 Hey everyone, welcome back to Nintendo Prime. We have a big story to talk to you today because we happen to get some exclusive information on things happening at the Game Awards next week. And let me just say, things are still adding up to possibly see Breath of the Wild 2 at the Game Awards next week. That's right, I'm not gonna sit here and tell you it's for sure going to happen, but more evidence has cropped up that yes, indeed, we might see Breath of the Wild 2 next week. Maybe even a title reveal when that be special. Now, before we get into the story, I wanna remind you that we are giving away three copies of Pokemon Legends Arceus. To enter, there is a link down in the description or the pinned comment. I will be announcing that winner towards the release of the game in January. That being said, I will also be setting up our stream for the Game Awards here, I think tomorrow, so you guys can go, go basically set up your notifications for our show. We have some giveaways happening during that show and some other magical things, special guests. It's gonna be a lot of fun. So hopefully you're looking forward to the Game Awards. Plus we have to get the results of the betting special and see what's gonna happen to Eric or I. So that's gonna be pretty fun as well. That being said, let's get into this story. I have a friend, our channel has a friend. His name is Paul Gale from the Paul Gale Network. He's been on our podcast. He has his own YouTube channel. We'll put links to all that stuff down in the description. But he got a chance to actually talk with Jeff Kealy and he sent me a private message about this that he knew that I would obviously use for a video. And he said, hey Nate, I have a fun little bit of news. I was speaking with Jeff Kealy on Sunday. Remember, he's been in the industry for a long time and asked him, would there be a lot of anniversaries being celebrated this year between the 35s, 25s, 10s, et cetera, would it be safe to say without giving anything away, should we expect something at the game awards highlighting one or a few stories or series, I should say. He said, there will be some series that get celebrated but not all, though franchises that have something relevant coinciding with their anniversary are more likely to have representation. I don't know, like the release of a new game, that might be kind of something that matters. So without saying what Zelda for instance is celebrating 35 years and has a game on its way making it more likely to be there. Metroid is also celebrating 35 and has a game, Metroid Prime 4 on its way and obviously just released one in Metroid Dread. Celebrating a game or series seems to be connected to acknowledging the number of years and perhaps the footage of something new assigned to it but that's not guaranteed but still pretty cool. And then he goes into some speculation of his own which will kind of gloss over his speculation. Essentially, he thinks Metroid Prime 4 might possibly be there. So what I wanted to know of course is how many series are actually celebrating their anniversaries right now? And Paul Gale, thankfully did the research for me saving me a bit of time today because it's been pretty busy. Obviously we have Donkey Kong, Galaga and Frogger all celebrating their 40th anniversary this year. Zelda, Metroid, Dragon Quest, Kid Icarus, Castlevania, Bubble Bobble, Final Fantasy, Contra, Punch-Out, Double Dragon, Dungeon Master, Fantasy Star, Metal Gear, Mega Man, Street Fighter, they're all celebrating their 35th anniversary either this year or next year. Sonic, F-Zero, Battletoads, Duke Nukem and Civilization are at 30 years. Pokemon, Resident Evil, Tomb Raider, Crash Bandicoot, Persona, Night's Into Dreams, Dead or Alive, Metal Slugger at 25, their 25th anniversary, Luigi's Mansion, Pikmin, Animal Crossing, Halo, Red Faction, Conker, Devil May Cry, Max Payne, Advance Force, Golden Sun, Jack and Dexter, they're at their 20th anniversaries, Wii Sports, Resistance, Elder Scrolls of Libyan, Bully, Okami, Dead Rising, Saints Row, Just Cause, Marvel's Ultimate Alliance and Elite Beat Agents. Man, I haven't heard that game in a long time. They're at 15 year anniversaries and 10 year anniversaries as far as we're aware right now are the Elder Scrolls Skyrim, Catherine, Bastion, Bullet Storm, Rage, Dead Island, Dark Souls, The Binding of Isaac as well. Yeah, basically those are kind of the bigger IPs that are likely going to be part of these celebrations. Now we obviously know there is a rumored Donkey Kong game and obviously we know what Metro Prime 4 and Breath of Wild 2, so that gives us three big Nintendo IPs that we can maybe expect something at the game awards for, if not music, which there's going to be an orchestra as confirmed by Jeff Keely. But Jeff Keely also threw out there today, or I guess late yesterday, that there's a lot of fake rumors going around about what's going to be shown at the game awards, even though he said we are going to have a lot to show, it's, you know, there's a lot of fake rumors, so be careful of what you believe. And you might go, well, then yeah, he's obviously talking about these Zelda rumors and yeah, he might be. But also there's a lot of rumors about what's going on at the game awards. I, if you ever go over to like the gaming rumors and Reddit, you know, community, the gaming and rumors section on Reddit, oh my gosh, there are a billion rumors surrounding the game awards. So who really knows exactly what he was talking about there? Maybe his Breath of the Wild 2 won't be there. Maybe the 35th anniversary of Zelda won't be there. Maybe instead we'll have the 35th anniversary being celebrated for Metroid, because hey, it just had Dread come out and Metroid Prime 4 is coming. Maybe we're going to be celebrating Donkey Kong's 40th because hello, that's like one of the IPs that really built up Nintendo in the video game industry. So there's a lot that could be talked about here from Nintendo. Obviously, we're going to go more in depth tonight with special guest, Thomas from Switchstop on our Nintendo Prime podcast, right here at 8 p.m. Central Time. Yeah, we're going to be talking about the game awards, what we might see at the game awards and all that. So I'm really focusing in on that because this event happens next week, everybody. That's right, on December 9th, next week Thursday is the game awards. Are you guys hyped? Are you guys prepared? Because we're going to be taking care of business here. In fact, we're actually an official co-streamer of the game awards and that's really cool. We're actually getting badges and stuff sent to us. It's kind of a, I don't know, a neat thing anyways to commemorate our special show that we're doing because we're having a pre-show, post-show, live streaming the entire event, reacting to everything, having our own events going on inside the event. You guys know what we did for E3. We're doing that for the game awards so it's going to be a lot of fun and I hope that all of you decide to watch the game awards with us even if you're not a fan of the awards or Jeff Keely in general. Hopefully you're a fan of us so you guys can have at least a good time celebrating with me and Eric. That being said, thank you guys so much for tuning in and I'll catch you guys in the next video.