 Hey everyone, Nathaniel Rovell-Jancer from Nintendo Prime, and we're gonna be talking about the Nintendo Direct Mini, but we're gonna be talking about less about the games that were contained in it, because I feel like it was an okay partner showcase, but more about Nintendo's marketing strategy. Let's get into it. After I tell you about our giveaway, we are giving away a copy of, well, a game that was actually featured in the Nintendo Direct Mini Partner Showcase today, Final Fantasy Chronicles Remastered. We actually have a release date finally. It comes out literally tomorrow. That's great news for people. We are giving away a copy of this game at the end of this month, so on the 31st and or the first of the next month. To enter all your throughs, comment down below, like this video, subscribe to the channel and hit that bell icon. Beyond that, we are also on our road to 50,000 subscribers, and if we can hit 50,000 subscribers by November 1st of 2020, we will be giving away a PlayStation 5. An Xbox Series X or a Nintendo Switch. You guys know what's up. All right. So there was a surprise partner showcase today. Now, Nintendo did tell us we were going to be getting more and more partner showcases, and they reiterated during, in the middle, and after this partner showcase, that we're gonna keep getting more partner showcases the rest of the year. At this point, it feels like we got one in July. We got one in August. We'll get one in September. We're probably gonna get one every month for the rest of the year. But obviously, there's a lot of disappointment in the air because people want a general direct or at least a regular Nintendo Direct Mini or at least a Mario Direct where we get those supposed 3D remastered Mario games coming. Are they even real at this point? I think it's fair to question everything. And obviously, we have to talk about where all this information came from that even got us hyped for this week in the first place because it came from a lot of genuinely reliable places. But to be clear, the only person, the only person that ever really said that this week would be a general direct was a guy that goes by Nate the Hate. Now, he has been generally reliable in the past and he does have some big name people that come on his podcast. However, he put out a statement on Twitter today that I want to examine and show you guys that I feel like it's important that we talk about this because he's the person that made us feel like it was a general direct. And you guys can decide what to do with this after. So Nate the Hate put this up today, obviously in response. He said, I don't intend to mislead people. The information I was given to a direct this week be it a mini or general. After today's showing, it appears the company will designate any presentation going forward that omits first party games as a mini partner showcase. A direct mini partner showcase aired today. It lacked Nintendo pulver software like the 3D Mario collection. Based on the info made available to me being 3D Mario should be dated this week plus a direct this week. I concluded this week would be a mini slash general. I'll be more clear. There seems to be some confusion. I'm not saying the 3D collection is being announced this week. Maybe it will. I don't know. If so, we'll be surprised together. I'm saying I was told that it should have been this week with the direct meaning the former was an accurate info. The Mario 3D collection still exists. It'll be announced soon. No, not this week, but sooner enough. Rejoice in that. That's what he claims anyways. Whether or not you can believe him is a whole nother story, but that's what he claims. Now, he's not the only person that puts stuff out there. Jeff Grubb, for those who don't know, he is an actual journalist at VentureBeat. Was the one who said we were gonna get a direct this week. And he was wrong in some senses too. He said that we would get one on Friday. He thought the Friday date was weird but that's what his source is told. We heard from like five different people. The thing is, obviously, we're probably not getting a direct Friday. Maybe we are. Maybe we're still gonna get a general direct on Friday. It is only Wednesday. To be fair, we don't usually get directs on Wednesday either and here we are with the mini partner showcase. So maybe there still is a big general direct for Friday. I doubt it at this point. This is probably it for the week, but you never know. Maybe it is still happening. So Jeff Grubb is here on Twitter. This is the guy who gave us all of the information that we were going to see this on Friday. He is an actual journalist. And obviously, he's not very confident in it. He made a mistake about this back in March of this year and ended up regretting it and saying, you know, hey, why didn't you listen to your past self? You know, it's still happening tomorrow, March 25th. March 26th, why didn't I listen to your past job? So like, you know, I'm never gonna do this again and then here he is doing it again. But here's the tweet he put up today. So yeah, this is why I'm less certain about Friday now. You know, he's tweeting out the trying to direct mini and he says, here's the good news. There are non-Nintendo games that are supposed to be in a non-mini direct that are not in this. So he knows about some games that are supposed to be in a direct but aren't supposed to be in a mini. So I guess speculation can continue, but needless to say, he's not sure about any of this Friday business anymore. Again, a direct could still happen on Friday and Jeff Grubb could end up still being right. Like he's saying he's less certain about Friday now. He's not saying that Friday won't happen, but there's a reason that he's not certain because if you scroll down even further, you'll see right here for transparency on what he knows, seven hours ago. You know, it says, you know, this seems totally possible and if it's a mini, I wouldn't expect Mario here instead I would expect Nintendo to come back at some point in mid-September. That's just his personal expectations. But he says for transparency, and this is why leakers, it's easy to attack them. It's easy to attack these people in the media that bring this stuff out here, but Nintendo does things intentionally to weed out people, not to weed out the leakers, but to weed out the people that are leaking the information. So, you know, say Jeff Grubb has five contacts in this case, it says for transparency, let me show you what I know. Something is happening this week, but I've heard like five different variations. There was a non-mini direct coming up, but Nintendo also said there are more partner showcases coming, so I think this is still right. So, reality is that Nintendo kind of goes after, puts out false information basically. So, what Nintendo has done in the past to get rid of certain leaks in the company is they have put out intentional false information to certain employees, and that might be suspected of leaking info. And if that info reaches the ears of certain leakers, it kind of confirms to Nintendo, hey, look, this is the person that's leaking info, and either that person's obviously either fired or asked to leave the company, or is kicked out of certain meetings. I'm not really sure how Nintendo handles it internally. That's up to them, because obviously they're breaking contract and leaking this information. So, like Jeff Grubb is a game journalist, and it's not his fault that his inside sources are potentially giving out false information, because he's heard a whole bunch of different variations for this week from different people. So, I think that in the end, this direct mini-dropping does probably cast a shadow of a doubt on this Friday, but also doesn't necessarily mean that people like Nathan Hate, people like Jeff Grubb, people like Kingzel are all wrong, bad, terrible people that are intentionally misleading. I saw a post up with a BitBlock today, a fellow YouTuber who's working out some highly unique Nintendo content right now for the holiday season, I think starting in September. So, he put out this community post about YouTubers like me and these leaguers as, Nintendo is no more, this company has lost all leadership. It is 100% tone deaf with its audience and consumer interest, and the worst yet, most of their modern games lack the quality that Nintendo feel that was once standard with nearly every game they made. To be clear, as much as I enjoy Josh Thomas' content, there's very few Nintendo franchises. He's actually into. So, the few franchises he's into are spinoffs that he doesn't feel have held up to the quality standards, but he's not as into like the Super Mario Odyssey of the World or the Breath of the Wilds or all that jazz. So like the games that have been hit in home runs, he's not into. So it's kind of a false narrative because he's making a blanket statement about the whole company. Well, he doesn't really enjoy a majority of that company's games. He's very specific with like Animal Crossing, Mario Tennis, Mario Party, et cetera. Anyways, he says, also stop listening to the losers on Twitter and reset era. When they tell you rumors of directing games, they know nothing, despite the fact that they've actually gotten a lot correct over the years. And today was another example of this. They're nothing but nobodies who want to feel like they're in the know and have some kind of power and shame on the channels who hype this garbage up all to just get views and money. They're creating a toxic community that lacks any kind of charm, creativity, or passion. On the bright side, at least I know my Halloween Nintendo direct will top anything Nintendo's doing, which it's gonna probably be really, really cool. I'm gonna give them that much credit. It's gonna be really, really cool. But like, I don't fall. I've been covering Nintendo news for over a decade. And I don't fault people like Jeff Grubb and Nate the Hate, Emily Rogers or anyone else that would put out stuff and then I'm getting misinformation from their sources because it's not their fault. Now ultimately, the fault is with Nintendo. And for people that want to call out channels like mine and others like me, which there's a lot, I just have to say, hey, you do your thing, man. Some people like to have these super creative, unique concept ideas like he does. He does make extremely unique content. Some people like to just talk about things and people enjoy listening clearly because there's a lot of us channels out here that have a lot of followers. So I guess stick to what you do best and leave everyone else alone. I guess it's my advice to him. I'm not gonna get into a war with him. I just vehemently disagree that he needs to be that assertive with his opinions, I suppose. I guess I can't tell him not to say him. He can say him. It's fine, he did. He's always been quite abrasive with that stuff. But that's not the hearing order there. The point is that, yeah, these directs, these rumors, these leaks, it's tough, man. It's a tough world we go into, tough sledding. And I think, honestly, what makes us hurt for so many people is that we just, we feel like we need Nintendo news. We feel like Nintendo owes us Nintendo news. We feel like it's just, we're in this weird, 2020 is just a weird year. It's a weird year. Can we all admit that? It's such a funky, weird year. Well, whatever. When Nintendo's ready to tell us about their games, they'll tell us about their games. Until then, I think it's just safe at this point. The safest thing you can presume is Nintendo's got nothing for us the rest of the year, but Pitman 3 Deluxe, because that's what they announced. These 3D remasters that everyone says are real, we'll find out eventually if they are, and if they're not, well, then we guess we won't hear about them at all. So either all this stuff ends up being legit or it ends up being fake. I got nothing else for ya. Bloomberg's telling us about a new Switch next year that is more next-gen, more 4K than people expected. Is it legit? Is it real? I have no idea. I'm just a talking head on the internet. I'm just giving you my opinions. So you guys don't even know what you think about Nintendo in the comments below. Obviously, we didn't talk a lot about the direct mini itself. I thought it was fine. I mean, we know what it is at this point. It's a partner showcase. It's gonna show off a bunch of third-party games, smaller, usually games, not that big a deal to me. Anyways, thank you guys so much for tuning in. Catch you in the next video.