 Today we got a three pack of news for all of you guys some major stuff happening by Nintendo. They have a major acquisition We call it an acquisition. It's more so a partnership, but it does involve quite a bit of money And Nintendo trying to expand the massive high-quality games that are on Nintendo switch and Nintendo platforms moving forward So we're gonna talk about that. We also have some updates on Potentially when the Nintendo director is gonna happen news flash We are now putting a certain leaker on the shit list today, but we'll talk about that later And then we also have a another story that's happening Maybe as you're listening to this video that we're going to discuss further on tonight's Nintendo Prime podcast But before we get into that there's two things I want to mention one this video is brought to you by us by Nintendo Prime We have launched brand new merchandise for you guys to look at we have sweatshirts We have zip hoodies like this one, although it's not this one This is actually an old-school classic one. You can't buy any more And we have like a XXL desk mats and stuff like that, you know So yeah, there's a there's a number of things like a mug as well Featuring a brand new design. So we'll put a link down in the description for anyone who Wants to check that out. You don't have to but I would appreciate it So yeah beyond all that we're also giving away a Nintendo switch OLED. That's right. Do you white switch OLED? We're giving one away All you have to do is be subscribed to the channel to enter. That's it We will be announcing the winner in a live stream in early October All right, so the lead story today our biggest story Arguably is that forever in entertainment has been sort of acquired by Nintendo forever entertainment Put out a series of tweets, but they really it's not really that Nintendo owns them But Nintendo has kind of partnered with them to form a new subsidiary that is 100% owned by forever entertainment That's exclusively working with Nintendo. So it's sort of like an acquisition kind of forever entertainment By the way, you might have heard of they have done things like the legend of Dragoon port to the Nintendo switch They're working with Square Enix on future games coming to switch as well So they have actually been a lead studio, you know, like panic button and others that have importing games to switch So Nintendo didn't actually buy forever entertainment, but they did enter into a major agreement On one of their subsidiaries forever seed fund which forever seed fund didn't even exist till April of this year And has done nothing as far as we're aware However, obviously that was in the midst of contractual negotiations that have now concluded hence the public announcement forever sees a brand new branch And Nintendo will be using forever seed fund to research high quality games being made in Eastern Europe This includes Poland and they mentioned Poland specifically not even not not exclusively Eastern Europe It could be all of Europe of the focuses on Eastern Europe and Poland Which is really interesting when you consider Poland because from Poland We have gotten some really really interesting games dying light bullet storms cyberpunk 2077 and outriders are all created in Poland which I find to be really interesting some of these studios You know like dying light has a version of their first game coming to switch later this month We've had Witcher 3 in the past some of these companies are worked with Nintendo, but the initiative is trying to essentially Task this company to find high quality games being made by third parties or whatever in Eastern Europe and Poland and essentially convince them to bring those games to Nintendo switch through whatever means whether it's monetary compensation Whether it's providing forever entertainment as a porting studio on Nintendo does have Nintendo of Europe But Nintendo of Europe actually has a very poor situation for talking to third-party companies while bringing games to Nintendo They've been very poor at this for a long time. They're more so just a marketing arm for Nintendo in Europe They're not really a seeking new partners kind of set up So and obviously with you know Nintendo of Europe managing a whole bunch of different countries marketing Nintendo wanted to take the ability to work with other companies to a studio that can dedicate themselves to doing and hence forever entertainment fund Obviously if being a fund it suggests that Nintendo is willing to monetarily compensate and even fun games They could be looking into exclusive games coming to switch in the future from trying to catch that next big Developer that's just sitting out there and has a massive project in the works But they just can't get the funding for it Nintendo could step up there Hence things like Bayonetta 2 and Bayonetta 3 that we've seen out of platinum games Astral chain etc. They have a very good partnership with it with funding games from that studio Nintendo could be looking for more European studios to do that with also It does appear that Nintendo is trying to get this studio to convince some of the major third parties exceeding project To ring future games if not current ones future games to Nintendo switch by providing development resources and monetary compensation To consider switch platforms moving forward This is actually a massive move by Nintendo that isn't going to probably see payouts from it for you know Two to three years which could be the end of the switch life cycle going into the next generation Platform from Nintendo if there is one and they don't just Decide to keep iterating and releasing more powerful switches over time and just keep this a forever kind of thing Like iPhone is still I do think that this is a very interesting twist of fate That Nintendo is engaging in because they clearly are trying to expand the gaming Repertoire on switch not just be so reliant on their own titles and a select few third-party games They want to see things like the next new IP that CD project red makes they would like to probably see that on switch But they're not going to consider switch outright while they're developing unless Nintendo is throwing hundreds of millions of dollars at them And also giving development resources, so I think that's kind of the goal here is to get those games over plus Obviously some independent developers that might have some really neat ideas, but need funding hence You know remembering that they funded golf story and sports story, which we haven't an update on in a while So yeah, we'll just have to wait and see what comes of this What clearly Nintendo is trying to get more major high quality European developers bringing their biggest games to switch And obviously future Nintendo platform. This is nothing but a good investment I think for Nintendo, but we'll have to see what comes of it So obviously we've been talking about the Nintendo Direct for a couple weeks and if you guys remember Remember the other day you might even read yesterday I can't remember what it was yesterday the day before we we talked about Zippo and Zippo saying that There is going to be a Nintendo Direct imminently likely this week And yeah, he appears to be wrong We are on Wednesday Nintendo does usually give us a full day heads up before Nintendo Direct happens and it has not been announced at the time of publication of this video or at least at the time of recording of this video So yeah, Zippo has actually been wrong quite a bit the last year So I think we have now reached a point where there's been enough incorrect I gave him the benefit of the doubt because he got some sonic information correct this year But I think we've reached a point that he's gotten enough wrong about Nintendo specifically That we could just kind of add him to the shit list and he's got quite a bit of work to come back It's not like Samus Hunter who got a couple things wrong at E3 But it's had a bunch of stuff right since then this guy has just hasn't been right about Nintendo in a long time He put all his eggs obviously and what I feel is a guess that the director would happen this week because the prior two Directs happened in the first week of September, but it is what it is We do have an interesting development though on when the direct might be happening So the monolith soft official website has posted that they will be doing a maintenance update next week If you guys remember there's a major game rumored to be coming from on on the soft in Xenoblade Chronicles 3 And that potentially could be added a direct I'm not sure if it will be but it is a possible game to be talked about at this Direct just like Donkey Kong and the rest of the rumor games out there the thing about this though Is that it is scheduled to happen on the 8th in Japan at 5 p.m. JST or 5 JST? And the thing is that's about 3 p.m. On the 7th here in the US now Nintendo usually does directs early in the morning the 7th would be a Tuesday They could obviously do the direct then then update the website later that day It's also possible this maintenance could last for several days and then obviously have a direct on that Thursday It's really interesting to see how Nintendo is going to line this up if it is next week This maintenance by the way could have literally nothing to do with the direct it could just be routine But there have been times in the past where official websites from Nintendo have gone under maintenance Right as a director is about to happen or did happen And then obviously that's because they're updating the website with all the new game information So I'll have to wait and see if that bears any fruit What is interesting is that Marco Mauro? Yes another one of those randos on the internet But he's actually been right on a lot of Nintendo direct dates over the last three years believe it or not He's actually been really accurate. I went back on all of his posts and it's around 85% accuracy on direct dates or direct related dates like the Mario anniversary stuff and what he threw out there is that Yeah, we should expect this on the 8th So he's saying on the 8th, which I know it sounds weird Tuesday and Thursday are our traditional Nintendo direct days The 8th is a Wednesday now Marco Mauro didn't clarify whether it was 8th Japan time or 8th US either way That's around the time that he is saying it's going to happen So just kind of another one of those leakers putting a feather in the cap Who actually has a pretty accurate track record and if not telling us when the date is going to be Predicting it and seemingly being right most of the time One final note for today's video. There is a reveal of a game happening Probably as you're watching this video Maybe it already happened depends on how quickly I get this entered enough Marvel's Midnight Sons, which was unveiled at Gamescom last week and was surprisingly Announced as coming to Nintendo switch along with PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X. I that really did shock some people It's supposed to be an XCOM style game. It's actually being made by the old XCOM team In fact, the lead director on it is actually one of the people that founded the XCOM series So obviously going to be heavily inspired by that if you if you guys don't have any experience with XCOM Think Mario plus Rabbids, you know, but like more military sci-fi ish. That is what XCOM is But yeah fire emblem, etc. These kind of you know RPG tactical strategy kind of games that that seems to be what this is going to be And yeah, it's gameplay reveal is today It actually happens. I think in like 40 minutes or so After the time of recording, although it's probably already happening as you're watching this I might make a separate video on it later today If I'm super super impressed and just really want to get something out about it right away Or if there's obviously another major story, I can pair with it. However, if not, don't worry We're still gonna be talking about that gameplay today because we have the Nintendo Prime podcast tonight at 8 p.m Central time. I'm actually gonna get that stream set up fairly soon I have to work on a new streaming set up with a new computer because all my stuff from Streamlabs OBS didn't pour it over So I either have to rebuild it in Streamlabs or finally make the full switch over to stream elements Which is something I'm trying to do to offload some stuff. I don't know. Anyways, we'll get more into that later When I just wanted to notice that we do have that podcast tonight at 8 p.m. Central time It'll be about an hour and a half long and we'll be obviously talking about this gameplay Especially if it's impressive, but we'll probably bring it up either way along with a number of things like Nintendo Direct predictions and you know, whatever else I decide to throw in there The topics are an ever-evolving thing throughout the day on the day of a direct So thank you guys for tuning in. I am Nathan Robajetz from Nintendo Prime I know a lot of a lot of chit-chatting this is time not a lot of a lot of energy a lot of hype You know, I can't bring it every single video, but I try Moving forward, we might be doing a little bit more entertaining segments in the future I got some some planned little pop-offs and firing and a whole bunch of cool stuff I'm just still getting things set up on the new computer Which for some reason I put again Windows 11 on for no real reason other than just to try it out And actually I'm kind of happy with it, but whatever. I'm Nathan Robajetz. You guys are watching Nintendo Prime Thank you for tuning in and I'll catch you in the next video