Tim Gettys' Switch 2 Predictions - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Summary

Kinda Funny Gamescast: Video Game Podcast Episode: Tim Gettys' Switch 2 Predictions - Kinda Funny Gamescast
Release Date: January 21, 2025

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Introduction

In this episode of the Kinda Funny Gamescast, released on January 21, 2025, hosts Tim Gettys and Blessing Adeoye Jr. delve into their comprehensive month-by-month predictions for the Nintendo Switch 2 (Switch 2) throughout its first year. The discussion covers anticipated game releases, Nintendo Direct announcements, and strategic moves by Nintendo to enhance the gaming ecosystem. The conversation is rich with speculations, insights, and humorous banter, providing listeners with a detailed roadmap of what to expect from the Switch 2.

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February Predictions

Nintendo Direct Announcement

Tim Gettys kicks off the predictions by forecasting a significant Nintendo Direct in February focused on the Switch and Switch 2. He anticipates:

• Release of Pokémon Legends: Zada
  Tim predicts that on February 27th, coinciding with Pokémon Day 2025, Nintendo will announce Pokémon Legends: Zada. Initially speculated to be the final Pokémon game for Switch 1, Tim clarifies, "It will not be a Switch 2 game. It'll be a Switch 1 game" ([11:29] Tim Gettys).

• Tease of a New Pokémon Title
  Additionally, Tim expects a tease for another Pokémon game, possibly a Gen 2 or Gen 5 remake, suggesting "either Johto or Unova" ([12:03] Tim Gettys). He humorously dismisses the likelihood of a Let's Go Johto title, stating, "I will be utterly shocked if let's Go is something they go back to" ([13:33] Tim Gettys).

Notable Quote:

"It will not be a Switch 2 game. It'll be a Switch 1 game."
— Tim Gettys [11:29]

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March Predictions

Xenoblade Chronicles X Definitive Edition

In March, Tim predicts the release of Xenoblade Chronicles X Definitive Edition on Switch 1. He speculates that the remastered version will receive an improved Metacritic score, potentially "at least four points higher than the 84 the Wii U version is at" ([16:33] Tim Gettys). The excitement is shared by Blessing, who mentions, "I think this will be my Xenoblade Chronicles" ([17:16] Blessing Adeoye Jr.).

Notable Quote:

"Xenoblade Chronicles X is going to hit right now."
— Blessing Adeoye Jr. [18:44]

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April Predictions

Nintendo Switch 2 Direct

April is marked by a highly anticipated Nintendo Direct addressing Switch 2:

• Switch 2 Enhancements for Existing Games
  Tim forecasts that The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild will receive a significant upgrade patch at the Switch 2's launch, while Tears of the Kingdom might not receive immediate enhancements, "Switch 2 upgrades will be a random ass drip feed" and tied to Nintendo Switch Online ([19:10] Tim Gettys).

• Potential Zelda Announcement
  There's a wild speculation about an exclusive sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker, possibly an Ocarina of Time remake, though Tim remains cautious, "I don't think too crazy. It's unlikely, but possible" ([23:35] Tim Gettys).

Notable Quote:

"It will not be a Switch 2 game. It'll be a Switch 1 game."
— Tim Gettys [11:29]

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May Predictions

Metroid Prime Remasters

For May, Tim predicts the release of Metroid Prime 2 and Metroid Prime 3 remastered versions. He adds a twist by suggesting that these remasters might come with "something weird" such as being "digital only or only available to buy every other Tuesday" ([26:44] Tim Gettys). Blessing expresses concern about potential franchise fatigue, especially with multiple Metroid titles releasing concurrently ([27:12] Blessing Adeoye Jr.).

Notable Quote:

"Metroid Prime 4 will not be the only first-party game that comes out on this day."
— Tim Gettys [41:03]

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June Predictions

New First-Party Nintendo Switch 1 Game

June brings the prediction of a new first-party Nintendo Switch 1 game release. Tim suggests it won't be a flagship title like Mario or Zelda but something on the level of Donkey Kong Country Remastered or a Kirby game ([28:33] Tim Gettys). Blessing and Tim discuss the possibility of titles such as Kirby Planet Robobot making a comeback or a new iteration fitting the Switch 2 ecosystem.

Notable Quote:

"Maybe a Kirby game."
— Tim Gettys [29:08]

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July Predictions

Launch of Nintendo Switch 2

July is the pivotal month when Tim predicts the official launch of the Nintendo Switch 2:

• Release Date and Price
  Switch 2 is slated for July 11, 2025, with an expected price tag of around $400 ([39:08] Tim Gettys). Both hosts discuss the feasibility and market reaction to this pricing.

• Launch Titles
  Key launch titles are anticipated to include Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, which Tim believes will become the best-selling Metroid game of all time. Other expected launches feature third-party support with titles like Elden Ring, Final Fantasy 7 Remake, and Civilization 7 ([41:03] Tim Gettys).

Notable Quote:

"Metroid Prime 4: Beyond is a launch title, cross-gen Switch 1 and Switch 2. It will go on to be easily the best selling Metroid game of all time."
— Tim Gettys [41:03]

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August Predictions

Mario Kart X Release

In August, Tim predicts the release of Mario Kart X, a successor to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. He envisions it as a crossover title incorporating characters from various Nintendo franchises, potentially labeled as a "Super Smash Brothers of Mario Kart" ([51:17] Tim Gettys). The discussion includes:

• Gameplay Innovations
  Tim speculates on innovative track designs and multiplayer features, aligning the game with open-world elements similar to Forza Horizon while maintaining Nintendo's signature charm.

• Character Roster
  The inclusion of diverse Nintendo characters is anticipated, enhancing the crossover appeal ([52:39] Tim Gettys).

Notable Quote:

"Mario Kart X is the super smash brothers of Mario Kart, baby. Everyone is there."
— Tim Gettys [52:36]

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September Predictions

The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker Release

Tim forecasts the release of The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker on Switch 1 in September. While Twilight Princess remains unannounced, the release strategy is expected to stagger these iconic titles, maintaining Nintendo’s tradition of strategic game launches ([56:50] Tim Gettys).

Notable Quote:

"Wind Waker is going to be a Nintendo Switch one release. Who cares?"
— Tim Gettys [56:50]

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October Predictions

Halo: Master Chief Collection for Switch 2

Tim predicts that the Halo: Master Chief Collection will make its way to Switch 2 in October. This move signifies a major collaboration between Microsoft and Nintendo, potentially introducing cross-play functionalities and revitalizing the Halo franchise on Nintendo platforms ([58:37] Tim Gettys).

Notable Quote:

"Halo Master Chief Collection has been thrown around. I actually think it's a great pull."
— Tim Gettys [58:37]

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November Predictions

New 3D Mario Title

November is set to feature the release of the next big 3D Mario game. Tim envisions it as an expansive, open-world experience with multiplayer co-op capabilities, akin to Mario Odyssey, but with enhanced features like collecting moons or stars collaboratively ([59:03] Tim Gettys).

Notable Quote:

"The next big 3D Mario will release in November 2025."
— Tim Gettys [58:57]

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December Predictions

Smash Brothers Revival

In December, Tim speculates on the possible return of Super Smash Brothers Melee or the introduction of a new Smash title on Switch 2. This revival would cater to both nostalgic fans and new players, ensuring sustained interest in the competitive scene ([66:20] Tim Gettys).

Notable Quote:

"This is something that I am less confident in, but I think adds up in a world for me."
— Tim Gettys [66:12]

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Bonus Predictions and Community Engagement

Super Chats and Viewer Predictions

The hosts engage with listener predictions submitted via Super Chats, discussing various suggestions such as remakes of classic titles, new entries in beloved franchises, and innovative game concepts like a Pokemon Maker. Tim and Blessing provide their takes, often blending humor with critical analysis.

Notable Interactions:

• Nathan Maloney's Suggestion: Sonic Heroes Remake, Fire Emblem Remake, Smash Ultimate Port ([33:14] Nathan Maloney)
• Vishal Verma's Insight: Combination of Black and Black 2 ([39:03] Vishal Verma)
• Samson L.'s Query: Concerns about Pokémon Legends: Zada release timing ([76:35] Samson L.)

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Conclusion

The episode culminates with a reflection on the predictions made, emphasizing the unpredictable nature of Nintendo's strategies. Tim and Blessing express excitement and cautious optimism for the upcoming year, highlighting the dynamic landscape of gaming and the pivotal role of Switch 2 in shaping future experiences.

Final Thoughts:

"Nintendo, that does bring us to the end of this episode of Kind of Funny Gamescast."
— Blessing Adeoye Jr. [77:53]

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Notable Quotes Summary

• Tim Gettys [11:29]: "It will not be a Switch 2 game. It'll be a Switch 1 game."
• Blessing Adeoye Jr. [17:16]: "I think this will be my Xenoblade Chronicles."
• Tim Gettys [41:03]: "Metroid Prime 4: Beyond is a launch title, cross-gen Switch 1 and Switch 2. It will go on to be easily the best selling Metroid game of all time."
• Tim Gettys [52:36]: "Mario Kart X is the super smash brothers of Mario Kart, baby. Everyone is there."
• Tim Gettys [58:37]: "Halo Master Chief Collection has been thrown around. I actually think it's a great pull."
• Tim Gettys [66:12]: "This is something that I am less confident in, but I think adds up in a world for me."

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This episode offers a thorough exploration of anticipated developments surrounding Nintendo's Switch 2, blending informed predictions with engaging discussions. Whether you're a long-time follower of the Kinda Funny Gamescast or new to the podcast, this summary provides a comprehensive overview of what gamers can look forward to in the upcoming year.

Transcript

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

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[Tim Gettys]

I can't wait for this episode of Gamescast. Bless.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I love like, I can't read your notes from here, but I can see how long the paragraphs are substantial. Yeah, you have substantial notes, which excites me because this is exactly what I wanted from you. I wanted you to get in your.

[Tim Gettys]

Duffy as far as a blast yesterday as you went through month by month 2025, even beyond you. You went June to June.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I did 2026 from when you think.

[Tim Gettys]

Switch launches all the way through 2020 or halfway through 2026 and broke down what you thought Nintendo was going to do. And we had a great time talking about. If you haven't checked out that episode, I highly recommend it because we got, we got something going here.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Can I tell you that I love seeing those especially because during the weekend when I was putting together mine, I really had to hold back. I was like, I can't, I can't overdo this. Like, let me not over detail this. Like, let me, let me keep it simple. I love looking at you and me and you just not, not caring.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, no, no, no.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You're going full.

[Tim Gettys]

As you go down, you start getting a little bit just like there's a couple that are just a couple of words. But you know, overall, I got some thoughts.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Hell yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

And let me tell you, I don't think you guys are going to like a lot of them.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Well, let's get into those thoughts. Remember, this is the kind of funny games cast. Each and every weekday we get together and talk about the biggest reviews, previews and topics in video games live on YouTube, Twitch and on podcast services around the globe. If you love what we do, support us with the Kind of Funny membership on Patreon, YouTube, Spotify or Apple podcast. Get all of our shows ad free, watch us record them live, and get a daily exclusive show for a chance to be a part of the show. Some of Your thoughts and opinions as YouTube super chats as we go. Housekeeping for you. We're an 11 person business all about live talk shows. KD right before this today was about what's happening to the horizon MMO game. Right. Right now is the games cast and then after this is going to be the stream I'm going to be playing the early hours. The demo essentially of Eternal Strands. Ooh yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Give me, give me the top level of this because Eternal Strands for some reason totally over my head. I don't remember seeing it anywhere. I don't know anything about it. I heard Andy getting really excited when Greg brought it up last week and then I saw some screenshots today.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yes. So this is one of those ones that you know like we've had the string of studios from like people who worked at big developers that left big developers to start up indie studios and like somewhat in that AA to triple A space. This is one of those. It is from Mike Laidlaw who was one of the like important people who worked on I believe Mass Effect.

[Tim Gettys]

Okay, that sounds right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The style of this game is essentially like Shadow of Colossus meets like Zelda slash Immortals. Phoenix Rising. Ish.

[Tim Gettys]

Right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Like as a lot of those elements it seems like there's a lot of like environmental of like, like fire interacting with like ice interacting with like the elements type stuff. And like the art style kind of gives a bit. I don't know if fortnite is the right word but it has like kind of like an animated.

[Tim Gettys]

Cartoony.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Cartoony aesthetic. Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And so it's one that I've been looking forward to just to try out.

[Tim Gettys]

Right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Like I don't know if it's going to be good or not, which is why I'm excited for this demo.

[Tim Gettys]

But check it out everybody. After this.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, on paper, very excited to check this one out. And then after that Mike will be playing some Kingdom Hearts too. If you're a kind of funny member, you get today's. You can get today's Greg Way thank you to our Patreon producers Delaney Twining and Carl Jacobs. Today we're brought to you by Shady Rays and Rocket Money. But we'll tell you about that later. For now let's start with topic of the show.

[Tim Gettys]

Two people tots is always a little weird. It is, you know what I mean? It feels like subdued.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's how me and, me and Greg did it. You know what I mean? I guess Barrett was in the background also doing it. And so topic of the show is going to Be Tim's month by month. Nintendo Switch to predictions. Of course. I did mine yesterday. I went from June to June talking about a thing or a lot of things each month that was going to happen with the Switch 2 during its first year. Tim, I'm excited for you because if I remember correctly, you're doing yours a little bit differently than I did mine.

[Tim Gettys]

I am. And you know, I was going back and forth and trying to figure out how I wanted to do this. I was like, you know what? No matter what, I want to start with February. I want to start with next month, because I think that's when the Switch to conversation is going to, like, really start kicking up a little bit. And I want to keep that going all the way through. And I was going to keep going past next February. But I'm like, I. If I'm being honest, so much is kind of dependent on if this, then that. That I. I got so detailed about some of these things that I was like, I don't want to get too far ahead of myself. At the end of this week, we might have a conversation of where do we go from there.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

But I got something I feel pretty good about here. Before we get into it, though, I want to say I've studied Nintendo my entire life as a fan, as a critic, as all of the things. Right. And if there's one thing that I've learned about Nintendo, it's that you can never follow a pattern.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yep.

[Tim Gettys]

You can never try to base what they're going to do based on what they have done. Having said that, there are some things that never change. W. And these weird Nintendo decisions, while they're rarely the same type of weird as the one previous, they are weird nonetheless.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yes.

[Tim Gettys]

So any time you're predicting something, there has to be something weird about it. So I tried to come up with what the weird twist is. Anytime there's good news, there has to.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Be something weird thing about it. I like this a lot.

[Tim Gettys]

And as I started doing that, it started painting a path that I'm like, you know what? This is plausible.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Everybody excited.

[Tim Gettys]

And what's funny about this? Obviously we're predicting based on very little information. Like I said, it's hard to tell. This is more for fun than anything. But, like, I tried to be realistic about this. Like, I tried to not be like, crazy.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Just saying I love how similar mean you are. Because, like, and I did the same thing. I was like, how can I make this boring? Because, like, I think we all are under the impression that the reality of this There are going to be exciting parts about it, but they're also going to be the boring parts in the weird parts.

[Tim Gettys]

Yes. And weird's not necessarily bad.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

It's just weird.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Correct.

[Tim Gettys]

You ready to get into this?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm very ready to get into this.

[Tim Gettys]

Let's start with February, everybody. Gotcha.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, my God. I got this part of your prediction.

[Tim Gettys]

I get so triggered by this song now.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Fuck, I gotta open up another tab. Hold on, I think it's happening. Hold on, I think it's happening. For audio listener Greg Miller just entered the building with the stars in the baked briefcase. Greg, is. Is it happening? Are you doing this? What's up? What are you doing? What are you doing here? Not today, but it could be.

[Tim Gettys]

You know, everybody, I. I couldn't think of the best way to bring. To bring this up last.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I taught you how to F, remember? Just very recently. What's the button? Where the button. Control. Shift T. Thank you.

[Tim Gettys]

So let's see. Before we get into that, I need to. To let you know that this weekend, on Friday at 9:16pm, I get a text from Greg. Remember, Gia was out at a bachelorette party. Cool. Greg was in Mexico. So I had. I was alone in the house, just me and the pups. And at Friday, 9:16pm, I get a text from Greg. Not an emergency, but are you busy? Sorry. And so I just immediately call him because, you know, we're kind of funny and it is if. If I'm getting a 9:16 text from Greg that says, not emergency. Are you busy? It's like, oh, fuck, we need to talk. I call him. He responds, sorry, can't talk. Talk. Are you driving? And I say, no, I'm at home. And he goes, great, come outside. And I said, God damn it. And he just sends me a picture of the stars in the bank briefcase.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Jesus Christ.

[Tim Gettys]

And in all caps. Just goes, it's not happening. But that's how it could happen. So fucking easy. I'll get you and your star. You are not safe with this sticker of Greg in a bathrobe drinking a martini.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

How does.

[Tim Gettys]

It's really tiny. I can't give.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Why does that sticker exist?

[Tim Gettys]

And then I said, I called you because I thought it was happening. It's legit. Fear. I'm in my underwear.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's amazing.

[Tim Gettys]

I was ready to go outside, though. And I was like, didn't expect it to happen so fast, but I was quote, unquote, ready. And he goes, gotta keep you on your toes. Enjoy your weekend. Keep me posted on the public places you'll be in at what time the next day he does the same thing again.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, that's amazing.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, that's amazing. This is just my life now.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I can't tell you. I was getting so ready to make up trivia on the spot because I still don't have my questions ready.

[Tim Gettys]

You gotta get ready.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I really do gotta find time this.

[Tim Gettys]

Week because I gotta have scars for him to steal.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Say again.

[Tim Gettys]

I now have stars. Last week, I didn't. You do have a. I felt a little safer.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So it can happen at any moment and I gotta figure out these questions because I'm scared, too.

[Tim Gettys]

All right, let's get into this. February.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

February.

[Tim Gettys]

I got quite a bit here. There will be a Nintendo Direct.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay, In February. Okay, in February, Nintendo Direct.

[Tim Gettys]

A Nintendo Direct.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Not a Pokemon Presents. A Nintendo Direct.

[Tim Gettys]

There will also be a Pokemon Presents, but there will be a Nintendo Direct in February to kind of flesh out a few Nintendo Switch games.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

We're going to get before the Switch to those games will be May and June, but we'll talk about those in May and June. Okay, but we'll get it in Nintendo Direct. Fairly general. I don't think it'll be the most exciting thing, but just kind of like, hey, talk about what we got coming up. Wrap things up, couple new announcements. Bada bing, bada boom. On February 27th.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm sorry, I didn't know my mic was on.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Cool. Greg just came back from Mexico with.

[Tim Gettys]

A soul made ear for me and I was like, oh, let me figure it out.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Is it a death whistle? It's really cool. I'm sorry, Chad. That's really my bad.

[Tim Gettys]

I thought it had us muted. Chad, I'm so sorry. Dude, I'm so sorry.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You did a great show. Why was it directly to the mic? The mic's right in front of me. I thought it was my bad. That's my bad. I'm so sorry. Oh, shit.

[Tim Gettys]

My favorite thing is just mic chilling. The fact that he just goes, oh, fuck. Oh, shit.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I thought Greg was coming back out.

[Tim Gettys]

Me too.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, okay.

[Tim Gettys]

Chaos here. All right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Jesus.

[Tim Gettys]

On February 27th.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

AKA Pokemon Day 2025, we will finally see Pokemon Legends are, AKA the final Switch 1 Pokemon game.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yep.

[Tim Gettys]

AKA the first ever Nintendo Switch 2 Pokemon game. No, you stupid fuckers. It will not be the final Switch 1 Pokemon game. And guess what? It won't be on Switch two.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Wait, say that. Say that. Say that again. Wait, so you're saying Pokemon Legends Za won't be on Switch 2.

[Tim Gettys]

It will not be a Switch 2 game. It'll be a Switch 1 game.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And you can play it on Switch 2.

[Tim Gettys]

Yes. Because it's backwards compatible. You can play everything. And it won't be the last Pokemon game on Switch 1.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Are you gonna. Is that something you're gonna get to later, or should we talk about this now?

[Tim Gettys]

We'll get to it later. Okay, we'll get to it later. But surely it'll be enhanced on the switch 2. Correct. Surely it'll play better on the Switch too, right?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Of course.

[Tim Gettys]

I don't want to get ahead of myself. But also, guess what? Maybe not.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You know what?

[Tim Gettys]

We'll get to that later.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You know what? So far, you got me. Yeah. This is all very believable, especially Pokemon Legends on not having, like, a native Switch 2 version. Very believable to me.

[Tim Gettys]

So let's kind of get into this, right?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Because I have one more prediction of this. Pokemon Presents. Okay, so Pokemon ZA Switch 1, right?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yep.

[Tim Gettys]

Not gonna talk about it. Switch 2 enhancements yet at this point. In addition to this, we will get at least a tease of another Pokemon game during this Pokemon Presents. And it'll be either a gen 5 remake or another gen 2 remake. So either Johto or Unova.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

And It'll be a Switch 1 game.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Are you thinking. Because I had thoughts about this too, a little bit of like a Pokemon coming out. Either say, if Legends Zaw is in the first half of the year. Right. I'll think another Pokemon game either comes out at the second half of this year or in the first half of next year. And it not being maybe a mainline thing. I am thinking if you're talking about Johto, you might be on the same wavelength as far as a let's Go Johto game.

[Tim Gettys]

That's the thing. I will be at this point utterly shocked if let's Go is something they go back to.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You think it was one, I think.

[Tim Gettys]

That was trying to ride the. The tail end of the high of Pokemon Go. And Pokemon Go just doesn't have the sauce like that anymore.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

You know what I mean? I say that as somebody that, like, is addicted to playing every day, but, like, I just. I think if they were gonna do Pokemon Go Johto, they would have done that years ago. But at this point, I don't know what it could be. I mean, I don't know. I don't know. But just going back, it's. We're overdue for a Gen 2A Johto revisit.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Which one would you prefer? Slash think is more plausible? A let's go Johto or a. You know how they did Gen 4 but had like, Chibi.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. You think it's gonna be that strapped in?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, God, no.

[Tim Gettys]

I know it's not worth it. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Did that do?

[Tim Gettys]

Well? I mean, it's Pokemon, so yes, but compared to other Pokemon games, no. But I think that this. It's a easy cash money grab here. Let's just get it out and let's just move on.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Brilliant gold and shining silver.

[Tim Gettys]

I mean, who the hell knows? But yeah, honestly, it's like I feel like there's a chance there. But then there's also the Gen 5 side, because I feel like we are. Are do both of those in some way shape or form. Like, I. If I remember correctly, we're at a point now that Gen 5, which is Unova, which is based in America, is the furthest we've been from seeing that region again.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, we technically saw it a little bit in the DLC recently for Scarlet and Violet, because that the weird ass, like, water base is technically in like the waters, but it's like that doesn't fucking count.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

All right. But anyway, that. That's my.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Do you think that getting that, like, I guess, tease in the dlc, do you think that's then like them trying to hint or like, lead into a Unova thing again?

[Tim Gettys]

Going back to Nintendo being like, weird. Pokemon's weird too. Like, back in the day it was like, oh, there's the two versions, then there'll be a third version and then eventually there'll be remakes. They don't really. There's no pattern. If you look back now, it's like sometimes they get sequels, sometimes they get two enhanced versions with like Ultra sun and Ultra Moon. Like, there's so many different ways they can go with this. In fact, let's go. Is. Is the second remake of Pokemon Red and Blue. So I don't know. I don't want to get too into the details of it because I. All I know is It'll be Gen 5 or Gen 2, and it'll be.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

A Switch 1 game and Gen 5 Unova is that. Which Pokemon games? Black and white. Gotcha. Yeah. DS3DS blind spot for me. So any sort of remake, I'm down for.

[Tim Gettys]

Black and white's great too, because Black and White, I think at the time got A little bit of shade from people because they were just like, oh. Like that was when the. The Pokemon designs really. Like, there's a trash clear. Like, you know what I mean? Like, things like that. That might not have. Exactly. I think it was Gen 5, actually, but Gen 5 was the first one to really go all out and be like, there's no old Pokemon. Like, you're playing through this game and it's all going to be new motherfuckers that you're seeing. Like, eventually you can get the old ones, but, like, there was 150 new ones. So it was kind of like a reboot in a lot of ways. And also it was great game, great game. Let's get to March.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So that's February.

[Tim Gettys]

That's February.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Nintendo direct about the Switch.

[Tim Gettys]

Yes.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

How much do they have left to say about the Switch, do you think?

[Tim Gettys]

I'll talk about that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

When we get into. Because I don't want to say everything up front. I don't want to say the announcements to them, the releases. I got a couple releases. I'm.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I like that. Okay. Okay. March.

[Tim Gettys]

March. Definitely one of my least juicy things to predict here. I tried to stay away from theme park stuff and movie stuff for. For this. So really want to just stick on Switch and Switch two. All right. Xenoblade Chronicles X Definitive Edition will receive a Metacritic score at least four points higher. Wow. Than the 84 the Wii U version is at for no real reason other than more people will actually play it. And mechs are freaking cool.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Can I. Can I tell you something about Xenoblade Chronicles X? This isn't a promise, but I think this will be my Xenoblade Chronicles.

[Tim Gettys]

Okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think this. I'm going to at least try to play this one.

[Tim Gettys]

We will get one code from Nintendo and I will put you on it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm down.

[Tim Gettys]

Okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm down. At the very least, you'll get a preview out of me.

[Tim Gettys]

Cool.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But yeah, nickel. We does it. It's so funny because, like, not that many weeks ago, I think it might have been last week I swore off playing large GRPGs next year. And, like, I saw Xenoblade Chronicles X and I was like, I've always wanted to play Xenoblade Chronicles and it got mechs. I think I have to. I think I have to try it out at least.

[Tim Gettys]

I love it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We'll see.

[Tim Gettys]

I love it. But yeah, I think that it's going to review significantly better than the original. Did the original 84. Not bad. Looking at the Scores of other Xenoblades and their remakes or definitive editions or whatever it is. I'm being a little lofty here, but I'm feeling a little lofty. Okay. I got. There's something about Xenoblade Chronicles X that I think is going to. Again, I think it's the mechs. We got the max factor. Okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean, mechs are huge. Literally.

[Tim Gettys]

Cool as hell.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Cool as hell. And also, yeah, X was a Wii U game. Right. So, yeah, to your point, way more people playing it. Hopefully, like, that lights a spark. And also, I think Xenoblade now is different from Xenoblade then as far as the amount of people I've seen, like, talk about, like, how much they love two, how much they love three. Right. People ride for it now. Not saying they didn't ride for it before, but I think Xenoblade Chronicles X is going to hit right now.

[Tim Gettys]

All right, bless. Let me take you to April.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Take me to April now.

[Tim Gettys]

Remember, April. Very big deal for Nintendo fans out there.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yep.

[Tim Gettys]

Because on April 2, 2025, we will get the Nintendo Switch to Nintendo Direct. All of our questions will be answered. Or will they? During the direct, we will finally learn how Nintendo is going to handle Switch 2 games being upgraded for the Nintendo Switch 2. And guess what?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That.

[Tim Gettys]

Fucking weird. It's fucking weird. Good news. Breath of the Wild will get an upgrade patch at the Switch 2's launch.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Nice.

[Tim Gettys]

Bad news. Tears of the Kingdom won't. At least not on any comprehensible release timeline. Switch 2 upgrades will be a random ass drip feed. And it will be a perk of Nintendo Switch Online.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, not that last part. I feel you. Until that, I feel like that last part is. I don't know if they can get away with that.

[Tim Gettys]

I would not be surprised if Breath of the Wild is a freebie. And going forward. Oh, in a couple months, Mario Odyssey is gonna get a upgrade. But if you have Nintendo Switch online, though, because that's just gross.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I feel like then you get into, like, territory of, is this okay? Like, can we let them do this? Like, we gotta revolt. We gotta do something. We. That's kind of. That's diabolical.

[Tim Gettys]

Premium options. You don't need it. The game will run. I think it's the most plausible outcome. I'm not saying I want it, but bless. I thought a lot about this. And if I had to put my money down and what I think they're gonna do, I think this is the most likely option.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I pray to God Almighty that you're wrong.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Because I think it's plausible. I think you're right as far as it could happen. I would hope that Nintendo would resist the urge. I would hope that Nintendo, not that even needs to be free. I think I'll even do. I think because now I get into what would I prefer? Right. Because like, could it be free? Sure. Like yeah, just patch everything. But then you then get into the cost of what it takes to do that. And like, are they willing to do that? Yada yada, it's Nintendo. Then I get into, well, they could just sell us things piecemeal. Right. You could buy Breath of the Wild Switch 2 Edition, but then that even is more expensive than just buying the membership at that point.

[Tim Gettys]

I actually again, I'm a. I rock for the Nintendo Switch membership. So I don't actually think this is that big of a deal. I understand people being upset about it if it were to happen, but because it's just not the ideal way for things to go. But I think it's better than having it be a piecemeal like patch by patch, paid download. But here's the thing. Having said all of this, I do think that playing Switch 1 games on Switch 2 inherently will have some type of boost. I just don't think it's going to be this game changing thing. I think that will have to be more of a tailored, handcrafted, like, we're making this experience better type thing. And that's what these are going to be. But at the end of the day that's what we're going to want. We're not going to be super happy with just the basic stuff. It'll be like, oh, it's running a couple of frames faster. Or like, okay, things like that. But I do think that we're going to be like, why? Like okay, Breath of the Wild. Cool. But what about tears? And it's like going to. We're not necessarily going to have that answer for. We won't know.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I like this because this is, I think where I diverge from this is I, I think the like more detailed like upgrades like the patches that actually like make big changes to like how much better this looks. Yeah, I, I think those are going to be so few and far between. I think Breath of the Wild will get one of those. And that's based off of the conversations that happened a year or so ago of Gamescom of like 2023. I think of people being shown versions reportedly. Right. People saying like, oh yeah, we saw a version of Breath of the Wild. That looks so much better. I think those will happen, but I do think those are going to be a very select few games. And I think. I do think that most games, not even most. Most might be put. I think a lot more games are going to get, like, a basic. Like, not that crazy of an upgrade, but. Yeah. Like a. Like a little. A little step up.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And I think that is going to be the expectation, and I think it is going to be the thing where people are just like, all right, it is what it is, but I can get Breath of the Wild. It might look a lot better. And maybe. I guess maybe that could still be a Switch Online thing. I think you're knocking on the door. You're tapping into something.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I just hope that it's not as crazy.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, I know. I mean, honestly, the thing that bugs me the most about it is the idea of a drip feed with no timeline.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Which is the most.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But that is a very Nintendo thing. I think we've gotten used to that by now.

[Tim Gettys]

There's one last thing about the Nintendo direct that I want to put out there. This is me getting a little bit wild, but I don't think too crazy. It's unlikely, but possible. Ocarina of Time remake exclusive for Switch 2 East. I don't think it's a big old thing, but I see them kind of wanting to sell during this direct. Hey, we got a future, and you're going to want to be part of this.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I don't think there is a. Let me not speak to. I think if you're Nintendo and you're doing a Switch 2 presentation, you got to put some kind of Zelda in it. Like, even if it's far out, like, Zelda, I think, is that unicorn game of. All right, people, like, we have. We have a Mario coming out this year, most likely, right? We have a Mario, we have a Mario Kart. But, like, Zelda needs to be that thing on the horizon that people are like, oh, fuck, I got to get myself a Switch to. I got to get myself a Switch to. Because I got to play that Zelda eventually.

[Tim Gettys]

And my bigger thing here, the reason that I added this, this was my last addition here because I've been wavering on my. Is it too crazy? I feel like it being in the launch direct of the Switch, like, the initial, like, showing off the games is a little weird. And I'd be like, you know what? They're going to save that for their summer showcase, their second one. They don't have that this year because this is their summer showcase. You got to imagine. Yeah, right. Like this, it being April. It's like they're not going to do one in May or June.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

So I think we just get a tease. It could be something like the, the Wii U tech demo we saw of Zelda that we ended up never even seeing, but like just some footage of it. Just something that we're like I. 1000% that, you know, incredible stuff though. Can you imagine?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I can. I, I, I'm. I, I think the only part. It's funny because we talked about this so much. The Ocarina of Time remake. I'll believe it when I see it. Like, I hope so. And I think it make a lot of sense. I think that could be a good. Especially as like a in between of Tears of the Kingdom and whatever the next major Zelda is. Especially if they decide to like, move away from the high rule that we're in in Tears of the Kingdom. Like an Ocarina remake would be such a good. All right, now here is a standalone something. Something different, but something very exciting. Like as exciting as a mainline thing before we get you to whatever our next reimagined Zelda thing is. But Ocarina of Time remake just sounds too good to be true to me.

[Tim Gettys]

It sounds. And yes, you're right, it almost reminds.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Me how you talk about Sonic Adventure and why Sega wouldn't want to make a Sonic adventure so lofty.

[Tim Gettys]

It was the difference with those. There's many differences with those, but the difference in terms of like, plausibility. To me, I, I've said this many times, but for people just listening to this episode of the show, the amount that Nintendo is investing in Breath of the Wild and Ocarina of Time styled things separately but together, I think is very telling. When you look at all of the, the theme park stuff we're hearing about when we look at the. The LEGO set that they put out, that's the great Deku Tree. That is you can do both different styles. I think Nintendo is looking at those two styles as like things that they want to push as representing Zelda and Ocarina of Time. Like, you don't get bigger than that one. You know what I mean? Like, that is the one. And it obviously has been more than long enough since the release of either the original or the 3DS remaster to introduce it to a whole new generation of gamers. More Zelda fans than we've ever had by far with the Switch generations.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I like it. I like it.

[Tim Gettys]

A lot. I like it too.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And that's all you have for the Swiss. You direct.

[Tim Gettys]

Well, I don't want to. I don't.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean, you don't want to spoil.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. You know, there's other stuff. Clearly they're going to talk about, like other details of stuff. But I'll get to that when we get to that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay. May, talk to me about me.

[Tim Gettys]

Metroid Prime 2 and 3 Remastered will be released. But there's gonna be something weird about it. Maybe they're digital only or only available to buy every other Tuesday or just a limited run. You can only buy them at a certain amount of time. I don't know. But there's going to be something weird. But those games will be coming out sometime before Switch to interesting. And may just seems right to me.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The only thing I have against it is, is it too much Metroid? Right. If you're planning on putting out Metroid prime for let's say either at Switch launch or even like through the rest of the year, is giving people two Metroids before it, two Metroid Primes before it going to like fatigue people on Metroid?

[Tim Gettys]

Yes.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Fair enough. Fair enough to do it.

[Tim Gettys]

Anyway. I think that maybe that's the weird Nintendo decision of it. All. Right. Of just like. No, I'm with you. Like, I don't necessarily think this is a good idea, but I see it happening now. There's another world where we kind of flip it and two and three just come out like months after four.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. You know, I think that's what I see. Like I. If four comes out, I could see two and three maybe being a early 2026. Right. Because I do think that you should remaster those and like put them out as a collection. But I think the hunger is already there for a Metroid Prime 4 that like, you know, put that up front and then have that be the thing that hypes people up for two and three as opposed to the other way around.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. No, and again, I think you're right. But we're not Nintendo.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's true.

[Tim Gettys]

You know what I mean?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean, you're right.

[Tim Gettys]

And then June.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

A first party Nintendo Switch game that we don't currently know about will release on the Nintendo Switch one.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

And I'm saying something of a level of consequence.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh.

[Tim Gettys]

And it's not going to be a new Mario or a new Zelda or something like that, right?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Not a new Animal Crossing, not a new Splatoon.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But you're talking about like a new Donkey Kong.

[Tim Gettys]

But it Could. No, but. No, no, no, no. Okay. It could just be another port or another thing, but it's going to be like something on the level of a Donkey Kong Country Remastered or a Mario versus Donkey Kong or I'm trying to think of the Super Princess Peach Showtime.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

Something like that. Like that level of game.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Gotcha.

[Tim Gettys]

Maybe a Kirby game.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That is the most plausible thing you ever said. Yes. Coming out late. Switch. One that we all ask like, oh, why are you putting this out right now? All right, cool. I guess we'll play the Kirby game.

[Tim Gettys]

But this will be a game that actually. Thank you, Nathan, the viewer. That is exactly where my head was at, kid. Icarus Uprising.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I like that.

[Tim Gettys]

Getting a port of that 3ds remaster. I think that'd be amazing. Actually. They need to do that. That to me, is the June game that we will hear about in the February direct.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Let me throw another one at you. Kirby Planet Robobot.

[Tim Gettys]

Potentially. Yeah, I think that's a very like everyone loves that one.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And also that was a rumor that we talked about, I think at some point.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Was it a rumor we talked about or was one that like there was a rumor there was a Kirby game and then we like talked it back and forth. They were like, well, it's probably Robot.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think Nate the Hate specifically.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, well, I mean, yeah, I think that's a great pull then for that. But I think, yeah, the February direct, that's where we're start hearing about the Metroid games and whatever this ends up being this game that releases in June.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I like it a lot now.

[Tim Gettys]

Bless. I don't know if you noticed. Yeah, I just did June.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You did?

[Tim Gettys]

I just did June with a random.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

New Switch game coming out and no Switch two.

[Tim Gettys]

No Switch two, huh?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm very curious about where you're going to go with this, but we'll get the answer in a few because I want to talk to you about patreon.com kind of funny and YouTube.com kind of funny games where you can get the kind of funny membership which allows you to get shows ad free. Speaking of ads, let us tell you about our sponsors.

[Tim Gettys]

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[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Tim. You had a big reveal for us. But before we get to that big reveal, I want to get to some of your big super chats that you left for us, starting with Nathan Maloney writes in and says hey Tim and bless my Switch. 2 predictions Sonic Heroes remake as a Launch Game Fire Emblem Remake Slash three Houses Definitive Edition Smash Alt Port with added fighters like Shadow and Ed Edelgard from three Houses.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh man, Nathan, I love where your head's at. I think you're wrong about all those.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, the Sonic Heroes remake I thought about. But then because I I think you need a November Sonic Game. October. November Sonic Game. But you already have the Sonic Racing game.

[Tim Gettys]

Sonic Racing Team Sonic Racing. I think that might be it. Yeah. Sonic Heroes Remake, I think will happen. I just don't think the timing is right here. It won't make Switch Launch. Switch two Launch.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No.

[Tim Gettys]

And then Fire Emblem Remake. We might talk about that later. Three Houses Definitive Edition Smash Ultimate Port. Those are things that, like, we'll have to wait and see. Like how they're handling the. If the it goes back to like, what is the strategy for Switch 1 games coming to Switch 2. Like, will we even need a Switch ultimate port or Switch ultimate just going to be it, But I will. Yeah, sorry.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, I see.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, I keep saying Switch Ultimate Smash Ultimate. I can see them. And I pray that they release a cartridge version of Smash that has all of the DLC characters just on it. Just so we can have that. Preserve that forever. Yeah, they could never take Cloud away from me.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yep, Amen. Amen to that.

[Tim Gettys]

But getting new Smash characters added to Ultimate, I think that dream is over. But fuck, I still love to dream.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Here's the thing. It should be over because you shouldn't add anybody else after Sora. Like, come on, Sora needs to be the final stamp on this thing. Like, that is the way to end it. We have another one from Vishal Verma who writes in and says, tim, I just started Mario Odyssey after being away from Nintendo for years. I can't believe how the same plumber keeps revolutionizing platformers. Encouraged me to dive back in. Thank you, dude. Love that.

[Tim Gettys]

Enjoy one of the best gaming experiences you'll ever have. There are a few games that I dream about as much as Mario Odyssey. You know what I mean? Yeah. There'll be times I wake up and I'm like, I got to play.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's crazy that I. I don't go back to playing Mario Odyssey as much. And I don't know why. When I think about, like, how much I go back to playing Mario 64. But that said, I think back to it so fondly.

[Tim Gettys]

I think it's a size and scope thing, you know, And I think Mario 64 is such a just like. I think the way me and you play, it's very similar, where we can just pop in and we're just like. I know we're just going to run around.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Even just going to.

[Tim Gettys]

Around around feels good, you know, we're going to have some fun there. But whereas Odyssey, I feel like, because there's so many moons everywhere, there's so many things to do at all points. It can kind of feel like you don't jump.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Overwhelming.

[Tim Gettys]

You don't know where to start.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, we got another one from Chris fodowski writes, and it says, crazy Pokemon predictions. No game, but a Pokemon center land inside Universal studios Florida after the epic universe launch this may. There have been rumors for years that it will replace simpsons land.

[Tim Gettys]

I mean, I'd love that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I didn't know there's a simpsons land.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, it's very small, but it's cool as hell, actually. You get to go to moe's tavern.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, that's fun.

[Tim Gettys]

Very sick.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's cool. For some reason, reading simpsons lane made me think of the part in the simpsons movie where they're in the dome, and I'm like, oh, it's probably the dome. That's probably what simpsons land is.

[Tim Gettys]

The most iconic Simpsons thing.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The most iconic Simpsons thing. The dome. Remember spider pig? That was huge.

[Tim Gettys]

We could forget.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We don't talk about spider pig enough.

[Tim Gettys]

I think we talk about spider pig the exact right amount.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We talked about it so much that year, and then we moved on from spider pig so hard. That was like. That was like the original meme. Think about it.

[Tim Gettys]

I mean, I don't think you're wrong.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Spider pig was one of the original memes. So we don't. We don't give enough. Is it spider ham? Is that his name or is it.

[Tim Gettys]

No. Spider pig. Spider pig does whatever Spider pig does.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. How could you forget spider pig?

[Tim Gettys]

Spider ham is from spider.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, There you go.

[Tim Gettys]

And otherwise.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

There we go. Spider pig, right? Did spider ham come after spider? Oh, came before.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay. Gene Sandoval writes in and says super Mario world remake, wonder graphics, or even loz link's awakening art style add co op. I can hear bowser's castle theme in high quality glory.

[Tim Gettys]

I mean, I love where your head's at. The idea of getting a remake of the 2D Mario Games, in some ways interesting. I don't know that I'd want it in the. The wonder style. Like, I would want it to be something that's new and totally different. But what I'd really want the most, that, like, I'm surprised they haven't went back and actually done Is just like, widescreen versions of the games. Because you can kind of do it in Mario maker, right?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Where, like, you're using the Mario world style, but it's widescreen. Like, it's weird. There's no official way to play Mario World Mario 3, Mario 2, Mario 1 in widescreen.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

What if what if we did the opposite and, like, scrunched it a little bit and put it on a handheld and call it Deluxe?

[Tim Gettys]

Okay. Okay. Add a multiplayer mode. There you go.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Player mode for no reason. Oh, man. Super Mario Deluxe was the way I beat Super Mario Brothers 1. And, like, man, that was an experience. Like, that was like, I hold that near and dear, even though I later I learned that I was the worst way to play that game.

[Tim Gettys]

Is it the worst way? But it's not the most ideal. But there's some additions to it that were really cool. Like, there was an actual, like, world map.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, world map was cool. I mean, that was the only way I would ever beat Mario 1, honestly, is, like, by playing a Game Boy game that would save where I'm at in the world, because otherwise, God, there's no way I was beating that as a kid. And then one more from Hooded Robin who writes in and says, do you think they combine Black and Black 2 or stage it as two different games? Still also loving the Tommy Vercetti fit today, Tim.

[Tim Gettys]

Timmy Vercetti, man. That's what they call me. I realize, like, like, people, everyone's like, tim, it looks like you just came from Miami. I'm like, I think I just really like Miami style.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's fair. They got style over there.

[Tim Gettys]

Do they combine them? I mean, no, dude. Again, wn ds, you get black one, and you're going to like it. Will we ever get black 2? Probably not. Sorry. Just like we got Alpha Sapphire and Omega Ruby. And it was like, well, why didn't you adapt the stuff from Emerald that, like, made it even better? Remake that? No. Okay. That's just not how they roll.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Wnds. Tim, tell me about what happens in July.

[Tim Gettys]

So July is where we start to cook, everybody. That's when things get really real. Because on July 11, 2025, the Nintendo Switch 2 will be released July 11, strapping for US$400. Oh, I feel this price is a lock. And in fact, bless. Yes, I think it's a good thing you just made a sound. I think we'll be lucky if it's $400.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean, the more I think about it, the more you're right. Even after yesterday. Because Yesterday I said 350, which is crazy. Yeah. Which is great. But, like, even this morning, reading about, like, the. The. Some of the terror stuff that's happening. Right? Like, I'm not.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm not even like, that type of stuff. I feel like I'm not equipped to predict and all that stuff.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

My 400 bet is if things were quote unquote normal.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

So who the knows what's gonna happen. But $400 of as if it was being priced right now are.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

How's the world going to react to $400?

[Tim Gettys]

Fine.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. Be working like Right.

[Tim Gettys]

That is entirely reasonable for what this is going to be.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

In the state that we're in the year of 2025. $400 for a switch to. I think that if it's too cheap, it's actually works against Nintendo for what this console is supposed to be.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. We have a console for people who want to pay $300 and under and it's called the Switch one.

[Tim Gettys]

Exactly. I mean especially with already how they're marketing this of like oh, play Switch 1 games. It's a message. It's an ecosystem, everybody. That's why Pokemon is still going to be Switch one.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

That's not it. That's not all I got there. Of course not. Of course not. We got to talk some launch games. Metroid Prime 4 Beyond is a launch title of course. Cross gen Switch 1 and Switch 2. It will go on to be easily the best selling Metroid game of all time. We'll get a lot of third party support at the launch. Elden Ring will be there. Final Fantasy 7 Remake will be there.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Wow.

[Tim Gettys]

Civilization 7 will be there. Mouse support, of course.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, big thing there.

[Tim Gettys]

Big thing there. But Metroid Prime 4 will not be the only first party game that comes out on this day.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Hmm.

[Tim Gettys]

This is one of the predictions that I am less confident in, but I think adds up in a world for me that I'm like ooh, it checks a lot of boxes. Back in the day on the Super Nintendo, they released a game called Super Mario World to Yoshi's island, right?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yes, they did.

[Tim Gettys]

Then eventually on the Game Boy advance they put out a game called I don't even remember exactly, but Super Mario advance for Super Mario World 2. Yoshi Silent. Yeah, a lot of bullshit. Mario Maker 3, Mario Paint 2.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Jesus Christ.

[Tim Gettys]

Actually going to call it that. They're not actually going to call it that. I'm just joking. I'm just joking. But what it is is Mario Maker 3 and the big what's it going to be different is it'll be Mario Maker like we know, like we love. But there will be other game modes of things that you can make and that will be Mario Paint style stuff. For those that don't know, Mario Paint was a Super Nintendo game that prominently featured a peripheral. I just spit a lot with Every p that I said the SNES mouse.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Many people played this game. Many people loved this game. This game let you paint. This game lets you make music. It lets you use Nintendo sound fonts to make Nintendo songs. A lot of there was a game called NAT Attack. It was awesome. A lot of the elements, both UI sound effects, the saving robot, the loading robot, all that stuff were used in Mario Maker 1 and 2. Mario Maker in a lot of ways already is a spiritual successor to Mario Paint. I think with mouse support, adding more Mario Paint modes to a Mario Maker makes a lot of sense. And also I think that this is a good. Okay, we got Metroid prime for the hardcore big boys and girls out there. This is something to sell the parents on. Oh, but there's something educational, there's something more family friendly and also 2D Mario stuff. Of course there need to be new art styles or something. So it's not just Mario Maker 2. Again, Mario Maker 2 being backwards compatible. I understand there's a lot of things of like this doesn't add up W&DS. Everybody does it make sense for Mario Maker 3 to be a switch to launch title.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's the only.

[Tim Gettys]

Does it have.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's the only thing that gives me positive is it being a launch title.

[Tim Gettys]

Mario Maker 2, over 8 million copies sold many years ago. That's nothing to shake a stick at. That's true because we're talking about a launch of like, oh, is that enough juice for the launch, Motherfuckers? Do you listen to me? Just say Metroid Prime 4, Final Fantasy 7 Remake, Elden Ring, Civilization 7. Like that starts adding up to be in a banger launch.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Here's where I take fault with this is I think when we're talking about third party, too much juice. Like how much is too much when we're talking about launch now? Like, this could be the month, right? This could be a launch. All this doesn't have to come out on day one, obviously, right? Like you can get week one B elden ring week to get FF7, you know, three weeks into the month, get Civ 7. But I still feel like it's a lot. So I feel like two out of three or maybe one out of three of these.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm kind of casting a wide net here. But while I think you're right, I also think we need to remember that launches are exciting. Launches are times that people are like, oh, I want to. I want. I'm buying this new fancy thing. I want to get stuff around it. And I think that these games. None of these are new. Civ 7 at that point will be four months old.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

So because February to July, right, five months. So I think that like this is not too much because it's not like it's the brand new hotness that's competing with something. This is just from software and square and 2k double dipping. So they don't necessarily see it as like a man. We need a big marketing beat for these. Like you're not going to get a bigger marketing beat than the Switch 2 launch as Nintendo is presenting it alongside everything as Target has it on its kiosks and all that stuff. Like I think that that kind of adds up. Think about the PS4 launch. Think about the PS5 launch, you know what I mean? You get a handful, a couple, if even handful. That's not right. You get one or two, if even first party titles and then you just get a bunch of the heavy hitter.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think for the third parties, right way for PS5 there's this game, it's called the Pathless and That was a PS5 launch title. And let me tell you, I also got another game to talk about, Sackboy A big Adventure, but I'll get there in a second, right? The Pathless. I played through, absolutely loved, played the fuck out of that game. One of my games of the year probably. Actually I don't think it was because I don't think it was in my top 10. But I played the fuck out of the Pathless, trust me. And the reason I played the fuck out of the Pathless was one, because it was a good game, but also because it was a PS4 or no PS5 launch title. Same with Sackboy's A Big Adventure. I feel like you can put out some of your mid tier to lower high tier and have it be a launch thing and people will play it like it's the best thing ever. People will devour it like it's a cracker when you're hungry, right? I'll fucking eat this shit up. And like I feel like you could do that and then months later be like, all right, when it has space, let's yeah, let's do the big marketing beat for Elden Ring or let's do that for like Civ coming to Switch because it is a big deal. But I do feel what you're talking about, right? Like I think, I think one of these, at least one of these comes to Switch at launch. So I don't know which one, but I think at least one of them.

[Tim Gettys]

Jg in the Chat brings up something that I. I had not put together and is making me doubt this. Civilization 77 is coming to the Switch already.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, is it? No way. Really?

[Tim Gettys]

They're right. They're saying that it's coming in February.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Holy shit.

[Tim Gettys]

Which does incredibly change this. It makes. No, no, no. They're not going to do a Switch to then during launch for that. But I don't think it's crazy for Final Fantasy VII remake and Elden Ring to both be launched. I think I've said this many times. I think Elden Ring being there day one with the Switch 2 is a message that Nintendo wants to send. So I think that that's going to be a priority for them. And then on top of that, I think that Final Fantasy 7 Remake, another one of the games that they talked about at Gamescom, it was that and Breath of the Wild, right, that we've seen run on the. The Switch 2 hardware. So I just think that that makes sense. And also we're talking about remake, we're not talking about Rebirth.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

See, Chad is throwing out a game Balers Gate 3. That'd be.

[Tim Gettys]

That's where I'm at.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That'd be fucking sick with the mouse to see that one. I could see that one. I would almost put money on. Like, if it's not launch in the first 12 months, I think you're going to see Baldur's Gate 3 on switch too. That's got to happen. The one more thing I'll say on, on Mario Maker 3 and I think the, the thing that gives me pause, right? Not even that it doesn't have the juice because I think you're right as far as like 8 million sold. Like it'll push. Not that I guess you could argue that it'll push units, but I think even more so like it is a title of consequence. I do think that Mario Maker, especially with like if we, if we are going to Mario Paint round, if we're adding in these new features, I think it's one that'll take quite a bit of like explanation from Nintendo as far as how you go about marketing it, how you go about talking about it, right? Like, I think you need to give that one maybe space by itself as opposed to space by like the. All the other launch games to thrive. And then also I don't know if it fits the bill as far as like something that is Kitty, if you're looking at, if you're looking at it as like the opposition to Metroid Prime 4, which is going to be you Know, first person shooter, violent shit. We need something for the kids. I think Mario Maker. I don't know if Mario Makers for the kids. I feel like that's for us Think.

[Tim Gettys]

About it as Mario Paint 2 which is very much for the kids.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

And that's to me the kind of like how this fits. And I also think that a big thing is I think you predicted and I've heard a couple of predictions that we're going to get like everybody 12 switch or 12 switch type game. I don't think we do.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

I think that the focus during the February or the April direct that's going to talk about Switch 2 and the mouse support and all that stuff that is a Mario Maker. Time for them to. To explain why this matters. And I think that they don't need to explain much about Mario Maker because we know. But I think going back to explaining the more educational slash education was a weird word there but like more like this is a good use of your time learning how to play music. Learning like going real deep into some of the the Mario Paint stuff. I think that is a. A sell to parents for more kid focused things. I can't explain to you the amount of fun I had with Mario Paint just coloring things in when I was a little kid. Things are different. You know, I like gone are the days actually I don't know if this is true or not. As a kid there was nothing more exciting than Ms. Paint.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

You know, do kids still get excited about that or is that just such a basic. It's everywhere. So who cares?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean 30 year old man. I got to, I got to imagine.

[Tim Gettys]

No, that's what I just don't know. But I do think that if you're putting up Mario pictures that you then get to color in. That's a kid's dream, dude. Yeah. And I say that as a kid that loved doing that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I wonder if there is a way to even feed in because when I think about what are kids into nowadays I meet my mind immediately goes to like TikTok and content creation which is like what Mario Maker is technically. I wonder if there are ways to feed that in of like what if you could. Yeah color in Mario but like then make him move or something and like make a record, a fun video or like do stuff like that and share it around with your friends. If you can figure out how to loop that in with social features. Yeah, I think you're cooking because you.

[Tim Gettys]

Could do that Mario Paint. You could do basic animations where like you really? Yes, you do. Multiple. This is play Mario Paint, man. Dude, Mario Paint was awesome because, yeah, you could literally, you can go in, you can draw pictures, like, multiple frames, and then they would, like, switch between each other. You can then go in and make music and put the music underneath the thing. You can make videos in Mario Paint.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Like, oh, that's cool.

[Tim Gettys]

And very, very basic. It was Super Nintendo, but, like, what could they do now? I think there's something here. Launch might be lofty, but there's something about all of that that I think adds up.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

All right, so that's July. Is there anything else left for July?

[Tim Gettys]

That's July. That's where I want to stop.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

All right.

[Tim Gettys]

Till we get to August.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Let's get to August.

[Tim Gettys]

Mario Kart 9 will not be released in the first year of the Nintendo Switch to Tim. In fact, Mario Kart 9 will never be released on the Nintendo Switch to Mario Kart X will be released on the Nintendo Switch 2 in August 2025, one month after the Nintendo Switch to launch.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I love you. That's.

[Tim Gettys]

People might say, X. How are we going to jump there? There's been an arcade Mario Kart, but we don't count that because you can't own that. Mario Kart Tour is a game that came out after Mario Kart 8 that you can own that Nintendo can see as Mario Kart 9. This allows them to jump straight to Mario Kart 10, aka Mario Mario Kart X. When you look at Mario Kart 8 and you look at that 8 in the logo, it kind of represents this, like, anti grav infinite loopy type situation that kind of defined the aesthetics of Mario Kart 8. What is X often used for? Hmm.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I like this guy.

[Tim Gettys]

Crossover.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

This means crossover. Interesting.

[Tim Gettys]

Mario Kart X. It's the super smash brothers of Mario Kart, baby. Everyone is there.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I. I like how you're thinking. Even though I. When. When we get to X. What's so funny is, like, I got to. When you said, what does X make you think of? Right? For me, it is crossroads and what I. And like more so it's the idea of shout out to Kevin for bringing up the everybody's here kind of thing for Mario Kart here. I love Funky Kong beyond the cart. And I want you to explain more of your thing because I'm really interested. But like, I. I think of, like, when you look through the. The gameplay footage of the next Mario Kart in the Switch two thing, right? Like, it looks like maybe the track is shifting as you go. Like, maybe you can make multiple tracks out of like the same, like area type thing. So my mind immediately goes to like roads crossing over and it being the thing or even being the thing of burnout paradise. We meet at the crossroads, we start a race there type type thing. I'm very fascinated by. All right, everybody's here. It is a crossover. Mario Kart X is bringing everybody in. When you say everybody.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Who do you mean by everybody?

[Tim Gettys]

That's my thing. Everybody's here. I'm semi joking because I think it could get there. But my, my idea is I think the X can represent multiple things because I do think that it could be crossover of characters. But I think that the footage they showed is a little bit of a red herring that we've seen so far of this next Mario Kart. The. The road that we saw and like how open it was, how big it was, the 24 play playable characters, the characters they showed us. I think this is all very purposeful to like get us talking about certain things, but there's so much they're not showing us with this. I think it's too early to like jump into, like, oh, like you were bringing up the wonder thing and it changing the roads and all that stuff. I think it's a. Too early for that. I also think it's a little too early to even necessarily get into. It's going to be a Forza Horizon open world type thing. I think there'll be elements of that. I. I don't think it's going to be full on that, but I do think it'll be a Nintendo version of that to some extent. Almost like a Bowser's Fury type open world as opposed to a Odyssey type open world, you know. But the. You bringing up Sonic cross worlds or whatever it's called. Nintendo doesn't give a fuck. No, Nintendo's like, oh, cute. Sonic's racing cars. Yeah, we got Mario Kart. I don't think that that necessarily matters. I'm sure they're kind of like, oh, that sucks that the cross would be in both of them. But they ain't looking at it that way. Yeah, but yeah, in terms of everyone's here, I think it just, yeah. Represents multiple Nintendo properties. I think that we'll just have different characters in it. Clearly we're still going to get new Mario Kart world levels. Like this Yoshi level that we're seeing here. We've never seen it before. It's not from any Mario game, any Nintendo game or whatever. We're gonna get those. But I also think that we will be visiting other. Other worlds, which we've done before. Yeah, I think we'll just do it in a bit more of an official.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Way because we've done in mark, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe had, like, the Animal Crossing one. There was an F0 back, I think, I believe. Yeah, it was like a Zelda one as well. So it'd be dope to get way more of those. Right? Like, if half of the tracks. Wait, have we gotten splatoon or you saying we.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, for sure. We're going to get.

[Tim Gettys]

We got inklings in it, though. But we didn't get an inkling level. We already. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, by the end of it, like, kind of is already really working towards this. But again, I just think leaning into the X for the marketing to explain what's different about. About this game, about this one. I think that could be really exciting. I. I also am very interested in the direction they go with the soundtrack because Mario Kart 8 is, like, one of the best soundtracks ever. They went so hard into that, like, big band jazz renditions of everything. So I wonder what they're gonna do here. But rap rock, let's go get Only Hope Limp Bizkit. Roll and roll everything. But yeah, Mario Kart X, everybody.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I like it, August. I like it. And also, I think you're spot on with, like, them skipping nine or not skipping nine technically, because we're gonna call it tour. But yeah, listen, if Microsoft and the iPhone have taught me anything is that companies don't like nine for some reason. Yeah, skip over the nine if you can. All right, hit me with the next.

[Tim Gettys]

Month, September, the Legend of Zelda Wind Waker will be released on the Nintendo Switch one.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, I mean, you're right.

[Tim Gettys]

Who cares?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm going Nintendo.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, whatever. It'll be fine. It'll be fine.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I could play it on my Switch, too, I guess.

[Tim Gettys]

I think. Yeah, I think it's anything that we want. It'll be fine.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Not Twilight Princess.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Boo.

[Tim Gettys]

Come on. I don't know. It'll come eventually. Maybe the treat the tweet tweet.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Treat Twilight Princess with some respect. God dang it.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. My thoughts here are Wind Waker is. It's been longer since we've got it because it was on the Wii U. It was already boarded. But we more recently got the Twilight Princess Wii U. Right. So I think that they're gonna still stagger the releases of this and we're still gonna be questioning when why, but, yeah, I don't think it'll be a dual pack. I think it'll be a single release. And I don't think they even mentioned Twilight Princess when they talk about Wind Waker.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I can see it.

[Tim Gettys]

No matter how many years it's been since we've been predicting that these games are already done and just sitting there.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Very plausible. I like it.

[Tim Gettys]

October, definitely one that's. I don't have much to say, but I don't think I need to say much. Halo Master Chief collection. Hallelujah, everybody. All signs are pointing to this happening, right. That the more Microsoft, more Xbox games are going to make their way to PS5 and Nintendo Switch 2. Halo Master Chief collection has been thrown around. I actually think it's a great pull. I think that there will be cross play and I think that there will be a moment in October that Halo's back, baby. That moment will not last long.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I was going to say, like, how well is going to work?

[Tim Gettys]

I think it's going to work.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You think it's going to work?

[Tim Gettys]

Going to work. Yeah. And I think that there's going to be this like Renaissance weekend, maybe two.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, my God. People on PlayStation and Nintendo and Xbox were all in Battle Creek and it's awesome. And then that's going to fade. But the game will come out and it'll be available on the Nintendo Switch.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Love that.

[Tim Gettys]

November, the next big 3D Mario will. Will release in November 2025.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

November. So far into the year.

[Tim Gettys]

And the reason for that is everything's just pushed back from our normal predictions because we've been working off of a Switch 2 is coming in March, maybe April. But now they're like, oh, we're not getting the direct till April.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Everything's a couple months back. So because of that, I don't think that they're going to want to release all these big games that we're talking about, like Mario Kart and Mario that close together. Give it just a couple months.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. But then you get weird with the game of the year type stuff. Like, does Mario miss out on that? No, it comes out too late.

[Tim Gettys]

It's Mario. So I feel like the people are gonna rock for Mario. I think that's the type of thing of the recency bias if. And not because I'm thinking of like.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm even thinking of game awards, like eligible.

[Tim Gettys]

I think you'll make it before that, before the cutoff, which is normally November 16th.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Like. Yeah, like midway through November.

[Tim Gettys]

I can see the game releasing November 14th or something. But people Will have reviewed it like the weeks before that. And you know, I'm pretty sure that everybody playing Mario the next one for review, by that point you're thinking about, you're thinking about and you'll know like, is it hidden or is it not? You know, it will feature Donkey Kong and Peach and Luigi and possibly more. All playable because it will be Odyssey style, open millions of things to collect stars or moons or whatever the fuck. But co op multiplayer.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Interesting.

[Tim Gettys]

Of course you could play it by yourself, but it's 3D Mario. Not just the isometric platforming challenge based get to the end of the level style of 3D world, more like a Bowser's Fury. That is a bit more open, but way more open. Like Odyssey multiplayer co op.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

How, why? What's the idea here? There's been so go anywhere in the level, like explain to me how this is going to work.

[Tim Gettys]

That's what it is. I'm thinking, think about the rise recently in the Mario Kart 64, now that's been ported to PC of people adding multiplayer and they're just in levels together, collecting different stars together.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's true.

[Tim Gettys]

Think about that. Think about playing a Mario Odyssey level. Think about being in New Donk City with multiple of your friends and you're all collecting moons together. You can race to see who gets the most moons. You can work together for moons.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I just.

[Tim Gettys]

Is there anything Nintendo loves more than a group of friends hanging out on a couch having fun with a plumber?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I'm just trying to think of it from like a gameplay sense as far as like it. What is the co op giving you aside from sitting next to your friend? I guess playing the same thing.

[Tim Gettys]

Right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Because then I guess I'm thinking about would I want to play a game co op with a friend where they're like collecting my stars? For me, it's like, nah, man, I'm playing this this whole by myself. I feel like unless it is us going through the same. Like if it was a more linear Mario game, of course, like, okay, cool, we're going through the same course together. Picking each other up, throwing each other, like having fun in that way. I feel like in an open 3D explorable world, what is like, what are the things that are bringing you together to like fuck with each other or like pick each other up or help each other?

[Tim Gettys]

I think that's the Nintendo magic. I think they'll figure that out. They'll find the fun there. And I think also it wouldn't be too hard to Come up with ways of like it. You only get on your save file the stars that you get. Right. There could be some like group, oh, we need to get this much to get to the next level. Or like there could be some multiplayer specific stars potentially.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Are you thinking online multiplayer?

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, yeah. Or more for them just like local. We're together each on our own hand, switch playing together, you know.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. Like ad hoc or whatever it's called.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay. Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, it's interesting. I was trying to. I was trying to get realistically spicy with not just saying, oh it's Mario Donkey Kong. Because I've been saying that forever. But like I think that with where Nintendo's at and with where 3D Mario is at and with where like the experience people want to have, they just want to hang out with their friends and be in a world. And there's no world cooler than the Mushroom Kingdom.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I agree with that.

[Tim Gettys]

You know.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And yeah, like I see somebody frolic frolicious in chat says Blessing used to watch in 64 co op mods. The thing is I have, right. Like I've. I used to get. Well I used to. I get them on TikTok, I guess I used to get them on TikTok all the time. Right. And my thing with those is that those oftentimes whenever I see them are people speedrunning, right? It is. All right. How fast can we get 120 stars with two people playing at the same time and doing all this stuff? I think for Nintendo to do this with a mainline like Mario Odyssey for example, right. It. Those games in a sense aren't necessarily. They are built for speedrunning, but they're not. That's not the way most people are playing those games. So like how do you casualize like the co op experience of playing a Mario? And I guess I could see it being a thing of hey, like it is just hanging out. It is. People hang out in Fortnite.

[Tim Gettys]

Exactly. And so that's the thing is like there's. There's a difference between Mario 64 and Mario Odyssey with how this works. 64, you get a star, boots back to the castle. There's six stars a level and that's it. They're very mission focused. Mario Odyssey, this fucking screw it. 69 million moons per level. Like one of them you have to go through this gauntlet of platforming challenge. One of them you have to figure out a puzzle. The other one you just need to jump on a guy with a hat. It's like there's no Rhyme or reason? Really, the rhyme or reasons, is it fun? Right? And I think that just like allowing a group of friends to hang out and just live in that level together and just collect random things, that's it writes itself.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean, I got a weird intended decision to layer on top of this. You're going to hate because I could see you being right. In fact, I think if you are right, the way it's going to work is it is going to be local and it's not going to be split screen. The way it's going to work is the same exact way it worked in GTA San Andreas, where y'all couldn't go too far away from each other. Like, I think. I think they're gonna use that as a way to like, keep people together so that it is always like this, like, togetherness of playing. You know what I mean? And also, yeah, like, I think, I think it's gonna be limited. Like, I think if they do that, it's gonna be very limited.

[Tim Gettys]

I don't. I think that if they do this, I think it'll be because they figured it out, like, how to make this actually a viable, worthy, worthy thing. I think the bubble system in the new Super Mario Brothers games was a good example of them having figured out, hey, there's a problem here. Like, what if this happens? It's like, oh, we have a solution. I think there'll be something similar there, but I think that it'll function more where there's like some type of way to fast travel to each other. It's like if somebody's doing something like, oh, I need you guys, then it can just be like a, you know, and then, then you're together and it's like, that solves that. And just like, again, it's all about keeping the fun going.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay. I do like the idea of playing as all these different characters, though. We played Donkey Kong in a 3D Mario game.

[Tim Gettys]

I mean, again, Mario 64DS did something very similar to what I'm saying.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, give it to me.

[Tim Gettys]

December. I've already said this before, but this probably is actually my least likely to happen, at least on this timeline. But there's something about December that screams three words to me.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I know what they are for.

[Tim Gettys]

Smash Brothers. Yeah, Smash Brothers Melee, baby. Oh, yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean, I like it, I like it. It's year one, though. Yeah, Year one.

[Tim Gettys]

December. Yeah, just a thing. We're not trying to get game awards. We're just trying to sell shit.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

I mean, keep people happy.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I like it.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, it's. It's a weird one. But like I think inevitably we're going to get Melee again.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I hope so.

[Tim Gettys]

So. And a big X factor to me on this is they're going to want to get Smash a new Smash on Switch to within the first two years. And so the big question is what do they do with Ultimate? Like do we. Is there an upgraded port? Are there new characters? Is there some there or. Ultimate's on switch one, so you have it on switch two.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

When did ultimate come out? 2018. Okay. So that wasn't. Yeah, that was in the first two years. You're right about that. Yeah. I'm very curious. I think. I wonder. Yeah, I know. I don't know. It's tough. I think there is a chance there. I think for sure Melee, like bringing back Melee somehow or porting Melee I think would be such a slam dunk decision. It's one that it's so slam dunk, slam dunk that like I worry if Nintendo would actually get there.

[Tim Gettys]

Right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Because I think they have this thing that they, they're kind of anti competition. Right. They're anti competitive, like making their games for like the competitive scene. Right. They lean towards you, get to Brawl and you. They put in the banana slipping in there or not even slipping, just tripping in there. Right. To like throw people off and like try to keep it less competitive. So I wonder if Melee is a thing that they want to revive for how resistant they are to that often time.

[Tim Gettys]

That's why I think this is just a random December release. I don't think it's going to be like the most mind blowing thing ever. I do think it's like, hey, y'all been asking. We're gonna give it to you. Go here, be happy. Because they don't have a new Smash. Yeah, like I don't think we're like anywhere close to that. It'll happen but like I don't think that it's like imminent. So I think they're just going to want a new Smash skew out there.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Do you think this happens over them just doing. Adding GameCube to Nintendo Switch Online and having Smash or Smash Melee be maybe like one of the first games for it.

[Tim Gettys]

Something tells me that they're not stupid and they know that they can make a lot of money by just doing a Paper Mario thousand year door style remake of Melee. Just it's the same game but it just has some upgraded. Sell it for full price and it will sell.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I hope you're speaking to my heart. I know you're making me dream, Tim. I don't want to dream too hard. I want to get disappointed. But you're speaking to me. I like it.

[Tim Gettys]

We're into January now. One of my final ones here.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Is this your 12th month?

[Tim Gettys]

Yes, it is.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

I have a bonus 13.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, okay.

[Tim Gettys]

My 12th month here. Fire Emblem. Genealogy of the Holy War. The Fire Emblem 4 Super Nintendo remake. This game exists. I'm pretty sure this game is done. We've heard way too much about this game. We've heard way too much about Wind Waker and Twilight Princess. We've heard way too much about Metroid Prime 2 and 3. I think it's time to just get all those. Those things out the way.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Let's do it.

[Tim Gettys]

So I think it is time finally.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And it's out for a Switch one.

[Tim Gettys]

That's, that's where I'm a little hazy, but probably like it is funny going through this because I'm like, all right, a lot of the predictions I'm making are Switch one, but then I'm like, but is that crazy? I don't think it is. And I also think that like in a year that I'm also predicting a 3D Mario and Mario Kart and Metroid prime that is going to be available on Switch 2 to some extent. Like I don't think it needs that many more things. You don't get much bigger than those things.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So again, I think to your point, right, like you think about the big games that came out for the Switch 1 launch year and it's not like they put out a billion things, right. Like they did actually put out I think a lot for a launch year. But like they put out what Zelda, Breath of the wild, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Arms, Splatoon 2, Mario Odyssey and.

[Tim Gettys]

Then they filled in the rest with like Super Street Fighter. Yeah, like there were like Nintendo backed games. Exactly. Superman are.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But it was like rmx. Like they had, they had snipper clips. Like they had those like. So I'm expecting that balance of maybe like 5 depending on I guess we're getting it later in the year. So it's hard to even quantify, but let's say that's four, four or five big games with like a bunch of Nintendo backed small to like mid tier, like double A, like games to back it up.

[Tim Gettys]

Right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Like that's what I'm expecting.

[Tim Gettys]

And that's my thing too is going off of this of like if I'm right, that it's coming out in July, we are just talking about six months of the year. I don't think we're going to get five. Big Switch two. That's crazy. So yeah, yeah, just kind of be a little realistic.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And also like again to your point of the Switch 1 stuff, how many millions of people have Switch 1 still? Like they got to keep feeding those people. They're not just going to cut that off out of nowhere.

[Tim Gettys]

And then also the, the it being a Fire Emblem remake, we just got engaged not too long ago, which was a new game. So I just think we're back on the path of the, the Echoes if they still use that branding. And then February, this is just a fun little bonus I wanted to throw in here. The 13th month, Kirby and the Forgotten Land will get a sequel announced in a Nintendo direct. It'll have a new subtitle, Kirby on the Something, but it'll be a follow up and we're going to be very, very excited.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Kirby in the Chamber of Secrets.

[Tim Gettys]

Maybe.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Kirby and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

[Tim Gettys]

Probably not.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Kirby and the Deathly Hollows Part two.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm in.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Let's go. I like it.

[Tim Gettys]

I think you're right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Wait, so what are the chances we get a Kirby game like a 3D Kirby game at. In April during the. The upcoming direct? I, I think the announcement, I think.

[Tim Gettys]

That that's a, a Phase two game. We don't need it soon, I don't think.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Fair enough.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Is that your final prediction?

[Tim Gettys]

That is my final prediction.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Tim, I love your predictions.

[Tim Gettys]

Thank you.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You got me so, so excited now.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm like about you yesterday.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's funny because that beginning of kfcd, Greg was asking about my like my hype levels for the Switch too. Right. And like, you know, I don't mind coming off of the hardware announcement.

[Tim Gettys]

Right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Like I'm excited for it but I'm still the same amount of excited that I've always been. I don't think the hardware announcement necessarily like pushed me all over the edge of oh man, I can't wait for it. Like I need this now. Like I'm waiting for the Nintendo direct to tell me all the games that are going to come to this thing to then really get me excited. Your predictions, you just ran me through, man. You know, you're pushing me like I might be over the edge now.

[Tim Gettys]

So with that for me I, I said this earlier of just like trying to come up with this and like it's hard to look at patterns or whatever but like I rewatched a lot of the Nintendo presentation in 2017. That was the real blowout of the Switch. And a lot of it made sense. A lot of it were like, was good news. I think in retrospect, looking at it, you're like, oh, wow. There was a lot of banger games that they talked about there, but there was just a lot of timing things, a lot of things that were weird. Of the amount of people that I've seen be like, there's no way that Mario Kart 9's not a launch title because they showed it as in the. The Switch 2 launch thing. I'm like, if you think there's no way, like, you don't understand how this works. Again, I don't think that it's impossible. I actually think that there's a good chance. Yeah, but I also think that there's a very good chance it's not. Yeah, but it's close. But yeah, Mario Kart and Mario Odyssey both in the initial commercial that they showed. But then even in the Switch presentation when they were going through it, like I remember getting towards the end of it when they were talking about Breath of the Wild and there was a question of like, is this not going to make launch? And then it did, thank God. But like we're in that point right now of there's a lot of pieces on the table. Just because there's a way that like, oh, obviously they're going to fall this way.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

They might not. Whatever. The word obviously is in the same sentence as Nintendo. Take out the word obviously, get it out of there. Because they're Nintendo, man. You never know.

[Tim Gettys]

You never know.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I want to bring in some super chats real quick to close out the show. CJ splits and writes in and says, return of Battle Clash question mark. I don't think I know what battle clashes.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, I don't know what that is.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It sounds like either a mobile game that makes a lot of money or a Flash game that makes zero money. Deer 6 that writes in and says, will cloud based games like Control, Kingdom Hearts, Guardians of the Galaxy, etc. Get natively running SKUs or updates on Switch too.

[Tim Gettys]

I think Kingdom Hearts will. I don't know. I don't expect the others to.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I could see, I could see them getting SKUs, but I don't think it's going to be a marketed thing of, oh, these cloud games are now natively playable. I think they'll just happen totally to get skews. Bobby Joe writes in and says, a Pokemon maker with slap. I don't know what that Looks like.

[Tim Gettys]

That would be wild.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Was that like you're making dungeons maybe or something and oh that'd be cool actually you make the dungeons and like you place trainers to then stop the character player character and you like choose what Pokemon they have the move set and shit. Let me cook Nintendo. Let me cook also just play poker. Rogue Gene Sandoval says instead of Mario Maker it's Nintendo Maker and it implements the Nintendo music app library.

[Tim Gettys]

I got really caught up earlier just because I wanted to make the Mario Mario Maker 3 Mario Paint 2 joke. I do think that the Mario Paint stuff I feel really strongly about just because of the kid friendly focus and how Nintendo would want to think of it. Even thinking about Labo and like some of the the style of game that Nintendo likes to have. But I wouldn't be surprised if maybe Mario Maker to the sequel does evolve. I just don't know a branding name that's like that enhances it more but that maybe this is where we get other types of games that you can make as well. Where it's not just Mario. I think Zelda might be too ambitious of a thing for that. But like some different types of styles. It's more of a Nintendo maker, a Nintendo game maker.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Is this the tough to think about the other games that could get the maker treatment right? Maybe Kirby. Maybe it would be like 2D platformers I think.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So Kirby, maybe Yoshi and then you start to trail off a little bit. It gets. It gets kind of tough.

[Tim Gettys]

Totally.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Joey Ratstone writes in and says great show, thanks for it while I'm off sick today. Thank you for watching Joey. And then finally Samson L. Writes in and says Tim wait. What about. What about Pokemon? Zaw we talked about Pokemon's already.

[Tim Gettys]

We did though I didn't. So I think Pokemon presents in next month. We'll see it and get a lot more information on it. I imagine we will get a date on it. But I real talk like I. I don't feel confident enough to give any type of prediction on where it will fall because it could be anywhere.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It really could be.

[Tim Gettys]

It could be coming out in April or June or July or November or November. Like I don't know. So yeah I'm a little. I'm pretty hazy on that and I feel like I. I don't have any confidence in like locking that down. And yeah earlier I was saying like so I think it's a Switch 1 game. Will it get Switch 2 enhancements day one or maybe that is the thing that I think is important to note about my prediction about the Switch two enhancements of things like Tears of the Kingdom and Mario Odyssey that they're not necessarily gonna have them. We won't know when they're gonna get them, but just at some point they'll happen. I think when the new Switch 1 games come out, things like Metroid prime or Pokemon Za or forgot what other ones I Wind Waker. Yeah, I think those will have them day one.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay, I see what you're saying.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

All right.

[Tim Gettys]

But they're probably behind nso. God, I hope not.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I just hope it's, it's, I don't know, consumer friendly. You know, just be more consumer friendly companies.

[Tim Gettys]

Nintendo.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Nintendo. That does bring us to the end of this episode of Kind of Funny Gamescast. Tim, thank you for bringing your predictions audience, thanks for hanging out, giving your super chats and also me thank you for hosting.

[Tim Gettys]

So good, you know, so great.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So great.

[Tim Gettys]

Someone's saying Bander San, I didn't have anything for October. Master Chief collection.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

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