 Hey everyone, welcome back to Nintendo Prime, and ho ho ho, boy, we potentially have a massive leak right now, well massive in terms of at least giving a name to something Nintendo Switch related that maybe we've been talking about for years or maybe we've only been talking about for six months. It kind of depends on what this is. There has been some new information gleaned from recent games using Unreal Engine 4, obviously these games being made for like PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, the Switch, and within the code base of the files we potentially have discovered the name for either the Switch Pro or the Nintendo Switch 2. The actual name Nintendo is using and we'll explain how this could actually be possible after I remind you we are given away a Nintendo Switch OLED, a PlayStation 5, or an Xbox Series X21 lucky winner all you to do is head to that Glean.io link down in the description or the pinned comment I wish all of you guys luck we will be announcing the winner on April 1st no the giveaway is not a joke it's not an April Fool's joke that just happens to be the first of the next month so we can actually run the giveaway all the way through March all right let's get into it because we first need to explain how this could happen so I have heard you know in talking about this a little bit on social media that some people are skeptical of what I'm about to tell you because they don't think a name could leak through this way and I'm here to tell you that's categorically false developers actually knew the name of the switch before it was announced in October of 2016 why because the code name or the real name of the switch is actually within a lot of engines and software being developed specifically for the platform sure NX was used within the code base of some stuff as well of course before it was announced but the actual name of the product was present we just didn't know why because we didn't know what games were actually using said engines and being coming to switch so those data mines didn't really unveil anything because we didn't know this is the case where we know about certain games coming to switch and other platforms and are able to infer from data mining those platforms and those engines to discover different things about them this is kind of like the NVIDIA leak which all but basically proved that yes the next generation switch is coming we'll have DLSS we'll have 4k support in some way we'll be using a much more modern chipset like the ampere so yeah there's been a lot of stuff we've already inferred from the NVIDIA leak that NVIDIA themselves confirmed was real so that is something for us to keep in the back of our minds and we already know this hardware exists somewhere at least for a new generation device at least what I presume is a new generation device I'd be very surprised if an ampere based switch is anything but that that is such a technological leap forward from the Maxwell tech architecture that the Tegra X1 uses that it would be baffling if that was just a switch pro but here is why I'm bringing this up because the name of the next Nintendo switch product the next Nintendo switch platform might have been leaked here with Unreal Engine 4 so let me read the evidence and I'll show a screenshot up here in a moment this comes from Rare Gaming Dump on Twitter says reportedly data miners and this isn't just reportedly I've actually talked to a couple data miners who are able to independently verify this so this does exist that a recent Unreal Engine 4 games include text referencing a new console called the Nintendo switch forward now he got this information from Matsu on the forest maze discord and Matsu is actually well known to be a data dumper switch SDK versions 13.0.0 from mid 2021 has a list of target CPU platforms including the arm cortex a 77 and the Nvidia Carmel as the latest entries interestingly the same file also has entries for the arm cortex a 15 a 53 and the CPU is used by Nintendo scrapped indie console so there was like at one point Nintendo was making some some cheap little plug-and-play indie console anyways the obviously what we care about is the reference that in that same file it's arm cortex a 77 which are some of the more recent arm CPUs there's also a ppc entry likely for power pc cpu those using the we you which again we've known about that for quite some time so I'm not going to dive too deep into that but as you see here with this file here yeah there's the reference you see a Nintendo switch and then right before you see switch forward now I think switch forward is quite the forward thinking name and it's going to be interesting to see why Nintendo uses this name Nintendo usually has a reason behind their names like the Gamecube was literally a cube that played games the DS was a you know a video game system with two screens the 3ds was a game system with two screens but also glasses free 3d though we was all about you know we the community we like to play games other we you was supposed to be a hey we're making a console like we but for you for the individual for the hardcore gamer that marketing obviously and go very well and we have the switch which is literally hey look you can play this in like three different forms for if you count the VR game right like yet you have handheld you got console you got tabletop and then obviously you know the VR stuff with lab o VR so yeah the switch actually made a ton of sense with you know the Nintendo switch hey switch between different ways of playing just like that you don't have to think about it there's not long waiting processes the system doesn't shut down a restart or go into separate modes it just works and it's really really nice and it's been a really neat feature since 2017 even if it's not the first device to offer this capability so what do we learn here about the switch forward well the switch forward would seem like Nintendo moving forward with that switch concept I guess taking the switch concept forward would to me be the marketing spin here if that ended up becoming the name now this could obviously just be a codename switch forward and it actually ends up being called something completely different and a switch forward of reference to the switch pro that supposedly was in development is it a reference to the next generation switch we don't obviously know that kind of information can't be gleaned from files like this because we don't have exact stuff besides you know the arm cortex you know 77 stuff but we can't really you know infer much from this name other than talking about whether or not we like it and I will say switch forward is a very interesting name I'm not actually I don't actually hate that I don't actually hate that like if you think the new Nintendo switch the you know that that being a possibility you know switch to obviously people like numbers but switch forward to me is much better than like Wii U or even Super Nintendo entertainment system so I don't know to me I really really like this whole moving forward concept switch forward switch forward into the future into the next thing Nintendo's doing I think that Nintendo could actually have a lot of marketing and some really great commercials surrounding this so to me that means that I actually think this is legitimately a really good name and you know whatever Nintendo actually releases and what the final name becomes when it comes out when it's unveiled will be interesting but if it is forward I am actually looking forward to how Nintendo uses that in their marketing spins because there's so many unique ways that you could really tackle this and so many different angles I mean I'm actually interested you guys give me your concepts for switch forward and the sort of marketing slang the catchphrases the commercial ideas that you might have down in the comments because I bet you as a community we could come up with dozens and dozens and dozens of different ways that switch forward would actually be quite a brilliant marketing move also if you don't like the name switch forward let me know why what about it Urxy what about just doesn't sit right with you and obviously let me know if you think that Nintendo will stick with this name or if it will change all we can confirm at this point is that yeah it is being used in some Unreal Engine 4 projects right now they happen to be coming to switch in other platforms but that doesn't necessarily mean that this is going to be any sort of finalized name obviously nothing's finalized until Nintendo announces it so let me know what you think about this down in 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