 Hey everyone, how's it going? I got a new Zelda video for you this morning continuing our attempt Attempt to release a Zelda video nearly every single day From now either until Breath of the Wild 2 comes out or until we hit one year out from the 35th Anniversary so potentially 365 straight days could be more than one Zelda video The news is going to determine that we have some Zelda news for you today about the 35th anniversary So before we get into that like this is you know This isn't some rumor floating out there some fart in the wind above people data mining or any of this crazy stuff This actually comes from a very credible Journalist and who wrote a piece over adventure beat but before we get into it I'm gonna remind you we are giving away a $99 Nintendo Switch eShop gift card to enter head down to the description or to the pinned Comment otherwise. Let's get into our Zelda news or today. I got my breath of the wild shirt on I'm I'm ready to go here So this is over a venture beat and the headline says Nintendo is holding back Nintendo's 35th anniversary because it's marketing And it's written by Jeff Grubb. Jeff Grubb has been all over Nintendo stuff For really a while, but I've been paying more attention over like the last six months or so and he definitely has some contacts inside the industry Unsure where they're from because he is a journalist. So as a professional journalist, you really do well to protect your sources Here's what he has to say about he says so the legend is all turn 35 on Sunday February 21st But Nintendo let the anniversary pass by without making much noise any noise They didn't mention it at all if you're a fan of the publisher's major and venture series You might find the silence distressing But if you look at the anniversary as marketing Nintendo's decisions make more sense When a corporation celebrates an anniversary, it is with the purpose of selling more products naturally and the way that Nintendo is going to Maximize its return on these marketing efforts is to spread them out and let them breathe The first consideration when it comes to the timing of the Zelda anniversary is Mario. It's a me a Mario Nintendo's 35th anniversary celebration for Super Mario is still ongoing It's unlikely that Nintendo would want to celebrate For Zelda and Mario to overlap and it would get more from each other if it put some separation between the two events and Yeah, Mario's celebration runs through March 31st In addition to Mario Nintendo is worried about getting the most from each and every new Zelda product going forward So Skyward Sword is actually you know Skyward Sword HD is what he says the first step to Zelda's 35th anniversary journey Even if Nintendo does start rolling out the party balloons and birthday cake for Zelda don't expect it to come all at once This is still marketing and Nintendo will want to position the Legend of Zelda Skyward HD out in front This is one of the biggest reasons that Nintendo didn't talk about other Zeldas beyond Skyward Sword HD in its latest direct video event The company doesn't want other Zelda games to distract from its attempts to bring back Skyward Sword So instead of creating a situation where other Zelda releases on switch cannibalize sales that could have gone to Skyward Sword Nintendo will create a steady cadence of releases to celebrate the series that will start with Skyward Sword HD in July But we should hear about what is coming soon after that this summer again the keyword is Marketing Nintendo wants to create a story for Zelda fans that will lead them to spending the most money possible I know this sounds really crappy, but like this is what companies do Nintendo's a for-profit company That begins with Skyward Sword HD in July and continues with likely the ports of Wind Waker and Twilight Princess HD It may culminate finally with the release of Breath of the Wild 2 The idea is to create key moments that Zelda fans won't want to miss out on and to partake in the first step of the festivities All you have to do is drop $60 for a remaster Yeah, that's where it ends So the argument here is basically Nintendo is going to wait until Probably either July if not August to talk about Zelda's 35th anniversary And I actually talked about this in recent videos about the Zelda 35th anniversary and the rumors about what they're doing for the Zelda's 35th anniversary and Grezzo's likely role in that and while even if all those rumors are true Reality is that despite the rumors It does make sense for Nintendo to give Skyward Sword HD at least a launch period Where people don't really know what's coming after now Yes It does feel strange to talk about the 35th anniversary of Zelda several months after the 35th anniversary happened But the same thing happened with Mario and if you remember they had Paper Mario come out last year and instead of talking about the 35th anniversary before that release they gave that game some breathing room as well now The difference here is that it was actually an intent to talk about the 35th anniversary of Mario at E3 last year before that event was canceled. So Technically they weren't really planning to give Paper Mario room to breathe now They talked about Skyward Sword HD now because obviously if they had mentioned Breath of the Wild 2 I mean they did mention it, but if they had shown that game It would have really overshadowed that Skyward Sword HD announcement Now I don't know that Breath of the Wild 2 is really going to affect Skyward Sword HD sales Because they're not going to be releasing even close to the same month I would presume the earliest we can expect Breath of the Wild 2 would be this holiday likely November Maybe October at the earliest but probably November Depending on how they want to line up releases with the Pokemon company, which also likely has a Pokemon game Well, that's why I said maybe it happens in October that they did with Mario Odyssey but I do think that that's the earliest we could get Breath of the Wild if not at the beginning of 2022 maybe even March 3rd of 2022 to line up with the anniversary of the release of Breath of the Wild But here's the thing That's not really going to affect Skyward Sword HD sales Just like we already knew about Breath of the Wild 2 and Lynx Awakening, the Lynx Awakening remake came out in 2019 We already know that that Zelda games coming and it's not really going to affect sales as long as it's not literally in the same month So I think they could talk about Breath of the Wild 2 I think not talking about it at the same time they announced Skyward HD has allowed Skyward Sword HD to remain In the media as its own thing Even if the reason it's remaining in the media's eye is because of the ever-I'm-going debate on whether the game should cost $60 or not sales seem to be showing that Nintendo absolutely pick the right price there And you have to let me down down in the description if you are going to be picking up Skyward Sword HD In fact, I'll probably put up a poll on this later today just for fun But I'll say this I think Jeff Groh has a point I do think Nintendo could talk about the 35th anniversary even early summer because remember E3 is planned to do this online digital event And if Nintendo does take the intended two-hour slot for them on one of the days as a platform holder I am willing to bet that they would just blow out the 35th anniversary then and that's when we would hear about a spread out of releases potentially like a Skyward Sword HD releasing in July like Twilight Princess HD in August, you know Go in September, maybe you drop Twilight Princess HD put a month between those releases maybe you know the hope is obviously they package Twilight Princess HD and The one record HD together and I think there's a lot of people hoping that if Grezzo is working on HD You know HD and their 3ds work on Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask 3d That they package all four of those games together for a nice 3ds all the collection pack That just happens to not have Skyward Sword in it But I don't think that Nintendo is gonna do I mean after you so you see what they're doing with Skyward Sword HD I just don't see them packaging the other four games together like that Especially Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask Maybe they package those two together as like a game in a sequel although they didn't do that with Mario Galaxy and Mario Galaxy 2 So who really knows what Nintendo has planned here? But yeah, I can see them doing that and that culminates in the breath of the wild this holiday Or they spread out the Zelda games even more if breath of the wild 2 is not going to come to early 2022 And obviously we've heard about other rumors about a Zelda theme switch I think that's extremely likely we just got a Mario themed one for the 35th clearly I feel like we're gonna get a Zelda themed one the question really is is it going to be a Normal switch or switch light themed or if the rumors around the switch pro are all legit And they were planning to kind of pair it with breath of the wild 2 is it actually a Zelda themed switch pro? I think that would be very interesting if Nintendo goes down that route all I know is I'm excited for the zelda's 35th anniversary I can't wait for whenever Nintendo decides to announce it I do think they're going to wait until at least the Mario anniversary ends on March 31st Technically you could argue they could talk about it next month because there really isn't anything happening in March for Marius 31st That's just when Mario 35 and when Super Mario 3D all-stars is done So again, you could argue that they probably could announce it in March because there is nothing else left It's the animal crossing items dropping this week, and then that's it. That's the end of the Mario celebration There's nothing else going on So they could talk about it in March because then I don't really feel like there's much overlap there But it is what it is. We'll just have to wait and see what Nintendo's plans are Obviously we have there's a lot of inside sources out there talking about how there's going to be for sure a 35th anniversary. Someone told me I saw this comment on the Nintendo Prime Facebook page where someone mentioned that hey There's not going to be a 35th anniversary of Zelda because Zelda doesn't sell as well as Mario And I find this interesting because not only did Breath of the Wild outsell Mario Odyssey Especially if you want to include Wii U sales, then it's really not even close It's like three four million ahead of Mario Odyssey What I find interesting about this is Before Breath of the Wild happened and made Zelda as popular as it's ever been Nintendo celebrated Zelda's 20th anniversary with two multiple Zelda game releases. They celebrate actually with three releases Four sorts anniversary edition We had Ocarina time 3d and then we also has skyward freaking sword So three Zelda games released for the 20th anniversary for the 25th. We got Majora's Mask 3d and Triforce Heroes and then Now I think we also got Twilight Princess HD I think either the Wind Waker or Twilight Princess HD one of those two games came out for that 30th anniversary Plus we got worldwide Zelda concerts You guys remember the worldwide concerts they were doing for the symphony symphony of the goddess like Absolutely so like if they went all out like that for like the 20th 25th and 30th anniversaries, right? They did that in the past. Why would they not go all out for the 35th anniversary? When Zelda's more popular than it's ever been doesn't make any sense to me They're clearly doing something beyond besides skyward sword HD and then Breath of the Wild too There's clearly gonna be a celebration. Nintendo's clearly gonna maximize Zelda for profits as I was talked about here by Jeff Grubb because duh it makes sense and fans like me you're probably gonna eat up everything So there you go. Thank you so much for tuning in. I am the 10-year-old Jeff from Nintendo Prime Let me know how excited you offer Zelda's 35th anniversary celebration We never intended besides to drop the info on it and what you expect to see I think let's just go beyond Breath of the Wild to the Wind Waker HD and Twilight Princess HD Because I feel like those are the three like yeah, we expect that but what else could they do? What sort of merch could they release what's the custom switch gonna look like you guys? Let me know how you think in the comments below. I am the 10-year-old Jeff from Nintendo Prime Thank you so much for tuning in. If you enjoyed the video drop a like subscribe for more content And I'll get back to you probably with another video later today