 Hey everyone. It's kind of a weird video. A video I never really thought I would make, but I've made some decisions with my YouTube channel now. I'm not leaving YouTube. I want to stress this. Nintendo Prime is not leaving YouTube. We are going to continue to create videos, like we've always created on this channel. However, if you saw my live stream this morning or my live stream later tonight, you will maybe already know what I'm talking about. And that is that I am no longer, after today, going to be streaming on YouTube. I have no plans to come back to YouTube for streaming. Now, you might wonder, why am I making this decision? Well, before I get into that, I do got to remind you I got a couple of giveaways. First is for Nintendo Switch, a PlayStation 5, or an Xbox Series X. And then after that, we are also giving away two copies of Pikmin 3 Deluxe. Head down to the description to find out how to enter. Like, subscribe, comment on this video, all that jazz. Hit the bell icon, whatever. Let's go. Road to 100,000. Hopefully we hit it this year. Alright, so here's the deal. YouTube screwed me over. I talked about this before in a video you can watch up here. They kind of screwed me over for September. I lost out on a lot of revenue, might get it back, might not get it back. It's not looking promising at the moment. But in wake of this, it's not so much about the money loss. It's about a realization that so much of what I do for this channel is so reliant on a single platform and a single platform holder. I stream a lot relative to my channel. You know, we're talking three, four times a week, sometimes five days a week. We're talking, we have the podcast on some weeks we have. Obviously, three, four to five videos going up a day. We have a lot of content I output on this channel. And I do it all on my own. I do it all on my own, while I'm also full-time parenting three children. Well, I'm in full-time college and I work a full-time job. So I'm doing a lot. My life is busy as hell. So there's nothing more frustrating than when YouTube screws with your revenue, which they did in September. Again, I'm not going to get too much into it. But the point I'm bringing up is it reminded me that so much of my online presence in terms of this channel is reliant upon YouTube. I make hundreds of dollars a month in Super Chat revenue on live streams. And so that's like the big revenue driver for live streams. It's not the ad money. It's that it's that it's actually the big revenue driver for the entire channel. I've made something around $24,000 on the lifetime of this channel and 17,000 of that was Super Chat revenue. So Super Chat revenue has been a big deal on my channel for a long time. But I've decided that I'm going to move all of my live streams after today because we're going to have one little going away stream tonight to twitch at twitch.tv slash Nintendo Prime TV. And the reason I've decided to do this is to diversify my audience and diversify my income. We all know that YouTube's notification system is horrible. Sometimes my videos don't even show up in your subscription fees, let alone getting notifications. Some people get notified of my stream six hours later, which defeats the purpose of a live stream because then you had a chance to be alive. You just didn't know it was happening. Now if you follow on Twitter and Discord, you get additional ways to obviously, you know, if you join our Discord server and you follow on Twitter, there's just additional ways you can find out about this stuff. But you might not be on those platforms at the time when the notifications go out. So you're kind of left twiddling your thumbs. So I've decided that I'm going to put all my streams on Twitch. And this isn't like an unheard of thing. A lot of other YouTube content creators make a ton of YouTube videos, but they stream exclusively on Twitch. Part of this is because Twitch does kind of have like this exclusivity contract thing when you're a Twitch affiliate or a Twitch, what is it, partner, you can't co-stream. There are people that do it, they do co-stream on YouTube and Twitch, but you're not supposed to. And Twitch has the right to revoke all of the money you make. And already on Twitch, I'm already up to like 58 or 59 subs because Twitch Prime, if you didn't know, if you had Amazon Prime connected to your Twitch account, you can give a free sub to a channel. And a lot of people right now are choosing to give their subs to my efforts over on there. And hey, if we hit 100 subs on Twitch, I am planning to do some Twitch subs exclusive giveaways and then every 100 additional subs we get after that, the giveaways will just get bigger and bigger for those Twitch subs. And yes, my next stream on Twitch, whenever that stream is, I know for sure I'm streaming on Friday, but whenever that stream is, I will be giving away $40 in total of, you know, eShop gift cards just because I can. But here's the deal. The biggest reason to make this shift is because I need to diversify my audience. It's not necessarily about drawing in new people necessarily from Twitch, although I hope to have some organic growth on Twitch with more gameplay streams and talk streams over there. But it's primarily in my honest opinion about making sure that all my eggs aren't in the YouTube basket. My channel has grown to a point that I don't want everyone just following on YouTube. I want other places people can get my content. I've talked about Bitshoot and other places I'm trying to support with my content. But reality is I have a really awesome opportunity with a big streaming platform to take my streams off of YouTube, put them over there on Twitch, and see a modicum of success and grow a different type of audience that's coming just for live streams without affecting the YouTube algorithm. And it's weird because my streams get a lot of views. I'm getting more views on my streams on YouTube than I ever have. But I'm also like because I'm streaming it promotes the Superchats where YouTube takes 30%, people don't use the donation like that much. And I like Superchats. I like what they provide. And I think Superchats is one of the biggest things you lose because Twitch uses bits, which I mean, bits suck. In comparison to Superchats, bits are horrible. Even though you can donate down to the penny, it doesn't matter. Bits to me are just horrendous in comparison to Superchats. But there's a lot of benefits of the Twitch streaming platform. Outside of the subs and the Amazon Prime subs that people can give, which can lead to higher subcounts, I'm talking about things like, well, how about the fact that I can run polls with the audience? I can run giveaway apps with the audience. I can do a whole bunch of crap. There can be leaderboards and all this stuff that isn't reliant on me running some special tool in Streamlabs to make it work, which sometimes it doesn't work. If you guys have been to my streams, you'll know some of Streamlabs just flat out doesn't work with YouTube. It's just not accurate with some of the things I try to do. So there's a lot of benefits where a lot of streaming tools out there are actually purpose built for Twitch, including Streamlabs, if we're completely honest. So I want to take advantage of these tools, create more engaging and better live streams, while also making sure I have an audience on two different platforms because if God forbid I get copyright strikes on my channel, God forbid YouTube snaps its fingers and stops sending out notifications on my videos, which by the way, my views are already going like this from September and they're almost down to numbers I haven't seen in months. It lets me know that YouTube's already hating on my channel. Now more than ever, I need to get my audience shifted over to another platform so they can at least see the streams, if nothing else, because yes, I'll still be doing Q&A and talky talk streams and talking about news over on Twitch. I'm still going to do that. I'm also going to be doing more gameplay streams than I've been doing. So it's a place you're really really going to want to check out. Now, if there's like a big highlight or something cool to bring over to the YouTube, I will still re upload to YouTube at least 24 hours later. As an example, I did the podcast this past Monday, which was yesterday, I guess last night on Twitch, that's going to be arriving on YouTube later today or tonight, roughly 24 hours after I started on Twitch. So it's just one of those things to keep an eye on and pay attention to, because I just don't want to be reliant on YouTube as I feel like I've hit a certain size with my channel, or I don't want to be reliant on YouTube as the only place you can discover my content. Does this mean I'm never going to stream on YouTube again? I don't know. One thing I'm still debating on is what happens with a Nintendo Direct. That's the one thing I'm just not quite sure if I want to make that exclusive on Twitch, but I guess that's going to depend on how well our Twitch channel grows, because I don't think we're going to get a major Nintendo Direct until next year. Anyways, heck, if at all again, I don't know what Nintendo's plans are with Directs. So it's just something I'm still kind of spinning with Directs, but pretty much my stream tonight is it. That's going to be my last stream on YouTube, at least the last planned stream I have on YouTube. Everything else is going to be on Twitch. I'm going to keep pushing the Twitch. I'm going to keep promoting the Twitch. This YouTube's kind of promoting this YouTube video here is kind of promoting the Twitch and YouTube might hate me for doing it. I have no idea. I've heard rumors that YouTube starts to really like, like defavor people who are promoting Twitch, but I really don't care. I need to make sure my audience can enjoy my streams, enjoy my content and Twitch just provides a better notification system. I realize there are some things I'm giving up. The number one thing I'm giving up from a personal perspective is I'm giving up revenue. I am legitimately not going to make more on Twitch right now than I make doing live streams on YouTube. I'm just not. I make more money doing streams on YouTube than on Twitch. I make more money on Superchats than I do on Twitch because I get more Superchats on YouTube than I get donations on Twitch. It's just the way it goes. So I'm technically giving up a lot of money, hundreds and hundreds of dollars to edge up to thousands of dollars a year, unless my Twitch really explodes, and I don't know if it will. In addition, I know there's some of you out there where the Twitch app just doesn't work well on your phone, other devices, or if you're at work, it's a banned app or a banned website, so you just can't gain access to it. Some people have it banned in their households. I get it and I'm sorry. There's ways around it with VPNs, but reality is I'm sorry. I know Twitch is a very different environment than YouTube. Hopefully I can bring some of that YouTube vibe over to Twitch because I think it could fit in well there, but I know it's different over there, okay? But I need to think about what's best for the future of Nintendo Prime and that is diversifying content. I'm not going anywhere. I repeat, I'm still a YouTuber first and foremost and my focus is right here on this channel. Road to 100K, road to 500K, road to a million. We're still going to be pushing, but we're going to focus more on what YouTube was originally built for and that's uploaded, edited content. And we'll get the streams going on the platform that was purpose built for it. And I hope I grow on both platforms. That's always the goal, to grow on both. So I'm both a Twitch streamer, but also a YouTuber or a YouTuber and also a Twitch streamer, whichever you want to view it. I want to do both. I enjoy both. As I said, there might be an occasional stream over here. Like if I do a charity stream, I'm going to want to reach as many people as possible. Twitch rules be damned. But for the most part, you want to catch my streams. Head on over to twitch.tv slash Nintendo Prime TV. Link in the description. Thank you guys so much for tuning in. I hope you support me on my new platform. You decide to throw me your Twitch sub or just heck, if you don't even have like a sub, you know, an Amazon Prime sub to give, just sub anyways, right? It's five bucks. There's also a tier two at 10, tier two at three. I'm going to be working on getting some more emojis and stuff in there that you guys can use for subbing. We have a sub leaderboard. If you gift subs during live streams, I think Ed's at the top right now. He's gifted to Edward Norton is gifted to sub so far. Again, we want to get to 100 over there. We're actually not that far away. So let's do that. Let's get our first sub only giveaway going and just go from there because I truly think you guys are amazing and awesome and special. And I want to make sure everyone can enjoy my content as much as possible. And I understand there's always going to be some people left behind when you move something to a new platform. But I also feel like that new platform is going to actually long haul lead to more people being able to see my streams just because Twitch's notification system isn't broken. It's purpose built for streamers. So thank you guys so much for tuning in. Weird video. Like it's a happy but sad either way tune in because tonight at 8 p.m central standard time we have our final go away bash stream on YouTube here before I go over to Twitch and we'll be having the drinks will be flowing. We'll talk more about the move. I answer all of your questions. Maybe we'll play some games for the last time here on YouTube. I have no idea. But I'm excited. I am excited for what is to come. Thank you guys for tuning in. I'm Nathan Robeljens from the center prime. You know what I'll catch each and every one of you guys in the next video.