 Hey everyone, welcome back to Nintendo Prime and you guys know about the rumors and the leaks and everything around the emulators for Game Boy Color, Game Boy, Game Boy Advance. You know, we've been talking about it for a few days and it's looking pretty legit. Anyways, it looks like these are systems that are likely going to come to Nintendo Switch online. But what if I told you a platform that I think I can universally say all hardcore, longtime Nintendo fans have been dying to see on either Virtual Console, Nintendo Switch online, or any other form from Nintendo, even a mini console like they did with an NES and SNES mini. This is a system that I think everyone's been wanting. What if I were to tell you there is a chance, a maybe more than likely chance, that it's going to be coming to Nintendo Switch online. What system are we talking about? Gamecube. Why are we talking about Gamecube? Because my good friend Mike Perez pretty much gave us a nice juicy rumor to talk about today in Gamecube coming to Nintendo Switch online and coming by the end of 2023. Now you might go, but Nate, why should we care about what Nintendo Academy has to say? And I'll just say this. I don't know who his sources are on this, of course. He's not going to divulge those details. However, Mike Perez has had contact and interviews with Nintendo employees. How? I don't know, but they're literally on his channel. You can go watch them for yourself. So literally he knows some people and that's all I can really say about it. But he, how did I find out about this information? It wasn't just something that like Mike was talking to me about in private. He brought it up himself on the Nintendo Prime podcast yesterday and shocked all of us here. Take a listen. I'm going to put a cherry on top called Gamecube. Oh, no, no. Oh, no, no. You're going to a place Nintendo seems afraid to go. They're going to go there. They're going to go there. They're going to go there. Well, what makes you think they're going to go there anytime soon? I got my sources. Voice of Peach is telling you too much. You just learned it too much, damn it. Yeah. Yeah. So we get a little bit of an exclusive news property and rumor. I got my sources, dude. I got my sources. Got to keep quiet because there you go. There you go. Keep it quiet. You mentioned on a public fire. Yeah. You literally might just go to my video for the morning. Thank you. No, no, you must give us your sources. Obviously, God, but if I do make a video tomorrow, I do apologize for the attention that comes your way that helps you get to 10,000 subscribers. Right. Right. But yeah, I believe wholeheartedly, yeah, it's not only... Well, I'm going to mark this point in the video so I don't want to go back to it. I might need to clip that out for... I'm sorry. When I hear Nintendo Academy tells me he's got his sources, I'm starting to think, I have a nice little 10 minute speculation video dropping tomorrow. But I mean, first thing I'd cover Gamecube because that's just huge. Notice how he quickly made his gloss away from the Gamecube stuff. By the way, yeah, I've got my own sources. Gamecube's happening. Yeah. By the way, look at that shady thing over there. So Gamecube. So I obviously don't know who your sources are and I'm going to follow the assets. That's your own private stuff. I trust you enough to not just put out any random fake crappy here on the internet because there's a bunch of that bullshit out there. Do you know there's a possibility that the Gameboy might be part of the first year? Yeah. I think a lot of people kind of assume Gameboy, Gameboy Color could be that. Gameboy Advance would be like the expansion. It could all be part of that though and if they're going to have Gamecube in that could be the expansion too because like Gameboy Advance, you know, you can kind of liken that similar to the Super Nintendo. Yeah. But I had a completely different idea on that one. Well, what do you got? What do you got? So looking at the N64 NSO release was in September. Yeah. It's been in September for every time they've announced. So it pushes, you know, like radicals up and then you get, then you get your NSO. I don't think they've ever pushed a September game before. Yeah. I'm joking. I'm joking. I don't think that's ever happened. But it is funny. Gameboy. Gameboy. It cleared the way. No, no, no, why? It's because Gamecube is coming in. It's such a big deal. Right, right, right. We need to clear September up for the 32 million that are subscribed to MSO. You other 70 plus million, fuck you. We don't care that you actually want to play new games. Right. We care about the 32 million that might maybe have like a million of you try out one. But no, um, saying it's true. I mean, that'd be awesome. But I was actually thinking instead of Gamecube, I could see him pairing along with the Game Gear because they did the Genesis already. And that's kind of in that same ballpark of Gameboy, Game Gear, you know, those handhelds kind of the same timeframe. So that would be, and by the way, we had no rumors on Genesis. So if Game Gear is coming, we, it's not like we'd even know. Yeah, yeah, but they're building up little by little. I spy, I expect from here two years from now, we're going to have all the retro consoles. Let me retro is from, let's say Gamecube and down every single console that came from Gamecube and down, plus the Wii and and and then and then, um, from here to two years, that's what I feel that we're going to see. That's insane. What are your sources to say? When is Gamecube dropping? Is that this year next year? I don't know. You don't know. You mean, you mean you're just unwilling to say? One day. So you know, I'm fishing, I got to fish, I got, I got to get like a little extra. Like, look, if we're getting Gameboy, the shares, I think somehow dropping Gamecube as well. I'm just going to blow our minds. Could be four years from now. I'm trying to figure out. Could be four years from now, but he'll look back and say, see, I called him four years ago. To be fair, he said, hey, if we read into what he said, he said, within the next couple of years, Gamecube and Wii. True, true. Now he never said he had a source on Wii, so that could just be speculation. But, but do you remember, do you remember how, how they introduced the Nintendo 64? I don't know. They just dropped it. Yeah. They just, they dropped the Nintendo 64 and all of a sudden they go whoop. And they brought the Genesis right next to it. Nobody was expecting it. So you can expect something similar to that. Gameboy. Yeah. I mean, are you telling me the space and sources of speculation? I'm all confused now. I don't know what's happening. I'm going to, I'm in La La Land. And I like to see Mike over there is being like so careful. Like what can I say, what can I not say? Yeah, I don't, I don't want to, I mean, hold on a minute. Let me, let me, it's my phone. I don't want to. Yeah, I probably got like 10 texts. Like, what are you doing? Shut up. So as you heard from Mike, it's obvious that he does know something about GameCube. And he sort of hinted that, you know, you're going to, they're going to do something like they did with N64 where it's like, here's Game Boy. And then you bring in, you know, GameCube. And the other thing he didn't know here is Mike was being very, very careful in even saying what he said. But he essentially was saying, look, we're getting GameCube. Not when we're going to get it, but the GameCube is coming and he's pretty confident in it. Now, this is a rumor. I do not know his sources. I cannot verify them. This is just based on a trust level I have with Mike Perez to not spread misinformation intentionally when he is the actual source of this information, or at least the source that we hear it from. So he does mention, you know, within a couple of years he expects to see GameCube and Wee. So that does give us sort of a window here, you know, that we can see GameCube and maybe Wee. He didn't note that he actually has a source on Wee. So that could just be his speculation. That's why we're sticking with GameCube. Maybe he does have a source on Wee and he just really wasn't willing to confirm that because, again, he was being very careful. And I know Mike could be a funny guy. Some people think he was joking. When the podcast ended, he wasn't joking. I'm not divulging any specific details. But he legitimately has a source on this. So the way that I look at this is this. Look, if Nintendo wants to bolster their Nintendo Switch Online service, adding a bunch of consoles is obviously a major way to do it. Getting GameCube on there would be a massive feather in the cap of Nintendo Switch Online because that's never happened with Virtual Console. For everyone who says, I'd rather have Virtual Console, but let me give you some stuff that you've never had on Virtual Console before. Like GameCube would be a very enticing reason for people to get it. And we all know GameCube would be part of the expansion pass. And some people would argue GameCube couldn't make the expansion pass worth the extra money, especially if they give you some of the highest quality GameCube games. The Luigi's Mansion, you get some all Resident Evil 4 in that mix. You get Wind Waker in that mix. You obviously get Mario Sunshine and all of the rest could really, really make that package look more enticing, especially when we consider the fact that all of the online games, I mean, God, imagine they get Rogue Squadron, Rogue Leader on there. Like imagine that all those online games or all those multiplayer games now have online multiplayer. Imagine Super Smash Bros. Melee is back officially from Nintendo with online play. Like that would be so huge. And many people would consider that well worth the price of admission, let alone the fact that Nintendo would release wireless GameCube controllers. We actually talked about that a bit on the podcast, but Nintendo would obviously have wireless GameCube controllers. I don't know if they would look exactly like the Wavebird. Nintendo did lose a lawsuit over the Wavebird back in the day. So it's possible they can't go with that exact design, but they could just take the normal GameCube controller as it is and just make it wireless. So I don't know. Nintendo obviously has a lot they could do here. And that does make the price look a bit more enticing, in addition to the fact that we get DLC with it. Now obviously this doesn't make Nintendo Switch online. Suddenly this amazing service from remissing basic functionality, no ability to message people, let alone localized voice chat. Like those are kind of the two big ones. Some people talk about themes. Themes wouldn't really be part of the Nintendo Switch online. Anyways, but yeah, and some people obviously never going to be okay with paying to play online, even though you have to do that on PlayStation or Xbox. It doesn't mean that people like it. Some people feel strong-armed into it. In fact, I do wonder of the 32 million people last reported from Nintendo. Subscribe to Nintendo Switch online. How many of them would stay subscribed if they didn't have to be to play Smash and Splatoon 2 and Mario Kart online and stuff like that. But obviously Nintendo is looking to bolster this. This is their, not I wouldn't say their version of Game Pass because Game Pass not only has the old library, but really the selling point of Game Pass is New Games day one. And we'll be the show day one. Halo Infinite day one. Starfield day one. Like that's really the selling point of Game Pass. But PlayStation has their own little subscription service. We're classic games. Some of those classic games are local that you can download. Some of them are streaming. This is kind of like that. And it's interesting because Nintendo kind of creates apps around it where you download an app for a system and then you play the games through that app. It's going to be quite interesting. Obviously we all know about the Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance stuff. But GameCube to me, that is the one that gets us the most excited here at Nintendo Prime because GameCube was my high school days. That's how old I am. GameCube was a high school system for me and I love it. We came out after I already graduated. So I know we have some people in our audience where we was their high school system. Not here. I was already fully an adult and almost able to legally drink when that system dropped. So anyways guys, thank you so much for tuning in. Let me know what you think about this rumor down in the comments below. Again, it is a rumor. As much as I trust Mike, I'm not even out here saying that this is going to happen 100%. But I will say that, hey, Mike Perez is a good buddy of the channel. And when he says he's got sources, I can believe it. And you could just look at his channel and see that he's interviewed Nintendo employees in the past. It doesn't mean any of those employees are the source, but it just lends some credence to who he is. This isn't just a random person on Twitter. We don't know. We can't verify anything in their background besides, oh, did they say something? Did that something come true? We can look at Mike and go, hey, not only is he out in front of people using his real name, by the way, we can actually verify that he has talked to Nintendo employees before because it's on his damn channel. So thank you guys so much for tuning in. I am Nathan and Rebel Jads, and I will catch each and every one of you in the next video.