 Nintendo's 2024 is looking utterly insane. So many big things appear to be going down that I am more excited heading in to next year than I was heading into this year, knowing that Tears of the Kingdom was on its way. Oh man, this is so exciting. I just, you know what, we're just gonna get into it, but before we do, oh, it's not what you think. We're actually gonna go over a couple of news stories quick because I wanna make sure that we're keeping up to date with what's actually happening around. You got timestamps down below, you can skip to wherever you're interested in. The first one is about Tears of the Kingdom itself, the aforementioned game I was excited about coming into 2023. It piled up another Game of the Year award. This one coming from Edge Magazine. Now I mentioned another because it's actually won around 30 Game of the Year awards from various outlets, including IGN, GameRant, Game Informer, The Guardian, Giant Bomb, Polygon, and yeah, a whole bunch of others. Pretty exciting for the Zelda team, congrats to them. Yeah, it's about half of the sort of awards of Baldur's Gate 3-1, but hey, you know what, it's at least getting awards deservedly so. This next one is, well, I guess, bad good news if that's even a thing. So Ubisoft was hacked over the last couple of days, a big breach going in there and it looks like Ubisoft was able to remove access from this bad faith actor before anything was taken. Reportedly, they were trying to get 900 gigabytes worth of data. They were targeting specifically Rainbow Six Siege and while this might not seem like Nintendo related, it's just with the recent stuff going on, it would have been interesting if this data would have got out there and if there would have been any game data and future update data and would these outlets that were grandstanding over Insomniac have covered that leaked game data even though this included private user data that was gonna be in this leak this time. So the leak isn't gonna happen because they were unable to actually get the files because access was cut off before the giant 900 gigabyte thing could even finish downloading. But still, it's just a reminder that this stuff's gonna keep happening. It's gonna keep happening. There's too many bad actors out there and I'm interested to see how the game industry covers this stuff moving forward considering, well, some of the issues that we talked about in the video yesterday. Now we're on our road to 150,000 subscribers so I would appreciate if you would subscribe to the channel and keeping up our theme with videos recently. Hey, if you're subscribed to the channel, you can actually head down into the comment section and have a chance to win a $5 eShop gift card. All you're gonna have to do is use a particular word in your comment. No, we're not taking one word comments, by the way, you need to give me a complete sentence. In fact, let me tell you what you need to talk to me about. 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One of the only, actually currently the only brand new game Nintendo has announced for next year. And then, yes, Luigi's Mansion 2 HD. They're not even calling it Dark Moon at this time. They're releasing sometime in the summer of next year. They at least gave us a season for that. So those are probably the three most exciting things we know about heading into next year. And I wanna say we know this is just stuff that's confirmed from Nintendo that they actually announced. There are other things that we think are gonna happen next year due to the rumor mill and, well, just basic expectations. And let's first get the biggest thing out of the way. It is widely reported Nintendo will be launching brand new hardware next year. Now, again, we can still call this a rumor. Hasn't been announced, although hardware's been confirmed by Nintendo that they're working on something. The interesting part here is when we look at this Nintendo Switch 2 situation, what games are gonna become? I mean, look, a launching new hardware itself is already exciting. I know, I've seen some of the comments recently, wait, is it going in Nintendo's, wait, wait, wait, okay, yeah, it's Nintendo's next generation hardware. It's just a placeholder name. That being said, let's look at some of the stuff that's been rumored with it. One of the earliest rumors actually came from Andy Robinson who put out there that he heard it's gonna be launching with a 3D Mario game. Now, that's not shocking considering the last one we got was all the way back in 2017 and it sold over 25 million copies, the best selling 3D Mario game of all time in Super Mario Odyssey. So the question is, what's this game going to be? Are they gonna make an Odyssey 2? I mean, sequels haven't always done well in the Mario franchise, but also it's been so long, maybe it could do well. Also, they've never had a 3D Mario sell as well as Odyssey, so they wanna keep the Odyssey branding going. Exciting people who got Switch in year one. I don't know, that's possible. It could also be a completely new direction. People have thought this might be open world, especially in wake of the open world sort of playground attempt they did with Bowser's Fury being attached to Super Mario 3D world. So there's a lot of hope here for a 3D Mario game and I would say it's a pretty safe bet. Nintendo essentially launches systems with either a Mario or a, well, Zelda game and look, we just got a major Zelda game and they don't really launch home consoles with a side scrolling Zelda game or a top down Zelda game. So there's that. We just got a side scrolling Mario game in Super Mario Wonder. So really it's 3D Mario that's next up on deck and that's what I would suspect is going to be the launch game for the system whenever it comes out. But those are the only rumors that we have for next year. What about another Zelda remake or remaster? Oh, you guys know we've been talking a lot about this stuff. Nintendo keeps bringing up Ocarina of Time all the time. We're having a hiring post at Bandai Namco that says a 3D action game remake remaster is in the works. That's like fact-based stuff that's happening. Then we have Zippo and others out there, the anniversaries and a whole bunch of stuff. And the fact that Nintendo themselves said they will actually, this is a few years back, they said their goal is to have something Zelda release every single year. So with that being the case, it should be expected that something Zelda happens next year, it could be another indie game thing like we got in the past with Cade and some Hyrule. Could be another spin-off like we got with Hyrule Warriors and Hyrule Warriors Age of Calamity or it could be something else entirely. We've got Lynx Crossbow training in years past, Tingle games, who knows. Chances are it's probably a remake or remaster. We had a remake technically with Lynx Awakening back in 2019. Then we had a remaster with Skyward Sword HD dropping last year. So now the question is, what's this year? And we don't know. So we'll find out for 2024. Obviously tears of the kingdom was in 2023. I'm really excited to see what this is as it's highly likely to be coming. It could be a cross generation title as well. That might excite some people. Maybe it switched to exclusive because it's that insane. We don't really know what's going on behind the scenes. We just know the rumors and reports and the speculations out there and Nintendo themselves keeps bringing up Zelda, keeps bringing up some of the classic games like Ocarina of Time. So we'll just have to wait and see. Now another rumor that has sort of fell by the wayside but could really have prevalence next year was the Donkey Kong game. So that rumor spun up about two and a half years ago but the rumors stated that they're not really even sure if it's a side scrolling Donkey Kong game or a new one. Only that Nintendo is doing it internally. So it's not being made by retro studios which I guess is a Nintendo owned studio. You can say internal with that. But we know they're working on a different game we're gonna talk about in a bit. So it sounds like Nintendo's Mario team potentially or part of their Mario team might have spun off to actually work on this Donkey Kong game. And that's been like the only rumors and stuff we've had around it with no one really saying it was coming anytime soon. Well next year we have the Donkey Kong theme park opening up. There's also the potential of a Donkey Kong spinoff movie getting announced because after all, look, we just had the Zelda movie announced but Illumination's gotta be working on something. Are they jumping right into another Mario movie? Are they gonna do a spinoff movie like Donkey Kong? We don't really know there. So that's something that we'll have to touch base on at a later time. But with Donkey Kong getting some push next year with the theme park expansions, it's highly possible maybe even likely that even as soon as the February direct they could announce a brand new Donkey Kong game. Now this would assuredly be on Switch, probably on Switch too as well whether through backwards compatibility or just having an up res port or something. But I'm just really excited to see what that is and that's gonna add to an already jam-packed year. And then we also have the expectation. This is the big, great expectation. Look, Pokemon, right? We've got DLC this year. Likely means new game next year. Probably another remaster. Could be another Legends game potentially. Could it be another BDSP type game? Could it be a brilliant Diamond Shining Pearl? In case you guys didn't get that reference. Is it another Let's Go kind of game? Or is it the much expected to happen Pokemon Legends Curum or something like that because after all Legends Arceus look to be a pretty big success. I saw like 14 million as a single game release. They gotta be very, very happy with that. And on top of that, it was widely praised. It's one of the highest reviewed Pokemon games in like nearly 20 years. So clearly you think they're gonna follow that up with another one. So we'll have to wait and see that could be what's announced next year. Well, people are expecting that to also be announced in February because Pokemon Day and the celebrations around that and the live streams they do for that often include Pokemon game announcements. So that is what we're expecting, although we don't exactly know what it's going to be, right? Probably not a new generation. It'd be a little strange if they were written right into a new gen. That might be something for next year, but I don't know, just throwing it out there that something's gonna be going down and some sort of Pokemon game madness is gonna be announced in February. Then we have this one. And this one's also got a lot of rumors, but it's also an announced game, Metroid Prime 4. Look, whenever this game comes out, there is an opportunity for it to be a game of the year contender. And I am really curious if they're gonna drop this next year. Look, there's all my personal sources on this that I've talked about in the past. It's just a couple, and I haven't heard from them in a while. We had special Nick talking about how like there are segments, at least segments in the game that are extremely massive and open, reminding him of Halo Infinite, which is technically an open world game. Does that mean this is an open world game? Don't really know. What is known though, is that Metroid Prime 4 has been in the work for a number of years, even if they literally rebooted development when they announced they were like, that was the first day they rebooted it, which clearly that would have been before them. It's now been in development for like three, four years. So it's, why the expected or at least gonna see it next year, let alone could it come out? It still could be a 2025 game, of course, but a lot of things seem to be indicating that 2024 is when we should expect to see this game. Clearly had a lot of its development done on Switch. So I would not, it was also announced for Switch. So I was fully suspect it's gonna come there. Could be another cross-gen title, but I'm really, really excited about that. And that just sets up what I believe is one of Nintendo's greatest years in gaming coming ahead. And that's insane. If we think about some of the amazing 2017 and these massive years we've had, this is without even considering what other companies might be doing. You know, what's monoliths off doing? Are they gonna drop a game next year? You know that their games are literally incredible. One of the greatest studio acquisitions in history, in my honest opinion. So look, there's a lot of something to come. It could be another Kirby game. Hey, is it time for another Forgotten Land? What about a new Luigi's Mansion? Those are also possibilities as well, but that's more so pipe dreams rather than current rumors and speculation that's not happening on the internet. But hey, anything is possible. And it really does look like with this lighter lineup announced for 2024, you might go, man, with what we have announced, it's probably gonna be a pretty weak 2024 until you remember Nintendo's likely launching a system. So a lot of things are just being sort of held until that system's announced. And then the floodgates are gonna open and I can't wait. I am so excited for 2024. And you know what? If none of this stuff happens, well, I guess we'll just be excited for 2025 instead. But 2024 is looking pretty good. Looking pretty good. It looks like we have a really light year at the moment, but just wait. Give us a few months in the next year. And I think everyone's mind is gonna flip on what's happening. Thank you guys so much for being here. I am the Theta RoboJazz from Nintendo Prime. Let's go ahead and catch you in the next video.