 Well folks, yeah, it's one of those videos. We have some rumors for you guys that are probably related to the Nintendo Direct next month. So that's some interesting information. Plus, you know, the thing is about the metal tinfoil hat thing is like my hair is not cooperating at all today. So like, I don't know what happened. It's like I went to sleep and woke up and then went to do my hair. My hair's just like, yup, you just aren't gonna work. So it is what it is. But before we get into these Nintendo Direct rumors and the reason that I was wearing this hat, let's just remember we're giving away a Switch OLED, right? Like at least have some fun with that. We're giving away a white Switch OLED. If you would like to win it, well all you need to do is subscribe to the channel. That's it. We'll have a live stream at the beginning of October to announce the winner. We'll set up that stream next month so you guys can go ahead and set notifications for it. But yeah, let's just get into the reason that this tinfoil hat probably should stay on, although I think it's gonna come off because it does feel a little weird. All right, so getting into the rumors here. And I guess this first one really doesn't deserve the tinfoil hat, so we can set it aside. Is that Nintendo Alerts. So Nintendo Alerts is a French Twitter account that posts a lot of deals and all that. They're kind of like the Wario 64. If you guys follow that Twitter account, they post up all these deals all the time. They're kind of like that sort of account before French Nintendo fans. So whatever, they're kind of cool. But every now and then, then Nintendo Alerts does get a few things that are gonna go on sale in the future, get information ahead of time just through various connections at retailers and all of that. And they put out a tweet, not necessarily like publicly announcing this, but in response to somebody who asked them something and they said, hey, Nintendo's gonna have new hardware bundles in November and December. Now, this is interesting because, well, it's the holiday season and Nintendo typically has hardware bundles. And I think one of the safest bets because it's been a safe bet every single holiday is that there's going to be a Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Bundle. They've had the same Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Bundle running for like four straight holidays. So why wouldn't it be five straight holidays? Or maybe it's three straight holidays, about to be four straight holidays, whatever, switch came on March of 2017. So it gets a little confusing, but either way, four straight holidays of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe wouldn't really be shocking. It's the number one selling game. But the interesting thing is they set out new hardware bundles in November and December. And I think what's interesting in that regard is that kinda suggests there's going to be a hardware bundle that isn't just Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. Because again, I feel like the November one's probably gonna be Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. So what could it be? Obviously, they can go back and do a Breath of the Wild bundle at this point. Maybe they'll have a bundle that is for the normal switch or maybe they'll have a bundle that's with the Switch Lite as well. Or maybe, because right now all the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe bundles have been basically with the normal switch. Now there was a couple of Switch Lite bundles way back in the day, but we haven't really had those during the holiday season in a while. So it could be a Switch Lite bundle. Also a Switch OLED coming in October. It's possible there's a 399 bundle, AKA a $400 Switch OLED bundle that maybe drops in December that's going to have something else packed with it. Maybe it's going to include Metroid Dread. Maybe that white Switch OLED actually gets bundled with Metroid Dread in the future. Maybe there is some other bundle. Maybe Animal Crossing gets bundled. So maybe they have the Animal Crossing Switch, but then they actually include a copy of Animal Crossing with it, right? So there's a lot of options here. Nintendo tends to not necessarily do hardware bundles with new release games. They tend to do it with old ones. It's also possible that the bundle could be something simple as a customized Switch, a themed Switch. It would be pretty interesting if, for some reason we can't get a Zelda themed Switch, but we would get like an Advanced Wars OnePlus 2 reboot one. I don't know. I'm just kind of spitballing. It could really be anything. We shouldn't be shocked to see hardware bundles from Nintendo this holiday, but two different ones is interesting since we've previously really only had the Mario Kart one during the holidays. So we'll have to see what happens. But yeah, that's according to Nintendo Arts who's been really accurate with this sort of stuff before. And again, there's not exact information here. So really anything's on the table. Now, this next bit is really, really cool because, well, it's tinfoil hat worthy because it's definitely gonna include some speculation. The actual data is accurate. So I mean, we can kind of throw this away because this isn't coming from like your typical rumor mongers like a Jeff Grub or Emily Rogers or anything like that, even though those are really, really fun to talk about too when they have information that comes out. This actually comes from a data mine. So data mines are usually highly accurate because they're verifiable and they come from servers, they come from data in games. And this time around we actually got data from a game that seems a bit unrelated to a Nintendo Direct, seems a bit unrelated to Switch until you really dig into it. So here's what happened. Data miners have uncovered that there is a 3.0 update coming to Mario Kart Tour. That's right, the Mario Kart game on your phone, which has actually become a really solid experience at launch, it felt a bit iffy, micro-transaction heavy. Since those days, well, all the number of updates and courses and tracks and characters they've added in, it actually has become a rather interesting and fun game on phones. And we'll have to see if it has the sort of longevity we've seen with things like Fire Emblem Heroes or Pokemon Go or something like that. Mario Run obviously had a really short run on the market. So we'll have to see how this game does long haul, but for right now Mario Kart Tour is actually a fairly quality experience. Now it's not as good as Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and nobody thinks it is, but why do we care that it's getting a 3.0 update? Which by the way, it seems that the 3.0 updates going to land on September 8th, at least according to the data mine, obviously dates can always move, especially if they find bugs and it's not ready to go. Well in that 3.0 update that's in the files for the game, there is a folder and that folder is labeled MK8DX. It's almost like those are the initials for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. So clearly there is this folder and what could this folder mean? And I think the obvious, and I gotta throw this out there because this to me seems like the most likely scenario and I don't see anyone mentioning it because there's just speculation atizzy over this folder and what it could mean for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Switch. It is possible, we gotta be honest, that it's just Mario Kart 8 Deluxe content coming to Mario Kart Tour. However, we also know that if Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is still being pushed by Nintendo with it, another holiday bundle like we just talked about and if Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is going to be the de facto game on Switch and there's no plans to bring a Mario Kart 9, it would actually make sense then to link up Mario Kart Tour and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. Now you need Nintendo accounts anyways to play online for both of them so it actually could theoretically be possible to confirm that a user has both games. And what's interesting here is the idea that Mario Kart Tour tracks and playable characters could find their way into Mario Kart 8 Deluxe in the form of DLC. I would assume paid DLC unless you own Mario Kart Tour and then maybe you get that DLC for free. That seems to be the direction a lot of the data miners are leaning towards in their speculation of what this folder means because inside the folder it doesn't really appear to be anything of significance at the exact moment but the update isn't live. So like the 3.0 update doesn't contain information yet. It's kind of just got like the backbones, you know, kind of the file system for what's going to be the update but we can't really see the actual files yet because they haven't been added to the update server. So while that update is going to be coming we don't actually know what's going to be in it per se but there is a Mario Kart 8 Deluxe folder and that is fascinating and all the possibilities are going to be. Now it could just be if you play Mario Kart 2 or maybe you get some skins, some wheels, some extra carts in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe which by the way we haven't really had an update to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe period. If you think about that game everything about that game came out on Wii U then DLC on Wii U then when it came over here they did change up and add a different battle mode but we haven't had updates to the game since we saw stability and stuff like that. So this would actually be really interesting to see them kind of double down and say look we're not going to bring Mario Kart 9 to this generation even though I would love for them to do so. Instead what we're going to do is focus on making it feel fresh and new. Players by adding in Mario Kart 2 or content. This could help promote Mario Kart 2 or on your phone while also promoting Mario Kart 8 Deluxe through Mario Kart 2 or so. Maybe Nintendo wants to try to push it up to 40 million in sales and this could be a great way to help achieve that and get a boost with new content plus if it's paid DLC imagine the amount of money they could make. I'm the number one most popular game on Switch. It would just be phenomenal in terms of sales. So it could be another way for Nintendo to boost holiday revenue by having DLC for that game. So now the reason we mentioned that this is kind of sort of Nintendo Direct related is as always with September Direct right around the corner based on history. So I'm going to be like, I don't remember September Direct, but I don't see it. Hey, look at the history of the Directs. Literally look at the history of the Directs on Nintendo's official website. September is a month. Nintendo announces big things every single September. It's just what they do. So it's very safe to presume we will get one. And since it's safe to presume we will get one, it's like the one Direct we can like guarantee is going to happen. It's interesting because if there's gonna be holiday bundles it would be announced at this Direct. Now you could argue if it's just Mario Kart 8 Deluxe they could just drop that on social media later. But if there's going to be two hardware bundles and one of them isn't gonna be Mario Kart 8 Deluxe that would be talked about at the September Direct because they're gonna want to get people pre-ordering those bundles ahead of time and getting ready for the release of that. And then on top of that, if there's going to be DLC for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe that would be announced at a Nintendo Direct. They're not just gonna drop the number one most popular game on Switch on a random Twitter post. They're going to announce DLC, major DLC that could contain a whole new cup, could contain several new playable characters in carts and modifications. They would announce that at a Nintendo Direct especially now that Directs are back. Now if you were saying this information was gonna come out last year, then we'd be like oh maybe they'll be like a Twitter post. But that's not, Nintendo's kinda back on track. They're back to using Directs as the primary form of delivering information. So since they have done that it's pretty safe to presume that if this is the direction of this update. Cause they don't really talk about mobile games in their Directs very often. But if this is the direction of their update it would be mentioned there. Now again, lots of speculation. That's what the tinfoil hat was for. But also it's speculation that comes from a really legit information based on a data mine. And then obviously the prior one coming from someone who's been fairly reliable in leaking future bundles and stuff like this in the past. So this is kinda what we have for you today, this morning, whatever. Maybe we'll get another video out later today. Actually the plan for the rest of today, at least studio-wise, obviously I still have work and my children and all this other stuff going on. But the plan for the rest of the studio day today is actually to kinda reform the studio a little bit. The set, not really changed. You might see a couple changes in the background in the next video. But like this wall or the TV. Most of the set is staying the same. But there's gonna be some changes happening that's gonna make things easier on myself. So we have some new fresh rugs that are gonna be coming in here and cleaning up some of the cable management that's gonna make things easier for me. And among some other organizational things that are going to improve the experience. And tomorrow we actually have a brand new editing PC arriving. But it's gonna be kind of interesting because I'm gonna be upgrading that editing PC. It is a pre-built because that's the only way to get GPUs these days really without having to pay scalper prices. But we're gonna be doing some upgrades to that computer next week. And then we have a second computer, my old editing rig that I'm gonna be messing with a little bit as well on stream. I think Eric's even gonna be there to help me with all of that. And we're gonna show both PCs up and running. And I don't know, I'm just trying to figure out what to do with the old PC because it's still a really beefy gaming PC. It's just I needed more PCIe lanes. I needed more availability for the USB ports to not get overwhelmed. Because right now I overwhelm the USB ports. I have too many high power devices running off them. Too many high bandwidth devices I think is more correct to say than power. So we're probably gonna take that PC and either auction it off on the stream and then give half the proceeds or so to charity or I don't know, maybe I'll just end up selling it in a local marketplace or something like that because I don't need to really beefy PCs. I'll probably keep a few extra parts around. Like I'll probably keep a couple of RAM sticks around for me. I already have a spare GPU if something ever happens. So like, yeah, we'll kind of play around with the idea of maybe auctioning off that gaming PC to someone who can make use of it and wants to play like 1440p ultra settings on stuff at 100 plus FPS. It's got a 5700 XT and a 2700 X in it. So it's like not a slouch of a computer. It's not like the top tier and 3080, 3080 TI kind of stuff but it's still a fairly comparable computer especially for gaming. I game on it. Literally, I was just gaming on it yesterday. So we'll see what happens there. But the point of that stream in general wouldn't necessarily be the auction. It would be showing you guys the exact hardware and configuration that I'm going to be using for live streams and for future, well, just future content creation, rendering, Photoshop, et cetera. You'll see what I use. You guys know I do 4K 60 FPS videos. If you don't know that, it's because you don't have a 4K screen that you're watching on. So 4K 60 FPS option on all my videos now. So you guys know that that's what I do. So you'll kind of get a good feel for me as a content creator on what I do. And I can even go over all the involved hardware for my entire setup. Cause I'm not sure when the last time it was, I actually publicly explain all the hardware that goes into making this show and making our podcast and everything a reality because it's a bit overkill over here but there's a reason for all of it. So we'll get into that maybe on that live stream. So you guys will get to see a lot of behind the scenes and learn a lot of stuff then. And I think that's a really cool idea for a stream that we haven't done. Plus you get to see us work on PCs and build PCs and get them up and running. And you know, if that's something you're interested in seeing, sure, well, again, it's probably going to be a fairly lengthy stream because the whole point of it is actually to do something we're going to be doing it anyways and that's swapping out computer parts and rerouting wires and just making my editing rig the best it possibly can be. All right, folks, thank you so much for tuning in. I am the Tanner RoboJance from the Tanner Prime. You guys are awesome and I'll catch you in the next video.