We're working. Hey everyone. We were muted in the stream. We're muted. We got it. Hey, this is why, this is why we're testing all this everyone. We have a massive E3 show coming up. We can't have a podcast without some issues, right? And the issues were me. I messed up. Nothing crashed this time. So, yeah, welcome to the Nintendo Prime Podcast, episode 12. The only person who got to hear my little voice mod stuff was Mr. Jake. We got Jake Randall here as a guest today. And then we got Eric Moore to my left and your guys is right. Hello. So, yeah, we got a packed show for you guys today. E3 2021. We got going to go over the full schedule because now E3 has finally released the full schedule. We get times for everything. Obviously, we have our own E3 show. I'm not going to go through our show though. We're just going to focus on what E3 has going on. We're going to do predictions for all of the bigger companies. I did gather up all the information on some of the games that are already announced by these companies. And so we can talk about that and if we're going to see those games and then any other games you think we might see. Obviously, I know a lot of you guys want to know what the hell is going on with Nintendo, but there's a lot of companies at E3, so we'll see what happens. We'll also be talking a little bit about some other E3 shenanigans like signing up and not getting responses. And I don't know how the hell they're going to approve fans at this point because they're not even getting through content creators. So we'll get to that and what the pitfalls of that might be. And then we're going to talk a little bit about YouTube success and failures and trolls and how as YouTubers we deal with this kind of stuff or try to ignore this kind of stuff, how it can affect us. Obviously, mental health is a big thing for everybody. You got to keep your minds fresh. Try not to get too down. Yeah. And then we'll do a small little Q&A. It's not going to be a super long one. I don't think.  But we'll do a little Q&A and we'll take some questions from the chat at that time. We got Jake Randall over there drinking some hot chocolate apparently. So that's exciting. I got myself a little bang energy thing and I think you, what do you got? Dr. Pepper Zero Sugar? That's right. We got three different types of drinks going on around here. All right. So I guess, let me go to my topic list because which order were we doing this in first? I can't even remember. That's right. We're going to talk about a little YouTube stuff. So first off, congratulations, Jake.  You started doing all the PlayStation 5, trying to help people out? Yeah, pretty much since I started doing pre-orders, the pre-order stream, so like back in September. Oh, that was a mess. That was such a mess. Oh, yeah, it's launch. Oh yeah, pre-orders will be like tomorrow and everyone's just taking them right away and it's just, oh. Yep, and they all dropped. Yeah, it was September 17th. Sony said they would, all the pre-orders would be September 18th. And then Walmart just dropped that day. And then all the other retailers were like, oh, we'll just drop two. But the first thing that started me blowing up was a week later, September 25th, GameStop did pre-orders again. So GameStop's site is still not the best whenever they have restocks, but this was like their very first time doing it. So their site was just possible to get through. And I was streaming that. That was my first like PS5 type stream. And what ended up happening is a GameStop employee gave us a link in the stream that allowed us to go like through the backdoor of GameStop's website. I had 3,000 people in the chat because at the time I only had 4,000 subscribers. That was like seven months ago. So I've, you know, grew like by 135,000 subscribers in seven months. But everyone in the chat that wanted to get the PS5, the entire chat got it because that employee gave us that link. And so that started the whole thing of me making relationships with employees at different retailers to get pre-orders in. And then obviously once the console launched, every time there's a restock. Yeah, totally man. Like I have a PlayStation 5 and it was actually thanks to one of your streams you were doing at the time a few months ago for Target. Because I was trying to get my kids on the bus and all of a sudden, you know, I know that Target's all like, oh, it's local. But also you got to go through online, which I hate because you're competing with millions of people for like your local retailer that has one system. Awesome. At least that's what it was around here. And I was ready to give up as I get my kids on the bus and I go down to my studio and here you are being like, don't give up, do this, do that. Next thing you know, oh, hey, I got to check out. Oh, hey, it's ready to pick up now. Well, I guess I'm leaving. That's the beautiful thing about Target. Yeah, they're the only retailer that does same day pickup. Yeah, so Walmart can make you wait like a month to ship it. That's why it's not bad. You can make you wait like a week. But yeah, Target's the greatest because I do the streams and then I see people like just tweeting at me all day with the pictures of them getting their PS5s. And it's awesome. Sure. Yeah, it's pretty great. So, yeah, obviously you blew up. You got all your retailer connects and all that. I would be, I'd be remiss if I didn't say any retailer connects saying anything about Switch Pro. Switch Pro, no. The only thing I've heard about Switch Pro is actually from your video. From my video. Again, we don't know what that means. No, no idea.  I mean, whether it's the Switch Pro or it's just going to be a really cool announcement. Guys, I recommend if you came here from me, from my tweet, you're not familiar with Nintendo Prime. I recommend watching his video on GameStop that he just came out with recently. Yeah, I think I was the first person to talk about that thing. And then just out of nowhere, everyone's like, oh yeah, they called other local GameStop and they all confirmed that, yeah, something's going on in those days. Nobody knows what they're double staffing. And from what I know, GameStop doesn't like double staffing. They don't like staffing periods. No, they don't like, well, they're always trying to cut budgets and everything. So for them to be planning over a week in advance for double staffing for the beginning of two days, it's kind of like, okay, well, the only times I recall double staffing are massive console pre-order days or something like that. And that's where the speculation comes in. Oh, is Switch Pro going to end up getting announced? Because it's the same day as Nintendo on the 15th. So like, is it going to get announced that day? So they're expecting a huge amount of traffic for people to try to come in and pre-order it those two days. Or as other people have said, it's PlayStation 5 going to start being available in retailers. So that's another thing. GameStop or Walmart will be the first ones. So that's another speculation that's out there. And based on, I've talked to two different managers and I've had a lot of people say that they talked to regional district, a whole bunch of different managers. None of them actually know what this is. It came from corporate. So yeah, nobody actually knows what's happening. That's all guesses at this point. I have a feeling the managers that are talking to people will have a better idea next week. What's actually happening because I presume they're going to know beforehand because it'd be kind of a mess if they have all the staff and they have no idea what they're doing. So you'll probably hear maybe even before the 15th next week what this event actually is. So to be clear, it doesn't mean it is PlayStation 5 drops. It doesn't mean it is Switch Pro drops. It doesn't mean it's something though because they don't even double staff on pro days most of the time. So it feels weird that it was probably not a sale. You can think what major game might lead to a bunch of pre-orders. I don't even know. I mean, for Nintendo, maybe they drop a date for Breath of the Wild 2 and take pre-orders immediately and they know how much people might come from that. I have no idea. Again, it's happened at the end of the year. One thing that's interesting though is that it's just GameStop. We're hearing this about, right? Just GameStop. If it was Switch Pro or Breath of the Wild 2, why wouldn't all the retailers be on it? Why wouldn't we be hearing more? I feel like I certainly would have heard something more. That's why I feel like maybe, again, speculation, right? But it may be a PS5 restock because that would be specific to them. You know what I mean? Maybe they have them toward that other places don't have because that's how the restocks kind of work. But yeah, when the Switch Pro does get announced, the reason I haven't heard anything is because a lot of my contacts are in the warehouses at the store. So once they physically start getting the Switch Pro, after the pre-order point, that's when all my inside info will be really useful. But for pre-orders, we're all kind of in the same boat. You know what I mean? Yeah, so for my viewers out there, assuming Switch Pro is real and it's a thing that comes out sometime this year, you're definitely going to want to go over and follow Jake Randall on his Twitter and on his channel because he'll be up all the inside details on how to get either pre-orders in or post-release when drops are going to happen. He's got all the connects to figure that out. And obviously, watch his tip videos. I know a lot of my audience is still trying to get PlayStation 5s.  Can be completely honest. I thought I figured it's the standard stock thing. Sign up for an account, get your credit card ready. So you're ahead of people that don't have accounts and don't have credit cards ready. And that's basic stuff. You should just one-on-one try to get it. Right, everyone knows that. And then I watched your videos and I'm like, nope. Every retail is a different way to try to force your way through the checkout process. It should be that way. It should be as simple as just click, click, done, but that's not the way it works. Because the sites are overloaded. There's like literal, like actual life hacks, right? Like actual tricks, very specific and detailed that give you like a thousand percent better chance. And I've kind of dedicated my life to figuring them all out over the last few months and then just sharing that information with everyone that I can. Yeah, that's nice because guys, he's one of the guys that's basically fighting back against the scalpers.  You know, even getting access to the website, well, the websites crash because they get to the back end because the bots bypass everything, even though all the sites claim they have bot protection. Look how many of these systems are available. Look at the pictures that pop up on social media about a guy who just popped off a hundred of them from Walmart and he's selling them on eBay. Like this, it happens regardless of the protections in place. So it's nice that we have people like Jake Randall. And obviously there's other accounts on Twitter. I know that always post up stock resets for this and Xbox Series X and stuff like that. The S actually, I saw in person starting to think the Xbox Series S is pretty easy to get now. I actually saw it. Oh yeah, the Xbox Series S. Yeah. Yeah, the S is definitely easy to get. I think it's in stock at Best Buy right now if anyone wants it. You have to choose a store that has it in stock near you, but it's been in stock for over a week straight at Best Buy. But yeah. Yeah, I saw it in person and I was like, oh, that's good. That's not the system people are really clamoring for. So I'm not too surprised there. But yeah, I was lucky. I was fortunate that I did get a pre-ordering for Xbox Series X, but that's because Microsoft didn't allow the local retailers to hand out pre-orders ahead of time. So I actually got to go in person and pre-ordered it. So that was kind of nice. I also, I tend to get two pre-orders because somehow while I was in line, I got a pre-order for one at Target too. And then I also got one at GameStop. Anyways, and then to talk about how like there might be a PlayStation 5 drop, obviously at games that we don't know. Yeah, we're all guessing. One thing I've noticed in the past, I don't know how many like consoles you've tried to like go in person to pre-order in the past or like going on launch day in the past at different retailers. One thing I've noticed when I go to like a Best Buy or a Walmart, because those are kind of the two stores in my area, they don't really increase their staff for any of it. They just poll whoever they want from other departments if there's a problem. So I'm not sure like why GameStop increases their staff or some things or others, other than they're obviously a gaming specific retailer. I'm going to have the most for it. Well, it's all online, only at all those retailers right now. And so it would make sense for GameStop to increase their staff if they're going to do in person. In person, yeah. Either reservations, like even if the console is already out, maybe they'll do in person pre-orders. So you can go to us because they did that before. Yeah. In December, they allowed people to go in store and even though the console is already out in December, they essentially did a pre-order in person to get a console. They also did, they had consoles in store, but it was only two per store. And that was for all consoles. So it was either like two PS5s or two Xbox or one PS5 or one Xbox. It was two total consoles and they had people like, obviously you had like dozens of people lining up outside the stores. There was fights right here. And that's why they haven't done any in person since then. Maybe they have a plan to make that better this time. I don't know. Maybe they're going to do, again, we're speculating here.  And when it gets to be your turn, you can then buy the console. Because at the end of the day, I think a lot of these companies like to be the hero when it comes to the PS5 restocks. And one thing I've seen is like a couple of weeks ago, Walmart dropped the PS5, right? And people were really frustrated with that drop. I mean, even if it's a good drop, people are frustrated. Most people aren't going to get one statistically. So near the end of Walmart's drop when people were venting, Best Buy drops. And I've seen retailers do that where like if one, if you know, people are really mad at one retailer, you know, the other retailer likes to swoop in and be the hero. You know, because they'll never forget that. Like if someone gets their PS5 from Best Buy on that drop, they'll never forget, you know, that Best Buy got from their PS5. So, you know, that could be the kind of thing that GameStop's doing. And hey, if it works out, you know, I'm all for it.  You should get your respect, you know, as long as real people can get their consoles. And that's the other thing I actually wanted to mention about my guides is that literally the reason I love those guides so much, I'm like really proud of them is because they do not help scalpers or bots. They're literally designed from the ground up to help a real person that doesn't have access to those tools that just, you know, goes on the website and tries their best. Like all of us, it literally just helps them get one console each from the retailers. They help real people. And I've bought like half a dozen of each console and I've given them all the way for free on my channel. And you know, I don't use bots because every console I've purchased, I've done it live. So like on the live streams where I'm streaming, trying to help people so you can literally see using my tips to get it. So that's why the tip videos are really great, I think. Yeah, that's great. Cool, yeah.  I think what, 269,000 on Twitter? And then, what do you have on YouTube now? Like 137,000 subscribers? Yup, that's right. Something like that, yeah. So, you know, like my channel too as well, done really, really well over the last few months, grown, you know, by 15,000 subscribers or so and not quite the growth that you got. But both of us are seeing, you know, our own modicum of success on the platform and all that. And obviously, with that success, which is great as it is in the communities you build and how amazing people can be, I know you've had, you know, a lot of amazing people, especially on your lives and all that. And obviously, we also deal with our fair share of, is it trolling, backlash, whatever it is?  And then helping others, you know, raising awareness and all that jazz. Because not everyone is as fortunate as you this dealing with that. So, I find it interesting when you put out tweets where people are unsubscribing or telling you to stop talking about it, just focus on this. And I've always appreciated that you seem to be like, you know what, this is something I care about, this is something that affects me personally, and I'm not going to let other people try to force me to not draw attention to it with my audience. So, do you get quite a lot of people kind of talking down to you about that because they don't care about it and they'd rather you just focus on, hey, get me a PlayStation 5, otherwise leave me alone? Or do you get other types of hate as well sometimes? Like I know I get all sorts of hate, like when Switch Pro didn't drop last Thursday, it's like, I never said it was for sure dropping last Thursday, it was just a report on somebody else who said it might. So, it's kind of like, there's a lot of people out there that try to tear people down when they see some success. So, how do you handle those situations? Yeah, no, that's a great question. So, first of all, I just want to say that, I mean, I do get hate, but I have to say, it's like less than 1% of my followers or subscribers or whatever. I'm really lucky and blessed that my community and the people that somehow find me on YouTube and Twitter are some of the most incredible and wholesome people. And I don't know how I got so lucky because the internet is a really toxic place, but somehow like just these really kind people like find me and I really appreciate it and they support me and they love me and I'm glad for that. So, before I talk about any of the haters, I just need to acknowledge that.  But when you have 400,000 subscribers slash followers combined, almost half a million, 1% can still be a lot, a lot of people. You know what I mean? Especially if you're in a live stream in the chat or whatever or you're tweeting, it's just so easy, especially the people, I think that follow me on Twitter that don't watch my YouTube or don't come to my streams because then it's really easy to dehumanize me, right? And not see me as a person, just see me as this Twitter guy, which I get that. But like when I get that hate or whatever, it doesn't bother me. I kind of just use it as an opportunity to clarify my position more. Be like, hey, this does matter to me. It is important to me. The only reason I do restock stuff is because back in September when I had like no subscribers, I was doing it because I thought it can maybe help people. That's always been my thing is to try to find ways that I can help other people in the world. And if you look at my channel trailer or whatever, I talk about why that is a little bit, but basically I hit a low where I almost died in the hospital from cystic fibrosis. I was hospitalized for almost two months and I couldn't walk.  I had surgery to try to, basically put bio beads in my lungs to try to stop the tearing, which is why so much blood was being coughed up. I have a feeding tube. I get calories.  So I finally let it all out and was honest with people about how I was doing and before I even got any feedback, and this is before YouTube. I wasn't doing YouTube two years ago. I recently started YouTube, but I got all this, like I felt like a burden was lifted just because I was honest with myself and then my friends and family, what I was afraid of is that my friends wouldn't want to hang out with me anymore because they'd be like, oh my God, Jake, you're way too sick. We have to be careful with you and I just wanted my friends to love me for me and not have anything change and then I also was afraid that my parents would be disappointed in me for some reason that I was that sick, which doesn't make sense, I guess, but none of that stuff happened. Everyone showered me with love and for the first time in my life I was truly happy. So which is crazy, right? Like I was at my rock bottom and then all of a sudden I just felt amazing. I felt all this love in my life and I felt spoiled with all the love. Like it was so incredible and I decided I was like, if this could help me so much with what I was going through, like everyone deserves this kind of love and not everyone gets it. Not everyone's lucky enough to have the friends and family that I have. So I made it my life's goal to, and again, I wasn't doing YouTube at this point. So with any small way I could, even if it was helping one person at a time, I wanted to do things that would help other people. Maybe it was sharing my story, whatever and then in September when the pre-order started, again, this isn't changing the world but I was able to help people get a PS5 or an Xbox and it was a small thing but it was helping other people. So that's why I've continued to do it because I found something that even with my disease and when I can't physically do a lot I can stream and I can help people with the restock. So I want to do that but I don't just want to do that. I want to raise money for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.  I'm extremely happy and that's why I'm raising money for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and other causes as well. Anything I can do to give back. So when the haters come out and they hate, back to your question now, wrapping it up here. I didn't mean to go in the full story. I just felt like the context. Okay, let's go to the context, yeah. Right. Yeah, important. When the haters come out, I just want to explain that and the thing is, before I started doing all this I used to be a hater too.  Like even though I was blessed with friends and family, when you're physically doing that poorly, it takes a big mental toll. So sometimes I would be that bitter person on the internet that would say a comment like that. So when I see people doing it to me, I just imagine what they're going through and I want to respond to them and acknowledge them, but not in a way that like I'm calling them out or whatever, in a way where I'm explaining myself and maybe connecting with them a little bit and maybe not, that's fine. They have to be ready to accept that themselves, but that's what I try to do when I see the haters. And a lot of people are like why do you acknowledge the trolls? Why do you feed the trolls?  And even if I block someone, it doesn't mean they're a bad person being negative and I don't want to see that stuff. So, yeah. So I guess that's kind of how I try to deal with it. Yeah, no. One, thank you so much for retelling your story. I've heard it before because I've been paying attention to your channel ever since back in the September days when things started really going off. And I've watched every one of your videos. They always make you a little sad sometimes when like you you'll, you've done a couple of videos on like the sister fibrosis and it'll get like, you know, 8000 views where then you'll have like your PlayStation 5 target video do like 40K. I'm like, guys, this is so much more important than getting to PlayStation 5. But, you know, that's okay. You know what? I appreciate those 8000 views so much. Oh, absolutely. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, what you're passionate about is what matters.  I didn't care because it's what I enjoy doing.  We put a thousand bucks towards it. And then all these companies are reaching out and being like, hey, like we want to give you more stuff to give away to help people coming out of COVID and help these people who can't afford $70 games, can't afford, you know, accessories or consoles.   And I, I, it wasn't joking when I said I brought this up on a stream.  I've got your, you know, your land fees taken care of for the next like five years.  You can sell it at the end if you want or do whatever you want. You know, just give you a leg up in life. And I, it's not really even like a joke. It's just, I know that I'm far away from me with the provide something like that. I got to buy my own house first. I have this goal that's solely morphed over the years of my channel where I want to give back as much as is reasonably possible because I realize I am in a fortunate position. You know, I just even looking around just at this setup I have with multiple cameras and like, what have we got?  Like, you know, I got the PlayStation 5 Series X and Switch and like any game I want, I'll just buy it. Like people. I love your set. It's so nice. Yeah. So like, yeah, and this was a whole lot of pain in the butt. And this set actually evolves every day of E3. But we'll worry about that during E3. We haven't even gotten to that part yet. Right. Yeah.   I didn't care. I will give them back. I just was kind of selfish as a YouTuber, which isn't a way to be. And it took a lot of personal growth to like realize my shortcomings and issues I had going through because I had some mental health issues. In fact, you know, I know he's had mental health issues as well. And realizing that I was kind of using, taking out my issues on my channel to try to like make money. And that just isn't, that's not, that doesn't sound like me. Like it would have been when I was in a good mental space. And that's why I always tell people, you know, whether it's a physical thing wrong with you or just mental, like you mentioned the mental toll. Like you need to take care of yourselves, guys. First off, take care of yourselves. And then once you've gotten yourself taken care of, that's when you can start taking care of others. And that's why I feel like I'm actually in a good space now. And now I'm like, oh man, what was I doing? I should be giving back. I shouldn't be taking. I'm fine. My family's good. I'm in a good spot. What was I thinking? And I was thinking I needed a way to take out. You shouldn't feel guilty about that either. We all have a journey, right? Yeah. And that's the thing. We do all have a journey. So speaking of the journeys, let's maybe translate. I want to talk a little bit about how I deal with haters because I don't always deal with them the best. Yeah. That's kind of how we got connected too, by the way. It was haters on Twitter or whatever. I saw a tweet you made and it just hit home for me. I knew exactly how you felt. And yeah, I'll let you tell it. I'll let you tell it. Yeah. I don't even remember the exact tweet. I remember when you responded to it, I was like, whoa, you're going to realize that. Yeah, I can't remember what it was. It was something either about how the mental toll it was taken, how it was. I was going to take a break from reading comments. Or it was just a comment that someone made. I can't remember if it was just something where I said, like, you know, I don't really get the point of this. There was one I even put up today where I was like, you know, like, I don't understand, like, this guy is complaining about my channel while admitting he subscribed to my channel but doesn't like me, doesn't like me talking, doesn't like my videos, doesn't like anything, which is like, then why were you following me? That was one from today, right? Yeah, that was today. And I'm like, why are you following me? And it's like, well, I mean, clearly they were probably following me for a giveaway or something to win. And it's like, okay, well, yeah, I'm going to be more appreciative of the people that follow me for my content and those that just want to win something.  Don't subscribe to my channel. Don't watch the video or anything. Like, enjoy the content creators you got around this world as far as I'm aware, just once. So like, use the time, the way that you want and enjoy the content creators you want. I try to sell this to a lot of people and I've been doing this more and more lately when I see negative comments like, oh, another fake switch pro thing or another this or another that and I'll just be like, hey man, like, why don't you go find something that you enjoy doing or a content creator you enjoy watching instead of wasting your time watching or in a dark spot like you kind of lash out with that negativity to be a hater because it feels like I don't know it doesn't make you feel a little better or I'm exactly sure part of it how you how you treat other people is a reflection of how you feel about yourself. Sure. I agree with that. Yeah. And sometimes it necessarily isn't you know them being a hater per se. It's them that might be the only interaction that they get during the day the negative comment even though it is a lot of times they'll get backlash back on them it is the only interaction that they will get for that day. So, you know, it's sometimes they're just trying to get a little bit of attention because they don't have it anywhere else and they're going about it the wrong way in my opinion but again when you're not in a mentally stable position if that's the only interactions you can get with somebody you got to take what you can get you know and then and then for my real life experiences like when I because I go out and have some drinks once in a while at the bar I'll notice there's like people who are in a rough spot in life and they they'll talk about it maybe they're looking for sympathy I have no idea I don't really care if you're in a rough spot you're in a rough spot do what you got to do to make yourself feel better as long as you're not harming anybody else but I'll see sometimes these people want to like make them feel better if they can bring other people down to their level you know and I'll notice that like there's YouTube channels out there obviously that can make some some videos trying to knock me down and I notice if I ever respond to them it makes them like the happiest ever because they just wanted a response and they just wanted me to feel bad and I wonder if it's just because they don't feel great about their life so like they like that they could take someone else down to their level or something like that it's weird and again it doesn't mean that they're bad people it just means that they might be in a bad place you know we don't know anyone's story behind the scenes and that's part of why I responded to haters but one thing you said which I think is absolutely right is like you said if you don't like my content why don't you just unsubscribe or you know for me if I post something that's not PS5 related God forbid why don't you just on follow because like you said there's plenty of Twitter focus on the drops I've always made sure that my Twitter account is Jake Randall it's not Jake Randall PS5 restocks it's not PS5 restocks it's not Jake Randall your personal PS5 slave it's just Jake Randall it's my you know it's my Twitter and if you don't like it on follow me but to your point I think you're right is that they do want the response so it's not about on following if they don't like it it's about trying to get a dig in or get some interaction or drag us down as well so they feel better about themselves and again I can't judge it because I've been there in that mental space so I 100% get it and I that's why instead of bothering me I just I want to like I said I want to share that love like I'm really corny I'm a very I'm a very cheesy person I don't know you've been to my live stream so you know this with the finger guns and the hype sashes and all that stuff but I really 100% believe that so and keeping that in mind and obviously like I lose my cool sometimes too like sometimes stuff gets to me especially like the really toxic ones for me are when people say I'm faking my cystic fibrosis which obviously like I have videos that show my medical records I've shown my feeding tube and my port and my chest on stream before you can't really fake that but those are the ones that sometimes I lose a little bit so like we're all human right like some stuff is going to get to you but when I when I remember like when I was in that mental space and I recognize that maybe that's where these people are at or maybe they just haven't faced the adversity to have the sympathy or empathy that you know kind of makes you a full person that's what helps me get through it I'm like okay it's about them it's not about me yeah but yeah a lot of what you said so sorry I know when it gets to the next topic that's totally fine so yeah I mean haters are going to hate they might have reasons for they might not have reasons for I have no idea they're going to do what they do personally what I do find amusing sometimes is like when I do respond or like I do put something on on Twitter how some people be like oh man he must be getting depressed about I'm fine guys if I was getting depressed about it I've already been there I'll literally I'll say I got to take a break I got to step back I need to get away go spend more time with my children or something and reality is most of it I find amusing like the one I put up today I just thought it was amusing that a guy wanted to like unsubscribe who literally in his comments said he never liked anything I was doing in the first place I was like when he's watching your video yeah but you're watching my videos like there's another guy who's been saying how bad my content is for like a year and I'm like that's cool and you're still watching I mean the haters you count my favorite comeback because this isn't negative this is like a positive my favorite comeback is just thank you so much for giving me some watch time and a comment to actually boost me in the algorithm I appreciate it so much yeah right and they respond again and be like oh my god this is doing so much for my channel I appreciate you I'm gonna have to use that next time well I mean yeah I'll either shut them up or make them look kinda foolish yeah I mean a haters view is just as good as a normal person's view so I mean yeah and Twitter they don't care if you dislike they don't care you interact with it in any way it helps with the algorithm so it's great even if you don't watch you can just pause and comment YouTube uses as you like this video you're gonna be suggested more of my videos you're gonna then wanna get angry about that and clicking comment some more which spreads it to other people so thank you yeah yeah so the ones that have been been in my comment section for months that are just you know you guys whatever thanks I'm gonna have to remember that one that's clever I like this alright so I guess we can get into some gaming huh no time no time no time kidding kidding because obviously E3 is ahead and as all gamers know that's a pretty exciting time of the year we'll see how exciting it is this year it's a very different E3 this year because for me one of the obviously everyone gets excited about game announcements I mean that's you know we like to know our favorite franchises our favorite games or we get surprised and all the debates over who won E3 and obviously not having Sony there and I've been a pitfall since 2018 but Sony is gonna be a summer games fest with some sort of games I have no idea maybe they're just gonna advertise Ratchet & Clank maybe we'll see more of Horizon Forbidden West or something else they have cooking they have a whole bunch of games announced we'll see how many of them hit their release dates or their release timing I guess a lot of them don't really have dates right now that's kind of weird next year is really weird right now with the games now that I think about it it's really it's a really strange time as an owner of a PlayStation 5 Xbox Series X it's a really strange time that I don't really know in any of the games I want to play are coming besides Ratchet & Clank well yeah well I mean I mean that's hopefully what we'll find out in one week from now right I know I know what it feels like we're six months in and I'm still like waiting to like when's this stuff coming yeah yeah I hope we get a release date for Horizon at least I think that's gonna be Horizon Zero Dawn is my favorite PS4 game of all time nice what I'm low-key hoping for my second favorite PS4 game of all time is Persona 5 I'm a huge JRPG fan and I'm low-key now that Persona 5 just got rated for Xbox it looks like it's coming to Xbox you know who knows if it's ever coming to Switch that's its own thing but I'm just thinking now that it's been out for so long and now that Shin Megami Tensei 5 which if people don't know Shin Megami Tensei 5 is the main series Persona is the spin-off of Shin Megami Tensei but now that Shin Megami Tensei 5 has a release date for November what about Persona 6 though that would be amazing and again it would be annoying if they dropped a trailer and then four years later we still haven't gotten the game but I would just be super hyped for Persona 6 oh absolutely so that's that is the exciting thing because we're gonna be focusing on some of the bigger companies so sorry if your guys this company you're looking forward to isn't being talked about like I didn't digital the kind of show but maybe they're not part of E3 they tweeted out June 12th with one of with their lady they put always huge fan of so many of the games they publish Katana's Zero is I think the most underrated game like of this generation I don't know if you've played it absolutely so there's gonna be a number of companies we don't cover guys we're gonna focus on the big ones today we will be doing a pre pre E3 show just Eric and I on Friday night where we will get into some of the smaller companies and when I say smaller like we're not going to talk about Gearbox today but like they're not necessarily small but the the amount of games that they create and publish are smaller obviously people know I think they're the Borderlands company I think they are no Gearbox or Gearbox is what's Gearbox again I forget I looked it up earlier the franchise I know they have one franchise I know that they're gears gears war I don't think Gearbox is Gear's war Son of a bitch pretty sure Gearbox is not Gear's war because they wouldn't have their own showcase Gear's war zone by Microsoft anyways as he looks it up and proves that I was right about Borderlands so we have we have UbiSoft to talk about that sure it is I told you see I need to talk to the guy that like covers games for a living just because I cover Nintendo come on now man all right so we got UbiSoft we'll talk about today we'll probably talk about some Square Enix let's see here I got stuff for Capcom I've seen Nintendo Microsoft, Bethesda we'll just kind of like go through the list so first up I'll just tell you guys what the actual E3 schedule is for each day because they just publish this today we finally have times for everything all these times they have listed are in Pacific time so at 10 a.m. Pacific time on Saturday, June 12 that's when they have the official pre-show happening at 11 a.m. Pacific time they have the UbiSoft forward pre-show which is really crazy they have a whole hour long pre-show so it's like almost as long as the actual event I don't okay, anyways then they have the actual UbiSoft forward at noon Pacific they have the pre-show before the UbiSoft pre-shows too at 10 a.m. the pre-show of the pre-show and here's the thing guys we have our own pre-show before the pre-show before the pre-show and that's going to be a crazy day pre-show to pre-show and the thing is the UbiSoft the UbiSoft pre-show supposedly is going to be focusing on games and updates to those so we'll get into some of that because I have some notes on UbiSoft I have a lot of notes on UbiSoft surprisingly and then they have UbiSoft forward as I said at noon Pacific time then you have Gearbox E3 showcase that's going to be at 2 p.m. Pacific time and that must be pretty short one because at 2.45 they have the games beat session and whatever those people are going to be doing that's actually the shortest day of all of E3 so that's something to keep in mind that's actually kind of nice for us that we could kind of do 4.45 p.m. is almost 5 p.m. our time and then we have a two hour post-show and we're not probably wrapping up until 8 but it is what it is compared to the other ones that might be early well and I also have to we for an hour yeah you got a dish I'm going to run a solo show around here with Mr. Pumpkin in the other chair and then we have Sunday June 13 that's obviously the big Microsoft Dave you're looking forward to what the hell Microsoft got going on or Bethesda's got cooking this is the one you want to pay for so they begin what 8.45 a.m. Pacific time is the official E3 pre-show and no there's not a pre-show of a pre-show here there actually is we're good this day besides our pre-show at 9.30 a.m. Pacific time they have 24 entertainments a Naraka blade point I actually don't even know what that is so I have some research to do in the some of this stuff that's happening so our pre-show can actually talk about it because I literally have no clue what that is 10.00 a.m. Pacific time they have the Xbox and Bethesda game showcase gonna be a lot of good stuff there we'll probably have a lot to talk about with that one 12.15 p.m. we have Square Enix and then at 2.00 p.m. we have Warner Bros. Games Back for Blood at 2.30 p.m. PC gaming show which I love the PC gaming show it's actually part of E3 this year not running alongside it where you have to decide are you gonna watch the PC 3 hour long gaming show or are you gonna watch E3 so I'm kind of I look like they're actually shorter this year only two and a half hours compared to the three so and then go right into the Futures Game Show at 4.00 p.m. and that's how also Sunday wraps up one and a half hours right but yeah two and a half hours that looks like for the PC gaming show I thought it was one and a half is it one and a half this year well maybe they're gonna have a between session it's 2.30 to 4.00 no it's one and a half you got you got me one and a half it's all good just making sure I get confused I didn't know because when you said two and a half I didn't know it was going into the Futures Game Show I think it's ending before right because when they initially announced it it was the PC gaming show plus the Futures Game Show and now they separated them out so I'm not sure if they're gonna run like be in the same thing and run off of each other I'm a little confused on it but we'll see what happens I'm just glad that it's actually part of E3 and that's what E3 ends and PC gaming show is always interesting we're not going to talk about it today but that's usually where you'll see a bunch of games coming to PC you'll see it's a really interesting show usually filled with a lot of fluff but this year it looks like it's more concise so maybe that won't happen on Monday this is kind of the day where there's basically two big companies going both of them third-party but they start their pre-E3 broadcast a pre-show at 8 a.m. Pacific time then at 9 a.m. Verizon's doing something I have no idea what Verizon's doing probably showing off a phone playing games I'm showing off hey look at this cool internet you can get to your house that only works out the time I don't know Verizon's doing something 9.45 I'm surprised they even got a half-hour show part of this but in televisions there I don't know if you guys realize the system they have coming out and how underwhelming it has appeared so far to anyone who's looked into it but hey in television the television amico is going to be there so I look forward to that I suppose at 10.45 we'll react to it the new console technically is a new console so maybe we'll be shocked I have no idea I definitely haven't gone hands-on with it I've only read about it so at 10.15 a.m. this is where you get into one of the big ones for the day we got Take-Two Interactive they're doing a panel so it'll be interesting to see how that one is different from the other shows obviously Take-Two you know you get into Rockstar and 2K and all of that so these are sports games it would be cool to get an announcement of like a GTA 6 I don't know they're porting GTA 5 again so I don't have it at 10.00 a.m. we got Mythical Games at 12.00 p.m. we got the indie showcase that should be fun indie showcases are always fun what's Mythical Games what's Mythical Games when I was looking them up earlier they looked like just another indie studio that has one game called Block Party interesting okay I mean what I mean how do these time slots are based on what companies wanted what they paid for so like they wanted to be separate from the indie showcase and do their own thing so I'm sure there'll be live gameplay or something happening for that one yeah okay I'm intrigued yeah so we'll see we'll see I've never heard of the game so it'll be my first time thinking I'll look at it and then the indie showcase obviously that should be really good I don't know how many they have packed in because it looks like it's really short but yep and then you have Freedom Games at 12.30 and then who I've never heard of but maybe I have heard of I've never heard of at 1pm and then obviously the next big one for the day we have Capcom at 2.30 that should be a nice one which is really cool because it's actually kind of short so I don't know how content is going to be yeah it's half an hour they already announced that they're going to be talking about Monster Hunter and Resident Evil so that'll probably take a good chunk of it and I'm curious to see if they'll have enough time to maybe announce some new stuff I'm always hoping for Mega Man Legends 3 or just port 1 and 2 and we'll see because Nintendo's director is only 40 minutes but they always pack a lot of announcements into it so we'll see how Capcom does it they've done a few digital events this year but most of them focused on singular games so we'll see what happens Razer at 3pm Razer does have a gaming phone by the way guys so I expect them to talk about that but they also have accessories and gaming accessories and show up their latest headsets and keyboards and mice soon they just want their own segment to end the day and who knows they might be partnering with certain games and you might be able to see some games there too and then obviously Tuesday's the big day I know a lot of my followers are looking forward to because that is the day of Nintendo it's pretty much the only thing that happens that day sorry Bandai Namco I know you're also there too but we've got I'm excited for Bandai Namco because Tales of Arise looks amazing I love the tales of here's the thing seriously and Scarlet Nexus comes out this month it's like two weeks but I mean the big thing everyone sees Elden Ring but I right that's really I mean they have Elden Ring I can steal the show because they're going to be like one of the final big studios I think they are the final big studio going so they got the pre-show at 8 o'clock remember Pacific time for everyone 9 a.m. is Nintendo's direct and then they have three hours of Treehouse so literally it's pretty much four hours of Nintendo that's the longest anyone has a time slot for so we'll see Nintendo sometimes in Treehouse as well they've done this in the past of E3 so we'll see what happens they have a lot they have a lot of time to do something we know they're going to be gameplay at least then Bandai Namco follows up Nintendo at 2.25 p.m. so that's one of the last big ones and they have like an hour slot it looks like so they might have a lot to talk about and then we got Eureka Studio who I didn't look up I'm presuming they're an indie studio because I don't recognize them but I don't know what I'm talking about next week yeah I've never heard of Eureka Studio either and it's funny there might be you can't see it but their studio is spelled it's not like Eureka it's Y-O-O-R-E-K-K yeah that's weird it might even be pronounced it maybe it's Eureka yeah I don't think Eureka anyways maybe they have made a here's the thing some of the indie games I played I don't always know the studios behind them so it's possible maybe I have and then we have at 335 so I mean it's a really short thing so they gotta be showing off like one game they got like a five-minute spot so I'm sure they got like a like a four-minute showcase of whatever game they're working on then at 335 they have games five-minute what oh you're looking them up no I was just saying you're right it's yeah I didn't realize it's 335 it's literally the shortest spot of the show it's surprising that they even have that and they're they wanted to be sandwiched between Bandai Namco and GameSpot apparently they didn't want to go on the same day as the rest of Indies so we'll see maybe it'll blow our mind maybe it'll be the game of the show I have no idea they will steal the show at that five minutes you never know dude if it's something I mean I don't think the studio is that big but if it is like something that drops like an Elden Ring type of surprise you never know I mean all it could take is just one announcement I mean think about it like what if Breath of the Wild 3 that would steal the whole show it would steal the whole show if they announced it that's obviously a massive long-tenured franchise but I'm intrigued by what they have on Steam a martial art open world adventure game alright um built with Unreal 4 engine alright I haven't heard of any of their games the titles but I mean I'm intrigued by that concept yeah I'm intrigued they obviously paid for that five minute spot all to themselves to not be part of the indie showcase and they're like nope we want our own five minutes so we'll see what happens um then we have GameSpot Play for All showcase we'll see what happens there GameSpot those showcases almost every single E3 usually have developers on and gameplay and all that um IGN usually does as well I notice IGN doesn't have any of their own slots here but they are a partner media partner of E3 they have their own like pre-show show going on same time we do same time EESA does so they'll have their own stuff that's the hard thing what you're following E3 is like there's so many places doing all these shows and getting dev interviews and all it can be really hard to follow at all um we're going to try our best during our show to try to make sure we don't miss anything important because there's always lulls and maybe during those lulls we can draw in you know maybe a big names on IGN we're going to have a lot of stuff happening to see if we have to flip over to different streams um which assuming we don't get in trouble for that we'll get in that later um and then an award show probably the thing I'm least interested in that's a 445 but how else are we going to know who wins E3 how else are we going to know who wins E3 unless the E3 tells us who wins E3 E3's going to tell us who wins E3 which is cool I think it's probably more important for the developers and the publishers like to get recognized than it is necessarily for fans to really care but it's going to start fan wars it always does could you imagine at the end you know who's not going to win E3 at least the credentials to co-stream the event oh yes we will get to that oh you know what you brought it up let's just talk about that right now then we'll go back to our predictions so um you've been commenting with the E3 guy on twitter when they put out tweets and saying something to him I have and he went back and forth with me a few days like I think on saturday he went back and forth I haven't even gotten a response they responded to me last week and they said it's weird but he just doesn't reply to me and it's crazy because he tweeted reply to this if you need help with your registration yep and we tweeted I would have never replied if he didn't tell me to and then he ignores my replies when you're like the top reply it's weird um so like uh so for those of you know what we're talking about there's these ways to register for E3 then content creator registration and then fan registration which all registration is open right now um when I when I asked randomly I came over to tweet or they weren't even asking about it I just tweeted and I said hey when am I going to hear back about content creator things you know I don't know if I really care about being an official co-stream partner but it would be kind of cool to know I'm not going to press conferences and running this whole show so I don't know if I'm going to get in trouble or not uh so I'm like hey can I just get a response either way it's a yes or no it is what it is I just want to know because they said you would respond with yes or no when you signed up for it and they said well we're finishing up media over the weekend uh you know we will get the content creators on Monday well it's Tuesday it's going to be well and two you're not going to get through to fans who are trying to get in as well uh and I think that's why they're ghosting me on the replies because I think that they are not going to get back to anyone yeah and see they responded to me which made me think oh they're going to but the way the guy put it is oh yeah was that last week that they responded to you yeah last week yeah see I didn't reach out till this week so I think after the weekend they realized that we can't handle this you know what I mean yeah I think the ESA is doing like they always tell us when we go to E3 in person oh yeah use our app use our app log in on their app it's the most useless thing useless thing ever it's not going to help it's going to confuse you more than it helps like it's done like you want to spend like because we're out there all three days basically the first day okay yeah it's getting lined for like the one big thing we want to do besides that walk around and scope the place out and figure out what the hell you're doing no one's going to be able to access anything whatever virtual boost you have all the information is going to be released by these companies independently anyways any trailers any screenshots they're not going to need the app but what we do need as content creators is potential permission to actually co-stream it now they have some official co-streamers which are clearly massive creators they reach out to ahead of time to partner with just like with media companies like okay well you obviously reached out to them independently and they're part of it so what about the rest of us E3 is as big as it is because of content creators in general these days anyways way back in the day before social media sure it was on TV it was broadcasted it was you know you needed like G4 TV to even hear about E3 back in the day but nowadays it's content creators that spread the word and we are obviously heavily ingrained in the video game community and I mean I'm streaming the thing either way I just hope that after one day they don't decide to strike me and then that's it I can't stream anymore for the rest of E3 which the only thing I'm really worried about is Ubisoft because of Just Dance but every year you got it for anyone who's streaming this event who's streaming Ubisoft you need to pay attention the moment you see anything that remotely looks like someone dancing hit mute yep because you will not even stream Ubisoft they just literally someone that I follow on Twitter that have like 15,000 followers that just you know post like gaming news and stuff like that you know I won't mention their account because I don't want them to get negative attention but they literally just retweeted they retweeted they didn't tweet this themselves they retweeted someone else that had posted a leak of an upcoming Ubisoft game and they got their permanently suspended had to start one from scratch and it's not being reinstated so I feel like Ubisoft's like really bringing the guns this year not in a good way so I'm avoiding that one right so they do stuff like that and every year I've streamed them I've gotten in trouble for the Just Dance stuff which it's not really them it's the music companies that ding in at Ubisoft themselves because Ubisoft will tell you every year it's safe to it's not you that's the problem with the strikes it's the music companies it's weird too because Ubisoft partnered with us to do giveaways during E3 like they partnered with us and wanted us to give away some game codes during E3 for all platforms so like one of the few giveaways as we have going on for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X happens because Ubisoft partnered with us so if there's games that are out on there you know Assassin's Creed Valhalla well so it's automated with them right like they just you know they won't manually oh you know we gave these guys stuff to give away so we won't you know it's just automated they're just gonna everyone that's why I'm avoiding it the person told me we can't wait for you to live react to our stuff and I'm just like if I do I'm debated I'm muting your entire press conference just put the CCs on and like putting it in its own little tiny window and we just do whatever the hell we want to do and we'll talk about what's happening on screen but like I'm afraid to play any audio I'm afraid to mention even advertise that we're streaming and that's the thing that's why I want to co-stream because literally I don't want any money I don't want any revenue that's fine each three you can have it all I just want to be able to live stream the event and it's crazy that they haven't responded to me because I don't have the millions of followers like you know like the the partnered ones they have but I have done live streams on YouTube with over 200,000 people in the chat and those aren't even official gaming events those are just me doing my streams over a million views on my launch day stream you know my PS5 launch day stream which is insane the chat's just like popping so fast you can't even read messages even a slow-mo doesn't matter yep and yeah exactly so it's just like obviously like I feel like I have a lot to give to them and I don't even want any compensation I'm just excited because I love video games and I want to stream their event and that's why it's frustrating to me yeah it is and like I said anyways I'm just going to roll with the punches I don't want to be like it's funny because I thought you know if I find out they're going to punish people for streaming this if you're not an official coach streamer which I kind of feel like hey if you don't get back to me yes or no I'm just going to presume it's a yes because I can't say you didn't tell me no yeah right but it's like you know and I don't want to lose my streaming ability but I thought do I do do I live commentate this hey we can't stream sports but we can live commentate the plays as they're happening and talk about it with people and react and I'm like oh I could live commentate the entirety of E3 and not show anything but also like you could literally just hop over and watch it for free on their YouTube channel so like why would you watch my live commentating of something that you can already watch somewhere else so it's like you know I'm just going to risk it risk it for the biscuit they say but like these things ever end up being monetized like they might start out monetized but they always get claimed so there's some company somewhere that claims I don't care about like actual copyright claims on my videos especially live streams claim away it doesn't bother me it's the strikes and that's what I want to like the only thing I'm afraid of during E3 is if we're not official co-streamers we'll be good strikes that impact like us for weeks you know you get one strike it's like that's not cool now granted every strike I've ever had because of the E3 stream I have successfully repealed it but it's taken 48 hours mm-hmm well that's most of E3 so right I mean and the other thing is I'm in such good standing with YouTube I don't know if it's worth it for me to risk it but the thing I'm considering doing for E3 it's on the weekend but maybe on the Monday and Tuesday I stream looking for PS5 restocks and then we keep it like you know in the corner like what you said mm-hmm if I don't get any like official authorization to co-stream it I honestly I haven't decided what I'm going to do well there's also if I don't stream I'd be happy to come on as a guest over here in between streams I'll be sure sure I've got no problem that we always have room for more guests if you want to come on for some of that stuff especially on some of those like the Microsoft I think it would be nice to have you on there talking about some of the stuff that you might know a bit more about than I do definitely we have some people come on for the free show but I have nobody coming on for after Microsoft's done them but as they've done they actually talk about what they showed people that are really excited about the stuff besides myself like dude if they show a vowed I'm going to be so happy that's one of my most hyped games from Microsoft right now but yeah so the one thing you could do this is just as a a friendly suggestion and I see some content creators that do this that are bigger because they can transfer enough for their audience what they'll do is if they're not sure they'll just stream it on Twitch because they don't care if their Twitch account gets temporarily banned I'm not in the best standing with Twitch is the thing so you're already banned on Twitch no I'm not already banned but so one time I was going to stream on Twitch because YouTube was down so I made it Twitch and instantly got 10,000 followers on Twitch in like 10 minutes and then YouTube went back up so I've never streamed on Twitch but I have a Twitch account with a ton of followers but the problem my problem with Twitch I don't know if you know this about me I don't have the best relationship with Amazon and Twitch is owned by Amazon Amazon doesn't like me because I've leaked some things they they're out of the way to make sure all my affiliate links that I was able to do for a time they banned me for life from their affiliate program that's how I know that they're not a fan of me and so I would never trust having success on a platform owned by them you know what I mean yeah yeah well it's just a way to possibly react and if they ban you they ban you well I was going to say who really cares I mean they already don't like you stream away but it's also partially it's also you kind of showing support for them by being on their platform and driving viewers to their platform too in a way it's kind of a give or take and then you know like if he's able to get all those Amazon Prime subs you know like oh thank you for subbing thank you thank you thank you and all of a sudden they're like yeah we don't like you we're taking all that money away have a good day yeah and they would do that they've done some very petty things to me already but I don't want to but yeah yeah yeah no I I totally I totally get that thankfully I'm still in good standing with them but not I haven't really leaked much from them but I think a lot of it I'm still in good standing because my affiliate account with them is actually through Zeldin former which no longer exists so like technically it's a Zeldin former affiliate account but it's in my name so I can get away with it because technically my name is the name of my business so it's kind of a work around I don't know if they realize I'm using it on the there's no stipulations in my contract I can put the links anywhere I want they say so till they yell at me they'll kick me out someday I'm sure interesting maybe they'll do that one day and then they'll realize that I'm posting them from my YouTube and ban that account as well but we'll see I mean oh jeez what I don't understand is like when Amazon gets petty like that all the affiliate account is yeah you make a little bit of money but you're also driving sales to their platform that's a massive positive like okay we don't like you because of this but also if you can drive us sales that's great but yeah there's companies out there that can be extremely petty as an example guys I love Nintendo will never be a Nintendo partner at all yeah because they're petty well also I feel like Nintendo has kind of redone how they how they do the Nintendo partnerships like you know obviously I'm sure you follow beat-em-ups when he got dropped earlier this year and they but they did that to so many people and now I feel like they will only partner with very small channels who are extremely like 10 out 11 out of 10 12 out of 10 family friendly all the time mm-hmm you know what I mean that those are the only ones I see that still are Nintendo ambassadors oh yeah like that that's the thing people want me uh well it's kind of weird too because I think a guy a player essence I think is actually still a partner with them and I was telling that weird because he could be quite crass at times in his live streams I think Nintendo's just ignoring his live streams can't ignore mine they're all over my channel they get a lot of views and I drink in almost every single one besides the podcast so they're family I warn people I'm like hey be of age drink responsibly and I feel like I should do because I don't want to encourage underage drinking or anything like that I'm in my mid 30s I'm not I don't have to worry about that stuff but I do have children who I don't even let my own children watch my YouTube channel even though my content I don't think it's really that bad it's just one of those yeah but you watch it and then you might catch a stream and you'd be like oh man he's having a lot of fun well yeah I'm having a lot of fun but like you can't have this fun I see I consider myself family friendly yeah I would consider myself family friendly but I don't do that to please any brands I the reason I do that is because a lot of like parents that are trying to get the PS5 or grandparents will watch my streams and then show me to their kids and then like the kids will love the hype sessions or whatever and when I have so many people watching my streams I always think about the kids that could be watching and I just want to be a role model for them sure you know what I mean I would love to get really silly on streams and something I have sometimes I do like a late night stream at like 2 in the morning where it's just gameplay it's not a drop stream yeah and then things can get a little risqué but for the most part I just you know I want to acknowledge those and one thing that I just want to acknowledge in the chat is someone says so player essence is family friendly which is hilarious and he was just on Nintendo's like official channel I think it was playing Monster Hunter but he's actually he's actually a really good friend of mine I talk to him all the time so I would say yes I'm gonna say he is family friendly and Nintendo made a great decision because he's amazing I'm actually me and him have a video coming out this week so yeah that's good that's good man yeah just like I drink on stream it's not gonna happen it's okay I don't really care all you get in the ambassador program is early access to games I'll buy them it's cool and Nintendo by the way doesn't hate me or anything they have the goal and Harris they still talk to me and everything and let me know about events and stuff so it's not like they hate my channel they realize my audience is primarily 18 plus it's probably always gonna be primarily 18 plus because that's the audience I care you to there'll always be some children of course it is the way it is can't be a Nintendo channel without having some children I get them DMing me all the time and they get annoyed with me because I don't respond and I'm like look I have a feeling that you're like under the age of like 15 I even then you're under 18 I really don't want to talk with you that's when trouble happens even if I'm just helping you get a switch pro or something like trouble happens if I feel like you're underage I'm just gonna leave it alone yep that's all you gotta say but you set the expectation I think really well for your channel as well if I set the expectation you know that I wasn't family friendly better than I would be more okay doing it but I don't and then what's happened is all these families and I am kind of I do like to my personality I like to be silly sometimes but I also I like to be real a lot of the time and I guess like kind of wholesome I'm not trying to make a joke my own ego whatever just like who I am as a person yeah um so I really embrace it I like that but that's why YouTube's amazing there you can there can be anything like super family friendly to super not family friendly and anything in between yeah that's what I like about this platform is you know I always tell people like I took my kids to when they the last day of school they had like an after school lunch at the park or whatever and we went there and like there was like three kids from one of my kids classes that came up and be like I know you you're a Nintendo Prime and I'm like you're eight why are you watching my channel like do your parents know you watch me and they're like no my parents don't know anything I do and I'm like okay well that doesn't surprise me you're talking to a fellow parent would you like me to talk to your parents about that but let them know that like yeah I would say in general if you're not watching my live streams you're probably safe there might be a swear word that drops once in a while but bottom line is I always tell people I'm gonna be me and this is what I tell my kids because they've heard me swear and I try to be you know I'm usually a family friendly guy like I'm on this whole podcast I haven't even said one swear word yet but I will sometimes and I'll drink with some of my kids look there are certain things that at certain ages become more appropriate than at other ages and when you're a kid number one thing you need to learn is respecting people and respecting who you're around and then obviously knowing the time and the place for certain things and you guys are five eight and ten none of you guys know exactly when those instances are okay and not okay and I say you guys all go to private Catholic schools you can't swear a school ever you just so you guys know I went to those same schools it's a no no but you're on your own you're a teenager with your friends one day I don't care have fun so it's one of those situations that it's kind of like you know they have to grow up and learn and that's what I tell the friends I'm like hey look I'm not saying I'm the worst YouTuber you could watch there's obviously a lot I wouldn't call them trash tubers but they're definitely YouTubers that I don't think children should be being influenced by but unfortunately everyone knows it happens in parents I always say that a lot of this is just a message to all parents out there you pay attention to what your kids are doing especially at these young ages when you get your bones and all that like pay attention because you have no idea what's influencing them you know when I heard that the parents didn't even know they were watching me I was like how they should know like they might still say it's fine to watch me but they should know that's happening they've probably seen Nintendo in the name and they're like yeah and then I worry about that too and it's kind of like yeah but still like and the thing is like as people probably say in the chat your content is mostly family friendly it is to an extent but like I do swear sometimes I'm not going to not be me I always view this as this is kind of like my escape from having to be a parent I don't do this as a parent I do this as myself there's parent nate my way around it is sometimes I will use some innuendo innuendo I heard Cecil say in the chat that are you family friendly there's some innuendo in there yeah yeah so sometimes I do stuff like that but then I don't acknowledge it like so I'll say it and then I won't like laugh at my own joke or say it like a totally straight face random sentence but people in the chat that armature will pick up on it it's like those old cartoons right they'll pick they'll pick up on it and other people will just be like oh and like it's funny when I do something like that and like I can see like a totally serious thing they're like oh yeah me too or whatever I say yeah so you love you love to see it that's always fun but I love that story that you getting recognized because that started happening to me recently and it's wild when that happens so I typically only wear the bandana for YouTube it's like a YouTube thing but sometimes I will wear it out especially like like if I'm just like want to just like throw some gel on my hair and like put my bandana on not take a real shower but if I wear the bandana out like sometimes I feel like I have a greater than 50% chance of getting recognized just because I'm kind of in a small town in New Hampshire so like the first time I got recognized was literally my first stream like my first big stream on launch day when I went to pick up my PlayStation 5 that I got in that stream at Target the other kid waiting to get his PS5 I was like dude we secured the bag and he's like did you just say secure the bag now he's like oh that sounds so familiar I actually wasn't wearing my bandana either he's like wait were you were you streaming today he's like dude I only have my PS5 because of you and it was so crazy and then like last week I was at Target and then this this guy might have been in his forties or fifties was like hey just so you know he came up to me when I was looking in the video games and he's like you know my daughter's autistic and like one of the things that really helps her a lot is having these games game consoles to play and I just I love what you're doing he almost made me cry I wanted to talk to him longer but I was there with my little sisters and she was she really wanted to get out of there but we talked for a little bit but that was just so special yeah and one of the things I'm really excited about now that the quarantine's I'm fully vaccinated is conventions and being able to to meet more people and stuff like that I think that'll be really, really fun yeah it was kind of cool because this is one of the first times I was recognized in public as Nintendo Prime which was my children which I wish that wasn't the first time but it's also one of those I used to work I used to run a really popular Zelda fan site they got millions of views a month I was the editor in chief for like a decade and I would get recognized everywhere I used to run that back in the day wow okay I didn't know that yeah so yeah I would go everywhere and I'd always Walmart, GameStop there are people right Eric was there once I think one of the guys at Walmart recognized me as the guy who runs Zelda which I thought was weird because I run a website my face isn't really out there much but they recognized me anyways I don't know really how that happened it was kind of weird but it's not like I hid they must have Google search me or something those days ended and I was doing Nintendo Prime eventually people stopped recognizing me and then all of a sudden now they recognized me as Nintendo Prime which I kind of like because I was working for somebody else then now with that fresh cut you got going oh yeah I did not look like this back in the Zelda days at all at all I got the fresh hair right now dude I've only had this beard going for like god six months otherwise my whole life was clean shaved wow I don't know what I was missing this is the look this is the look this is all wrong yeah can relate can relate I mean I didn't start growing my beard a couple of years ago well it's one of those I went to Catholic schools that required you to be clean shaved and then I worked at McDonald's for a while they required you to be clean shaved so it was like you know I just kind of kept it that way and then my fiance is always like oh yeah I like you clean shaved like you've never seen me not clean shaved how would you know and then all of a sudden yeah I didn't I didn't shave I mean, she takes one look at me and she goes, Nate, that is hot. You are keeping it. I'm like, so done, done deal. So my my thing is the reason I didn't grow a beard is because like it grows in not patchy, but asymmetrical. So like this side can be like fully in even all the way up to like underneath my lip. But this side is exactly as it is. It's just always like that.  Yeah, you got to like really realize if I just shave every day, that little part and just make it look symmetrical. Yeah, that's all it will be good. It'll be good. That's what it is. Yeah, there was like, his mind comes up a little up here and I shaved that one. Obviously, he goes down in the neck and I shave that up and you can get a line. Yeah, it's just all about maintaining the look and maintaining what you think looks good, especially when you're someone else in the chat. They're getting bonus beard tips right now. They have bonus beard tips. Yeah, I'm just talking about our favorite beard creams and old and I have a dye coming in because I got a few gray hairs and I just want to see what it looks like if I die because I haven't I didn't get to grow. I dye my beard darker gray hairs. I'm open about that. I dye my beard darker because I'm blonder. You can kind of notice a little difference, right? Yeah, my hair is a little more blonde. So I dye my I dye my beard. Yeah, and I was well, because I never I never got to enjoy this when I was younger and it would have not had the gray.  My fiance wants me to try straight black. We'll see. It might be too contrasty, but that's what she wants to try. We'll see. I'd be interested to see. Well, the great news is if it doesn't work out. I mean, you just you can't just kind of washing it out. I was reading about it's like, yeah, you can do it and you can just do it like once a week and you're fine. And I'm like, well, and then it's how easy is it to get rid of? You don't like, oh, it's super easy. Just use this, use that and it's gone and you're back to your normal look. And it's like, well, that's easier than when you dye your hair. That's for sure. Right. Because I've done that. I've done frosted tips. I've done a lot of. Yeah, yeah. Long frosted tips. I'm 90s kid, man. He was he was the boy band through and through through and through, man.   All right. What? I got gray hair, too. Somewhere. Where was it?  I lose I lose 10 years when I frickin shave.  All right. Crazy. I wish I could shave and look that young. Yeah, it's not the way it looks for me. Let's get a little bit to some of these predictions for E3. I will start with Ubisoft. So I just want to get into this is the stuff that we know that know they have going on or have announced in the past. So for the pre show, they're going to be focusing on current games. They have a new season for For Honor coming out on the 10th. So that's this Thursday when the, you know, potentially they might even mention it during the Summer Game Fest. Watch Dogs Legion's got a zombie mode and their invasion mode got delayed to August. So they might end up talking about that. And they also have Aiden Pierce from Watch Dogs 1 and Wrench from Watch Dogs 2. Those are playable in July. So those are some things they might talk about. Besides that, I have no idea they have a bunch of games going on. You know, Rainbow Six Siege, I have no idea. There could be other stuff. For their full show, they do have Rainbow Six Extraction already talked about.  That's previously known as Rainbow Six Quarantine. They changed the name Far Cry 6 that they've announced. And there's been a leak out there, supposedly for the Division Heartland hasn't been confirmed. But the leak seems pretty solid on that. Ryder's Republic is a sports MMO that was supposed to come out in February. Got delayed indefinitely. Don't know what's happening to that. They might do some Assassin's Creed Valhalla DLC because they have like a roadmap for Valhalla, there's not supposed to be a new Assassin's Creed game this year. So it doesn't mean they won't show one or tease one, but they've already announced there won't be a new one this year. They're relying on the Valhalla DLC. We know that there's a Star Wars game that they kind of sort of announced they're working with Lucas Films on back in January. The Massive Entertainment Group, the one that makes the Division, supposedly is working on it. Don't know if we'll see it, but that is something that they did confirm was happening. So that's when people are all like, wait a second, EA doesn't have exclusivity on Star Wars anymore? Nope. They pulled that after all that Battlefront 2 backlash and pulled that in a hurry. But didn't EA make the last Jedi? Yes. Yeah, EA still makes Star Wars games. Absolutely. It was an exclusivity contract. That was the first time we found out that, oh, they don't have exclusivity anymore. Well, yeah, you think Disney liked getting messages from fans about bad stuff? I really wish the NFL would follow suit. Nick Forrest said in the chat what I was thinking, which is this is Nintendo Prime. What about Mario Rabbids 2? Yeah. Or just like, you know, maybe they can't collab with Nintendo on it. But maybe like now that we've seen how fun a Rabbids game can be, because I had never played one before that. Maybe, you know, they do a Rabbids game and do a collab with one of their other, you know, Ubisoft franchises. They could. I really love that the gameplay. I think they did an amazing job. Oh, Mario Rabbids Kingdom was great. It was one of my favorite Ubisoft games in a long time. I mean, they have a lot of good games.  It's supposed to be the official game for the Avatar franchise. No idea what happened at the settlers. I was really looking forward to the settlers. I like these city building games that was supposed to be out in 2019, then 2020. Now we have no idea what the hell is going on with it. Skelling bones supposedly got rebooted. Sucks, I was looking forward to that one. Beyond Good and Evil. I'm not familiar with the skull and bones. Yeah, skull and bones. So like when they came out with Assassin's Creed 4 and they were doing that, that whole ships at the sea thing, they kind of decided, hey, what if we took this and turn it into like this giant pirate game and make our own new IP out of it? And they did that. Well, that's such a good idea. The pirate stuff was so great in that game. Yeah, so they did that and they announced it and then it vanished. And now rumor has it that they had to reboot it. So I don't know when the hell we're going to see that. Probably be rebooted as a next gen only game, I assume. Oh, man, that would be that would be amazing. Yeah, dude. Yeah, Beyond Good and Evil. Everyone remembers that 2018 reveal. You know, we were kind of anticipating it, but also are they really going to do it? It's been so long and now it's been a few years and we still haven't seen anything and now you wonder did it enter development hell? I have no idea. Right. Because it was a cinematic trailer. We didn't actually see gameplay. So it's like, you know, newbie soft tends to do that a lot where you get these cinematic kind of trailers and the real game ends up not necessarily looking as good and I don't really care if it looks as good. I just care that it exists. I love that franchise. Right. Roller champions. That was supposed to come out this year. It's supposed to come out last year, but then covid. That's coming to switch. That is one that's been previously announced for switch. Nice. Yeah, then maybe teasing a new Assassin's Creed game if they want to tease it. I don't know if they will, but that's just the stuff that we kind of know about. That doesn't mean there's always stuff we don't know about. And that's always what gets, you know, exciting sometimes are the things that we don't know about. You know, because they have like that one racing game I always forget about that hasn't had a new game in a while. So I don't know like the thing that's not on the list is obviously Mario plus Rabbids Kingdom Metal 2 that's been talked about in some circles as that might exist. Some have suggested it's not Mario, but it's Donkey Kong plus Rabbids because it's Donkey Kong's 40th anniversary. But they had that Donkey Kong DLC. Are they expanding on that? You know, for that. I mean, maybe they could expand it to its own mode, but some people didn't. I don't know. Some people didn't like that DLC. I thought it was fine. Yeah, it wasn't as good as the original game. But I mean, I'm sorry when you have an opera singing, rabid, boss title, like nothing. That was so epic. I remember like when that happened and like I wasn't ready for it. And I was I was and I was just like it kept happening. I was blown away. That was so cool. They did such a good job. So did you ever play? Was it Conqueror's Bad Friday back in the day? I did. I did. I own it. I have I've never beaten it, though. Have you ever gotten to the Great Mighty Pooh fight? Yeah. OK. That's what reminds me like a throwback to that.   And every time you progress in the fight, he sings some more of the song. And that's exactly what happened in the rabid's game, was every time you progress a little bit, he'd sing more of the song and he's always singing about himself. And it felt like a really old mage back to that game. That was one of my favorite games as a kid. So it's kind of like, man, that's awesome. Yeah. I've seen a boss fight like that. That makes sense. It was it was really cool in Mario and Rabbids, though, because obviously, like the graphics are just so like. Yeah, so beautiful as compared to what Conqueror's was. Conqueror's amazing game, wicked fun. But that's what really got me was the spectacle when I got ported. Yeah, it was it was really good. Yeah. Back. Although they messed up the multiplayer. I'm always going to say the multiplayer of the 64 version of Conqueror was way better than the next one. I don't know why they changed it. But the single player was better on Xbox because it just looked a lot better. That's another one like, hey, Microsoft, you know, if you're never going to make another game, please, let's remake it. That'd be great. That's for for smash and the banjo. Oh, my gosh. As as Jake said, you have for smash for sure. Yes, I could just see. I could just see him winding up with the frying pan. I just go and now we have, you know, the new render for Banjo-Kazooie and that's in Smash and looks fantastic. It's like, man, can we just get some Banjo-Kazooie again? Yeah, like obviously they can. They got banjo, so rare characters are on the table. Right, right, right. I keep hoping for Conqueror to get in, but I don't know. We'll see. I know some people want Master Chief and stuff as well, which I totally understand. I think Microsoft would be fine with that. Yeah. Whether or not Nintendo wants to do that, I have no idea because I feel like, you know, this is getting ahead of ourselves in the Nintendo top. But if you put Master Chief in Smash Bros, I feel like there's going to be this expectation from Nintendo fans that, well, then what Sony character are we getting? Because that's Microsoft's mascot. Are we going to get, you know, Ratchet and Clank in there or something? And it's like, I don't think Sony is going to play ball. It's got a feeling that they're not going to play ball with Nintendo to put a character in Smash, even though there's like no negative thing that happened. It doesn't actually hurt their sales. No, if anything, it'll bring more attention to their franchises, especially to Nintendo. Like Ratchet and Clank, I think would be a perfect one to draw for Nintendo fans to. Yeah, I don't think that Nintendo would do that because, you know, they're OK with Banjo doing it, even though Microsoft owns that, because there's no Banjo games, I guess. And also Microsoft has been cool with Nintendo letting some of their games come to the switch. But Sony, you know, they wouldn't. I don't think they would add a character to Smash to promote a game that would never come to their console, right? Like Ratchet and Clank, if they added that to Smash, that would just help Sony. Sure. It really wouldn't help Nintendo at all. You know what I mean? Yes and no, because you could get a lot of people buying that DLC character individually. And Nintendo would make money off of that. And it could potentially draw PlayStation fans to it. If people liked it so much that they got a PS5 and realized, oh, I like the PS5 so much better than the Switch, then they're going to be buying games for the PS5 instead of buying games for the Nintendo. I think it would hurt them in the long run. You know what I mean? I think it's a give or take because I think you also have Sony guys that might be like, oh, wait, the best selling fighting game of all time now has my favorite character. And maybe I should go buy a switch and check it out. It's only 200 bucks to get a Switch Lite.  You know what I mean? I have no idea, to be honest. Like for me, it's kind of like, look, I'm a big Zelda guy. So like, if there's something Zelda happening on a PlayStation 5, I'm going to go buy it. But that's also I'm also a hardcore fan. So maybe I don't know if I should like has hardcore fans. I have no idea. I'm sure they do a little bit. I'm sure every franchise probably has the hardcore fans that will go anywhere their IPs at. But I don't know. I mean, by the way, guys, like it's well known that Switch is massive crossover audience with PC gamers and PlayStation and Xbox because a lot of people like it as a companion system because these systems aren't portable. This one is. But obviously people only have a finite amount of time. I can own all these platforms, but I don't have time to always play them all. So that's kind of how it goes there as well. So I have no idea. I don't think Sony would play ball. Anyways, I don't really think it's. Well, they didn't even play ball with what Minecraft in cross play. Oh, that's not get into the cross play stuff. So why would they play ball with? And then the recents? Well, I don't want to go with that one. So that's frustrating. I think Sony would ever play ball with that would be. Well, Sony won't play ball with Microsoft. That's obvious, but. Yeah, I just, I don't know. We'll see what happens. I mean, they do have cross platform play now, but then they have some weird contract things in it. I don't understand what Sony is doing. I mean, I get what they're doing. They want everyone to just buy a PlayStation and play on PlayStation. That's what they're doing. I can't blame them for that. That's all right. There's nothing wrong with that. I have a PlayStation because of it. So yeah, and I like the PlayStation five guys. It's fun. It really is. I keep saying this. I'm like an hour away from finishing Miles Morales because I haven't sat down and actually finished it off because I'm just, I don't know what I'm waiting for. It's like, I'm enjoying it so much. I don't want it to end. It's like me and worthwhile. Because when it ends, I know I'm moving on to the next game. I don't really replay games as much as I used to any more than I'm a parent. So it's kind of like, I don't want it to end. So I'm just kind of salivating the ending of that game. Even though I know it's all over the internet. I've avoided it. I've avoided the spoilers. So, good job. Yeah.  Just stop looking for stuff about that game. Don't click on anything with that game in the title. Done. Ending of Miles Morales. Okay, don't click. Right. Right. You know, yeah, someone might message you in spoiler. I guess you can't do anything about that. No, but I'm a Nintendo guy. So I guess it's easier for me to avoid spoilers for other consoles. Yeah. Plus I enjoy spoilers for Nintendo. Maybe I would enjoy spoilers for other systems more if I, I don't know. Anyways, do you have any games you want to see from Ubisoft besides the Mario plus Rabbids stuff? From Ubisoft specifically. Well, obviously we're going to see more Far Cry 6 and I'm not like the biggest Far Cry fan, but I am really excited to see, I forget his first name Esposito, the guy I'm breaking bad, Gustavo Frane. I think it's really cool that he's in the game. So I'm interested in it for that. But also just based on the trailers and stuff, I bet he'll probably get killed off like in the first hour of the game and not really being it that much, even though they're using him heavily in the marketing material, it seems like the story will be based on his son. But I'm still really excited for it. It looks like a, it looks like a true next-gen game, but I believe it's coming to previous gen consoles as well, right? But still, I'm definitely looking forward to that. I hope they change up the formula a little bit because that's why I'm not too big on Far Cry recently because it seems like the sports games of like shooter games, like it's just copy and pastes. Same thing every year. There's not really a deep story to it. It's, you know, the Ubisoft formula.  So I, you know, I would love to see them kind of evolve that a little bit. Yeah. Eric, is there anything you're looking forward to from Ubisoft? Obviously, I'm assuming Miles is Rabbids. Just Rabbids. Just Rabbids. Anything Rabbids. Anything Rabbids. Anything Rabbids. He's always liked Rabbids. Yeah.  And that's right in my way. Even the show. Even the slapstick. Oh yeah. Non-talking comedy in the show. Yeah. Yeah. I think it would be interesting to do, to see like a Zelda Rabbids crossover with swords instead. Don't even tease me. You might as well just saw me as Zelda Dungeon Makers coming and I'm just gonna. I mean, that's a possibility. I'm gonna have to walk off the set. Yeah, right? Yeah. I mean, that's a possibility too. That'd be awesome. And we've talked about that. Yeah, we have talked about it. Cause they have a, they also have a partial one. Right, right, right.  But, you know, so I, well, what's that? I guess a PC. What, a PC gaming now real to you, bro? PC gaming now real to you? I use the PC games all the time. I barely game now the way it is. What? And that's the switch. And you don't even have kids. Duh, duh, duh. Yeah. Well, my kids like games though, so it gives me excuse to play even more. Right, right, right. Wow.  No, I mean, just rabbits. Man. Yeah. No, sorry. Oh.  All right. They're doing this in Persian too, but they just announced the best away. Oh yeah, this is not going to be there. I know. I was like, I was really looking forward to that, the Sansa time. I want to see what they do with it. Because I know there was some tepid reception when they first showed it. And it's like, okay, well, then you're reworking it in a bit. Let's see what happens. And I was a big Prince of Persia guy back in the day, especially when that the one they had on GameCube, I can't remember which one that was.  And they have a few. I didn't play them on GameCube. I think the Sansa time was the one I really got. There was a trilogy on the PS2. Yeah. So I'm assuming those were on GameCube as well. I got deep into Sansa time. I love that one. So, we're not going to get that at E3. I'll give what we saw of this. At least they're tempering the expectation of like, hey, look, we're not going to show these and like, don't expect them. I like that. Just like Capcom said, hey, you are going to see this. Okay, cool.  I've heard you say that before. Hey, these companies are helping you hypersponsibly. They're letting you know. You're going to make T-shirts, right? Yeah. Like, they're letting you know. The only one who's not is Nintendo. They're not even teasing a game they're going to show like they usually do. They usually have their E3 built like, oh yeah, we're going to have Odyssey here. We're going to have Zelda here. We're going to have Luigi's Mansion. We're going to have Pokemon here. And they're like, we're not telling you anything. So good luck hyping responsibly for Nintendo when they're not even hinting at anything. Complete mystery. Yeah. The thing about Nintendo though is like, if they just have one really cool thing, it makes it up for them. You know what I mean? As long as they're last like 15 seconds, right? They show a logo that says Metroid Prime 4, even though it doesn't, it's not coming. Um, you know, like they didn't turn 17. If they just do that, like people are like, oh, Nintendo wins E3, blah, blah, blah. You know what I mean? It was like the last Nintendo Direct. People were kind of like, okay, yeah, whatever. And all of a sudden, oh, we have one more thing. You always have one more thing. And when you don't, it shocks people. And then they just between three and you're like, no kid, nobody saw Splatoon 3 come. Okay. Cool. Like, Splatoon's become a massive franchise now. 10 million plus dollars though. Yeah. I think what Nintendo could do that would really, I think cause like a lot of hype is they announce, you know, there's two fighters left in Smigish, right? Yep. So they announce both of them and then say, there's another fighter pack coming with six more characters. And then at the very end, they announced one of those. So three total. And I think it would be cool if they announced like Crash Bandicoot, Tom Nook from Animal Crossing. I think would really help sell a lot of copies of Smigish. Cause you know, there's so many Animal Crossing players that don't play Smigish at all. But maybe they would once they find out that isn't going to be Tom Nook for you. I don't think there's a huge crossover at all. Yeah. And then, yeah, and then something else. Maybe like Waluigi and they're like, and there's going to be five more characters that will announce this year. I think that would just be. You're just saying everything that people want at this point.  You just give the people what they want. What they want to hear, what they want to hear. It's, I mean, that's why we're here though. It's fun. It's fun just to like talk about our wish list, right? Like, even if it's not likely to happen, like that would be the fun thing. Like I'll tell you right now, my Sony isn't going to be at E3 obviously, but worse, maybe they'll have a state of play or something during E3. But if you want to talk about really what's never going to happen, which is my most wanted thing, is a new PlayStation handheld. Yeah, I don't think they're going to do that. Steam might have one. They're definitely not, but how cool would it be? Yeah, yeah. I felt bad. Or even just a device that can't run games on its own, but can run them off your PS5 with remote play really, really well with Wi-Fi. So like, it could be like a PS5 portable. You know what I mean? You're actually using your PS5 hardware to run. Because Microsoft has that remote play feature with tablets and stuff, and I've been a little bit underwhelmed. He does too. I've been a little bit underwhelmed. I'm going to have a hard time getting controllers to sync properly, even though they're hooked up to the, I don't know, maybe it's a me problem. Could just be a me problem. And I know Sony's got the remote play features as well. I've just never gotten either of them to work well. So like a dedicated device that's designed for that, to me would just be, yeah, yes. I would just be so excited. I literally, I just built this PSP basically from the ground up. It's like a custom shell, and I put a brand new screen, brand new buttons, I modded it. So it has like a huge amount of memory built in. There's already like 200 games on it. Cause of like the, I backed up my whole library basically and just like put it on here. So I've been doing this project and I'm just, so this has like got me really excited for Sony handhelds again. And I'll have a video on this at some point. It was a massive undertaking. Like, have you seen people who take apart the Switch Joy-Cons? Yep, I've done it. It's like that, but even worse, cause it's an entire console. The parts are like, you can't even see them, they're so little. But anyways, that's like doing this project has made me just really want that Sony to make another portable again. Yeah, I owned a PSV and a Vita. Ironically enough, they're like the only PlayStation platforms I really dove into. And I, back then anyways, and I do miss them because it was kind of nice having also platforms that tried to push a bit, a little bit of that bleeding edge of the mobile space were not that, you know, I'm fine with Switch, I know there's more powerful mobile chips and more powerful this and more powerful that. It's kind of cool to have that. But you know, Sony was the company that tried to realize the home console gaming on the go. I always felt like the only reason they missed the mark or didn't find the success, I feel like they should have was because when you played like, I don't know, the Uncharted game they made for Vita, I think it was, or was it PSP? What are the two? Gold and Abyss. Gold and Abyss. The first Vita games I ever beat. It was amazing. Yeah, great game. But then like you go and you play, you know, the other Uncharted games on PS4, and it's kind of like, you know, it's just a great game. But it feels like it's a slice out of the much bigger games. At least that's what I felt like to me. I would argue that the Uncharted game on the Vita runs and looks way better than the first Uncharted on the PS3. Sure. Not better than Uncharted 2 or Uncharted 3, but for that time, for that time, I think it was 2013. Because I mean, that was really, really good. They have like basically a game that looked better than a PS3 game running on a handheld almost 10 years ago. That's insane. Yeah, it was absolutely insane. I remember playing some MLB games on it, and then I'm like, man, this is as good as the console stuff. I don't know what the hell's going on here. Yeah, I think for Nintendo, I think the reason why they're succeeded is because everything's on that platform. It's not a separate, like you're not getting Breath of the Wild on a home console and then getting Link's Awakening on the handheld. Nope, it's all one. And not saying that Sony could have did that. And obviously they did the remote play as well with Vita and stuff, with PlayStation 3 and into PlayStation 4. So they tried to kind of make it where you could play everything on it, but it was never local. Would have been really interesting if they would have made some of those PS3, PS4 games. They're bigger ones, fully crossover with their handheld and have like a localized version. I think that would have really helped it, especially if they would have had cross-save feature. But obviously, we don't need that too deep into that. I was not happy with the way. How crazy would it be though, if Sony just dropped that and Nintendo did not drop the Switch Pro? So like after E3, you know what I mean? Wouldn't that just be wild? I'll tell you guys right now. I know Nintendo acts like they don't care about competition, but if it drops and it's now the new hot thing people are talking about, they're gonna drop the Switch Pro the following week. I'm just letting you know, Nintendo ain't gonna let Sony tab all that attention, take it away from them. But yeah, it's not, Sony's been very clear that they're not doing that. I mean, maybe they're gonna shock everyone, but they're not gonna do it at E3 because they're not there. So, again though. Are you leaving some VR at all? Because I do hope that Sony, during the E3 time window talks about the PSVR too a little bit. Yeah, I just don't think they're going to, I was looking at their schedule of stuff. It looks like they have the summer game pass and they don't have anything happening until like later this month. So I don't know if they're- Well, yeah, there's nothing announced now, but I think they just be, you know what I mean? Just say one day that they're just, have it, we could wake up tomorrow and see on Twitter that Sony's doing this. Like a Twitter announcement trailer drop, here's PSVR. Everyone's kind of waiting on that. See, I'm not big into VR, but I'll admit I'm really glad that Sony's deep into it because I think they're making VR more accessible than some of these other, you know, PC based units. And yeah, I know there's like the quest that's all wireless and its own contained thing, but because it's its own contained thing, you're also limited to only certain types of games unless you hook it up to a PC. So- Well, yeah, well I have the quest too. I think it's amazing. And the library is actually massive. And they just announce an accessory that will allow you to play your PC games without a link cable. Oh. I was wondering what they were going to do that because I know the technology is there, it's just no one's- They didn't give a release date. They announced it though. Yeah, that's a big one. That's a big one. So yeah, like I'm really into this stuff. So I'm not big into VR. My kids love VR. Oh my God. The day that I retired my Nintendo Labo VR, they cried and I said, you guys don't even know.  And then I took them to, because I'm not that big into VR, although Half-Life Alex is pretty good. But when I took them out to, God, what is that? Action City or whatever. And they had VR games there. And they tried out real VR. And I think it was, I think it was the Oculus there. And they were like, this is awesome. I'm like, yeah, I get it. It's not for me.  But yeah, dude, I want to know what they're doing because I believe that VR, well I'm not sure if it'll ever be this ultra mainstream thing. Just like, you know, everyone thought 3D movies and all that stuff without, never really quite hits mainstream. At least not yet. I don't know. I think there's gonna be some day when we literally can put on some masses. I mean, I feel like that's such a basic game. Everyone's tried VR, but that's still one of my favorites. Have you tried that one? Yeah, yeah. That one, I see that one's so fun. Like it, because it feels like you have lightsabers. And I, you know, with the Quest, it's like completely wireless. I can go beat it in my living room. I can beat it in the kitchen. I can beat it before I go to sleep at night. You know what I mean? I just, I love being able to beat it parked outside of a school. It's amazing. Remember when we were talking about Innuendos earlier? Yeah. But anyways, tell me more. Beat it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No one wants to beat it. That one is. So, let's get into Xbox Bethesda. So I went through what they have announced. This isn't quite everything, but it's a lot. Obviously a vow they showed off last July. That's a first person RPG set in the Pillars of Eternity world, which I really like Pillars of Eternity. So I'm really pumped about that one, but we'll see. I've heard they might not be showing it, but the problem with Microsoft, a lot of things they announced seem to be like they're really far away, but they only recently bought a lot of these studios. So I guess what did we expect? Bright memory, infinite. Obviously first person shooter. What's really crazy about that one is people thought the visuals on it looked really good, but this was before the systems launched. That's made by one person supposedly. So it's a one person studio. I don't know how he's pulling it off, but we'll see on that one. Fable 4, obviously the way they presented that made that feel like that was really far away. The one that I thought was weird, we didn't see last July. I thought about that, oh yeah. Yeah. Senua's Saga Hellblade 2. They announced the Series X with it back at the Game Awards in 2019, and we haven't seen it since. I'm wondering, I feel like that might be one of the ones that might be further along than we realized, because that was one of the ones they showed the system off with. But we'll see. Arc Survival 2, people will remember. Oh yeah, that looked amazing. Yeah, that looked really good. And people remember Survival Evolved, not necessarily for being an amazing game, but for being a game that crippled every system it ran on, including PCs, it became like the new crisis. You're just happy if you can run it. And it was on Switch. And let me tell you, it crippled the Switch. Obviously, it cripples my gaming PC. That was a bad idea. Yeah. I mean, it's cool. I guess this was supposed to be a technical marvel that runs on Switch. Sure, it runs. It won't crash. So there's that. At least I didn't have it crash. That game, the thing I don't actually know if it's good is a survival dinosaur thing. It looks so cool and the new one looks so great, but I'm like the first one still struggles to run. So like, I don't know, we'll see. And I mean, it runs fine, by the way. If you guys play like the PlayStation 4 version or the Xbox One version on a series extra PlayStation 5, it runs fine because it was obviously designed for lesser hardware. But I'm worried that R2 is going to come out and just cripple the next gen systems. Oh yeah, we don't have a performance option. We're running 4K, we're going 120, we're just going to destroy your platform. 4K, we're going 8K, 10K. Oh yeah, you're going to remember, 8K on the box of PlayStation 5, not enabled yet, but they're saying it's going to be there. So. Yeah, well it's crazy, the Xbox and Bethesda, that's a two hour and 15 minute presentation. So maybe there's a break in between the Square Enix, so maybe it's two hours, but still. I mean, Nintendo's only doing 40 minutes and we're hoping for big news from them. I mean, Xbox has two hours. So there's got to be something really good in there. Yeah, and Bethesda usually has their own showcase, but now that they're owned, they're kind of combining it together. I feel like that's probably why it's so long. I mean, it could still be a separate thing, like they do like Microsoft. Well no, Microsoft, it's already announced, they're doing it together. They're calling it the Microsoft and Bethesda showcase officially. So like, they're kind of, I feel like they're just going to transition naturally into the other. Or like I said, maybe like a 15 minute break or something.  Well, and Microsoft has bought so many studios in the last. And there's rumors that they might be announcing more studio purchases or IP purchases. There's a rumor out there. I think that someone thinks they bought Metal Gear apparently from Konami. Interesting. I don't know.  But I mean, guys, I got no problem with Konami in general as a company, even though they've apparently treated their employees really bad, but all they really care about right now are casino machines. Like that's where they make their money. I mean, they got to have two hours to cover. And notice Konami's not on any threes. So I mean. They got to have two hours to cover how many, you know, dev studios they bought. I'm curious what he's working on right now, what Kojima's doing. I don't know. I mean, I assume something for Sony because he always makes, he always partnered with Sony for things, but I don't know, maybe it's one of those Microsoft rumors are true. I guess we'll find out. I'm sure they'll want to announce it if they're partnered up or anything. You know, it'll be announced in a classic Kojima way. You won't even realize it's him for like, it'll just be like small little teasers throughout the whole two hour event. And then like there won't be any reveal until after when Kojima himself posts a new image of it. And it's like, oh, it's a Kojima thing. Cause that's just the way it is. Well, I thought that blue point was rumored to be working on the Meadowgear solid remaster. Yeah. Like they did with Demon's Souls. Yep. That's what I heard too. Which would be amazing, honestly. So Microsoft Flight Simulator is supposed to be coming. It's already out. We already know it's a really, it's basically the best Flight Simulator ever made. It's on PC. It's fantastic. If you're carable flying planes and you don't want to actually fly real ones and you're like crashing them, there's a fun one. Travel the world, have fun. Very intensive, very hard on PCs. We'll see how it runs on the Series X when that finally comes. And they didn't know it's a release date, but they said it's coming to the Series X. And also, you gotta remember, you guys are gonna talk a lot about XCloud and Game Pass. Like you're gonna hear a lot of services from Microsoft. Well, and one thing that happened today is they just announced that if you have Game Pass, you'll have a free month of Disney Plus. So I wonder if they're gonna maybe integrate that into Game Pass. It's like maybe an extra dollar a month. You can get Disney Plus too, or? Yeah. That would be interesting. I mean, the Disney Plus is already fairly cheap. That's because a lot of the big movies you have to pay for separately. Yeah. Well, what I loved about the way Xbox announced that, did you see their tweet yesterday before they announced it? You didn't, or you did? No, I'm gonna look it up right now. I missed it today. So when they were just hinting at it, they didn't announce it. They said, hey, we have a really big announcement coming tomorrow. We were gonna make like a video event to stream it, but I think we're gonna do something more low-key. And that low-key was referring to low-key? Yeah. It's the new Disney Plus show. The low-key show. I love that. That was good. That's good. I like that. That was good. That's a good one. I'm gonna see you get back to my notes here. They have Stalker 2 announced, which that was a shock because that franchise has been dead for a long time. Standard Decay 3, so one, I'm really excited about Perfect Dark. They're rebooting that. Nintendo fans, if you're at least in your 30s, you should remember that one way back in the N64 days. Yeah, basically the sequel to Golden Age just without the license. I mean, there's been an ever ongoing debate on the N64, what was the better one? Golden Age or Perfect Dark? Yeah. There's two very distinct camps about that. And Perfect Dark kind of got buried a little bit because Golden Age was just a bigger IP name, but Perfect Dark coming back. I mean, they're rebooting it. I hope they don't mess it up, but this is Microsoft and they're pretty good with shooters. So I'm hoping. The one thing Perfect Dark did have. I mean, literally Perfect Dark is the sequel to Golden Age. It's made by the exact same people. They just didn't have the James Bond license anymore. And it ended up creating its own very cool thing. You know what I mean? Yep. We had the one thing with Perfect Dark that I wish that Golden Age did have was the ability to do bots in the multiplayer. And time spliters had that too. Yeah, that was the part that I liked a lot better about Perfect Dark. Because they both had their pluses, they both had their minuses, but I remember one major bonus with Perfect Dark was the ability to do the bots and stuff like that. Yeah. And that was back when we were just starting to get first-person shooters actually, like being a thing on home consoles back then. So that was nice. And obviously went next level once we got full online with Halo and everything else after that. Speaking of Halo, obviously Halo Infinite's gonna be there. I don't think that's even, no one has to debate that. It's supposed to be coming out. It's a big holiday game. It's supposed to be a launch game. It's on the box of the Xbox. Like Halo Infinite's coming this year. Of course, it was supposed to come last year. Maybe we'll get delayed again. I have no idea. Well, find out. They did a showcase on that not too long ago, so. Now, is that gonna run on the Xbox One as well? Or only? It was supposed to originally. See, that right there makes me feel like it's gonna disappoint people. Because if at any point in development was being made with that console in mind, you know what I mean?  It's all based on architecture. That could run on previous gen. And for this game in particular, the expectations are just sky high. Yeah. It was supposed to be an Xbox One game when it was first in development. They pushed it because, well, the Xbox wanted to do that well and they wanna push the X. And they ended up not needing it to push the X, of course. Who knew that COVID was gonna create such high demand and all the scalping, but yeah, it's Halo Infinite, man. Yeah, but Breath of the Wild was a game, or a Wii U game. And... Yeah, but see, the power difference, like, okay, so the Switch is more powerful in a newer architecture than Wii U, but it's close enough that you don't expect a big leap. Like, what Splatoon 3 looked like compared to Splatoon 1 and 2 just shocked me, which makes me wonder if they were actually showing it on a pro, because... That looks so fundamentally advanced compared to the prior Splatoon games. It's like, either you just now got a budget or you're running on something that isn't what we have in our hands right now, because that just looks way too good compared to the prior two games that are running on the same hardware. But... The one thing I will say about Halo Infinite is that when they showed the first trailer before the series X launched and everyone made fun of how bad it looked, when I watched that, like, if you played the original Halo games, that felt like the first couple Halo games, and those games were so fun. I looked at that, and I barely noticed the graphics, because I was like, it gave me that same feeling, and I was like, oh my God, this is gonna be so fun. So I think it's possible the gameplay could save it and make it a really fun game. It looked fun even in that film. Gameplay is always king. I always say that the game is great. I think people will be disappointed anyways, is what I was gonna say, just because the graphics will be, you know... Because people look at Halo, one, it's literally like the mascot for Microsoft, and always been, you know, even though it's not quite hyper-realistic, it's always been kind of there, hey, this is what looks good. This is like a showcase game for a platform. This is what you put on the box of a series X, and if it doesn't have that next-gen feel to it, it's gonna be kind of like, yeah, okay, the gameplay is great, but like, when people were criticizing it last year, it wasn't the gameplay. It was the visuals they were all mad at. And the thing is, personally, as a Nintendo guy, I care more about the gameplay, because I don't think 343 has nailed the Halo-style gameplay yet, and if they nail that, I'll be thrilled. The word also had the- I just think the expectation for this franchise is that the gameplay is 10 out of 10, but the graphics are also, like, I don't think people prefer better graphics over gameplay. I think they need everything to be amazing. That's what people expect because it is. PlayStation 5 and Xbox is both. You want both. Right. Yeah, so we'll see what happens. Obviously, people would probably have more faith if it was Sony making it instead of Microsoft, but the Sony's just really racking up the Ws with the big games they're making. Insomniac in particular. What? Insomniac in particular, which is owned by Sony. Insomniac. Oh boy.  Yeah, that's another thing I'm really excited for during the E3 time period is maybe some kind of announcement from what Naughty Dog's working on. No, some. I would love anything related to Uncharted or Last of Us, but I would love something brand new as well, like anything. Yeah, I hope they're doing something brand new. I feel like that's when they really get their creative juices going. You know? Yeah. They, the ATHARC, thank you so much for your $2 Super Chat I saw there, saying that we want Perfect Dark 2, not Perfect Dark 02. Well, they're rebooting the original Perfect Dark, so you might get your wish down the line if that one takes off and succeeds for them.  So I think that, because I don't think Perfect Dark reboots coming anytime soon. I don't even know if we're gonna see it at E3. I feel like it's like a 2023 game, maybe. Give a couple year break from Halo to get to that, and see what happens. I've got an update, by the way, on the E3 co-streaming situation. Oh, oh, what's up? They just retweeted a content creator that just got approved to co-stream, and they only have 20,000 Twitter followers, which I mean, it's a lot, but it's not that much. Yeah, I almost have 20,000. I'm at 14.1, 20.2. So that's interesting. Great, so I'm looking at it, and this is no offense to any of the content creators out there, but no, like I've seen them, so they got this one. Earlier, they had a video of a couple other content creators. I really hope that they're not gonna make this situation. I hate bringing this up, and I don't know if they're doing this for sure, but it feels like a, if most content creators don't get contacted, or even let known if they're okay to streaming or not, the ones they're showcasing is showing a lot of diversity, which I'm all for diversity, but I really hope that's not how they're choosing what content creators can co-stream or not, is based on what makes them look the best in a social justice sort of world, because obviously me as a cis white male, well, I'm not great for diversity, so. I hope that's not the case. I don't wanna accuse them of that, but I'm looking at the three. They sure have three different content creators today that can co-stream, and all three of them represent diversity, in all three sectors. Four, sorry. Yeah, I see that. And so I'm not, I don't wanna accuse them of that, but it's one of those, well, if I want, you know, I... I'm happy for them. It's a bit of a stretch, but I'm just kinda like a bunch of us are getting approved to co-stream. I'm really happy for them. I just want... Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I just want all the different content creators to get it. Yeah, I don't wanna knock other content creators. Absolutely.  I ain't gonna, I don't care. Like, have fun. I'm glad you get approved. It's just kinda, I hope that they're not picking and choosing based on that, whatever makes them look good. Cause I think what would make you look good is approve everybody. That's what makes you look good. Right. Like just have no bias. Even if it's someone that, you know, has a bad reputation, who really cares? You don't have to put their name on your website. Just let them co-stream, who cares? But they're probably in any ways. And then their audience, you know, will watch E3. I mean, it's just, in theory, it only helps you. Yeah, right. Like, don't you want attention? Like, especially since E3's had kind of a rocky reputation over the last handful of years, they try to handle letting fans and not letting fans that Sony's decided to leave because Sony doesn't agree with how E3's doing things. It's kind of like, you know, you should just want all the attention you can get. And the other thing is like, wait, this is crazy, but it's true. I have 250,000 followers on Twitter and a lot, I tweeted something about E3 today. And a lot of them didn't even know what E3 was, which kind of blows my mind, but they didn't. They genuinely didn't. I have replies asking what E3 is. Three of the last four years, go to E3. My kids have no idea what it even is and they play games because they don't follow people that are covering. We could definitely bring new audience to their, to their children. We have something to offer. We're willing to do it for free. It's just, it's crazy. Yeah. You figure like, I'm a Nintendo channel. I know there's going to be some kids watching. Hey, don't you want kids to know about what you're doing? They might show up for my giveaways and be like, wait a second, what's all this stuff happening? Exactly, it's a huge event, you know? Whatever. I'm really annoyed by that E3 Twitter account in particular. Just not replying to any of my things.  It's kind of like, once you want the attention from that audience that doesn't even know what you're doing. Yeah. But, I mean, they don't have to do anything for me. I mean, that's entitled for me to say that. That's the thing, like yourself, me, and I'm self-made, we're all self-made. You know, it's just something you get frustrated about. Yeah. It's one of those, like, I don't want to ask like one of those entitled content creators like, I mean, they created a thing specifically for content creators. It'd be nice to hear yes or no. It's said when we signed up, we will hear back yes or no. So I just want my yes or no. They don't have to give me a reason. I don't care. I keep trying to just log in on the website. It says, we will let you know definitive an answer soon. Yeah, yeah. That's what it said. They literally are telling us they will let you know yes or no. They don't have to give you a reason. I don't care. I just want to know. I just want to respond, even if it's no. And it's like, okay, I can get the Twitter guy to talk to me and he agrees with me that they don't know what they're doing. And that's, he literally told me that. I told them that what they're asking for, because I mentioned like, what's this proof thing? I need a contract with myself. I don't have a contract with myself. Here's a picture of me holding E3 badges that say Nintendo Prime on them. I don't know what you want for proof that I'm Nintendo Prime. You have my email, contact my email, contact this. Go to the channel. Look at the channel. Go to the channel and look at the picture of me. I don't know what more do you want? You want my social security number? I don't really trust you with that, so. Especially with the next topic. Oh yeah. So it's kind of like, I don't really know what they're doing. And the guy kind of admitted that I told them that what they're asking for for proof and evidence. And he said, oh, he tried to reassure me that like, oh, that's, they don't really need all of that. They're just kind of like trying to cover their bases. And I'm like, look, I've gone as media. I get having to have a license and a business card or something like, I get that. I would have almost preferred they had us to business cards because you can fake make business cards online and it doesn't really matter. But like it was, it's weird. The whole registration thing was weird. And it's like, what's your primary social? Well, like for you, what's your primary? Well, you have more on Twitter than you do on YouTube. So like, what would they consider your primary? Where are you gonna actually be streaming the thing? Or like- But it's funny, they asked like, let me see like evidence of live streams that you've done with like lots of viewers. And I have live streams that have had more views than some of these approved content creators have had when you combine all of their live streams together their total views for their entire channel. Yeah, maybe their whole channel. Their whole channel. I have more from a single stream and I have like 10 streams like that. Yes. Whatever, I'm venting, it's fine. Yeah, no, it's okay. No, it's fine.