 While I definitely didn't think we would be waking up today talking about Switch Pro again, I just did a couple days ago and I figured that might be it for a couple weeks, but what are their smoke thirst fire and it looks like we can expect the Nintendo Switch Pro or whatever it ends up being called a new model of Nintendo Switch to come out middle of 2020. Now what did I tell you guys before were my expectations if a Switch Pro or a new model Switch did come this year that it would launch this summer while the middle of 2020 is summer. So if this turns out to be right, I guess check for me on my predictions. But the report actually comes from Digitimes which is a Taiwanese company. They do have a kind of loose track record when it comes to their reports, specifically with Nintendo. Although Nintendo does do some manufacturing now in their area, so they're probably a little bit more in tune than usual. But Digitimes has gotten a number of things correct in the past when it comes to manufacturing processes with Switch units, so that is something they do seem to be connected on. Other things that they have reported on before, they haven't always had their own internal sources for, so it can get a little muddle, but there is like an English version of the side, a Taiwanese version of the side, I think a Japanese version of the side as well. But we found out about it thanks to Takahashi Matsuzuki. Now the reason why this guy matters is because he's actually the primary reporter on this kind of stuff for the Wall Street Journal and he works out of Japan. And he reported in August 2019 that Nintendo has ideas for further updates to the Switch lineup after the Switch Lite and the Revive Switch come to market to prolong the life cycle. And then all of a sudden he quoted the Digitimes thing. Nintendo's reportedly planning to release a mid-2020 new model of Switch. But if you go over here, this is the article in question and it says, Nintendo is reportedly planning to release a mid-2020 new model of Switch. Will begin volume production at the end of first quarter 2020 according to sources from the related upstream supply chain. So they have sources from the supply chain somewhere that are saying, hey look, it's going into mass production soon for a release in mid-2020. By the way, we're kind of in the middle of the first quarter of 2020. Notice they did not say fiscal 2020 because fiscal that would that could push things different because Nintendo runs the Japanese fiscal calendar, which would mean the first quarter of the fiscal year for them wouldn't begin until April. So yeah, that's that's obviously not what they're talking about. You're talking about the first quarter of the actual year, which is January, February, March. So by the end of March, basically by the time Animal Crossing comes out, there will be a mass production of a new model of Switch going in place to be sold this summer. Now, it does say the article you're trying to open requires a news database subscription and I was going to subscribe to read it. But I have seen snippets of it behind the scenes. I cannot show you those snippets because again, I don't want you know, I didn't pay to see those snippets. So it kind of feels wrong for me to take something that I wasn't supposed to see and then put it out to you with all these exact quotes. So instead, we're going to go to Dr. Cercantoto. You guys remember Dr. Cercantoto? He's the one that we talked about before who predicted that the switch would come out this year. I know he predicted it last year as well, SwitchPro. But he says to further add on this article requires a subscription digit times claims that the new switch will come with a magnesium alloy body instead of plastic. Another claim is that the device will come with a better CPU than he obviously knows the digit times has a little bit of a mixed track record. Now this is interesting too, because this gives us more details. So not only is it going in the mass production sometime in the next three months and releasing this summer, it's going to be a more durable switch potentially magnesium alloy body. I find to be interesting because magnesium alloy, by the way, is really good at heat dissipation for starters. But if you look at the switch and I happen to have one right here that's already broken down. It kind of comes in layers. So when you open it up, you get the plastic back plate. Now this isn't, you know, it's not showing up very well because it's green. But this is a replacement back plate. But it's still the original back plate is plastic underneath that is usually a metal cover, which I have misplaced right now. But there's a metal back plate that goes on top of this and it goes on top of things like the heat sink right here and the heat pipes and all that. So there's a back plate that goes on. And you take that off and this is what you're what you're left with. And if you if you if you take it apart further, you notice everything is kind of screwed into like a plastic shell, you know, the switch itself, it's like a plastic with a few little metal pieces on it. And to me, with the heat shield and everything, what when I hear they're going to do a magnesium alloy body, that sounds like they're doing a metal switch, not just for heat dissipation reasons. They're making a more durable switch, they're making one that doesn't have the issues where as some of you guys have seen like the vents up here, melt away, or the screw holes crack and stuff like that under the heat, magnesium alloy is not going to have that happen. That's not even going to be a problem. Most plastics don't have that problem. But it can be a problem with plastic. It will not be a problem with magnesium alloy. It's going to be a more premium feel to the system. And you know, that's something that I guess none of us are really considered when we were talking about switch pro and the potential to switch pro, we talked about how yeah, it could be sleeker, it could be this, we don't really talk about how it could be more durable. So it's interesting that one of the first details to come out, one of the first details that seems to be relating to switch pro specifically, is that it's going to have a much more well put together body and it's going to be a metal body. It doesn't mean that this back plate itself isn't going to be plastic still or something, but the framework of the body of the system is going to be a magnesium alloy, which is good news for durability. Obviously good news for heat dissipation, although I don't think they're going to dissipate heat straight into your hands. I think there'll be another, you know, another one of those heat plates and stuff like that kind of separating everything. That being said, it'll have a better CPU. That's very vague. We don't know, you know, I've seen the article in question, it doesn't really detail what's better about it. Is it more core counts? Is it clock higher? Is it an updated CPU? Like which CPU is it? Is it the same one that's in the switch running at higher clock speeds, or is it a new version of the CPU? Obviously, we don't see any information on if it's going to have better GPU performance. We do know it uses an APU, so the CPU and GPU are on the same chip, so it would make sense if the CPU is a little better, the GPU would be as well, but they're not reporting that. They can only report on the information they have from the sources they have. So this to me I think is just very fascinating, because we've been talking to SwitchPro for two and a half years, and I honestly, there was a point last year I thought that maybe, you know, it's just all bull crap, and it's not going to happen. You know, we got that revised switch, which, you know, only has better battery life, but it does it by changing some stuff on the chip and all that for better power consumption, but I was a little skeptical that SwitchPro might actually exist, and now here we have, at the beginning of 2020, not only we had Dr. Circuit Total who has a track record with things being like, hey look, I really think it's coming this year, and then all of a sudden, boom, two days later, Digit Times comes out and they're like, hey, it's going to the mass production, it's coming mid-2020, well here's a couple details we actually know about the system, better CPU, whatever, that means. It would be nice to hear if it has more RAM, I don't, like, I don't, my mind is just running in circles right now over what I want SwitchPro to be versus what it's going to be, and if we take these details, you know, in the context, I don't remember, this might not be the first details we've had on SwitchPro, because Nintendo has a publicly signed contract with Ixo displays, and Ixo displays are a display technology with lower power consumption that can do, you know, high frame rates and high resolution, better than the LCD tech they're using now, but they're not in any current Switch, they're not in the light, they're not in the revised Switch or the OG Switch, so that potentially could have been technology that's going into this as well, so that might be another technological detail we have where they could save on battery consumption with better screen technology, and that screen technology is popular technology used in a lot of high-end smartphones, so it's not like it's technology that's just old and Nintendo's just now getting into it, because it's cheap, like with LCD, no, this is actual good technology, and it's going to be a little pricey, and when you're starting to go from a plastic body to a magnesium alloy body, that's going to be more expensive as well, a better CPU is going to be more expensive, everything about the system screaming, hey, don't expect this in the launch at $299, now I know Dr. CircuitToto said it will launch at $399, so $100 more, which I think is a fair price in general, if you look at how Xbox One X and PlayStation 4 Pro kind of handle things, they were $100 more at launch, so I guess it makes a lot of sense to be $100 more, I don't know what the market's going to be for a pro Switch, that's $100 more, $299 is like a kind of a sweet point for Nintendo, basically $250 to $300 is Nintendo's primary space to live in with pricing, although obviously the Wii U is a failure, but the more expensive $350 Wii U is the one that took off, not the cheaper one, so I'm very curious to see how the pricing works on this, obviously they can't approach $500, they can't start looking at price points where the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 are going to live, that's just not some place Nintendo wants to be, but again let's just quickly recap here, um first off Takahashi Matsuzuki who has a lot of very, he's a really well-credited industry insider analyst reporter for the Wall Street Journal, brought up Digitime specifically to back his own claims up that Nintendo has new hardware coming, Digitimes in their article, and this is just the English version of it they have, they're a Taiwanese company with connections, saying that they're going into mass production in the first three months of this year, by the end of the first three months of this year, mass production for a mid 2020, so a summer release of a new model of Switch that has a faster CPU and is made with a magnesium alloy body instead of the plastic that we've become accustomed to with Switch, so that's the details that we have for now, in addition to potentially the Exo Display technology in the past, in addition to Nintendo hiring people specifically for seemingly technology that's not out yet, this is exciting times, this is exciting times to be a gamer right now, think about it, we have the new Xbox coming, we have the new Playstation coming, potentially a new Switch coming now, granted it's not going to be one of those next generation Switches, at least I don't think so, I don't know, Nintendo could be crazy and cell phoning the hell out of this and welcome to Switch too really early and it's fully backwards compatible, I have no idea, all I know is it's probably coming at this point, where there's smoke there's fire and we've had a little bit of a dustiness smoke for a couple years of rumors and reports, this is not like your traditional rumor or report, this isn't a oh it's going to come, oh we think it's going to be this, we think it's going to be that, this is a oh by the way it's being manufactured like now, like right now they're making these things to sell this summer, that's not a report to take lightly, anyways, here's what we know if you're excited for this, if you're not excited, I love tech, so I'm almost always excited for new technology and it's a good year for me to maybe get into a new Switch, we'll see what happens, but thank you guys so much for tuning in, I am Nate Jantz, if you liked this video drop a like, leave a comment down below, subscribe for more content, oh man this wasn't what I wanted to talk about today, but boy am I excited to talk about it, because new tech always, always gets my, my, my skins are crawling a little bit, I always get excited over new technology, so I'm ready, let's go, Switch Pro 2020, peace out everyone.