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Sakurai telling Nintendo viewers to check out Banjo Kazooie on Xbox has got to be one of the year's strangest moments (Xbox #1 trending in Japan now)

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Dancrane212

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The laughing in the background as he says this perfectly lends to the moment. They play it off very well, it's pretty delightful.


Also, Nuts and Bolts is not forgotten.
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Not that strange considering the last couple years. Microsoft has had no issues showing a Switch in their E3 presser talking about Minecraft for example, and this was 2 years ago.
 
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nah what was weird was the laughing in the background

Also deadly premonition got a sequel, how is that not weirder
 
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This video is by Gascoin right? The laughter totally fits their house style with Arino.
 
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Not strange at all.

Nintendo and Microsoft are getting on. Also, Sakurai isn't really a Nintendo employee.
 
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Amazing, this man is a legend. Maybe one day Banjo returns home, even just for a port... one day...
 
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Not weird at all, people were doing this thing called "having fun" and so did the employees
 
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FairyEmpire said:
Not that strange considering the last couple years. Microsoft has had no issues showing a Switch in their E3 presser talking about Minecraft for example, and this was 2 years ago.
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Oh, it's not surprising looking at the current situation, it's just...odd?

Maybe it's just the laughter but it did feel pretty funny in the moment!
 

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Dancrane212 said:
Oh, it's not surprising looking at the current situation, it's just...odd?

Maybe it's just the laughter but it did feel pretty funny in the moment!
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Yeah, it's something that would have sounded unreal only about 4-5 years ago. In 2019 there's games like Rocket League and Fortnite that are crossplay between Xbox, PlayStation, Switch and PC. There's Microsoft games coming to Switch all the time. A Microsoft character is in Smash (after Snake this one isn't that insane, but still). Microsoft talks about the Switch in their E3 presser, Nintendo talks about Xbox on their direct. Sony will use Microsoft tech for their cloud. There's rumors about Game Pass potentially hitting other consoles.

It's outlandish compared to where we were just at the start of the generation.
 
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Part of me was really hoping for some cheeky Banjo ports to the Switch. Ack well.
 

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In a better world, 'PC' or just 'Microsoft'/'Windows' is trending in Japanese Twitter because Rare's back catalog is available to purchase and play on it
 

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LinkStrikesBack said:
It's a laugh at the expense of all the people who had somehow convinced themselves that Banjo in smash had to mean a whole slew of Microsoft first party games had to be coming to switch, which... Yeah, was always a bit nutty.
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I think it's more a laugh about the dire state of Xbox in Japan. Like legitimately many, if not most, Japanese consumers have no idea what Xbox even is.
 
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