{"id":108486,"date":"2020-02-01T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/02\/rumour_the_major_switch_title_this_holiday_season_could_have_tires_in_it"},"modified":"2020-02-01T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-01T11:00:00","slug":"rumour-the-major-switch-title-this-holiday-season-could-have-tires-in-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/02\/01\/rumour-the-major-switch-title-this-holiday-season-could-have-tires-in-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumour: The Major Switch Title This Holiday Season Could Have &#8220;Tires&#8221; In It"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/41b75334854c8\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/41b75334854c8\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Look at those tires\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/41b75334854c8\/look-at-those-tires.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/41b75334854c8\/look-at-those-tires.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Look at those tires\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\">Look at those tires<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A few weeks ago, the &#8220;prolific&#8221; leaker <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/New_WabiSabi\">Sabi<\/a> \u2013 who has a strong track record \u2013 said a new <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/paper_mario\">Paper Mario<\/a><\/strong> game and 2D <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nes\/metroid\">Metroid<\/a><\/strong> title would be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/01\/rumour_prolific_leaker_says_well_get_paper_mario_and_a_2d_metroid_this_year\">released<\/a> this year. Just days ago, the same individual claimed <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/legend_of_zelda_breath_of_the_wild\">The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild<\/a><\/strong> sequel was taking <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendoenthusiast.com\/rumor-switch-receives-surprise-major-franchise-game-for-holiday-2020-botw2-moves-to-2021\/\">longer<\/a> than anticipated, and now they&#8217;re saying the major and &#8220;more likely&#8221; Nintendo release for this holiday season has &#8220;tires&#8221; in it.<\/p>\n<p>Below are the most recent cryptic tweets by Sabi, based on source information:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Botw2 taking longer than anticipated back during e3 2019, so it doesn\u2019t seem to be this year\u2019s holiday release, which adds more credence to the major title I was referencing on a tweet the other day. Neither are set in stone yet so take some salt. The more likely one has.. tires<\/span>\u2014 Sabi (@New_WabiSabi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/New_WabiSabi\/status\/1223329470028730368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 31, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>When you put tires and Nintendo together, there&#8217;s really only one major game series that comes to mind \u2013 Mario Kart. It&#8217;s somewhat hard to believe, though, when considering the fact <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/mario_kart_8_deluxe\">Mario Kart 8 Deluxe<\/a><\/strong> is one of the main <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/10\/new_data_from_nintendo_shows_the_true_selling_power_of_switchs_evergreen_titles\">evergreen<\/a> titles on the hybrid system. This week it was also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/01\/here_are_the_top_ten_best-selling_nintendo_switch_games_as_of_december_2019\">confirmed<\/a> to be the best-selling Switch title (as of December 2019), having shifted 22.96 million units worldwide since it was released in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>To be fair, Sabi&#8217;s <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/New_WabiSabi\/status\/1222823654859231232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1222823654859231232&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nintendoenthusiast.com%2Frumor-switch-receives-surprise-major-franchise-game-for-holiday-2020-botw2-moves-to-2021%2F\">tweet<\/a> a few days ago said the game could be associated with a major franchise &#8220;you probably don&#8217;t expect&#8221; \u2013 so it could be almost anything, provided it has tires.<\/p>\n<p>Following on from all of this, Sabi posted an image of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/01\/cuphead_rabbids_and_assassins_creeds_altair_join_smash_bros_ultimate_as_mii_costumes\">Ancient Mii Soldier Costume<\/a> that was made available in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_smash_bros_ultimate\">Super Smash Bros. Ultimate<\/a><\/strong> this week, and then made mention of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wiiu\/wonderful_101\">The Wonderful 101<\/a><\/strong>, which has been making <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/01\/rumour_wonderful_101_on_switch_teased_again_by_platinumgames\">headlines<\/a> a lot lately.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Muffled words about Platinum and W101 in the distance<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As previously mentioned, Sabi leaked a number of major stories prior to E3 last year, and even received a cease and desist from a lawyer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/06\/nintendo_takes_legal_action_on_prolific_e3_leaker_ahead_of_tomorrows_direct\">representing<\/a> Nintendo, to prevent any further damage.<\/p>\n<p><em>What do you think about this latest rumour? As always, take it with a grain of salt and tell us what you think below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look at those tires A few weeks ago, the &#8220;prolific&#8221; leaker Sabi \u2013 who has a strong track record \u2013 said a new Paper Mario game and 2D Metroid title would be released this year. Just days ago, the same individual claimed The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild sequel was taking longer than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}