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Hey everyone, welcome back to Prime 5, your 5 biggest Nintendo news stories in the last 24 hours. And today, we actually only have two big stories, well it's kind of weird because one of the stories is Nintendo's financial report and there's so many mini stories within that big story that I didn't think we needed a whole lot more, although we will talk about the brand new Pokemon trailer that just dropped today because I'm impressed and I'm going to explain why I'm impressed when we get to that news. Now before we get to that news I want to remind you that hey we are on our road to 80,000 subscribers so I would appreciate if you drop a like and subscribe to the channel. Also I want you to leave a comment down below and tell me, hey what version of Switch do you own? Version 1, version 2 which is that red box Switch, do you own a Switch Lite and or a Switch OLED or is this some sort of special edition? Let me know. Now let's get right into the news. And our first story deals with a brand new Pokemon trailer that dropped today. This trailer is basically four minutes long and it features the Ed Sheeran song Celestial and I gotta say I wasn't sure on the song choice but as I watched the trailer I get it. See it seems to be a huge recap trailer of everything they have shown so far with a few new locations tossed and they also unveiled a book feature or so close to launch for 10 days away. I'm not going to dive too deep into the book stuff but they didn't really talk that much about it in the trailer. There was a big emphasis in this trailer on adventure which admittedly the song helps you get into so hey that's why I said it's a pretty good choice. It seems to emphasize a lot on treasuring your experience. This is a line repeated many times in the game at least based off the trailer. It sort of gives off that vibe that this is the greatest Pokemon adventure we have ever created and we hope you treasure your time with it. That's not a quote or anything it's just something that this trailer gives me the impression that they are very proud of this game and think that it might be the best thing they've ever done. Not their own words they've said it's just the feeling this trailer invokes. Now am I generally excited for two straight Pokemon games? I'll check my pulse later because that's just unheard of for me. I've been out of Pokemon for so long you know I'm an infamous gen one or I suppose and yet I was super excited for Pokemon Legends Arceus and yeah I ended up really loving that game. I ended up living up and exceeding my expectations and now we have this open world Scarlet and Violet where some people just like with Legends Arceus knock the visuals or this and that but man does the gameplay look incredible. Does the multiplayer gameplay look incredible? Does the multiple branching types of stories you can do whether you're going with the traditional gym route with the Elite Four or whatever they end up using or if you go the route of treasure hunting and finding specialized Pokemon. This looks so exciting to me I haven't been this excited for a main line like traditional style Pokemon game in so long and is this even traditional? I feel like it's more like an evolution of the traditional but obviously people consider this a normal release it's a dual game release like usual. I'm really excited for a Pokemon and I hope you guys are too. If not that's okay it's not for everyone. It really wasn't for me for nearly 20 years but now am I back? I guess we'll find out when I play the games later this month. Now before we get into our next story I'm going to remind you of today's sponsor or really partner Ewin Racing. Ewin Racing makes amazing chairs like the one I'm sitting in right now and on down. 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of France Nintendo Benelux and Nintendo Eberka and I'm sorry if I'm mispronouncing these names and combining them into Nintendo of Europe which were renamed to Nintendo of Europe SE France and Benelux will join in July of 2023 and Eberka Eberka or however you say this is joining in August of 2024 the idea is to simplify and accelerate decision-making something that is pretty slow between the different branches today so they're consolidating some branches of Nintendo into one to just make it easier to manage I think that's probably a good thing now Nintendo and mobile game company that they have partnered with in the past Denna are forming a new joint venture called Nintendo systems that the objective of this company is to strengthen the digitalization of Nintendo's business which will include research and development along with the creation of value-added services to further reinforce Nintendo's relationship with consumers this could be Nintendo switch online related this could have to do with the online app they have on phones there's a lot of things that could be in the works here obviously we don't really know what's going to come of it yet there's some speculation out there my good friend Mike Odyssey did a really really long speculative bit in his video today if you guys want to go check that out but I don't even know where to begin with this speculation because there's not a lot here until we start to see what sort of things they're working on now the new joint venture between those two companies so Nintendo systems is scheduled to kick off on April 3rd 2023 so not too far from now now let's get into some of the actual numbers and the negative bit of news I guess if you want to call it that and that's going to be the switch sales numbers so total switch sales are at a hundred and fourteen point three three million up from the a hundred and eleven million reported last time so you can see you got about three million and sales in this last quarter Nintendo saw a nineteen percent decrease in sales so far this fiscal year compared to last and they blame this on a semiconductor shortage ironically later in their report they note the semiconductor shortage has improved and in all actuality well this is Nintendo's own charts they have manufactured more Nintendo switch units in quarter one and quarter two of this fiscal year than at any point in Switch's life breaking production records for two straight quarters so it's hard at least for me to fathom blaming the semiconductor shortage for why sales are down when you're making more switches than ever it doesn't line up that being said it seems as if they're maybe telling a little bit of a fib to avoid headlines before the holidays as the nineteen percent decrease in switch sales is not seemingly due to any shortages to couple with this Nintendo has adjusted their forecasted switch sales for the fiscal year from twenty one million down to nineteen million if that number holds it would be about a four to five million drop in unit sales from last fiscal year with seemingly nothing coming up at the moment to turn it around to give you an idea the new Pokemon scarlet and violet switch is readily in stock right now at several retailers including Walmart and Target often Nintendo's official website and having a new special edition readily available to still buy this far after it launched still is unheard of for the switch in the past so there is that despite the sales dipping and nothing really being able to turn it around to get back to previous highs and by the way nineteen million sales is still absolutely incredible in a year but it's just showing a decline this gets back to basically pre-pandemic sales of twenty nineteen then probably will sink further next fiscal year for honest that doesn't mean switch has no momentum and here's where we get to the positive this is because software continues to sell at incredible rates so let's dive into that good news so here's updates on some newer games from this year Splatoon 3 sold seven point nine million units total that's absolutely incredible and almost doubled up the first game over a half way to Splatoon two's lifetime to date sales as well in you know a very short time period so that's awesome Nintendo switch sports is at six point one five million so really good for that game as well of course well behind like we sports and we sports resort but hey it's still really good Mario strikers battle league sold two point one seven million this actually beats out the game cube strikers game but does fall short of charged on we for now again obviously that was on the market much longer so we'll see a battle league can surpass it next year Zinnabade Chronicles 3 sold one point seven two million so far it is the fastest selling Zinnabade Chronicles game ever and while it's still half a million or so behind Zinnabade Chronicles 2 lifetime today sales it's pretty it's pretty much going to pass that at some point maybe even over this holiday season now they had 15 different games so far this fiscal year so in two quarters sell at least one million units that is incredible ninety five point four one million pieces of software sold in this previous quarter which is a year over year increase of one point six percent so as I said their software is doing incredibly well we can't ignore that fact now let's get into the update to their top ten sales so Mario Kart 8 deluxe sold forty eight point four one million units as their number one seller of course probably will cross 50 million this holiday animal crossing new horizons is at number two at forty point one seven million units super specials ultimate has sold twenty nine point five three million units I bet it hits thirty million after this holiday season the legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild is sold twenty seven point seven nine million units clearly going to cross twenty eight million I don't know if it'll quite get the thirty before we get tears of the kingdom but time will tell Pokemon Sword and shield comes in at twenty five point three seven million units Super Mario Odyssey is next at twenty four point four million units Super Mario Party is right after that at eighteen point three five million units then we have Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Pokemon Shining Pearl having sold fourteen point nine two million units Ring Fit Adventure chiming in at fourteen point eight seven million units Pokemon let's go Pikachu and Pokemon let's go Eevee round out that top ten at fourteen point eight one million units and to give you even another update because you know we talked about Xenoblade Splatoon I forgot to mention this one Kirby in the forgotten land has sold five point two seven million units it is now officially the best selling Kirby of all time and this is such a big deal because we have not had a Kirby sell this well since the nineties so yeah Nintendo you're on to something with Kirby in the forgotten land we better get a sequel in that style or something with just as much care hopefully you know in two to three years now I do want to let you know there were no new updated numbers for Metroid Dread which means RGT-85 technically won his bat it probably sold over three million but his bat was basically based on the fact that hey Nintendo's not gonna update the official figures maybe ever so here we sit and we don't really know the exact numbers of that game so anyways well this also isn't new news tears of the Kingdom is on their upcoming software list and is still listed for May 12th it's just a financial report this is the first time it's had a release date on a financial report Advanced Wars is still TBA as is Metroid Prime 4 and Pikmin 4 is just reconfirmed that it's still coming in 2023 so all that being said that's our Prime 5 today I hope that you you know got your fill we're gonna be live streaming today you might have already missed it by now but if you didn't we're gonna be live streaming Sonic Frontiers 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Anne Hathaway apologized last week because in her new movie she plays a witch, a fictional character that has three claw-like fingers and that's offensive to people with limb differences. I, I. Hello there, my beautiful, lovely, talented and delightful internet friends. Welcome back to my channel. Thank you so much for joining me here today. I'm Footless Joe, where I am still Joe. I'm still missing a foot and I am definitely gonna need some coffee for the rest of this video. I need to share just a little bit of context from the last couple weeks. So I made this video about two weeks ago on the film The Witches. The Witches is this HBO film adaptation of the book. The Witches, it's like this beloved kid's story and in it starred people like Anne Hathaway and Octavia Spencer. It's like this big deal thing, tons of advertising. All right, however, the filmmakers made one very unfortunate decision to make all of the evil sinister, unredeemable bad guys into characters that have a limb difference. Now, the video that I made back then, which is linked up above, really goes into the details of why this is an issue. The long and short of it is, number one, having this kind of limb difference was not a part of the original story. It is not what Roald Dahl wrote in his book. Number two, they did it to make the characters seem more sinister and evil. Number three, this is noted as a way to identify witches as in you are telling children the way to identify who is a very, very bad evil person is by seeing someone who has a limb difference. There's some pretty dangerous messages in it and the limb difference community of which I am apart started speaking up and using our voices to be like, hey, this isn't cool and here's the reason why. Like I said, I go into a lot of details up above. I'm also gonna link a few of my friends' videos down below that kind of talk about the impacts of this film. But, moving on to today's video, I was listening to Bill Mehar a few days ago. Now, he is not usually my cup of tea, if you don't know who he is. He has this show on HBO called Real Time with Bill Mehar. He's a political commentary guy, social commentary guy, a fairly abrasive person. My husband, Brian, really likes him and so he'll watch him from time to time. And we were watching this episode from last week in which he said this. And Hathaway apologized last week because in her new movie she plays a witch, a fictional character that has three claw-like fingers and that's offensive to people with limb differences.  In his mind, this is obviously ridiculous. Like you can tell from his tone, you know, it's offensive to people with limb differences, right? Like this never should have had to happen and Hathaway shouldn't have had to apologize. So as we continue here, I wanna make it really clear that I am in no way like angry at Bill Mehar or that this video is about like you said a bad thing, you know, boo on you. I honestly think that his sentiment reflects what a lot of people think and feel, which is why I wanted to talk about this. When I uploaded my video on The Witches, within the first 15 minutes of it being uploaded, the title was pretty clear, like what I was talking about, like why this controversy is a bigger problem than most people are thinking it is for people with limb differences. Within the first 15 minutes of uploading that video, it's a 21 minute video. It already had a significant number of dislikes, meaning that the people who were disliking it literally did not have time to watch the whole video and as time went on, this is one of my most disliked videos, which hey, is totally fine. That's also coupled with a lot of comments from people being like, this is ridiculous. This is hypersensitive. Just let a movie be a movie. It's just a friggin' story, but this tone and frustration and attitude that Bill has, I understand. And I get that a lot of people feel that way. I totally understand the sentiment of feeling like everybody is so friggin' hypersensitive right now and everything is so, you know, you can't say anything anymore and it's just, it's frustrating, right? It can feel frustrating, depending on what group you belong to. As an example of this, I will take one for my own personal life. Here was this campaign going around on TikTok for a while that was like, the word lame is offensive to people, towards people who are lame in the literal definition, meaning unable to walk without difficulty. I am unable to walk without difficulty. Hi, I'm an amputee. So this argument that was being made is like, you can't say that's so lame because it's gonna offend me and I am happy to be in the wrong on this one.   I say lame all the time and I am lame. And it doesn't bother me if people who aren't lame happen to say that because it's just part of our vocabulary. Like that's where my brain went. I'm not saying I'm in the right. I'm just sharing like my legitimate feelings when I heard this going around. But I felt that same feeling of, can we just stop? Like, can we just let people talk? We just let people live their lives. Like I had that rise up in me for just a moment. So when Bill said this on his show, I totally understood the feelings that he was probably feeling of like, are you kidding me? She's a fictional character. Give it up already people. But the thing is, because I think a lot of us can relate at least on some level to this like frustration with everything being politically correct, we don't stop to consider whether or not the things that we're frustrated about are legitimate changes that should be considered. We live in a time of crazy change right now. Like so many social issues, so many things that we are trying to do to make the world a better place and a more inclusive place and a safer place for people. And I don't know if you know this, but generally us human creatures are a little resistant to change. So when there's so much change coming at us and on top of that, that change comes with the insinuation that we are not being good people. We are not being nice people. Like for instance, saying lame is offensive to people. So if you ever said lame, you should feel bad or you shouldn't use that word anymore. To me, it's kind of like a throwing the baby out with the bathroom at a kind of situation where we're like, just stop it with the hypersensitive stuff, just stop. However, some of the issues that people are bringing up are legitimate things. Like issues around racism and sexism and ableism are very real issues that affect people. They affect people's lives and safety and identity and all different sorts of things. And I think it's really important when people suggest, hey, what you're saying and what you're doing is actually really harmful to a large group of people. And here's why. That we take a moment to at least consider their argument. I have no way of knowing this. Let me just restate that. This is pure conjecture, but it sounds to me that what Bill said in that clip was either read off a script that he knew a little about or maybe heard the headlines of like, Anne Hathaway, I do apologize for playing this character and just perhaps understandably without knowing the context for the situation rolled his eyes and went, what the hell? Like feel free to disagree with me, but it doesn't strike me as though there was at least an average amount of research that went into what he said there.  However, if you look into what is actually being said, what is actually being done, the arguments that are being presented, they hold a lot of value in my opinion and in the opinion of a lot of other people. If you read Anne Hathaway's apology, she does apologize, but she does so in what I think is a very compassionate and human way. She isn't like groveling because she broke some PC rules. She's saying, hey, I realized that I heard people and it wasn't my intention to and I'm sorry about that. Warner Brothers, the company that made the movie also came out and apologized and it started to make some real change. Like for instance, they are gonna be working with the Lucky Finn project on future projects that involve limb difference to have the actual input of people who are dealing with the things that they are presenting on screen to do a better job of it.  It was a movement of education. It's making the argument that, hey, what you are doing is very directly impacting children, the youth of tomorrow to be biased against people who have limb differences and disabilities and also those kids and adults who have limb differences and disabilities. You are literally playing right into the bullying that they already experienced. So maybe we could do this differently in the future. Like maybe this wasn't a good idea. So I wanted to take just a moment to talk about intention. Hi there, it's me, it's Joe from the future because I forgot to film this part yesterday. I feel like an argument that surfaces quite often is this idea of no harm was intended. So why are you upset about it? I've definitely heard this. I've definitely felt this about certain things that I was in the wrong about. If someone's intention wasn't to cause harm, it's easy to think, why is it really that big of a deal? Like if someone has malicious intent in creating a film or saying a slur or whatever and wants to hurt people, it's a lot easier to get behind the idea that that's bad, that's wrong, we don't like that. But if someone just made an honest mistake or it appears that way, the attitude is often just like, come on, come on, give them a break. They didn't mean it that way. The thing with intention is it only matters so much and stick with me for just a second.   The intention in those two different situations is obviously very different, but the physical throbbing in your brain that you feel is not altered. How you choose to move forward with that relationship is what is actually impacted. If someone made an honest mistake and accidentally hit you, it still hurts, but you can be like, you know what, it's fine, I forgive you, just try to be more careful. Versus if someone does that in anger, you might not want to be around that person anymore. Intention really matters for relationships, for repairing relationships, for the future of a relationship, but it does not necessarily have any impact on the severity of the harm that's caused. So when we see situations like this or when we see situations where we think people are being ridiculous because someone just made a mistake and it's not their fault, they didn't know, so why are you having a hard time with this? I think it's really important to remember that if you get hit over the head with a baseball bat, it hurts just the same, regardless of what someone's intention was. So speaking on a personal note for a moment, I have this theory about everything that's been happening. Like when we, as a limb difference community, are like, hey, this isn't a good idea and here's why, maybe we could do better, and the response by the general public is sit down and shut up, no one wants to hear it. You're being overly sensitive social justice warrior jerks. I obviously think that there's a lot of things that play into that, but I know for me personally, when I have been faced with things like this in my life before, when I'm the one who's being told, hey, maybe that phrase isn't what you thought it was, hey, maybe that's actually hurting people unintentionally and maybe you could change the way you talk about things or change the way you do things so that you avoid those things, right? There definitely is a lot of defensiveness that can come up of like, it's not that bad, I'm not a part of the problem, you know, how dare you suggest that? Even I think by suggesting that something that someone enjoys, for instance, this movie, if we suggest that what they're enjoying is bad, easy to feel like by association, I'm insinuating that you're a bad person for enjoying it. For me, the thing with all of this is that change is uncomfortable, it's not easy, it takes time, and the backlash to people who are speaking out about this, it does not make it right, but I do understand where it's coming from because even though we are incredibly adaptive and we are creatures of change and we progress through life and our societies move along, we don't really like change. We like things to be predictable, we like things to say the same. If we're in the in-group, we like being in the in-group and we like staying there, because it's safe, it's predictable, we know what's right, we know what's wrong, the path is clear, it's comfortable. When people are suggesting that maybe there are things within that comfortable little bubble that are hurting people outside the comfortable little bubble, or that could be contributing to harm elsewhere, or that you're inside the safe little bubble, but other people are not inside that, this discomfort and this frustration with even suggesting that makes a lot of sense and it can feel ridiculous because you haven't experienced this thing firsthand, so it's hard to put yourself in someone else's shoes, or you don't wanna believe that you could ever be a part of the problem.  I understand that reaction, I've had that reaction to a number of things in my life, but it can be really wise to pause for a moment and consider if the argument that is being presented to you maybe has more weight than you think it does. It's easy to write things off. Like I said, we don't like being uncomfortable, talking about or thinking about this stuff is breaking that comfortable little bubble a little bit. However, it's worth it. It's worth it to make the world a better place. It's worth it to create a future where kids are not bullied or picked on or harmed for looking different. Whether that is from a limb difference as I'm talking about now or race or gender or ethnic background or any of these issues. None of that is comfortable to think about or work through, but the cool thing about people is that we can deal with a little bit of discomfort. So in closing, Bill, definitely disagree with what you said. Definitely understand where you're coming from. I doubt you'll ever see this video, but on the off chance that you do, I would encourage you to look into the actual arguments that are being made behind the reason that Anne Hathaway was forced to apologize for being a fictional character that could offend people in the limb difference community. Maybe take 15 minutes and try to dig into it a little bit further than surface value, then then face value and see if the arguments being made have any validity to them. And for what it's worth, I really think that they do.  I am simply submitting the request to you that maybe you consider thinking outside of the box. Maybe you consider stepping out of what you previously thought. Maybe take a few minutes to honestly consider another viewpoint dropping some of the biases that we all carry. I think it can be a really beautiful and a helpful thing to yourself and a lot of people. It's up to each of us individually how much we want to take other people's opinions or thoughts or feelings into account. But personally, I am of the belief that at least taking the time to consider people who think differently, who look differently, who act differently than you, at least considering what they have to say does nothing but expand you as a person whether or not you end up agreeing in the end. For those of you who saw my The Witches video, I didn't want to like completely remake that video within this video. So if you're interested in really understanding a little bit more of the context of why a lot of people believe how The Witches portrayed characters like Anne Hathaway played, it actually is a problem. Check out that video linked down below. Check out a few other videos I've linked from my friends who made videos on similar topics. I really appreciate their opinions and what they have to say. And I'd love to hear if you agree or disagree with me respectfully in the comment section down below. Thank you so much for taking a few minutes out of your day to sit and watch this video here with me. I really appreciate it. I hope you guys had a great day. I said I look forward to hearing your thoughts on comments down below. Before you leave, if you want to hit that subscribe button, maybe hit that like button. 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