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Well today that person got permanently banned in all threads that he's spoken deleted on that forum and reportedly according to the moderators it was at the legal request of Nintendo. So Nintendo, I don't know if it was a cease and desist, I don't know what they filed to that Chinese forum, but whatever it is that person's obviously probably fired and Nintendo is not happy about the leaks that got out there. Now why we're talking about this of course is because we need to now take everything that person said to a new level. Since Nintendo themselves requested his removal and the deletion of all the content, that means that the stuff that he talked about was clearly legit. Now I'm getting the information that we do know still from him over on FAMI boards so there'll be a link down in the description unless Nintendo makes them delete their stuff as well. But basically the biggest part that we should take away from everything right now isn't that he had leaked specs or anything like that, it definitely appears that Nintendo Switch 2 or whatever they're calling it is coming this year. Now he didn't say that he had direct knowledge that it was arriving this year but he knew about the production orders and stuff like that that really pointed towards this happening. So as an example he does note that Nintendo has elevated their production volume for OLED model parts in quarter one. So for quarter one of this upcoming fiscal year and that makes a lot of sense because tears of the kingdom is coming out, there's probably a special edition and they think they're going to sell quite a few. However, that order volume increase and we've heard this before where Nintendo's increasing the volume of switches produced heading into the next fiscal year is greatly being reduced to a really low point in April. So basically they're making a whole bunch to get ready for the tears of the kingdom launch and then before tears of the kingdom even comes out they're greatly reducing the number of units that they are producing and apparently this number reduction is to a lower figure than they have done in any prior year of Switch. This definitely suggests that Nintendo is ramping down production of Switch despite the ramp up specifically for one games launch. Now what's interesting though is that the version two parts production so we're talking about that you know the Switch OLED we're talking about the Nintendo Switch version two they're going to stop producing the parts for that system at some point later this year. Now this does only pertain to that specific factory that he's in this doesn't mean they're done making switches and switch OLEDs and in general switch lights right you need the version two parts to make all those systems today so this does not mean that Nintendo is done making those switches but at some point later this year at his specific factory they are no longer going to be making switches at all at least the version two switch so that's very interesting to note because that shows a significant down ramp in Nintendo Switch production and why would they be just closing down factories and production lines if it wasn't for the fact this person also said that they do have orders ramping up for a new hardware system this year so while he doesn't know if it's coming out this year they're not going to be making version two switches anymore but we'll be making this new hardware instead so this heavily suggests that Nintendo is well aware that sales are about to drop off a cliff later this year and that could be because a new system is coming out I'm just throwing that out there look we obviously already have the evidence from the Pokemon leaker you have Jeff Grubb mentioning what he's heard but this is somebody that Nintendo themselves has already pressed delete and fired from their position meaning that the stuff he was saying was clearly legit and he just got busted so look I I think we just we're entering this period where well nothing's official until Nintendo announces and and that's fine if you want to ride on that train and you know what skepticism is always good to keep in your back pocket and there's no guarantee we're getting anything new this year or early 2024 as it were but what I will say is at least at the moment this is some more serious kind of thing than any of the old switch pro rumors we have remember back in like 2020 2021 2022 even we had like all these switch pro rumors is it coming out is it this we're hearing it from but like this is directly from manufacturing someone lost their job over this and that really sucks although they knew the risk by revealing information so although we say it sucks some people might say good riddance the point is that we seem to have legitimate leaks coming out of Nintendo now that we weren't having back in the switch pro days like if you think about all of the manufacturer leaks we had back then there was all about the seven inch OLED screen the ethernet port on the new dock and the new kickstand and every single one of those leaks was about the upcoming Nintendo switch OLED there wasn't manufacturing leaks for a new product but now we have manufacturing leaks for a new product we also have leaks from somebody who leaked a bunch of Pokemon stuff that has a dev kit look say what it is it sounds like we're getting a new Nintendo switch a brand new and upgraded a next generation system later this year and again we've talked in the past how hey you know what it kind of lines up with their game release schedule it kind of lines up with not having anything scheduled past July so this could be something that we need to start wrapping our minds around accepting and I know I'm kind of tired of talking about this topic like what is this the third or fourth day in a row it gets a little old but I can't help with new evidence rises up now to be clear that's not the only thing I wanted to mention today because we do have some news just for the normal Nintendo switch and that was because Nintendo has announced the Mario the Mario 10 you know the Mario day March 10th celebration they're going to be doing for Mario that they seem to do every single year first off they are launching a new switch and I say a new switch it's really just the old Mario red joycon switch coming back except you can choose one of three digital games I don't know how this works it includes one free game download you can either get Mario Kart 8 Deluxe new Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe or Super Mario Odyssey how this actually works probably got a log online and pick it before you even get the code but I do think that that is pretty pretty cool also that's not the only thing that they announced they happen to have a Mario game sale as well so Mario Odyssey Super Mario Bros. Deluxe Mario Kart 8 uh what is this uh Super Mario 3D World plus Bowser's Fury Mario Maker 2 Mario Party Superstars Luigi's Mansion 3 Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze Yoshi's Crafted World all those games are going to be discounted to $40 for a small bit so that is really really neat also booster course Pass Wave 4 is going to be coming out on March 9th that's a week from today with the newly added fruit cup and boomerang cups compose a tour Amsterdam drift GBA Riverside Park we DK Summit Yoshi's Island which is making its Mario Kart debut so it's a brand new course tour Bangkok Rush DS Mario Circuit GCN Waluigi Stadium and tour Singapore Speedway and a new playable character Birdo is being added this is all stuff we know before but that's cool GameStop is also going to have some in-store Mario events celebrating from March 11th noon to 4 p.m. they're going to be which is local time by the way so just noon to 4 p.m. whatever your local time zone is you're going to be able to play Mario games with friends with Mario Party Deluxe and Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe and others and receive free Mario themed items while supplies last all right also from March 5th to March 11th fans will be able to head to select retailers to save with the $20 on select games featuring Mario and friends so this is the sale they're having also extends to the physical copies as well you could also win a trip to Super Nintendo World my Nintendo wants to send you to Super Nintendo World at Universal Studios Hollywood starting on March 10th until April 25th head to my.nintendo.com to enter the Super Nintendo World family fund sweepstakes one lucky winner with up to three guests will win a trip to Universal Studios Hollywood to visit Super Nintendo World and see the mushroom kingdom in real life kids can also join in the Mario fund today and every day with activities and videos at play Nintendo their their youtube channel so yeah that's pretty cool so a bunch of Mario celebrations to throw on top so yeah we got technically a new switch announced but also the actual thing we're waiting for seems to be coming sooner than many of us expected except Mike Odyssey I guess Mike Odyssey has been been calling this forever so I'm awesome you're awesome love you all and we'll catch you in the next video