 Hey everybody, so look, it's July, July 2nd to be exact, at least at the time of recording. Maybe you're watching this a bit later in the month. I have no idea. But, you know, we had that Nintendo Direct mini-partner showcase back in June as you know by Chronicles Direct. Also a look at Pokemon, Scarlet and Violet and everything's looking pretty peachy keen, but there's still some things we don't know. I mean, I guess I forgot about that. Spark's a Hope showcase as well. So look, we actually had quite a bit of Nintendo news. Hey, did you hear Persona 5 is coming to Switch? Yeah, it comes out October 21st, pretty cool. But there's still so much we don't know. So much so that we have to begin to wonder, is the Nintendo Direct happening this month? Is there a new Switch being unveiled this month too? Look, the rumors, the leaks, whatever, they're gonna be abounding very, very soon because a lot of things are being hinted at. First, you have Nintendo investing a ton of money into raw materials. There are no comment on new hardware coming this year at a prior investor meeting at the end of last fiscal year. You also have obviously Nate, the hate inferring that developers have units and not being willing to confirm or deny whether Nintendo is going to announce hardware this month. Plus, we have to look at the last two times they have announced hardware. They announced the Switch OLED on July 6th last year. Back in 2019, they announced the Switch Lite on July 10th. So that does leave us sitting here at the beginning of July going, hmm, if there's new hardware in development, there's stockpiling materials, dev units exist at other developers. And by the way, Nate Drake's out here telling us that Genshin Impact has actually been moved over to a Switch that has 4K capabilities with DLSS, deep learning, super sampling that technology provided by NVIDIA. Well, just maybe we're about to get new hardware revealed. Now, I don't know if we are, but a lot of signs are pointing to it. But that's not the only thing that signs are pointing to. You see, Jeff Grubb out there has stated emphatically that Metroid Prime remake is planned for this holiday. It would actually make quite a pairing with Mario Plus Rabbids, Sparks of Hope, and with Pokemon Scarlet and Violet. So if that is planned, and we need to get a deeper look at Splatoon 3 still, we need to know the exact release date for Bayonetta 3 as well for this year, maybe another look at Breath of the Wild for next year, Breath of the Wild 2, and who knows, maybe the Metroid Prime remake needs to be seen, maybe a look at Metroid Prime 4 for 2023 if that's possible, or some other 2023 announcements because right now, we have a single game from Nintendo announced for next year, and that game was supposed to come this year and was technically announced back in 2019. So we're waiting to see what else is gonna be coming. And we didn't get a general direct last month, even though we did get a general direct back in, well, February. Now look, doesn't mean we're getting a general direct this month, doesn't mean we're going to get anything this month. After all, Age of Calamity was announced late in the year, so was Super Mario 3D All-Stars back in 2020, all of this stuff was announced later in the year than June, and so Nintendo could be doing the same thing, wait till September, throw out a general direct, drop those announcements like that, release it in a couple months and call it a day, they could do that. Or they could actually not let Metroid momentum die and reveal something soon. You see, Nintendo doesn't have anything really happening till the end of this month. I don't think they're gonna release a direct, like literally the week that it's gonna have live alive and then Zero Bay Chronicles 3. I feel like they already, within seven days, two major games coming out, Nintendo wouldn't do a direct then. If they did a direct, it would be in the first half of the month or within the first couple of weeks, just my opinion, and if they're gonna unveil hardware, well, we know it was the sixth and the 10th. Those were like a Tuesday and a Wednesday, so those seem to be the days that you could look for Nintendo plus their last direct, their partner showcase was on a Tuesday, so Tuesday, Wednesday, and when they revealed that hardware, all they did was just drop it. There was no like, hey, tune in tomorrow for the revealing of something special from Nintendo. They didn't even advertise it, they just dropped it and then from then forward pushed it for two to three months until the systems came out. So I look at it like this, we are in no man's territory because we've never hit July and one, not had an idea of what's happening in August and two, Nintendo has so much that they need to discuss, that they haven't discussed yet. Beta, Netta 3 is still scheduled for 2022. There's that rumored Donkey Kong game. They're supposedly a Metroid Prime thing. They won't refuse to deny that new hardware is coming this year, asked directly about this earlier this year at the final yearly recap financial meeting for the year of 2021, heading to March of 2022. Nintendo was asked directly about new hardware this upcoming fiscal year and they said no comment. They're refusing to deny it. They're stockpiling resources. We have games on the horizon that need to be talked about that aren't being talked about right now. There are other ways Nintendo could go about all this. They could do Twitter drops. They've done that in the past. They could do just random Treehouse segments. I mean, we just got a Treehouse segment for Live Alive and I think what's interesting about that Treehouse segment is that's the game they chose a Treehouse segment for. There's gotta be a lot more of those Treehouse segments coming up then, right? They're doing it for Live Alive and they have to do it again for Xenoblade Chronicles 3. They'd have to do it for Sparks of Hope. They'd have to do it for Splatoon 3, maybe Bayonetta as well. Are you gonna start getting monthly? Yes, I mean that. Monthly, Nintendo Treehouse Live segments or Nintendo Treehouse pre-recorded segments for the rest of this year? And are they always gonna have these Treehouse segments coming after Nintendo has some order event? Maybe it's a hardware announcement event. Maybe it's a general direct. Maybe they put all of it into both. Do we really think with everything Nintendo has to talk about this year and even teasing to 2023? But they're really gonna wait till September? And is September safe to bet on if June wasn't? I don't know, Nintendo works in mysterious ways. I'm sorta making this video because I wanna get ahead of the curve before the rumors begin. For, I mean, the speculation's already started, right? We already got the speculation going here, but a lot of evidence out there seems to be pointing to this. And if you want further evidence of something strange happening, there's something strange in Nintendo's neighborhood. Who are you gonna call? Nintendo Prime, because I was watching some videos from Super Metal Dave 64's channel because I'm catching up a little bit on the whole Metroid Prime 4 stuff. If you want every minute detail on Metroid Prime 4, you really wanna go follow his channel because there have been some developments behind the scenes. What's interesting is their hiring process at Retro Studios has been, well, not really now. I guess over the last month or two, have been looking into not only game testers, which infers they actually have something that needs to be tested. So quality testers, game testers, they have a version of Metroid Prime 4 ready for testing, which is really, really exciting. That does actually indicate some real progress on the game. They're also hiring people that are working on sort of effects that are brand new as of 2021, like brand new, next gen style effects, applicable to like Unreal Engine 5, some of the most recent versions of Unity as well. And when they're looking into people that are working on that kind of stuff, it really lets you know that Nintendo might be pushing very, very hard on Metroid Prime 4, being that sort of game that's going to be on new hardware. Very, very interesting to think about. As we head into the idea that new hardware likely exists somewhere, and we obviously have Nate Drake out here inferring, Genshin Impact's now being worked on that new hardware. So the developers of that game must have dev units as well. I don't know, things are getting really, really interesting in the land of Nintendo. Let me know what you think about all the stuff in the comments below. Are you excited for the small update that are on Metroid Prime 4? Are you excited about the potential Nintendo Direct coming up? Are you excited about potential hardware stuff? Do you think it's a bunch of hogwash and we're not gonna get anything? I don't know, I'm just making this video now, preparing for when the actual information starts coming out there that, you know what, Nintendo isn't gonna be silent this month. So catch you guys in that next video.