 So we're no strangers to talking about Jeff Grubb around these parts, specifically when it deals with things he says are coming to Nintendo Switch, be it games or systems or whatever. And today we got to talk about something that seemingly made rounds the last couple of days coming from an appearance that he had on kind of funny show on their little podcast or daily show where he talked about the Nintendo Switch successor. And we need to make some clarifications and some understandings about what this is and maybe even have a smidge of a conversation about how we cover things both here on YouTube and in the world of traditional media. That being said, before we get into this video, I want to remind you that we are on our road to 100,000 subscribers and if we hit 100,000 subscribers by the time Tears of the Kingdom comes out we will be giving away a collector's edition of Tears of the Kingdom. That steel book, the pins, the art book, the poster, it can all be yours for free. We just have to hit our milestone. So what are you waiting for? Why not subscribe to the channel? So what happened? So Jeff Grubb made an appearance on the kind of funny gamescast, I believe on Friday and he said something that got the internet really talking and we need to have some context to it. But before the context, let's just get into exactly what he said. Here's the clip. It's still on the table that we get something switch, not pro, but it maybe even not necessarily switch to maybe something like in between that is definitely like an actual upgrade in terms of hardware, but in terms of the way that Nintendo positions it, it feels like they could try to do like to straddle the line a little bit and do like a super switch that continues the generation in a way that is more significant than they've done since the Game Boy Color, but even more significant than that. And the big, the thinking there clearly is they have Nintendo Switch online, they have a lot of subscribers, they have a lot of people who are spending a lot of money buying video games and they don't want to disrupt or lose any of that momentum because all the other companies have figured out how to maintain it and they don't want to be the one company like restarting from zero. We all know that they've said as much publicly in earnings reports that they don't want to restart that the whole idea is to now build on that going forward. So everybody had to say there about getting a Switch 2 or Switch Pro neither of those and something in between which made people get really confused and wonder what the hell he's talking about. Really what he meant is that whatever this system coming he thinks that it's going to be in the same line of family of Switches we have today it will be more powerful and it's going to be fully backwards compatible and cross compatible and sort of be like an iPhone 14 S situation or I don't even know if they don't do the S series of phones anymore but you kind of get what you're saying. It's basically the Switch Pro without being the Switch Pro or it could be the Switch 2 but we call the Switch Pro but not because of Switch Pro it could be the new Switch, Super Switch but here's the thing. What we need to remember is these were just his thoughts, his opinions. He never said that he heard this stuff from any of his sources. So are his opinions worth covering? I guess you could argue for conversation purposes but when you have a number of news outlets going out there saying that it is a thing that's going to happen it's a little weird because he was just given his opinion that basically whatever is coming is going to be in the same family of systems and thus be fully cross compatible and whether or not it has the power of a Switch 2 or a Switch Pro or whatever they label it as is sort of irrelevant to his grander point of it's going to be them not abandoning the current audience while moving forward which again is something we see PlayStation and iPhone and all the rest of these companies seemingly have figured out just not Nintendo so yeah it is what it is but that wasn't all he had to say he also had to say something about that Pokemon rumor slash leak remember that originally got us all talking about Nintendo Switch 2 and here's what he said there. A patch for Pokemon to enhance it to go along with new Switch hardware and there could be translation issues there there's so many things that it could be. A lot of different like subtle meetings that maybe they're working on it for DLC 2 because that's when this company is done working on this Pokemon game and so they want it ready for whenever Nintendo hardware launches right there are a million reasons to read this a million ways to read it in a way that it's like the timing might not mean anything everything else could be true but the timing might not be significant and as you see there's just an interpretation though that maybe the timing is significant maybe the timing isn't significant but it's fun to have that alternative perspective but of course what we need to we need to address and I'm glad that kind of funny games went there the Zelda Wind Waker Twilight Princess rumor stuff yes Jeff Grubb has addressed it yet again for maybe the first time in 2023 on anywhere but his own channels I've always heard that it's been done and it's sitting there it's ready to go why they wouldn't put it out zero idea no idea it doesn't make any like last year they didn't they said they want to have a big Zelda release every year and last year they didn't have one right because the Skyward Sword came out in 2021 so it's I would have just expected again based on circumstantial evidence at that point that it would have made sense for last year now when we had that big show where we said here's what's happening with the Direct and we said that was happening that was a mistake when it came to the Zelda the Metroid stuff I always did hear for sure there was miscommunication on the Zelda stuff so if they're like going back to that it's like well no then I guess we don't necessarily know what's happening with these games anytime soon but going back before that like I said I've always heard they're ready they're sitting there and we're just waiting for Nintendo to pull the trigger when they will why they will who knows so as you can see there Jeff Grubb has not only doubled down triple down he's quadrupled down that these games are done when they're coming out he doesn't know but they're done the Wind Waker, Twilight Princess HD they've been ported over now we've seen evidence that Nintendo sits on things for a while we've seen evidence that they've been maybe sitting down the Metroid Prime remaster since 2021 we've also seen that same sort of evidence for Fire Emblem Engaged that maybe they said on that since 2021 so we have some tangential proof out there that Nintendo has been sitting on games and it's possible that the Wind Waker and Twilight Princess HD are games that they are sitting on and I do wonder if they're sitting on them intentionally because they plan to release them on the next hardware so it could look like an even an improvement over the Wii U right like I think right now bringing them over to Switch they would just pretty much be the exact same games except with the older style inventory system versus the dual screen system that they were using on Wii U but besides that I don't think that there would be any big fundamental differences so I feel like they think there's a bigger selling point if they brought it over to see the new system where maybe it has 60 FPS and better resolution and you can say well what about Skyward Store well Skyward Store was never officially in HD so that was a little bit of a different situation now some people don't think it's awakening they just ended up remaking the entire thing so I do fundamentally think that Nintendo probably has these games done and they're probably just sitting on them but the who, what, where, when, why is something that we're not gonna know about so whether or not you like Jeff Grubb or not I don't know some people really enjoy his banter and commentary and some don't but I did mention that I wanted to talk a little bit about how the coverage of this stuff happens and I'm not gonna sit here and pretend that I'm not guilty of things because hey we all make mistakes in how we cover stuff and it's important to be able to fundamentally recognize those mistakes one thing I think that Jeff Grubb has come to realize over the last few years is that pretty much everything he says becomes a YouTube video everything he says gets reported as facts and I don't know that a lot of these outlets when this story broke about oh it's not a Switch 2 or it's not a Switch Pro and I'm reading all these news articles there was almost no context given on all these various news websites that he was just giving an opinion he wasn't stating things from direct knowledge or anything and it's fine if you wanna talk about other people's opinions certainly we did it in this video but I want to clarify that I think sometimes we need to be more clear in our coverage of what's an opinion what's a rumor what's a leak and right now sometimes those lines get so blurred together what happens is it leaves the onlooker the viewer you guys or the reader probably also you guys on these various websites left with having to decipher things yourself and while I think a lot of us are obviously well-learned and attention detailed enough to recognize what's a source versus what's not a source what is a rumor versus what's an opinion what's an actual leak versus what is possibly a leak but unverifiable I think a lot of us can sort that out but I do think that there is also a massive contingent of people that don't they don't see beyond the title they don't see beyond the initial quotes and everything they just see that stuff and take it at face value and it's a dangerous way to consume things and we can't control the way that people consume things so what we have to do is control our reporting on how those things are handled right now it would behoove me to say that I've made some mistakes in my last video I talked about well what did I title that is again something that upsets some people something about story detail leaks or rather the tears of the kingdom story details leak or something like that and yeah you know my source on that's Mike Odyssey and I love the guy and I haven't seen the leaks for myself first hand to have that knowledge but you know we'll see hopefully that stuff turns out to be right but also it's a situation where I hadn't seen it for myself and you know I called the guy and the guy you know said that the flyers were there but then when I went to get one suddenly he didn't have them so like is he lying I look I don't know okay I'm not here to defend my reporting on that I just need to do a little bit better in how I cover things I think this also applies to things like talking about what Jeff Grubb or Nate the hate or Emily Rogers or any other insider or potential insider or a person who claims to be an insider says I feel like I do a pretty good job most of the time but sometimes I make mistakes and I think a lot of these news outlets they don't care whether they make mistakes they just care about getting their clicks most of these news outlets don't get hundreds of comments right they don't have like a super active community they just have a lot of passerby's they come in for a few seconds and then they move on whereas us that have you know make these videos we have some very passionate people watching some people that hate us some people that love us because you're not here for a couple of seconds my average watch time is about 50% of every video so I mean you're getting three, four, five minutes of people's time whereas you know if say my Nintendo news puts out a report and someone clicks on the link and checks it out they're probably only there for less than 30 seconds right so even if they don't like the report or they think it's full of crap they're highly likely not gonna make a comment on that because it requires more effort it requires you to put more time into commenting on something than it took you to consume it and I think that when people read these websites and they do these passerby headline surfing it's easy to sort of just let it go because you know what you didn't feel like it was wasted a big chunk of your time when you watch one of our videos and it might feel like well you know what I can't get that time back I understand and that's where some people come in where content creators don't respect your time I think that a lot of that has to do with just the the platform and the form of content that this is we're saying the same stuff these reports are saying but because we mix in our opinions and our thoughts and we're talking about all this various stuff it just kind of feels like we're wasting your time look if you're still here watching this video at this point I doubt that you feel like your time is wasted because you could have clicked off already right you already got the report so I look at it more as look this is just another form of communication this is a longer form of communication it takes you longer to consume it and because of that there's going to be more criticism when you get to the end and you realize you didn't like that video it's just part of the way it works I just hope that all of us including these websites can improve on being better to clarify opinions versus rumors versus leaks and facts and all of that and that includes me at this channel I got to be better about it too that being said thank you so much for tuning in and it is interesting to see Jeff Grov at least double down on that the Wind Waker Twilight Princess stuff I know I'm a little bit excited at least I probably shouldn't be but I'm a little excited to at least hear that that's still a thing and that he's not really backing off on their existence thank you guys and I'll catch you in the next video