It shouldn’t come as too much of a shock, given all that we know about the impending console (and all that we really don’t know), but folks are pretty jazzed about the Nintendo Switch 2 in this, the year 2025.
Through the heady cocktail of an official, promised reveal of the Switch’s successor within the next three months as well as an increasing pace at which grainy photos of alleged componentry find their way onto the internet and are shared ad nauseum, Switch fever has definitely hit a fever pitch.
Enter Genki, a gaming accessories manufacturer that produces things like controllers, cases, capture cards, chargers and more for a variety of devices. Genki has made a bit of a name for itself in recent days thanks to the discovery that it had not only brough “Switch 2” accessories to show at the huge CES 2025 trade show in Las Vegas this past week, but it was showing them off on a dummy Switch 2.
This came just days after an alleged reveal of the back and sides of the new Nintendo console’s “Joy-Con” controllers, which does have an air of legitimacy around it thanks to some internet sleuths and serial code business (read Ash’s report on that here), and with how well this dummy unit from Genki lined up with those and many other supposed images and details on this mysterious machine, it was looking kinda legit. So much so that Genki even has a rendered video showcase of its products on the supposed Switch 2:
Genki now has a page up to sign up for Switch 2 accessories news along with this video https://t.co/hNrX8vclPq pic.twitter.com/uD5qwuEHLg
— Wario64 (@Wario64) January 8, 2025
And while we figured that Nintendo would continue to sit just out of frame, in a darkened corner, biding its time to jump out and break the internet with the actual reveal of the actual new console, it seems the company has elected to address the hearsay permeating the web right now. Or, at least this Genki nonsense.
“The images and videos are not official.”
That’s what Nintendo has said in an interview with Japanese news outlet, The Sankei Shimbun, quite succinctly. It’s not an outright claim of inaccuracy, but that the beast had been awoken at all feels significant.
Further clearing things up, in talks with Genki itself, another Japanese publication by the name of Game*Spark has revealed that the dummy “Switch 2” on show at CES 2025 and the 3D renders viewable online are entirely based on leaked information from the industry. In fact, the person in charge at the company admitted that they haven’t seen the actual machine, and the dimensions of the company’s Switch 2 products are undecided.
So, yeah, pretty good chance that Genki’s take on the Switch 2 and the real thing are going to look at least a little different. While “leaked information from the industry” could very well mean things that Genki has insider access to that haven’t slipped out into the wider internet yet, it’s more likely that it knows about as much as the rest of us.
Which is almost nothing.
For now, all we can do is wait for Nintendo itself to officially reveal its successor to the Nintendo Switch, which we know will happen before March 31st this year.
What are you hoping to see officially from the next Nintendo Switch? How much stock are you putting in these constant leaks? Let us know in the comments or on our social media.
Kieron's been gaming ever since he could first speak the words "Blast Processing" and hasn't lost his love for platformers and JRPGs since. A connoisseur of avant-garde indie experiences and underground cult classics, Kieron is a devout worshipper at the churches of Double Fine and Annapurna Interactive, to drop just a couple of names.
