 Hey everyone, welcome back to Nintendo Prime. We got three stories for you today. A couple of them are obviously rumor territory, so please bring your truckloads of salt today. The first story though is actually something legit that we can speculate on, but we don't exactly know what it is outside of it being a Switch game, likely an exclusive. So we'll talk about that in a moment. Before we do, I want to remind you that our video is sponsored by... All right, so our first story here deals with Bandai Namco. So Bandai Namco put up a new hiring post for a joint project with Nintendo. Now, this technically isn't new because last April, they had three hiring posts for three different positions for this exact game. And we know it's the same game because all of the hiring posts reference what the game is calling it a 3D action game. So look, we don't know what this action game could be. We assume Bandai Namco is working with one of Nintendo's IPs. When I started thinking about action games, I started thinking about things like the Metroid Prime series. Are they working on the remakes? I have no idea. Kid Icarus, Uprising maybe, Star Fox, Zelda, Hexen and Punishment. We haven't seen that in forever. But again, we have no idea what this is. It could be a brand new IP as well. Bandai Namco has worked with Nintendo on things like Smash Bros. in the past. They're becoming one of those reliable partner companies for Nintendo. So we'll just have to wait and see. Rumor used to have it that they were working on Metroid Prime 4 before that was taken away. But either way, we don't really know what they're doing. We just know that they're making something. So I think that's kind of cool. Now, speaking of remakes, remaster potential or anything else under the sun, F-Zero GX is back in the news because Nate Drake, Nate the Hay, Direct Feed Games, those are the three names he goes by besides just Nate, put out there that F-Zero will have its time in 2023. And he posted this over on the reset era forums. What's interesting about this is I've actually heard about an F-Zero remake remaster, a GX one in particular last year from a very reliable source. However, we didn't really know him when it was coming. Now, obviously Direct Feed Games have been talking about this for a while too. And he says it's coming now apparently this year. He doesn't necessarily call it F-Zero GX, but later gets clarified that that seems to be what he's referencing. So time will tell obviously if that's gonna be a thing. We know Emily Rogers put out there as well that there's not supposed to be a bunch of GameCube remasters coming. F-Zero GX is a GameCube game. So this kind of fits in line with that. We'll have to wait and see. Obviously we could maybe look at this at the next Nintendo Direct or maybe at June during an E3 or something like that. I don't know, it's up in the air. Those are really the two big events that usually reveal games for this year. So I guess we'll just have to wait and see. Now, this last one you're gonna need to really put on your skepticism caps because it's a rumor on a rumor on a rumor. Okay, no, not really. It's certainly a standalone rumor but it sort of builds on a prior rumor. And this is why when you have rumors that build on prior rumors, it's time to really put on your skepticism cap because we don't know if all of it is true or if any of it is true. And we're talking about Tears of the Kingdom. And this does come from 4chan. And while there are many, many instances of legit leaks at 4chan, the Skyward Sword official art from E3 back in the day that Nintendo was showing just two employees originally leaked on 4chan. So look, real leaks happen on 4chan. It is 4chan and there's a lot of fake leaks as well. And there are some red flags with this one. But again, I don't know, right? So we're gonna talk about this because it has to do with the Nintendo Switch online stuff and this image right here. Now the claim about this image you're seeing is that it is a flyer at GameStop Italy that's gonna be handed out soon to pretty much any customers that pre-order Switch games. And the big red flags basically are that this looks like it could be homemade or maybe scanned directly in. Like it being such a clean look when it's a flyer doesn't mean much because again, you can scan images directly and I've used a scanner to do that. And it looks just like you made it on the computer. But what's weird about it is the art and logo look very clean while the text itself looks a smidge blurry as do the arrows. Little weird because even if I home made this that wouldn't happen. I have Photoshop. It's not like, why would the text be blurry, you know? So maybe it was made intentionally. Look, I don't know. Okay guys, this is just, it's out there. So I figured we'd talk about it because you know what? Anything tears of the kingdom peaks my interest. But setting aside the skepticism over this and how it might not be true when it's a rumor built on top of a rumor. What I want to do is look at what the text actually says and then discuss it for a moment. So this comes actually directly from the person who posted it. The first part apparently says interact with other players leaving them items, tears of the kingdom and written messages. Explore the regeneration Hamlet. And he says, I hope this is the right English word for Kassal. I don't know, take that for what you will with the help of a friend in online co-op and then share the loot with the shared exploration mode exclusive for NSO members. The second part of this talks about cloud stays which obviously we all know. And then the third one says something like Nintendo Switch online expansion pack members have access to the exclusive sky treasure, high rule treasure and much more. So look, again, I don't know if any of this is true or, I mean, look, we've reached the idea of a co-op mode similar to Dark Souls or similar to Elden Ring and how cool that would be. And this seems to reference a mode similar to that or sharing collectibles and it's an exploration mode. You know, think about like the Pokemon game Starland Violet where you have like a, you get to invite your friends in. I look, I don't really think that this is in particular real. In fact, out of all of the rumors and leaks I've posted in the past couple of years this is probably the one that I'm just staring at and going, man, this really doesn't seem legit. Until we get the blowout for Tears of the Kingdom, stuff like this is gonna continue to exist. I think this is something that, you know, I've learned over my couple of decades covering Zelda stuff is until the blowout begins a lot of things are gonna fly around the net. And while this is a fun thought and I think it's really cool to think about multiplayer possibilities and we've had multiplayer aspects in Zelda games before. In fact, we had an entire game built around multiplayer at one point, not just four swords and four swords and ventures, but Triforce Heroes was a multiplayer Zelda game. Now obviously none of that's how this game would handle things. We've also had extra modes like in Phantom Hourglass the extra multiplayer mode. I just, I don't know guys, I want multiplayer to exist in a smart and good way. I also am not sure if this is just a Switch game because whenever we had that leaked, supposedly leaked Zelda OLED maybe it's real, maybe it's fake, I don't know. We'll find out sooner enough. I just, I'm ready guys. Can we get the blowout already Nintendo? Can we like bump the direct to January just so rumors like this can either be squashed or I guess proven? I kind of feel like if this is something it would be in the next big trailer but I don't know, you guys let me know your thoughts on this down in the comments below. I'm just the messenger, I'm just having fun sharing stories I find interesting on the net. You guys are awesome, keep smiling, keep going in this new year, hit your new year's resolutions, whatever they happen to be and I'm gonna catch you guys in that next video. Thank you so much for being here and hey, like and subscribe if you enjoy the content.