 Well everyone the Nintendo Direct is happening. I think you've heard the news by now and if you haven't I'm happy to bring it to you However, the news is probably an hour or two hours old by the time you see this video. So yeah, Nintendo Direct is happening tomorrow It's really exciting. It's landing at 4 p.m. Central time and sure we will be live stream reacting It's gonna be 40 minutes long and focusing on essentially Nintendo switch games that are coming up this spring slash early summer Early 2022 games. That's what Nintendo is telling us but to be 40 minutes long Nintendo often teases things Further out in the year, you know, usually one or two games further out of the year and sometimes even a game That's not going to come until 2023. So yeah, it's going to be a really really big direct And I'm super excited just like I'm excited to remind you we were given away a Nintendo switch OLED We are giving away a PlayStation 5 or we are giving away an Xbox series X to one lucky winner They get to choose a current gen console of choice All they have to do is go to the gleam.io link down in the description or pin comment to enter and I wish everyone luck Now look, this is really really exciting and I'm going to tell you in this video my Expectations I'm gonna break this up into two different segments because there's gonna be my Expectations and my dreams and wants and desires and then there's also going to be this part that I'm going to talk about right now And this is addressing the elephant in the room. That would be the video that we put out yesterday covering the On again off again Supposed Nintendo insider Samus Hunter now a lot of people are going to look at this Nintendo direct announcement and go Nate Look, she was right again and to that I say was she Did say that she thought the director would be announced this week aka would be announced today It would be happening, you know either on Wednesday or Thursday. She didn't tell us an exact day Just they would be announced today But she also hedged her bet and said but you know it might not be announced today It could be announced next week. She didn't even firmly stick with it being announced today, so I Didn't really care that she said that it was going to be announced this week or that it was going to be Happening this week or maybe next week because again her own words were basically either or because guess what all of us have been Saying that if we're going to give credit I said it was going to happen this week just last week as a guest on our Nintendo Prime podcast Featuring Jake Randall. I guessed the Nintendo Direct would be this week. I said this before Samus Hunter did Oh, no, everybody. I'm an insider like see see why this isn't something that was worth being You know giving credit for put it this way seven of the last ten February directs before this one happened in the first half of February Seven in the last ten years been our direct in February all of them have been in the first half of the month Now eight of the last 11 it was pretty easy to say it was going to be coming this week or hedging your bet and saying maybe next week It's obvious. That's what it's been pretty much every February that we've had one So again, this is one of those situations where I really wasn't given her credit for this because we've been saying this now for over a month as has Nate the hate as has Emily Rogers as Has basically every other insider Samus Hunter was actually the last person to come out and say a direct would happen this week Or maybe next week So that's why I really was not given her any credit and I'm still not gonna give her credit Just because we're getting a direct this week again other insiders and people like me were already saying this so Yeah, that's not but that's not her. That's not that's not what she gets credit for actually her exact words We're basically without the big announcement that's either at the beginning middle or end Could be multiple big announcements Basically a new thing. We don't know about a big thing. We don't know about minus that The show should be 35 minutes long. She literally gave us an exact time that minus that one announcement It should be so that's what I'm holding Samus Hunter to and I think that's what you should hold her to as well I don't think her getting it right this week suddenly it lends her a bunch of credit when other people have been saying this Exact same thing for weeks if not months. I Think we need to hold Samus Hunter to the coals over the thing She said that nobody else did and that was an exact time minus the big Announcement and what's funny about that exact time is if you actually go and you grab every single Nintendo Direct in the history of Nintendo add them together and divide the average length of a Nintendo Direct is right around 35 minutes So sort of convenient that that's the figure she gave it happens to be roughly the actual average length of a Nintendo Direct So, yeah, I'm gonna hold her exactly to it. So if minus the big announcement is 36 minutes 37 38 39 Yeah, she was wrong not right Wrong that being said today She did put out a little list and some people thought I was gonna talk about it and praise her and I'll know The list that she put out today is nothing but predictions So instead of me worrying about what Samus Hunters doing and what Sam was hunters predicting Let's actually get into my expectations and my predictions for this direct now look there are a few things I do expect to hear about I think we're gonna see project triangle strategy and You know Kirby in the forgotten land again. I think it just makes sense those games come next month Nintendo is gonna want to talk about them. I also think there'll be some surprise indie or some sort of thing dropping this month I don't really February completely barren. It's just not gonna be something that's major now What those you know what that game could be I don't know obviously in the back of my mind I always hope for like Hollow Knight silk song, which I just want to see it this direct in general But it would be really cool if it just was hey, guess what it's coming later this month I would be really hyped about that and I don't think we need a long hype train for a game that we've waited so long for It's an indie title, but again, I just want to know the game is alive and well I played it at E3 2019. It would be good just to see it again Setting that aside what else should we really expect well There's a bunch of games that we already know are coming this year from Breath of the Wild 2 and sparks of hope Splatoon 3 and of those three it's gonna be very curious to see which one do we see here? I think we're seeing at least one of them if not two of them Personally, I have this bias where if it was up to me, I want Breath of the Wild 2 to be here It'll be interesting to see if Breath of the Wild 2 is here because Breath of the Wild had a nine month Runup of hype if they don't do it at this one It doesn't mean it's not coming this year But it really shortens the window that Nintendo has to market it compared to the original game So yeah, it doesn't have to be here. They could start to hype this summer But it would be interesting to see if they do drop it here and give us a title Along with a release month or something coming this holiday coming this November or something that maybe it's coming this summer Other things that we could obviously expect of those two or two three. I think we will probably see Splatoon 3 That's just my guess. It could be maybe we see all three of them for all I know Again, I don't actually know what's in this direct because Nintendo for once didn't market it around a specific game saying This will be a Nintendo direct no for Splatoon 3 and other titles or sparks of hope and other clearly This is just a very general direct and they're just gonna talk about a ton of games So yeah, besides that what else to expect well the rumors out there obviously talk about Monolith soft unveiling something I do think that that is going to happen I don't know if it's gonna be seen in the Chronicles 3 if it's gonna be their new IP But I do expect there to be a new monolith soft title here Mostly because one of the employees at monolith soft said they were gonna reveal something this month and now we have a direct So clearly we're getting something from monolith soft at this direct Your guess is as good as mine as to what that could be Besides that I'm not sure what else we'll see, you know, there's always the rumored Metroid Prime remake that rumor Donkey Kong game from last year Metroid Prime 4 could obviously be teased, you know, just to kind of keep the Metroid type going although I think the remake could be first if Twilight Princess and Wind Waker each year coming out this summer They would need to show that now in my opinion if that's actually gonna be you know So say they're gonna go summer for that and then you know fall slash winter for Breath of the Wild They would literally have to show that now. They're not gonna just drop it as a shadow drop in the summer So again, if there's any hope for that, it'll be showed here besides that It's really just a bunch of guesses on stuff that we don't know You know, we have some of the rumors out through that the Mario Kart game exists Zippo out there saying hey look You could bet Super Bowl money that this game doesn't exist and you would just be out a lot of money That wasn't him saying that it would be shown off at this direct But it wasn't saying that it does exist which seems like a fairly safe bet that someday we're getting a new Mario Kart game But to me when you make a statement like that it means we're getting one soon this year next year one of those two So yeah, maybe Mario Kart's here That would be a massive surprise to many people and probably dominate the internet and all social media If that's gonna end up being a big holiday title or something That would also to me mean breath of the wild maybe is a summer title But again, that's a lot of guesses and you know, whatever fire emblem Obviously, we know about a ton of fire emblem rumors that have been out there from multiple leakers So it would make sense by the way setting aside the rumors fire on the three houses was two years ago It would make sense almost three years ago now two and a half years It would make sense to you know start talking about the next fire emblem game Whatever it is be it a remake or a brand new title or another Warriors game or another spin-off game So, you know, we've won one spin-off game. I totally forgot about was actually a crossover game You know Tokyo Mara sessions, you know fe so I don't maybe something like that But I do know that there probably is fire emblem in the works And that would make a lot of sense for them to talk about that. Well now The Batman Arkham collection was actually leaked at a retailer So I wouldn't be surprised to see that here too also third-party wise you can look at the persona series Maybe we get some updates on Monster Hunter Sunbreak the DLC coming out this summer It's also possible that we see any number of other third-party titles Maybe we see MLB the show for the first time seeing switch footage of MLB the show 222 Right now we have yet to see what this game even looks like on switch and it comes in April So I could definitely see that making an appearance here But honestly, this feels like while I'm super excited for this direct and we absolutely need it What's what what I'm waiting for is what's the surprise? Okay? Maybe it's the casual follow-up to one-two switch or some other title from Nintendo that might be cool But what's the big surprise that we don't know about because we can predict till the Sun comes home What's gonna be at a direct? It's very rare that we actually get everything that's going to be in it I do think that it's direct unlike many others It feels like we have a good idea of some semi predictability like a monolith soft title and stuff like that About what could be shown here plus all the titles coming later this year but What makes the directs exciting is there's always that one thing you didn't see coming last time around Metroid dread anybody Granted that wasn't the September direct but still Metroid Dread was a big deal when they dropped the journey three like Metroid Dread was like yeah Breath of the Wild 2 was there and that was exciting Metroid Dread was that nobody saw it coming Wasn't predicted wasn't leaked and that's what I'm waiting for is what is that title and like Splatoon 3 When that dropped, you know at the first directive last year. Nobody saw that coming I want to know what is the big title that's going to drop or surprise or shock us And that's the one that I'm not sure about is it going to be you know super mario odyssey 2 or some other mario game Obviously, they're always working on mario games Um, is it going to for some reason be pokemon like pokemon company decides to announce their game here Which would be really weird since the pokemon company likes to announce things on their own But maybe nintendo convince them to announce it in a direct which would be really strange and break tradition But pokemon companies break in tradition. Hello pokemon legends archies So it's going to be you know, maybe legends archies dlc gets announced here instead of announced in a separate event I there's a lot of things that we just don't know and that's what's so exciting But I will be live streaming this again tomorrow will probably go live Maybe around a half hour early because you know my children get home at 3 p.m. Central time from school So there's all that that I got to deal with But yeah, we'll be we'll be live at four Doing our thing having fun reacting for 40 minutes doing probably a really short post show But remember we do have our nintendo prime podcast tomorrow Jake randall is coming back again So it was a lot of fun because last week we got so about expectations And when we think the director will happen if there will be a direct and now We get to actually react to the direct after the fact with the same cast of characters So that's going to be a lot of fun this week and I can't Wait to geek out and I'll have to see all the additional news that drops after the direct because As always all these things to get talked about there's usually additional screenshots additional Details and all that that drop after direct that we could probably bring up on the podcast So it should be a lot of fun. Maybe even on the podcast we'll rewatch some of the trailers It's just going to be a grand old time. Uh, so I hope to see all you guys tomorrow Uh, and I yeah, I'm I'm just I'm just happy Anytime that nintendo directs are coming. I'm happy I know some people think there's some big beef and some big drama between me and samis hunter and all I can say is I Don't know who samis hunter is to have sort of beef and drama. I just call things like I see it And I'm going to continue to call things like I see it. She's not right yet She might be right But she's not right yet And I want to be clear. I want her to be right You guys realize that she posts crap rumors more often than basically anybody in existence It would be cool if she was right and I had an excuse to cover her regularly again without having to throw um, some shade because I'm a youtuber and posting rumors is like free views. I'm not stupid. You're not stupid We all know that people like watching rumor videos So yeah, it'd be cool if she was right all the time So we'll see 35 minutes. That's what I'm paying attention to All right, folks. I'll catch you in the next video