 Hey everyone, welcome back to Nintendo Prime and the very first video we're making without having an active studio. I do apologize if it's a little airy and echoey. I'm not exactly in the best recording space as we are not able to stay in our home right now in my treated studio for sound. But I'm also using a brand new microphone. So let me know in general how you think this sounds. Cause this is what we'll be using all week. This mic will also be the mic that we end up using for our live streams moving forward. At least the ones where it's just me. Obviously when we're doing a more full set situation with Eric and putting out a show, we'll be using some higher quality mics. But you know what? This is just to simplify things in my setup. That being said, this video is brought to you by the Toner TC30 USB microphone. It's actually the microphone I'm using right here. Looks pretty cool, huh? It is a plug and play microphone, requires no drivers to be installed, no special software. 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Two stories in particular I want to get to. One of them being with Atlas. You guys know Atlas, Shimigami Tensei 5, right? Pretty damn good game that released on Switch last year. They also make a lot of other games, Persona as an example. And we also get to talk about another interesting story that deals with Fire Emblem and a brand new Fire Emblem game basically being complete coming from a really legit source. Now that being said before I get into this I got to remind you we are giving away a Nintendo Switch OLED, a PlayStation 5 and an Xbox Series X. Now I will note since the studio renovations taking longer than expected we might be extending the date originally it was gonna be you can only enter through February 28th but given that this was all supposed to take place announcing the winner everything in the new studio we might delay this a little bit into March. I do apologize for delay on announcing the winner heck maybe we even make the giveaway run through March I have no idea. We'll cross that bridge when we get there but I'll have an update on that at least before the end of this week but that being said go ahead enter have fun. We are legitimately giving away a Nintendo Switch OLED, a PlayStation 5 or an Xbox Series X to one lucky winner. All right let's get into this stuff and let's first start with Fire Emblem. So we have a rumor coming from Emily Rogers. Now look we have seen a number of Fire Emblem rumors multiple games in the works et cetera and obviously we had one of them confirmed in Fire Emblem Warriors 2 at the last Nintendo Direct but she's not talking about that. Emily Rogers obviously has a long track record who's one of the longest tenured Nintendo insiders in some time. This isn't someone that we can attribute to just being sourced on Twitter or anywhere else. Emily Rogers legitimately has worked in the industry. So here's what she said over on FamiBoards which is a Nintendo focused forum and she said a new Fire Emblem game is not only in development at Intelligent Systems but it's nearly finished with that development and it could come out as early as October. Now will it be October 2022 or could it be an early 2023 release in February or March? I've mentioned before that this game is nearly finished with this development. Intelligent Systems has had over three plus years to develop this game and they've received assistance from a support studio. That said, Emily Rogers does note that hey they already have a really busy release schedule and so that's why she's saying hey this could end up being an early 2023 game instead of a 2022 game like it probably was originally planned to be. So yeah, this is really cool, you know. Now she does note of course that if you go back and rewind the clock to 2017 during the year Nintendo released two Fire Emblem games and Fire Emblem Warriors and Fire Emblem Echoes so who says history can't repeat itself again saying that hey you know what maybe it does come this year. Now look, obviously we don't know anything about this game and when it's coming up. Emily Rogers might know a bit more than what she's letting on right now. Maybe she'll talk about it more later this year. If it gets unveiled this year I would say I would presume if it is an early 2023 game it would be unveiled say at the September Nintendo Direct. If it is gonna come out this year period I would assume it's unveiled at a summer Nintendo Direct maybe during the E3 event if there is one. So there's a lot of unknowns here. But what I will say is that I'm just excited in general for more Fire Emblem. Fire Emblem Three Houses, I don't know if I'm gonna go as far as to say it's my favorite Fire Emblem game but it's up there, it's really up there. It's close, which is interesting because a lot of people sometimes think that Switch maybe lacks some of the creativity in these IPs that they bring out that keeps selling so well but I find myself enjoying my favorite Mario game right now is Super Mario Odyssey. Breath of the Wild is my favorite Zelda game. Xenoblade Chronicles X is probably still my favorite Xenoblade game. So that's neither here nor there. But the point is that this is just really, really cool and I'm excited for it. Now this other story is sort of a weird one because it's more of a should we be mad? I'm not really sure how to treat this. Atlas, okay you guys know Atlas. They unveiled a brand new game. On Twitter it says in a war between devil summoners it's up to Ringo and her team to decrypt destiny and save the world from the apocalypse. Soul Hackers 2 releases August 26th, 2022 for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X and S and Steam. And no, it's not on Nintendo Switch. So it's announced for essentially every major platform except Nintendo Switch. And what's weird about that of course is that, hey Atlas has openly said they are going to be putting more games on Switch. And then they announced a new game that's not on Switch. And two, if you're watching this little video footage they gave out, it's not very long and we'll put it on repeat a bit. It doesn't look like it's that graphically intense. It doesn't look like it's something that we haven't seen on Switch before. You can argue even Shin Megami Tensei 5 looks more intense than this. And yeah, there's performance issues with that game but it looks more intense than this game does. This game looks a lot more like, I don't know Tokyo Mirai Sessions which was a Wii U title ported over to Switch and obviously runs quite well on Switch. So it's a little interesting to see that they decided that this game isn't something to bring over now at least at launch. Maybe it gets a late port in 2023 or something but why wouldn't it be there at launch? Nintendo owns Japan. It would obviously probably quickly become the second best selling platform for like, yeah, okay, maybe PlayStation 4 and 5 end up being the lead platform in sales but Switch could easily come in there at number two ahead of PC and Xbox. Now, granted, I am really happy that Xbox is getting the game at all because, hey, you know what? They don't really get Atlas game basically ever. At least Nintendo fans, we do get Atlas game sometimes. So it's nice to see Xbox get the game. I think that's good. It's a multi-platform game. I think it should be on everything. It just feels a little weird that it's not on Switch and we're not the only ones noticing this. You know our good buddy, Jake Randall pointed it out. Another good friend of ours, Stealth40k out there said, yeah, you know, why is this on Switch? It feels like a really big missed sales opportunity. I do want to dispel some of the notions because some people are put out there that, oh, it's not on Switch because Switch can't handle it. Again, we've seen games better looking than this on Switch. So I don't really think it's a performance issue. It could just simply be, hey, we are deciding we don't want to do this. I don't know. This is just, it's baffling to me. I guess is the way to put this. Don't think there's really a good reason from Atlas. If they were interviewed to say, hey, yeah, this is why we're not putting it on Switch. I don't think they're even going to address it. Atlas is known for making a lot of weird platform choices. Like why don't we have a full-blown persona game on Switch when we get a bunch of spin-offs on Switch? Well, some of that might have to do with exclusivity contracts with Sony because it's not on Xbox either. So we're not really sure how that situation plays out, just like the Shin Megami Tensei 5. Yeah, it's only on Switch. It's not on other platforms. Why is that? Well, because essentially, Shin Megami Tensei has practically always been a Nintendo Switch or a Nintendo exclusive IP. I don't know that Nintendo owns rights to it because Shin Megami Tensei 3 was multi-platform. However, Atlas is known to put Shin Megami Tensei games only on Nintendo platforms for a majority of that franchise's life. So maybe this is just the case with Persona where it's just, hey, look, maybe Sony doesn't own exclusivity to it, but that's an IP that we primarily focus on Sony with and maybe we'll bring spin-offs elsewhere, which they obviously have done. So I don't know. I'm not gonna sit here and pretend that I care a ton about this individual game. Atlas games in general aren't the kind of games I enjoy. Get mad at me for not being super into all the JRPGs out there and still liking Xenoblade. I get it, this isn't me knocking Atlas. This isn't me saying that Soul Hackers 2 isn't gonna be good. In fact, some people are actually noting that they're a little concerned because it doesn't look, it looks like the people who made Soul Hackers 2 maybe didn't play the original Soul Hackers because it looks like the gameplay supposedly is fundamentally different than the first game, but I can't even go into those kind of details because I didn't play the first game. I don't even know what this IP is. I don't know anything about it. Just kind of like the Persona franchise. I know how the Persona franchise got started. Technically it was a spin-off from Shin Megami Tensei, to be honest, I don't know much about Shin Megami Tensei either because I don't play these games and maybe I'm missing out. And I think right now at the point I am in my life, my mid-30s, it's pretty hard for me to dive deep into these IPs at this point, not that I wouldn't enjoy them, but that, hey, I've got a lot of other stuff going on, both on my YouTube channel and other games I gotta play and my kids and everything else timing-wise. This looks like stuff I should have probably forced myself to get into more as kids. I played a lot of Golden Sun, played Chrono Cross, Chrono Trigger, played Final Fantasy, played a lot of stuff like that, the Secret of Mana series, Children of Mana, et cetera. So I played a lot of JRPG kind of stuff when I was younger and those are the IPs that still to this day that I would say I still have interest in, never really got into the Atlas stuff that much. That's on me. So again, I think that this does, this is a bummer. This is a bummer for Switch owners and it's a bummer, especially for those in Japan. Personally, I own multiple platforms. So it's not like, if I really wanna play this in August, I can, I got an idea that I'll probably be too busy still playing Splatoon 3 or something, but that's neither here nor there. Everyone's got their own preference in games and what they're gonna spend their time on. This is a tough year because there's so many good games. We just had Horizon Forbidden West come out. We know we got two big games from Nintendo next month. Microsoft's gonna have their thing. They're gonna be dealing in third party, Multiplat and Sony and everyone's bringing goods this year. 2022 is a massive year for gaming and it's gonna be crazy to see what's up for game of the year. Like it's Horizon Forbidden West up for game of the year. Again, going head to head with Breath of the Wild, going head to head with Elden Ring, going head to head with, you know, that space game coming from Microsoft and Bethesda or Starlight or whatever. I'm forgetting the name. I really apologize for forgetting the name. Maybe it's just because I haven't been that impressed by what we've seen by the game so far because it's kind of weird. Still trying to figure out what that game is. Like it could just be No Man's Sky at this point and I wouldn't even know. So by the way, No Man's Sky on Switch, crazy. I know, off topic. Anyways guys, thank you so much for tuning in. Hopefully this video turns out all right. A lot of voiceover gameplay coming this week. But thank you guys for watching and I'll catch you in the next video.