 Hey everyone, welcome back to the Nintendo Prime. We got another video for you today. Also got a little podcast shirt action here. So we got a brand new podcast merch if you want to head down into the description to find out more. And yeah, this is actually a new hat. You see that? Doesn't that look slick? A white hat, gray brim. We actually have other color options for this as well, but yeah, this hat is baller and you might see it in a lot more videos just because I like white hats. I like hats in general. Sometimes I do my hair up. Sometimes I wear hats. We're wearing hats today. I got a few stories here to get to you in addition to our prior video earlier today, including a certain Nintendo exclusive IP, almost having a sequel practically confirmed at this point. We can call it a rumor, but all of the stuff actually comes from the developers. So we'll get into that. We're gonna be talking about the Nintendo Direct that is supposed to come this month. We'll get into that as well. And then our final story is gonna be just be a little bit of a non-story, more so a conversation, a mini conversation about something important. Let's just put it that way. But before we get into that, I gotta remind you we are giving away a Nintendo Switch OLED. That's right. If you wanna win a Nintendo Switch OLED, all you have to do is subscribe to the channel and you guys have probably guessed it by now. We have a live stream in early October to announce the winner. You're gonna wanna be at that live stream. So please subscribe, but also be at that live stream. I've been trying to get that live stream set up here for a little bit, I wanna make sure the thumbnail's just right. I don't wanna be misleading people. It is a worldwide giveaway. So yeah, pretty cool there. All right, so I got my glasses on quick here just so I can read a few of the direct quotes here. Because our first story deals with a certain game coming from platinum games to Nintendo Switch that is not yet announced. So video game Chronicle, again we've been covering this interview all week and just more good nuggets keep coming out of it. And a video game Chronicle asked Inaba, who runs platinum games, is that Inaba-san, in our last chat, you called Astral Chain's Takahisha Tora, your best director and suggested that he could pick and choose his next project. Has he started working on anything yet? And again, he made an Astral Chain, he's done I think Metal Gear Rise in the past and he's actually got his name behind a number of critically acclaimed games. Remember, Astral Chain, the last game that he did, scored an 87 on Metacritic and has widely been praised by everyone who's played it. It's an absolutely fantastic game. I don't even know if we call it underrated, I'm pretty sure it's sold one to two million units on Switch, I'm not sure if we have final numbers on that. Anyways, Inaba responds and says, we've got to keep the superstar busy. He laughs. He says he's working on something, but we can't say what it is. And then video game Chronicle presses and says, might we see it announced soon? And Inaba says, it would be nice if that happened now. At this point, we obviously don't know what he's working on, right? And it doesn't sound like Inaba can tell us. Now, we have heard from people like Hideki Kamiya from Platinum Games in the past that when Nintendo is in control, Nintendo decides when you can say something. And Inaba who runs Platinum Games is like, yeah, he's working on something, but we can't say what it is. We can't. Not that somebody else can't, Platinum Games can't. And he says, it would be nice if it was announced soon. Meaning he has no idea. Why doesn't he have any idea? Because it's highly likely Nintendo or another company is hiring Platinum Games and that specific director to make a game. But I wanna draw your attention to something. And I gotta shout out SwitchForce for reminding me of this. Thank you so much, Zach. You do some good work over there. He reminded me that last summer, Hideki Kamiya was talking in August about various different upcoming Platinum Games in their upcoming release schedule. He mentioned things like Band-Aid 3. It's one of the first times he mentioned it. And that's when he told us, hey, Nintendo will let you know we can unveil it, but blah, blah, blah. We do a Band-Aid 3 comment. He mentioned a couple other games they had in the works. And he tweeted out Astral Chain 2, but then quickly deleted that tweet. Guessing he was getting in a few phone calls and text messages about that tweet right away and went ahead and deleted it. Astral Chain 2 has not been ever confirmed. And the thing is, sure, he said that. He wasn't, he wouldn't be the one running the game. But now we know that the guy's working on something. It's something that they're not allowed to talk about that clearly somebody else decides when it's time. And we know that Nintendo is a company that holds things back until they're ready to show it themselves. So Astral Chain 2 is very much on deck here for a possibility of coming to Switch. Likely next year, I would say, that I feel like that's given it enough time. You know, we got Astral Chain back in 2019. They're using the same engine. That game, by the way, was gorgeous on Switch for what it was. Very, very cool. So I'm really hoping that becomes a full-on sequel and that Nintendo and Platinum continue to work together on this brand new IP. Nintendo does have a focus on new IPs. So bringing sequels to those new IPs that have been a success in the past would make a lot of sense. Remember, we just talked the other day about how Daemon X Machina might be getting a sequel or they definitely want to make a sequel. That's another Nintendo console exclusive. Well, Astral Chain, I mean, Nintendo and Platinum, the marriage is almost perfect for a game like that. Hopefully we get news on Astral Chain too soon. Speaking of news, when might we hear about something like an Astral Chain too? Well, that would be at a Nintendo Direct. If you guys remember, heading into this month, we did have a one rumor, one source rumor. I think it was Samsung for saying that we would get a Direct in September. And then Zippo, a now debunked leaker. I don't care what anybody says. I have done my homework on him, fake leaker. He put out there that it was gonna happen in early September and it was imminent and obviously that didn't happen. And we're past mid-September now and it's clearly not going to happen this week either. But going more further than that, I did tell you guys that I really, really strongly believed that we were gonna get a Nintendo Direct this month. In fact, going as far to say, we will get a Nintendo Direct this month, we just don't know when. And I cited my reasoning for that, of course, being, hey, they've done something major in September, pretty much since Nintendo Direct's have been founded and there's been a Direct in September. They've done a Nintendo Direct every single year since Nintendo Direct started in September, besides last year, but then last year they didn't do Directs. They did have a partner showcase Direct technically, so you can argue there wasn't Direct. And they also did do the 35th anniversary of Mario in September. So they still treat it September as a big month. So it made sense that there would be a Direct. Again, again, history stated there would be. But here we are and it's getting a little nervous. We still got about six possible dates for Directs. Remember, Directs typically happen on Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday and we have two more, you know, so six total days left in this month for it to still happen. And obviously we have the upcoming release of Metroid Dread. And by the way, a brand new system that Nintendo keeps not really talking about much in the Switch OLED. So I do think that a Direct is probably still on the cards for this month. But here is the gist of it here. We don't know if there's gonna be a Nintendo Direct and leakers have been weirdly silent about it. We've had two leakers, I'm not gonna mention their names at this point, but they have come out and said they know when the next Direct is happening but they're not gonna give us a day. Okay, that sounds like they're not very confident in it happening. So to me, when you consider leak culture, you consider Nintendo's history and you consider the upcoming slate of games, it's not like Nintendo doesn't have things to advertise. I got a bunch of games to advertise the rest of the year. There's going to be another Nintendo Direct this year, at least that's my feeling. And this is where we get into point number three. I obviously don't know where Nintendo Direct's are at. I don't know when one's going to happen. I have no direct connections to Nintendo. I know, I know, sorry that I disappoint you. My bad, I didn't mean to disappoint you that I don't have direct connections. But that's the God's honest truth. I don't know when the next Direct is going to happen. I don't know that anybody does besides Nintendo and maybe partnered companies. The thing is, a lot of things I say at this channel can be misconstrued because we report on news like we did earlier where potentially Astro Chain 2 is coming, that was a news story. So when you have the news stories and then you have the conversation around the news stories, people start to jumble it together. So say there's a rumor on a new Direct and then I come out and state my opinion that I feel a Direct is likely or a Direct will happen. Again, those are just opinions and I have noticed time and time again with commenters and maybe this goes back to the Switch Pro rumors that people are taking my word and inferring from my word that hey, I'm telling you a Direct will happen and I need to be held accountable when I'm wrong. As if we're all held accountable when we have opinions that are just predictions that end up being incorrect because I mean, we're incorrect all the time, right? I source every piece of news that I put up, whether it's a rumor, whether it's a leak, whether it's legit news, trailers, whatever it is, I source everything. And so you can go through my sources on my videos. I link all of them down in the description. In fact, I've been critical of other YouTube channels that don't source, who don't put the sources in the description. I know I just credited like Zach from SwitchForce earlier in this video for the little tip about the deleted tweet last year. But of note, he does not put links to his sources down in the description. So you still have to go search on GoogleyGoogley or Twitter or Twitter and find this stuff for yourselves. Now, yes, that doesn't mean he's not giving legit information. He's just making people who want to verify that information have to work that much harder. I understand as a YouTuber it's easy not to do that. In fact, I criticized Spawnwave of that a couple of years ago and he responded very well to the criticism and he agreed that I'm right that we should probably be sourcing and putting our sources down in the description. Now he does that in every video. So that is the one thing if you enjoy his sources being in the description, hey, I'm the one that called them out for it and got him to start doing it. But here's the thing, that's not to toot my own horn. That's the point out that while I have legit information, most of what I say after I report on something like when I talk about how, oh yeah, Annaba this, Annaba that, Camilla said this and then everything after that point on forward are my opinions, are my speculation, are my predictions. And I realize they sometimes come off matter of fact like there will be a direct in September but then I provide my supporting evidence for why I think there will be. The difference is I don't use the words I think, I don't always use the word IMHO or in my honest opinion. I don't always mention that terminology because I always feel like it's inferred and I like to feel like my audience is intelligent enough to understand the difference between what's the actual report and what is my actual viewpoints on that report. And I'm wrong all the time. I make predictions all the time that I'm wrong on. I mean, yeah, I make predictions that I'm right on too but I'm not running around tooting my own horn because I made some sort of prediction or some sort of opinion that ended up being correct. It doesn't really matter to me. I enjoy the conversations around games and I give my viewpoints on those conversations. And typically when I get called out I always point out to people that what are you calling me out for? Quite recently, and I won't name any commenters I don't want anyone being attacked, I said there will be a Nintendo Direct and so he keeps asking me where a Nintendo Direct is and I keep telling him to go ask Nintendo because I obviously don't know but he was just, I don't know what upset but he was just saying, well, hey, you did say there would be one so why hasn't it happened yet? And it's kind of like, it's my opinion that one will exist. I just don't use that language because I don't feel like I need to. I feel like every video, I mean literally when you go to my channel the word opinions is like in the banner, like it's inferred that I present opinions along with the news and discussion. So that's just me though, it is what it is. I am happy though, if you stuck around to the end of this video, congratulations. We have a giveaway going on next week during the Nintendo Prime Podcast, episode 20. We gotta celebrate reaching that big two zero. The next celebration giveaway on the podcast I think is gonna be episode 50 but yeah, we have a celebration giveaway next week. So you're gonna wanna tune in live to the podcast because that's the only way you'll be able to win whatever it is that we are giving away. Outside of that, we're gonna wrap this up because I got some stuff to do. I got, you know, my studio is a bit messy. We gotta get the studio slash office, you know, kind of tidied up, maybe reorganize some things back here, change the background up a little bit. Got a lot of cool things coming your way, including some special stuff happening in October. Remember we are still giving away that Switch OLED as well. So be subscribed to enter for that and obviously show up to our live stream later for that as well. I don't know if I'm streaming tonight. I don't know what's happening. I think I'm just gonna take this time to tidy everything up. And yeah, thank you so much for all of you guys' support. I know I don't say this enough. Maybe I'll look at GIF horse in the mouth sometime. But we are on the precipice, if not before this video comes out of hitting 72,000 subscribers. And I know that's just a random number, right? People usually don't mention anything until they hit, you know, 10, 20, 50. And then they'll mention it again when they hit 100. I appreciate every single one of you. 72,000 people choosing to hit that subscribe button, whether it was due to my content, my giveaways, or whatever copious amount of reasons you might have had to subscribe. I appreciate you. I never thought when I started this journey really four years ago. I know the channel is eight years old, but four years ago is when I started taking YouTube seriously, I never thought I would get past 50,000 subscribers. Let alone, you know, we crossed 50,000 back in September of last year, and here we are 20,000 plus more later. I just, I'm in awe, to be completely honest. You guys are amazing. I appreciate you. Thank you so much for joining me on this journey. And hopefully you continue to join me on future journeys because I have a lot of big things I'd like to do at this channel that are going to take continued growth to do. So thank you so much. You guys are amazing. And I'll catch you in the next video.