Because i am a jewish kurd. My grand Grandfather and my uncle were killed from the Turks (muslim) and my beloved Holy land israel is sorrounded by arabs and they are getting attacked all the time. And the anti semetism inside the muslim community is clear enough. But not all the muslims are like that is not a statement for me. If from 10 muslims i met 10 are like that, it is 100%. 

coincidence anyone? (post from PaulGaleNetwork)

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-january-nintendo-direct-will-surely-be-announced-in-one-hour-my-uncle-at-nintendo-told-me-so.13513/page-556

Also anyone that hasn't went to the Resetera thread...about this...its AMAZING..

Even Charles, the guy that does the voice of Mario, retweeted the chibi robo on flames tweet and wrote:

"Im certainly amped to see it"

This my friends is the holy answer. I also saw this trend going on with Nintendo with the new President (Switch video announced like randomly couple hours prior), Switch presentation 2-3 months before the console launched, no one was thinking it would be enough and there it is being one of the fastest selling console of all time.

I think they will announce the Direct tomorrow morning for a later in the afternoon direct. I hope we have good announcements tho it they are teasing like this.

The Valve games as exclusives, no.

I am not even sure if a new Portal is in development.
HL3 will probably be positioned as a technical masterpiece.
Left 4 Dead 3, will be too taxing for the Switch.


Valve pretty recently brought Dota 2 over to their new engine.
Dota 2, may come to the Switch; Dota 3 would be a long ways off.

Team Fortress 2 seems to be reaching its expiry date.
I don't think Valve has the production capacity to work on a TF3 in-house, at the moment.
CS:GO was not developed in-house.

Gabe has stated that "three full VR titles" are in development.
This does not leave much staff for titles outside of HL3 and L4D3, and their multiplayer titles.

Artifact will probably, hopefully come to all platforms.
I don't think that has a large team.
Just a group of Valve employees who really wanted to make a card game.
Similar to Game Freak's Giga Wrecker.

I think the gamestop tweet is the key on the time. They just did it one day early. What time would that have been today? 

That's also what I think and if I remember it was suppose to air at 11 am EST.

Not sure tho.

Edit : Yea maybe it's 12pm. That was probably a clue since it was totally intentional and why was it a random tweet indicating an hour instead of an announcement. I think Nintendo asked them to do it and with that specific tweet.

Not completely sure...

But according to Nibellion's tweet at around 8:23am PST/11:23am EST. They had "just" tweeted it and deleted it. So it may be based on that a 9:00am PST/12pm EST direct.

Nintendo has usually had directs at 10 and 11 EST I believe. I can’t remember the last time they had one at 12 EST if ever. The delay could just be to play with everyone some more, but I’m sure most of us are going to be watching for it all morning anyway.