Nintendo Just Did Something EXTREMELY Impressive!

Well, folks, we're giving away a switch too. You can enter through the link down in the pin comment or the description. The only requirement is to be subscribed to the channel. We got some stories to get to today about Nintendo. So, first off, hey, Dust Bloods has put out their invites for the network test and say if you were approved and everything. We're going to talk about that. We got a little bit on Octopath Traveler 3? What? We're already talking about that? Yes, we are. We know the next time we're going to see Final Fantasy VII Revelation, which yes, folks, if you didn't know, it's coming to the switch too. Oh, by the way, the movie cast, a lot of the main characters for The Legend of Zelda movie have now been reported by Deadline according to their sources and I got to say I kind of like the picks and one particular pick I'm a little emotional about it. We'll we'll talk about that. More than that though, we have the Nintendo financial results. We got to go over all of that because there's just a lot of crazy stuff happening. All right. Let's go ahead and get into the first report here and look, this is just about the Dust Bloods. So, they're doing a like network test and we don't really know a ton about this game even though they did finally show it again to announce the network test. Yeah, it was weird. It was like a first come, first serve. I signed up not knowing what was going to happen and yeah, here's my literal thing. You don't It's not an email you get. You go to their website. You got to make sure you're logged in and then you go to the account section and that's how you find out if you made it. So, selection results, you were selected to participate and if you were, it'll say thank you for your application game data and download codes will begin to be distributed on August 18th, which is a Tuesday at 6:00 a.m. Pacific time and then please return to the site after that time. So, obviously, that's not when the network test begins, but you can pre-install and get ready to go. So, that's going to be really exciting one. I want to give them some good feedback on anything going on, you know, with the online connections and any bugs I see, but I also want to just try the game out and let you guys know my experience with it assuming that I'm allowed to show any footage. We don't know the if there's any restrictions here. Obviously, if there's any NDAs, yeah, people are going to post stuff anyways. I'm not going to violate the NDA. I don't think that's disrespectful. I feel fortunate that I even get to test this game and try it out. So, really looking forward to that one and seeing what it's all about. Now, we're going to go ahead and get to our next story and this one is interesting. Octopath Traveler 3 came up in this interview. Uh so, it says the Octopath Traveler team doesn't have anything to announce quite yet, but it's aware of the sky-high expectations for Octopath Traveler 3, Team Asano says. So, let's go ahead here. So, Square Enix's Octopath Traveler franchise celebrated its 8-year anniversary in July. Talking to Dengeki Online a commemorative interview, the series' core development members, including producer Tomoya Asano, recently addressed Octopath Traveler's future. With the 8-year milestone having passed and the 10-year anniversary already in sight, Asano says his team fully aware that anticipation for the Octopath Traveler 3 is incredibly high. However, somewhat apologetically, he says there is nothing he's able to share at the moment. We generally feel fans' expectations. I just want to convey that. Asano also adds that given how much the scope of the HD-2D style has expanded and the strong performance of Octopath Traveler, which has sold over 7 million units so far, his team strongly feels that it cannot simply release something half-baked. He and the rest of the developers agree that if we're going to do it, we're going to push the limits. Suggesting that a potential sequel will be even more ambitious in its scale and concept, which is wild to me. Uh they ask fans to keep looking forward to what comes next. On a side note, when it comes to other multimedia developments in the Octopath Traveler series, such as novelizations and the TRPG adaptation, the developers say they're eager to hear what fans would like to see made. They're welcoming in those ideas. So, yeah, you can put the ideas down in our comment section. But, obviously, uh I don't know if they're going to see that. You maybe spam them on socials. Of course, spamming them I also think is quite annoying. Might get you a blocked or ignored, I don't know. But, whatever. You know what we don't have to worry about being blocked or ignored? Final Fantasy 7 Revelation. Because, folks, we know when we're going to see it again. Get locked in, everyone. It's happening at Opening Night Live. Game director Naoki Hamaguchi is going to be presenting Final Fantasy 7 Revelation at Gamescom Opening Night Live on August 25th, right? Now, it's not necessarily going to be at the beginning of the show. It's like a 1-hour or 2-hour show. Either way, 11:00 a.m. Pacific, 2:00 p.m. Eastern, 7:00 p.m. BST, 8:00 p.m. CST. This literally guarantees that I will be live streaming Opening Night Live. Although, I typically do that anyways. But, yeah. Pretty cool stuff. I'm really excited for that. Uh guys, we're not done, dude. We got some good news. The good news keeps coming. And this time, it's about The Legend of Zelda movie. Uli Latukefu lands the villain role of Ganondorf in Sony and Nintendo's Legend of Zelda movie. I think he played young The Rock, you know, Dwayne The Rock Johnson in a in a movie. He's done some other stuff as well. So, Australian actor Uli Latukefu, again, I'm probably butchering this, has landed a major role. He'll play the lead villain Ganondorf in the Legend of Zelda, Sony and Nintendo's live-action feature film based on the popular video game, sources have confirmed to Deadline. Ganondorf is a powerful warlock king driven to dominate the protagonist Link and Princess Zelda's kingdom of Hyrule. We hear Latukefu inked a multi-picture deal here, which kind of just confirms what I've been thinking about The Legend of Zelda film this whole time. They're looking to probably make this like a trilogy of sorts. Uh maybe more. I have no idea what the long-term plans are beyond that. But, look, guys, this is going to take us through probably the next decade of of of Zelda movies, right? So, here we go. Coming back in. Uh as previously announced, the leads of the project are a pair of up-and-comers. Imbo Bragason is playing Zelda with Benjamin Evan Ainsworth as Link. Castings for the Zelda temple have been closely guarded. The Deku is the first to emerge since Nintendo announced the film's leads last July. Reps for Sony couldn't be reached for comment on that casting. Sony first announced it would distribute and team with Nintendo to co-finance the Zelda movie in fall of 2023. Now, this is all fun, this is all games, this sounds all cool. The reporting doesn't stop there because they have multiple reports and that's why we go over to VGC who combined it all together. So, we know about Ganondorf. Let's go down. The publication also stated that Deaken Lachman, who plays Miss Casey in Severance, will play Zelda's guardian and mentor Impa, which is something we technically saw with leaked footage last year, but still really nice to just I guess have a double confirmation on that. Uh but here's where we get some new stuff we didn't know. Yvonne Strahovski, which is from The Handmaid's Tale, will also appear as a queen character, I'm guessing. Queen of Hyrule, perhaps? I don't know. Uh the report isn't more specific than this, but it would be interesting. Uh Nintendo already confirmed that the movie will star those two people we talked about. The film's director, Wes Ball, is known for all of this, but there's some crazy stuff in here. So, Sam Neill. Sam Neill, right here. Deadline publisher report naming three more cast members. Sam Neill, who passed away last month. The report couldn't confirm which role he plays in the film. Lot of us are assuming the king of Hyrule. That is the massive assumption at the moment that that is what he played. It appears to be his final movie. Sam Neill, uh a lot of you guys might know him from Jurassic Park, of course. Uh one of his most famous roles ever, but he has done a lot of different roles over the years. Uh obviously, rest in peace and I hope his family uh is handling this situation well. I know it's really hard to lose loved ones, but also they're going to get to see one final performance from him. And look, as a Sam Neill fan, the fact that it's The Legend of Zelda film, oh man. Obviously, you know, if he is the king of Hyrule, he's not the king of Hyrule is not going to last past the first movie, and that's really okay. We don't see a lot of the king usually, and maybe he dies in the movie. I have no idea. It might be befitting if he did die because he obviously passed away in real life, but man, we'll just have to wait and see if any of this gets confirmed 100% by Nintendo. This appears to be a leak out there, but yeah, pretty interesting stuff. Now we got to get to Nintendo's financial report. Now normally, I sift through Nintendo's actual report, but there's a user on X I've gone to a few times cuz I just like how they lay things out cuz they they create extra graphs with the data to help visualize what Nintendo is saying. So, we're at pure485, but this is a real thing. This is actual data. All of it lines up with Nintendo's actual release. So, Nintendo Switch 2 shipped another 3.82 million units, now over 23.68 million units in 13 months. That's the fastest selling Nintendo console after five quarters. It also has now officially passed the Nintendo GameCube. So, we look at some of the images here. Yeah, look at that. It is the fastest selling Nintendo platform. It, you know, it is still tracking ahead of the Wii, which had a rocket start, but we obviously know Switch eventually ended up passing some stuff here as it started just going and going and going. But yeah, guys, pretty incredible stuff here. We'll see if this trajectory continues cuz that is a really cool trajectory. And then obviously, you can see the Nintendo Switch 2 hardware by region. So, Japan, America, Europe, and other. Dude, this is actually quite a few sales if I'm completely honest. And look at the Americas with over a million leading the way, 1.22 million. And then you're obviously seeing, you know, Japan at 1.04. Then you got almost a million out in Europe, and then the rest of the world putting in about 600,000, 590,000 to be more specific. And then you see the worldwide Nintendo hardware chart. You can see now where Switch is ahead of Wii U. Switch is ahead of GameCube. Next up for it to pass will be the N64, which it certainly will pass this year just with the lineup we're already aware of. All right, so let's go on to the next section here. It says Nintendo shipped another 9.46 million games on Switch 2 last quarter for a total of 58.17 million units today. The Americas are the leading region in game shipments accounting for more than 36% of total shipments. And you're seeing the software by region. And then you're seeing here the software by region again in a different way over the various quarters. And then the cumulative software shipment comparison. Now again, still not on pace to match the craziness of the Wii or obviously cuz the Wii had this rocket start or obviously even perfectly lining up with the Nintendo Switch in terms of software sales, of course. Remember Switch had Breath of the Wild. Switch had Mario Odyssey. So trying to give a little leeway here that that was kind of a crazy thing for for uh to have in the first year of uh of Nintendo Switch. So benefit of the doubt here. There's actually been more third-party games and stuff. Uh let's get back into this data though again. Uh we come back here see software by platform. Obviously it hasn't passed any overall platforms, although Wii U is well in sight and probably will be passed by the end of this current fiscal year. Uh then you see uh Tomodachi Life Living the Dream. They debuted it with 7.96 million units shipped in 3 months. It immediately became the franchise's best-selling title. Of course there's only two titles, but still uh obviously incredible sales for Nintendo. Uh you can see Tomodachi Collection and then Tomodachi Life and then Tomodachi Life Living the Dream. All right. Uh Tomodachi series of course just looks like it continues to grow, which is pretty cool. Uh Super Mario Party Jamboree uh reached 1.15 million units after 11 months. Total sales now exceed 11.11 million units if you count the Switch version. So, again, an incredibly successful game for Nintendo. Although, I do think the Switch 2 version that DLC ain't it. I'm just putting it out there. Uh Super Mario Party Jamboree uh Next to the Mario Party series, obviously, it's up there with Super and Superstars ahead of uh you know, Mario Party 8, Mario Party DS, etc. So, yeah. It's it's one of the most popular Mario Parties ever. All right. Pokémon Pokkén Tournament is now at 3.68 million units in 4 months. But, here's the special note. Japanese shipments are not included cuz it's published by Koei Tecmo out in Japan, right? Uh that's another 1.27 million. So, it actually crossed almost 5 million. Just shy of 5 million units uh between April and June. It's the best-selling Pokémon spin-off published by Nintendo in the last 15 years. We're not done, though. Uh obviously, you got to look at the Pokémon spin-offs. You can see 3.68, but if you add the rest It's not ahead of Pinball and Stadium yet, but it's well on its way to do that before the end of this fiscal year. Um obviously, having an incredible launch. All right. Uh Pokémon Legends ZA shipped another 50k units on Switch 2. That's 3.99 million units in total for that version. While total sales are at least, because there was no update for the Switch units, to 12.84 million units. All right. Uh you can see here how well it did. Okay. Pokémon main series all those comparisons, the Pokémon series comparisons, etc. Mario Kart World shipped another 690k units in the quarter. Now over 15.39 million units after a year. It's the second fastest-selling title in the franchise, trailing only behind Mario Kart Wii in terms of the speed at which it sells. So, yeah, guys, for all that like if you be like, "Oh, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe." I'm just noting it actually is selling faster than Mario Kart 8 Deluxe did. So, there hasn't been a Mario Kart selling this fast ever. We'll see if that continues. Next up, uh we get to look at some of those graphs related to the sales of Mario Kart World. All right, Kirby Air Riders is now over 1.9 million units shipped in 8 months, shipping another 30K units this quarter. So, that is awesome. Uh you can see how it compares here. You can see Air Riders already had a some mainline Kirby games. Like this is just a really well-performing game for Nintendo. Credit to Sakurai for that. Nokigoman also shipped another 260K units for this fourth quarter for a total of 4.78. It's going to pass 5 million, of course, you know, that's how this goes. Uh next up here, Switch to million sellers list has been updated and you're seeing obviously six of them with Jamboree now joining that list. Uh Nintendo did note that um Starfox and one other game. Uh I'm drawing a blank. Someone in the comments will correct me, but it was Starfox and one other game is moving well, which tells me it's probably just shy of a million, which is why it didn't make this report. So, I suspect that next financial report will see Starfox on this list. And we'll see what else uh happens to pop up there. Anyways, uh that's really cool. Uh it is uh Yoshi. Yoshi and the Isle of Series Park, that's the other one they said was moving well, but hadn't crossed a million yet. All right, Nintendo Switch shipped 670K units this quarter, down from 980K units last year. That's a 32% drop-off. I'm actually kind of surprised 670K units still sold. This thing is probably going to pass the PS2, isn't it? Anyways, it's now over 156.59 million units to date. Nintendo forecast over 157.92 million in total by March 2027. That's another 1.33 million units in 9 months. Hey, if they keep selling it for 2 years, uh that's you know, a couple more years, it should pass it, but who knows? Um we had to go though into uh some some other stuff here that I think is kind of crazy. Um >> [laughter] >> I I I I don't care about all this stuff. Obviously, they're going to go over a lot of stuff like the millions of dollars of Switch software tie ratio. Um, you know, they talk about the DS and some other stuff. But, that's kind of the main crux of everything we wanted to go over with that data. Uh, you guys let me know uh, if you uh, enjoyed that report from Nintendo. I don't know how you feel about it. Uh, I've been kind of getting in some hot water for a take I had on GTA 6 on X yesterday. It is what it is, but I'm just happy to get this video out to you guys late, early, whenever the hell it goes out. Thank you so much for tuning in. I am Nintendo Rufflejantz, and I will catch you guys in the next video.