 You know the saying that goes when it rains, it pours. That's kinda what it feels today as the stories around Nintendo Switch 2 keep evolving as more and more people get involved in telling these stories. Now, what are we talking about? Well, earlier today we had a couple of Nintendo Switch 2 stories. One of them was about hundreds of developers currently admitting they are making games for Nintendo Switch 2. That was really cool. The other story had to do with the fact that there's actually pre-orders for Nintendo Switch 2 from a certain outlet in Japan. In fact, this outlet right here named Mecha Japan. And nothing wrong with this per se. There's not a high likelihood that this individual retail outlet actually heard anything and could have made guesswork. But what if I were to tell you, they apparently are not the only retail outlet handling pre-order business. And in fact, a bunch of retailers worldwide might be about to do similar things because they've actually heard legit information. Beyond that as well, we have also some stuff floating out there about when Nintendo Switch 2 could possibly be revealed along with a few games that we should maybe expect to come alongside the Nintendo Switch 2 this year. Coming from some journalists and a known insider. So we have to talk about that as well. First let's get into the retail stuff and how we know or at least there's a rumor that a bunch of retailers are now hearing about the Nintendo Switch 2 so they can prepare. Now this stuff comes from one of my friends and look, he is amazing at research, Andres Restart. And he does speak and understand Spanish. And he was watching a YouTube channel called NintendLeaks as you can see here in his video today. And what NintendLeaks did is claim they have their own sources that a bunch of retailers in Spain and other countries are hearing about the Nintendo Switch 2 officially from Nintendo, that way they can prepare to get pre-orders ready to go both in store and online. Now of course this is a rumor, right? We can't verify Andres Restart can't verify. I can't verify who these sources are and figure this out. So it's a rumor and I don't really have NintendLeaks on my rumor believability scale because I've never really covered anything officially from them before. So for now they're just kind of out there as a mystery but it is quite fascinating that if they are correct it means all that happened is this retailer in Japan just jumped the gun on information that many retailers are currently getting about Nintendo Switch 2. So we could in fact within a week or two at least by the end of January see a bunch of these pre-order pages start to pop up as retailers prepare for the inevitable Switch 2 announcement. So I do find it at least worth noting that the news today isn't just about that Japanese retailer that does have it on pre-order. It's also about something much bigger. Now we're not done there because look at that is really cool and it's an unverified rumor and it's pretty neat but we have to talk about some predictions and other information coming in from people who are pretty high on my rumor believability scale. So we're gonna be talking about two people in particular. We have Christopher Dring who I forgot to put on my rumor believability scale but he is a video game journalist with inside knowledge and he's often given us all the sales data out of the UK and then we have Necro Philippe Lima from Universal Nintendo. And as you can see on my rumor believability scale he is one of the most trustworthy people out there. He's in the reliable category. So we're gonna get into some predictions they put out there and what Necro Philippe Lima had to say about said predictions because to me it's honestly quite fascinating. So first let's get to Christopher Dring's original tweet out here where he said my switch to predictions will be wrong but let's see how wrong. Nintendo to tease switch to before the end of March possibly at the next direct but I think standalone and he doesn't think there'll be a separate full reveal event in the summer that will launch in September with a new Mario and that Mario Kart 9 will come in October with cross platform Pokemon in November. Now these are fairly safe predictions and if these were on their own we probably wouldn't include them in this video. Look everyone's making predictions at this point from analysts to journalists or YouTubers. Like we're all just trying to put in our best guesses on when this stuff could come but then Necro Philippe Lima had to chime in and if you look at what he had to say just to prove he's replying to the same tweet he says I don't think it will be too off besides the next Mario Kart number being 10 and not nine. So he's one saying hey Mario Kart 9 probably not what they're gonna call it and that could be true because Nintendo could consider Mario Kart 2 or to be Mario Kart 9 even though they didn't have a number so maybe they would call it Mario Kart 10 or Mario Kart X or whatever they wanna do or they might not use numbers at all. We don't really know but he says that Mario Kart and this is just a guess from him will come only in 2025 and a new 3D should arrive first. So quite interesting to dig into this and obviously gotta consider the full context of what they're talking about. He says I don't think this will be too off and he's talking about the entire context of this such as the Nintendo Switch 2 being teased and or shown by the end of March obviously 3D Mario tossed in there as well with a cross platform Pokemon. I honestly think that this is quite fascinating that consistently Nintendo insiders keep pointing to March for a reveal. It just keeps happening. Nate, the hate has done it and he's got I believe a new podcast episode coming soon where he's gonna get his full predictions in for Nintendo in 2024 but previously on previous podcast episodes he has noted that he thinks it's gonna be revealed in March. So if he's still thinking March especially when his podcast episode comes up Necrophilipe's say in March we have insiders, you know Dr. Circuitoto sort of hinting towards March we have other people Necrophilipe Aleema, Christopher Dring you know all predicting March. March, March, March keeps being the date thrown out and a lot of this ties back to the Gamescom stuff from last year. For those who don't remember there was some rumor demos at Gamescom showing off behind the scenes to select developers and they kept hearing March. March now we weren't giving context for what March meant it literally and it still could just be an internal date like you need to have your games ready by March if you want them to be included in a future launch trailer or at launch of the new platform that can literally be all that is an internal date it also could have been an external date that they were hearing about March as in March is when Nintendo's revealing this system and you can finally talk about what you're working on it. That's the weird thing is none of the developers behind the scenes that talk to these insiders gave them what March meant and maybe it's because Nintendo never gave them what March meant or maybe it's just they're under NDA, right? It's one thing to say March it's another thing to break NDA and tell people exactly what that March date meant. But either way, March has been really floated out there since September of last year and now it seems everybody that has connections in the industry from video game journalists to insiders keep pointing to March as being the time to expect Nintendo Switch 2 to be revealed also when most people are still expecting that it is still be a Nintendo Direct next month whether it's a full Direct or a mini. So that's fascinating as well and as Christopher Drink says, hey, it could be revealed in the Direct that doesn't seem likely but hey, this is Nintendo. This is new management. Who knows how they wanna handle the reveal of this new platform. So it's gonna be quite fascinating and I just wanted to put this all together because there's so much floating out there right now with Nintendo Switch 2 and the stories keep evolving. I know in my last video earlier today I said, man, it could be a month before we talk about Switch 2 again and here we are in the same day with a new video. I get it, it's quite weird what's happening out in the world of the internet right now but you know what? This I think just feels normal, right? It feels normal heading into the reveal of a new system, the launch of a new system. I remember all of the PlayStation 5 days before they revealed PlayStation 5. So this was early 2020 and man, there was so much rumors, so much buzz, so much stuff just floating around out there about the PlayStation 5 and Sony had yet to even officially unveil it. Now, technically, they did announce it as existing and if you wanna argue, Nintendo announced it as existing that because they mentioned their next generation system back in 2021. That's right, Nintendo told us Nintendo accounts are gonna be forward compatible with their next system. So they technically announced the next system was coming years ago, but here we are in 2024. We're just gonna have to buckle up. It's gonna be a bit of a wild ride, a bit of a bumpy one. Some of these rumors will turn out to be true. Some of these predictions will turn out to be true. Some of this stuff is gonna turn out to be false. All we can do is strap up because it sure seems likely that the Switch 2 is coming this year. Just remember, these are rumors until proven otherwise. Thank you so much for tuning in and I am going to catch you all in the next video.