 What we made it folks it's the last day of 2023 and you know I couldn't let this day go by without another potential Nintendo Switch 2 rumor report whatever you want to call this look I'm on record and you guys know by now that I think the Nintendo Switch 2 is coming out next year I don't think that is a far-fetched idea there's a lot of big insiders that also will leave this we have Andy Robinson who thinks it's coming next year we obviously have Nate the hate who thinks it's coming next year although I seem to recall Nate the hate also telling us about the Switch Pro and its imminent reveal way back when that never happened so look I think he misspoke in fact I think if I remember right Nate the hate actually tried to retract what he said the exact same day he said it realizing he worded it pretty poorly but either way he was acting like it was coming for a bit obviously we know we'd ended up not getting the Nintendo Switch Pro and there's a pretty logical explanation for it pandemic right the pandemic hit and probably caused a lot of cancellations and delays of several several things and not well beyond Switch Pro but whether or not you believe Switch Pro existed or not Nintendo is working on a next-generation system and we don't need to look to rumors we don't need to look to you know speculation out there to know this Nintendo themselves said it directly in 2021 now they didn't say it was a switch to a lot of people get mad about that terminology get over it it's a placeholder but they did say back in 2021 in an investor's meeting they put up a slide that Nintendo accounts are moving forward to Nintendo's next-generation device releasing in 20xx so Nintendo announced in 2021 to investors that there was going to be another system after switch and obviously if Nintendo accounts are forward compatible to it they had have already been working on said system now Nintendo has since then and this was 2021 and multiple investors meeting said when asked about a new system that they can't talk about it but that they obviously are always working on new hardware so clearly there is something coming and then in the most recent investors meeting for a coward decided to talk about a couple of the rumors floating out there trying to debunk them or if not entirely deny them at least say that they're not entirely accurate and all of that stuff which Nintendo never comments on rumors so the fact that they are which made people believe this system must be coming even sooner because they want to clarify some things before it gets announced again we don't really know 100% what's going on we just know that there is something coming and I do believe that that is going to happen in 2024 because I do think Nintendo is trying to maintain momentum and this isn't the same Nintendo switch isn't doing incredible it's just noting they have a pretty light lineup so far next year they projected you know their third straight year of sales decline and look when you're in decline you want to get it back on the upswing so I do think the way to do that is brand new hardware now so you know that aside what are we talking about today why is this the topic for this video besides the fact that I just love talking about Nintendo's with shoe well we have this ad up at this agency in the UK that has worked with Capcom and others in the past that are partners with Nintendo and they seem to be shooting an ad for a brand new handheld gaming system or gaming console ad let's just go ahead and take a look at this and we're going to go over the fact that this might not be Nintendo switch to related I'll throw something out there it could be but it also might be it's not like we know so let's go ahead and take a look so here you're seeing from star now that there was a hiring post it is now expired because this was back in October I believe seeking talent from Manchester England United Kingdom Liverpool England and United Kingdom roles paying up to a 400 pound flat rate the about the project okay this is where we get to the details casting an online commercial for a new handheld game console now obviously you know Nintendo calls the switch a home console but the ad agencies might not necessarily do it especially if it's a more handheld centric ad now what's the role in this project well the lead needs to be a male between the ages of 30 and 42 and it said a man awakens from a coma to see a lot has changed but awesome arcade games are easier to play now on this new handheld gaming console and for the requirement to how you need a head shot slash photo and a video reel date and locations well this shoot was between October 3rd or October 13th or November 1st so whenever they were going to do it so whenever they hired someone either October 13th or a few weeks later on November 1st and there was the pay the key details were seeking talent from that Manchester it's pretty much the exact same stuff up there meals were provided seemed to pay for your own meals who knows how long the shoot actually was it was probably just one day of work now what's fascinating of course about this is that this could be related to Nintendo switch to it could be a UK ad being shot so it could debut some point in early 2024 this is entirely possible now would Nintendo do an ad about a man waking up from a coma I'm not going to say that it's beyond Nintendo's capabilities it's certainly a little out there for ads that they've done before but also they've done ads in the past about mice chasing down things and dying and all this other out the tenders had some pretty strange ads over the year so I'm not going to say they're not willing to do this but beyond that possibility I also want to provide some clarity because this also could be what it's for because when I found out that this was for a UK ad there was a product I've heard about before but I couldn't remember what it was called I had to do some digging into this and I found out this other product that is related to arcades that is a handheld coming out in the UK in early 2024 I believe let's go ahead and take a look at this thing because it's actually pretty cool it's called the evercade exp evercade makes you know cartridge and retro systems you played retro games and arcade games they already have a system out there called the verse I believe is the one but they have this evercade exp exp played together thing coming out you can order it right now you can see what it costs it's not too bad around 200 USD but you can just kind of see you know it uses its own cartridge system you can see capcom again which you know we know that that company has partnered with before for commercials 18 built-in games from capcom and again as I noted that place has worked with capcom before see you can really see how this is lining up it's retro it's arcadey I know the website's not fully loading here so it comes with 18 plus you get your usb your mini hdmi out last four to five hours it's wi-fi and obviously you could take cartridges to expand and add more games like they're going to have over 380 games through the entire evercade cartridge library and the cartridges also work on their other system I believe as well so they're cross compatible tech specs under our 4.3 inch IPS screen 800 by 480 the tape mode for vertical screen orientation 1.5 gigahertz processor 4 gigabytes of internal memory stereo speakers usb-c chargey thankfully it's usb-c 3.5 millimeter headphone jack and the 720p mini hdmi output for tv so if you want to play it on your tv you could with a 3 000 milliamp hour battery so I look you see the list of games they have built in so this very much and maybe even likely is what this commercial was for but we don't know and that's sort of the things it never mentioned that specifically for evercade we just know the premise of the commercial and arcade games and look you might go well why would nintendo have a commercial arcade games it could be nso related right that that's really the draw there is where this it could be this big nso thing maybe they're about to add a bunch of a bunch of retro arcade games even more to the library and it could make a lot of sense but again this is something that we don't know and it's for a new system and to be fair the evercade exp already has a number of commercials that have debuted already this exact one i was i looked up a bunch of evercade commercials and couldn't find one one that was related to a person waking up from a coma and you know right in my age group between 30 and 42 so i wasn't able to find a commercial that exists currently so it could be a future commercial they plan to release maybe the commercial got scrapped all together or maybe it's not for the evercade and it's actually for nintendo switch to and nintendo is just going to sit on it obviously until the system debuts and then it's one of the several commercial runs they might do one advertising nso and nso improvements and extra games coming one advertising new functionalities of the system one advertising the new games coming you know how it goes when when nintendo is rolling on a new system there's literally a bevy of different commercials in different territories and almost every territory is completely different the ones in the uk are different than the us commercials which are completely different from the japan commercials so it's not unusual to have a wide array of commercials targeting different things focusing on nso and retro games focusing on backwards compatibility focusing on the new games coming out focusing on just the additional new functionality and the new features focusing on families focusing on college age kids like this is pretty normal so this could definitely be a switch to commercial even though i bet it's probably evercade related if i had to get venture to guess so why are we talking about it if i think it's not switch to related because i i think switch to is coming like i know we have rumors from zubi tech that says there's going to be a january event january begins tomorrow so the countdown begins for the supposed january event that zubi tech claimed he heard about we've heard you know for people like nate the hate and others that they're expecting they don't know for sure but they're expecting possibly a march reveal we know we have the pokemon stuff happening in february bare minimum because they've already started advertising it pokemon day is the thing happening in february so we know we're going to get some game announcements then probably a direct right nintendo traditionally does a direct in the first three months of the year sometimes it's a little different in years where they announce systems where they delay the direct a month or two but for the most part we should expect a nintendo direct so we're going to have things happening in the first three months because right now nintendo's lineup next year isn't fantastic as well you could be a massive fan a thousand-year door you could be a massive fan of princess pete showtime you can be a massive fan of luigi's mansion two and that's fine but those aren't system movers those aren't the kind of games that nintendo is going to rely on being financial carriers for them all year long right there just needs to be more so nintendo not only needs to announce more games it could be that they're holding back announcing games because they're waiting to reveal a system and the system could be revealed fairly soon so we just bring this up in case it happens to be a commercial for nintendo switch two and you happen to see this commercial out in the uk and you're like oh this is for the nintendo's new system and the guys wake it up from a coma playing arcade games aha i remember seeing that here i'm hearing about that although it could again be forever kade so if you're seeing ever kade commercials as well maybe that's going to be the little light bulb going off in your head again both of these systems actually sound pretty cool and target completely different audiences but i'm just really excited for what nintendo has coming i hope you're excited for it as well uh in case i don't see you again you know if you're don't check on my live streams or anything else uh happy new year i know we're not quite there yet we will be streaming literally tomorrow night so you know i will see you on new year's day but you guys are amazing you're awesome i don't know if this is my only video today but in case it is happy new year's and we'll catch you later