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Most people think that the first Nintendo related youtube video is "Nintendo Show" uploaded by gslin on the 17th June 2005 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yD29fXQhSI
This video is the 197th ever uploaded to the site and it's not the oldest nintendo video of youtube. It's the oldest Nintendo video that is still available to this day. But 3 days prior to Nintendo Show, the channel "Kazze" released "E3 Wii Line", one month after E3 2005, where the wii was announced. This video was deleted, but we still have the link thanks to an archive of Kazze's channel : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkuUj_juYeA / https://web.archive.org/web/20090226041650/http://www.youtube.com/user/Kazze
But the video is not lost media ! Thanks to the website "Youtube Video Finder" we can download the video.
The video you are currently watching is the first nintendo video, uploaded the 14th of June 2005 by Kazze, and it's also the 103rd oldest youtube video.

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 : https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/7452581/

-and this article : https://youtubeunknowns.blogspot.com/2021/11/oldest-youtube-video.html

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 : https://web.archive.org/web/20050714000327/http://www.youtube.com:80/ / https://web.archive.org/web/20050616004759/http://www.youtube.com:80/index.php
But nothing for "E3 Wii Line", what i did find however was this : https://web.archive.org/web/20070614072918/https://youtube.com/watch?v=zkuUj_juYeA&mode=related&search=

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 (https://web.archive.org/web/20070706085846/http://www.youtube.com/index.php?v=mI0YERBpAN8) 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.

For more infos : https://www.reddit.com/r/nintendo/comments/1dcrnnl/the_first_youtube_video_uploaded_that_is_related/

The thumbnail is still lost.
Original description : In fila per il wii
Original tags : wii nintendo fun e3 line videogames
Original uploader : Kazze

🇫🇷 : Pour mes abonnés, je sais que cette vidéo n'est pas reliée a mon contenu habituel, cette vidéo est une pièce importante de l'histoire de Youtube et de Nintendo, c'est la première vidéo en lien avec nintendo qui a été publié sur Youtube. J'ai découvert ça récemment et j'en ai réalisé un post Reddit, j'ai donc posté cette vidéo pour que les personnes intéressées puissent visionner cette vidéo historique.