 Hey everyone, welcome back to Nintendo Prime. And today we are visiting the Nintendo Switch rumor mill. It's actually been quite a while since we've covered rumors for Nintendo, believe it or not. I know there's some of you out there that think that's all I do. But if you actually take a look at my content, it hasn't really been that frequent or that often lately because there just hasn't been a lot of them out there. At least a lot of them that I felt were worth covering. But I decided to grab a batch of them from the same source and put them together in this video just because it's very interesting that things this person had to say. Among these things is a potential release date for Splatoon 3 or at least a release month for Splatoon 3 with some additional details. And then we have a little bit of potential teasing of a game that Nintendo's going to announce sometime soon. And on top of that, we get to go over another possible red flag but also could just be a lack of knowledge of this person. But that is what it is. Before we get into that rumors, I wanna thank you guys so much for watching this video. I love my fan base so much that we are actually doing a massive giveaway called Prime Gaming Fest this June. We're gonna be live reacting to Summer Game Fest along with thousands of dollars in giveaways, hundreds of winners. It's gonna be a lot of fun, lots of entertainment happening, contests and competitions between me and the co-host and punishments and all of it for your guys' entertainment. We'll obviously be playing games as well during this show. It's gonna be a lot of fun and some of you guys will even get to play with us and compete with us including in something such as video game Wheel of Fortune, which we'll have four of our fans compete in. So it's gonna be a lot of fun. You know, so since we do stuff like that, I just ask that people subscribe to the channel, drop a like and all that and hopefully you're doing that as you like the content. All right, now let's get into this first thing here and again, these are rumors, put those tin foil hats on, throw the salt over your shoulder, you know, or it's bad luck, you know, back your truck up of salt and dump it all over the ground because you'll see why in a moment. So we're talking about some stuff that Samus Hunter has put out there and Samus Hunter is a, you know, for those who haven't heard of her, she is someone who has been leaking content for, I don't know, a year and a half. She's got a interesting track record, missed on several big things, but then also has hit on like everything in between those big things. So take that for what you will. In particular, she's really good at hitting that things that are gonna be posted on Twitter. And she asks some stuff on here for Splatoon 3 and she says, Splatoon 3's official Japanese website is not live, which, you know, we did a video on that earlier, we covered it. Not new information, but the new Splatoon North America is also posting information released before the account foundation to keep up with all the news. So basically, okay, yeah, Twitter accounts are posted on Splatoon 3. We know this already. Given the new internally targeted July release date, and that's new. We have not, we just heard summer. We didn't know there was a target of July. So a July target release date after the launch of Nintendo Switch Sports, you should expect to see the main game focused for the next few months. The release date could be dropped on their social in a couple of weeks, possibly before the investors meeting and this was posted on April 7th. If you're worried about the lack of news on the game, new trailers and a dedicated direct are planned alongside daily news on characters, weapons, maps, enemies in their social channels and full marketing campaign will start. So again, this is some news on Splatoon 3, potential news anyways on Splatoon 3. Obviously we know Mario Strikers drops in June. So it kind of would make sense that this would be their July game anyway. So, you know, some fancy deducing could point that hey, she might be actually right on this one. But it's very interesting to see when they're gonna start the advertising campaign for it. I would assume after Nintendo Switch Sports comes up but then again, they got to advertise Mario Strikers. So who really knows? All right, beyond all of that, we have this is a really interesting one where she notes, you may love this upcoming game or hate it. Okay, so it's a love hate relationship I guess fans have with it, but I'm sure it's going to be a shadow drop announcement. So not in a direct or anything on a Nintendo social channel with a near release date and it's going to surprise everyone. In one, two months, it should release. So essentially, I don't suppose this is April 4th. So in April, May, maybe early June, it should release. But it all depends on other digital store approvals. So that makes it obviously something, it's a digital only game. You know, is this gonna be like a Rusty's real deal baseball two or something like that? Is it going to end up being a one, two, three switch? You know, a sequel to one, two switch? I don't know, but this does seem to hit, the Nintendo's got something to drop whenever the hell they damn well feel like it. It's going to be a digital only game. And who knows? I mean, we've had Mario 35 as an example, Tetris 99. Maybe it's something in that ilk for Nintendo Switch online. But yeah, it's gonna be really interesting. And this obviously assumes that she even knows what she's talking about. So we'll see there. Now, this is one that I thought was interesting where she was trying to give some context to Nintendo's purchasing of the land and building that building. You know, where we talked with the acquisition of the city owned land. We talked about that a couple of days ago. And she said, Nintendo's trying to expand its internal development team and increase their efficiency. Next level games and SRD acquisition. Yes, we know this happened. These were announced by Nintendo. Two rented floor and one smaller building starting this summer. I don't know what she's talking about. I haven't seen any documents on this, but maybe she's hinting that Nintendo's about to open a smaller building and rent a couple of floors somewhere. I don't know. We know they closed an office building, I should say, in California, but they weren't actually downsizing. They were just relocating. And yeah, a bunch of staff obviously left because they didn't wanna relocate outside of California. They made partner studios like Game Freak and HAL closer to their Tokyo EPD studio. And this is the one that I don't know if she's just assuming cause here's what we know. Game Freak's address for their studio is the same one as Nintendo HQ in Kyoto. Game Freak already works outside, like inside of Nintendo's headquarters right now. So they moved them closer to their EPD studio. No, no they didn't. Game Freak's been working inside the Nintendo headquarters for years, HAL as well. HAL and Game Freak both work inside of Nintendo HQ. So this isn't even news. It's been that way for years. So I don't really know. I don't know if she just doesn't know. Like this is public information. So this isn't even like trying to call a Samus Hunter. This is just factually incorrect. Now this is interesting. The 2.5 size, the monolith teams. I don't know if that's true, of course. This is something that, I don't know the exact headcount at monolithsoft and what it was before the hiring spree. Anyways, here's what she goes on to say. And they're growing, won't stop there. They also have plans to greatly improve monolithsoft Kyoto team. There's multiple monolithsoft teams. She's not wrong there. The ones who work on asset creation for EPD, titles such as Animal Crossing Splatoon, Pikmin, Zelda. Nintendo is also looking at a new director producer inside its internal EPD. I mean, okay, yeah, they're probably, I would think they're always looking for new directors and producers, right? I would think. Also, other partner studios like Game Freak have grown too. Yeah. And other smaller developers like Vampool and Camelot are more and more involved with Nintendo projects and teams. Camelot actually never stopped being involved with Nintendo ever. But Nintendo has a clear vision for its future. I think Nintendo always has a clear vision for its future. I don't know that, I don't know, I've ever seen a Nintendo that doesn't know what its vision is for the future. Even the Wii U and 3DS days, I could argue Nintendo has always had a clear vision just because the vision doesn't get realized or the vision doesn't sell well, doesn't mean there isn't a vision. Even when they released Virtual Boy and that flopped, they had a vision for Virtual Boy. It just never really came to fruition. Just like they had a vision for Labo VR that it didn't really take off the way that they were hoping it would. So yeah, Nintendo has lots of visions for a lot of things. It's what becomes reality and what doesn't. And it's usually based on what's selling and what's not selling. If it's something that isn't selling well, that suddenly isn't part of their big vision anymore. Like I highly doubt they thought at this point they would be shutting down like Drugalia Lost and other various mobile games that are looking at shutting down. Because I think they thought it would be a hell of a lot more successful in that space. But they can't quite get to the safe success levels as Fire Emblem Heroes, Mario Kart Tour, and I mean obviously the behemoth that is Pokemon Go. Nintendo, a lot of like Pocket Camp and Mario Run have fallen well short of I think where Nintendo would like them to be when we see Dr. Mario wasn't even out that long before they shut that game down. So look, Nintendo has a clear vision for its future. I do think Splatoon 3 probably logically drops when it does because we know about Chronicles 3 coming I believe in September. So I just have a hard time thinking it's gonna be an August game. It could be an August game to be clear, but I think Splatoon 3 is ready to go right now. Like they could literally ship it right now if they want it in my honest opinion. So I think July makes sense because let's strikers have a little room to breathe, get like a E3 like direct out there. And then obviously drops Splatoon 3 the following month. But that's just my speculation. You guys let me know what you think about this information from Samus Hunter. Again, I know a lot of you guys don't like her. Some of you guys think that I am Samus Hunter. I don't know what I can do to prove I'm not Samus Hunter. Like when people make accusations of you and they're like, hey, I think you're Samus Hunter and you're just making all this stuff up yourself. Like what do I, well what can I do to prove that wrong? Like it's an anonymous account. Like I don't know what can I do. Like I can't, you know, I guess go, you know, okay, cool. If I'm Samus Hunter, if I'm Samus Hunter, right? All right, then let's go. Let's just take a quick thing here. Let's go up to my login, let's go home here and go to go to, oops, how do I log out? How do you know how to log out to Twitter? I would figure maybe this will help. How do you, I don't even know how to log out to Twitter. How do you log out? Someone tell me. No, I'm just kidding. Actually, I'm really not kidding. I actually don't know how to log out. There's that. And since I spend a majority of my time on desktop, again though, it requires that you believe me. I guess I can grab my phone here and show you that what my accounts are on Twitter. Like if I go here and, you know, you can see my accounts there. It's Nathan Jantz and on Nintendo Prime. I know where to switch my accounts there. You know, let's say that I wanna add an existing account, right? You can see like if I type in S for Samus Hunter, nothing pops up in my save login. So I don't know guys, I mean, it's almost as if I'm not Samus Hunter, but you guys do with that information what you will. All right guys, I'll catch you in the next video.