 the game awards is having a massive controversy at the moment that we need to dive deep into and explain what the heck is going on. Oh we have more going on because you know some days I forget who I am but what I don't forget is that Nintendo is updating f0.99 that's right we have a update for f0.99 for a lot of you classic f0 fans out there. Oh we're not done though because you know what's also racist right into the news how about a Nintendo Switch mini? I kid you not we have some actual documentation for a Nintendo Switch mini that might be landing as soon as next year and what does that have to do with Nintendo Switch 2 some fun facts around that. Beyond all of that you know how there's a lot of debate over the game awards and how who's gonna win game of the year will it be paulers gate 3 will it be tears of the kingdom a lot of people thinking it's going to be paulers gate 3 but what if I were to tell you that tears of the kingdom was just given an award for literally being the greatest video game of all time no this isn't the nintendo prime awards I'm not like handing it hold on hold on trophy here here you go that's that's no no that's that's not what happened in here an actual major company gave this award to tears of the kingdom don't know nintendo accepted anything but hey it is something that we get to talk about today so first up let's talk about the dorito pope himself mr jeff kealy because he finds himself in some hot water due to one of the categories at the game awards now there's a few little updates he did give in a q and a that he did recently an interview where he talked about different aspects like how they're gonna get rid of the world premiere stuff which okay they're not actually changing the content of the show they're just not gonna have the world premiere title card so even though we're totally used to seeing that title card and then occasionally hearing world premiere now we're not gonna be hearing that anymore okay cool whatever fine I guess you can get rid of that also he talks about the security at the show and how they're upping it but he doesn't really go into specific details because of course you don't want to give away the actual security details of the event to allow any you know people who want to get up on stage and do crazy things and talk about bill clinton hey martin you know real quick I want to thank everybody and say that I think I want to nominate this award to my reformed orthodox rabbi bill clinton thank you everybody I don't you don't want that to happen so given our security details publicly would actually allow for them to find loopholes in the security so again I understand him not going into details of it but I also understand the line of questioning because they've had people invade the stage now twice in back-to-back years now setting all that aside that's not actually the controversy believe it or not the controversy is with the awards themselves which often are the least talked about thing heading into the game awards besides game of the year and that is due to one category that category being best indie game now look this is an amazing category and an important award category to recognize independent game studios and yes independent game studios are exactly what the word means they're independent they're not owned by a major corporation they don't always self publish their games but they self create they self fund yada yada yada right so it's pretty obvious what an independent game company is well except to everyone but jeff kealy and that is because a little game that you might have heard of Dave the diver is up for best indie game the problem is not the studio that made it it is a small studio and it's at the studio is owned by a 15 billion dollar company actually a 15 billion publisher yes that would mean the studio is not an independent studio because they are owned by a mega corporation kind of crazy that that means the game is up for best indie game just because it's a smaller game with a smaller budget but it's owned by a massive 15 billion dollar company so what are we talking about well jeff kealy was asked about this and he said the following look it's a great question independent can mean different things to different people and it's sort of a broad term you can argue does independent mean the budget of the game does independent mean where the source of the financing was doesn't mean the team size is it the kind of independent spirit the game meaning a smaller game that's sort of different I think everyone has their own opinion about this and will really defer to our jury of 120 global media outlets who vote on these awards to make that determination of is something independent or not you know in other industries some things are well I think a film industry the budget can't be above this amount of dollars or it's not independent so I don't know some people have said larion with boulders gate 3 that's an independent game kojima productions with death stranding some people say that's an independent game and even though that's an independent studio of course it was funded by playstation he then later pointed out that some are questioning that if indie studio has a publisher are they still independent or not now I don't really know where the confusion is here and jeff kealy kind of created this controversy on his own he could have just passed us off as hey I don't get to make these decisions they're decided by a panel of 120 people this is what they decided should be included we've never had a situation come up like this before where a game was maybe nominated in a category that it doesn't belong in and we're gonna have to look into maybe tightening the ship on future events because it's too late to do anything about it this time around that would have been probably the correct corporate response but that's not what he did instead he just sort of defended the choice and basically said hey who am I to say what an independent game is well let me tell you what an independent game is jeff kealy since you seem a little bit confused on what qualifies an independent game is a game made by an independent studio that is not owned by a bigger corporation and guys this isn't rocket science they've the diver in hindsight should not be allowed to be up for this award and it's going to be extremely awkward if it actually wins the award now the end the diver by the way is a very good game we're not knocking the game it's just if it wins this award it'll be the first non independent studio to win an independent studio award now I know what you're thinking the Dorito Pope is full of controversy and I'm over here rocking an award from the game awards that uh Eric actually won yeah this is Eric's trophy he beat me in the game awards last year we'll talk about that it's a bit of a betting special but here's the thing I actually don't care about that what I care is that you subscribe to the channel and drop a like and uh thank you for helping us get closer to our goal of 150 000 subscribers now what if I were to tell you that Nintendo may be releasing a Nintendo switch mini next year would you believe me would you call me a liar would you say I'm just making this up and believing the rumor train out there what if I were to tell you it's actually not a rumor at all and Nintendo has done this before in fact they did it with the we and they did it with the Game Boy Advance and they might be doing it again and this time all the information we have on it comes directly from Nintendo now this is basically just do a bunch of patent hunting Nintendo has released a ton of patents I believe it's five total patents surrounding a device that looks like a miniature Nintendo switch it has a cartridge slot it has some similar internal designs to the Nintendo switch including this fan style blower it's got a lot of things that look very very similar to a Nintendo switch except the characteristic that mentioned it's a miniaturized version and look Nintendo has done these mini consoles in the past but there's some interesting parts about it the Game Boy Micro when it came out uh came out in 2005 after the Nintendo DS had already launched in 2004 but it gets better because Nintendo's done these micro consoles before like the Wii mini the Wii mini came out in December of 2012 a few weeks after the launch of the Wii U that's right Nintendo tends to launch these miniaturized versions of systems after the next system gets here now look one big thing here is because these patents exist it's highly unlikely that this particular device the way it's described is going to release Nintendo said that themselves when these patents go public these are like things we're not going to do and that's fine or at least it's not going to come out in the way the patents suggest now this could have just been a prototype and they have a separate prototype that patents haven't come up before yet and maybe that version of the Nintendo switch mini is what's going to release next year why do they do these miniaturized things well they're cheaper and you might go well we already have the switch light yeah it would be even smaller than the switch light it would probably be a pocketable version of the Nintendo switch it will take cartridges and it'll probably be like a hundred bucks it's a way to have a super cheap option out there once the new system launches so there is a possibility we get the Nintendo switch to next year and then shortly after they still launch a new version of the Nintendo switch again because these patents are out there this is probably a canceled product but it doesn't mean a similar product with different patents that aren't public yet doesn't exist so Nintendo was at least playing around with the idea of a Nintendo switch mini and we'll just have to wait and see if they decided to do anything with it there's some interesting parts of these patents too like a magnetic cover that also attaches to the back kind of interesting maybe that would be because it's meant to be put in your pocket to help protect the control sticks and stuff sort of interesting some of the design choices Nintendo was looking into this prototype system next up did you know Tears of the Kingdom is apparently the greatest video game ever made now look if you've been following my channel for any length of time you'll know that Tears of the Kingdom is literally my favorite game of all time so you could argue that this is me grabbing Eric's award and handing it to Tears of the Kingdom hey man you're the greatest game ever made well except it's not my award and I'm not the one that called the game that in this instance actually you know what company decided that it is the greatest game ever made Pringles I kid you not Pringles has awarded Tears of the Kingdom with the grand gesture of being the greatest video game ever made I don't even what do you even say what what does Pringles I mean look gamers eat Pringles I'm sure people eat Pringles so like we eat chips we eat snacks like I guess I get the connection uh don't know between the Dorito Pope today Pringles handing out greatest game of all time awards look Tears of the Kingdom should just be a shoe in for game of the year right Pringles is saying it's the greatest video game ever made has to win game of the year then be ironic if Pringles gave game of the year to bowlers get three what calling this I like I don't know they're at this is just look Pringles handed out an award whether Nintendo accepted it or not beats me could have just been for internet cloud or attention I don't know now lastly we got a zoom zoom in because f0.99 got an update today and I believe it drops tomorrow in Europe update 1.1.0 now this is a classic mode and it's interesting because they did announce back in October they were done adding tracks to the game so a lot of people thought oh we're gonna be done updating it well they never said they were done adding modes this classic mode literally brings the aspect ratio down to four three because that's how we played back on the Super Nintendo and also limits it to only 20 players like the original game did when there was only 20 racers they disabled the spin attack and they also disabled the skyway also you're completely limited to only one boost move per lap so yeah this is just like the original game it's basically just bringing it back down to the classic style of what f0 this version of it used to be and I think this will help obviously increase player bases today it has been a bit hard to get a full 99 racers in a game at any time unless you were playing on weekends or certain nights and now it this is probably gonna pack the lobbies again here for the next two to week or so I'm just glad to see f0 down again continue to get some support I won't suspect we're gonna get any more updates to the game then again we didn't anticipate this update so who knows maybe there will be more modes added to the game in the future I just hope they don't press delete on it the way they did with Super Mario 35 I'm kind of tired of these limited time additions to NSO that we're just gonna remove and act like that's still adding value like why don't we still have Super Mario 35 again I'm confused why would you remove value from NSO that's not really how you keep subscribers just say it I mean I know they have 38 million of them but whatever anyways guys I'm just glad that I'm still here yes it's true if you saw our last episode uh grandpa prime over there did save me from the Nintendo ninjas for today we'll see if grandpa prime has to step in on another episode but today we're doing all right folks thank you so much for being here and I'll catch you in the next episode