Yesterday i made a post about the oldest Youtube video related to nintendo, i said it was "E3 Wii Line" by Kazze, well i was wrong…
First of all, for the context i'd recommend you to check this post : The first Youtube video uploaded that is related to Nintendo : r/nintendo (reddit.com)
Now the update :
After some further research, i'm not 100% sure anymore that "E3 Wii Line", i found 3 new pieces of information suggesting that this video wasn't released on the 14th of June 2005.
I originally got this information from 2 sources :
-this slideshow : Unti | Flourish
-and this article : Oldest YouTube Videos, Oldest Videos on YouTube (youtubeunknowns.blogspot.com)
I'm not trying to reject the fault on them, it's just to explain how i got this information in the first place. So according to these 2 websites, the user "Kazze" uploaded 3 videos the 14th of June 2005, "Sbavare.it dog", "E3 Wii Line" and "El poder de lynx". I was able to find evidence of "Sbavare.it dog" and "El poder de lynx" being released in 2005 : YouTube – Your Digital Video Repository (archive.org) / YouTube – Your Digital Video Repository (archive.org)
But nothing for "E3 Wii Line", what i did find however was this : YouTube – E3 Wii Line (archive.org)
An archive of "E3 Wii Line", and on this archive the release date is May 20 2006, this is pretty weird but it could be a reupload just like how the video "El Poder de Lynx" had a reupload in 2006 ! Well, let's debunk that idea
on this archive YouTube – El Poder de Lynx (archive.org) from July 2007 we can see that there are 2 "El poder de Lynx", the first being the archive itself and the second can be seen in the "related" section, but the second "El poder de Lynx" isn't a reupload, because the video ID system received major updates in early 2006, some videos from 2005 have had two different links, and "El poder de Lynx" is probably one of them because the 2 videos had nearly the same amount of views on the archive. I can't prove that these 2 "El poder de Lynx" videos are the same because the second url isn't archived so i can't check the upload date, but it's likely.
So if "El poder de Lynx" didn't have a reupload, why would "E3 Wii Line", a video from the same creator, had one ?
So there is no proof of the video's exsitence in 2005 and there is an archive of the video from 2006 but the reupload theory is unlikely. It's already 2 good arguments against the video's existence in June 2005. But there is a third argument :
In 2005, The console wasn't even called nintendo wii, it was called nintendo revolution. But if it was just for the title, we could have justified this with the reupload theory : the video was released in 2005 as "E3 Revolution Line" and the 2006 reupload changed the title. But in the video itself, the word "Wii" can be seen on a sign.
With those discoveries, the existence of this video in June 2005 isn't the most plausible theory anymore.
So i was probably wrong about that, the video "E3 wii Line" exist but it wasn't released on the 14th of June 2005. It was released on May 20, 2006, the description was "In fila per il wii", "Queuing up for the Wii" in english and the tags were : wii nintendo fun e3 line videogames.
Now i would like to apologize, i made a mistake and for now "Nintendo show" is still the oldest nintendo video, but the video "E3 Wii Line" is still one of the first nintendo videos from one of the first youtube account, it's just not the first.
by MMV_iceberg