 Hey everyone welcome back to today's episode of Prime News and I want to remind you to enter our Nintendo Switch Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Bundle giveaway through the Gleam.io link down in the description. Once we hit 50,000 subscribers at some point hopefully soon we'll be announcing the winner for that giveaway. We have a lot of great stories for you I apologize for Prime News being a bit later today but you know what enough of the apologies let's just actually get into the news. So our first story is actually about Mortal Kombat 11 on Switch. Why? Because they finally gave us a gameplay trailer for the game and while I was concerned and made a video about my concerns on the fact that they seem to be secretive of the gameplay the trailer itself looks really good. Now of course this is a trailer and as a trailer it's always probably gonna look pretty good because they're not gonna show you any potential bad things but still we finally get to see Mortal Kombat 11 running on a Nintendo Switch and while they don't show a ton of gameplay in there because they show a lot of cutscene action as well which by the way also looks really good on Switch. What we did see of the gameplay here actually looks really good which isn't surprising considering that many media members that have gone hands-on have already stated as much. So hey look great news that Mortal Kombat 11 is looking just fine on Switch so while there's still that other news about how like oh you have to download an extra 16 gigs even if you buy the physical version at least there is a physical copy of the game in the box unlike a certain other game that I just don't even want to mention anymore. The Xbox One S all digital model has been getting a lot of attention lately first due to some leaks that happened out in Germany and such and now well because a bunch of youtubers actually have the console on hand and have opened it up and yeah needless to say it's a pretty lazy digital box in terms of what they did but it also makes a lot of financial sense from Microsoft's point of view when they're really more focused on what the next Xbox is going to be as well as xCloud. Essentially all the Xbox One S all digital console is is an Xbox One S minus a disk drive in fact the board they are using still has all of the connectors to just hook the disk drive back up. There's even the eject button is still inside of the case even though you can't see it from the outside of the case and obviously it's literally the exact same shell as an Xbox One S just minus the slot in the front to actually insert a disk. So basically it is an Xbox One S minus a disk drive and they're charging it $50 less than what they charge for an Xbox One S and they said it will always be $50 less than whatever the MSRP is for an Xbox One S so if the Xbox One S pricing drops so will the pricing of the all digital console. Now I don't know who this is going to actually appeal to and there's been a lot of criticisms of the system from them not putting enough development time into it to not putting enough storage in it how they could have shrunk things even more and they definitely could have but this was obviously the cheapest option Microsoft had to release an all digital box just as a test. I think what we have to remember is this all digital box is just a market test they're not something they're planning to sell millions of units of it's not something that they think is going to pave the path for the future I think they just want to gauge what the interest would be on the consumer level to save some money minus the drive and buy a digital version if there's any interest in it at all personally I would rather just find an Xbox One S normal on sale or on the second hand market for around the same price but I think it is interesting to at least test the market with something like this is Microsoft might be willing to release two different versions of their next Xbox both a digital only and a physical only version which might have more research and development put into it and at that point be able to have a bigger differentiator and maybe price points between the two but I honestly think that this is something that needs a bit more discussion and so I wanted to bring it up so it's also interesting because the initials of it obviously come out to the Xbox One sad console and I've seen a lot of hot takes and negative takes on this system I don't really have a negative outlook here this is just a market test it wasn't something that they were ever going to spend much time researching developing so we'll see are people willing to sacrifice 50 bucks to not have physical games I I don't know I guess the market will decide the smash rose ultimate 3.0 0.0 update has arrived today in fact it's probably playable right now it wasn't earlier today I know some people are waiting all day to get that update but Nintendo dropped a big video yesterday and really last night and it basically said hey here's Joker watch Joker here's all his movesets here's his special abilities here's his final smash here's his stage which like changes colors based on like which persona music being played they have persona music from persona four persona three and persona two so because of that you know depending on which game it's from it'll change colors at the stage ending animations they also introduced a stage builder which we already knew was coming but now we actually see that stage builder in action they introduced some new additions to the online app the Nintendo switch online app where you can now like upload videos and download videos and purchase characters and download stuff and it's basically everything that you could do digitally inside the game you could basically now do on the phone app they introduced an ability to uh you not only like make clips of your gameplay but now edit the clips together uh introduce new me fighter costumes that are going to be 75 cents each and are not part of the fighter pass they are being sold separately um I don't like that but it is what it is micro transactions are just not going to entirely go away and smash anyways you could buy Joker individually for six bucks or you can just get the fighter pass for 2499 and get all five fighters even though we don't know what the next four fighters are in their stages and all of that jazz they didn't announce any new fighters right now uh that's probably something that you will see in a future smash direct or a future nintendo direct or whatever uh so yeah whatever it lands today it's probably already here but many of you are smashing away uh no I did not purchase the digital fighter pass because I don't believe in purchasing content until I know what that content is and uh I don't really care about Joker enough to be willing to make the 26 dollar plunge but we'll wait and see what the other characters are and heck it might just take one character to be like all right I might as well buy all of them Ubisoft is in the news today for something that is both sad but also good for them anyways it's very good PR I don't know if you guys pay a lot of attention to you know worldwide news outside of video games but if you do you probably heard that the Notre Dame Cathedral caught on fire and a huge chunk of it collapsed and it's it's been a bit devastating for people not just in the religious community you know like myself who's a Roman Catholic but more so devastating for people that view it as a landmark piece in Paris we don't really build a lot of cathedrals anymore or hardly at all so it's kind of a relic of days gone by and to see it you know just falling down to see the spider falling was pretty devastating for a lot of people that like just as a as a as a sightseeing thing you know it'd be kind of like seeing one of the great pyramids in Egypt just collapse in on itself it would be pretty devastating just to people who view it as a part of history well Ubisoft has decided that not only are they gonna give away Assassin's Creed Unity for free for you know a period of time here which obviously features heavily Notre Dame Ubisoft has also donated five hundred thousand dollars towards the restoration of Notre Dame there is obviously a big fundraiser going on to try to get enough funds to basically rebuild the cathedral from almost the ground up in many cases and it's hey good good on you Ubisoft I mean you feature that that landmark in your games and to show that kind of support you know regardless of religious affiliation is just nice and I understand that you know you could look at this as Ubisoft's just trying to take advantage of his opportunity to get good PR but I don't really care they just gave a large chunk of money and gave a game away for free just to kind of show that this actually affects them in some way Ubisoft is also a company located in that country so it has a more personal stake for them than maybe it would for some of us over here in the United States Nintendo Label VR sales are in for Japan for its first week and it actually had a pretty decent debut it came in at number two on the Japanese charts between 26,634 units this is all according to Famitsu now remember we can't do media create numbers anymore because they're now private and hidden and the pay to access them is a little absurd maybe I'll talk about that another day but Switch does own eight of the top ten software sales in Japan and the sales of the switch actually increased to 54,101 units from about 46,000 a week ago is Label the reason I don't know there's also Final Fantasy X and X2 that released in Japan as well last week that debuted at the number three slot but hey whatever it's pretty interesting just to see the switch units kind of see an increase there after they were gradually decreasing for most of the past month also interesting note Nintendo Switch sits about 60,000 units behind the lifetime sales of PlayStation 4 which are 8 million and 22,000 units for PlayStation 4 that essentially means that by the time April is over Nintendo Switch should be passing PlayStation 4 in lifetime sales in Japan a feat that's interesting to note because the switch has only been on the market for basically two years and a month so two years and a month and the switch will be passing the five six seven years of you know PlayStation sales so hey that's really really cool good for Nintendo it's a good omen and hopefully things continue to go well for the big end for the rest of this year Sony I think is pretty focused on PlayStation 5 if you can't tell from the news that we reported on yesterday now our last story from today is a rumor but it's an interesting rumor it could easily be faked we're not able to verify all of it because it comes from a website called bedu.com which I think is Chinese or Japanese I honestly tried to figure it out on the fly here but I couldn't and I needed to get stuff done for Prime news so I apologize for not knowing exactly if it's a Chinese or Japanese but they had some interesting pictures that appeared to be from manufacturing as well as some additional information on some of the parts going into a potential Nintendo Switch Mini and well it's interesting first off as you're seeing on screen there is a solid shell so no detachable joy cons there's no kickstand you cannot dock this system to do dock mode on TVs but the cartridge slot still looks the right size for the switch cartridges and in fact here's actually a size comparison of what this looks like compared to a normal switch and you can definitely see it's a shrunk down version of the switch very colorful there's apparently going to be multiple colors in general but there's some some differences here as well with the hardware so while the CPU is not going to see any changes the GPU is actually clocked at 384 megahertz according to this rumor and that's actually higher than what switch currently runs at in handheld mode with the GPU where it's currently clocked at 307 megahertz so again it's about a 80 80 ish megahertz increase which could make a difference in stabilizing maybe frame rates or some of those dynamic resolutions or whatever no information on obviously what the screen is because they were just showing the shell here so I assume it's probably still a 720p screen especially since it's shrunk down more which makes the resolution not matter even you know even basically matter even less uh there also is similar battery life so it could just be using basically the exact same battery or something I don't know but uh similar battery life to the current switch as part of this rumor and yeah there's gonna be multiple colors of this thing I I don't know it just looks very interesting to me um I'm not really sure what to think about it in general other than hey you know this could be real this could be fake I'm not sure what to believe but if it is real uh it's believable because it basically falls in line with everything we've been hearing about what a switch menu would be which is basically a handheld version of switch handheld only no detachable joycon I mean not having the kickstand I mean you can't attach joycon so why do you need tabletop mode uh very interesting uh we'll have to see if this thing is legit I do like that if it is legit Nintendo's going with uh some colors here I like the colors they kind of did that with the 2DS and I feel like that's maybe where they got inspiration for going with colors here where hey we're going to go all these different color shells to kind of make it pop and be more vibrant for children but there's gonna be a lot of adults that are actually going to be um this is going to appeal to and the color shown is obviously like Nintendo Prime blue so how could I not be excited about that um but yeah it's it's pretty cool and I kind of sort of hope it's legit if this is what you know Nintendo the direction Nintendo is going to go with switch mini anyways folks I am Nathaniel Robojance from Nintendo Prime I want to thank all of you guys for tuning in obviously I'm rocking my uh Yanis out of Katoomba Jersey here uh good luck the Milwaukee Bucks hopefully you thrash well I mean I don't know do I really want you to thrash Detroit Pistons today I mean games are a little more entertaining when they're close but I mean as a Bucks fan kind of feels good to feel like the Warriors for a little bit here and just dominating the playoffs so we'll see hopefully that they win tonight for my sake if you're a Detroit Pistons fan I'm sorry better luck next year um anyways I would thank you guys for tuning in and I'll catch each and every one of you in the next video