Pokemon leaker came back with a second post, going more detail on Pokemon and clarifying they were talking about a next gen successor Switch, not a special OLED or something else.
And, one of the chinese factory uncles were perm banned on the board they were posting on and the thread(s) were deleted.
It can mean something, it musn't though.
Every time I'm not around something crazy happens. The ninjas are real and are in full swing. They hit a nerve which means the info that has been coming out is onto something and they have inadvertently outed that by reacting.
It reminds me of Metroid: Samus Returns and Metroid Prime: Remastered. Yes, Metroid Prime. Whilst Nintendo is notorious for copyright and reacting very zealously towards fan games, the crackdown on AM2R back when it was initially released cemented to me at the time that they were working on a remake themselves and did not want any competitors to sour that remake's release. Sure enough, Samus Returns was announced and it became clearer why they didn't want AM2R to be a thing (even though them taking it down doesn't simply erase things from the internet, once on the internet, always on the internet. No amount of Ninja's can scrub it.)
Second with Metroid Prime: Remastered, when they scrubbed Metroid Prime 2D being worked on after the demo release, I had a feeling after AM2R that this was yet another reaction to ensure no games based on a game they were actively working on were made, after AM2R's positive response and comparisons to Samus Returns which it receives to this day, they very much wanted to nip any fan games in the bud that could do anything to alter the perspectives of any titles they would be working on. Rumours of Metroid Prime Trilogy remastered were flown around by insiders, then the story became about Prime 1 being remade, more extensively than a simplistic port. I believed it right away, I suspected the cycle repeated again and it did, sure enough but longer than anticipated, we got Remastered (and it was G-L-O-R-I-O-U-S, exclamation mark.)
Nintendo reacts for reasons, not just because Nintendo always has, there's motives behind their reactions if you can read them at times. When they do react, it provides more insight to their chess moves than Nintendo ever provides outside of Nintendo. Them reacting like this, now of all times, with the information that is being corroborated, it means this was a gotcha. It means the info was substantial, that there is truth to them potentially releasing Switch {REDACTED} for Holiday 2023.
I've said it a billion times but again with 100% certainty, I believe it's coming by Christmas this year, not early next year, not any other time, Christmas. 2023.
It just makes the most sense and has made the most sense as much as people would think they wouldn't dare miss launching it alongside Zelda, I think people have placed a lot of stock in Zelda being a title Nintendo wishes to make the launch title for next gen. Look at that trailer, not even performance and resolution increases will sell that to the average gamer that this is what a next gen Switch is capable of. It is a Switch title through and through and always has been made with that in mind and it was clear to me after that last trailer they had zero intention of making that the game they wish to highlight the next Switch's capabilities with.
Zelda doesn't need to be the launch game, the pindrop, they have other franchises and whilst people may put stock in what they think is big or not, Nintendo isn't necessarily held back by that, they have whatever ambitions they have for what is being made for Switch {REDACTED} right now. They could have any franchise having a title in the works for the console, knowing that based on the trajectory of every single franchise title coming to Switch consoles, that they are selling more than they've ever sold before and are expanding their audiences. Obviously there will be that one pindrop, people kept thinking Zelda, no, it's 3D Mario.
There are motivations behind concealing H2 2023 and beyond. It's this. Grubb may be at 40%, Nate might be cautious, I'm a lot more confident than that having been lurking and observing all the leaks and rumours having been coming out over time. The pieces are coming together and sooner or later someone at Nintendo is going to have to let it slip that a new console is on the horizon. BAM. Showcase. Announcement. Holiday 2023.
It might even slip this month at GDC if someone else is willing to be Ninja'd and never heard from again. E3 Direct, before, during, after, doesn't matter. It'll be there, marketing ramp up, then finally release, after all this time and all this speculation, it will be released.
I salute you Uncles. R.I.P.
