 Hey everyone welcome back to Nintendo Prime and oh boy do we have a juicy Nintendo Direct rumor for you today now you can jump right to the timestamp down below to get directly to that rumor because before we get into it I want to tell a story a story of a leaker that I swore we would stop talking about and this story is a very interesting journey and this is let's just call this the nail in the coffin of leaks from this leaker if this isn't true this truly is the end in my opinion but we'll get to that in a moment and we'll get to exactly what this Nintendo Direct leak is that being said I am Nathan Ruffel Jantz and we are giving away a Switch OLED a PlayStation 5 and an Xbox Series X this month head down to the pin comment or to the description click on that gleam.io link and I wish everyone luck now looking at this person it almost pains me we're talking about Samus Hunter someone who I've said I wouldn't cover at this channel anymore however Samus Hunter put up a uh interesting tweet this morning interesting bunch of tweets this morning that make me they they they're such a big swing that this is it to me for Samus Hunter if this doesn't happen that's it I don't think there's any reason to listen to her now who is Samus Hunter this is obviously an anonymous person on the internet identifies as female we don't know anything about her personally I've had a lot of private conversations with her but around I would say May of last year is when I took notice of Samus Hunter there was a fan who DM'd me some stuff that Samus Hunter was saying about the potential E3 coming up last year and I went down the rabbit hole of digging through her twitter account which had existed for a little over a year and everything she had said up to a certain point besides one thing that in like October or November of 2020 had come true and the things she mentioned in October of or November of 2020 had to deal with the future of nintendo switch online and virtual console and and all that stuff which by the way that entire video which I did do eventually that blew up on my channel was wrong she was wrong about that but I had gone back in her twitter account not knowing that she deleted tweets or not and noticed that everything she had said had happened whether it was about you know tweets that were coming out or announcements or games etc and it made me realize hey maybe this person really does have legit information so maybe they're worth talking about so I decided to cover them in a couple of videos or cover Samus Hunter in a couple of videos some stuff they were saying about E3 and uh after doing that for a little bit and Samus Hunter starting to get more followers at the time she had less than a hundred followers on twitter so barely anybody knew who she was she started gaining you know more and more followers she got to 500 she got to a thousand and then she realized where all these new followers were coming from they were coming from you guys you know how my channel and how my twitter account um deciding to follow her after I reported on stuff she had said and noted that she actually had a really really good track record so she DM me on twitter and from there things sort of evolved she DM me and uh we would she would tell me things before she was gonna tweet them I'd make videos on it it was kind of a let's help each other out I'll give you information that you can make videos on you'll increase my following before I drop the tweets on it and it's kind of a hunky dory situation and then this obviously expanded into her talking to people like Andres Restart and other content creators and obviously from there other people started covering her comic book dot com started giving her attention um several other youtubers started giving her attention as well and her following has grown from there right now her twitter following is over 20 000 which is bigger than mine I'm just over 16 000 so she has a bigger following at least on twitter and maybe she'll eventually have a bigger following than even this youtube channel uh but honestly I was the reason she got discovered so I feel a lot of personal responsibility for the attention that she does get because I honestly think without me nobody would know who she is um that's neither here nor there now again she's talked to me privately in DMs about many things including who her sources are and I'm not gonna dive into that because if her sources are real well I really don't want them to get in trouble the interesting part in all of this was obviously the more we covered of her and obviously because she's posting things all the time the more it became okay she how could one person know all this and she made some statements uh that ended up not coming true obviously the whole entire revamped and Nintendo switch online and the way virtual console was gonna work yeah never happened obviously that's a that that that's a big swing and miss by her she mentioned that Nintendo was planning a Splatoon 3 tournament an online tournament for E3 of last year yeah that never happened now she was correct about a few other things at E3 uh like Breath of the Wild 2 being there but yeah she never and then like the big thing that she was the source on Splatoon 3 tournament never happened she said we were gonna get Zelda anniversary stuff at the game awards swung and miss didn't happen and now she's saying these next batch of rumors that we're about to get to but you might go but with those big swings and misses why did she continue to get coverage because she kept getting other things right she got advanced wars 1 plus 2 reboot camp right she got other small things that were gonna pop up on social media and get announced there through twitter right but sam and such is a very interesting story because unlike other leakers where you have your swings and misses and you have your correct information and if that's all this was if she just sometimes she's right sometimes she's wrong that would make her like any other leaker whether it be Emily Rogers or Jeff Grubb or whatever people who put their actual names behind it and ate the hate you know yes these people are wrong and right all the time and it would just be treated as such but sam and sunter is a different story her leaks come with the caveat that her opinions really matter she takes a lot of information that she supposedly gets and wraps it in an amalgamation of her opinions and you have to dig through her opinions to get the real facts and because of that it makes it sound like she knows more than she really does she also has quite boldly taken leaks from other leakers and stated them in ways where she notes they come from somebody else but they know she never tells anyone where they come from she actually got busted for this uh by uh someone named john you guys might know him from nintendo life uh yeah he busted her entirely for saying some stuff that's untrue and then she said well john you wouldn't even be able to talk about this because of embargoes and blah blah and john's like you're just full of shit because the embargo doesn't exist because nobody had the game yet so it was a very interesting um amalgamation of she's getting mad at media people who are calling her out she's getting mad at the leak community who's like hey you keep stealing our leaks and you're not crediting us you're which makes it feel like the leak comes from you and then you're taking credit she has an entire um you know post pinned on her account showing all the times that samis hunter was right and half of those times that she was right were leaks that she stole from other people so she's more than willing to take credit for leaks from others when they're right but when they're wrong and she posted about it show quickly pass off blame uh and it's just not a good look right it's just not a good look it looks like somebody who is just posting other stuff in my justification for when she's been caught for this in the past was hey look i don't really care who leaks the information if samis hunter isn't the originating source if what she's giving us is mostly true because then she could just be the filter on all of the leak content that exists and i'm okay with someone being that filter for me so i don't have to dig as deep uh but it's a little bit of a different story today because while i have sworn her off and i've called her out we need to talk about this because what she's saying now to me is the nail in the coffin in a couple of ways one of the things she said isn't that big of a deal it's sort of a hey this is expected this is what we've all been talking about we just talked about it on the podcast on andres channel andres restart channel and obviously on um my podcast last week about an upcoming nintendo direct but let's just get right into what she said here and i'll talk afterwards why i feel like this is her last her last hurrah if she's wrong so she tweeted out this morning good morning i heard that nintendo has finalized the nintendo direct video production and will soon send the script to be localized in all the languages so there's a high chance for an announcement tomorrow i will make a list of possible announcements in these days which is weird because if the announcement's tomorrow whatever anyways uh right now the video seems to be 35 minutes long but it doesn't have the big reveal place at the start center and end so apparently there's three big reveals because they always add those during the last minute it's probably to prevent leaks i suppose that's the logic there so it's likely going to be around 45 minutes long what i'm pretty sure is that the director will meet the target launch period i mentioned last month so even though the direct production finished this week but they didn't announce the presentation tomorrow for this week the video will be ready for next week um and there's a few other things that someone says hallow night silk song she says it's the first time i think the game will have a chance to show up although that's an opinion um there's a few other things she replies to as well uh noting that she would feel like there's a 70 chance the director is this week 30 chance of next week like said we're not going to go much deeper than that so what are the big swing swing here announced tomorrow okay but she doesn't guarantee tomorrow because it might be next week hedging her bets so what sam is under does this is a very vague all the directs happening this week i think but it also might be next week so i'm right either way that's that's the kind of stuff sam is under does but what i find more interesting than this more interesting than just saying oh it's gonna be this week or next week which some people are gonna get excited about that what i think and this is the big part is giving exact minutes so when the direct happens if it happens if we minus the big announcement at the beginning the big announcement in the middle and the big announcement at the end if we subtract the time spent on those announcements the direct should be around 35 minutes long if it's not then she just made up a number including those announcements if they're not close to 45 obviously she doesn't how long those announcements will be but if it's not close to 45 minutes long in total again she's just making it up now 35 is the number that she knows exactly so again we minus those three from the direct if it's not 35 minutes she just made this up that's why i'm willing to report on this because she gave us something that's exact that we can actually measure and determine if she really knew anything just saying a direct is going to happen this week saying our direct might happen next week that's literally looking at seven of the last 10 years or seven of the last nine viable years since intend to do any directs in 2020 and saying yeah a direct's happening in february and glancing that oh nintendo usually does it in the first half of february so if not this week next week we've all been saying that we've all been predicting that for a while so her coming out and saying that that's not credit to her anybody could say that anybody could also say that we're minus these three announcements it's 35 minutes but 35 is very exact so i'm willing to talk about this and willing to at least let you guys you know hypersponsibly about it because this is such an exact piece of information that we can easily debunk it if it's not true so the direct happens this week direct happens next week like even if the directions announced tomorrow okay sometimes they do give us a day or two day lead up for me a big direct all i know is that as such an exact time that yes we are going to be that person that's going to watch the direct we're going to react we're going to create our content around it but i'm also going to make mental notes of just how long this direct is minus those three big announcements just sam samis hunter you put your biggest swing and miss to date you miss on this that's a miss at e3 that's a miss at the game awards and that'd be a miss at this direct that's too many big swings and misses and you're saying your 70 percent sure it's announced tomorrow so it better be announced tomorrow as well i don't think that actually helps with your your credence or your credit but it better be announced tomorrow if you want people to even lean into this so again we're covering this just because it's such an exact thing it's hard to do more you know she talks about you know we'll get we'll get into you know what's going to be at the direct in the coming days which most of the time when she does that it's just speculation like if i'm glancing at her account um you know it says i want to get some new info that i mentioned a while back it's a social party game like one to switch a little offer different game modes talking about the generalized game coming out that's supposedly others so she's just building on top of other rumors and calling it a socialized with different game modes is is so general and this is what she does think she says statements so generalized that she ends up being right in the end because the statements are too generalized not to be that's why we're going to pay attention 35 minutes is not a general statement minus three big game announcements at the beginning middle and end it's 35 minutes we can actually figure that out for ourselves and we can do the math and find out if she's just making it up so stay tuned i can't believe we just covered a sam as such a rumor some of you guys out there going to be like oh yeah i knew he was going to cover her again look i've been avoiding it she said a lot of things over the last month i'm like there's so many videos we could have made about um about her she you know like when the investors meeting came out she actually knew more information than was at the investors meeting uh she talked about knowing about you know potential release dates for zelda and other things we avoided all of this because it all felt like baseless speculation and honestly her reputation isn't the greatest at the moment i know there are people that swear by her and will go her reputation is better than others except when it comes to anything that matters samus hunter gets a lot of little things right little things that by the way exist in a leak discord a discord that no you don't have public access to it's not a publicly accessible discord but if you can get on to this discord there are legitimate leakers on there posting some of this little bits of information and i'm guessing that's where she gets a lot of the stuff she does get right from but the big stuff she keeps missing she swings and misses i'm big and big and big she she swung and miss on swatoon 3 tournament at e3 she swung and missed on zelda anniversary stuff at the game awards and if she swings and misses on this you know what they say three big strikes in a row and you're out so uh for her sake i hope this is the her her information is correct i guess we'll find out anyways folks we should expect a direct no matter what we don't need rumors to tell us that logic tells us that nintendo history tells us that there's a lot of things lining up you know the fact that nintendo already has a crap lot of games they need to talk about the fact we don't know release dates for anything officially past march there's so many reasons that we need to direct so we should expect one this week or next week regardless of what any leakers tell us so thank you guys so much for tuning in and i'll catch you in the next video