 Well, everyone, it's another day and we got some more Nintendo Switch 2 reports slash rumors popping off out here. And the big thing about today's rumor and reports as well, we're gonna be talking about a major news outlet, actually a few of them leading this report. There is a little bit of misrepresentation of the report based on the presently given information. However, it's possible there is some substance to this that has yet to be discovered because all these reports are coming out of China and getting the exact translations. There isn't full transcripts of everything. So it gets a little bit confusing. So we'll go off the reports and the headlines and the stuff that are happening right now around Nintendo Switch 2 because it seems to be heavily implying that Nintendo Switch 2 is coming early next year. If not the first three months of next year, the first six months because it all depends on what quarter one means. Does quarter one mean quarter one of the fiscal year which would then be April, May, and June? Or does it mean quarter one of the calendar year which would then be January, February, and March? Now we've had one other report that pointed to this time period and this would definitely be a major corroboration that deals with manufacturing which would heavily suggest that hey, you know what? We're getting this damn thing in less than a year. And that would be quite interesting to see when Nintendo would handle announcing it. Could they still keep the doors open to announcing it this year? Yada, yada, yada. So that's why we're talking about this stuff but we gotta go into some corrections after we get into why people are talking about it. And it really starts with this article by WCCF Tech. Now WCCF Tech is a highly reputable website that typically does a really good job with their journalism but you know what? There's actually gonna be some problems with this article and we'll get into it in a little bit. But first let's read what it says. It says Nintendo Switch 2 early 2024 release was hinted by a Chinese SOC manufacturer. So it says the Nintendo Switch successor has yet to be officially revealed but it's looking more and more likely that it will release in the first few months of 2024 or possibly first six months judging from information that was discovered today. As reported by notebook check and money DJ Chinese manufacturer Pixar which provided the SOC powering the Joy-Con sensors as well as other parts for previous Nintendo home consoles such as the Wii and Wii U revealed in its latest financial report that a new console from a Japanese company that hasn't launched a new system in years they are supplying parts for will release in early 2024. While the report from Pixar doesn't mention the new Nintendo Switch outright it's extremely likely the Chinese manufacturer is indeed talking about the yet to be revealed console considering it is the only Japanese company that hasn't released a new system in years something that rules out Sony entirely. This isn't the first time a Chinese company hinted at an early 2024 release date for the next Nintendo Switch and this is the one where we've already had a report on this that has proven to be accurate at least you know, there's no misreported on it and that is with Hog Zoom a metal cases manufacturer revealed earlier this month that they expect an increase in sales in the second half of the year due to Nintendo. They said Nintendo themselves planning to release a new console in the first quarter of 2024. So again, this is an accessory manufacturer basically being like, yeah we are expecting a massive boom in sales in the second half because of something that's released in the first half and so yeah that's quite quite interesting and is definitely something to pay attention to if you didn't hear about that news already there you go and as already mentioned Nintendo hasn't talked much about the Switch successor. Back in May President Shintaro Furukawa stated that no new hardware will be released before the end of the current fiscal year which is actually a misquote another red flag in this article. So this is like the biggest red flag here is that Shintaro Furukawa never said that there wouldn't be new hardware released this fiscal year. What he actually said is that no new hardware is currently part of the fiscal projections because hey, you know, we're not you know, they're not gonna make projections on hardware that hasn't even been announced, right? So they were talking about they were projecting to sell 15 million switches and they were basically inferring none of that 15 million included new hardware. So Nintendo never said there wouldn't be new hardware this fiscal year. That's a common misrepresentation of what he actually said. He was just talking about their financial projections are not based on any potential new hardware because again, new hardware hasn't been announced. Now that being said, we gotta dive into some stuff here. Obviously he does go on to mention dev kits and all of that but that's, here's the problem. They are not the source of this story, all right? So there, while there are major news outlet that got it a lot of attention, they are not the source. So let's go through their sourcing on this because they mentioned two places. Now the first place they mentioned is a place called Notebook Check which is another English website. So let's go take a look at them. And it says Nintendo Switch 2 released a area strongly hinted at third party financial forecast for Pixar Imaging. So it says a new financial report from a Chinese language media site has once again offered up a tasty morsel about the potential Nintendo Switch 2 release date period. So again, we have to go down this rabbit hole for a reason, it's all gonna make sense at the end. All right, this time around a Japanese game console or a Japanese game machine is mentioned but evidence in the article points to this being a Switch 2 or next generation Switch. Not long ago in an article published by MoneyDJ talked about Foxconn's business with the item stating that Nintendo was planning on releasing its Switch successor in the first quarter of 2024. This is again, referencing an older report. Now a new financial report from the same source has been discussed on another part of Nintendo's frequent business partners, Pixar Imaging. The intriguing part for Switch 2 observers is this machine translated as this. So just to note, this is like a Google translation. However, it is worth noting that the supply chain pointed out that the Japanese game machine will be launched early next year which has been absent for many years. The game machine is also one of the key customers of PixArt, which again, PixArt is important because they are a actual confirmed. I looked it up, they are a confirmed manufacturing partner before Nintendo Switch. So yeah, if they're referencing the game machine, it's the only game machine they manufacture parts for. Yeah, talking about the next Nintendo Switch, it's not that hard to connect the dots. Anyways, this article goes on to note and remember, most of what WCCF Tech's article says is coming from this article. In a nutshell, the article reckons that PixArt has generally had a good business year in 2023 with a boost coming from AI developments and that 2024 could be just as fruitful with the Japanese game machine helping things along. While neither Nintendo or Switch are mentioned, it is likely an allusion to what is commonly called the Switch 2. PixArt has worked with Nintendo on numerous occasions including with the Wii and OG Switch, the company specializes in CMOS image sensor SOCs and is partially or wholly responsible for the motion camera sensor found on the bottom of the Switch Joy-Con. Naturally, Nintendo would want to work with reliable partners on Switch 2 so PixArt would probably be on board. So I mean, yeah, based on what they do technology wise they'll probably be part of it. While it could be argued that this Japanese game machine can also be something to do with the PlayStation 5, it's latest related hardware, Project Q Handheld is expected to arrive later this year rather than early next year and the reporter states it comes from the supply chain giving one of the firmest pointers so far as some of this is true releasing following in early 2024 also that it comes from someone who hasn't released new hardware in a while. Look, we've got new hardware from Sony not only this year with the Project Q in 2020 and there's obviously a rumored slim or some sort of PS5 quality of life upgrade this year, et cetera, et cetera. There's a lot of stuff already rumored around PlayStation plus things they've already released. Now this article is mostly fine because this article is quoting another article and they don't make any radical claims in this particular article. And so when we go to the original source here, you end up at the Money DJ website. Now I've already machine translated this into English because it wasn't Chinese, so we're just gonna kind of go through this machine translation and figure something out here and I gotta give FamilyBoard some credit on what we figure out here but it says the CMOS Image Sensor Factory originally phased, benefited AI marketing, a bunch of garbage is worth knowing the supply chain pointed out the Japanese game console will launch a new console that's not been seen for many years early next year. So this is the big one. This is basically what's being quoted. Well when you go through the rest of this article, you'll notice that nothing is sourced, all right? Nothing is sourced and the source tends to be the Pixar Financial Briefing. And when people dug through the Pixar Financial Briefing, it turns out that there's no mention of this in the Pixar Financial Briefing. Why? What is up with that? Why is there no mention of this at the actual, it's like, you know, they're claiming Pixar said this but then Pixar didn't say this. Here's the problem. Here's where all of this gets really confusing and again, while I'm banned at this place, I do need to give a shout out to FamilyBoards that does stay on top of all of it. I'm literally opening this thing as we go here because there's additional information here that we don't have from and that is this post right here. Let me open this up and show you guys. So we have a post over on FamilyBoards saying here that Pixar did do a QA but they didn't transcript the question. So we don't have any actual translations to look at when it comes to the QA section. And people are wondering if the money DJ plays which people aren't really questioning their validity here. They're just wondering, hey, can we verify what was said? And right now it's almost impossible for WCCF tech or notebook check or any of these places to verify any of this. And that's the problem with the reporting is the reporting doesn't include verifications. And when it doesn't include the verifications or the note that this is unverified information, it's difficult. But this is a link to the QA and when you open it up, I mean, it's exactly what you would expect. It is a QA session going through all of their financials over 24 minutes. And for the most part, we don't have any translations of what was said here. So as I'm clicking through all of this, you got this QA section. This is the big section. So this first section has a translation. This last section doesn't. And so we aren't even sure what questions were asked, what was stated. And it's possible in this giant QA sector here that we do actually get this inference that yes, they are expecting pretty good sales in 2024 as well due to this system that's really seen in the first quarter of 2024. So it is possible this statement exists but money DJ doesn't do a good job explaining where in the report they got this information because it's not actually in, there's like a 53 page report. It's not actually in the 53 page report. And it could be in the QA section, but like Nintendo, it's like when we get Nintendo's financial reports, right? They have this in a Q and A. The Q and A always comes later, but we often have people attend the Q and A that English translate us in real time to give us some of the stories. That doesn't happen with this company. Pixar doesn't have this happen. So what is happening is we have no way of verifying this because I don't speak native Chinese. I'm not gonna listen through the 12 minutes here. I tried to get it machine translated through programs that understand and try to translate spoken word into text and that was a giant mess. It didn't really work. I don't know if maybe our AI technologies aren't advanced enough yet for that. But the bottom line is I was chasing down this story all day because something didn't smell right. Just digging through source after source, I'm finding out, I have no way to verify that this was ever said. I can't say that it wasn't, but I can't say that it was. And it's a little frustrating when the way we receive this information from overseas isn't adding in the caveat of they were unable to verify this. They're just trusting that notebook check verified it, who is trusting that Money DJ verified it and Money DJ isn't even stating exactly where the quote came from and because machine translating Money DJ isn't an exact science. Anyways, because Chinese doesn't translate perfectly into English, it's also possible that that entire paragraph is a misquote and it's actually talking about their prior stuff like the other articles brought up. The other articles brought up prior reports about switch coming in quarter one and it's possible that entire paragraph is referencing a prior report. So it's very interesting how this is basically an unverified machine translated story that's spreading like wildfire and nobody seems to be able to verify it. And again, I went through family boards because there were some Chinese speakers on there to see if they wanted to go through and in the effort. No one really wants to seem to go through the effort because it's very boring to listen to. I'm sure by the end of the day we'll probably have the real truth in this and if it was actually talked about in the Q and A. So what's the big takeaway from all of this? The big takeaway is essentially we don't know if this was said. That's the bottom line. We do know however. We do know about an accessory manufacturer. We know about Foxconn and kind of hinting that we would get something in the first half of next year. We know about that Nikkei report that was sort of suggesting second half of next year with mass production beginning sometime at the end of this year. So those are reports that we do know that we do have verified that are real. So within those reports we have some conflicting information on release. We have an accessory manufacturer basically saying hey, this thing's coming out first half of next year, first quarter of next year. We have Foxconn and Nikkei sort of saying oh no actually it's gonna come out in the second half of next year. The only agreement is that it's coming out next year. They can't really agree on the release timing. So when you're seeing all these headlines and all these reports including my own video if you only read headlines that don't care about context that are just like oh the title switch too is coming early next year. First quarter like we have to keep this all in context. I have always, always, always emphasized context matters and yeah, we all click bait. Yeah, we all try to have amazing titles and I don't shy away from that. Like hey, this is how it works in the news field. You need to get your clicks. I don't mind WCCF's title on their article like get people to come in and click. What I hate is when you actually go in and get the context it's missing the context that this is all unverified at this point because they personally couldn't verify it. Notebook check didn't verify it and DJ Money didn't really even tell us where this came from and they didn't get it properly translated in the first place. So bottom line is this. I am probably thinking switch two is in 2024. I think it's coming holiday 2024 but they could do it sooner. And the only thing that makes me think sooner is that the PlayStation 5 Pro rumor is true. I can see where Nintendo wants their own release window and they may drop it in June. They might drop it in the summer. Maybe it'll be first half. Maybe it'll be the first quarter. We don't know and I don't think today we know anything more than we knew yesterday. Thank you so much for tuning in and I'll catch you in the next video.