 Hey everyone, welcome back to Nintendo Prime, it's been a hot minute as we've actually done a standalone video but if you are actually really excited about this video and other content coming up during Prime Gaming Fest I would appreciate if you would drop a subscription because we just have a lot going on and I really like to make sure you don't miss any of it. Maybe hit that notification bell as well. Now a big thing I actually want to get into right now and this is something that I've been debating internally for some time is when is Nintendo going to have their Nintendo Direct this month? Are they even going to have one? And you guys can see the title, there is a fresh rumor out there about an Nintendo Direct coming from a unlikely place and one where they're sort of putting their reputation behind it. There's one minor red flag about it and we'll get into that of course but that red flag is more a speculative red flag than anything. So we're talking about a Nintendo Direct and according to Zach from SwitchForce there will be a Nintendo Direct next week. He's saying this with 99.9% confidence and he's not just saying this as a speculative, hey look at all the dates of previous Direct's 11, 12, 13, 15th, maybe the 14th happens to be missing but he's not just saying that because of history, right? We can look at the history of Nintendo Direct in June and pretty much find a pretty consistent pattern of the second or third Tuesday of every single June but what he's actually pointing out is he has direct sources that know when the Direct is. Now he won't get into who these sources are maybe they happen to work at Nintendo and that's one reason why he can't get into it but he said he has independently verified these sources and verified their information and can say with 99.9% confidence that there will be an Nintendo Direct next week. Now he hasn't told us which exact day. He kind of hinted that maybe he dropped hints throughout his video on when it might be but everyone seems to be interpreting those hints as different days everything from the 14th, 15th to the 16th which by the way Nintendo basically does directs on Tuesday, Wednesdays or Thursdays so take that for what you will. You can also argue that him showing the 11, 12, 13th and 15th is obviously hinting at Tuesday since all of those are Tuesdays Nintendo has always done them on Tuesdays in June but that's neither here nor there. Nobody really knows. Obviously I already took my shot in the dark and that's why Prime got gaming fest runs until the 14th but even if the Direct happens on the 15th or 16th I will be right here live reacting with you guys it's just if it's on the 16th we also get to have Eric and have all of our additional conversations and giveaways built around it. We do have an event already on the 14th because Xbox is doing a gameplay showcase for about 90 minutes a day so we already have something to react to on the 14th but it would be great if we could also have a Nintendo Direct as well. Capcom said they're going on the 13th so we even have a Capcom showcase to react to. So there's a lot of stuff happening over the next week starting today I guess technically yesterday I guess we had limited run games do their showcase yesterday that I was planning to live react to I just happened to not be home at the time and today we actually have a sonic showcase going on and I will actually be live streaming that in fact I gotta kind of hurry up this video to get it out before then so what I actually wanted to go here and throw us out there and what the red flag was with what Zach said it's in his title he puts the word rumor in his title and if you watch Switch Force you'll know that when he's reporting on other people's stuff he doesn't really throw the word rumor into all of his titles sometimes you just heavily hints that something's coming like oh you know Donkey Kong hey we just might be getting a new Donkey Kong game and that just might give them the excuse to say I'm not saying we are but we may or it'll be like big news or whatever but this time when he's the source he put rumor which is actually the exact opposite of what you're supposed to do you put rumor on things that don't come from you but if they do come from you and you're 99.9 percent confident in your source you don't call it a rumor you just say hey we know when the next intent or direct is which is what the rest of his title says I find that to be kind of a baffling conundrum I can also point out that I don't think that Zach has ever had any history in actual journalism so he might not know what the proper etiquette is when you're the direct source you don't put rumor in the title when other people are reporting on you as the source they put rumor in the title it's kind of a weird thing and I think this just comes down from Zach's lack of ability or lack of lack of ability lack of experience in the gaming journalism world or journalism in general I will though that you know he seems to be getting a generally positive reaction from people putting rumor in the title but I find it a little bit ironic to call it a rumor on his end when he's the source and he claims to know almost like he's covering for himself that's kind of the red flag that I see there that maybe he's covering all his bases and be like hey what if this isn't true I don't want to get roasted again you said 99.9% confident confident that this is real so it is what it is I think next week is obviously always a safe bet regardless because yeah the 14th happens to come around the 11, 12, 13, 15, 18 like it's it kind of falls in that range when Nintendo is usually doing directs and also happens to be the second Tuesday and also happens to be after Xbox and all the other major players have gone so it kind of fits with Nintendo sort of capping all of the all of the events although guess what there are game companies going now in July and you know this is just the way it's going to be when you don't have a centralized event like E3 to really build things around where you have an in-person demo showcase people don't have to necessarily show their games off at this time period they're going to be kind of spread throughout the summer anyways I wouldn't be surprised when Ubisoft forward comes out in like August or something just just because whereas if there was an in-person E3 this year with demos Ubisoft would be more likely to go now because they got demos they got to you know advertise and pub up so that's neither here nor there I think this is a very very interesting way to go about things and I do think that there is a very positive correlation to Nintendo Direct's next week compared to Nintendo in the past we could speculate over and over again on what's going to be in this direct obviously I think recaps of all of Nintendo's major upcoming games in a way three Bayonetta maybe we even get a date for Bayonetta finally some footage on Splatoon 3 as well maybe a new fresh announcement for the holiday season I know rumors are out there for a one-two switch sequel that people seem to not be excited about which I find interesting because one-two switch is a party game and I know people to this day that are still playing it so I don't really understand the problem if you aren't into those kind of party games and it wouldn't be exciting for you but it's going to be exciting for some like Nintendo makes game for everyone and I feel like obviously when we enjoy certain games like Breath of the Wild or Mario Odyssey like we kind of focus in on that stuff but I think it's important that Nintendo continues to release games for everybody you know Ring Fit Adventure basically got zero pub when it came out and now it's one of the most important titles on switch one of the most consistent evergreen titles on switch and now everybody seems to respect it whereas you know because one-two switch felt like it should have been a packing game that it's a problem like you know Wii Sports was a packing game it didn't stop us from buying Wii Sports Resort although it being a packing game obviously helped its popularity so anyways I don't know what we're going to see guys honestly the rumors are are flying out there on all these games where there's Donkey Kong Metrofront remake Oracle Remakes uh Twilight Princess um HD Limit Maker HD I don't know guys uh your guess is literally as good as mine we'll get into more on Nintendo Direct Speculation and Expectations during Prime Gaming Fest from June 9th through June 14th it's a massive giveaway event combined with reacting to all of the game announcements live as they happen combined with a lot of gaming competitions Super Smash Bros Ultimate Tournament Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Tournament Eric and Nate versus each other we're going to play each other in Nintendo Sports we're also going to play each other in Mario Strikers we're also going to do other uh little fun contest a little bit of Nintendo Drink Pong and some other things are going to be happening we're going to be spinning a wheel of death punishment you guys ought to tune in to see what that's all about it's supposed to be really really really entertaining we even have backup games uh for our backup games in case we need to fill in a little bit more time but you guys know me I can fill in time just by shooting the shit so I love you guys I will see you guys uh at Prime Gaming Fest in fact hopefully I'll see a bunch of you guys at our Sonic Central live reaction today you guys are amazing and awesome don't forget that we'll catch you later