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Now let's get into this rumor out here, we're going to call this a rumor, it doesn't feel like much of a rumor, it feels like almost a certainty but whenever somebody utters the words Nintendo showcase and it's somebody that potentially could be connected and would be in the know, it's worth at least talking about and frankly we have not heard anything about another Nintendo Direct or a showcase or an indie world from anybody, all of our typical insiders like the Jeff Grubbs and the Nate Drake's of the world have really dried up and told us, hey when we hear something maybe we'll tell you guys but right now we haven't heard anything. Well that seems to have changed because Ethan Gash has now gone out there to say something, now Ethan Gash is a senior editor at Kotaku and yes he is one of those senior editors that was acting all sour puss over the lack of tears of the kingdom stuff at Nintendo so you might go hey if Nintendo won't give these people access to tears of the kingdom how the heck would they have access to information, well that's because when you're getting inside information it has nothing to do with what the company tells you, it has to do with who you know and whether you like them or not Kotaku does get invited to pretty much all of the press events all over the world and makes lots of connections and thus it's highly likely that Ethan Gash does have connections directly with employees at Nintendo so what did he say because this news wasn't just about Nintendo it's also about Sony and it might be more exciting for PlayStation fans than Nintendo fans but let's read what he put in a tweet he just did this a couple hours ago it says sources are telling me both PlayStation and Nintendo will have additional digital showcases this year keep your eyes tuned to this channel and watch the space for more developments in the coming weeks and months now what's interesting here is he mentions weeks and months weeks would suggest hey something's happening in June now PlayStation just went so it wouldn't really make sense if they had a showcase coming up here in June after they just did one the only one that makes sense in coming weeks would be Nintendo but you know months and months from now could be another PlayStation showcase now others have mentioned that Sony might have another PlayStation showcase this year which is quite interesting because it was two years since the last PlayStation showcase then they had this one that seemed to underwhelm most people who watched it and now they got another one potentially coming later this year but for our purposes here at Nintendo Prime well we will obviously cover that showcase and live react to it what we're interested in is a Nintendo side of things so again we have heard nothing from Nintendo nothing from the typical insiders and Ethan Gash is not someone who typically gives us this sort of information so saying Nintendo will have an additional digital showcase or showcases this year you know it's a given that we're gonna get more directs right like just saying hey Nintendo's gonna have more directs this year that's not really news the news part to me is when he says developments in the coming weeks and when you say coming weeks that really just feels like that is centered around Nintendo months being centered around PlayStation now does this mean we're going to get a Nintendo event in June well if you think about this year already we've had an indie showcase and a Nintendo direct it's highly likely we're gonna get at least one more Nintendo direct this year probably another one maybe two indie showcases heck we could end up getting a third-party partner showcase thrown in there as well let alone individual game directs such as a direct for none other than Pikmin 4 or Metroid Prime 4 if that comes this year or whatever Nintendo has cooking now here's the thing we do know Nintendo is at Gamescom in August Nintendo announced it themselves that they are going to be at Gamescom with game demos now what's really interesting about being at Gamescom with game demos is that Nintendo doesn't have any new games currently announced for that period or beyond and Nintendo doesn't always really go to Gamescom in fact Nintendo typically doesn't go there at all but with no E3 this year Nintendo is attending Gamescom with game demos they're also doing Nintendo live and Pax West right at the beginning of September which is quickly after Gamescom conclude so it's really within two weeks they're gonna be having a bunch of demos both here in the east and in the west and we're talking Eastern and Western hemispheres so with Nintendo had planning to show games at least game demos of games during that time period they naturally need to announce those games before so you sort of catch my drift but when Ethan Gash is sitting you're saying hey PlayStation and Nintendo will have additional digital showcases this year and to keep your eyes peeled to him and I'm assuming he means Kotaku for future developments in the coming weeks and months it really feels like Nintendo's the one in the coming weeks they gotta ask something in June or July or early August that's really what we're looking at here it is now the end of May so we're heading into June and then there's July and early August so it really within somewhere within five six weeks from now we gotta have something so the way I look at this is this indicates to me that if Nintendo has a direct coming it's gonna be at the end of June unfortunately that means it'll miss Prime Gaming fast which I know you guys don't know what that is yet we'll give details on that soon but it is interesting thinking about Nintendo's timing on this and why they might not be letting people know if you remember we did have rumors going into last year's June a little bit we had some rumors that a direct was coming but they were from the sort of insiders that have been known to sort of make guesses Nate Drake didn't really say anything about a direct coming until halfway through June and then he mentioned hey we're gonna have like a third-party direct and that turned out to be what it is so there's still plenty of time for our usual trusted insiders to get information and share but Ethan Gashard the first one putting out there that hey he's got sources that Nintendo's doing something what games that could be showing that is the big question is Nintendo holding back for hardware what are they doing is I mean honestly your guess is as good as mine we know there's a ton of DLC coming and I'm sure some of that DLC would be featured in this but what else could be in the mix what are the new games coming and right now while we have rumored games like F0 GX remaster or I don't know that Donkey Kong game that's been rumored for a couple years honestly we don't know what Nintendo is dropping and if the last direct is anything to go off of remember they gave us Metroid Prime remaster in that direct out of nowhere just Shadow dropped it available now so that really means that we have no idea what Nintendo is doing Nintendo is gonna Nintendo which means they're gonna surprise they're gonna hit us on a left field and we're not gonna see it coming so you know what I'm looking really forward to the next show and maybe the big reason is because Pikmin 4 is all we really have from Nintendo at this point and honestly that means Nintendo must be holding back some pretty big announcements especially if they're gonna be a gamescom and do a Nintendo live impacts what I really suggest hey you know what maybe they didn't have enough games they wanted to show at E3 again Nintendo's words that was their excuse for not being part of E3 they also might have saw you know the writing that hey you know what no one else is going to E3 so why are we gonna go to E3 but Nintendo is clearly planning to do something this summer and show us games so I can't wait to see what it is I guess shout out to Ethan Gash for being the first insider to let us know that something's coming not as if we didn't think something was coming anyways but now we at least can put a name and an outlet to one of the first sources that we are going to get a Nintendo showcase or in this case a Nintendo Direct at some point thank you guys so much for tuning in and I'll catch you in the next video