 Well hey everyone, you'll never guess what I discovered today. It appears Nintendo is going to be bringing back some sort of user rating system for games likely on the Nintendo Switch eShop. If you guys remember what the hell is going on behind me from the Wii U days, it might be coming back after all according to Nintendo themselves. Now before I get into the rest of this video, I have to mention this video is actually brought to you by Into the AM. You guys always look at me and I get lots of compliments at times on hey you're looking good today Nate, you're looking good. And obviously taking care of yourself, grooming, you know the hair and all that. That's all part of wanting to present my best self to you guys. But also I like to dress nice as well. And Into the AM provides a product that I actually was completely surprised by. They reached out to me to sponsor a video and I didn't really know what to think about. I'd never heard of them. 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The user rating systems can be flawed pretty much every Nintendo game was always rated four and a half to five stars. Almost no critique of those games. But it still was a better than not having it tool, right? Right now in the Nintendo Switcheshop, there is no way to rate games. You need to go online to places like Metacritic and look up user ratings there or look up review ratings. Well, it turns out that Nintendo may have been planning to bring back a rating system for quite some time. A new patent, sort of new actually. I discovered this through gaming leaks and rumors subreddit. But this isn't really even a rumor. This isn't really a leak. This is something that got filed, actually filed back in 2019 but published this year. Nintendo filed a very specific patent. I'm going to show you an image from it here. Talking about generating implicit ratings for video games using external metadata. That's a lot of fancy words. You'll see in the image that they have four different images here. One of them shows a cluster in the high ratings area which is likely. The cluster in the average rating area which is very likely. A cluster in the low rating area which is likely. And then no prominent clusters unlikely. And this is basically what's a great game, what's a decent or okay game or what's a bad game, right? So the farthest to the right is obviously great. In the middle is bad. It's just okay. And at the far left is bad. And then if there's like a kind of a flat line there's just no, you know, there's not enough information available to tell you if this is a good game or not. It's a very interesting type of rating system rather than stars or whatever. It's more like a curvature that they're trying to tell you about if a game is good or not. And this is obviously something that they're trying to import into the Nintendo Switch. As they're abstract in the patent finally which is US patent application number one six five eight six six four nine in case you want to look it up and they applied for this back in September 27 of 2019. So pretty much right before the pandemic really hit. And then it was published, okay approved and published by the United States Patent Association on January 4th, 2021. And the abstract in English it says in certain example embodiments a computer system for generating an implicit video game rating is provided. The system generates a base rating that is a function of gameplay data for a specific user and other users. The system also generates an average external rating for the video game based on external data categories such as user reviews, critic reviews as well, ownership data, etc. and adjustment factors then calculated from an average base rating and external rating and then applied to the user's individual base rating to obtain an implicit rating of video game for the user. So this is like based on the individual user. It'll be based on the games you play and it'll be based on the games you spend the most time in and it'll be based on your user ratings including your own user ratings. It'll be based on critic ratings. So we're talking like importing data. This is where you see using external metadata getting data from things like Metacritic and all that. And basically crunching numbers to create their own rating system that's a combination of every possible factor including what your friends are playing, what you're playing, what your ratings were, what your friends ratings were on games and then obviously all the critic ratings. That is huge and the only way to really track what your ratings were is obviously let users input their own ratings. That doesn't mean we're gonna get like full on reviews or it's gonna be like this with the five star rating on Wii U. This looks like an entirely new rating system which I'm very excited to see come to fruition. To me this has the potential to be huge. Now in the eShop right now one of the big problems with the eShop is discoverability, right? It's hard to discover games and it's hard to know if a game that's coming you're going to like, right? There could be, you know, 80 new games added to the eShop every single day from Indy to AAA to AA to Nintendo games and when you're sifting through all this stuff it's hard to know what's a quality game. I mean, okay, did Nintendo publish it like today with Miitopia? Awesome! That's a good quality game at least according to probably what Nintendo users are gonna say but is it really the game for you? And a rating system like this will be able to conglomerate a whole bunch of stuff together to give you a much more informed purchasing decision and that's ultimately what this seems to be. Nintendo is trying to create a way for users to sift through that Nintendo Switch eShop and actually know what's a game they're likely to enjoy first what's a game they're likely not to enjoy, right? That's the idea. They're trying to give tools to us consumers to figure out what games we should spend our money on based on what games we're more likely to enjoy. It's a very interesting kind of rating system. One of these kinds of rating systems that doesn't even exist in the industry yet. This is very forward thinking by Nintendo surprisingly and again, they filed this back in 2019. They've been working on this thing for at least a year, if not longer. We know that Nintendo is working on something for Nintendo Switch Online because we heard that in all their research and development money they were spending over the last year and moving forward included Nintendo Switch Online and stuff like that and that would probably include the eShop since they're implicitly connected because it's all digital purchases, right? So I would assume that this means there's a huge 3.0, 4.0, whatever whatever update we're on at this point on Switch coming that's going to include a massive overhaul to Nintendo Switch Online, the eShop and maybe even that new virtual console that we've talked about before. This is all extremely exciting stuff. So yeah, I'm pretty pumped about that and again, big shout out to our sponsor for this video into the AM. Again, all these shirts man, 10% off. I've spent good money on decent t-shirts or what I thought were good t-shirts in the past from places like the Buckle. 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