 Hey everyone welcome back to prom news it's been a while hasn't it you know what it's also been a while it's almost been one year since the last time we had a Mario day that is right March 10th is coming up in Nintendo has reminded us to celebrate it as March 10th abbreviated Mar 10 looks like Mario so it is Mario day and Nintendo is celebrating it by allowing us to download a bunch of games from the eShop on 3ds we you and switch that are Mario games for a discount some of the discounts are actually pretty decent so I would suggest that on Mario day and then obviously for a few days after you check out the eShop on those platforms and you get the games that you are interested in personally I probably won't partake in the sale just because I'm not even gonna be in town during the sale period it's gonna be an interesting week next week but hey whatever prime news is back right that's more exciting to me so a big story this week is actually about EA and how they are not going to have a press conference at E3 this year now they are still going to have a presence they're gonna be doing EA play which they have done for a couple years now where it's more of an open public event that you can go to and try out some of their games and to be honest this might actually be a good thing even though for some people this signifies a further degradation of E3 even though E3 itself is an actual conference not like a press conference that usually doesn't even take place where E3 is but whatever I understand the importance of those press conferences for a lot of people EA however usually has a pretty bad press conference every year I got to say I don't remember the last time there's been good crowd reaction at an EA press conference at E3 so honestly their biggest games like Dragon Age as an example are probably best shown off at Microsoft's conference I was gonna say at Sony's conference but they're also not there and I mean maybe some of these games will be showed off in Nintendo's little digital event I don't know that's just me guessing and footballing and maybe hoping for some EA support specifically for Dragon Age and Madden but yeah they're not going to have a press conference they're still gonna have a presence and who knows we'll see what happens see how many other games end up showing up on the actual show floor outside of EA play maybe on and Microsoft's theater you know where they've been hosting stuff lately for them so I don't know we'll have to wait and see what comes of this but it's another one bites the dust but as far as we're still aware Microsoft is still doing one Nintendo still is their digital event we know Ubisoft is gonna be there digital devolver actually announced that they're gonna be doing a press conference this year and Bethesda and all stuff so there's still gonna be plenty of press conferences but two major ones have bitten the dust and Sony and EA but at least EA is still gonna be at E3 whereas Sony is just a complete no-show probably as they're preparing to announce and launch their next generation system basically the PlayStation experience towards the end of this year is gonna be pretty crazy if you happen to be into Sony systems our next story is actually a really weird announcement Nintendo announced Labo VR this week yeah that's right VR is coming to switch through Labo can you say hello Google Cardboard but more because Google Cardboards just a headset whereas you're not only building a headset you're building an elephant you're building a gun that shoots from your nose what you're you're building a camera I guess that's kind of cool Pokemon snap better be coming it's not but I honestly the weirdest thing about this announcement is that Nintendo didn't release a trailer to actually show off what the games are and how this stuff works we just have some pictures and we know that it's gonna be 79 99 for the full toy con for Labo VR kit otherwise there's a starter kit that just has the blaster and the goggles and then there's two variety kits as well the starter kits gonna be 40 bucks each variety kit is 20 bucks and obviously altogether that's 80 or you just get the big pack for 80 so yeah I mean it's a thing that exists and there's a lot of people going both ways on it I'm just gonna kind of leave it be because we just don't know enough Nintendo we need a trailer that's just we need a trailer today Kirby's extra Epic Yarn released and yeah it's a game I've already played and beaten because it's from the Wii however it is nice that if you are still owning the 3DS that there is a new game coming out for you if you haven't played Kirby's Epic Yarn this is a great time to pick it up if you do own a 3DS it is a fantastic game do not be put off by the fact you can't die and it's a yarn thing that was kind of the criticism of it back in the day it's actually a really fantastic game and honestly if you are a Kirby fan you need to play this because it is I'm gonna be honest one of the better Kirby games we have had and probably you know a decade plus so I would definitely check it out if I were you guys and you haven't played it yet and you happen to still own a 3DS it would have been cooler to me honestly if they would have like brought it into HD and brought it to Switch but I mean I guess 3DS is where you're getting this stuff like Luigi's Mansion and Kirby's extra Epic Yarn and I why why speaking of blasts from the past Turok dinosaur hunter that's right that N64 original is coming to Nintendo Switch on March 18th through a remaster now you might wonder why why well it's already actually been remastered on PC so it appears that we're just getting the PC remaster on switch and it's coming to other platforms as well so yeah they're releasing it March 18 I don't know how much it costs I couldn't see a price when I was initially looking up this news doesn't really matter to me I'm not going to pick it up but for those of you that want to relive the Turok dinosaur hunter days back when Turok was actually believe it or not when Turok started out it was a really good game a lot of the follow-up games weren't but this one this was the good one so if you want some dinosaur hunting action heck if it's if it's cheap enough and in your wheelhouse why not check the e-shop on March 18th and and pick it up so to me this story is actually the biggest one of the week because of how big a fan I am of the original and that is that Octopath Traveler is getting a prequel and a sequel the weird thing is the prequels only coming to phones on Android and iOS whereas the sequel is coming to game consoles that's all they're willing to confirm anyways now obviously we assume that that's going to include switch because that's where the original was but the interesting thing is when they say game consoles is is the sequel also coming to Xbox PlayStation PC I don't know nobody knows because now that the prequels go into mobile devices it's very clear that they're probably going to try to expand Octopath Beyond just being on switch but it will probably still always sell best on switch I also think the prequel itself they showed off a trailer for it that you're already watching on screen that should just like be like on switch I don't know why they're not putting it on switch if I'm being completely honest maybe because it's a microtransaction fest and they don't really think that fits on switch I don't know so maybe they're saving us some time there but whatever a sequel's in the works and I couldn't be more happy to me Octopath Traveler is potentially right now it's number two for me but potentially one of the best games on switch exclusive wise for me it's Marty plus rabbit's Kingdom Battle and then then Octopath then Odyssey but we'll see I have to finish Octopath and now I have an extra motivation to finish it knowing that a sequel's in the works probably a game to come next year so I look forward to that a youtuber by the name of Brad Sam's has talked this past week about how Xbox game pass is not coming to Nintendo switch in the near future now Brad Sam's you might look at his channel is there a few thousand subs why should you believe him well he's actually a well-known Xbox insider that has gotten a lot of stuff about Xbox correct in the past and is now at the forefront of the new Xbox rumors for their next generation of systems now the thing is about him is he's gotten a lot of stuff right in the past so this is why people are starting to pay a bit more attention to what Brad Sam's has to say on this and he in the past did also mention how game pass and xCloud and stuff like that could be coming to switch according to his sources but his sources have informed him that game pass is not coming to switch in the near term which would mean it's not coming this year now he did note that just because game pass isn't coming doesn't mean xCloud isn't coming he said that Microsoft clearly wants game pass to be tied with xCloud and be on everything but for now it's like xCloud is going to be trying to be put on everything and then game pass might come down the line for switch so essentially if you're looking for anything to land on switches this year or early next year it would be the xCloud which is Microsoft streaming service and then game pass could be something that gets tied with it down the road now this obviously has nothing to do with Xbox live coming to switch he actually reported earlier that Xbox live was going to come to switch so Xbox live and xCloud seem to be the two things we should be looking forward to and expecting the most whereas game pass is something that might be coming to switch but it's going to be further down the road like end of next year 2021 somewhere in that Microsoft is probably still working out the kinks to make something like that work and it's much easier right now for them to focus on xCloud since that's going to be part of their next gen stuff and then also focus on Xbox live since that gets them more money so yeah I think this makes a lot of sense at least for now to stagger this stuff out and yeah for now game pass you know we got excited about it but it looks like it might not be coming to switch again this is all rumors and speculation so you know believe what you want to believe I guess at this point we do know Xbox live is coming because Microsoft said as much but the rest I don't know you be the judge so this is actually a bit of a special week because this past weekend specifically on Sunday the Nintendo switch and Nintendo Prime turned two years old that's right folks I'm finally old enough to stop drinking out of a bottle and start having some milk that's right we have moved on to non breast milk yes okay nobody cares I understand that I mean you probably care of the switch turn to that might be something you care about but nobody cares about me I'm I guess I'm used to it I mean hello darkness my old friend so at Jared Oya on Twitter has stated that Persona 5s is coming to Nintendo switch and PlayStation 4 this fall and that we're gonna learn about it before May of well obviously this year and the reason that people are kind of listening to him is because he was actually talking about Persona 5 are long before Persona 5 are was talked about by any other sources or was actually confirmed so he was essentially the originating source on Persona 5 are which is legit and is real and was already talked about released all that great stuff so it appears that at least when it comes to Persona he probably has some sort of connection or he just got lucky I don't know how you get lucky getting the exact name right he had to have heard it from somewhere so anyways Persona 5s don't know what that means don't know if it means it's a smaller version of the game don't know like I don't know I don't know much about Persona so it's probably just like an extra version maybe it's like the Dragon Quest 11 extra thing they're doing on switch I have no idea but I mean with Joker coming to smash is it really much of a surprise there have been kind of rumors floating around about Persona 5 for I don't know since Joker was announced so sure Persona 5 on switch I'll I'll bite and the last story for this week is one that I don't like but we'll mention anyways because it's a thing that happened this isn't a rumor this is directly from the director of Devil May Cry 5 which also came out this week congratulations to all of you folks out there that are probably playing it this weekend it may be even right now well Devil May Cry 5 the director stated that it's not on switch because they did not have dev kits at the time they started development which would make sense Devil May Cry 5 usually has like a 3-4 year development cycle that would predate you know being switched dev kits so okay fine but he did say it could come to switch and then it might come to switch however it might come to switch if switch owners buy Dragon's Dogma Dark Arisen that's right you must buy a game from Capcom that's completely unrelated in a completely different genre to prove to the director of Devil May Cry 5 that you actually want to buy Devil May Cry 5 because buying an RPG that barely anyone knows about that didn't sell well in other platforms is suddenly gonna tell you how well a completely different game with a better known IP name is going to sell on switch you probably should have just released an older Devil May Cry game if you wanted to test the waters or you probably should have just said absolutely nothing when people asked you about a switch one and just said yeah we don't have any plans for it right now someone using this as a theory though that this means Capcom's already working on it because they've said stuff like this in the past and then we've gotten the game even if the other game they mentioned didn't sell that well and it's just a marketing ploy and this all might mean a whole bunch of hullabaloo and nothing I just don't like it I think it's dumb I don't think you should ever tell people to buy a completely different game to get another game I think that's just a dumb thing to say it's best to just not say anything at all but I don't know maybe they thought you know that that's saying you know if you don't have anything nice don't say anything at all maybe they thought that this was nice that we're supposed to applaud it yeah that just happened anyways folks I want to thank you for tuning into this episode of prime news it's been a long time but it feels good to be back doing an episode like this not a lot of comedy this time around it's been kind of a long week I got so many videos in the works to get done for this weekend where I'm gonna be out of town because we're going on a little family vacation that my kids aren't even aware of yet so it's gonna be a little surprise for them it's gonna be a lot of fun can't wait I hope you guys enjoy this prime news video enjoyed all the videos this week this weekend and you know what for me personally I'll see you guys on Monday but you'll probably see me in some other videos over the weekend that I already have planned and or are currently in editing thank you for tuning in and I'll catch you guys next week