Don't forget: Call of Duty Switch,
Prime Trilogy
Mario 3D All Stars unlikely to launch so close to announcement due to Japan Pre-order rules (which was absolutely 100% fake, btw, they don't have any restrictions like that),
a "Neat thing" coming out any week now, that somehow ended up being bluetooth support many months later,
N64 controllers being restocked in a certain month (they were the month after),
Chrono Cross as a PS5 exclusive,
KT are too busy on a new main FE to make warriors 2 (Warriors 2 is this month),
PS Plus Premium would have 100 PS1 games at launch (2 days before and it seems to only be the small portion from other regions, if this is true at the last minute i'll happily eat my tail)
Like, so much shit has been outright wrong that i don't blame anyone else here for being skeptical or annoyed when things are vague or keep changing. The whole ordeal with the "inevitable pro announcement" from the whole industry last summer only to get a boring, brighter screen model was enough to pretty much piss me off and make me tune out of the whole insider game forever and ever since all it did was rile me up, get me hopeful for good news in life, only to be disappointed constantly. Doesn't help that this can easily seem to the outside world how this constant vagueness teasing is all done to prop up and help self-promote a podcast so that even if things don't work out, hey, you got new subs and viewers and a bigger outlet: sure is why Nintendolife and such keep reporting on rumors even if some of them are obviously, blatantly not true
I only really have respect for insiders who just reveal stuff they're 100% certain on and own up to their Ls if not, or just those who datamine since that sort of stuff is lock and key. (That's how we absolutely know for a bajillion percent GB-GBA NSO is real and was at least worked on, thanks to datamining those leaks)
Heck, apparently the OLED specs were in a switch update datamine last year before all that went down, so if I just paid attention to that my mental health last summer would have been a lot better lol. I don't think any wrong info is deliberate lying or anything, but definitely a hard quick rush to be the "first story out" without vetting or checking to see if something is viable, which in turn just lead to inevitable disappointment and anger when it doesn't pan out. Let's not kid ourselves, outlets and youtubers got WAY more clicks from Switch Pro reporting than anything regarding the possibility of a minor brighter screen revision likely spawned by semiconductor shortages.
So yeah I don't fully buy the direct is not next week, but I also don't fully buy it's gonna happen on Tues/Wed. At this rate I stopped giving as much of a shit about that and try to find something to play even if 2022 is hella dry for me first party wise until Live a Live/AW come out. At the very least, Capcom Fighting/Stadium/Sonic Origins/Klonoa/TMNT/NSO stuff are killer and will keep me plenty happy until the end of July, which is when I'd say we'd absolutely NEED a direct due to there being blatant gaps after that point, and I'm having a hella fun time with the Turrican Anthologies on PS4. Hopefully they come to Switch's eShop or the physicals on that system ship very soon since I'd love to play them portably...