 Hey everyone, welcome back to Prime Five, your five biggest Nintendo news stories in the last 24 hours. We got some bangers to talk about today, including an update on Splatoon 3 sales in Japan because holy crud is it still going crazy over there. Oh, and maybe some stuff about a Zelda Direct. So there's that. By the way, some new DLC dropped for a Nintendo game today. Another Nintendo Switcher exclusive has gone gold. Woo, we got a busy one. So let's get into the news right after you hit that subscribe button and drop a like on the video. And thank you so much for the support round. Our road to 80,000 subscribers. So our first story is to look at the Famitsu sales charts because yeah, Splatoon 3 is absolutely killing it. So Splatoon 3 actually saw a 74% sales drop over launch week. That might sound like a big drop because it is. So what are week twos numbers? Well, just a cool 506,610 units. Now these are just physical sales, not including digital. And yes, that does make it the number one seller in Japan for the week. Not only is this more sales than most games debut at in Japan, it's more sales than the entire rest of the top 10 combined which equals out to about 260,000 games sold. So besides number one, at number two, we have a brand new release on Nintendo Switch. Dragon Quest X Rise of the Five Tributes offline. It debuted with 143,836 units on Switch. You're also seeing that it was at number three with the PlayStation 4 version of that game at 48,100 and at number four with the PlayStation 5 version at 28,371. Then you're seeing Mario Kart 8 Deluxe followed up on Nintendo Switch Sports and then our brand new game Intrinity Trigger on Switch and we have Minecraft for Switch at number eight, Kirby in the Forgotten Land at number nine and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate at number 10. So yeah, that's really incredible for the software front, but what about the hardware? Naturally hardware was really high for Nintendo Switch two weeks ago with the release of Splatoon 3. So not quite as high last week, only 127,558 units, but for comparison, the number two system in Japan for the week was actually the Xbox series. This includes the X and S combined at 14,077 units. So I would say that's quite a big gap. This is also one of the few weeks in Japan where the Xbox itself has outsold the PlayStation 5, whose cumulative sales of the digital and standard editions are at 11,180 for the week. So we are seeing some growth here for the Xbox. In fact, the Xbox lifetime to date is now at 338,000 units in Japan. Yes, still well behind the PlayStation 5. They're pretty cool. Also just for funsies, the 3DS outsold the PS4, even though neither are in production anymore. Kinda cool. Next up we get to talk about Final Fantasy VII Crisis Core Reunion because it got a brand new pre-order item at Best Buy. That pre-order item is a steel book. It is exclusive to Best Buy. Crisis Core is a remaster, possibly a remake, depending on how it comes out, of the PSP original game featuring improved graphics, fully voiced dialogue, new soundtrack arrangements, and gameplay adjustments. Now I've never actually played this game back on the PSP. This definitely feels like a game I might give a try to on day one. Remember, it does release on December 13th. So during the Nintendo Direct, Nintendo announced Mario Stryker's DLC and just said it's coming later this month. Well, later this month is today. Why they couldn't tell us it was gonna be today then? I don't know, but it's today. I'm actually gonna be playing a little bit of it today myself because I wanna get some matches in with Diddy Kong, baby. But yeah, I don't know, this is just kind of strange that they couldn't give us the date during the Direct when it was so close. But whatever, Nintendo does whatever Nintendo feels like doing, and it is a free update, so it's hard to complain too much since we didn't pay for it. Our next story deals with a Zelda Direct. A Zelda Direct? Oh gosh, Nate, what are we talking about? Remember, we didn't get the Zelda blowout, so what are we even getting into? Well, let's talk for a moment. So look, we all know that many expected the Zelda Direct to sort of be the last Nintendo Direct where we got looks at the Wind Waker and Twilight Princess HD and Tears of the Kingdom. And yeah, we actually did get the latter, but not the former. And the latter, unfortunately, was still a very tiny vertical slice of the game as we still barely know anything concrete about the May 12th, 2023 title. These expectations were created when Jeff Grubb uttered the now infamous words Zelda Blowout, which didn't happen, at least not for the Wind Waker and Twilight Princess HD, part of that blowout, in large part, according to his own words, because he didn't verify the information because he too got caught up in the hype. Whether you believe him or not is up to you, but I think we can all understand getting caught up in the hype. All of us have likely done this at some point. So the question is, will there be a Zelda Direct? What's going to be in it? And when is it? Well, there are no new rumors or leaks for such an event. I want it to briefly touch upon it, but I do want to briefly touch upon it because I do think one is inevitably going to happen. Now, I don't expect such an event to occur the rest of this year, but assuredly, Tears of the Kingdom will get its own dedicated Direct in April next year? Maybe? That being said, what if they do one sooner and still slip in Twilight Princess and the Wind Waker HD? It's certainly not impossible because Tears of the Kingdom is eight months away, leaving enough time on the calendar to realistically still release those titles. Will they? I don't have a clue. And if they don't release them this year, it does break that cycle that existed. So Switches launch with a new Zelda something releasing every year that wasn't just on Nintendo Switch Online. Of course, they could still drop those games on Twitter, something I know some are still thinking Nintendo might do with Metroid Prime HD just so they could avoid the conversation on why we haven't heard anything about Metroid Prime 4 yet. Huhtah. Time will tell, but I do want to get your thoughts in general on what you think will be in a potential Zelda Direct and when will it happen? Will it happen? I have no idea. Give me your thoughts down in the comments. And our last story is about Mario plus Rabbids sparks a hope because folks, it has been announced that it has gone gold. Hell yeah, let's celebrate. So this is an industry term to mean the game is finished and ready to be printed onto disks or cartridges and distributed to retailers. In this case, cartridges, companies often announce this so they can celebrate with fans eagerly anticipating games because the developers view this as a major milestone, which they should. They just want us to be able to celebrate completing the game with the public. Reminder, this game does release next month on October 20th and you have to get some pre-order links down in the description for all the games mentioned today. I'm super stoked for sparks a hope and obviously cheers to the kingdom and crisis core. And you know what? Honestly, just really liked that last Nintendo Direct. Sue me. Anyways, folks. I am Nathan Roblojans from Nintendo Prime. 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