 What if I told you there was going to be a switch before the switch and it was going to be made by Nintendo and it was even going to predate the Nintendo Wii. Yeah that was actually a thing that was in the works at Nintendo. Oh and did you know that instead of Wii Nintendo also had a more powerful system that was on par with the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 with HD output and everything we'll get into this after we talk about well our two giveaways. So we have one giveaway for 3D all-stars the Super Mario 3D all-stars. We have three games are given away three copies so three winners to enter going on in the description click the Gleam.io link also you can get 15 extra entries for becoming a member of Patreon at any tier for $1 all the way up to whatever amount of money you wish to put in there. Anyways we also have a second giveaway for a Switch Lite and then two games of choice for second place winners. The details on how to enter that are also down in the description. Good luck we're going to have six total winners by October 1st so crazy crazy stuff. Now let's get into the good stuff baby tonight because we have more leaks coming out of Nintendo. Now LuigiBlood on Twitter is known as someone who has been deep diving into some of the leaks out there that have that have occurred that are of questionable legal validity aka remember all those games and and ROMs and all the stuff that's been leaking from Nintendo all of 2020 this comes from that fat stack of leaks. So I'm not going to dive in too much into how these leaks have happened how Nintendo security got breached that's just not something I really want to spend a whole lot of time on because we could be literally talking for 30 minutes. So I'm going to focus on the new stuff discovered because this is what's interesting so first up we actually have a scheme here that suggests that there was a successor to Gamecube in the work at one time that was essentially a portable Gamecube controller it had controller ports on it an SD card it had GC memory card slot AV out and an optional TV tuner with an MPEG for encoder and wireless stuff essentially what this means is there was a switch version of Gamecube prototyped at one point at Nintendo yeah so switch isn't like everyone thinks well oh it's derivative of the Wii U if we didn't have Wii U we want to have switch are you so sure of that it certainly looks like Nintendo had the exact idea of a dockable because this was dockable a dockable portable Gamecube player that you could take on the go or use at home it certainly looks like Nintendo had this idea long before Wii U was even a fleeting thought in their minds so maybe just maybe switches actually a kind of sort of original idea from Nintendo that originated from their initial prototypes of a Gamecube version of it that's not it though it turns out that there was a proposal not sure how far this went it was it's just a proposal in the documents for a system called TECO so it's to be like a codename the successor to Dolphin which is the codename for Gamecube when it was still about power and not the Wii it boasts about being its power being as good as the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 2 aka the Xbox 360 obviously this before the 360 name was known HDTV support and seamless compatibility with Nintendo portables so it was not only going to continue to play the power game the big boy power game masters of the universe it was going to also be able to be essentially backwards compatible seamlessly compatible with handheld games you were able to take handheld cartridges or whatever and just slap them in this system and they would work in addition to discs or whatever the system was going to end up using we know that it was going to succeed mini discs so it wasn't going to be more mini discs where they're going to go up to the big fat boy DVDs or whatever I have no idea but yeah that was a thing that was going to happen oh man what a very different Nintendo we could have had if they would have taken the Gamecube and turned it into a switch like system at the same time releasing a more powerful system that competes with the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360 directly uh with trying to add the caveat hey you can play out your handheld games on it too I think that this is a old school Nintendo this is a pre-wee Nintendo before that all these ideas to be honest the the Teco successor idea even the portable Gamecube idea the the dockable Gamecube I think these ideas were thrown away the moment that Gamecube failed to connect with the consumer base when Gamecube started really not selling that well in the market and they had to reduce the price to 99 dollars just to get any units off the shelf that was a thing Gamecube was 99 bucks at one point in the Gamecube's heyday not after the fact uh I think Nintendo just kind of said you know what we can't keep going in the power direction so we got to cancel the the the Teco thing uh we can't it doesn't make sense to do a portable Gamecube when no one even likes Gamecube as it is now so why the hell are we considering a switchable dockable portable Gamecube too bad so sad we need to do something else and that's when they just made that drastic decision to attempt the motion controls and then we all know the story of we and where the idea came from and and all that jazz so yeah um I obviously Gamecube's failure is what led to we but if Gamecube would have been a success instead of a failure we could have had a very different Nintendo uh and who knows maybe Nintendo and would be the market leader instead of Sony I mean I don't switch is dominating now but wouldn't even have switch or would we because we would have the Gamecube version of it and they would have maybe just kept reiterating after that I have no idea but a very very different Nintendo could have existed in an alternate universe this is the reality and there's a lot of you guys out there that are probably like damn damn that's the Nintendo I wanted but we're stuck with the Nintendo we got and uh the Nintendo we have today I still think it's pretty freaking phenomenal so thank you guys so much for tuning in I'm Nathan and Robert Jensen from Nintendo Prime be sure to enter those giveaways quick short little video just packing the content in there's so much goodies out here you guys have a lovely day