 Now look, we're all waiting for the next Nintendo Direct or a Nintendo Switch to reveal or even Nintendo just to drop some Twitter stuff out there, right? We do know some upcoming dates right now. April 25th is when previews are gonna be dropping for the thousand year door, Paper Mario the thousand year door, maybe Nintendo's most anticipated game at the moment. And on top of that, we know the reviews are dropping on May 21st. Now this is due to Tom Henderson, who my lord is he becoming a super reliable insider and he really has been for a long time. He put those dates up on Twitter, just letting people know, hey, that stuff's usually not necessarily under NDA. People just don't really talk about it, but he's letting people know, hey, previews are coming in about a week and we're gonna get reviews. That's cool. Well, we just also had a five minute trailer drop for Endless Ocean Luminous. And really when you're watching this video, some of you might have been looking forward to a VG news episode that we were supposed to have. Haven't been feeling the greatest, have enough pep in my step for this video. So we're gonna get this one out right now and we'll see what happens for the rest because here's the bottom line. What is happening right now with Nintendo is not only unprecedented for the Nintendo Switch era save 2020, what is happening right now is the Nintendo fan community seems to be at least online collectively losing our minds, right? I'm part of that community. Now what am I talking about? The incessant negativity is overtaking the comment sections on videos all over YouTube, on social media platforms, not just X where people often associate negativity. I'm seeing it on Instagram. I'm seeing it on TikTok even. I'm even seeing individual content creators being pretty negative on Nintendo. Now we're not just talking about their takes on the indie world, which look, the indie world was a thing that Nintendo did and I thought it was solid. I didn't think it was the greatest indie world ever, not for my personal taste anyways, but I do think that it wasn't bad or anything. It was par for the course for an indie world. It met my expectations for what I suspect every indie world to be. And I actually saw some people say that it actually exceeded their expectations because it gave them things they wanna play, which is a good thing. But unfortunately a lot of that's being drowned out by constant negativity around Nintendo. And I think I know what some of it stems from. For starters, if you are a big Nintendo fan that likes Nintendo's best of their best games, there is a possibility that if Tears of the Kingdom didn't do it for you last year, it's been a while since Nintendo's released a game that does do it for you. Now look, I like Super Mario World's Wonder, but I know that side scrolling Mario isn't for every Nintendo fan, especially some of the hardcore ones online. And if Tears of the Kingdom was a let down for you, yeah. It's been a while since Nintendo's probably given you a big home run game, but even setting that aside, Nintendo has now gone seven months without giving us a general Nintendo Direct. And beyond all of that, just thinking about this from a logical perspective, Nintendo has a ton of internal and owned studios that they could announce games from. The last game Nintendo announced that is actually from one of their own studios was Super Mario Bros. Wonder. Let that sink in. We have had a game come out nearly every single month this year, but we only know of none that were actually made by Nintendo themselves. Now look, we can argue this is pretty typical for an end of a generation. Lots of ports and remasters. Look what they did with 3DS, although they still had some new games. And technically, hey, we have two new games this year in Princess Peach Showtime and Endless Ocean Luminous. And I'm not gonna sit here luminous, whatever. I'm not gonna sit here and tell you that you can't enjoy those games and look forward to Endless Ocean. And obviously, you know, a much beloved franchise coming back with, well not really a franchise coming back, but much beloved game coming back in Paper Mario and the Thousand Year Door. But what I am throwing out there is we are in a transition period. It's never been more obvious to me that we're in a transition period. No traditional direct partner showcase, indie showcase. No big games technically announced beyond Metroid Prime 4. And even then, that's not an announcer confirmed for this year. Nothing's really happening in the space at the moment to really get you pepped up, really get you excited, really get the juices flowing unless you're just really excited about these smaller or remaster-like releases that they're putting out. And again, I'm not gonna sit here and tell you that you're wrong for being excited. What I am gonna say is there's a lot of negativity. And I just want to address some of this negativity as every console, every system, every platform, I feel like has its periods of lull. And I think with Switch, we've been spoiled because Nintendo has been able to put their best foot forward for the almost the entire generation because Nintendo literally has all of their game development focused on a single platform. But here's the thing when all their game development is focused on a single platform. When Nintendo's ready to move to the next platform and they gotta start shifting game development to it, there's kind of a stark cutoff of what games are being made for the current Switch and what games are being for the next. You know why an internal studio Nintendo game has not been announced since Super Mario Bros. Wonder? Because it's highly likely every single internal studio is working on games for Nintendo Switch 2. Now that does mean Nintendo Switch 2 will have this incredible support over the next five, six, seven years. But that also means in order to have that incredible support, especially out the gate, they have to stop making games for Switch. Now, again, this isn't saying Nintendo's not publishing and putting out games, but look at the lineup. It's not something that is, you know, costing Nintendo a lot of money. There's no big games. These are smaller games. They didn't take as long. Even the Paper Mario 1000 Near Door Remaster, which looks like it had a lot of care put into it. Let's just be honest. That game was an in development for years on end and cost the Nintendo a lot of money. No, it was probably something that could have been done maybe even in a year with an outside studio. So this is just one of those things where Nintendo is in a transition and we are not used to Nintendo only having a single platform. And the only other companies that were rocking single platforms for a long time were things like Xbox and PlayStation. And we know that Xbox has just struggled to get out exclusive content forever. But PlayStation was doing the opposite of what Nintendo is doing. See, Nintendo, while they're getting games out and making sure we have stuff to actually play, they're not getting any big games out. Sony, as a single platform holder would always end their generations, often with their best games, their best foot forward. So that final year of PlayStation is usually really phenomenal and really exciting to look forward to. But then the launch year for the next PlayStation isn't as exciting. In fact, things typically don't get super exciting until the end of year two and going into year three of a PlayStation system. At least when it comes to exclusive content. Again, there's obviously third party games and all of that. And look, we still have Indian third party games here on Switch to play. So it's not like there's literally nothing to play. I just installed Grounded on my Switch. I plan to check out this weekend. But my thing is, we as Nintendo fans are not used to Nintendo not having things come out. Even during the Wii U era, when that was going bad, if there wasn't a big Wii U game, we still had three DS games coming. And even when we were transitioning over to the Nintendo Switch thing, we still had the obvious NES classic coming out. And we also had three DS games. So Nintendo having everything and all their eggs in one basket does mean that we were probably, and I think we've hit that point now, going to hit a point that Nintendo Switch support was basically gonna stop, almost hard stop from Nintendo's internal studios. I think the one of the last games and maybe the final game that's actually gonna land on Switch from an internal studio from Nintendo is probably Metroid Prime 4. I think that's sort of a consensus that they promised it as a Switch game in 2017. It's still gonna be delivered as a Switch game. It just might also be a cross-generational game. So that is like the outside shot game that could still come this year and just beyond Switch if Switch 2 is not here. But I do find it fascinating that that's it. And that's a game that technically has already been announced. That's why I said nothing's been announced since I already wondered because that game was technically announced in 2017. I think we need to take a step back and breathe a little bit. We need to fundamentally look at this situation as an opportunity. What are we talking about? Well, if you are a single platform holder and you only own a Switch, that is the only thing you have to game on. And that's fine. There's probably millions and millions, tens of millions of you. What I will say is, dive into that deep library of the Switch, there's such a massive backlog. And I don't want to hear if you are an avid Nintendo fan that you don't have a backlog of games you haven't finished yet. Now's the time to do it. Go into that backlog. Maybe you never beat Kirby in the Forgotten Land. Maybe you're still waiting to beat Xenobre Chronicles 2 or 3. Maybe you've been waiting for excuses to go play Autopad Traveler 2 or Triangle Strategy or whatever. There's such a deep library of content on Switch. Use this year as the year to really get that back catalog polished off before we get to what's next. That's my suggestion for some of you hardcore Switch fans that don't really play anything else. If you are also somebody that does have other systems, maybe you own an Xbox or a PlayStation or you have a gaming computer. Well, now's the time to really take someone that gaming energy you're often throwing at Nintendo and start being excited about the things that are happening on other platforms. There's other big exciting games coming from these other companies that we should really look for. I mean, Stellar Blade as an example, dropping on PlayStation 5 soon. So I'm just pointing out there's other things out there to be excited about and you can go and play that stuff and you don't need to feel guilty about doing that. Enjoy it. Gaming is for you. It's not about the platform. So you can go do that as well if you're someone who's fortunate like I am to own other platforms. So I think that now is the time to really just appreciate what we already have, what's coming to other systems and be a little patient with Nintendo. And I know it's infuriating. Look, we've been infuriated with Nintendo many, many times over the decades because they're kind of weird with their communications. They don't always communicate when we think we should. We may or may not get some Switch 2 related stuff at the financial briefing in May. We may or may not hear about Switch 2 at all this year. We may or may not have a Nintendo Direct sometime in the next few months. But what we can do is be patient. What we can do is enjoy what we already have because I think sometimes we're always so looking forward to what's next and yes, I am one of those people that we sometimes forget to live in the present and appreciate what we already have and take advantage of that opportunity. That isn't gonna change the fact that your frustrated Nintendo hasn't had on Nintendo Direct. It's not gonna change that you're frustrated. There's no major internal games besides Metroid Prime 4 currently announced for Switch. It's not gonna change your frustration that you're ready for Switch 2. You're ready for Nintendo games and higher resolutions and 60 FPS and better graphics and physics and all of that stuff. It's not gonna change that you guys are just ready. I mean, Eric, my best friend who literally is the co-host of the podcast has been saying for two years now that he has an original launch Switch and he's just been ready for that next gen Switch for a little bit now. He's like, I don't wanna buy the OLED. I wanna buy it because I want some of this more powerful. Something that's gonna make my games run better. And I understand that sentiment but I think we need to calm down on the anger. I'm seeing a lot of vitriol, Hollow Knight silk song as an example not being at the indie world. Now I'm seeing people go and attack Team Cherry because they're mad because that announcement could have saved Nintendo as if Nintendo's in any danger and needs to be saved. Nintendo's a multi-billion dollar company making money hand over fist. They're doing just fine. And as if we needed as gamers to have that game there to give us something to be excited for for Switch, meanwhile it's also gonna be on Xbox and PlayStation. I think that we need to just take a step back, smile a little more. I'm not gonna tell you to go touch grass or stuff like that because a lot of you guys already work manual labor jobs and you're outside and doing stuff and you children and all that all the time. And some places it's really cold, some places it's really hot. I'm just gonna say, take care of your mental wellbeing. It's okay to just not be angry over video games. You know what I mean? Not having stuff coming can be frustrating. And I get that firsthand. But also, guys, come on, we've had a pretty damn good this generation. Go play that bad catalog. Go play games on other platforms. Relax a little bit. Give Nintendo time. And you know what? If they announce the next platform or the next direct and the next platform looks like crap and it looks like it's gonna suck bad name, no games. The next directs out fine. We could talk about that stuff when it happens. But for right now, let's be a little patient. Unless you obviously have specific reasons that you can't be. And if that's the case, I'm really sorry for what you're going through and I hope for the best. Thank you for being here and I'll catch you in the next video.