 Well folks, we're just going to have a small conversation today about what it's like being a YouTuber in the Nintendo sphere right now and the difficulties behind some of the things we're doing and why we're making a fundamental change coming up here on April 1st and unfortunately it doesn't look like our April 1st set is going to be completed on time. That's fine. It'll be still done next week, but we're going to kick off the show April 1st anyways and no, it's not an April Fool's joke, we're not trying to yank your leg, we're really going to have a show on April 1st. But it's been extremely hard over the last week to make videos and honestly, if I'm just being completely just upfront to you guys, it's been very hard pretty much this entire year and honestly this probably goes all the way back to September of last year in terms of making videos. Now you might go on Nate, you're a news channel, you know you could just bust out news on anything. Like, hey, today we had the latest Famitsu sales and Princess Meets Showtime was number one overall at 77,000 in sales and Nintendo Switch OLED is number one in system sales at 60,000 and we could talk about that stuff and well, we're actually going to but here's the thing about my position here as a content creator. We are a news and discussion channel. We cover our rumors, we cover our news and we create discussions. That's what our podcast is every week. That's what we're doing Monday, Tuesday, Thursday during our live streams. We even have discussions sometimes when we're playing games on YouTube shorts because we have those live streams as well for those that catch them. But really what I primarily do is talk about news and rumors and all that stuff right here and one thing that's happened really since September of last year is the channel has been heavily reliant on rumors in particular about Nintendo Switch 2 and I love talking about new systems. I love talking about new consoles. I love talking about these sort of rumors. But as time has gone, things have become clear about a few things. One, the people creating the most exciting rumors, let's say someone like Zippo or more recently Nash Weedle turned out to not necessarily be as reliable or reliable at all as we thought. But Nash Weedle has been called out now by Pioro and by the way, so has Zippo. Zippo actually dropped an F-bomb on Twitter today about Zippo, not today yesterday about Zippo and he did eventually delete it but it was seen by hundreds of thousands of people. So I'm not going to throw that stuff up on screen because if you guys care about that stuff you can dig into it. And we all know Pioro is one of our most reliable insiders and we had an insider retire yesterday or step away in Midori. Midori is a famous Atlas and Sega insider who is as reliable as Pioro but specifically for Sega and Atlas. And you guys might have seen some of these Sonic Heroes Unreal Engine 5 stories going around and man oh man oh man that I really want to cover that Sonic Hero stuff. It sounded exciting. Obviously it was a GameCube game at one point so you can obviously see where there's a connection here to think, hey this is going to come to Switch or Switch 2 specifically Unreal Engine 5 probably Switch 2 and you can get really excited about it and it started with a Necrophilipe Lima rumor and then you know Midori sort of said well yeah the conversations happened and then he later clarified or she later clarified sorry it's a she. That yes while there is a number of Sonic projects that are considering with Unreal Engine 5 Sonic Heroes is one of them but there's no active development and meaning that Sonic Heroes may not actually get made it's just one of several Sonic games are considering putting into Unreal Engine 5 and that's fine. I honestly don't have a problem with that Midori is very reliable and I'm glad that they added all this clarification with all the rumors going up but there was some discussions apparently behind the scenes that might have went to a certain person and that certain person might have talked to Zippo and then Zippo went and put it up on his blog and if you don't know who any of these people are that's fine just know they're a bunch of real insiders real leakers like Pioro, Midori, etc. getting mixed in with fake ones like Nashville and Zippo and just causing a lot of confusion and getting real insiders like Midori just upset and wanting to step away and not do this anymore and I understand you got to take care of yourself take care of your mental health social media can be a real drag and when you're an insider it can be really frustrating when you're the real source of information but not being credit for things and Zippo did respond on his blog not gonna get into a lot of this Zippo doesn't have a good reputation in the first place so we're gonna leave it at that but here's the thing that's leaker drama that's happened over the last 24 hours and one big Sega story that I was gonna cover that I ended up not because the whole situation just seems very strange but yes apparently Sonic Heroes among other Sonic games are being considered for Unreal Engine 5 according to Midori that's pretty cool I do want to say that that's just more rumor stuff and as the rumor drama started stirring up it really made me start to think about what we're doing as a channel and I really really like covering rumors they're a lot of fun but the funnest of rumors are often the ones that are not real right a lot of the stuff we cover from Zippo over the last year or stuff we covered from Nashville a lot of this stuff probably isn't happening and you know we even saw stuff where we thought you know Necro Philippe Lima was a super reliable person and then they gave an exact date for a direct and then that didn't happen and they got delayed or whatever the case might be and that turned out to be a bunch of hogwash and I'm not really hurt by all of this stuff I'm not let down I'm not disappointed it's more so that it's taken a little bit of the fun out of what I do in making videos because really what I want to talk about is news yes rumors of course are gonna be part of the the news mill and yes the rumors get the most views let's just be honest but I don't want to rely on that and the problem when you're making single topic videos like I've been doing is that when you only have that one topic you need that one topic to be a banger that one topic needs to be exciting that one topic needs to drive interest and doing things like hey Princess Peach Showtime was number one in the Japanese charts that's a cool headline but Princess Peach Showtime that topic's not being searched very much on you know on on a little on YouTube and because of that it just would not be a super good video like the video could be good could be informative but then we cover the Famitsu chart we do our thing maybe we tack in one little tiny story on top of that and we get our couple thousand views and move on and that's not the kind of content I want to do if I'm going to cover a story like that I want it to be more broad spectrum so in the past on my channel we've done things like prime news and here's the news kind of news gathering shows that were kind of hodgepodge and tossed together and there'd be some comedy in them and stuff like that and I'll probably always keep a smidge of comedy I want a little over the top at times maybe it won't be as over the top but I want to treat news in a more serious way now this doesn't mean we're gonna get rid of single topic news videos if there's ever like a really big story that I have a lot to say on I do think that always is going to warrant its own individual topic and I do want to keep covering that and maybe as we get into the switch to era they'll just be more and more of those kind of videos here's the reality Nintendo Switch is winding down man it's winding down we are in the you know whatever you want to say the latter half the later years the end of the road whatever the case might be we don't know when Nintendo's next platform is coming but we do know that there's just not a lot of exciting things announced for Nintendo switch like the biggest debate lately has been is you know the biggest conversation anyways is the the thousand year Dora remake or a remaster I mean game explain put up a video about it which is fine these conversations have been raging we just had this debate over on just restart channel and our podcast yesterday and that's cool but man it's not really like whether or not it's a remake or remaster doesn't really matter it's a good game and we like to play good games but it's also an old game and so unless there's like new content and the only indication we have of that is a purple Yoshi which could have just been an added character for the scene it might not even be extra content unless you're gonna say well it because he wasn't in the original okay yeah I guess he's an extra character for the scene but it doesn't listen you know what I mean like we don't still have we don't have really new content news about that there's no DLC in the works right now for anything the new one big new announcement this year was Pokemon legends z a but that's not coming till 2025 so we may not even hear or see about that till towards the end of this year so as a content creator in the later years or maybe even the last full year of switch it's been a little rough we don't have big game news to lean on we don't have big new features being added to switch like we did back in the day when we had the Nintendo switch online coming out and new platforms be added to the Switch online as you know much as like a year ago or you know like now we're making big deals out of a 1.3 update to f0.99 you're starting to see headlines about that because we don't have anything big to talk about so here is what I'm doing and what I'm adjusting and this is what's happening next week and this wasn't going to be my video today I was waiting for some sort of big topic today and it just never materialized we're launching a new show on April 1st it's happening period even if the set's not done yet built we'll still use the set whatever's missing from it we'll just get added throughout the week it is what it is we can't handle the fact that you know paycheck delays happen and banks take forever to deal with their stuff so behind the scenes gobbledygook that I'm dealing with to finish off the set and also a product we ordered for the set is now delayed it's life everything's still going to arrive next week but it was supposed to arrive by tomorrow and that's not the case so we'll just deal with that but what I want to focus on specifically is a new show and the new show is still going to be on news and you might go Nate why would you keep going with news you just talked about how unreliable it is slow it is because I love news and there's a lot of stories out there I'm really not talking about because they don't fit as a solo video there's no headline topic and when you don't have that headline topic you tend to not have anything major to talk about and you don't draw interest so we're launching a new show and I talked previously about prime news and here's the news it's going to be like that kind of so we're launching a new show straight up just called vg news it's short or if you can't guess it video game news and on that show yes we're going to be primarily focused on nintendo but we're going to bring in some of the biggest stories across the industry whether it's playstation whether it's pc uh whether it's a new game launch like dragons dogma 2 that recently happened and some of the issues uh with that we could talk about that uh well we wouldn't talk about that now because it's old news but you know what I mean that's an example of a story we could cover uh we'll also obviously talk about xbox news as well like hey there was a system that leaked for xbox not really relevant to my channel but could be relevant to a show like that I don't know that those would be the headlines but you know those are just examples of stories lately and we can mix in all this other stuff like the famitsu sales updates every single week can be on our thursday show every single week or if not thursday friday show depending on the timing of the famitsu sales I think they come out early enough in the day that I could add them into the show knowing they come out every thursday because they're pretty consistent but the point is that the show is going to be a news amalgamation of the whole industry that primarily focuses on Nintendo so Nintendo will get the brux of it all bringing the stories that are biggest from across the industry and part of the reason this is to give us more to talk about but it's not just to give us more to talk about it's what this show is it's not prime news it's not here's the news it's vg news and if you want to know what's the inspiration for it well it's hardware news by gamers nexus and you're gonna see a lot of just straight up influence and copying from some of the structure and some of the things that hardware news does because I want to build a video game news show that's similar to his now gamers nexus is a massive youtuber way bigger than we'll probably ever be and his show is a weekly recap of all the tech news and that's fine he does a lot of other videos as well way deep diving interviews goes to hardware manufacturers learns all this stuff is all done they do i'm not trying to be gamers nexus but i want to build my show around it because i realized and looking around at the landscape of youtube there's no video game news show that's structured the way that his show is it's very laid back it's very conversational and just kind of chill uh yeah we're gonna have a more zoomed out look we're going to have uh you know uh sorry this way timers over here the timers are going to be for each topic so as we get to a topic you're going to see how long that topic lasts and you'll physically see on screen what timestamps almost at all times decides when we're splicing in trailers and imagery and things related letting you know hey if you're done with this story here's the timestamp of the next one in addition to what will be down in the bar that's right this show will always be timestamped and that's really exciting too and it could cover up the 10 stories i also want to note about the shows that we're not aiming for some arbitrary 8 minute target or 10 minute or 12 the show's as long as it needs to be and look you could argue you could just peel through headlines in five minutes and be done and have 10 stories out a headline every 30 seconds but we care about the conversations around the news and the context behind the stories so we're not going to have like specific timestamps that go like here's the direct quote that's in the middle of this five minute segment that's not what we're going to do we want to create conversations around all of this stuff so we're going to deep dive into all these different stories every day monday through friday we're going to go into where the stuff originated from how reliable some of these places are and if there are people we've referenced in the past that we find to be reliable like apioro or midori as an example if it happens to be rumor or leak content and hate whatever we're also going to deep dive into just the background of all of this like hey if we talked about that xbox series x white edition leak that's out there you know the context behind the fact that it doesn't have a physical disk drive and how does this compare to the prior leaks we've gotten from microsoft you know where stuff came out of the court documents with the trash can version and this means they scrapped that and they're going with instead this white all digital version and it's supposedly cheaper how's that going to affect the marketplace what does that do for the xbox series s one terabyte edition etc etc etc so there's just a lot of stuff there that um we can deep dive into for longer conversations i mean you might get to a point where we have like six stories but one of those stories takes 10 minutes for me to get through uh we don't really care we don't care if the episode is eight minutes long or if the episode hits 25 30 minutes long we don't not putting a cap on it it's going to take as long every day as it takes to get through the news with full context and i find this to be a very informative casual laid back way to just once a day get together guys and just discuss all these big stories out there go over all the details go into the context and obviously throw some of my opinion and a few little comedic quips in there or whatever i i think it's going to be uh pretty fun and again some of the stories will still be short you know one two three minutes i'm not going to be trying to rush through the hit arbitrary times it is some of the stories will be shorter some of them will be longer that's just the nature of of how this show is going to be and i hope you guys are along for the ride um and again this we'll still have some single topic stuff thrown out there right that's still very much going to be a thing but i hope you enjoy these more deeper dives into this stuff every day because a huge chunk of every day is going to be spent gathering um script writing note taking etc for this and again when i say casual like the notes are going to be like right in front of me uh whether it's on a tablet or sitting there on on pieces of paper i printed off notes on whatever the case is the notes are going to be right there you're going to see me look down on it we're not trying to be like this super professional green screen fancy graphic show like we'll have trailers spliced in when we need to have appropriate imagery it's going to be a lot of me on camera countdown timer going over things showing quotes on screen blah blah blah it's going to be a nice show with more professional editing but also a lot more casual editing we're not trying to excite you every 10 seconds right a more grown-up show for grown-up gamers i i think that's maybe a way to put it and we'll still have our individual topic stuff when it's relevant you know as an example big games coming out and there's a lot of little tiny things coming out we want to cover it all like here's the kingdom oh hey there's a new footage here there's a map update here like we'll still make those videos but don't be surprised if like a lot of that content if it's like three videos in a day like with tears of the kingdom gets summarized in the next video if you don't want to watch all those you just watch our big video game news article that'll just have all of it in a shorter segment so i'm really excited for the show and i'm excited for the show has made making videos this week very very difficult because at this point without this show ahead i would be all over that sonic hero story that turns out maybe wasn't as a for sure thing as it sounded like i would have been all over a lot of things that have happened out there this week like white on rice but instead i realize that none of these stories are a big deal and in full context or even less deals than they seemed like at the time and in slowing down in that respect i feel like you're going to get a better show so we're still aiming to have this show happen monday through friday weekends are still going to be a free for all whatever content i get out's when i get out we're still planning to do our live streams and all that and one big thing i want to note is this show we are planning to launch it at 10 a.m every monday through friday we're actually going to be recording the entire show the night before so every sunday monday tuesday wednesday thursday night we're going to be actually recording the show the day before we're going to be spending a lot of time gathering all the stories and making all our notes and then we're still going to leave enough room at 10 a.m it leaves enough room like i'll say nintendo drops a direct announcement at 8 a.m central time there's time enough for me to go get a quick recording in and throw that segment into the video even if it messes up all the editing i worked on at that point i don't know it's just going to be something we'll deal with on the fly because i want to make sure that we're doing good i don't want you to wait 24 hours for breaking news from the morning or it's possible i get the episode out and i drop a drop an individual video on the nintendo direct so again you're still not waiting for that breaking news again my whole goal isn't to be like a spawn wave or like some of these other channels where you wait for all the news and spend 24 hours and then you get the news i want you to get as up to date informal news as i can in the hardware news well any breaking news like that we're still doing our individual news segment so huge rumor drops a huge report or a huge nintendo directed announcement i want to be all over that but still provide this to you every day so and also i think in gathering a lot of smaller stories together for a bigger show let's say we don't have any big news from playstation so on your pc but what we do have is a bunch of small nintendo stories like the f0.99 update and the you know the the famitsu sales for princess peach showtime or uh something else so they're a new demo drop for a big anticipated indie game or whatever but it's still not a banger we throw everything together it could still make for a pretty damn good show how i title it how the thumbnails are done that's what's being figured out right now because we have a lot of ideas they're floating out there trying to make it more casual but also more like hey it's obvious that this is a specific show that's not like the rest of my videos hope you guys are looking forward to it this video is already longer than i want there's no editing in this video it's just cut the intro cut the beginning or the end and we just go with it because i just wanted to have an open conversation you guys are tuning in and i will catch you tonight we have a live stream tonight happening we're also gonna be playing some fortnite before then so catch you guys later got everyone