 So there's a lot of news going out there for the Nintendo Switch in this new year, and I have to start out by saying Happy New Year to everyone, this is our first official video in 2020. Sorry, it's taken a few days to get my daily videos rolling, but I promise it's been worth the wait. You see, we're talking about Switch Pro today, and it's a topic that's been talked about a lot in the past on this channel when we went under a certain name, Nintendo Prime. And the Switch Pro is something that has really been rumored for two or two and a half years at this point, almost since the Switch came out that maybe the OG Switch, this Switch right here wasn't actually what the Switch was going to be, but rather the rushed version because of the Wii U's failures. Now we don't have any exact information per se to state that a Switch Pro is coming this year. A lot of it's going to be rumors and speculation. Now there has been evidence that it's kind of lined up over time, Nintendo is partnering with a new screen technology company, and that screen tech has yet to show up in any of the revised switches or the switch lights, so what does that screen tech going to be used for? If it's not already used, clearly it needs to be used in a new device. We know Nintendo is always in development on new devices, they did call Switch a family of systems when it launched and we already have the light and the regular and then obviously the slightly upgraded battery version and so, or at least battery life version, the battery itself is not really that upgraded. So I think that clearly Nintendo has a path they're trying to do a Switch where it's going to be a long life system that's going to have several iterations to it. And we're going to talk about one industry analyst who I've been following for a long time, Dr. Circon Toto. He has been at the forefront of a lot of the Switch rumors and Switch leaks and Switch reporting. He has proven industry insider sources based on things he has said and predicted that have come true in the past. In fact, last year he predicted that the Switch light would come out and he even predicted the name calling it the LITE and he obviously thinks that that guess was just luck, but he obviously had a feeling that that system was being made. Now he also said last year that the Switch Pro would also release, he kind of admits that maybe he was being a bit more hopeful than realistic, but he's nailed a lot of his projections and a lot of his predictions and even straight up has just leaked things that he's heard from his sources in the past. He works for content games out of Japan and as I said, he got pretty much a lot of things right last year. He said that PlayStation 5 and a new Xbox will not launch last year. He was correct. There will be no breakthrough in gaming for crypto, blockchain, VR, and AR. He was correct. He said more third-party Switch software and one new game from a mega-franchise owned by EA Activision or Take 2 and he was correct and then we also got Overwatch to come over along with Mortal Kombat 11 and other titles. He was correct about more China and Korea power in Japan, 10 cent just launched the first mobile app in Japan. He's gotten pretty much everything right. The one thing he was wrong about was that he didn't think there would be any real competition for Steam and in terms of the Epic Games Store has proven to be massively competitive with Steam to the point that even PC gamers that were initially really mad about the Epic Games Store are slowly coming around because they're doing a lot of interesting things. We'll get into that topic in another video because I would like to talk about the gaming market on PC at some point and what's been happening there but today we're talking about the pro and in his predictions for this year he has a couple interesting things. So first let's get into his comments on the Switch Pro. There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that Nintendo will launch a Switch Pro in 2020. My guess is at $399. More specifically I predict 4K support, bigger cartridge sizes and of course beefed up components. I also think the device will launch after the summer holidays to counter the rollout of the PlayStation 5 and next gen Xbox later in the year along with a first party system seller game. Now nothing he says there is anything that I disagree with I think a Switch Pro is going to come this year. I do think it's going to come after the summer holidays which basically means after July 4th it's going to be more of an end of summer release but I do think it's going to come out this summer because it can't come out at the same time as the other platforms at holidays. There's too many new devices at once. There's a reason that like the new Samsung Galaxy phones and the Apple phones don't launch at the same time. You're asking too much out of consumers' wallets at once and you could say well different consumers buy different things but still there is a point to timing your release is better. This is why major games tend not to release on the exact same day because if they do that can really muddle things. I mean there's already issues been launching the same month, let alone the same day. So yeah I could see a summer. Now there's one thing he brings up that I think needs to be addressed and that's the 4K aspect. Do not expect 4K gaming from a Switch Pro. Heck don't even expect it from a Switch 2. 4K gaming is already very difficult on current on current Hubbard. X-Box 1X it's difficult on the PlayStation 4 Pro. Most games that are 4K on those systems are just upscaled or they're using some special technique that's not true 4K you know checkerboard rendering as an example is not true 4K it's just a type of upscaling and it can be really gorgeous and really beautiful and way better than the upscalers that exist on our TVs. I mean I got a 4K TV over here and it's upscaler isn't the greatest of any content that's below 1440p so any Switch content as an example does not upscale very well and that's I think where you can look at a Switch Pro or a Switch 2 at some point as having a superior upscaler that will allow it to upscale but you're not going to look at any game trying to play at 2160p it's just not going to happen. I'm sorry to burst that bubble but I think when he says 4K support he means from a media perspective like Hulu if it does 4K at some point because Hulu is on Switch or YouTube 4K you'll be able to play 4K video and you'll be able to see potentially better upscaled 1080p images. I think that's pretty much the extent of the 4K support but the price point seems fine 399 that's I mean that's what a PlayStation 4 costs at launch that's $100 more than the base Nintendo Switch and if it's a beefier system of course it's going to cost more so to me the price point is pretty on point bigger cartridge sizes that's I think also just a given I think it's going to happen regardless of a new system but you know 32 gigabytes is like the biggest cartridge right now but we know that they can go bigger than that and obviously the next step up from 32 is 64 so seeing a 64 gigabyte cartridge at some point this year wouldn't be shocking especially since Nintendo wants big AAA games and they require a lot of space and yeah obviously it would be Nintendo's initial reaction to next-gen which the Switch is arguably already part of so Nintendo can better counterbalance the beefier hardware the problem Nintendo is gonna have is that it doesn't really matter what they do with the Switch 2 or the or whatever this year Switch Pro because it's not going to be close enough to 12 teraflops of performance or 9.2 teraflops PlayStation 5 is being reported it's not going to be close enough to really get the major third party points what's they abandon PlayStation 4 and Xbox one anyways now there is like a new chip coming out that potentially for Apple this year that can do two teraflops in a phone which is crazy but Nintendo doesn't currently have a contract with that company so that's that doesn't necessarily mean that kind of text coming to Nintendo it means that kind of tech can exist and Nvidia definitely could have something behind closed doors they're working out with Nintendo that could do something like that but as far as we're aware there's nothing like that happening and that's going to be really expensive I mean we're talking about you know Apple's putting in iPhones that they charge over a thousand dollars for I know there's an Apple tax but let's just be realistic you're not getting something like that for $400 it's just not happening so I don't think that's realistic to ever expect Nintendo to do that anytime this year even next year so what do I think the purpose of the Switch Pro will be well one it'll be to keep Nintendo's hardware in the news just like I think the Switch Lite even though it doesn't sell as well as the revised model Switch it helped keep Switch hardware in the news and I think with all the hardware news that's gonna be rolling out from Xbox and from PlayStation that they're going to want something hardware wise to keep Nintendo Switch's name in the news with what they're doing with hardware and Switch is a very different system I think what people forget when we talk about your Switch competing with the next systems is that the other systems got to compete with Switch I don't know why it's always looked at as oh switch can't compete with them they're not competing with the switch it doesn't matter how many tariff laps are packed in doesn't matter how many CPU cores or they put 24 gigs of RAM in or whatever that none of that matters because it's not this you can't like literally take the joy cons off and put it in your pocket like a phone I mean look at this you know it's not really that much bigger than my phone so you it's just not portable not in a convenient way so really what what's happening with Switch is that it's kind of in its own market already but it's in a market where Nintendo clearly wants AAA third party support it is something they haven't had consistently for a while and it feels like it's ramping up and the concern is it's going to stop now there is a rumor out there kind of a retailer leak in in I believe it's Spain that Red Dead Redemption 2 is now being listed for Switch and that sounds crazy or at least that's what I would have said if I didn't have my own insider information and you I can't reveal my sources on this but I have insider information that Red Dead Redemption 2 was actually put on Switch already like the OG switch before light was even a thing like they already made it run on switch behind closed doors now that making it run on switch and saying it runs well saying it's something that's worth releasing that's a totally different story and I can't tell you that but I know for a fact that it was at least tested to run on switch so when I see a retail listing it's like I wonder I wonder is it actually coming and that would just be the latest technical achievement in gaming to come to switch because we just got the Witcher 3 which nobody in the right mind thought was possible to put on Switch and now like there's been talk about cyberpunk 2077 no one in the right mind thinks that game can come to switch except the CD project Red won't rule it out they're saying they're not working on a version of it right now but they won't officially say yeah we're never gonna do that they're kind of in that wishy-washy well maybe maybe and I don't think they need to wait for a switch pro to do it any game can run on switch we see in Mortal Kombat 11 NBA 2k every single year the Witcher 3 we had doom eternal coming this year to switch coming this year to switch Diablo 3 Civilization 6 the list goes on and on and on about the third-party devs that have showed love to this platform there's also a huge swath of AAA third-party games that haven't come to this platform not natively anyways Resident Evil 7 is not on as on switch even though it can be streamed on switch in Japan Assassin's Creed we don't have any of the current gen games on switch even though Origins I believe is the one that can be streamed in Japan so game streaming is a thing in Japan anyways for switch but beyond that we could get these games natively on switch if Ubisoft Activision and other companies were willing to dumb down the visuals of the game to a point that it runs well and looks great on switch and most people even say the Witcher 3 they don't even mind how it looks on TV mode but in handheld it's just beautiful and they don't care that it's not as the best-looking version of the game ever because you know what's awesome with the best-looking version of the game ever which by the way is on a PC with a 2080 Ti the best-looking version of the game ever can't be on something like this in fact some people always bring up like the GDP win to which is the closest competitor to switch I don't know if you guys know what the GDP win to is it's basically a Windows portable device mini computer thing that's it's basically like trying to take a gaming PC with you except the Witcher 3 on that doesn't run as well as it does on switch it's just not as well optimized for that low end of PC hardware it's just reality it doesn't look as good as it does on switch so that lets you know there is something to this switch hardware if you develop specifically for it like Saber Interactive and all these other porting companies you know panic button and virtuous and stuff have done pretty excellent jobs not perfect there's been some hiccups here and there but pretty excellent jobs overall so Nintendo cares about that third-party support and they're gonna go on to keep it coming and yes I think that there is some hope for Nintendo what regardless of the switch pro because you know Microsoft appears to be releasing a potentially lower tariff flop version of the next Xbox so they can get like an entry level for people that's gonna keep games more readily able to come over to switch PlayStation 4 and like the OG PS4 and OG Xbox one are still gonna see multi-platform third-party support for the next two years minimum you know all the way through 2021 but I do that Nintendo is gonna release a switch pro because they're gonna want to stay in the hardware news they're not gonna want to get buried by all the hardware news and yeah there's gonna be a killer game at launch I don't think the game is gonna be exclusive to the switch pro I don't think switch was gonna have like that many exclusive Nintendo games there might be an exclusive third-party game you know that won't run on older switch hardware but I think that there will be like a killer app like the launch switch pro alongside Breath of the Wild 2 or something crazy like that I don't I mean I don't have any insight information on Breath of Wild 2 but I'm just saying like that would be a pretty big deal to launch them together because remember like Breath of the Wild launched with Switch and Wii U at the same time and really boosted Switch even though you could have just bought it for Wii U so that could be the same situation here where it could really boost the switch pro even though you can still play it on your switch and switch lights so I'm pretty stoked to be honest about what 2020 has to bring with all this new hardware two pieces of new hardware for sure launching that have been been kind of pseudo confirmed to the announced in PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X likely three with another system for Microsoft and maybe four if Nintendo gets into the fray here and obviously all the amazing games coming this year too many to even list it would take me a whole video just to list all the amazing games we already know about this year but I want to know right now are what are your hopes in your dreams for a switch pro and a switch 2 and let's try to be a little bit realistic about these hopes and dreams that's not that's not talking about how all we want to be true 4k 60 FPS 12 teraflop like that can't happen the technology does not exist in a mobile form to happen now if you're saying you want the switch pro to be a standalone box that goes under your TV and that it kind of complements the switch or switch light okay I guess that is a conversation that you could have I don't think Nintendo is doing that because then that's abandoning what made that successful in the first place and trying to directly compete again which I think we're working in those detriment I think they own that they had owned something special here with this mobile handheld market thing and this hybrid nature and I think Nintendo's not letting go of that so that's something that we need to maybe embrace more kind of let go of the home console hopes I guess well who knows maybe I'm wrong on that front because I don't know what Nintendo is doing anymore than the rest of you so you guys let me know your thoughts on what you hope the switch pro do you want to even exist you want to come this year do you want to be a switch to I don't think it's gonna matter when they bring it out per se whether it's now or in 2023 it's not gonna be 4k gaming so we can just give up on that so why not now why not stay relevant in the hardware conversation and obviously hey there's gotta be a Nintendo Direct soon we're not gonna hear about a switch pro or anything in this Nintendo Direct I think it will be something they talk about later who knows I could be wrong on that front maybe they will because I don't know what's coming in that Nintendo Direct do you I mean there is 12 games that have suddenly appeared in GameStop's computers for switch that don't have any titles and every time that happens and no directs coming I don't know those games indie games are they AAA or Nintendo what are they I don't know there's a lot a lot of stuff happening so stay tuned we're gonna have a lot a lot of like surprisingly this year I thought we were gonna have a lot of like maybe some PCs stuff to talk about maybe some Xbox and some PlayStation 5 but starting this year in 2020 it's Nintendo grabbing all the headlines I have to see if that continues as the year moves on all I know is the Nintendo gamer and me is pretty stoked anyways I am Nate Jantz thank you guys so much for tuning in if you enjoyed this video be sure to drop a like comment below as well and hey if you want to see more why don't you hit that subscribe button and hit the bell icon so you get notified of all of our live streams and everything else the Nintendo Prime podcast will be returning I believe next week it was good it's supposed to return yesterday but I was sick still not feeling the greatest or a couple days ago I still not feeling the greatest but good enough to do this video where you are here this is our start to 2020 so happy effin new year everyone here's to an amazing year of gaming