up to that TV. You know, I only have two HDMI ports on that TV. I don't have an HDMI switcher. I already have multiple monitors from my PC. Monitors that run at higher refresh rates. So like, sometimes I just want to play in a giant screen at 60 FPS and don't give a shit. Other times I want to play on my massive, super wide screen monitor that's 144 Hertz. Sometimes I want to use mouse and keyboard. Sometimes I want to use a controller. You know, I don't have to worry about button mapping as an example. You know, that's a positive on PC, but it's also kind of annoying that I have to like, every game I play, I better check my button mapping and make sure things are mapped correctly. And it's reading the buttons correctly. You know, whereas an Xbox, just pick up my Xbox one controller, hit the X button, it's on. Two clicks later, I'm playing a game, simpler than PC. There's a simplicity to it. And the same thing's true for Switch. Same thing's true for PlayStation. I mean, a lot of PlayStation games are going to PC too. So I'm constantly, I find myself constantly defending other systems that aren't Nintendo a lot. It's weird. It's a weird thing that I find myself defending systems more than anything. But that's just what fans do because I have a lot of Nintendo fans on my channel that kind of expect me to be like hardcore Nintendo and not into anything else, which isn't true. Gotcha appeals to collectors. That's probably true for us productions. Some channels are forced to hype games for content like the new Pokemon Gen 4 remakes. Like, why are they forced? I'm just curious. I don't watch some of these channels. So like, why are they forced to do anything? I think the Gen 4 remakes look fine. I don't have a problem with them. I've already made multiple videos on it. We did an entire podcast on it. Am I not guilty of the same thing? Did I not just do the same thing? Didn't I just hype those games up not too long ago? But I didn't do it for views. And it was my honest opinion. So how do we know that's not the honest opinion of other channels? You know, that's kind of what I'm saying. Like, how do you know that's not how they actually feel? How do you know it's fake hype? You know, unless they've said things that are like hypocritical many times over again about games or they'll like say they hype up a game and then they say they don't like it. They hype up a game and say they don't like it or they say they don't like a game but then they hype up the game anyways. You know, unless there's channels that obviously get review copies of games and there's always going to be that trust factor with like you're part of the Nintendo ambassadors program. Can we really trust what you say? Because when you're in the ambassadors programs maybe you're worried about doing something that's going to upset Nintendo. I mean, beat them up. It's got kicked out of the damn ambassadors program likely because he played a modded version of Breath of the Wild. Sounds like that's probably why he got kicked out. Like, can you trust these, you know, these YouTubers that might be trying to appease so they keep getting their free copies of games which I find funny too. Like how the industry works when they're giving you review copies of games. So like giving you early access to a game from review purposes I think has a lot of value. Okay, there's a lot of value in giving and I'll let a YouTuber or anything early access to a game from review purposes because yeah, they have an audience that they're trying to give honest opinions on a game to and you want to have those opinions out the same day the audience is going to be buying or picking up their copy of the game because if they have a pre-order for a physical copy in and your review is trash and they watch the review and they're like, oh man, this game really sucks. I don't want to buy it now. They can return it. So there is some value there to early copies of games going up. But then there's also that thought process. Can you trust people who might be making choices and decisions based on whether or not they're going to keep getting free copies of games? And the funny thing is the people that get these free copies don't need free copies for anything other than reviews. They can afford to buy copies on their own. Like usually people who give these review copies are rather big YouTubers, rather big outlets that can just buy a copy themselves on day one like anybody else. But yeah, they're the ones that get the free copies. You know, obviously be wary of the smaller creators. The smaller creators that get free copies that maybe can't buy the games without the master program, but I don't know. I think that it's just a hard, you know, it just is a difficult medium when it comes to trust. You know, is everyone sus? You know, that's the hip turn everyone's using these days, right? Because of Among Us. Man, you're real. You're really sus. You guys should be sus of everyone. You guys shouldn't trust anybody, especially on the internet. Shouldn't trust me. Me and not. It's like I like to feel like I try to build up a relationship with my viewers, but at the same point, you guys don't frickin' know me. You know, what if I turn out to be a serial killer? You guys have no idea. It's just, you should be sus of everyone. Enjoy stuff, be entertained, be informed. But, you know, you never really know with anybody. In video I have an event on April 12th. They're talking about the new Adelaide Lovelace tag. They probably won't talk about anything Switch specific. You're not gonna hear about a Switch Pro first from NVIDIA. We couldn't speculate on the tech, but there won't be any announcements like, oh yeah, this is for Nintendo console. They're not gonna say stuff like that. I mean, it might be worth speculating if that chip is the one that we think's going to be in the system, but. Sweet Life of Dio Brando says as an example, if you are a polka turber, a polka turber, a polka tuber, so a Pokemon YouTuber, you have to hype it for content. If no one cared about it, then it would be a drought of content. Would it be? Would it be? Is there not other Pokemon things that can be focusing on? How about new Pokemon Snap? New Pokemon Snap seems to be well received by everybody. Previews of the game were glowing. Everyone seems to love what they're seeing. Is that not something that they could be hyping up instead if they're not in to the Gen 4 remakes? Why can't they be talking about new Pokemon Snap? That literally comes out next month. Why would a Pokemon YouTuber who doesn't like Gen 4 remakes hype up Gen 4 remakes when there's other big Pokemon games coming out? Don't like the Gen 4 remakes? Pokemon Legends, oops, Pokemon Legends Arceus. Hello? Like the Pokemon company gave us other things to talk about if you don't like the Gen 4 remakes. So I don't think even Pokemon YouTubers right now have to hype up those games or they have no content. They have other, two other major games right now to talk about. In addition to updates to Pokemon Go constantly going on. There's plenty of other, like there's a, I'm just saying this as someone who used to cover Zelda games like literally for a living. If I could find a way when Zelda games were coming out like once every three years, to find new and interesting ways to talk about Zelda all the time. I'm pretty sure a Pokemon YouTuber can come up with new and interesting ways to talk about Pokemon that don't involve a game they don't like. And I've seen some Pokemon YouTubers out there actually put up videos hating on the Gen 4 remakes. I didn't watch them, but the titles and the thumbnails definitely suggested that they were not happy with it. Now I don't know if that's true across the board, but again, I don't watch their content. I see, I think I saw one Pokemon YouTuber's take on it. My camera, I don't know which YouTuber it was to be honest now that I'm thinking about it. I know I follow a couple. I'm subscribed to a couple. I'm subscribed to a lot of channels so it's hard for me to sift through. I'm gonna have to go through my list sometime and see which Pokemon YouTubers I'm actually subscribed to. Some are just ones that YouTube suggests to me. So Sips Extra Wacky Harley Sonder. I love that extra long name. So I suppose you're not neutral as much as you are balancing out what you hear online. So with the overly combative console wars, you respond with how they all work great in their own ways. Yeah, I think it's more. So look, console wars are fun. All right. You can get a lot of views participating in console wars, man. Console wars is entertaining at times to talk about. Which console's selling best? Which console has the best exclusives? Which of this? That's fun stuff to have conversations about. I think it's very conversation worthy. But I don't think we need to put down other platforms to prop your platform up. That's where I get really annoyed with console wars is we can't be happy with what we have. We have to validate what we have by putting down what we don't. Or maybe we do have something, like maybe we do, maybe someone out there owns a Switch and an Xbox Series X and they go fuck Xbox because my Switch has all the games I wanna play. I've had a Series X in the Lodge and I got shit to play. Okay, that's fine to have that opinion. And it's probably true for them. To them, there's nothing to play on Xbox Series X right now. So they're playing a lot of Switch. And that's fine, there's nothing wrong with that stance. But when you start to go, man, Xbox Series X just sucks. Like, no, it just doesn't have games you wanna play yet. There's a reason you're still bought it at launch. It just doesn't have the games you wanna play yet. And I don't know why you thought it would when we already knew what the lineup was going to be. So like you already knew before the system came out that the games you wanted to play for weren't going to be there yet. So is that Xbox's fault or is that your fault? If you bought Xbox Series X at launch and you're not happy because there's nothing to play, you knew what was going to be available. Microsoft didn't hide it. They didn't act like you were gonna get something that you're not. They even told us months ahead of time that Halo wasn't gonna be there. So like, who are you mad at? Are you mad at Microsoft or are you mad at yourself? For purchasing something before it had content on it you wanted to play? So like, Xbox doesn't suck, your purchasing decisions sucked. But like, that's what happens. We feel like we have to put things down and make other things better. Just let the system stand on their own merit. We don't have to attack other fans and other fandoms and other systems to make things sound good. Switch is factually doing really, really well in the marketplace. PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X are both factually doing really, really well in the marketplace. Oh yeah, PlayStation selling, you know, it's like two million more total sales than Xbox right now. Okay, they're both selling out. What's the problem? Do you think Microsoft cares that there are two million units behind? Microsoft doesn't even post sales figures anymore. Do you think they give a shit? What they care about is their Xbox Game Pass has gone from 12 million subscribers to 20. That's what they care about. Game Pass is growing. They want Game Pass to keep growing. That's what Microsoft, they look at the numbers, our subscriber base is growing. Success, they don't look at success the same way that Nintendo and Sony do because they're built on subscription services. I don't know. I just think it's weird seeing that stuff. So like, I have opinions. I wouldn't say I'm necessarily neutral on anything. Yeah bud, you need a charger to die. Oh, then what's up? It's for tomorrow, for school, remember? Tomorrow. Yeah, you can. My son's trying to beg me for a Rice Krispie treat that's supposed to be for snack at school tomorrow. No, it's for school. Well, it's in the car at mom's work, so you don't have a choice. I can't wait. Even what he's saying is he's hungry, but he won't eat the food provided to him. He's got some killer snacks upstairs right now. So not only do we have the normal fruit snacks, crackers, cookies thing. Like dude, we got pretzel bites up there right now that were just made today, homemade, with dipping cheese. Like come on, that is the bomb diggity. Dude, the kid's got churros up there, homemade. That kid's got snack options out the butt. But of course, what does he want? The damn Rice Krispie bar that we bought at the gas station this morning that's supposed to be for snack at school tomorrow. That, he has to have that. Can't have any other cool shit I made. Is this the way it goes though? You know, I'm sure I was the same way when I was a kid, right? Have all this great snack food, you know, these nice homemade meals. But you know what, I just want that fucking happy meal, man. I want that McDonald's toy. Oh man, I wanna go to the gas station and get that pack of gum that I don't need because what I have is not good enough. No kids. I'm sure I was the same way as a kid. I wouldn't know because I was the kid asking. I wasn't the parent getting the questions. Hello, Mr. Prime, which number are you? What are you talking about? I have a favorite number, is that what you're asking? I don't know. Don't think I'm defined by a number. Unless you're saying I'm just like part of a computer simulation. So we're all just zeros and ones. I think he's saying Poketubers need to hype up the products their content revolves around. So hypothetically, if Pokemon games were doing badly, the Poketuber would need to overhype a game. I mean, couldn't you say the same thing about my channel? My channel's called Nintendo Prime. Don't I need to overhype Nintendo things? Isn't that like something I need to be doing? My viewership's not doing great. I guess I should start overhyping things, huh? Like, I don't know all that. Like, I understand that you can't necessarily compare one YouTuber to another that way, but like, I'm a Nintendo, primarily a Nintendo YouTube channel. I couldn't you argue the same thing? I don't think just because you're in a certain field means that we should assume that people are being disingenuous, like we don't know, be suspicious. Your reason to be suspicious is fine, but like the same reason you should be suspicious of my channel, like you should be suspicious of every channel. I just don't think we should just assume they're doing certain things because of it. I think that's a dangerous territory to like a dangerous line to walk where you assume people are being fake because they need to worry about their channel. Now, it doesn't happen? Sure, of course it does. But do we factually know who's doing it? I don't think it's always so clear. Wow, you got the zero and one thing pretty quickly. Are you trying to? I'm a computer programmer, dude. People might not know this. I'm in college to be a computer programmer. So like, I'm well aware that like computer programs are all zeros and ones. I'm not, got it pretty quickly. Oh man. I'm not an idiot over here. Nintendo probably diversifies content. Yeah, I mean, obviously like my here's the news thing, you know, that obviously covers more than just Nintendo news in there. But like, if you notice a lot of my individual videos are usually Nintendo. Yeah, I did one on Sony today, which, you know, yeah, didn't perform the greatest. Because of course I didn't, because it's Sony. And my channel has mostly Nintendo fans. So like, yeah, it's gonna cross a thousand views. It's doing a little bit better than my here's the news the other day, but you know why the here's the news didn't do as well? The headline had Monster Hunter rise in it. So why didn't the video get a ton of views? Because the thumbnail has cyberpunk. My audience doesn't care about cyberpunk. There was cyberpunk news. My audience doesn't care about it. So, hey, why'd you put cyberpunk? Because I'm trying to, you know, diversify. I just did a stream for Monster Hunter rise. I don't like having samey looking thumbnails next to each other. And I do want to diversify. I want, hey, maybe someone who's interested in cyberpunk sees that thumbnail, decides to check out the video. It says, hey, oh, cool. You know, I want to follow this guy's channel. Like, I don't want to just keep catering to the same audience. And ultimately, that's why my channel doesn't grow that fast. Because I don't like, I don't pick a lane and stay in it. On YouTube, you need to pick a lane and stay. You don't get to, you know, do whatever the hell you want. You don't, you have to pick a lane and stay in it. Like, as an example, probably the most successful, consistently successful thing I create right now is the Nintendo Prime Podcast. I don't know how the hell we got to a point where the Nintendo Prime Podcast is the thing that gets the most consistent viewership. But basically, every episode or conversation piece of the Nintendo Prime Podcast is getting over 2000 views every single time. It's the only piece of content I can release and guarantee it's going to get 2000 views. I just know it, every time I'm getting 2000 views. New episode I recorded this week, it's going to get 2000 views. I can't guarantee anything else I do. Some things are going to get more views in that. Some, you know, I'll do an individual video that might get 8,000 views, 10,000 views, 100,000 views. But I don't know when that's going to happen. I don't know what content's going to blow up, but I know about the podcast every episode, 2000 views. It's kind of crazy. And I don't know how that happened. So, you know, you look at that, maybe I should just be a podcast channel. Maybe I stop. Maybe I stop making, you know, here's the news. Maybe I stop making individual videos and I focus on conversation podcast videos. Start up multiple podcasts. You know, that's always the thing too. So it's an interesting concept, interesting perspective of when you examine a channel, you know, channels need to basically choose one thing and just focus on that. And my channel doesn't. So that's kind of why my channel doesn't grow that quickly because I don't have a lane. I have like 30 lanes and I don't do any of them like better than anybody else. I just kind of create the content on the daily that I want to make that day. Like I don't live stream every day. Here I am streaming. Why? Because I wanted to. I could have made another video, but I wanted to stream. So here I am streaming. You know, I don't really have, there's no consistency. I think any long-term viewer in my channel could tell you my channel is not consistent at all. There's a follow-up comment to the one I just read. You're asking what prime number I am. I see. Well, that's not the way the question came across, but I understand why you would say we were asking that because Nintendo Prime prime number, I get it. Nintendo Prime is going to play super hot in computer software as a job in his college. No. I'm thinking about working with servers when I'm older. Do you have any tips? Like are you trying to be like a server administrator? A technician? Networking? What are you actually interested in specifically with servers? There's multiple paths to working with servers. So it all depends on what you're actually interested in. I'm guessing it's because we come for your personality and collaborations between influencers and YouTubers. You like works great, is my guess. Yeah, who knows? Are we drinking yet? We have not had a single super chat this entire stream. No donation or super chat. Oh, speaking of donations and super chats. Because yeah, I do chats for every single one. I have new membership tiers. Just freshly launched today. When you hit that join button now, it's no longer just the $5 tier. We now have a $3 tier. We also have a 10, a 15, a 20, or a 25 and a 50. I don't expect anyone to actually join those upper tiers, but they exist anyways. And you want to become a champion today, an Nintendo Prime champion. All you gotta do is join that $3 tier. We got four, we currently have four members on our channel. The current member goal is 10. Are we gonna get there? I have no idea. Adam Butters! Is that why you were asking? And you're like, hey, are we drinking yet? Hasn't happened yet. I finally get to crack my Lightning Kugels Summer Shandy. After all, the weather is starting to get a little bit warmer outside. Mazel, Mazel cracked the line easier. And my good old Wisconsin, the Badger State Shot Glass, cause born and raised Wisconsin, baby. Oh, well I had on this one. I'm gonna give it a second for the head to settle down. Too much head! Whoever complains about too much head. I don't care who you are. You don't complain about too much head. I actually like Coke Zero. I actually like Coke Better. I don't really drink a ton of soda anymore. I've been cutting back. I've been cutting back for a while, but now I'm down. Like this would be like the only one I drink today. And then otherwise it's just water the rest of the day. Super Chat and money for your son's Rice Krispy. He has, it's not, okay. I kind of told the white lie. It's not in the car. It is in a car, but it is not in the car that he thinks it's in. It is in a car that is in my garage right now. So we technically have two cars. We have our Dodge Durango that I've talked about before. That's our primary vehicle. And then we also have a 2006 Malibu. The 2006 Malibu is down and out. Probably needs a new engine. So it's just sitting in the garage. So his Rice Krispy treat is actually hidden in that car. Cause I knew he was gonna ask for it after school. And I knew I wanted him to take it. The agreement we bought it this morning is it would be for snack at school. So I kind of sort of told the fib. Cause it is here. It's just in the other car. Cheers, this one's for Adam Butters. And then we got Mariano Rivera coming up as well. But hey, become a member today. It's only $3. Three bucks, that's it. Pretty cheap. You become a member of the YouTube channel. Help support the channel. And plus, hey, we hit our member goals. We hit 10 members. That's a giveaway, baby. Every time we hit our member goals, it's a new giveaway. Also, go down into the description and join our Gilded server. That's right, I have a, something different. It's not, I'll put a link to it right now actually. The Gilded server is not what you might think. It is, it's kind of like Discord. Okay, I'm not gonna lie. I just like it better than Discord. Join our Gilded server today. Like I really, I really enjoy Gilded a lot. It's got a lobby set up for like Mario Kart 8, Subatoon 2, actually World of Warcraft as well because I do play that game. I don't currently have a guild in World of Warcraft right now. Maybe if you guys also play World of Warcraft and you'd like to set up a guild with me, a Nintendo Prime guild, I would be more than happy to. I play on the Zul'jin server. I'm on the Alliance side. You know, maybe get that going. Maybe I can set something up for Minecraft. I have enough people who wanna play Minecraft together. You guys can go in there and discuss Minecraft and set things up. We can set up a schedule of play times. We have calendars on Gilded. Yeah, I just, I really like Gilded a lot. I'm not abandoning the Discord server by the way. I just prefer Gilded. So I'm both, but I mostly use, I would go like, I'm more likely to respond to you on Gilded than I am on any other service. But we're not getting rid of the Discord server. I'm not stupid. Discord is awesome, but I just like Gilded better. I like to drink Rupir specifically, bangs. Gilded is a free app that's like Discord. You can download it on your phone, PC, whatever. Cheers. And it's not being bought up by Microsoft anytime soon. For people who care about the man. Buying out everything. Because who the hell knows what's gonna happen to Discord after Microsoft buys it. Cheers. Summer Shandy. A white beer with natural lemonade flavor. I don't know if I like the lemonade in it, to be honest with it. Lightning Googles. Also, a beer made in my hometown. I like to drink Rupir. Bang Rupir? I'm not a fan of the Bang, I like Bang. I'm not a fan of the Bang, Rupir. Let's see here. Wow, what good parenting lie to your kid. It's a little bit of a white lie. I don't want them having it. The reality is, okay, you guys might think this is crazy. My kids go to bed at seven. All right, I know that's early. You don't gotta tell me, I'm aware it's early. Here's the problem. Whether our kids are up to eight o'clock, nine o'clock, 10 o'clock, or 11 o'clock, it doesn't really matter how late they're up. They wake up at the same time every single day. And the thing is, that same time is typically five, six a.m., which is fine. That's fine for school. The problem is that they need a lot of sleep. Our one daughter has depression and is on certain medications that makes her require to get more sleep. So she needs to have like 11 hours of sleep. And the other two, if they get less sleep, they don't do well. So they do better when they have more sleep just from a mood perspective. And even now, they'll go to bed at seven, they'll wake up at five or six. That's 11, 12 hours. That's like 10, 11 hours more like. They'll come home after school and they're just exhausted. Exhausted. Because they play so hard all day long. My boys are like maniacs. They play so hard. So in the end, seven o'clock is early. And yeah, they're bedtime, you know, when they get older, you know, 10, seven and five right now. I think, you know, by the time our daughter gets to 12, 13, she'll be staying up to eight or nine. But like, you know, they need that sleep. So right now, Rice Krispie, it's 5.30 p.m. They go to bed in 90 minutes. It's too much sugar to have this time of day. It's too much sugar. He won't be able to sleep. If I let him have that Rice Krispie, he won't be able to sleep until, you know, nine o'clock. And then he's not gonna get enough sleep and he's gonna be really cranky tomorrow. And I know that. So like, yeah, it's a lie. Parents lie to their kids. News, news flash. Parents lie to their kids all the time. Like when a parent tells you that you can't have something or you can't do something. And you keep asking, why? Why? And they say, because I said so. Oh, they have a reason. They just don't wanna tell you because they know that that reason is gonna piss off the kid even more. Cause the reason is typically, cause I just don't wanna fucking do it or I don't wanna deal with the mess or I don't, like all this shit that the kids would be like, oh, but it won't be that bad. And the kids say that every time and then it ends up worse than what the parent fears it would be every single time. Parents lie to their kids all the time. Little white lies, parents do it all the time. They have to keep, I mean, parents, us parents, we gotta keep our sanity, man. Now, when you only have one kid, I'll say this, it's easier to not have to worry about this stuff with only one kid. But when you got three kids, a girl, two boys, like I do, different age groups, like you can't please them all at the same time. It's literally impossible to please all three kids at the same time. When you only have one kid, you know, it's not as bad. Liam, fair, but lying creates distrust and distrust breeds contempt and contempt breeds lying to you and sneaking out at night and get hurt worse. So I disagree. I just disagree, because here's the bottom line. Here's the bottom line. What did I say to my son? I said, no, you can't have your rice crispy. He tried saying, but I want it, but I want it. I said, no, why did I lie? Why did I say, oh, it's not here? Why did I lie? To end the conversation, he wasn't going to get the rice crispy, period. I wasn't going to give in and give him the rice crispy. I told him, no, you guys heard me. I told my son, no. So why did I lie and say the rice crispy isn't here and it's in a car that's not here to de-escalate the situation? He's never going to know I lied. He's never going to know. Parents lie to their kids all the time and the kids don't know. That's the point. It's a little tiny white lie to de-escalate a situation where it hit you would've argued with me. And then I would've had to probably put soap in his mouth because he probably would've swore at me or said something stupid. And then I would have to ground him to his room and then he'd yell some more. Then I'd have to go end the live stream and then I'd have to put him on time out. All these things avoided by me simply saying, hey, I said no and it's not here anyway so you might as well give up trying. Basically, it's telling the kid, it ain't worth throwing a fit over because I couldn't give it to you anyways. It's just a way to de-escalate a situation. That's all. I'm not talking about like lies like, you know, like oh, like why can't I go to grandma's or whatever because grandma doesn't want to see you which would probably be a lie. It could be, maybe the car isn't working. Like you're not, that's what's a lie to your kids like about big stuff. Just like little things that de-escalate situations that the kid's never really gonna find out about. Like that's, I don't think that's a big deal because that comes from knowing your kid. That's like knowing the transition of what's gonna happen based on prior behavior. You tell the kid no but the kid really, really wants something. The kid's gonna escalate the situation because they don't respect the fact that you said no because their desire for whatever you said no to is higher than their concern over you grounding them or putting them on time out. So like I just didn't want to go there as a parent. So sometimes you say look, I said no and I can't give it to you anyways. Situation avoided. Situation avoided, he's never going to know. Life moves on. He's not watching the stream. Nope, they're not allowed on YouTube. PD, cut it out, pseudo parents. It matters how far and how long parents you've owned. Parents lying to teenagers and older is shitty though. As a kid it's completely understandable. Teenagers different. Lying to a teen is not, so I don't have a teenager yet. So it's hard for me to speak on this directly. I don't think, I don't feel like my parents really lied to me as a teen. I'm sure they lied to me a ton when I was younger. Either from my own protection or because there's certain conversations I don't think I'm ready to have yet. Where do babies come from? Stuff like that. Parents might kind of talk around that when you're little. It's kind of a more grown up conversation to have. Because maybe the parents, maybe it's just the parents not comfortable talking about it. That could be the real truth about it. Maybe the kid would be fine here in it but the parents not comfortable. So what's sex? What's this? What's that? These conversations need to be, I think have when the kid is more apt to receive them. Some kids are mature earlier than others and are ready for those conversations earlier. I can agree with that perspective. But lying to teenagers I think is a little bit different. There's not really a reason to ever, I feel, lie to a teen. Teenagers are going to be one, you're gonna get caught lying. Like with teenagers you could be a bit more honest, I feel. As an example, the kid asks, hey, I'm 13, can my friends spend the night and then tomorrow can you drive us to the movie theater? If you tell them, well I don't care if your friend spends the night, as long as I don't have to pick them up and drop them off. If their parents want to pick them up and drop them off, that's fine. But I'm gonna be honest with you, I don't really have the money for you to go to a movie. And yeah, that kind of sucks because he's probably gonna tell his friend I can't go to the movie because we're broke. Or whatever the hell. Like yeah, that kind of sucks and that's the reputation that's gonna go around. But here's the deal, if you lie to the kid and say, you know you can't go to the movie because I need the car for something else and I'm not gonna be here. And then it turns out that tomorrow comes around and you are here and you are with the car. And really you slept in or whatever. Like I don't think there's a real reason to lie super hard in teenagers. I'm trying to think of like a situation where as a parent, I'm trying to think of the situation as a parent where I would think that I might need to white lie to a kid. Unless you're trying to, like if you're trying to surprise them, I think that's obviously different. Like you have a surprise party, a surprise gift to them, like a car when they're 16 and you're trying to surprise them. Like that's different. Surprise is I think everyone understands, white lies for that. It's just like a temporary lie just so they can be surprised. I don't think people have a problem with that. But I'm trying to think as a parent a situation where I would lie to my kid at that age. Even if they asked me about sex, like is sex good? I'd tell them, yeah. Sex is fucking great, but let me explain to you the downsides of it. And then that's when you get into talking about kids and pregnancy and heck, do you wanna see how a baby's born? Let's go. I got a perfect video for you to watch. Here's the birth of a child. Here's what you're subjecting that person you love to by not putting, not wrapping your dick. For whatever the fuck, right? Like, and even doing it, you can still have a chance. It's all, I can't think of a scenario where I feel like I would lie to my teenagers. Not intentionally anyways. There might be something like you say, like you intend to do something and then something comes up and you can't. That happens all the time. That's not a lie. Teenagers don't understand that. Teenagers will be like, but you promised you were gonna do this but then something came up at work. Something came up with a family emergency. Teenagers don't always understand that stuff. They think, God, my parent lied to me. It's like we didn't lie to you at the time. We didn't plan on other things coming up. And that's something that I think a lot of teenagers don't always understand until they're adults is prioritizing things in life. Prioritization is important. I know as a teenager, I didn't understand it. There are times I said my parents were liars and then as I got older, they didn't lie to me. Things just came up. And as an adult, I'm very aware that things just come up that are sometimes outside of your control. But teenagers don't get that. Teenagers get, you told me I could do this or you would give me this or I would get an increase in my allowance this week. If I mowed the lawn twice this week instead of once and blah, blah, blah. But then something comes up and you can't afford to give them that extra allowance or something that you didn't plan. Like it happens. But teenagers don't understand that. They just think you lied to them to make them do something. It's not a lie. But again, they don't understand that until they're older and then they deal with actual responsibilities and not just this responsibility of having chores and getting homework done. Like, hey, you gotta pay bills. You gotta pay shit on time and your cell phone gets turned off. You gotta do this. You gotta do that. Like it's a lot of responsibility that teenagers don't always understand. Because teenagers, that's like the last years of being a kid. Have fun, man. Play your sports. Play your band and music. You know, work a job at 15 if you want and make some extra money. Go to movies. Hang out with friends. Just be prepared for adulthood because that's not often what adulthood is like. Maybe it is initially in college if you decide to go to college, but it's not always gonna be that way. You're eventually gonna have reality fricking punch you right in the face. And then you'll start to understand, oh, maybe my parents weren't really lying to me. Maybe shit just happens and parents are doing their best to navigate the damn minefield. That's the way I feel like in so many days with my kids right now, 10 year old, seven and five. Every day I am navigating a minefield. I told my kid, no to the Rice Krispie and then the Rice Krispie isn't here even though it is because I avoided a minefield. I am navigating that minefield. One wrong step and yeah, I'll pay the consequence. Santa Claus, anybody in therapy because of Santa Claus? I don't think anyone's out there because of Santa Claus. You're trying to tell me Santa Claus isn't real. Adam Butters. Don't you dare tell me Santa Claus isn't real. To this day, Santa Claus is real. Jolly old thing, Nicholas. Whatever you dismay. What if I learned karate? Reality, karate doesn't defend you from anything. That's funny though. Part-time jobs aren't as bad as school for a few reasons. Here's why kids don't feel like part-time jobs are as bad as school. School is typically something that you really don't wanna do and you have to do it full-time Monday through Friday. Okay, it's like eight hours a day, nine hours a day. You don't get anything at the end of it except the certificate at the end of high school that says congratulations, you graduated high school. You don't get anything of significant, immediate value. You work a part-time job, you work in 15 hours a week or whatever, during school, maybe during the summer, you're pushing 20, okay? Whatever the limitations are, I think it's 20 at 15, but you can go up to 25 at 16, I can't remember what the restrictions are these days. That's what it was when I was a kid. So say you work at 15 hours a week, mostly on weekends, then some of you work in 20 hours or whatever, okay? You're barely doing anything compared to school, okay? School you're doing 40 hours a week. Here you're only doing 20, but you get a paycheck at the end of it. Money that to you seems amazing. You could spend it on video games, you can go to movies, you can put gas in your car and hang out with your girlfriend all the time, or your boyfriend or whatever you're dating. Like, you can do all these really cool things because you have spending money. But why do you have spending money? Because you still don't really have responsibilities. You're not paying a cell phone bill, you're not paying a rent, you're not paying an electric, you're not buying the food, you might buy food, you might choose to spend your money on fast food or whatever, but you're not buying the groceries for the house that your parents are cooking. Like, you still don't really have that many responsibilities. So that's why a part-time job seems great because it's basically, I'm doing half the work I would do at school, I get paid for it and I could spend that money on anything I want. But that's still not reality. You know? It's just not reality. School is basically a job. School is basically a job. Just like being a parent is basically a job. Parents more than full-time. Parent is 24, 7, 365. There are times that you might get breaks like when they're at school or at daycare but you're still ultimately responsible for that kid. There's not a time until that kid turns 18 that you are not responsible for that kid. So parents are full-time gig. Once you get out of college, once you get out of high school, whenever you're not going to school full-time, guess what? Your job replaces school. All high school and all these schools really do is prepare you for what being an adult is like. You know, my fiance's sister, she got into drugs and stuff like that and basically hasn't worked a day in her life. And she dropped out of high school. And the thing is, she's like, school is bullshit. It's so boring that I'm like, school's preparing you for what fucking adult it is like. For an average eight hours, sometimes more per day, adults are doing dumb shit at a job that we would rather be going to do something else that's fun. Some people are fortunate enough to really love their job and they would do their job for fun. But I'm just saying that for most people, that's not the case. It's training you to get ready for what adulthood is like for eight hours a day, Monday through Friday, if you're lucky. Nine to five, if you're lucky. You are doing a bunch of shit you don't want to do, so you have the money to at least survive in this world. And so like for people, I hate school, I hate this. I'm like, if you can't make it through school, how are you going to handle adulthood? School is kind of easy compared to adulthood. But compared to what my life is now, and I love my kids, I love my fiance, I love what I'm doing here on YouTube, I love, I don't really love college, to be completely honest, I'm just doing what I gotta do. I would much rather go back to my eight hours and part-time job in high school, man. My man, life was so much simpler then. It was so much easier. I remember bitching about school and it's like, dude, school is a cakewalk in comparison to adulthood. I'd keep me in high school years forever, man. High school's like that perfect age, you know, where you're old enough and adult enough to understand things and do things. But also at the same point, still not necessarily have all the responsibilities in the world. You took journalism law, but the lack of ethics and journalism made it feel, oh well, that's more a career path choice, Clayton. That's more a career path choice. It's kind of funny. Journalism's an interesting thing. People go and get those journalism degrees. But then you get out in the real world. And the way they teach you journalism in college is practically nothing like what you're going to do in an actual job. Now, does a degree help you get the job? Sure. And you know that first hand, Clayton. But also, you now know from actual experience, there's a difference between being a journalist and going to college for a journalist. That's true in a lot of fields, by the way. In my field, I've been told by many programmers that there's what they teach you in college and then there's what you actually do at your job. And they don't necessarily line up. So you're like, why do you need the college degree? Because it's all part of a broken system. You need the degree to get the job, but the job really doesn't have much to do with a degree, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Like, Clayton, I'm sure much of what you do as a journalist, and I know you're a journalist, and I won't talk about what I'll let you work at or any of that crap now. Because I know you told me on Twitter, I think. Here's the thing, I don't care. I've been doing journalism for 20 years, I don't have a degree. And I can write just as well, and I can report just as well. It's pretty much all of the journalists you see at IGN, GameSpot, anywhere else, I can do what they do, and I don't have a degree. Because the degree won't really help me do what they do. It might teach you certain things about ethics, but then those rules aren't really followed in the workplace. Because what they don't really address properly in college, from what I have, I was in a journalism degree at one point, they don't address properly is that when you're at an outlet, the number one most important thing when you're working in journalism is eyeballs. Eyeballs. If you don't have viewers, you don't have a job. Without viewers, without readers, there's no job. So when it becomes that the most important thing is having eyeballs, the ethics of the situation don't really matter because ethics don't get you viewers. As an example, it could be argued, some of the videos I make on gaming rumors, you shouldn't make that video. I mean, I think it's still interesting to talk about it, but you shouldn't make that video. You know this rumor, but you shouldn't make that video. And yeah, according to ethics, you shouldn't make that video. I should make a video on, let me see, I'm gonna go grab a random thing right now. That's a factual thing happening. I should, instead of making a video on a random 4chan rumor leak that we know is fake, but you know, it's fun to talk about, it'll probably get 4,000 to 8,000 views. Even though you state in the video quite clearly that it's probably fake, it's still just fun to talk about. You're gonna get a lot of views on that. Or, or, or I could talk about, Niantic CEO gives us a look at potential AR glasses. We don't even know that they're AR glasses. So they give us a, there was a thing put up, oh, look into the future. And then they show like a little tiny peak of what appears to possibly be glasses, but we're not sure the image isn't fully there. I think it's nice speculation to think it's AR glasses. But here's the thing, I could put that out there and you know, there's gonna be hardly any views. You know, you can go from 8,000 views on some random 4chan thing you know is fake, but you know will generate interest and is a little bit fun to talk about, to be honest. Or you could talk about this boring image by Niantic that you do have no details on and you're just guessing. And it doesn't even sound super exciting on the surface. What's gonna generate more clicks? What's gonna generate more views? Well, they're clearly gonna watch you cover the 4chan thing. I wouldn't say that IGNs and all that's like that are going as far as to cover 4chan, but they'll find things to talk about. In fact, I have one more thing I wanna make a video on today, but actually I think it's kind of interesting. But there's a thing, I cover things I find that are interesting. Whether or not the rumor is true or not, almost, I hate saying it, it's almost like irrelevant to me and to many other YouTubers. Like HMK did a video, God, I love HMK, man. He's so awesome. I've known that guy for so long. Can't wait to have him back on the podcast. He's such a cool dude. So going, looking at a video he did recently. Let me see here. He did a video on, where is it? Oh yeah, Nintendo Direct leaked for April. Breath of the Wild 2 name and a huge Metroid blowout. Now, it's a 4chan rumor. And in the very beginning of the video, he goes, yeah, this is likely all bullshit. He just straight up says, everything I'm about to cover is probably bullshit. But damn, is it fun? Damn, is it hype? If this stuff was true, this is the hypest of the hypest of the hype. And yeah, I'll probably make a video on it eventually because I actually thought it was kind of interesting too. Is it fake? 1,000%. But is it fun as fuck to talk about? Fun as hell to dream? Absolutely. And what do you get? 14,000 views, 94% like the dislike ratio. On something that he tells the audience is probably fake. But man, was it fun? And he had a lot of fun talking about it. Then, Final Fantasy VII Ever Crisis will be free to play. Only 9,000 views. It's a factual bit of information. It's real news. The interest level only got him about 8,800 views, but he got 14,000 talking about something that is clearly fake. Does that make him a shit YouTuber? Cause he threw ethics out the window? I don't think so. 1, I don't think YouTubers are journalists. Yeah, we report on stuff so you can argue there's some journalism there, but I also think YouTubers number one jobs to entertain. When I think of journalism, you know like, when I think of journalism, I'm going to eat. If I want actual news news, I go to ESPN, like Sports News, ESPN, CBS Sports, Yahoo Sports, et cetera, when I want my sports news. Sometimes there's certain people on Twitter that are journalists that will tweet things out for news as well. When I think about like, I want to be entertained with sporting stuff, I go to Twitter, I'm sorry, I go to YouTube and I watch sports videos that talk about the news because they're just giving, you know, or talk about, think about how much of sports entertainment is just literally speculation. Who's going to win MVP or the NBA? How many times does that conversation come up every fucking day on sports stuff because it's entertaining? Talking about trade machines and potential trades that are absolutely fake and have no backing and likely are never going to come true. But you'll hear talks about it every single day because it's entertaining. So yeah, this potential leak that's awesome and great and so amazing, it's fake as fuck. But damn is it fun to talk about. So I kind of liken it to the way sports stuff works. There's a difference between news and reporting and a difference between like speculation and fun conversations. And yeah, they intermingle sometimes and that kind of muddles the water. But when you're a YouTuber, you're number one jobs to entertain. I'm streaming, hoping that you're entertained by this stream, maybe you're not. Maybe you think I'm a bullshit streamer and bullshit content creator and it's fine. You know, whatever. I just make the content I want to make. I actually have two really interesting videos I want to make. I'll probably make one of them today. The other one we'll see, the other one we'll see. I'm not really on a time limit with the other one's relevancy. This current, this other one, I don't know. Anyways, I got multiple ideas rolling around in my head. I just have to get to them. Okay, is the switch HDMI cable 2.0? Probably not. It doesn't need to be. The switch only does, switch doesn't even output a 2.0 signal. It's probably 1.4. I would assume it's in 1.4 HDMI cable. I can't confirm right now. I could take the HDMI cable from my switch and plug it into the PlayStation 5 and hook it up to the TV and see. Cause there'll be limitations. If it's not 2.0, there'll be limitations cause it's not 2.1. But 2.0 can still technically do 4K60. So if it's 1.4, 1.4 can't do 4K60. So if I plug in the switch cable into my PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X and plug it into my TV, I should be able to tell right away if it's at least 2.0. It won't be 2.1 for sure. But I'm guessing it's 1.4. They have no reason to put a 2.0 cable unless they just don't make 1.4s anymore, it's entirely possible they don't make 1.4 cables. I have no idea. Technically, the switch doesn't need a 2.0 cable. It would work with a 1.4. School should teach you basic economics, how to get a loan, I don't think school should teach people how to get loans and how to manage credit. I disagree with that. I think what school could do is teach you how to balance a fucking checkbook. How about instead of worrying about borrowed money? How about learn how to manage the money you're not borrowing? I don't think it's a school's job to teach you about money management with money that you borrow. I think you need to first learn how to deal with the money you get in the first place and how to budget. I think it's a fine line between I feel like what school should do and what parents should be doing. Parents, I think, utterly fail at teaching kids how to manage money most of the time. Probably because the parents are too worried about managing their own money to bother to teach the kid how to manage theirs. So some of that's just because parents have a lot, parents have a billion other responsibilities to worry about before they worry about teaching their kid how to manage money. One thing I'm trying to do with my kids is when they are old enough to have a job, hey, you want a cell phone, you're paying the bill. You have a job, you're paying the bill. So you wanna keep that cell phone turned on, you better pay the bill. Now am I gonna wait for them to give me the check to pay the cell phone bill? Of course not, I'm gonna pay the cell phone bill, but I'll shut their fucking phone off if they don't give me the 45 bucks a month. Because I teach them fiscal responsibility, prioritizing. What's more important that you go to that movie or your bill's paid? What's more important that you go buy that fucking four ounces of fucking weed? Or your bill's fucking paid? What's more important? You know? That you're the cool kid who bought his girl a promise ring that's gonna break up with you in a week? Or that your fucking bill is paid? Like, I'm gonna work on fiscal responsibility with my kids as they get to a point where they are making their own money. Yes, of course they're gonna be able to spend money and have fun. I'm not gonna make them dedicate every fucking dollar they make to not enjoying their teenage life. Jesus Christ, of course they can enjoy their teenage years. They're working, they're making a few hundred bucks a month. Fucking enjoy. Use some of it for fun, but you will have some responsibility to kind of get you ready for when mom and daddy aren't there to pay all your bills anymore. You know you gotta prioritize paying your cell phone, paying your rent, paying your electric before you start having fun. Yeah, four ounces is a quarter of a month. That's quite a bit for like 45 bucks. Unless it's like the really cheap shit that was like mixed in with some fucking oregano. I don't know why I'm even talking about this shit. Yeah, I grew up, I know people to get drugs from. I don't do that shit, but I'm just saying that like, I know there's a massive difference in the weed world between good shit and like the really cheap weed, the skunk weed that's just mixed with a bunch of shit. That's why it's so fucking cheap. But I don't really smoke weed, doesn't really do much for me. Um, nah, you aren't crap, bro. If you were, I wouldn't be here. It's eyeballs, like you said, and YouTube has been awful at getting eyeballs where they need to be lately. YouTube also has a controlling aspect to it because YouTube as a platform obviously has their own rules and their own way to govern things and things that you are okay talking about, things you aren't. Like, you know, I don't want to dive too deep into this but like Steven Crowder got permanently demonetized and banned from his main channel for a week because of a video he made a while ago, a little bit ago, I guess it wasn't too long ago, where he talked about voter fraud and he never claimed that Donald Trump won the election. He never claimed that there was widespread voter fraud. He just wanted to prove that voter fraud does technically exist because the narrative in politics right now, you know, especially from Democrats is that voter fraud doesn't exist, which is kind of a bold claim to say there's literally no voter fraud anywhere ever. So what he did is he had some of his people go to election areas and got some of the addresses on some of the ballots and went to some of those addresses to find out the addresses are fake, proving that there was voter fraud. No, he never said it's widespread. He never said it were to change the results of the election. He never tried to make all these kinds of claims that Donald Trump did. He just had a video where he showed, yeah, you know what, there is some voter fraud going on that the elections could be more secure. There could be more security measures in place with elections to prevent fake addresses that clearly are for fake ballots, right? Like, there's some states that don't require you to have ID, you know, that's a big controversy in Georgia right now because something passed that requires ID to vote, but the prime example of having a fake address, you know, because you're not actually, you know, maybe it's a homeless person who did it. I have no idea. I'm just pointing out that like, it's kind of suspicious. It's kind of sus, right? So he got demonetized and banned because YouTube changed the rules. Originally, you could talk about individual cases of voter fraud. What you couldn't talk about was voter fraud being like, you couldn't say, you were not allowed to say that Donald Trump lost the election due to voter fraud and that there's widespread voter fraud, but you were allowed, per YouTube's rules, to talk about individual voter fraud cases. That's what his video did. YouTube changed its rules, and now that video got demonetized. It's a whole thing. So YouTube's got this whole total, by the way, I'm not saying that you need to like Steven Crowder, by the way, pshh. The guy really talks about a lot of controversial shit and really blurs the line between comedy and seriousness and Republicans. I'm not going down that rabbit hole. What I'm trying to just point out is that, you know, technically what he did shouldn't have been a problem with anybody, but YouTube has its own set of rules. So there's that. You gotta navigate to out in the world now. Like any platform you're on, Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, wherever the hell you are. Like they all are technically not public domain. You know, we have a freedom of speech. You can say whatever the fuck you want, but that freedom of speech doesn't extend to private entities. You know, businesses, you know, you can't go into your job and just say whatever you want and expect to keep your job. That's not how it works, you know? So in the problem we have with YouTube is obviously so many people get their news and their reports from YouTube that it's kind of like, okay, and social media in general, that it's like, well, if they can control what you hear and what you can talk about, you know, how well informed are the people. That's kind of been, I would say, a conservative sticking point with a lot of social media websites right now is like, well, if you're picking and choosing what people are allowed to talk about, are you being fair? You know, like how are people supposed to be fully informed? Well, we're preventing the spread of misinformation. Yes, but it is. And because I say shit like that, that's why YouTube will shut down my channel someday. By the way, I'm not Republican. I listen to people on all sides of every aisle there is from the left to the right, to the center, to libertarian. I listen to frickin' a lot of political shit. I am not anything. I have not voted Democrat or Republican in a hell of a long time. I have been voting for independence for quite some time from multiple different parties. I think there might have been one Democrat governor election that I did vote Democrat like six years ago or something. But it was because I felt like that person was literally the best person for the job. It wasn't because they were Democrat. It's because of their policies and the things they were trying to change. I thought they were the best for my hometown. So that's what I voted for. But I don't really base my vote on if you're Democrat or Republican. Just it's whoever I feel is the best person for the job. But I do see a lot of interesting things happening where there's a lot of silencing going on. I don't necessarily agree with. I mean, YouTube did it to my channel. You know, when I was just talking about fucking video games, they silenced my channel. So gotta be careful what I say about video games too. Finally, a live stream gamer that has the guts to talk about politics and the like. No, no, no, okay, so hold on. Let's take a tea. Let's take a tea here. We're not really talking about politics, okay? I don't talk about politics on my channel. The reason I don't talk about politics is because it's really controversial. It starts a lot of arguments. But I will talk about some bias that happens because of politics. Happens in gaming, happens everywhere. It's ingrained in society, it happens. There's a lot of bias. Like right now, if you are an internet person, you're an internet, like, you almost, like say you're a conservative, say like, let's say beat him up is conservative. Don't know what he is. Don't know what he votes for. But let's say that he's conservative. He considers himself a Republican. You know how scary it would have to be for someone like him to ever have it come out publicly that he is? Again, I don't know what he is. But I'm just saying that like, you know how scary it would have to be? Someone in his position to be like, oh, I'm Republican. Just by associating as a Republican is like this big cardinal sin on social media right now. Like if you are Republican, you are Donald Trump in the scum of the earth. Like that, it's so weird. Like the narrative that's getting painted that Republicans are evil douchebags because Donald Trump is a piece of shit. Same thing, by the way, Republicans that try to paint Democrats as pieces of shit as well. Kind of goes both ways. But it's just funny. It's just funny to me. Like, oh, you're a Democrat, you're a piece of shit. Oh, you're a Republican, you're a piece of shit. They can't just be like, oh, why? What policies do you, you know, it never really becomes about the policies, right? It's about you're a fucking racist piece of shit. Like being a Republican doesn't mean you're racist. Democrat doesn't mean you're racist. Like that's not actually like a political argument. You can try to argue Donald Trump's racist and that's fine, but that doesn't make every Republican racist. So I don't know. I just think it's kind of, politics are kind of a sticky thing. That's why we don't talk about it. That's what I said. Politics is just a sticky thing. But when I say, you know, that we don't talk about it. I mean, we don't talk about who we're voting for. We don't talk about, you know, what you should believe. I'm not here to convince you to be anything, but will I bring up when there's censorship that seems to be involved because of someone's political stance? Like I said, I brought up Stephen Crowder because there's censorship happening, seemingly because of his political leanings. And I don't think that's right. It'd be different. Like Trump's banning was a lot different, you know, because there's a belief that he incited riots. Like, it's a little bit different, you know. Like Stephen Crowder was out there inciting riots. It's a little different. But just having an opinion, you shouldn't really, I don't think, I think there's a lot of power with social media. And I don't always like the control that's involved with it. But hey, whatever. I talk about video games, man. So I don't have to worry about it too much. But every now and then, politics seeps in the video games, and then it's just kind of like, oh, man. Oh, man. Ah, shit. My channel's gonna get fucking shut down. No! Nintendo Q, you're trying to convince us that Crowder is being canceled. No, I just disagree with YouTube's decision to not allow him to point out individual cases of order fraud. That's why he was banned. YouTube is in the right to make any decision they want for any reason they want. That's their platform. But I do disagree that he can't show individual cases of order fraud. That's all. That's all. It's just a disagreement. It's called an opinion. I'm allowed to have an opinion. You're a modster or a guy forever in an opinion on the Xbox presser, right? Silence people all the time. Ah. You can think what you want, man. You're, I'm assuming Nintendo Q that you are that person that got thrown out. People get thrown out when they incite arguments with me that are basically just if you're annoying me. That's kind of probably what happened with this Crowder thing. They were probably just annoying some YouTube staff so they threw them out. So don't annoy me. Pretty simple. I don't want to deal with that bullshit. So don't annoy me. My mods just tried to make it so I don't have to deal with bullshit. My father taught high school history and government for 40 years and he even had a chance to run for state representative once in my family. So politics is a big, the politics is a way, it's a very complex, massive subject and I am far and away not an expert. So I don't even assume I'm still a video game expert and I talk about that stuff. Chad is more than welcome to have an opinion. I actually said this during the live streams. You don't have to like the Xbox presser but what you can't do is accuse me. See, here's what happened. Here's the facts and the situation. So here's what happened with that situation. So user had an opinion. User wolf something, had an opinion that the Xbox presser was horrible which was fine. That opinion didn't bother me. But then try to argue that I'm defending the Xbox presser and don't actually enjoy it and started mocking me. So think about what happened. User says, I don't like the Xbox presser. They're still here, they weren't kicked, they weren't kicked, they weren't kicked. Then they start saying that I'm pretending I like the Xbox presser, that I'm pretending to like the event. So an accusation gets thrown at me that I'm faking it. What do you think's gonna happen when you throw out an accusation? Now look, it might be your opinion that I'm faking it but you're talking directly to the person doing it. What do you think's going to happen? Do you think you're just gonna be welcomed with open arms to continue and continue and continue to keep accusing that person of something that person doesn't believe they're doing? And then you come back with multiple accounts which by the way, that is something we don't allow on our channel is people using multiple accounts. But then you come back on multiple accounts and begin to mock the content creator more and more and more because one thing we don't allow on our channel is the attacking of other users, including myself. So if you come on my stuff and you start mocking me, what the fuck do you think's gonna happen? Yeah, YouTube removed Crowder probably because it annoyed some YouTube videos. They didn't permanently remove him by the way. He'll be back next week or something. I think he's, I don't know, I think it's only one week temporary ban. But like, and we tried to let the user come back. And then the user continued to say things that whether the user knew it or not, we're still a bit mocking of the whole situation. Trying to claim things that aren't true, that you can't have an opinion, you can't have a negative opinion, of course you can, but you can't mock the content creator. It's pretty simple. And that's why I assume you're the same person. That's why I assume you're the same person. I'm sure Crowder's mocked YouTube. I have no fucking idea, I don't watch his show. The only thing of his, the only thing of Crowder's I've ever seen is like the Change My Mind series. I've talked about it one other time. It's like the only thing, I don't, I don't watch any, I think he streams, right? Doesn't he do like a daily news show? I don't, I don't, I don't watch his shit. I don't know anything really about the guy, other than that he's obviously conservative and he does that Change My Mind series that takes a lot of conservative viewpoints and then tries to argue them logically with people who disagree. I don't really know anything about the guy. I don't watch his content. I don't know any of the shit he says. I just know that he's calls himself a comedian. I don't know if he is one, beats me. I don't know anything about him. I shouldn't say anything. I don't know much about him. I just know I like his Change My Mind series. That's it. Nintendo Q, you are so clearly that wolf person. It's hilarious. So I'm just gonna ignore you. You mocked me. It's not a hypocrite to block someone who's mocking me. I never said YouTube can't do what they're doing. I don't agree with it. I can get rid of you and you cannot agree with it. Doesn't really matter. Get over it. Stop being buttered. I'm not sitting here making a bunch of videos defending Crowder, am I? Psh. Give a shit. He's a big boy. Fight his own fights. I love your channel, all the Nintendo news. Zola35, Adam Butters! Two dollars, I'm just gonna take a swig. Yeah. I love you all this year. Either Nintendo fans don't know what they want or Nintendo doesn't know how to give it to them. Just look at the part in Wind Waker where you have to search for the parts of the Triforce. The fans will honor it and Nintendo gave it to them. But it only turned out to be shitty part of a great game. Wait a second, hold on, let me reread that. Either Nintendo fans don't know what they want or Nintendo doesn't know how to give it to them. Okay, just look at the part in the Wind Waker where you have to search for the parts of the Triforce. The fans will honor it and Nintendo gave it to them. Only turned out to be a shitty part. Hmm. Whoa, my beard just spilt all over the place. Where's my paper towel? One second, I gotta grab some paper towel. It like exploded all over the desk. Maybe I slammed the beer bottle. I probably slammed the beer bottle down too much so I did that little fizzy thing that happens, you know? Like if you take something and you slam the top of a beer bottle, I don't know, maybe you guys don't know, maybe you're too young to drink beer, but. It's a thing that can happen. You can make beer kind of explode like a volcano. Used to be something I do to people, friends at the bar when I was younger. So I probably just slammed it down too hard so it decided to fizz up. Anyways, I did drink, I did drink at them. I don't think fans wanted the Triforce Hunt. I think he might have some revisionist history there. The Triforce Hunt replaced dungeons. There were supposed to be dungeons. There were cut dungeons in the Wind Waker that ended up getting used in Twilight Princess. But that Triforce Hunting Quest was a dungeon replacement because what happened is in play testing the game, people got to the part of the game and that part of the game wasn't there. The game felt too short. So Nintendo added in the Triforce Quest to make the game longer. Fans didn't ask for that Triforce Quest. In fact, fans didn't ask for Wind Waker in general. Wind Waker was panned. Fans didn't want it. When they showed the Wind Waker, it got hated on like a motherfucker. Fans hated Wind Waker, hated it. And at the time, it was the worst selling 3D Zelda game. It didn't sell well. Fans didn't want it. Now, in hindsight, do people enjoy it? Yeah, but back in the day, do that game was shit on the moment it was shown. Nobody wanted that kind of Zelda. They wanted the Space World 2000 Zelda that was shown off. You know, they wanted what we eventually got with Twilight Princess, which is why Twilight Princess massively outsold Wind Waker. Fans didn't want Wind Waker in general. So that Triforce Hunting Quest was just a dungeon replacement. And fans didn't like it. They didn't want it. They didn't want Wind Waker in general. Now, hindsight, fans love Wind Waker and they respect Wind Waker now. But like, at the time, fans are like whatever. And that's where, you know, fans don't know what they want until they have it. Fans thought they would hate Wind Waker and then they played it and it turns out a lot of people actually really enjoyed Wind Waker. But, I love when Nintendo Q is like, you know I'm right, that's why you don't make a response when I've literally spent like six minutes responding directly to him. The irony. All right, I thought about Zelda. Fuck this shit. Nintendo is overpricing games, failing to fix hardware issues and refusing to take action. I would say they're refusing to take action. They are, what are your points for Nintendo being consumer friendly? I never said that Nintendo was consumer friendly. Who said Nintendo's consumer friendly? I never said Nintendo's consumer friendly. I literally never said that, you're putting words in my mouth. All these companies are for profit companies. Let's be clear here. Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft make every decision they do to make the most money. Right now, Game Pass is technically something that loses money, but Microsoft is going for the long haul. Hey, in 30 years, we're going to be making billions and billions off of Game Pass. So they're looking at forego short term profits for even greater profits long haul. So even the decisions with Game Pass that makes them lose money right now are actually done with the intention to make a lot of money later. So all these companies are just doing what they have to do to make the most amount of money possible. So Nintendo, yeah, they have a hardware problem. Joy-Con drift is real. They're not fixing it. They are offering free repairs in the United States and some other countries, but they're not fixing it. Why? I don't know. Could be lawsuit reasons. Could be, you know, because they're waiting for a bunch of pending lawsuits right now, could be because they have a revision in the works with the Switch Pro that fixes it. I have no idea. No clue. Nintendo hasn't fixed it. They're refusing to fix it. The PlayStation 5 controller, the gear that makes the sticks, the bumpers work and have those adaptive triggers or whatever they're called. It's made out of plastic. Many people have already broken it by playing Call of Duty, so it's not designed well. Works really, really cool, but then it's easy to break because it's a plastic gear, a plastic spindle gear. Oh, and by the way, PlayStation 5 controllers also have drift. There's actually a lawsuit, two of them, going on right now over PlayStation 5 drift. Sony's not doing anything about it. The point I make in bringing up Sony in the Nintendo comparison isn't to mock Sony or mock Nintendo. It's because none of these companies are our friends. These companies are just for-profit businesses trying to make as much money as they can, hoping that enough people are satisfied with their products along the way to keep buying them. So when you talk about, like, the overpricing of games, the overpricing, again, is a subjective nature. You could say Super Mario 3D World plus Bowser Fury is overpriced. That's your opinion, but, you know, 10, 15 million. Other people that bought it clearly didn't think it was overpriced. Like, pricing on anything is determined by the market. If you overprice something, the market won't pay for it. If you price something a certain way and it sells at that price, that means that Nintendo valued it correctly. Pricing is very much a supply and demand, a market issue. Okay? So anytime we talk about Nintendo overpricing things, it's all your personal opinion is that that game wasn't worth 60 bucks or that port wasn't worth 60 bucks. But your opinion has nothing to do with business. Business is all about pricing things where the market will bear. If something is factually overpriced in the market, it won't sell. That's how it works. When a product is overpriced, it doesn't sell. PlayStation 3 at launch was overpriced and had horrible sales. It was overpriced for consumer demand. It wasn't overpriced for how much the components cost. It was overpriced for the marketplace it was in. So consumers didn't buy it and it fell way behind the Xbox 360 and it took revisions and price cuts to come back. So I am always very careful with games overpriced thing because I realize that pricing has to do with supply and demand and what the market will bear. If the market's willing to pay 60 bucks for it, it can't say it's overpriced. You could say that you don't feel it's as valuable as another $60 product. As Link's Awakening, you know, the remake of Link's Awakening at 60 bucks is valuable as Breath of the Wild. At 60 bucks, in most people's opinions, Breath of the Wild's more valuable. But is the market still buying it and enough quantities to justify the price point? Yup. So then Nintendo will be leaving money on the table to release these games at lower prices. Now, there's obviously a different strategy. You can go like the old, what is it? The old NFL 2K. You know, you had Madden coming out at 50, 60 bucks a year and then NFL 2K comes along and says, hey, we're gonna release a product that's just as good but only charges 20 bucks. And then went for the, boom, we're gonna undercut you strategy. That's a strategy that works as well. Releasing really good games for cheap prices. You can also obviously talk about how, well, you know, Sony charges $40 for this remaster or this remaster or they bundle this and there's new content and there's more work. You're right. None of that's were incorrect. Spyro reignited trilogy had way more work put into a crash. Bandicoot trilogy had way more work put into it than some of these Wii U parts. You are absolutely right. You are 1,000% correct. And they were cheaper. Also correct. And what's that have to do with value? Value is determined by the consumer. Those games, even as bundles, weren't considered as valuable by the consumer as a $60 Mario part. A $60 Mario part outsold the combined sales of Crash Bandicoot trilogy, insane trilogy across all platforms. One Wii U Mario part outsold the combined trilogy at 40 bucks a pop. Why? Because consumers value that individual game more than they value that trilogy. That's the hard part. We've talked about this before with consumer demand and pricing strategies from Nintendo. I'm not defending Nintendo in terms of, as a consumer, I would like to see them bring the price down. Absolutely. I think Wii U ports should be 40 bucks max. But, the market determines that Nintendo can charge more. If the games didn't sell at 60, Nintendo would stop charging 60. Thank you so much Clayton Miller. $10 Super Chat, shout out man. It's sadly looks like the default creative character in most sports game. Where is Mario Galaxy 2? I sadly look at the default creative character in most, what? I don't know what you mean there, but I understand the hashtag where is Mario Galaxy 2. Galaxy 2 baby. I talked about them at double that length that man, it sucks that Galaxy 2 is not part of 3D All Stars. It's like having an Ocarina of Time, Twilight Princess, Wind Waker collection but not including Majora's Mask. It's like what? What? I mean I don't know that Nintendo's gonna do that collection, but I'm saying it's like if they have their own Zelda 3D All Star collection and they left a sequel out like that. Turtle, Turtle says I mean $40 isn't really a devalue for the games. I think they would do good at that price. I'm not saying the games wouldn't do good at 40 bucks. I don't think anyone's saying the games wouldn't do good if they were cheaper. But Nintendo would also be leaving money on the table. You gotta remember, pricing is based on market demand. Super Mario 3D All Stars, can we all admit that game is not a $60 game? You're playing three games that are 15 plus years old. Emulated. Is it really worth 60 bucks? I think we can all say from a value perspective that's not a very good quote unquote value. Especially if you can compare it to all other trilogy collections out there and the amount of work they had done for cheaper. I think we can all agree, yeah Nintendo was pretty lazy and they charged 60 bucks. But what happened? 10 million sales later, clearly Nintendo knew what the hell they were doing and maximize their IP and made a shit load more money than all those other trilogies did. Also, there's a psychology involved. No, you can argue this is Nintendo being shitty as a company, but there's a psychology involved. When you charge 60 bucks for a game, right? So there's a $60 expectation in the marketplace. Sony's trying to make it be 70, but there's a $60 expectation in the marketplace that brand new AAA games are going to be 60 bucks. So when you port over, say Pikmin 3 Deluxe and you charge 60 for it, okay? A lot of people don't know what Pikmin 3 is because it came out on a system that hardly anyone owned. Because you have a system with 85 million sales, you have a system that had 13 million sales total with a franchise that isn't that popular. Most people that own Switch have no fucking clue what Pikmin is, let alone Pikmin 3 Deluxe. So they go to Walmart and they see Pikmin 3 Deluxe in the new release section listed for $59.99. Well, Walmart, it would be $49.99. So let's say Best Buy or GameStop. They go there and it's listed at $59.99. And it's listed in the new release section. You know what they think? This is a brand new game release for Switch. Now, Nintendo isn't advertising it that way. And it technically is a new release for Switch, but it's not a new game. But the psychology hits in, this must be a new exclusive game for Switch for the 60 bucks. Suddenly, you're more than willing to spend that 60 bucks because you don't know any better as a consumer. You are an uneducated consumer. So Nintendo kind of sort of takes advantage of you. Now, Nintendo never advertises it that way, but they realize that people buying new games, parents buying new games are not looking at the history of franchises and Google searching and digging into shit. They go new Switch games and the latest releases pop up and the latest releases are Wii U port for 60 bucks and it's a Mario game. Fuck it. My kids like Mario. Let's buy him this game. They like Mario Odyssey. Let's buy him U Deluxe. Let's buy him 3D world plus Bowser's Fury. 60 bucks. Nintendo knows it. They create an expectation that every game that comes out is going to be 60 bucks. They created a really, I mean they basically created a market strategy that I think almost every console manufacturer wishes they could go back in time and do. Nintendo has created a market expectation that no matter what we're charging 60, which isn't always true. Sometimes they do charge 40, but for the most part, they charge 60. And they created a market expectation for it. So is it consumer friendly? Of course it's not, but is it business friendly? That's a fucking loopy. Nintendo is not generally a consumer friendly company. So then why do they have so many consumers? Because people love their fucking games. You don't have to be consumer friendly to make good games. That's the real butt end of it. Why do so many of us play Nintendo games? Because we like the fucking games. Like as an example, spent 60 bucks on 3D world plus Bowser's Fury. I freaking love 3D world. I had a blast playing 3D world just two days ago with my kids. I was playing Super Mario 3D world with my kids. I was playing Bowser's Fury with Eric the other day. Like I'm having a blast playing this game. Do I think it should be 60 bucks? No, but do I regret the purchase at 60 bucks? Also no, because I enjoy the game that much. Pikmin 3 Deluxe. Yeah, probably should be cheaper, but you know what, it's still just as good of a game at 60 as it is at 40. The quality of the game doesn't change. It's still a damn good game. Like that's the thing. Nintendo has such loyal consumers like myself who end up hypocritically spending 60 bucks when you don't think things should be charged at price. Because the games are so fucking good. The games are just great. Ironically, the one thing I probably regret buying was Super Mario 3D All-Stars. It's not like every purchase I buy, I don't have buyers remorse. But I don't think like there's anything that is particularly consumer-friendly about any of the companies. You know, oh, you get free games. They're just encouraging people to subscribe to their service. It's not free. You're paying money to access those games. That's not free. Free is free. You give them nothing, they give you something. Having to subscribe to a service is not free. So every time I say, oh man, you see these PlayStation Plus games, they're called amazing. You're right, they're giving you really good games to encourage more people to subscribe to PlayStation Plus. There's a reason. They're not just giving you those games over the kindness of their heart. They're pumping up subscribers to their service that makes them more money. It's all money-driven. None of it is driven by we're just being nice. That's not how it works. These are all for-profit companies. Everything they do, somewhere in that chain, has a goal of making money. So yeah, they give you these games. Those games aren't selling anymore. People aren't buying them anymore. Newsflash, when they give you Final Fantasy VII Remake through PlayStation Plus, nobody's buying Final Fantasy VII Remake anymore. The sales are done. So they're giving you something that nobody's buying to encourage people that would not have bought the game otherwise to pay 15 bucks a month and get their subscription service. You can't see what they're doing. They're giving you something that doesn't really have that much value in the marketplace anymore. To encourage you to spend more money then you were gonna spend without it. Because you weren't gonna buy those games anyways. See what I'm saying? It's all manipulation to get people to spend money. That's what it's all about. Is it wrong? I don't think it's wrong that you wanna say it's wrong. It's just different strategies to make money. I take advantage of PlayStation Plus. I take advantage of Game Pass. You know, I have Nintendo Switch online, which yeah, I don't agree with having multiplayer locked behind online and all that, but you know, what am I gonna do? I like playing Mario Kart multiplayer. I like playing Splatoon 2 multiplayer too much to just not be able to do it when it's only 20 bucks a year on my pocket. I don't like that it's locked behind an online service, but at the same point, I wanna play these games online and 20 bucks to me, you know what? It's like a fart in the wind. Doesn't even fill up half a gas tank for me. Fuck it, I could take 20 bucks out of my pocket per year and just, you know, pay it so I can play the games I want online the way I wanna play them. It's the reality of the marketplace. I could boycott it, but my desire to play the games outweighs my desire to boycott. Because the games are good. The games are too fucking good. And the same thing's true right now. I'm playing a lot of games on PlayStation right now because I didn't really play PlayStation 4. So I have a bunch, I have like Final Fantasy VII downloaded, I might be going to that next to remake. I've never played Final Fantasy VII by the way. So the remakes should be, it's like a brand new game experience for me. It's gonna be great. But right now I'm finishing up Miles Morales. I didn't even play the original Spider-Man. I do have it on here. I'll probably, I might go Miles Morales then go back to the original Spider-Man. Then do either God of War or Final Fantasy VII remake yet? I don't know yet. I'm enjoying going through that library right now. Stuff like that. You know, I just, yeah. All these companies are just trying to make money. None of them are consumer friendly. It's funny like when you, when my people say, like, oh AMD is consumer friendly. Look at the prices on their CPUs. And it's like, they didn't price it there to be consumer friendly. They price it there to get people to buy their product over somebody else's product. They're not trying to be consumer friendly. They're trying to make you feel like it's consumer friendly. So you spend money on them and not the competition. That's the reality. They're not gonna say that. They're gonna come out and be like, oh, we're selling you this. Why does Switch Lite cost 200? No, we're not telling you that we're charging 200 so we could get more people to buy Switches so they spend more money on video games. No, no, no, no, no. We don't wanna tell you that. We want you to think, oh, we're giving you an option. You know, if you want, if you've ever wanted a smaller Switch that's more pocketable, here you go. That's why it's worth 200 bucks. Not that we're trying to just sell the same SOC and a cheaper form factor and make more money off of you. They're not gonna tell you that. They're gonna tell you, no, no, no, no, no. You want something that fits in your pocket. It's cheap for your kids. Here you go. But reality is it's all with the goal to sell more games. And it's digital only, right? So you have a physical cop? Well, no, it's not digital only, sorry. No, you could use physical games with Switch Lite. I was getting me confused with PSP Go for a second. PSP Go was digital only. I had so many damn handhelds out there. Even though PSP was a while ago. Seven Remix, pretty good. That's what I've heard. I've never played Final Fantasy VII. I played Final Fantasy VIII on PC back in the day, but I never played Final Fantasy VII. I played Final Fantasy I through V. Don't, I think I tried six when I was a kid, but I didn't beat it. Never played seven. Played eight. I really enjoyed eight on PC. Then I didn't really play again until Final Fantasy XII. Enjoyed that on my friend's system, who I lived with at the time. And then I haven't really played Final Fantasy XII. 12. I just don't have the kind of time I have when I was younger, too. I used to have time to dabble, you know, I have multiple games playing at the same time that you're sinking hundreds and thousands of hours in. I don't have that kind of time now. So I have to be very picky and choosy on what games I dive into and when. Have a good, love your videos, never get a chance to comment. Ben here the whole time, but Ben at work. Hey, that happens, man. Glad you're enjoying the stream. Played the remake. I just started chapter two, but Final Fantasy VII hours pretty good. Talk about free melee, please. I don't really have anything to say about free melee. I've talked about it before. I understand why Nintendo shut it down. Shut down, it's basically about that tournament. They shut down because they were using modded versions of melee, which means they're using ROMs and illegal copies of melee in order to play online to have the tournament because they can't do the tournament in person. I understand why Nintendo shut it down because Nintendo is very anti-ROM, but I also understand why in the midst of COVID, maybe you should let it go and just not do anything about it. I don't think Nintendo cares. They clearly don't because the free melee movement got a whole bunch of attention and Nintendo's done nothing. Then again, Nintendo's never really supported the Smash community that well, at least the competitive community. So I'm not really sure why we're surprised. They're just doing what they've always done. They've shut down multiple melee tournaments over the years. They've shut down Smash Ultimate tournaments. They've shut down their own Smash Ultimate tournaments. They're really, why are we surprised? Nintendo doesn't give a shit about competitive Smash. Period. So what more do you want me to say? They just don't care. We can't make them care. We can't make Nintendo care about something they don't care about. And the competitive Smash community, as big as it might seem, it's really minuscule compared to the total amount of people that play Smash. So they really don't care if they piss off that competitive Smash community because they make up a minute fraction of the amount of people that buy Smash Bros. Competitive Smash just isn't a big deal to Nintendo. They'll pretend it is at times, of course, because they want to try to, especially when they're marketing the game, they want to try to appease everyone. But in the end, their true colors always come out. They don't care about competitive Smash. They're probably never gonna care about competitive Smash. Mudaha from SOG. I don't know what you're talking about, Merlin, Starhugs. I don't know what we're talking about there. I'm not sure what you're referencing. What do I think of the Age of Calamity DSC will be about? I have no idea, man. I'm just as, I thought we had everything we needed to story-wise. I don't know if they're gonna add any more story. It might just be gameplay segments. It might not even be, well, no, I think they did mention there was gonna be some story elements. I have no idea. I'm excited for it because I want more story, so diving into more story sounds like a good idea. Samantha, yes, I got the pack of gum. You mean the random pack of gum that you and your husband sent to my house? Talk about a really weird Amazon. I'm like, why, okay, so I get packages because we've been upgrading the new camera, a bunch of stuff for the studio, but I get this package in this bubble wrap envelope and I'm like, what the hell did I order that's in this? I rip it open and I'm like, a pack of gum? I don't buy gum on Amazon. What the fuck? Then I look at who it's from and I'm like, ah, must have been like that one stream when my kid wanted gum or why I can't remember. There was something that, I remember there was a stream I did about some gum and I didn't have any or whatever it was. And I'm like, you guys, you guys are always watching. I swear, you guys catch every minute thing. And that's why you spent, you know, like what, three bucks on some gum? I don't know what you spent. Yeah, I hope you didn't have to pay for shipping. Paying for shipping is the worst. Like, especially when it's just a single pack of gum. You'll pay more for shipping than the actual gum. Just wanted to be sure to arrive. We were going to wait, but we figured you'd need it. The gum has been used. I don't think it's all gone. I think it's on that desk right there actually. Yeah, I see it. I've had a few pieces of it. It's not all gone. But let me see here. Yeah, I think AOC-DLC is just gonna be a playable character in some more who knows. I mean, they mentioned something about story, but we'll see. Do you think future Nintendo Switch will support 5G? Nope. Nope. I don't think Nintendo has any interest in working with cell phone companies. So no. He breathes. I'm really close to the mic. So you can hear even my normal breathing. It could sound really loud. Hmm. I'm drinking on a random Tuesday. I don't know what that has to do with anything. Someone just making fun of me for having some drinks. I mean, I haven't even had half a beer. When this stream ends, the rest of this beer is just gonna get dumped out. But sure. Kill a guy for having to, you know, a few sips of beer on a Tuesday. Who gives a shit? Live in my life. You live yours, man. 35, I'm not really concerned what day of the fucking week it is when I have some beer. What should I do to get Nate to understand what I meant? Oh, cringling. I know you weren't talking to me. Chill. You don't need anyone else to explain it to you. I talked about the consumer-friendly thing because I saw you talking about it in the chat. I know I initially said, are you calling me consumer-friendly? I read everything you said. You weren't talking about me. You were talking about a different user. I can't remember. You added him earlier. You were talking about a different user. You were going back and forth to the different user that talked about it. I was just expounding upon that conversation and noting that, hey, I don't think any of these companies are consumer-friendly. So what the fuck are we even talking about consumer-friendlyness for? I don't think consumer-friendlyness exists with for-profit companies. Even when they do something that seems friendly, it still has the angle of upping the reputation to make more money. Anyways. You're all right, cringling. You're all right. It can be hard to follow sometimes. You guys are like little chat messages in a chat window. I'm on camera with a microphone. It can get a little, communication isn't always like the grandest in these situations, right? You know, it does just the honest. There's always a little bit of a disconnect between chat and a live streamer because you guys have such like limited characters and everything I just said in this one sentence is more than you can say in an individual comment on a live chat. And the chat moves, you know, when you talk about something, you look down and the chat's already scrolled like 10 feet. I smoke weed every day. No, you're all right, dude. I'm chill about a lot of things. Don't always buy into people that are angry that they got banned because they insulted me during the stream. You know? Don't insult people. That's okay, bud. It's time for us to get ready for bed anyways. All right, I gotta, you wanna come over and say hi to everyone? No, okay. You don't have to come on camera. All right. Thank you guys for tuning in. I gotta get my kids ready for bed. You guys make a big mess up there? No? Only the food from earlier? Okay. All right. Well, thank you guys for tuning in. You guys have a lovely day. NintendoQ says you guys should go watch Play Restants. He does a good job talking to the chat. Yeah, go watch Play Restants. I don't got a problem with him. He's a good dude. Even if I did have a problem with him, you can still go watch him. He's a good dude. I watch his streams. I'm a mod in his streams. He's a good guy. For the most part. Sometimes he's a little combative, but you know, everyone I think has a little bit of combativeness in him. Are you guys have a good rest of your day? I put my kids to bed and all that jazz. It was a fun stream. Mike, get one more video up for you guys. We'll see. Depends on my time. Probably just gonna be a voiceover gameplay if I do cover it. But we'll see. I do have something I really wanted to get done today, but the stream went a little longer. It happens. I was having a good time. Shout out to everyone who's super chatted. Let's see here if I can find that here. All the super chats. Does it say it's under analytics? They used to have a thing where I could look at the individual super chats, but I don't think it does that anymore. Let me look over on streamlabs quick here. Why is it not giving me, oh there it is. There's the information. So we got Adam Butters for five dollars. We got Mariano Rivera for five. We got Adam Butters for two. And then Clayton Miller for 10. Thank you guys so much for coming in. The one can still. Hate Nintendo Q. Before I signed out here. When you talk about me saying that he can be a bit combative sometimes, when I'm banning everyone. You're the only one who got banned. And player essence bans like five people per stream. Do you actually watch his live streams? I'm just curious. Between his mods and player essence himself, dude, he bans a lot of people. It'd be very curious to see his ban list on his backend. Dude, he bans a lot of people. Anyone who, you can ask people who watch my channel. There's people that somehow just disagree with him and he'll sometimes ban him over it. Because there's a misunderstanding between what the person said in the chat. The misunderstanding that Kringley, in example, thought was happening here. Like, he thought there was a misunderstanding. There wasn't. But sometimes there's misunderstandings like that and then he bans people. This isn't me criticizing player essence. He's free to do what he wants. I'm just saying he does come across a little bit combative sometimes. It's not the end of the world. We all are who we are. I could be combative sometimes. I'm not like oblivious to my own flaws. Anyways, all right. I'll catch you guys later. Peace out. And then 10. I'll almost say in 10 to Q, you haven't watched his channel for very long. That's all I'm gonna say on that. I've literally watched him ban someone over a misunderstanding and an opinion that disagreed with him. I've seen it happen. I've taught to him about it behind the scenes. It's factually occurred. Because he makes some assumptions about people. But I'm not gonna go there. He went there once on Twitter, I'm not gonna go there. So I'm pretty sure player essence has me banned. So hey, if you like player essence so much, stop watching my content. Pretty sure that player essence has me blocked right now. True story, true story, player essence has me blocked. So, all right, catch you guys later.