 So a couple days ago, I talked about a Nintendo Direct happening next week and that a certain person out there called special Nick from the Xbox era podcast who is known to have some industry connections had indicated that yes, we were indeed going to have a Direct next week and he did it through one of my live streams in the live chat. Now, I couldn't show you that live chat because my stream had a copyright claim on it. So there was no chat replay for me to go back through and find it and show you. So I had people accusing me of course of, well, making this up and not having sources and it is all just speculation. Well, that happens that I'll be the case and we got further proof of this. First off, let's just talk about the fact that I'm not the only place that special Nick actually said this. And before we do that, I just want to remind you that the Mario versus Donkey Kong or Donkey Kong versus Mario game has a demo. That's right. Nintendo announced a demo. They dropped a new trailer as well. You can play through four stages right now. Absolutely for free. Go check it out. It's an absolutely amazing game. If you've never played it, just hey, go check it out. I think you're going to have a really good time. But we need to get into some of this stuff. We got a few things to go through here, including another person besides special Nick now talking about a Direct, a known insider you guys also know very well. And then we're going to get into some other things around this Nintendo Direct supposedly happening this month. It's February, everyone. Can you believe it? All right, all right. Let's get into this. First off, here's some direct proof that I wasn't the only one special Nick was saying this to. We can head on over to the last of the Nintendo's podcast over here. Yes, Jeff Grubb was actually not there for this episode. But as you lasted the Nintendo's, you know, one number 130, streamed one day. Go if you go down to the live chat. There is special Nick right here. And you see he's going at Jeff Grubb's game mess, which is the name of the channel. Direct should be next week. So there you go. I wasn't the only person that he was saying this to. It is definitely something that he actually said for better or worse. Probably regretfully we'll get for that in a moment because it's also hit Reddit, right? So when we head over to Reddit, we see YouTuber Nintendo Prime says blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, didn't have, you know, you just linked to my old video. They didn't obviously couldn't show it. And I just explained why. Well, especially Nick did respond to this and he said, it's what I had heard, but February tends to be fairly normal for directs anyway. No. So like, hey, it is what I heard, but is it really that big of a deal? There's almost always Nintendo directs in February. Of course, the week the direct is coming is usually not known, but he wasn't done there because he the story has been spreading and I'm partially to blame for the story spreading. But we have to just check something that he went ahead and said on Twitter because this adds more context. He said, I kind of wish I hadn't said anything. This isn't like the SOP situation, which is something he was 100% correct on, where I was confident and put it straight out there. I'd only heard it should be next week. And as I said, as much in grub and primes chat, as many point out, they always do February and usually after earnings. So this was after a my Nintendo post went up about this. So you can see that absolutely he's even admitting right here. He did say it in my chat. I wasn't lying to you guys just wanted to clarify that because I hate accusations like that against me when I couldn't show the evidence due to a copyright claim. Anyways, that's besides the point because look, it's not that big of a deal. Directs always seem to happen in February. But you know what? He's not the only person saying it now. We now actually have somebody else, somebody you guys know very well, Nate the hate. He has now come out here when asked by this user saying, have you heard anything about upcoming Nintendo Direct? Nate, he tagged him and he responded and said yes, but he hasn't heard anything on a date or timing, which is quite interesting since they date usually does hear about date and timing, but he has heard a direct is happening. Now that is quite fascinating because we need to get into, you know, the history of directs in February lately. Credit goes out here to Stealth for gathering these dates together. He's another friend of the channel. He said with rumors swirling about Nintendo's next system, I still think there will be a Nintendo Direct in February and he goes over like the last five February directs. So we had February 13th in 2019. Then we had March 26, 2020, which was technically a Nintendo Direct mini if you want to count it, but it was technically a Nintendo Direct, just not a standard one. Then February 17, 2021. And then February 9, 2022, February 8, 2023. And the ones the last two years came basically right after the whole, you know, thing. We also had rumors that we've talked about a while ago from another account called Tommy Bear knows that we don't know if he knows anything. He said February 7 weeks ago could have just been a guess. It is what it is. It says four of the five last years, you know, a major directs is pretty good odds. He said that a couple of days ago. So that's really cool. And then the last little thing to really bring up is that Kit and Krista who used to work at Nintendo, they also put out a show saying, Hey, will there be a direct in February? And they essentially concluded, despite Nintendo dropping all this news lately on Twitter, that yes, there will be a direct in February, at least they feel like there will be. It's not like they're like, Hey, my inside sources, they obviously know people at Nintendo, but they're saying they feel like there's going to be a direct this February, it'll be the wrap up direct for the Nintendo switch. And then Nintendo is going to shift gears beginning in March for the switch to now. What does that mean? They're going to reveal the switch to in March that we don't know. There's a lot of rumors and speculation swirling around that. So when you combine all this evidence together, there's a few things that we need to talk about here. It's pretty obvious that Nintendo direct is happening in February, not just because of special Nick saying possibly next week, which yes, that will be amazing if it's next week. And now we have Nate, the hate saying that's going to happen. Now, obviously, when Pioro starts putting some leaks out there on Twitter for those who don't know who he is, he's another leaker that just leaks a bunch of games for directs all the time, but he usually only gives us two to three days ahead of time of leaks. So I wouldn't suspect to see him start teasing anything till Monday if it's next week. But still, that is something that is quite fascinating to pay attention to. I'm just excited for the prospect over direct. Now, what I find interesting though, about Nate, the hate and when he said that he's heard about the direct, but he hasn't heard like when it's exactly going to happen, like is it going to be next week or the week after, right? Those are like the two weeks Nintendo does directs in in February. What I think is interesting about that is that what if he doesn't know the date because it's a mini, Nintendo doesn't give us as much heads up on Nintendo Direct Minis and maybe it's just that's what we need to be looking for. Maybe we need to be thinking this will not be a giant standard Nintendo Direct, but rather a Nintendo Direct Mini. Now, again, this is just something to throw out there. It's just a thought a Nintendo Direct Mini can still be jam-packed. The March Nintendo Direct Mini in 2020 was extremely jam-packed. So we need to just keep this in mind that whether or not it's a standard Nintendo Direct, it does sound like there's going to be a Nintendo Direct. So that to me is the number one most exciting thing to talk about. That being said, I do want to thank you guys so much for tuning in and I want to get your guys' thoughts on this. Do you think it's going to be a mini? Do you think it's going to be regular? Do you think that Special Nick is right about next week and what he's hearing even though he's not 100% confident because he wasn't given a date? Do you think that it's just going to happen in general over the next two weeks? I want to know what do you think because what you think matters to what I think. You guys are awesome. You guys are amazing. We're going to catch you tonight on a live stream. We'll probably talk a little bit about this Nintendo Direct stuff and also another interesting story that isn't Nintendo related but could be a new competitor entering the ring for Nintendo Switch 2. I'll catch you guys in the next video.