 Hey everyone I have an update for you on the switch pro there's actually obviously been a lot of conversation about it We actually recently did a rumor video up here And a lot of the info in that rumor video is still worth paying attention to but one aspect of it as an update to that rumor that People did discover after the fact is the 1440p stuff saying that the system can do native 1440p was based on a faked Data dump of project triangle strategy now I'm not saying that the data wasn't actually data mined from the demo of project triangle strategy that exists out there But that's not what we're worried about here We're worried about the fact that someone faked Information from that demo gleaming in extra mode beyond 1080p Showing a 1440p mode which obviously cannot exist on the current switch There is no way to even output a 1440p signal from the Nintendo switch dock So it made people think man that must be about switch pro But it turned out that part was fake. That doesn't mean all the rest of the information was fake It just means where this information originally came from the 1440p stuff is but there is something to talk about Despite that part of that rumor being fake and maybe casting doubt on you guys on that quote-unquote big leak and that is well Nate Drake so for those who don't know who Nate Drake is. He's been around in this industry as a Leaker quote-unquote leaker for a long time He has gosh a decade or so going back to a neogaf days now. He's on reset era and He has been verified by multiple people and his information is typically pretty accurate He doesn't always get everything right But I don't know that there's a leaker out there that ever gets everything right because plans change Sources are sometimes given misinformation intentionally so like Nintendo and Sony and Microsoft and Activision EA can kind of like you know weed out the bad apples from their companies that might be leaking things And obviously sometimes things are leaked intentionally through these people to build hype And it's possible that Nintendo might be floating some of this stuff out here Honestly, it seems like the reason the heat is picking up with the switch pro is that dev units appear to be out in the wild We're not going to get screenshots of them because that company would Basically be lambasted by Nintendo and they'd be breaking all sorts of laws to do that So we're not going to see anything on the dev units until after the switch pro is announced But here is what Nate Drake an industry insider who has been very accurate in a whole bunch of things industry-wide I'm presuming that he works in the industry somewhere. I don't know as a video game developer or whatever He doesn't really reveal full details of any of his sources Just he has a history and a track record and he has made some interesting statements First off he says we won't really talk about the tech specs other than what I've already said and he Reiterates it has DLSS so deep learning super sampling something we've speculated before and it has 4k functionality Which would be how a switch could end up outputting at 4k, which by the way the 4k stuff actually comes from a data mine of Nintendo switch the latest firmware update already has a mention of 4k in that firmware update So the idea that switch could output at 4k folks isn't even something that's debatable now before I'd say anything else here I want to remind you we do have a giveaway going on right now for a $99 Nintendo switch e-shop gift card head down to the description or the pinned comment to enter now What's interesting here beyond the fact that we've already seen the 4k mentioned within the current firmware of switch It's that while he says He doesn't want to really go deeper than that right now He does note a few extra things when he's responding to a few people this happened last week on Thursday First off SuperMortal day 64 is brought up great guy was on my latest podcast And he does mention because someone brought up didn't SuperMortal Dave share an official looking document with Nintendo of America's marketing plans for fiscal year 2016 and It truth be told SuperMortal day 64 Legitimately had a source at that time that worked at Nintendo and nature points out that he actually shared marketing budget figures Which immediately exposed his source and he did it for validation to prove He had a single source and technically he ruined a person's job all for internet club. That's the way he feels I don't obviously know the full story there and I'm not going to pester SuperMortal day 64 about it but clearly he had a legitimate source and Maybe revealed a bit too much of what that source showed him to be fair to SuperMortal day The source shouldn't be giving out that kind of information most of this leak stuff if Nintendo doesn't want it out there The people probably shouldn't put it out there or whether smoke this fire I don't mind when things come from say You know manufacturing lines and you just happen to have a worker on the line say something to people and like that's what a lot of the Wall Street Journal reporting over the time has been it's just been a lot of people in manufacturing talking about What's being worked on on their manufacturing lines, but Nate Drake then goes on to say That he's a hundred percent confident. It's going to have DLSS and 4k functionality I've not heard anything on the other two and the other two are about in the Switch Online revamp Which literally hasn't been mentioned by anyone and Mario Kart 9 which was in a prior rumor but also kind of he hasn't heard anything about it and Then he to be fair. He didn't even hear anything about Splatoon 3 either So a lot of Nintendo's games are starting to be kept really close to the vest their reveals Hence why we had literally nothing leaked about Mario Kart 9 now technically Splatoon 3 and the entirety of the director was leaked right before the direct landed So that is something that happened and there clearly is somebody out there in the reddit sphere that has access to some stuff at Nintendo that maybe they shouldn't or maybe it's a rogue employee, but That's neither here nor there I'm closely paying attention to Reddit for any future leaks on anything whether it's hardware games Obviously it's all the sort of anniversary and the plans for that all that but he goes on to mention something about the handheld version so The great mighty poo kind of love that reference to Conquerors bad for a day Set over a reset era only want a yes or no answer And you don't have to give that but what portal will no be a nice upgrade and then nature a response It says if what I've heard is accurate Yes, so think about that think about that It's interesting Talking about this kind of stuff He's mentions quite clearly that he's not even sure what the tech specs are for this now The last rumors we had had ampere going on but nature I like like put it out here in response to somebody else when just talking about Like information about switch pro and how much out there is accurate and how much is just kind of Speculative so that keel over on reset era said I also forgot to mention that I find the think for yourself question authority intro on his YouTube channel again Talk about Supermental Dave to be cringe worthy and nature just says you know what? It's a passive way of saying he's better than the media outlets that have sources That's his opinion Remember he said Euro gamer had no source on NX when they showed the tablet design and in video with the provider This is way back when I mean he's copped to this Supermental they was dead wrong about the hardware inside switch Euro gamer sources were a thousand percent correct And he says I won't really talk more about tech specs than I have but it does have DLSS of 4k No reason to go deeper than that right now It's enough to illustrate the device in me is a meaningful upgrade first-party support will span the new hardware and current switch for at least a couple of Years that's extremely notable. We were shown as much yesterday, and I talked about it on my latest podcast Yes, Nate Drake does have a podcast so what's interesting is that He's essentially saying for at least the next two years the og nintendo switch is gonna get all the games But what you can also infer from this is that? After the next two years the og switch might not be getting every first-party game anymore Why is that? Why would he mentioned that just for at least a couple of years the og switch is gonna get all of the games coming up? So breath them out to gonna be on your og switch with two and three gonna be on your og switch if Mario Kart 9 comes out This year next year gonna be on your og switch whatever nintendo has coming this year next year Maybe very early into 2023 will be on the og switch But why does he specifically mentioned that at least for a couple of years? Because it's inferring that nintendo might be going with a different Strategy with switch hardware moving forward. This is a strategy I have talked about at length on this channel for a couple of years that I think makes sense for the market switches in and Also makes sense Because they don't really have any direct competition that's meaningful I think the gpd win 3 coming out is like the only thing on the market the gpd win family of systems Like the only thing that comes close and it's really more closely tied to pc gaming than it is console gaming like nintendo is Plus they don't have like that exclusive ip that nintendo has to really push units They just have the marketing sale play your pc games on the go. So here's my thing. I Think What nintendo needs to do is adopt the phone strategy you guys know what the phone strategy is right? This is an iphone 12 just a basic iphone 12 nothing fancy no pro version no max whatever right just a basic iphone 12 If I don't upgrade this phone new applications that come out three Generations of iphone from today Will still work on iphone 12 now maybe the battery life sucks and there's other things apple does here to make me Want to upgrade sooner because you know they that's just what they do In general battery after two years three years with a with an iphone is just dog shit And that's by design to try to convince you to upgrade to the next phone instead of replacing the battery because it's very hard to replace batteries in these but Here's the thing. I must say the nintendo go the apple route in terms of making hardware that just fails which hardly enough joy con drift, but what I am saying is that they should go the phone route in Releasing news platforms that slowly phase out old ones so switch pro Won't be considered a next-gen switch because all the games coming to it for the first couple years would still be on the old switch Of course, that's also true of the PlayStation 5 and the Xbox series X You kind of get what I'm getting at here. It's a slow phase out of the old systems so what would happen here is that switch light and the And the current switch would still be relevant for another couple of years as it should be and then when switch pro is here After a couple years Nintendo's games will start to massively focus on the pro and phase out support for the original switch again pushing sales To the Nintendo switch pro now they're not going to just suddenly roll You know roll into the pro and just you know get to 2023 be like yeah We're done with the og switch without plans what it's gonna happen is by the time they decide they want to announce the What we're gonna call switch to you know, but you know whatever switch to By the time they want to announce that and say 2023 The games that come to that platform the games that are planned to be on that platform Will also be on switch pro, but they will not be on the original switch So basically at all times there are there's like a gen to a gen and a half of Support among games coming to switch from Nintendo obviously we don't know what third parties are gonna do They'll always whenever hardware exists third parties always have the option to make their games just for that hardware but the point I'm trying to make is that Basically the switch pro and the switch will co-exist and all games will come out when the next-gen system for Nintendo's Announced games will go to that next-gen system switch pro and they'll phase out the old one Basically what this creates is that every single Switch coming out in the future for as long as Nintendo wants to keep this going will essentially have a five to six years shelf life and It'll have a natural transition into new hardware, which is what happens with phones The reason the phone market still blossoms even though there's new products every single year Is it because people upgrade every single year? It's about the slow Transition into new hardware that's rather seamless and people almost don't even notice it's happening That's what's crazy about it And that's the best thing Nintendo can do to keep that switch family going for 10 15 20 years if they could somehow pull it off. Yes, they could have upgrades. Yes, they could do different things Yes, they can try out different ideas different technologies along the way But if they keep the base concept of a portable console that could dock with your TV they can literally iterate experiment innovate and Make things more powerful and better designed along the way without Alienating consumers the number one concern people have for switch pro is the idea of exclusive Nintendo games on the platform But by the time we're talking about games on switch pro that will not be coming to the og switch It's because those games are going to the next-gen switch This is what I was hoping in a way Microsoft and Sony we're gonna do They're not technically Microsoft and Sony are making their games backwards compatible to the original PlayStation 4 and the original Xbox one and they decided we're just gonna phase out ps4 pro and we're gonna phase out Xbox one X Entirely they're just saying screw it those mid-gen upgrades. We're just done making that system We're not making those mid-gen upgrade systems anymore go buy our new platform. I Think that's a mistake. I think they should have phased out the original hardware kept that and just let it all coexist in the same market They decided to go against that and I think that technically is holding games back on PlayStation 5 and Xbox series X At least for the next year or two as they continue to support the Xbox one and PlayStation 4 og user base again I don't think that's a smart business decision and I don't think Nintendo is gonna go down that route now Obviously, this isn't talking about affecting sales of a PlayStation 5 series X. They're doing fine But this maintains momentum for Nintendo that as long as they keep releasing Huge games every single year there won't really be a reason for switch to stop selling as long as People feel like there's options in that switch marketplace that fit their needs There's the original switch in the giant bezels feel a little dated as it does not feel quite right That's okay. There's a sleeker better switch out there Everything plays on everything, you know, this phone might feel dated in a couple years You can still play games on it But I mean you also have the option to upgrade to either a slightly a cheaper upgrade that came out a couple years before Or the latest and greatest if you want and just move on trucking ahead I think that's the strategy Nintendo is doing and I think that's the strategy Nate Drake is sort of unintentionally hinting towards Although we're a little bit too far out From knowing for sure if Nintendo wants to go with that strategy. So again big thing DLSSS Oh DLSSS DLSS deep learning supersampling 4k and Massive improvements to handheld mode seem to be locked in our folks. I'm Nathan Robo. Just from the center prep Thank you so much for tuning in. I hope you enjoyed the switch pro rumor leak video thingy and I'll catch you in the next video