 Well, today we gotta talk about Nintendo Switch 2 again and I'm gonna be quite frank with you guys. This isn't a topic that I enjoy talking about this much. It's been a prevalent topic on the channel now going on for the last few weeks and frankly I'm ready to talk about something else, but what happens in the world of rumors and reports and leaks is once they sort of begin again and we had a break for a little bit and now they're just back and stronger than ever. The floodgates open and this is something that's very common the closer and closer you get to something actually being revealed and this time we have some potential new information coming out of the manufacturing side that kind of gives us an idea of what to expect for this new system and what to look towards being different about this system in comparison to the original Switch. Now all of this information comes from a YouTuber called AK Tech Studio and it's a YouTuber out of China so we're going with the closed caption English translation that YouTube provides for this channel and we're going to give you some exact quotes why we're listening to this person and they're a fairly large channel over 400,000 subscribers is because they have a friend in manufacturing and they have been correct on things they've talked about in the past so in digging through other things that have been you know tied to them we've seen leaks from you know things like Samsung and Apple and PlayStation and yes even some Nintendo things in the past so there are some things that we could sort of connect the dots to here to point to this person being in the know. Now his latest video uploaded today doesn't necessarily have anything to do dealing with next generation stuff at least that's what you figured because today's video was about tearing down a Joycon talking about Joycon drift the causes of it how to manually fix it but here's the thing he actually at the very beginning decided to reveal some information from his own personal source of course take all this with a grain of salt we've heard stuff like this from other places but we haven't heard stuff in this exact detail and it might be new to you it might be expected I don't know but let's dive into the exact quotes according to Google's own closed caption system I have a friend who has seen the real machine that Nintendo switched to in the supply chain according to him the performance improvement and resolution improvement reported online is true but it's inconvenient for me to go into specifics the innovation however in the new switch is the Joycon they will be adding new types of gameplay I have only heard about this and have been unable to confirm it but there is some new hardware that has been added to the handle and there will be a new way of interaction in operation but that isn't really the point of this specific video please wait for news of the new switch which will be officially released soon when that information comes out you could then see if I was right I feel strongly the next generation of Joycon will have a big innovation now look he doesn't tell us what that innovation is going to be something in the handle of the Joycon so I mean that that could be anything right like we have an IR sensor in one of the handles as an example on the last one maybe there'll be something else HD rumble was supposed to be this revolutionary thing that Nintendo really under utilizes but is cool the few times it is used not as good as like a dual sense you know the rumble features in this are just top tier but at the time HD rumble was basically the best rumble on the market and maybe Nintendo is going to be advancing the rumble features to be more like the PlayStation dual shock controller maybe they're going to do some of their own stuff maybe there's going to be I don't know I mean the IR camera was sort of a dud so I don't really know what they were putting to it but I'm very interested I'm also interested if the old Joycon are cross compatible with the new system in case people prefer the old Joycon there's other improvements we want to see in the controllers I mean biggest thing is obviously give us new sticks give us the you know the the hall sensing control stick so we get rid of drift and his video is about drift so it's kind of it would kind of neat I guess I get why he brought it up because if the if the big innovation he's hearing about are in the Joycons then hey you know like he's doing a video on Joycon repair it makes sense to maybe bring it up I also found really interesting that he's claiming that the new system will be officially revealed soon now when Nintendo says soon that could be a year from now right like Nintendo is very much a hey when we say soon you know our launch windows anywhere from three to six months I mean that's a really big launch window most people can start a launch we're gonna be like a week but I find it interesting because this isn't someone who works at Nintendo it's a content creator with some connections and he said it's going to be officially revealed soon which to me when you look at it be in the end of July right now you're thinking soon is sometime this year that it's going to be unveiled now I have been of mind that they're not going to unveil the system this year even if it was coming early next year there is a roadmap to unveil a new system in 2023 for an early 2024 release that could exist that won't hurt Nintendo's holidays and included in that roadmap would have to be price cuts to the system I think if you price cut them to just the right price while also releasing games like mario wonder and super mario rpg and stuff you could still see a really really good sales period over the holiday even though revenue would obviously be down but that's because people would be hyped up and saving for that new system to launch this winter plus game sale wise wouldn't be heard anyways mario wonder is still going to sell incredible because hey there's already a hundred and like 30 million nintendo switches out there like there's already a consumer base hungry for software we can see that with the sales of pikmin 4 which are like that's one of this way the debut sales of pikmin 4 in japan are higher than the combined debut sales of pikmin 1 2 and 3 put together that's how incredible the launch of pikmin 4 is even 4 n might end up being a 4 or 5 million seller when it's all said and done and that's curbie in the forgotten land territory for an ip that's never sold more than 2 and a half million units that would be double the best it's ever done and that was a rerelease on we you and pikmin 3 deluxe so yeah we're hungry for software we obviously know how incredibly well zelda is and guess what in like a little bit less than five days right now we're going to find out all the sales updates we're probably at the official confirmation of 130 million nintendo switches sold we're going to get all the official zelda numbers we're going to get all the official updates on pretty much everything pikmin will be the one that we don't because pikmin's in the new fiscal quarter so this will be fiscal quarter ending in june but man i am i'm just really really happy that this person is saying revealed this year because i gotta be honest i started this video by saying i'm sort of tired of talking about this damn thing because it's getting old it's getting repetitive i'm trying to keep all of you guys up today on every source that's out there all the various information and while i could argue that this person from china doesn't really necessarily give us any new information like it doesn't give us a specific feature for the joy con it doesn't really say anything about you know hey we're just saying that you know what's already been reported out there is true okay so it's going to have dlss it's going to be able to output at 4k etc like i i just sit back and i go okay what i'm more interested in is when this thing is being revealed and to me out of everything he said the official information being revealed soon is the one that i pay most attention to because there hasn't really been a lot of indications of when this thing is going to be revealed we've had indications of potential release right like oh it could release in the first quarter of 2024 it also could be holiday 2024 it could be the middle of 20 all indications are sometime in 2024 so team 2023 is probably looking like a dud but also would nintendo dare to unveil this thing we do have gamescom coming up at the end of august we have nintendo live coming up these could be events they want to push new hardware at or at least advertise the new hardware but why when the new hardware still won't come out for five or six months but then again that would be right in line with the nintendo switch it was announced in october of you know 2020 uh you know i'm sorry 2016 and it came out in march of 2017 about five to six months later it's interesting thinking about that window and going huh if they announced it in august and then five to six months later i mean you're starting to look at hey this thing's coming in january or february it might not be a march release so i'm just going to sit back and see how things play out at this point i don't know that i'm going to talk that much about switch to barring some major report coming out from bloomberg or uh jeff grob or or someone like super reliable and in the know moving forward i i think at this point we have a good idea of what all the rumors out there are saying right this thing's going to be pretty powerful somewhere between a playstation 4 and playstation 4 pro seems to be the current expectations on its power there's going to be changes to the controller so we're not going to get the same old joycon there's going to be some sort of gimmicky thing like we got with the ir sensor but it sounds like it'll still be pretty much traditional controls which will be nice to have again for another generation in a row it's still going to be a hybrid uh console so it's going to still be docked and taken with you uh we're going to get it at some point in 2024 there's a possibility of it being winter of 2024 the earliest possibility we got from that was actually a pokemon leak that suggested that one of the updates coming up to scarlet and violet was going to include a graphics enhancement for a brand new switch and that update is supposed to land sometime this winter winter is technically early 2024 so that lines up with the quarter one 2024 stuff now we have this person from china saying hey this thing's going to be officially unveiled soon soon in terms of most people usually means within you know one to three months when it comes to something being unveiled so this thing could be honestly unveiled in august and that sort of gives us a timetable of what to expect and now we just have to let things play out it either is unveiled this year or it's not it either comes out early next year or it doesn't and that's that so i'm just going to walk away from this washing my hands sort of done talking about switch to i read your comments every day i know some of you are kind of tired of this as well you're not blaming me it's just what's out there and i i try to stay as up to date on nintendo's new hardware as we can and i think this is the last little tidbit to throw out there borrowing some sort of massive new information coming out from an extremely reputable place so we're good consider this my last switch to video i guess until the next one which should be based on a lot more reputable information or might even be just nintendo announcing the damn thing so thank you so much for being here and i'll catch you guys in the next video