 Oh, yeah, we're talking about the switch pro but Hold your horses a bit because before I talk about it because you've got a couple pages of stuff here to go over I need to remind you that we did a story the other day about The former lead director lead designer of Metro Prime 1 2 and 3 and how he said Metro Prime 4 is Unlikely and I said that he's wrong and all that it doesn't matter You know my personal opinions on on it There is now stories coming out that he is being attacked by Metroid fans on his personal accounts That don't we're better than that as a community guys Just because he has an opinion that it's unlikely the Metro Prime trilogy HD will ever happen That doesn't give us the right to do personal attacks on his personal accounts and affect his actual life I know this seems to happen every single time. We criticize something someone says Especially when it's something that we don't believe is true, but come on Come on Let's get into some fun news now instead All right folks. So again, just like my video yesterday I will preface this by saying if you watched the Nintendo Prime podcast pack on Wednesday You should already know this information. That is if you watch the entire show now I know again that show was three hours long I will link that show down in the description and probably in the pinned comment as well Because it was a very good podcast that contained a ton of information and I encourage you guys to tune in to our podcast It's upcoming Wednesday as you could tell sometimes we break news on our podcast instead of doing separate videos because we won't have a much Longer form conversation in fact sometimes new news comes up from our guests or other information that we're working with And yeah, we'll split it off in its own videos later like we're doing now But still this is just something I want you guys to be aware of so if you want to get the news even a little bit sooner Go check out the Nintendo Prime podcast. All right, so let's get into this all this information again comes from Samus Hunter, too Again at this point, you should know who Samus Hunter 2 is But this is the first time you've ever seen a video on my channel Just know that Samus Hunter 2 is a Twitter user who has gotten a bunch of information correct I will link to her Twitter profile below Be you know in the sources section because this information comes from her However, this information was provided to me through private DMs So I can't actually link you to the DMs and I might show a screenshot of the DMs I haven't decided yet here just to prove that they're there But besides showing proof that the DMs exist I'm just going to go through this information because this is very very cool stuff about switch pro now If you're hoping in this video to find out specs Not necessarily going to be finding that out You're gonna find more about features and what Nintendo plans to do With the current base model and light model of Nintendo switch because believe it or not The pro model has implications on them as well and those models might be changing very very soon So let's get into it So we were talking about all of her rumors and all her reports of past reports current all that jazz The samus hunter has done and we went over all of this on that podcast, but she Unprompted didn't even ask about a new switch brought up the new switch console So let's go through the conversation. So samus hunter says, uh, I forgot to talk about the new console Yes, I can confirm they are going to release a brand new switch model not a new generation But a pro model. So again Samus hunter has been right on so much stuff for some people. This is practically a Reconformation of something many of us already believe is happening. All right. They are probably working on two revisions This is the first time we've heard this two revisions a more expensive model But with more features and better graphics. So this is the pro a Model that just improves on the current switch model But with some features from the other as was the case with the base switch after the light was released with better battery life So what happened when switch light came out in case you're lived under a rock and don't understand that there are different versions of the Original switch they shrunk the die down which created better battery life and enable them to do the light And they took that die and they threw it on the base model switch with a bigger battery Which gave it more battery life. That's essentially the only change that happened. That's why we have the red box switches Those are known as the v2 switches version 2 switches So what they're saying is when the pro comes out It's going to be followed up if not right away soon after by a version 3 switch and a version 2 switch light Essentially those models would be replaced Internally the component it would look the same but some of the components would be replaced internally Some of the features might get adjusted as well. Hello Maybe Bluetooth I'm just saying all right, so then I responded and said ah, so that sounds like a v3 model that adds modern features I don't know what those modern features might be maybe it's just a bigger screen new joy cons Perhaps then a pro model with all the power awesome That just made tonight's podcast even better. No any details about those features we already know about the OLED screens and such and Samus that are responded and said that's right it's important for an intended to have a budget model light a Family model which is the base model switch and then an enthusiast model the one that many call pro on the market If they can find compromises that allow you to have the features of the new models on the old ones while Maintaining the same cost in price. They will especially if it comes to the hardware components to standardize production This aspect is important. So if you want to quote the exact words in some video, please do well Here's that video Samus utter. So here's the thing What first of this is the first time I've seen the models, you know split up in this way Now we always in the light was it kind of like a budget switch But calling the base model switch the family model. I've never I've never heard that term used before So that's the family model and the pro is the enthusiast model if that's how Nintendo views it internally I find that very interesting. Also, this talks about how switch pro is going to be more expensive than the base switch I feel like that should be expected now if we look at the price difference between the light and the base switch That's a hundred dollar price difference I feel like there's gonna be a hundred dollar price difference then to the switch pro so switch pro would be What would that be two three ninety nine, right? So you got three nine two ninety nine and one ninety nine It doesn't appear the light or the og switch or the family model switch I guess as it's called are going to change prices They're just going to do a component swap and if there's certain features on the new model because of those components Maybe the Bluetooth stuff. Maybe I don't know. I don't know what features. They're considering Maybe a headphone jack on the joy con or so. I have no clue. So whatever features. They're considering adding OLED panels by the way, I assume they're gonna drop those OLED panels down the switch line I don't think that's gonna be just an enthusiast model thing Because I feel like Nintendo can get a better deal at manufacturing by unifying all that they certainly can make switches faster doing that So that makes a lot of sense to me It's something we haven't talked about how the pro model could actually affect the down You know trickle down to the other models But again, it happened with light right the light came out and it affected the base model switch So why shouldn't we expect the pro model to also affect those models and have version 3's? This does not mean if you own a switch light or you own a launch switch or a version 2 switch that you need to buy a new switch Okay, let's be clear here. The pro is not a new generation platform Yes, we just got news from Nintendo and if you missed that link that down in the description as well I'm sure to refer a cowboy that Nintendo is R&D and heavily investing at the moment in their next platform But again, the pro model is not the next platform The pro model is the next part of the family of systems that Nintendo talked about before switch even came out All right, so I responded to samus hunter and I said sure I assume the pro model is higher priced Like 399 and the other models hold base prices Do you know if the plans are this year next year and then samus hunter said well Hey, one aspect they are focusing on is greater connectivity as well as power to handle resolution and frame rate So obviously the power aspect we've all speculated for a while That's the whole point is which bro in addition to OLED screens and other changes focusing on greater connectivity is something I find to be very interesting. I'm not sure if that means You know better online services We also just talked yesterday about the whole new service there might be launching for virtual console So I feel like there's a lot of stuff you can infer through this over what that might be You know, what might a your connectivity feature be that we're missing? I think messaging people That would be fantastic to actually be able to do. We haven't really been able to do that traditionally on Nintendo systems Remember picto chat back in the day. Obviously we had meverse, which was really really cool But direct DMS isn't something Nintendo has really supported that much But hey, that would be greater connectivity with our friends And if we can get voice chat away from the phone back onto the system I think that would be a benefit to gamers as well again Improving connectivity also being able to seamlessly transition games from one switch to the next switch to the next switch When you're the main account on all those switches, I think would be nice as well, but you know, we'll see what happens so I Responded and I said, I wonder if that has to do with Bluetooth stuff Finally might get that supported Otherwise not sure what they could do unless they are revamping Nintendo online and she responded and said the switch was Planned or the switch pro was planned for this fiscal year So this year running, you know through March 2022 and it says likely to release in late 2021 But it could be delayed to early 2022 It is necessary to see if they will find problems in production given the scarcity of some components Also, I don't expect any announcement at E3 The plans were about the announcement in the summertime After they presented games that will support it at launch, which those games will be presented during E3 So what's interesting is This almost lines up with something Shintura Furukawa Just said because I heard about this stuff before the financial report came out Shintura Furukawa also mentioned hey 25.5 million switches We don't know what part scarcity is going to be like We know we just sold 29 million if we can make more than 25.5 million We will we just aren't sure about part availability Now we heard other reports from Nikkei that Nintendo might be saying 25.5 million But they're you know actually going to be producing 30 million units So they expect to sell 25.5, but they're going to manufacture 30 and some of those manufactured units will indeed Be the switch pro and here you kind of see the same thing where hey Nintendo might be playing a wait and see approach where the internal plans are to release this holiday But they got to see how production goes once it's fully ramped up and make sure they don't run into a scarcity of parts That leads them to delaying it a couple months so they can have more units available at launch There's nothing we're going to be able to do about scalpers guys scalpers are at launch of every product Even before the pandemic. It's just Yeah, Nintendo is trying to make sure they have at least their targeted units for launch that they think they need For this holiday and what I find interesting as well is one you're not going to get an unveil at E3, which If you if you look at switch light, they didn't unveil at E3 either They unveiled that later in the summer like literally at the end of summer and then released it a couple months later I expect a very similar strategy here because they're not going to want to make people not buy switch for the next five months Oh, hey guys switch pros come in this holiday. Yeah, so just kill switch sales for the next few months Nintendo's not going to do that. They're not stupid. They know that when you announce a new model You need to announce it close to its release That way you don't affect sales of switch today You could say maybe that's a little shady if they know this model isn't the works Why wouldn't they do that make people wait? It is what it is. That's just business 101 And yeah Nintendo wanting to wait also until they have the games reveal that are going to be there at launch I find it be interesting because the games are obviously going to be on the normal switch as well I think the strategy is you show off breath of the wild too You show off any other games that you have planned Coming out at the end of this year and you show them off running on that normal switch That way when you announce this switch that supposedly can output at 4k and olad panel that you could show Hey, look remember this game we showed off here in E3 Remember how it looked like this and it ran like this. Yeah, now that game breath of the wild too now It's upscaled to But bam 4k runs at native 1080p handheld or something. Oh and by the way 60 fps Doubling the frame rate. Oh and maybe we threw in some anti-aliasing to make it look even better See, that's the thing It's possible that nintendo could have these all these big amazing games to be like Hey, you can still get these on your switch But hey, this is why an enthusiast This is why an enthusiast would want to spend 400 dollars this holiday on this So you could play all these amazing games, but just slightly better Although I would say I would argue an increase from 30 fps to 60 fps Is more than a slight improvement Also being able to go from like running at 900p or 720p And being able to actually run at 1080p with a nice 4k upscale I would argue that's a pretty big improvement But you know to the eye of the beholder there not everyone cares about that stuff People are perfectly fine with 30 fps on a lot of games So people are perfectly fine playing is at 720p or under on handheld sometimes So, you know, it is what it is. All I know is this is really exciting stuff from samu center 2 It's a different approach to talking about switch broke over to other other rumors are always focused on Oh, yeah, they're they're producing units at manufacturing. They're adding OLED panels. It's gonna output 4k It's gonna have dlss These are all like spec related things where samus hunter is talking about the philosophy And you want to know why samus hunter talks about the philosophy Because if you haven't noticed the track record of samus hunter 2 is that a lot of the stuff She sees has to do with how a game is being marketed to the public And that marketing Nintendo doesn't focus on specs in marketing You're not going to hear about how many cpu's and how much ram it has and store Nintendo doesn't do that. They didn't do that with the last two switches. Why would they do it with this one? But they will focus on saying hey, it's the same games, but better It's for enthusiast. It doesn't replace the current models It's just an option on the market A family model an enthusiast model a budget model. These are the kind of terms Nintendo would use in a marketing way So this is really interesting to me. You guys let me know what you think about this down in the comments below And if you enjoy this video, be sure to drop a like and hit that subscribe button Also folks. Hey, I know you might have already tuned out the moment. I said that but We do have an amazing show happening at e3 2021 four straight days over 12 hours of streams each day We have $3,500 plus in stuff. We're giving away and that giveaway list grows every single day We have over a thousand dollars of our own money committed towards that giveaway for consoles and pro controllers Games accessories Collectibles we got a bunch of collectibles. 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