 Oh boy, do I have some interesting news for you in regards to a potential sequel to a fairly popular Nintendo sort of game that we got back in 2017, or you could take a guess already, but I'm sure by now you're maybe figuring it out, could be talking about Breath of the Wild 2 or Mario Odyssey 2, but I'm not. Let's get into this in a moment. I got a reminder, we're giving away a PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X or Nintendo Switch. Head down to the description or the pinned comment to enter. Let's get into the news! Yeah, we're looking at Rabbids. What's going on? So, this is the official Rabbids account. Alright, 11,008k followers, not that many, but Rabbids is kind of a spin-off of another series, you guys probably know the story by now, I don't need to dive too deep into it, and they've had some modicum of success with Rabbid games over the years, but by far and away the most successful Rabbids game ever released is the one at the top of this Twitter profile named Mario Plus Rabbids Kingdom Metal. Well, this account used to just be at Rabbids. That's all it was. It was just the official Rabbids account, as you see they'll talk about Rabbids in Smash, Rabbid Wild Race on Phones, all that jazz. It's just literally the official Rabbids account. There's nothing in particular specific here to any particular Rabbids game. It would just advertise various Rabbids stuff, and you'll see a lot of Kingdom Battle ads as well, of course, but these go all the way back to 2019. So yeah, it's not an account that's used very often, but the account was recently renamed, as of I believe yesterday. I'm not exactly sure when it happened. I think it happened after every scene. This tweet right here? Wait, no, not that tweet. No, I don't remember. It happened yesterday. That's all I know. I went back and I checked online marketplaces and it happened yesterday. So the thing is, it changed its name from at Rabbids to at Mario Rabbids. Now, why is it doing that? Now, this Twitter account is less followers than I do, so it's not like it's a huge account, but why would they do that? Well, there's got to be a reason for changing the official Rabbids Twitter account, which by the way, is still, I guess, acting like the official Rabbids Twitter account. It hasn't posted anything since, what, August 28th of 2020? But why would they just stealthily change the name of it? Chances are there is a brand new Mario Plus Rabbids Kingdom Battle game coming to Nintendo Switch. That's what I get out of this. When you rename the official Rabbids account to Mario Rabbids, that's because something's coming. You'll see often, you know, this title changed, but to change the at, the at is not changed very often, okay? I would know. I have changed the at before. It's a complicated process and Twitter can actually limit how many times you can do it, whereas this name here, where it says Rabbids, you could change that to whatever you want all the time. Obviously, we have the little check mark here, which I don't know. This counts verified. Not a blue check, but it's verified. So it's an official Ubisoft account. So here's the thing. Mario Plus Rabbids Kingdom Battle was wildly successful, and honestly, it was one of my favorite games to come out in 2017. Nobody really saw it coming besides, well, Emily Rogers, who leaked the game as coming. People didn't believe her. They thought it was what was nuts. Just a really weird, funky idea. Having an XCOM style Mario game crossed over Rabbids like, yeah, right, Nintendo's not going to let Mario shoot a gun. Why would Nintendo want to mess with the Rabbids? The Rabbids are kind of lame. I mean, I did enjoy the TV show. They ended up creating about it, but outside of that, the Rabbids have been mostly considered pretty lame in the gaming world, and just kind of not worth having to cross over with. And then Mario Plus Rabbids Kingdom Battle came, and my lord was it fantastic. Now, almost everything about the game leaked before its official reveal at E3 2017. It was supposed to be a surprise. It ended up not being a surprise because it got leaked, but still, it was a great game. It had a lot of DLC added, high quality DLC. You know, a lot of us have been clamoring for a new XCOM style game from Ubisoft, and what we got was Mario Plus Rabbids Kingdom Battle, which seems insane on the surface. Mario with guns, but it worked, and it worked fantastically well to the tune of many, many millions of sales. We don't have the exact data because Ubisoft hasn't given it, but it sounds like it's sold north of 5 million copies, and that's in the early days of Switch. This is before there was 80 plus million systems on the market, before the Switch ball really got rolling with all of these insane sales. I mean, it took many years to get Zelda up to 20 million, so who knows where Mario Plus Rabbids Kingdom Battle is right now. Again, they haven't had new DLC for a while. They've definitely been doing something. That team that made the game at Ubisoft currently has not had another game announced, so the team that made Mario Plus Rabbids Kingdom Battle does not have a game announced by Ubisoft currently in development, and we don't know what they've been doing. I think at this point, we could safely assume with the rename of the Twitter account, they've been working on what's next for Mario Plus Rabbids. Now, I would love to see them, absolutely love to see them branch out. Let's have a Zelda Plus Rabbids. Let's have a Metroid Plus Rabbids. Let's have a Pikmin Plus Rabbids, but clearly that's not the direction they are going to go. With the name Mario Rabbids there, I think they're obviously going to make a Mario Plus Rabbids Kingdom Battle 2 or whatever they call it. Maybe they don't even call it Kingdom Battle. I'm not even sure. I would assume they call it Kingdom Battle 2 because Ubisoft likes to use numbers in their titles, hence Assassin's Creed, Assassin's Creed 2, Assassin's Creed 3, etc. But we'll see. I am very very hopeful for this game, and the fact that this name change happened now kind of tells me this game might be coming this year, and they're keeping it really under wraps. Now remember the last one was in 2017. They had some DLC come on after, but full development on a new game could possibly be ready right now in 2021. By the time E3 time rolls around, it will have been four years since the last game was announced, and almost four years since it was released. It was released like a month or two later. So I'm pumped for this, and I can't wait to get my hands on whatever is coming next from the creative minds behind this. Remember Ubisoft approached Nintendo with the idea for Mario Plus Rabbids Kingdom Battle, and surprisingly Nintendo went along with it. So I think that this is really cool, and I have high high hopes at this point. We could just call this speculation. We could just call this a rumor. We don't have any direct information that Mario Plus Rabbids Kingdom Battle 2 is happening, and you might say, that makes this video pointless. But I pointed that Twitter account to this account right here, and I say, why else rename the Twitter account to Mario Rabbids? When you haven't tweeted anything since August, you don't have a big following. Why else change the Twitter account to Mario Rabbids if we're not about to get more Mario Plus Rabbids? And I'm just assuming it's a new Kingdom Battle game because that's all. This is highly successful, and it's about time we get another one. Now that's just my hot take. That's my hope. That's my dream, maybe, baby, because I love this game. In fact, you know, one of my favorite levels is the level where someone sings. I'm like, I don't want to spoil it too bad, because if you haven't played the game, you're really missing out. It's a fantastic game. Go try it. And any excuse to talk about that game again, I think is a good one. And so I took this opportunity to talk about Mario Plus Rabbids Kingdom Battle. The original game is great. It's cheap. It's really good. And it looks like there's probably another one coming likely this year, if I had to guess. So let's go, baby. Mario Plus Rabbids Kingdom Battle. Hyping is beginning to happen as we get more and more into this year. Again, I don't think we're going to hear about this game till summer, but I'm excited. Hi, folks. I'm Nathaniel Robodance from Nintendo Prime. Thank you so much for tuning in. And I'll catch you in the next video.