 Hey everyone, welcome back to Nintendo Prime. It's nice to be a little bit back on camera for you guys to go and see Eric back to the background there. He's actually dealing with giveaways right now from our Prime Gaming Fest, which still has one more day. If you don't know what Prime Gaming Fest is, you're really missing out. We are going live tomorrow for 12 hours. It's insane. We'll probably end up talking about what we're gonna talk about in this video and so much more. We also have special guests, Andres Restart coming on and lots and lots of giveaways, including a Hylian Shield. That's right, you wanna tune in? We have some really, really big giveaways tomorrow. I think in total, it's almost $1,000 in giveaways on our final day. So I hope you guys end up tuning in. That being said, let's get into the big news today because look, a Nintendo Direct is coming, right? We talked about this yesterday and now today, more and more people have come out to talk about this direct, right? Emily Rogers is confirming the date. Nate Drake's confirming the date. Video Game Chronicles is confirming the date. Obviously, we have Elana Pierce and Andre from GameXplain. We are getting to the point now where so many, both insiders and people that actually work in the video game industry, like Elana Pierce right now, and people that are really, really high up in the journalism sphere are basically coming out and saying, it's June 29th, it's June 29th, it's June 29th, it's June 29th. So it's coming. End of the month, sounds crazy. We can still call it a rumor because it's not announced, but it's something that's pretty strong that's coming then. And okay, fine. But let's wrap our minds around accepting that that is what's gonna happen. So then what's next? Well, what's next is what we're gonna get at the Direct. And while we don't know that this is for sure gonna be at the Direct, Emily Rogers did speak up really at length about everything she knows for Fire Emblem. And we're not just talking about any old Fire Emblem. Yeah, we have Fire Emblem Warriors, three hopes coming out later this month, but that's not what she's talking about. She's talking actually about a brand new, not even a remake, a brand new Fire Emblem that's actually done, ready to go. And if that's the case, likely gonna drop this year. Don't be surprised if it's at the Direct. Let's get into what Emily Rogers, one of the best Nintendo insiders has to say about this. So here we are at the family boards. And yeah, Emily and I have had a conversation or two, but here is what she had to say in this particular instance about the new Fire Emblem game. The upcoming Fire Emblem game is a new game, not a remake, a brand new story. Collaborations to make this game are between intelligent systems, Koei Tecmo and Gust, a division of Koei Tecmo holdings. Gust has heavily assisted with the visuals and graphics. The graphics are an improvement over three houses. Originally it was intended as an anniversary game to celebrate Fire Emblem's 30th anniversary. The game has been finished for over a year. The main character, aka the main Lord has a strange red and blue hair. His mother is actually a dragon. New Emblem's gimmick allows players to summon Fire Emblem characters from the past for your squad. I don't plan to share any more details about this game. So this is it, it's all she's given us. Many months ago, Nate Drake, so we don't know him, Nate the Hate, Nate Drake, all the names he goes by on the internet, teased about red and blue. Everything Nate has teased about the upcoming Fire Emblem game, which that's like the last thing he teased, has been accurate. Please be kind to Nate, his information is good and he cares about the Nintendo fan community. Now again, this is a big deal in so much that not only is Emily Rogers throwing her weight behind Nate Drake and Nate the Hate being an actual insider with real good information, that's nice. It's nice to know that one of the number one Nintendo insiders that's ever existed on the internet is actually throwing some weight behind another person that she thinks that we should trust, even if he's made some mistakes. Of course, the Switch Pro stuff obviously being the biggest nefu he has probably ever made, if we're completely honest. He is the one who said it was about to be announced imminently, before he threw last year. A lot of people blame Takahashi much as Zuki for that, but Takahashi much as Zuki never actually said it was gonna be revealed, just that it was being pushed to be revealed. It was Nate the Hate, Nate Drake, et cetera, that actually threw out their hate. Yeah, I think so. Or I know so. So much so that it's imminently about to be revealed. Anyways, that's not even over there. Let's focus on what Emily Rogers had to say about Fire Emblem here, because these are exciting rumors. Now, there's a few things that are exciting about it. One of the number one knocks on Fire Emblem Three Houses were the visuals, right? It didn't look like the most visually pleasing game on Switch. And to the point that people noted, man, there's a lot more better looking games on Switch than this. Now Fire Emblem Three Houses sold incredible, and the whole Three Houses gimmick and the school, it was all really, really neat. I really enjoyed my time at Fire Emblem Three Houses and still do to this day. I got my wife, you, in that game. But here's the thing, that's not necessarily what everyone wants out of Fire Emblem. And one thing they want to see is improve visuals. And it's nice to know that apparently there is a dedicated team just for the visuals. So yeah, Intelligent Systems is making it, but Koei Tecmo and their gust division in particular are heavily focused on making the games visually pleasing. Koei Tecmo is actually really good at making games look good on Switch. They did a phenomenal job, obviously, with some of the warrior stuff. So it's not really surprising to see them come in and be like, hey, look, you know, maybe we can add some flair to this and make this up to the standards that people expect out of Switch. Maybe even beyond. Maybe some FSR action, potentially. Then when I look at the rest of this, you know, I'm just glad that I'm here. It's interesting that it was originally part of the 30th anniversary plans. That's cool. You know, that's, I guess, the thing to throw out there. And the fact that it's been done for over a year. This kind of explains some of the rumors we heard last year that, hey, they're gonna announce some Fire Emblem games earlier this year. Hey, Nintendo's got multiple Fire Emblem games that works, Warriors, this game, maybe a remake. And a lot of that comes from the fact that, hey, this game's been done. It's just kind of sitting there. We always, you know, kind of go out there and say, oh, Nintendo, you know, they're delaying games. But sometimes games are just done and they're trying to decide the right time to release. And in this case, they obviously haven't decided what the right time is to release yet publicly. Now, maybe they have an internal date and maybe that's gonna be, you know, a game that's coming out this fall or something like that. And I can see it slotting in very well with Bayonet 3 in there. Maybe Spark's a Hope and you throw out the Pokemon game. Suddenly you're starting to see a really, really solid lineup for this fall. So I could see them maybe being like, this is gonna be a big surprise announcement at the direct. Well, maybe not so much of a surprise now, but again, we've had rumors about this for a while. So some people were already expecting some sort of thing. But at least now we know to expect a new Fire Emblem game versus a remake. Not that a remake's not in the works, but this is the one that's done ready to go and Nintendo's gonna drop it whenever. And it's interesting that it's been over a year since Fire Emblem 3 hopes came out in 2019. But hey, technically, it's like three years ago at this point, so I guess, you know, they could have got one out in that time. Fire Emblem is actually always a quick turnaround. And the gimmick of being able to use emblems, which hey, look, they're finally using the emblem part of Fire Emblem to mean something. So they're creating this Emblem gimmick, which is just like a special thing that's only in this game where you can summon characters from the past. I think one reason why we're seeing that is the success of Fire Emblem Heroes on our phones, right? Like Fire Emblem Heroes has got lots of money and made a lot of success out of the fact that you can get all these different characters from the entire franchise through gotcha mechanics. And I'm not saying they're including gotcha mechanics here, but they are gonna include probably a ton of fan favorites coming back. And I find that to be rather, rather interesting how they're gonna pull that off in a unique way. And apparently this emblem gimmick is gonna allow us to bring some, a lot of our favorite heroes from prior, Fire Emblem games. So I am really excited to get some of the favorite heroes of the past into this game, not just worry about them and heroes or worry about them and say Smash Bros, where it definitely always seems like Sakurai seems to be in love with Fire Emblem, hence all the criticism every time a new Fire Emblem character's announced. Still, I'm really excited about this. I actually wanna know your guys' thoughts in this down below. A lot of you out there are gonna be much bigger Fire Emblem fans than I am. I have not played every single game. Big fan of Awakening, big fan of the GameCube one, which for some reason I'm drawing a blank on. I played the hell out of it and beat it. And I just, I'm even embarrassed. I can't think of a little time ahead. Forgive me, my brain's a little fried. We've had five straight days of 12 plus hour streams. Forgive me a little bit here. And obviously I really loved Three Houses. To me it's one of my favorite games on Switch. Might even be in my top 10. We'll probably have a conversation on that tomorrow because while we have the Xbox showcase tomorrow and we're gonna have Andres restart on, I believe I wanna do a segment during our show talking about my top 10 favorite games for Nintendo Switch and get Eric's thoughts on that. Shout out to Eric back there and get everyone else's thoughts from the chat and everything else. And yes, big shout out to Eric for handing me the giveaways right now so I can get this video up because this is just really big news. But I'll be checking over some of those giveaways as well because we have our final day of giveaways during Prime Gaming Fest. I can't stress this enough. You're gonna wanna be there. It's gonna be the biggest day of giveaways we've done yet. All things that weren't claimed from prior days will be given out plus all the things we already planned to give out. Plus our coup de gras, Hylian Shield being given away for the last giveaway of the day and Eric's actually gonna grab it. It's a collector's item from First Four Figures and it is badass. Oh, here he comes baby. Are you ready for this? Are you ready for this? I don't think you are. Maybe you are. Maybe you already own one. Oh and it turns on. It lights up. So that's a thing. That's mine but you'll get one. Oh yeah by the way this comes off and like turns around and see like it's actually fully. So pretty cool. And yeah it's a collector's item limited edition and you'll be able to own one for yourself. You know maybe. I don't know it's a free giveaway. You want it to pay to enter. Like that's not really what we do around here. There are member only giveaways but that's not one of them. Everyone will be able to win it and why am I holding this flathead screwdriver? Maybe it's time to tighten a few screws that might be loose up here. I don't know. Anyways guys, thank you so much for tuning in to the Nintendo Prime. If you enjoyed this video and you like all the rumors and news and everything else we cover, Prime gave us. Be sure to subscribe to the channel. I would greatly, greatly appreciate it as we're on our road to get to past 80,000 subscribers and slowly climb the stairs up to 100K. You want to be, you know, one of those people I can say I was there before Nintendo got that check mark. It's a thing that just happens when you get 100,000 subscribers. See you guys for tuning in and I'll catch you in the next video.