 Holy crap Did you guys hear? The switch pro is real. All right, so we have focused a lot on reports from various outlets You know Bloomberg and Wall Street Journal and obviously other rumor and leakers out there that have been talking about switch pro for years I mean literally we've been talking about switch pro since 2017 Probably because they were already researching it then Nintendo always researches it last year Shintura for a cowboy when asked about it Said we have no plans to release a new model switch this year when re-asked the last financial Gathering he just said they don't have plans to release a new model soon Think about that for a moment. No, we're not releasing one this year We're not releasing one soon big mood change year over year And some took this as a sign that clearly Nintendo plans to release at least a new model switch If not a pro that's more powerful at least an excel model that maybe has a bigger screen if nothing else Maybe better battery life, whatever, you know, just like even if it's a small change Well, we have a new report coming straight out of Japan. So we're not we're not worried about Bloomberg We're not worried about Wall Street Journal or any that we're getting straight from Japan who has a closer connection And this comes from Nikkei. So what happened is Nikkei Who actually recently did an interview with Shintura for a cow has been talking to the manufacturing partners of Nintendo and Just other various companies. Well, we have a we have a small tidbit on here on PlayStation 5 But essentially they talked to spokespeople for these outlets and the spokesperson Kind of slipped up a little bit Because I'm presuming they weren't supposed to say what they said Let's get into the details So first off it says that that Nintendo has plans to increase production overall for this fiscal year Which goes through March 2022 to 30 million units that is the most Nintendo has ever made of switch And apparently because of this Essentially Nintendo is on track to sell 110 million units by the end of this fiscal year and have it be the most successful year financially for Nintendo since 2008 which is peak years of we in DS So that's pretty huge that one system can hit those peak year numbers. That's crazy for Imagining that just blows my mind But here's where things get really interesting. It says a spokesperson for one of the manufacturers for switch confirmed to Nikkei that Nintendo has Models for a more powerful switch in manufacturing right now for a planned release this fiscal year However, they would not comment on how many units Nintendo has planned so that 30 million figure What they're saying is part of that 30 million they're making is the new model of switch So just keep that in the back of your mind now. We have a manufacturer spokesperson Confirming to Nikkei that Nintendo is making a new model switch That's wow Wow, it's one thing to have like someone from manufacturing on like the manufacturing line talking anonymously This is a spokesperson. This is a PR person This is someone you're supposed to talk to when you reach out to these manufacturing companies Slipping up and saying yeah Nintendo has a new model, but we can't tell you how many they're making also of note There's a small thing in here about Sony we might as well talk about that because we do talk about other things besides Nintendo They do note that Sony is planning to exceed the sales of PlayStation 4 in year 2 So technically so how it works is obviously fiscal year in Japan ended in March So that would be the end of year 1 for PlayStation 5 meaning PlayStation 5's in year 2 fiscally So in the fiscal year 2 for PlayStation 4, they sold 14.8 million units Sony supposedly is attempting to make hit 20 million and it's year 2 of PlayStation 5 fiscally So that would be a pretty massive increase that all obviously means that you know Sony is a new order in for parts whether or not they are gonna get everything they ordered. I have no idea No, this person is pretty confident Nintendo is gonna hit their 30 million. So we'll see what happens this is So we've had we've had sources for manufacturing before basically everything Takahashi Machizuki has said and all of his articles over the years have been from manufacturing, right? People who's talked to a manufacturing, but usually he ends with a spokesperson refuse to comment So they would talk to somebody who have contacts inside the manufacturing to see what's happening with Nintendo But then when they would reach out for an official statement from Nintendo or from you know these manufacturing companies They would just say they refuse to comment or they chose not to comment this time That's not true this time this time. They chose to comment and they bay I think they just confirmed something that Nintendo likely didn't want confirmed So yeah, I find this to be very fascinating that this is what happened. I This is not how I thought switch pro would be confirmed obviously You know Nintendo announcing it now It's clear here that they're saying the plan is that Nintendo wants to get it out this fiscal year Whether or not they release it this fiscal year I don't know but what's interesting is that they confirm it's a more powerful switch I don't you know why they're confirming it's more powerful They could have just said a new model of switch then that leaves the door open to okay Yeah, Nintendo of course is gonna have another model of switch. Look at what they did with 3ds They had though they had the the 2ds They had the 2ds XL the 3ds XL plus the new 3ds like obviously there's gonna be a new model of switch at some point That would have just left the doors open, but this is a manufacturing company saying yeah, Nintendo's doing it And we can't tell you how many units so so we'll see what happens This definitely increases my Hope a breath of the wild to coming this year because I feel like Nintendo's pairing them together There's no confirmation. That's happening. It's just a gut feeling. I have they launched switch with breath of the wild Why not launch switch pro with breath of the wild to don't worry breath of the wild to still gonna be available to play in your Switch, of course That's if you have a switch now a switch like don't worry Nintendo's not gonna take games away from you at least not first-party games. You might see some third parties go Yeah, we're only gonna make it for the pro, but we'll see we'll see We obviously have to get a lot of pro sales for third parties to buy in so it might take a year Anyways, thank you guys so much for tuning in. Let me know what you think about this down in the comments below I'll leave a link to the Nikkei article. It is very difficult to access the article You have to sign up for an account. You have to like do some conversions They do have a free account that you can make but it is a little more complicated to make it took me almost a half hour Just to get access to the article to confirm this information So thank you for what I will you don't have to believe me you can go check it out If you want it just takes a little leg work. All right, folks. I'll catch you guys in the next video