 Well, folks, it is Friday, October 6th, and we could be talking about how Detective Pikachu returns came out today, and some of you guys are going to pick it up or maybe had some midnight launches for that, and I hope you guys have a really good time with it. But we're actually gonna be talking about Nintendo Switch 2, no surprise. But that's because a major rumor has hit the internet from what seems to be a fairly reliable source. We're gonna dive into the context of all of this and why it's worth paying attention to, but as always, take things with a grain of salt, keep your skepticism up. But this does fall in line with some stuff we've maybe had hinted at before, but we weren't really sure, or at least conversations that we've had about the Nintendo Switch 2. Now, before I dive into these rumors, and really, oh man, we got release dates, we got multiple models, we got, oh man, this is crazy. We have price points. This, I literally can't believe what this is, and it's making me get stupidly excited for what is to come. That being said, before we dive in, I wanna remind you we're on our road to 150,000 subscribers, so I would appreciate if you would subscribe to the channel, drop a like, and why not hit that bell icon to be notified of all future videos. All right, so where did we get this from? Well, it technically comes from a Discord server for a leaker known as the Snitch. Now, if you don't know who the Snitch is, he is someone who has put out a ton of gaming leaks across the gaming spectrum over the last couple of years. He's basically retired at this point, but he created a Discord community for people to come together and talk about the leaks. I'm actually on that Discord, but so I don't have to dig through everything. Thankfully, somebody over at Reset Era gathered all the information together. Now, this person, and I'm gonna tell you who they are in a moment, is someone who the reason people are paying attention to is they have been someone who has provided information to the Snitch who leaked it in the past that was correct. So this was one of the people that the Snitch was getting their information from, and again, all that information proved to be accurate. And while this person is saying to treat this like a rumor, he's not saying that I know this for a fact, he says nothing has happened to de-confirm any of the stuff he has heard from his source. So I'm just throwing that out there, where this is coming from, why people are giving it credence. It's all related to the Snitch. If you don't know anything about that, it's okay. There's a bunch of information out there on the Snitch leaks from the past, if you wanna go look it up. So who is this person? Well, this person is called Soldier Delta, and again, was one of the sources the Snitch was using to leak game stuff before. And he decided to post some stuff and add clarifications when questions were asked. So what did he say? Okay, lads, I heard you all like rumors. I've got some details for you. However, I want to preface this, that this is something that I've heard, that this is information that I've heard from a good friend who is my Mr. Anonymous source. The Switch 2 has an intended release date of September 2024. However, there is also a placeholder for early November. The internal name is NG. However, we don't know about the final name. There are two intended models. One being a standard model for $449, with a digital option for $400, or as you would say, 399.99. And he says, this is all I have for now. But he obviously adds clarifications, he was asked questions. I did get some clarification. Yeah, it's September 24th of 2024. So an exact release date on that. Now, there are some things that he wanted to throw in. For starters, what this all could mean. So he wanted to chase up on the NG point. So he asked his friend, hey, the NG thing sounds a little weird that that would be a code name or something. So what is going on? So Nintendo is jumping to two skews. And he thinks that this was actually what was confusing about backwards compatibility rumors being affected by this, because you know what? Hey, what do you expect guys? Like if there's a digital version, that's not gonna have physical backwards compatibility, but the physical version would. And depending on if you have a dev kit that doesn't take physical cards, could determine if you're gonna have that backwards compatibility. I find that to be quite interesting. And also we don't know which model is the more expensive one. Is the 449 an all digital model, but it has a way more storage or is that the model with the physical like PlayStation did? And then the cheaper one is the one that's all digital. Again, we don't have clarification on which one is which, but apparently Nintendo wants to go with a high end and entry level system. So take that for what you will. To me, that means probably the all digital is the cheaper version. Now, as for the release date, the games gone demo that happened in August was the gauge third party interest. And it says a lot to me about what Nintendo wants out of third parties. Again, this is all coming from this guy. So giving them around a year to test the systems hardware and get launch titles ready makes sense to me. Further, well, I've got doubts about the release date itself. That's something that's always to be concerned about when you get an exact day this soon. The Switch One's release date was 3317. The Switch Two's is allegedly 249.24. They do their dates differently out in across the pond. Anyways, with the timespan given, that seems like a memorable enough date for a launch date. It also still allows a five month window from review to release in say April or May. The placeholder date, I fully get people's concerns behind this. And it was the only real red flag I had looking at the information provided. For me, the November date could be like, hey, if things don't go to plan and we have to delay the launch a little bit, we can move it back a couple months and we already have another day for it. That being said, I'm not fully convinced by this. And this is the only part of the rumor that made me raise my eyebrow, which again, makes sense because having an exact day right now when it's a year out is a little weird. Having a month, sure, an exact day, who knows. Maybe they just want 9, 24, 24. It is something easy to remember long haul. Sort of like 3317. So I sort of get it. And he said, as I've said, this is a rumor that I heard and posted. If you don't believe it or find holes in it, I'm inclined to just believe you all. But for now, because I don't see anything that you could de-confirm in any of this, I'm gonna keep this leak in mind when looking at Switch 2 information moving forward. He also wanted to add an update. He said, an update on the Switch 2 rumor and that it's a rumor I heard, you all know the drill. So there's a few clarifications. First off, the NG code name, of which I've been told, it's not really the code name from Nintendo. Like it's not what Nintendo is calling it internally. It just seems to me what they've told developers to refer to it as. So yeah, this still sort of means it as a code name. It's just not like the official internal code, like NX, right? NX was an official internal code name that Nintendo told us about. NG is not the official code name of the system. It's just a way to reference it when talking to fellow developers. Now, that being said, it does apologize for the small miscommunication on that. Second, he did get reaffirmation of the details on the SKU. However, they mentioned that the price point could obviously be subject to change in case anything happens, economy reasons, et cetera. So it's just like that's their target prices, but obviously things could adjust before launch. It just sort of depends on what's happening in the world and what's happening with the ability to accrue parts and things that are more expensive, less expensive, et cetera. Now, the release date was also reaffirmed with a target of September 24th next year. I was also told that November fallback release date is the third of November in case something goes wrong. Finally, my source reaffirmed the existence of AR features and that it doesn't seem to have an OLED screen. So look, we already heard about the eight inch LCD, so not really surprising to hear about the OLED part. Again, these are rumors. Take them in the grain of salt, but we're gonna obviously have a conversation here as if this stuff is real. The big thing is those AR features. That to me confirms there is a camera and that might be the big feature add to this system. Like we talked about how what could they add to this and what's gonna be that Nintendo thing, what's gonna be great. They're gonna add a camera. So we have AR features, which AR is something Nintendo has played around. AR is something very popular with phone apps right now. It is something that a lot of people today are much more comfortable with than the last time Nintendo dabbled in AR with the Nintendo 3DS. So I'm actually really excited to see what sort of AR features, AR games or whatever they come up with to use here. And I do think a AR camera or a camera intended to be used for AR is something that's gonna see a much grander use case than a lot of other features that could actually be added. Like remember they added the whole, the little IR camera on the Joy-Con and look, I mean, let's just be honest, it barely got used. This is something I actually think some developers, not all of them, but some will actually take advantage of and Nintendo themselves will likely have some smaller applications that will take advantage of it as well. Certainly gonna be more useful than what they tried to do with Nintendo. Labo made out of cardboard, couldn't even strap it to your head. Yeah, I know. So what does this all mean? Well, it's really fascinating to think about a two skew future where one's an all digital and one includes a physical card slot. I'm not really surprised. No, I want to say, oh, I'm really surprised that there's gonna be two skews. But I'm not, well, Nintendo did this with Wii U but that was for different sizes, right? You know, you had your eight gigabyte and your 32 gigabyte internal storage. I don't know if there's gonna be storage differences. I think the price differences clearly have to do with adding a physical cartridge slot. I do think that the more expensive model will be the one where you get your physical games and your digital games and the cheaper one will just be all digital. I just have a feeling they're gonna repeat what Sony did. You know, it's not gonna be like different powers and different specs like that. Like, oh, you know, like the Xbox Series X and S is gonna be the same power, just all digital or not. And that is fascinating to me. We've had hints of this, that there might be a two model thing going on. At least I've heard hints of this sort of behind the scenes, but I didn't really know what to make of it. And so having this now come forward, having that September target release, it does give us a good idea of when they might unveil this. I just recently said on the podcast that I'm sorry, I wanted to ask the honors researcher, hey, like what do you think about April? And now April kind of makes sense for them to possibly announce it if it's gonna be coming in September. Of course, they could announce it sooner and give us a longer lead up time. That's obviously gonna be up to Nintendo. And maybe they feel like they might need a longer lead up time because they want to make sure that the market is ready to accept an all digital Nintendo Switch shoe and get them used to the idea that there's a $50 price difference with two SKUs at launch and what SKU are you gonna get and blah, blah, blah. So I don't know guys, all I do is this to me is wildly exciting. This is something that I did not expect today. Again, I don't control the rumor mill. This stuff literally popped up this morning. This isn't something that was, oh, I'm just sitting on this and banking it for a rainy day. No, no, no, no, no. So you guys let me know you think about the Nintendo Switch 2, all these details, well, potential details anyways, down in the comments below. I'm glad to be your number one source for Nintendo Switch 2 news on the internet and I'll catch you in the next video.