Hello and welcome to a very special Gamescom

25 episode of Nintendo Voice Chat, live from beautiful Cologne, Germany,

a city known for giving the world delicious beer,

breathtaking views of the Dom Cathedral,

and a guy named Pear Schneider.

I'm your host, Brian Altanel joined by my super new friendos, Jada Griffin, and the aforementioned

pair Schneider. Welcome.

Hey, I was born right here actually under the studio.

It was back, no.

Is that the smell?

I thought he was going to say, on this couch.

I'm very sorry.

I'm glad we both went to the same on this couch. I'm very sorry.

I'm glad we both went to the same place.

Nintendo had a pretty massive presence here at Gamescom.

One of the biggest booths I've ever seen them do.

They had this gigantic stage where people could compete in Mario Kart.

They had, for the first days we were here, covered in tarps, one section specifically. And we were like, what is it? What could it be? And then they announced we're doing a direct for Kirby Airwriters. Wasn't the only surprise at the show. They also, Hollow Knight was playable at their booth for the first time. So before we get into impressions on Hollow Night, Pokemon, Kirby, Eldon Ring, all the other stuff we played. I wanted to talk real quick about Nintendo's presence here at Gamescom because this was the first show that I've been to where the Switch 2 is out in the wild.

It's not a secret, it's not a rumor, it's not a 3D printed thing that some third-party company has off to the side.

The Switch 2 is out. But you wouldn't really know it

if you went to anybody else's booth but Nintendo's. I think that's the effect of, you know,

Nintendo playing the hardware specs and the actual development hardware really close to their

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