 Could we be getting Nintendo's next generation system, AKA the Nintendo Switch 2, or whatever they call their next device this holiday? Well, a new rumor has hit the internet that we are going to talk about for a couple of reasons, and I'm gonna give my thoughts on both for it happening and also against it happening. Bring your tin foil hats, tune them in, just right. Be sure to back up those trucks of salt because boy oh boy, we're going on a journey here. But before we go on that journey, I wanna remind you we do have a giveaway going on right now for a Zelda Tears of the Kingdom Nintendo Switch OLED, a special edition of Tears of the Kingdom, along with one of those Tears of the Kingdom pins from PAX East. You can enter that giveaway down in the pinned comment or to the description, and I would appreciate if you would subscribe and like this video, subscribe to the channel and like the video. We're on our road to 133,000 subscribers. Quite a unique number. Let's get into it. So our dear pal of the channel, a friend, someone I know personally is putting some rumors out there and I want to note a few things before I get into these rumors. One, please do not say anything disparaging about my friend because he is a friend of mine. Also, please do not go to his channel to attack and or say anything negative to him. This person has announced publicly that they are going through some tough times at the moment. They put out a tweet about it, so I can actually talk a little bit about it, just noting that they are losing a family member at the moment that they are very, very close to, so we don't need to pile on. But we are talking about Mike Odyssey. He is a friend of the channel. You guys know he had some rumors for last week. Some of which might have been true. Some of which definitely weren't. And he had a bunch of different sources on stuff last week, so we're not gonna dive too much into that. One of those sources that might have been right is actually one of the sources he has today, but he mentions sources, AKA more than one. I don't know who these sources are. I haven't asked him. I'm kind of just letting him be right now while he deals with his family. But what I want to note here is that I have no idea if these are true, okay? This is not me going out there and being like, hey, this is actually happening. There is some reasoning to maybe think there might be some truth to this, just from a logic perspective and we'll get into this. But we need to just dive into these Nintendo Switch two rumors. You guys have waited long enough. So Mike Odyssey has noted he has sources more than one. One of them might have been right about the Zelda trailer last week. He is informed that there is a big presentation in June and another bigger one in September. And that one in September will be tied to Nintendo Live 2023. Now, obviously saying, oh, there's gonna be an event in June and September. I mean, Nintendo traditionally has Nintendo Directs in June and September. So that's not going too far out on a limb, but it's what these events are gonna be about. So these two events are gonna be related to each other, AKA they're not just your typical Nintendo Directs, right? Nintendo Directs can usually stand on their own. They'll have their own games in it. Yeah, some games will be in both. But typically you look at each Direct as a standalone event. Well, that's because Nintendo Switch two or whatever they call the new system is the reason. And he's basically saying according to his sources that it'll be unveiled in a June event and blown out in September. So there would be like a June Direct or something that unveils the system or some sort of June event because they haven't really unveiled systems and directs. And then there would be an additional September event that would likely be an online digital presentation along with the Nintendo Live 2023 because he claims the new system will be available to play or go hands-on at Nintendo Live 2023 and that there will be a new Mario game. Now, I want to note here, of course, that when we're talking about this stuff, they are just rumors. You should definitely take them with a grain of salt. You should be highly skeptical of any rumors surrounding the new system. We all know all the tobacco with Nintendo Switch Pro back in the day, we don't wanna get too overhyped about something that may not come to pass. And Mike Odyssey himself is treating this as a complete rumor. He's not even 100% confident in this information, but it is something that he is claiming that he has heard. So there is that. Now, I have a few thoughts here. One of those on the defense of why this could be real. And a lot of this just has to do with the way the rest of the year lines up, right? We have Pikmin 4 in July. We seemingly have nothing really in between. A bunch of DLC coming this year, but for some reason, we don't really know anything past July. We've never really been this late in the year. Beyond 2020, which was the beginning of COVID, and obviously there were a bunch of canceled events and canceled directs that would have gave us information. So it's really weird that we don't know, as of 2020 didn't even have a general direct. It's really weird that we just don't know anything happening after Pikmin 4. Now, again, Nintendo could still announce some stuff in the summer and it could be all fine, but it kind of lines up that maybe it's because Nintendo's waiting to unveil new hardware. They don't wanna talk about it now or they're launching tears of the kingdom, right? They want everyone to hype about tears of the kingdom, buying tears of the kingdom of Switch OLEDs and all that stuff. But we have some acknowledgement from President Shinter for Acaba in the last financial briefing, which there should be a new one pretty soon for the end of the fiscal year. But in the last one, he sort of acknowledged, hey, we're not gonna sell as many switches next year as we did this year. Sort of admitting they're on the decline. They're trying to sell people their second and third systems at this point. And he's well aware that they have hit market saturation. He didn't use those words. But when you're saying, hey, we're trying to sell people their second and third switches, that's market saturation. You're trying to sell multiple devices to the same consumers who already own your device. So he's well aware of where Nintendo sits in the market and that it's probably getting time to refresh the switch in some way to give people a reason to wanna buy another platform, whether it's a Switch 2 or Switch Pro or something of that ilk. So there is some evidence that suggests Nintendo's clearly been sort of hinting at it publicly without full on admitting it. But now we have to get into the idea that this obviously could be fake as well. The Nintendo Switch did bounce back and is back in the number one spot in Japan. A lot of this is probably due to upcoming release of Tears of the Kingdom. And they're gonna have a pretty good, I would say first quarter because of Tears of the Kingdom. Tears of the Kingdom might be on pace to set records at launch. Might even pass Scarlet and Violet for the fastest selling Nintendo game of all time. Switch units are gonna sell in the millions. And maybe Nintendo just wants to ride this out another year and launch something in 2024. Now, one of the biggest evidence that we have is really two pieces of evidence that we have that a new system is even coming at all. It was a report from Nick A stating that Nintendo was currently, you know, this was months ago working out manufacturing contracts to start mass producing the next system for a 2024 launch. We also had that leak for the last Pokemon event that gave us a bunch of details that ended up being 100% correct on Scarlet and Violet DLC, mentioning that he was involved with working on a graphics patch for the next generation system for this game. And that would be connected to the final part of the DLC which is slated to launch in early 2024. And that could support obviously a march or something launch for a new system or a holiday launch with the system being out before that graphics patch drops. So that's just some information out there that sort of supports it. But we have to be skeptical because obviously Nintendo hasn't announced anything. Nintendo hasn't said anything at all. And I would say just in regards to my dear friend, Mike Odyssey and his track record with his sources, I would say it's solid but spotty. Not everything he puts out there is correct. To give him some credit, stuff he absolutely was correct on. There's a bunch of gameplay mechanics he talked about with Tears of the Kingdom that he wasn't even treating that much like a rumor because of who his source was which was completely different from these other sources. And those gameplay mechanic stuff ended up pretty much being 100% right. We covered them as well because we were privy to the information thanks to him. And it certainly seemed pretty legit and it turns out that that information basically was correct. But also, like things like saying, hey, there was gonna be a direct last week or a rumored a direct last week. That wasn't the case. So you gotta always take things like this with Grains of Soul. I think this is true of no matter who the quote unquote leaker is or whoever. You always need to be a bit careful about stuff. And in this case, we're not gonna know the answer to this stuff for months. So I don't really expect an update on this or anything new unless there's other rumors floating out there for more reputable outlets like Bloomberg or Nate the Hate or something like that. I just wanted to kind of make this video because I think it's really, really interesting. And it's honestly the first tidbit on if it comes out this year that we're hearing information on it supposedly maybe possibly. Again, be skeptical, but there you have it. Thank you guys so much for tuning in. I am Nathan and Robert Jansson from The Center of Prime. We have a smidge of tears of the kingdom news to get to a bit later today. I also, well, I think I'm gonna pack it in. We got like a double pack video because something else is happening to tears of the kingdom that is not Nintendo's fault but is really weird. We're gonna have to talk about that later. So we got more coming your way today, maybe a three pack of videos. You guys are amazing and awesome and I'll catch you in the next video.