- Nintendo has lastly commented on the most recent Nintendo Change 2 leaks
- It described the mockup proven off by Genki at CES 2025 as “unofficial”
- The corporate has additionally backtracked on its declare that the mockup was based mostly on an precise unit
Until you’ve been residing underneath a very resilient rock for the previous couple of weeks, you’re going to have inevitably seen at the very least a few the latest Nintendo Change 2 leaks.
It looks like we all know nearly every thing in regards to the console upfront of its official reveal, together with its alleged total design, identify, and even a few of its potential options.
It’s an uncommon state of affairs and I definitely can’t keep in mind the final time that there was this a lot info out within the wild about an upcoming {hardware} launch. If all that wasn’t sufficient, third-party accent producers have been openly posting their very own Nintendo Change 2 renders.
Case maker Genki was even exhibiting off a mockup of the system on the CES 2025 present flooring which, if correct, provides us a good suggestion of the scale to count on. It looks like that is what it lastly took for Nintendo to situation an announcement although, however its phrases have actually simply left me with much more questions.
In a remark supplied to CNET Japan which we now have machine translated, a Nintendo consultant acknowledged that “the gaming {hardware} that Genki claims to be Nintendo {hardware} at CES 2025 is unofficial and never supplied to the corporate by Nintendo”.
On the face of it, this can be a fairly unremarkable reply. It was already very apparent that the mockup was unofficial, although Genki did declare that it was based mostly on an precise Nintendo Change 2 unit. In accordance with IGN, the corporate has now backtracked by admitting that it was created with rumors and leaked info relatively than something extra concrete.
Nonetheless, this assertion doesn’t contact on the abundance of different info on the market right now. It additionally doesn’t counsel that Genki’s mockup was in any method inaccurate, which may very well be fairly revealing. Both method, we’re going to have to attend for the console’s official reveal, or at the very least some extra dependable leaks, as a way to discover out.
The corporate has beforehand confirmed that it’s going to unveil the system earlier than the tip of its fiscal yr (that is March 31), so there may not be that lengthy to attend.
