 Well, folks, we're back at it again, talking about Nintendo Switch 2, but before we dive into all of that stuff because we have some updates for you, I wanna talk about Into the AM, cause I'm wearing one of their shirts right now, and they have been an amazing supporter of the channel, and I gotta be honest, you could save 10% off of pre-shrunk, super soft shirts, and they just launched some brand new designs. Let's just take a look here. You see the graphic tease, Veil Tranquility says reveal new designs. Let's just check out some of these new designs right now, and I gotta say, I am loving it. We got mermaid action going on, spaceship, ninja stuff, aliens, all of these amazing shirts. I am very, very, so like, look, there's mine, I'm wearing it right now. Guys, you should go ahead and check out IntoTheAM.com slash Nintendo Prime 10, and yeah, take advantage today. Now guys, we gotta talk about Nintendo Switch 2 because we have some updates for you guys. We have some information that is percolating and being told by Nate the hate. If you guys know who he is, he's been a well-known Nintendo insider just like Emily Rogers. He did a podcast episode. He published today going over stuff he knows or has heard. In fact, in the thumbnail, it says what we know about Switch 2. He says we, modern vintage gamer doesn't really seem to, his co-host doesn't really seem to know anything at the moment, but that could change soon. And then we also have to go into a new report that's out there stating we might find out about the Nintendo Switch 2 as in it may be announced before this month is done and it could be centered around gamescom. Oh my gosh, what is going on? First let's dive into what Nate the hate said on his podcast. Now, of note with Nate the hate, he did say that these are just things he has heard. They are not definitive facts. I find that to be quite interesting because that's what rumors are. I think he's just trying to point out, I'm not saying this will happen. This is just whatever. Look, it's whatever. It's all the same, right? Like we know you don't have your hands on a dev unit. So it is what it is. Now, getting into this, he says it notes like he feels like the info is happening now because dev units are out there and an industry event just happened in Bit Summit where devs got together and talk and two more major events for that upcoming our gamescom and Tokyo game show. So information is gonna start becoming really an avalanche over the next couple of months. And he does note that he reached out to all of his people like, hey, do you have dev units? And turns out, at least from the middle of July in Omward, that yes, he does know people that have access to dev units or know people with dev units. So yeah, it definitely seems like the Nintendo Switch to dev units are out there in the wild among many, many different developers. Now, he does go on to state that he is hearing about a second half of 2024 release. He speculates that could be as soon as September to October. Obviously it could just be holiday season. He's been sort of saying this since January because that's when he first was hearing Murmurs, it would be second half of 2024. And he feels like the video game chronicle report just adding confirmation to the sources he's already had on this. Now, he has heard whispers that they are going to ramp up the Switch to production as in going to full mass production in quarter one of next year. He wonders if some of the rumors have floated out that are about it releasing in quarter one. We're confusing it with it going into mass production in quarter one. Sort of depends on where those sources come from. But just what he has heard is that while there are some being made right now, of course, mass manufacturing won't begin until early next year. Now, this is where we get into some of the really, really interesting stuff because we wouldn't be talking about this if we didn't have new information to provide. So far, none of what he said is really new until we get to this. He was told it will be like rocking an eight inch, an eight inch LCD screen. Now, I know we talked about the LCD. People aren't happy about that even though it could be mini led or Q led, which is actually pretty good. And I think it would be a fair trade off to save our money. Yeah, it could just be a really crappy LCD screen like they went with the original switch. Being eight inches I think is interesting and I kept thinking like that's a really big screen by the way, eight inches is a massive. And I was wondering why would they go with a screen that large? And it dawned on me. They need to make sure that this device, when you look at it, looks different than the current switch to indicate it is the new switch. And there's a couple of indicators for that. Obviously changes to the way the controllers look. That could obviously indicate it's a new system. But because the third party Joy-Cons, maybe that's not enough. But you know what? You can't do anything about how big the screen is. So if it's eight inches of real estate, then yeah, that's going to lead to there being, well, you know, more room to clearly delineate this is not a switch OLED. This is not a switch basic. This is a massive screen. That also means the device is gonna end up having to be larger. Oh, and when you have a larger device, that could mean obviously better technology underneath the hood, but, but a larger battery capacity as well. Now again, Nate, the hate's not saying that. This is just, hey, if it's eight inch screen, it has to be slightly bigger. That leaves there more room to do more stuff. Maybe even a better cooling system to run the system at better temperatures. Now, Nintendo wants to add a significant amount of internal flash. Now this is again, according to what he's heard and the ceiling he heard on this. And this is, again, ceiling. This is like the maximum. Nintendo's not looking to add a terabyte. Sorry guys, 512 gigabytes of storage. That is a lot. Now, will Nintendo go as far as to add 512 of flash storage? I mean, that's really hard to say that they would be willing to go that far. They could be willing to go that far to be clear. It's just to me that seems maybe more wishful thinking, but hey, 256 seems to be on the table. And I had previously thought they would top out at 128. So the idea that, hey, you know what? 256 seems really likely and possibly another model at 512 or maybe they just go all the way to 512 because one thing he kept speculating on, and again, this is pure speculation, throughout the entire show is that this is going to be an expensive device. Nintendo might not be afraid to broach 400 to $450. And if you're doing that, you're now up to the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X levels of pricing. I mean, you gotta have something that's gonna feel premium and worth it. So if you have 512, you have an eight inch display, you have the power and the battery light to back it up, the better joy cons. It's possible Nintendo could find a sweet spot in here where they continue to swell the original switch while they also sell this until maybe a point they can bring the price down. Then again, if it sells really, really well, they're not gonna bring that price down. So it's also true that because of inflation, money's not worth the same. So launching at 300 would be like launching at 400 today back in 2017. So I do feel like Nintendo might be exploring these higher priced ones because they need to keep their profit margins. And maybe they think we have the money for a time. I have no idea. Now, one thing we need to get into is this other source that claims this stuff is happening or at least we're gonna hear about it. They're not launching this year, but they're going to announce this system this month. So this comes from a UK website here called Start Menu. And I don't know much about them. So to try to be clear here, I don't know that these people know what they're talking about because it's very hard for me to vet things that aren't from the United States. I don't know their history. If any of you guys know the history of Start Menu out of UK, I would love to hear it. But it says report Nintendo could confirm new hardware as soon as the end of August. And then it goes on to say Nintendo's been planning to confirm the existence of his next console at Gamescom this year. I mean, Gamescom again is like the end of the month. It's like the last week of August. A Start Menu source familiar with Nintendo Partner Studios tells us as reported by Video Game Chronicle and corroborated by Eurogamer. And Eurogamer really only corroborated the second half of 2024 release to be fair. That's what they said. Their sources said they didn't corroborate the rest of Video Game Chronicles report. Just to clarify, the follow-up to switches reportedly had been planned for release in the second half of 2024. Both sites have cited sources that state development studios have dev kits in hand. However, Start Menu has learned that the Japanese-based firm could be confirming. Could be confirming the existence of new hardware as soon as the end of August 2023. The source which is in regular contact with multiple studios and platform holders across the industry's old Start Menu that Nintendo plans to announce a follow-up to the switch at Gamescom quotes. But then quotes like that's exactly what its source said. The source originally tipped Start Menu after this at the end of July 2023. Due to the lack of evidence supporting the claim, however, we didn't come for reporting the story. It's kind of funny. End of July, that's like July 31st. It's only been a couple of days. Anyways, we also felt highly unlikely that the Tokyo company, oh my gosh. They're not, see like, this is the stuff that makes you question validity at times. Nintendo's not from Tokyo. That's not, their headquarters are in Kyoto. Okay, anyways. Sorry, they might not be like a massive Nintendo website so I'm not gonna, I don't wanna dock them too much. Anyways, considering the leadership of the company is mainly centered in Japan and the USA. However, several details of Video Game Chronicles report lining up with what Start Menu sources have said convinced us the story holds some truth to it. So basically they have a source and Video Game Chronicles report backed up a lot of what their source said. The source also told Start Menu they believe that several studios with close partnerships with Nintendo have received dev kits to begin familiarizing themselves with new hardware. Like that's something that's been reported out for a bit. It is unclear if the claim of at Gamescom means that Nintendo will be holding a Nintendo Direct the week of the show, the 22nd to the 27th of August which they don't announce systems in direct so I would go with no. Or the company will announce a potential switch to at a Gamescom event such as Jeff Keely's co-run Opening Night Live on the 22nd of August. Not just co-run, he's the host. Opening Night Live is part of Gamescom. It's anyways, moving on. The switch was announced via a tweet in 2016 only a handful of months before the console's release and previous to that the Wii U was first unveiled at E3 2011 back when the company still attended the LA Convention Center. And again, it didn't come out for a year and a half after that. Also, technically the switch was announced, this is the weird thing, the switch was actually announced as NX in 2015 by Nintendo and then they reaffirmed at E3 when they were 2016, when they were showing off Zelda that it would be for a new system. But they'll reveal details on the new system later in the year and then obviously they availed it in October of 2016. So Nintendo does have sort of a track record of like letting us know a year and a half in advance of launch does sort of let us know that maybe they wanna tell us this thing exists to prepare ourselves mentally for it. I don't know, so it's possible. I don't feel like it's likely but it is possible. Anyways, Nintendo did confirm its tenants at the show for the first time since 2019. However, the company's confirmation that it will be at the show, there's been little indication as to what it will be showing even down to the games that they made demo. It's also worth noting that despite a jam-packed winter slate of releases, including Mario RPG and Mario Wonder, the company has not been booking any behind closed doors appointment with Press bar a single third party game that the console manufacturer is helping to distribute. And so, look, my thought on that part, on this part of the thing is, I don't know that I believe any of this stuff being said by this website because I don't know their history, but even if we presume that they're right, why would Nintendo not schedule meetings with people behind closed doors? Well, because the system's not coming out for a while. They probably, anyone who has a dev kit now already knows and Nintendo's already told them, met with them and given them dev units. So they wouldn't need any behind closed doors meeting right now. And at Tokyo Game Show, Nintendo's there just for business meetings. So a bunch of studios in Japan are gonna meet with Nintendo at Tokyo Game Show. So honestly, it just feels like Nintendo was to announce this. It's more of a public thing. It's more of a, the rumors are out there. People are reporting. We wanna get ahead of this. We wanna prepare people mentally for it next year. And we basically wanna come out there and just be like, hey, we do have a new device coming out in 2024. Now, would they give us the exact name of the device right now? That seems unlikely. Would they tease the new hardware at this moment? That also seems unlikely. I can see Nintendo letting us know that our device is coming. I just don't know. I mean, look, let's put it this way. We don't know what Nintendo's doing. Even when we consider what Nate hates it, oh, it won't go in the mass production until early next year. That could be possible. It could also be a mass production right now. None of us really know what's happening. So maybe we are about to get a full console reveal. All I can do is provide to you guys the information and you can disseminate from that information what you want. That being said, I'm Nathaniel Rubblejans from Nintendo Prime. I've got other news and other stuff I wanna get to today. So thank you for tuning in. Please join our podcast tonight. By the way, we got some RoNation coming on. You guys know we're gonna be going over all of this Switch2 madness this week because it definitely feels like the floodgates are opening. I'll catch you guys in the next video.