 Folks, we're on our road to 100,000 subscribers. If we get there by the time Tears of the Kingdom comes out, we'll give away a special Zelda O-Lev'd. We'll also give away the Tears of the Kingdom collectors edition and a few other things. I'm really excited to hit our milestone, really early here in 2023, but let's get into the video. Now look, we've been talking about Tears of the Kingdom a lot and that makes a lot of sense, right? It is Nintendo's next big game. But there's another major franchise by Nintendo that is being neglected. And it's being neglected in a way that even us Zelda fans can't complain about because you know what, we've at least known about a brand new Zelda game since 2019. But this particular franchise has been dormant for a long time and it makes almost no sense because it happens to be the most popular IP in the world. Of course, we're talking about Mario, right? We have had other numerous Mario spin-offs and side games and ports come out during the Switch's life but we technically haven't had a brand new mainline Mario game since the release of Super Mario Odyssey during holiday 2017. So they've been waiting a long time. In fact, if we don't get a Mario game until this holiday, it also will have been six years. So look, at least we knew about a Zelda game in 2019. Mario fans have been patiently waiting for something in the Mario franchise, a brand new Mario game, for a long time and they haven't even heard whispers of it. Hasn't even been talked about until today. Shigeru Miyamoto gave us the news we've really been waiting for. Now look, Shigeru Miyamoto is the creator of Mario Donkey Kong Zelda and so many other iconic IP but most of his time lately has been spent working on the Mario movie, working on the amusement parks and all of that, making sure it maintains all of that Nintendo charm. But what if I were to tell you that in an interview with Variety, courtesy of Stealth, I gotta give our good friend Stealth on Twitter to credit for clipping this out, Miyamoto has now teased the next Mario game. Here's what he had to say in an interview when asked directly when we're going to see the next Mario. Now that we have the movie and Super Nintendo World amusement park, when can we expect a new Mario game? That's right. Did you hear that? He's saying I can't tell you anything except pay attention to future Nintendo Directs. It sounds like Nintendo's getting ready to announce that next big Mario game. Now at this point with such a huge gap between releases we probably can safely assume this is going to be another 3D Mario game but also because it's so far after Super Mario Odyssey it might be fair to assume it's not even Super Mario Odyssey 2. Now we did have Super Mario Odyssey 2 teased technically from a, well one of those surveys that Nintendo runs many years ago but that doesn't mean that's what they were actually working on just that it was an idea somebody had inside Nintendo at one point and they wanted some feedback on it. It could still obviously be Odyssey 2 but it highly likely is going to be something else entirely and this is where Mario fans should really get excited because if Shigeru Miyamoto is telling you hey just pay attention to some future Nintendo Directs that kind of sounds like it might be announced by the end of this year. Now many people speculate that Mario is likely going to end up being a launch title for new hardware which would explain why we haven't heard about the game yet because Nintendo wants to keep it behind closed doors until they're ready to announce new hardware. There's also a lot of speculation out there that new hardware could launch as soon as this holiday so yeah, paying attention to future Directs it could be announced as a holiday game alongside new hardware. So there's just a lot of considerations in play when talking about this new Mario and we just have to kind of be patient and wait. I'm not sure how I personally feel about having to wait forever and ever and ever for a Mario game announcement but you know what? After delivering the goods with Mario Galaxy and Galaxy 2 and Mario Odyssey and you know, having some of those rushed Mario games in between with the new Super Mario Bros series I'm ready to just see what they have going on next. The Mario team has clearly been busy at work for a long time. We didn't even get really DLC for Super Mario Odyssey. They did add that Luigi mode for a moment but that was a long time ago. They didn't really work on anything since then that we're aware of in terms of Mario. Now we do think some of the Mario Odyssey might have been split off to make a Donkey Kong game but even then that's just some of the team that's not the entire Mario team so what have they been doing? What has EPD Tokyo been doing? It sounds like according to Miyamoto we just need to watch future Nintendo Directs this year and we're gonna find out. Now we don't know when the next Nintendo Direct is there's no E3 in June and Nintendo said it's because they didn't really have anything to present or show off that was gonna be a big deal and that's understandable. Now there's no E3 at all so I think we just have to sit back and patiently wait for when Nintendo's ready to unveil it. I do think it's going to launch alongside new hardware. That's just a personal opinion. They very much could just launch it on Switch this holiday. They're going to have a big holiday game and maybe Mario is going to be that big holiday game just for Nintendo Switch. I am of mine, it will launch on Switch too. Anyways guys, I just wanted to get this quick update out to you guys again. We cover all things Nintendo and this happened to be about the next Mario game. I'll get you guys in the next video.