 We have more information seemingly on a Nintendo Direct this week and look it's been a bit of an interesting ride getting to this Nintendo Direct right? We've had all these updates from insiders that have made us a little nervous but also maybe not that excited but then maybe really excited for next month. We have Necro Philippa Lima from Universal Nintendo coming out and saying hey there's going to be a Nintendo Direct this week. I'm February 15th. All right cool that's this Thursday either announced tomorrow or a shadow drop naturally we don't know fine. Then we have Nate the hate a well-known Nintendo insider going on different podcasts and being like hey this is going to be a partner showcase and we're like oh man a partner showcase we really don't know a lot of stuff for switch this year like man that really kind of sucks but whatever I guess we can give up on seeing Metroid Prime 4 that's just lame but then well they give us this hope where both of those same sources say hey Nintendo Switch 2 is being revealed in March and things seem to be lining up in that way. Now Nintendo themselves has already been supporting this idea that we might not get a general direct one they gave us the date for the Splatoon 3 DLC side order they gave us that last month they've been giving us tons of trailers for the Mario plus Donkey Kong which does release this upcoming Friday so yeah they've even doing other ads for other games they have coming this year. Now today they ended up dropping a near five minute showcase of the Splatoon 3 DLC side order which yes that's a really big deal I'm not going to sit here and pretend it's not it is also something that you figure would be in a direct a five minute showcase of what exactly this DLC is by the way the DLC looks incredible as a Splatoon fan I'm pretty excited for this DLC but that's not it now if you guys remember we have a weaker reliability chart and at the very top of that chart is an insider known as Pioro. Pioro has a 100% track record that's why he's in the category practically Nintendo and he responded to someone on Twitter to yesterday that added a lot of context for this being a partner direct this week let's take a look so you have Bart Klotz going are we going to have a partner showcase and he adds Pioro Pioro respond that says I'm not aware of any imminent first party announcements at the moment so while you're saying at the moment of course things can change reality is he doesn't know of anything being announced by Nintendo at least this week right imminent means almost immediately like happening very soon so yeah he's not aware of anything this week and with his track record that would suggest well Nintendo doesn't have any brand new first party games to announce this week which lends you to believe it's not a general direct but instead a partner showcase now this assumes we get a partner showcase at all there's also the possibility we just don't get a direct right until it's announced until it happens we could just not get a direct now I'm of two mindsets here we're either going to get a direct and it's going to be a partner showcase or we're not both of these things like credence to my second belief and that is switch to will be revealed in March look if there's no general direct this month and again Pioro said the inside track on the last few directs so if there's no general direct this month there's no nintendo mini it is a partner showcase or nothing the only way this even makes sense to me because remember Mario vs Donkey Kong comes out this week that leaves what some dlc that they just dropped their big video for that leaves princess peach showtime next month and then a couple of games that we don't even know release dates for and they're literally just the hd ports you know a thousand year door and Luigi's Mansion 2 and look I'm excited but also I've already played and beat those games so where's the new for me like if you're someone who has been a nintendo fan this whole time princess peach showtime is the only new experience for us this year besides this platoon 3 dlc that is rough that's that's just very rough so switch to then right it's obvious they could do a partner showcase this month and just do a full general direct next month that is obviously something nintendo can do they have done march directs before very very rarely most notably the last time was when they released the nintendo switch so I'm of mine that whether there's a direct this week or not partner showcase it's going to end up meaning that switch to is being revealed next month I don't even know next month I don't even know that I need insiders to tell me it's going to be revealed next month to come to that conclusion it just makes too much sense because if they're not going to unload the cannon a little bit here give us something for switch it has to be because they're literally holding all of their cards for the switch to reveal some people might panic by the way there's one game in particular that is supposed to become the switch it's been announced for switch that we haven't seen that game is Metroid Prime 4 and I know so many of you are growing impatient waiting and waiting and waiting but reality is that they might be doing a cross-gen release or it could be even a switch to exclusive I think if it's exclusive to switch to there's going to be a lot of you that are mad if it's a cross-gen release I think most of you will be okay with that the question is are they going to release on one platform first than the other because it's going to be a Twilight Princess situation right it came to we first and then came to Gamecube a month later or will it be more like Breath of the Wild comes out the same day on both platforms I hope that's probably I hope that's likely the case I guess we don't really know because we don't know anything about this game other than that it exists and it's still listed as TBD or TBA or what happened on TBD to be determined on Nintendo's most recent software list when it comes to upcoming releases so that is a concerning thing though if you are a switch owner I think you do have some concern and I don't know how legit it is but I can understand if there's some concern Metroid Prime 4 may not be on switch I'm not saying it won't be the fact they won't show it for switch without revealing switch to first that to me is concerning at least but we don't know we gotta let it come out we gotta let it be seen we gotta see what happens there I just think that it's very interesting that we have pretty much every confirmation we can have without it being announced that this is going to be a partner direct or it's going to be nothing and I want to throw one more thing out to you guys I talked about this a little bit last night Xbox has an event happening on Thursday right the 15th they have a podcast with Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond going up at 2 p.m central time very interesting timing it's the future of Xbox podcast and what I find fascinating about this is there's all these rumors at hi-fi rush like that's the really big one here from Microsoft is going to be coming to Nintendo switch right and also PlayStation 5 but you know right now we're focusing on switch there's a possibility that if this is a partner showcase hi-fi rush is one of the highlight games in that announcement so this podcast might actually be timed for two possibilities to happen right after a Nintendo direct or to happen right before a Nintendo direct and now I might say well why because obviously that announcement is an Xbox exclusive going multi-platform from one of their first-party owned studios this isn't a partner studio right hi-fi rush was made by a studio owned wholly by Microsoft like Ori they don't own the developers of Ori they just own the IP well they actually own the IP and they own the developer of hi-fi rush so it's kind of a big deal that that game is going to end up multi-platform so wanting to address that immediately before it's announced or immediately after it's announced makes a lot of sense so the Xbox podcast I don't think de confirms anything for those out there I think it's just hey Microsoft knows this announcement's about to happen they obviously approved of it they've been part of the direct planning and hey they want to get right out there right when it happens so they can just be upfront and honest with all of their fans so I actually think it also just supports a partner showcase um I don't know all the evidence is going that way all the evidence is going towards man if this is the case and all this evidence is true it's a partner showcase and the way Nintendo's handling the marketing switch to revealed in March some people are saying the 13th I don't know everyone's making their bets on what day is going to be in March I don't know then I have a day I'm going to wait till this partner direct happens and then I'll come back maybe next week and give a prediction on when I think switch two is going to be announced remember our podcast this week has been moved to the 15th as well we wanted to make sure we were able to react to the partner showcase the day it happens so yes we have our podcast tentatively scheduled for the 15th not tomorrow night tomorrow night will just be a standard stream anyways guys thank you so much for tuning in and I'll catch you in the next video