 Hey everyone, welcome back to Nintendo Prime and feels a little bit good to be back on camera for this video. It's been a little bit. Before we talk about today's topic, we're talking about the Nintendo Switch 2 and some interesting things lining up with the Pokemon stuff. It's a crazy world we're living in at the moment. I want to remind you that we are on our road to 100,000 subscribers and if we can get to 100,000 subscribers by the time Tears of the Kingdom comes out, we will be given away a collector's edition of Tears of the Kingdom. So what are you waiting for, we're almost at 88k so let's keep it going. Alright so yesterday we had this sort of breaking news report come out about this programmer that leaked out that we were getting some new Switch models with the second DLC pack for the Pokemon games. This was a 4chan post, I'm a programmer from an outsourcing company yada yada yada here it is on screen you guys know the drill. The thing is, as we get a day out from when this story broke, it's only become more obvious how true this is. There are people who have thrown out some skepticism because he's mentioned things like machine learning to put the post up, not a native English speaker, yada yada yada but however it's a very well put together post and most of the details are 100% exact what the Pokemon company said during the Pokemon Presents. So maybe that was just a throw off, hey you can't find me, maybe it really was an English developer but I don't know look we're not going to really know who this person is unless they get outed. But what's interesting is that when we look at as things stand right now, this seems to be a legit leak, real, this is a thing and we know this not just because of all the things that were right in the Pokemon Presents but also because they didn't show any footage of the game. Now I give some credit to Player Essence for noticing something that I failed to notice and when they announced the DLC for this game they didn't show any footage of it. I actually talked about that yesterday that I thought it was weird they didn't show any footage and a lot of people in the comments went to correct me and say well it's not really that weird because for Sword and Shield they didn't show any footage either when they unveiled it but Player Essence went back and actually watched the reveal of the DLC for Sword and Shield the actual first time they unveiled it and they had footage, it legitimately had footage of the DLC. Now that DLC was coming out much sooner it was coming out in the summer versus the fall but reality is they actually did have small bits of footage of the actual DLC in there. This time around they didn't have any footage and that's notable because he says they're working on a graphic enhancement patch for the new Switch models that will be released alongside DLC too. Now there are a couple things to think about what that sentence means. One could be the reason we haven't seen the DLC yet is because the DLC contains the graphic enhancements they are enhancing the visuals for the new system. Also the fact that this DLC is coming out fall and winter or fall and spring depending on pre-order dates on eShop or all over the place but they announced fall and winter publicly the fact that it's coming out during that time period and not launching this summer heavily suggests that there's a reason they're waiting to release this DLC till later in the year and that reason very well could be that they are launching a graphics update with it for the brand So that's just something to keep in the back of our minds when we think about this also we're not really sure what they mean is releasing alongside DLC too because it says we are working on a graphics enhancement patch for the new Nintendo Switch models that will be releasing alongside DLC too. Now are they saying that the Nintendo Switch models will be launching alongside DLC too or do they mean the graphic enhancement patch will be launching with DLC too? That is something that we're not really sure how to interpret maybe both are launching alongside DLC too. What is known though is that there is a graphics enhancement patch at least according to this leak and that the new Nintendo Switch models will be releasing at some point between now and when DLC 2 comes out so I'm very interested in this and its potential future for the system. One argument I heard yesterday was if the system really is this year why wouldn't they delay Tears of the Kingdom for it? It could be a killer launch title and really help explode the sales out the gate and I agree Tears of the Kingdom could have been a cross-generation title and did just that and it's going to be sort of a pseudo cross-gen title because I do think at launch of the system there will be a 4k graphics update and or a deluxe version of the game that includes the DLC or something with the 4k update or something along those lines. Nintendo will find a way to repackage Tears of the Kingdom to potentially sell it for years giving it that sales potential to reach Breath of the Wild numbers. I do think that is something that they will do but I do wonder if the reason they didn't delay Tears of the Kingdom for it is because they are trying not to repeat their prior system problems. At the end of every generation of Nintendo Switch hardware they essentially stop releasing system sellers. They just go blank for a year then drop a system. And the problem with that of course is you lose all of your momentum. So I think Tears of the Kingdom not releasing before March but not releasing super late in the year giving a May launch is being timed specifically to maintain Switch momentum to a point that there is still fervor for Switch games and momentum for Switch heading into the launch of that next system this holiday. I think things are lining up. We've examined a billion different ways on why Nintendo is making the decisions they do. It's a very weird year. Why are they releasing Zelda in May? Why won't they wait for summer or the holidays anyways? Why won't they do it before the end of the fiscal year and help boost sales figures? A whole bunch of just weird things Nintendo is doing. And then I realized, you know what? This is uncharted territory for Nintendo and their president said it themselves in the last financial meeting that they're in uncharted territory. Not just entering a year 7 for the platform but also uncharted territory because I think Nintendo is attempting to learn from what Sony has done launching major games at the end of a generation when they have a new system coming out. Except Nintendo wants to launch those games before you're aware the new system is coming out. Thinking that'll help boost sales. They're worried it might hurt sales. People might hold off on buying a Switch to play Tears of the Kingdom if they know that there is a new system coming. So instead let's launch it with that. Let's wait a few months. Then we announce the new system. Then we launch the new system two to three months after that. And life is all good. We relaunch games. It's going to be great. We're going to have a killer holiday with a brand new platform. I think this is a strategy that is very much in play right now. The fact that we don't really know any games past Pikmin 4 in July. The fact that Zelda is releasing in this weird May month sort of like the middle of the year but also right after Nintendo had a slew of other smaller games coming out like Bayonetta Origins and Kirby and Octopad Traveler 2 and obviously Fire Emblem Engage. So after that batch of games here's a system seller like smack dab between the beginning of the year and when a new system will launch. Keeping momentum for Nintendo moving forward. Obviously following that up with Pikmin 4 as well. I think this is a very clever strategy by Nintendo to maintain momentum of Switch without necessarily hitting us with a bunch of heavy hitting games this year. But maintaining it enough with enough big ones. You have Fire Emblem at the beginning. Tears of the Kingdom in the middle. Brand new hardware at the end. I think this is a brilliant marketing strategy if that's what Nintendo decides to do. It's still an if because it's not announced. But I like what I'm seeing. I like what I think Nintendo is doing here. And I want to know if you think my theory on this is correct. And if hindsight being what it is that this post from this guy on 4chan is even more correct today than it was yesterday. I am Nathaniel Ruffeljantz from Nintendo Prime. I want to thank you guys for tuning in. And I'll catch you in that next video.