 So let's get the big news out of the way right away. There's a Nintendo Direct tomorrow. I'm sure you've heard by now, and if you haven't, well, congratulations, I am the first person to tell you about a Nintendo Direct tomorrow. It's happening at 7 a.m. Pacific or 9 a.m. Central. We're obviously gonna be doing a pre-show and a live stream for this event. It's gonna feature roughly 40 minutes of information focused mainly on Nintendo Switch titles launching this year, including new details on Pikmin 4. Yes, folks, this is a full-on general Nintendo Direct, not a mini, not a partner showcase. Nintendo ain't messin' around. They did it. They dropped the Direct today. Or, well, tomorrow. I guess they dropped the news. The Direct is happening today. So what I wanted to do in this video is go over all of the leaks and rumors in regards to, well, this Direct. Because believe it or not, we have both varieties. Actual leaks from companies messin' around. And then, obviously, we have rumored information as well. Some we have covered, but we haven't covered everything officially outside of the live stream last night. And even during our live stream last night, there's been developments since then. So first, let's get into the leaks. Now, the biggest leak that happened was Ubisoft. They accidentally sent live information on Mario Plus Rabbids DLC. This information included a Mecha Bomb, King Bomb Bomb, rabbit thing. Look, it looks really cool. It looks sick. I showed it on screen a little bit. They took down this news post quickly after they sent it live on Switch. It might be back up at this point. I didn't double check this morning, but I did see it myself, and I did see that it got removed. This was a nice Oopsy from Ubisoft. They've had several Oopsy's over the years that lead to leaked information. So it does look like Sparks Hope DLC information is highly likely in this direct. Another Oopsy came from Atlas. So Atlas uploaded an unlisted trailer for Persona 3 Reload. And in the first line of the description of the trailer or the second line, they mentioned that Nintendo Switch is a supported platform. This is the second time there's been a reference to Nintendo Switch with Persona 3 Reload from Atlas. And of course, once that got noticed and posted, people quickly went ahead and updated that. People at Atlas and removed the Nintendo Switch mentioned. So if Persona 3 Reload isn't coming to Switch, then Atlas is doing a horrendous job internally in terms of not spreading misinformation. And if it is coming to Nintendo Switch and it was meant to be announced in this direct, they've done a horrendous job of hiding that fact. So it does look like Persona 3 Reload should be an expected announcement in this direct as well. Why? I don't know, it just is what it is. Now there are more things going on out there because another leak happened because the support page for Crash Team Rumble features the Nintendo Switch. It's crazy, right? So they talk about how you need to make sure your console is up to date in order to properly play Crash Team Rumble. And on there is the Nintendo Switch. Why are they including the Nintendo Switch in a game that was never announced for Nintendo Switch? Well, because this could be something that's being thrown in the Nintendo Direct. Again, the leaks are just pouring out there. Now, we get into the more fun things. Actually, wait, hold on, we have one more leak. This is actually where Pikmin 4 and this comes from Nintendo themselves. They put download cards to buy the game in Japan and the download cards contain information previously unknown about the game. So you can purchase these download cards right now and the charming download card reveals that the game will feature two-player split-screen mode. Again, previously not announced and that the game was built using the Epic Games popular Unreal Engine. This will be the second game Nintendo has used Unreal Engine to build the game. Now we don't know if it's Unreal Engine 4 or 5 but still it looks like Pikmin 4 was made with Unreal Engine. Pretty insane. So those are like leaks that we have. We obviously know we're getting more information than Pikmin 4 because Nintendo told us. So what else could be in this direct? This is where we get into maybe the more fun stuff and that is the rumors. So first, some people think there might be a Mario sluggers because Nintendo had an ad pop up during a Mariners game and if you remember, Nintendo used to be a majority owner of Seattle Mariners or no longer. They're a very, very minor stakeholder and here's the thing. You can see Mario holding the bat. It doesn't really mean anything. They've actually been advertising this exact same ad at several Mariners games many times over the years. So it doesn't really mean anything. It's more of a Switch ad and they're just related it to baseball because it's at a baseball game but who knows if you want to read too much into it then read too much into it. Now what we do have is that Pyro underscore ND guy we talked about him yesterday and how he heavily hinted towards a 2D Mario. We basically said a 2D Mario game is happening and it won't be of the new variety AKA one of new in the title and that he also hinted with a Yoshi that hey, there's gonna be a SNES remake and people are thinking Super Mario RPG because the Yoshi he shared is directly from Super Mario RPG. Also, some people like me kind of speculate maybe a Yoshi's Island but it turns out Papa Genos has heard that there is going to be a Super Mario RPG announced in this direct. So that seems to be where people are leaning. Papa Genos being a fellow YouTuber. Now throwing on top of that, Pyro this morning went out there and was like good morning and what did he post? A Detective Pikachu gift. If you remember Detective Pikachu was announced back in 2019 and we haven't seen anything since so a brand new one was announced, right? So maybe and it would be weird because we don't really get Pokemon stuff like that in directs anymore and more so it just appears in Pokemon Presents but it appears they might be potentially teasing that or they just thought it was a fun gif to post because it's the day the Nintendo Direct was announced. Now this is where we get into some interesting stuff. So the A9VG leakers seems to have teased that Shimagami Tensei 5 complete edition is coming and that could be announced. Now they do think it'll be multi-platform but that could be announced here in this direct. After all Shimagami Tensei 5 was a Switch timed exclusive so that's pretty interesting as well. Now this is where we get into the hopeful territory. This is what, this is the wishful thinking and I'm tired of seeing people running around telling me this is happening, this is happening. Guys the source on this is Zippo who's got so many potential leaks out there at the moment that haven't been announced that you could almost just think he's making it up at this point but Leaker Zippo has claimed that Chrono Trigger remake is in the works. A lot of people really want this. It's a heavily requested remake so it's getting a lot of popularity just from fan desire. He does note however that he doesn't know when it's gonna be announced. He always gives himself an out. Oh it could be in this direct. Also I don't know when it's gonna be announced so it might not be in there. So keep expectations at a minimum. It's just, the way he talks about this stuff is always infuriating to me because he never really commits. He doesn't commit to, we're gonna see this at this direct. See at least when Jeff Grubb takes his swing and miss with Metroid Prime or his swing and miss with the Wind Waker and Twilight Princess HD at least the guy tried. He put it out there, he swung and missed, he owned it and he paid the price which included his hair when it came to Metroid Prime remaster but that's the thing is at least he was committed enough to put it out there. Zippo doesn't do that. He just says this game is in the works. Oh you'd like to know that this game is in the works and that game is in the works and this game is the works and I am the only person in the whole universe that is aware of this and I still don't know when it's gonna be announced. It's just not, it's just not cool. Like getting people's hopes up like that when you're the only person. See at least there's been multiple people that have said a 2D Mario's coming including Zippo but like in this case he's the only person saying Chrono Trigger Remix happening which that's usually a red flag. Anyways guys, that's pretty much it. You guys know that we might have another video later today. We'll see. If not, hey we will be live streaming the Nintendo Direct tomorrow. We'll obviously go live early with a pre-show talking probably going over all the rumors yet again and any new rumors that might have been added since this video went up and just in general hyping up the Direct because this is our big summer Direct. There won't be another one probably till September. Some people like Player Essence have speculated this might even be the final full Nintendo Direct just dedicated to Nintendo Switch. Now you could believe that if you think new hardware might get announced this year. So let's see what happens guys. I'll catch you in the next video.