 Well everyone, we are approaching the month of February quite rapidly. In fact, after today, there's what, one day left in January, and every single February seemingly during the Nintendo Switch era, but one, we have had a Nintendo Direct. And I think we can sort of forgive the one time we did it. That was 2020. We all know what was going on in the world back then. So I do find it quite fascinating and quite likely that even if Nintendo plans to announce a brand new system here in March or April or whatever, that they're still going to have a Direct because they still have games they need to market, right? Look, when we got the announcement for things like the date for Princess Peach Showtime, some people were like, hey, maybe we're just not going to have a Direct. But reality is we still don't have dates for things like Thousand Year Door, the Weegees Mansion HD, and there's a bunch of third party games and indie games and probably more Nintendo games for Nintendo Switch that need to actually be marketed. So it's very likely we're going to get a Nintendo Direct in February. And nobody really seems to be even the insiders doubting that that's going to happen. But what we have today is a new rumor about a Nintendo Direct happening next week. Now, we had a video we made a few weeks back talking about February 7th as possibly being the date. I'm not going to say it's happening on February 7th here because the rumor is just next week, but we are going to dive into it a little bit. And the reasoning is because we don't know, right? There's some insiders like Nate The Hate who lately have said they haven't heard anything about a Direct, so you got to consider that. But also, hey, you also have guys like Pioro out there calling like a certain Nintendo Direct leak that we talked about a couple weeks ago fake. And he would know because Pioro has a 100% track record with Nintendo Direct leaks. So Pioro is the ultimate leaker, but he's not really going to give us anything till next week if it was next week. So here's what I'm going to just throw out there right now and who is the source on this. So I was live streaming last night like I do every Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. And what was very interesting about it was a special person who showed up a friend of the channel in special Nick from the Xbox era podcast. He has some inside information and sources at times. And he talks about a lot of different things over on the Xbox era show, including sometimes some of the information he has on Nintendo. And what he told me last night or told all of us publicly in our stream last night was that he had heard about a Direct next week. Now that's where he left it. He didn't give us dates. He didn't give us any hints at anything. Just Hey, yeah, I did hear about a Direct next week. Okay, cool. What does that mean though? Well, it means yeah, Nintendo Direct could happen next week. Now there's precedent for this. Nintendo does have a financial briefing on February 6. But if you actually go look at the last two February's, this is around the time they have done Nintendo Direct's right around that investors meeting. So it does line up with how Nintendo has handled February Direct's lately. Now it is notable. Nintendo does do Direct's, you know, in the second full week of February all the time. I understand there's Valentine's Day and no, Nintendo doesn't really put Direct's on Valentine's Day. What I really find interesting when people dismiss the whole Valentine's Day thing is because it's a Thursday as if Nintendo has never done Direct's on Wednesdays or Tuesdays. They have a multiple Nintendo Direct's during the Switch generation happening on February 13th, the day before Valentine's Day. So I'm going to throw another that we can't dismiss that our Direct could be happening then. And again, I have no knowledge myself. There's no Direct Nintendo Direct knowledge floating around in my brain. So look, we're not going to sit here and pretend that it is going to happen next week but couldn't happen the week after. There's a reason though that I decided to do the Nintendo Direct Bingo podcast tomorrow. And this is something that I just want to briefly talk to you guys about because look, we're going to have six people on this show including myself. And we're going to be talking about the next Nintendo Direct and giving our predictions through our own Bingo cards. Now actually, you guys can participate in this a little bit and possibly win some prizes. What are we talking about? Well, let's go over to our community post on this. I'll have it linked down in the description in the pinned comment as well. And you're seeing here where it says, hey folks, this upcoming Wednesday we're having our usual Nintendo Prime podcast but doing a special Nintendo Direct Bingo edition. You'll be able to fill out the attached Bingo card and submit it for a chance at one of five prizes. That's right, five winners. How does this work? Well, you will fill out your Bingo card either before or during this Wednesday's show and then during the show only there will be a stated way to submit your Bingo card. The five cards with the most bingos will be awarded a prize. If there's more than five due to ties, the prize will simply be split between the amount of winners. What constitutes a bingo? Five correct predictions across, down, or diagonal. Yes, you can give yourself a free space in the middle. However, if you are in the top five without using a free space and at least one of your bingos uses the middle space, your prize will be doubled. Will you take the risk to double it or take the free space to increase your odds? The choice is yours. We have our standard giveaway and contest rules here. Also during the show, the six participants and this is who's going to be on the show. We're going to have Jake Randall, Andres Restart, SuperMetal Day 64, HMK, Eric, and Nate. We're going to have an open discussion about our own bingo cards. Remember, a direct hasn't happened or been announced. Same with this video today. It's a rumor. This bingo would apply to a Nintendo Direct, a Nintendo Direct Mini, or a partner showcase if that is what Nintendo apps do. Instead, you can set your notifications and all of that. And here is that bingo card. Again, we'll have this link down below if you want to go download and get your bingo card. Ready to submit during the podcast tomorrow. But I just wanted to kind of just talk about this and let you guys know that we do have that going on. In addition, obviously this new rumor from Special Nick about the Direct being next week, I could go into a bunch of my predictions and all that. But actually tonight on our Tuesday live stream at 8pm central, I will actually be filling out my Nintendo Direct bingo card right here with all of you guys. That is my goal. I want to get this bingo card filled out with you. So it's going to be quite interesting. You guys can see back here, I kind of have a bingo card already. This is for all of 2024. This is just for the Nintendo Direct. So I'm pretty excited about it. And yeah, I don't think I'm going to be taking that free space. I still think I'm going to take it. I think I'm going to put something there. We'll see. There's no way in hell I'm going to get 25 predictions correct, but we're going to try. And I want to make sure that I expand it beyond Nintendo. I think a lot of times we focus on just Nintendo announcements. There's not going to be 25 Nintendo announced things. I'm trying to get this correct. I would like a blackout if I can. So I got to start throwing some third party stuff in there as well. Maybe some indie things. We'll see. I'm just throwing out there that this is possibly happening next week. Obviously our Nintendo Direct bingo thing is happening tomorrow just in case. So we don't miss our opportunity to do this with you guys. And I wish all of you guys luck if you do decide to submit your bingo cards. Just remember though that again, this is all in good fun. We don't know if Nintendo Direct is going to be happening. There's just rumors out there. There's speculation out there and there's precedent from Nintendo themselves. We do know there's a state of play this week though. And I will let you know I will be live stream reacting to that state of play tomorrow. Anyways, guys, thank you so much for tuning in. I am Nathan of Rubble Jants from Nintendo Prime and I'll catch you in the next video.