Summary
It’s been a few hours since we reported thatsomeone already has their hands on the Nintendo Switch 2. The person in question opened up the box, but the console doesn’t function and simply tells you to “please connect to the internet and update your system” when trying to start aSwitchgame. It seems it needs an update, which will probably go live on June 5.
As has been the case with any leak, pirating, port, or ROM, you can expect Nintendo’s lawyers to charge into battle, showing no mercy. Of course, the video has already been taken down, but Nintendo will surely want to find out where the person got it from, or which retailer broke the street date. Former Nintendo employees Kit Ellis and Krysta Yang have warned that Nintendo has ways of finding out.
Nintendo Will Find You
Speaking on their Kit & Krysta YouTube channel, the former Nintendo of America marketing executives said that there’s no way Nintendo will treat this as a “code red to find out what happened.” Also, there are ways that it can find out where this leak originated from. It’s likely that a retailer handed one off to someone a bit early, and they can expect the army of lawyers to be in touch with them pretty soon.
Ellis noted that Nintendo “can get pretty precise” in terms of “finding where this is, who this is, like what store this is” (thanks,GamesRadar). “It was actually really surprising for me to see that, like, ‘Oh! You actually can track this.’ Like, again, these things get scanned and identified, and there are so many little identifiers that you might not even think of, like they will find who it is, but the fact that the leak has happened.”
“It’s almost too late,” Yang added about the leak. “Too little, too late.” Even if Nintendo does manage to track down which retailer released the console early and take action against them, the leak has already got the information out. “It doesn’t walk back the information that’s already been put out there,” she said.
