It sounds like Nintendo is unhappy with all the Switch 2 leaks, as they set their lawyers on replica maker Genki. Information about the Nintendo Switch 2 has been leaking with such regularity in the last few months that it’s kind of surprising Nintendo hadn’t said anything sooner.
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After more than a month of screenshots and video footage popping up online, Nintendo finally broke its silence when accessory company Genki showed off its own replica of the Switch 2 during CES 2025. Anyone who thought it odd, that Genki was risking the wrath of the notoriously litigious Nintendo, will be unsurprised to learn that apparently lawyers did get involved – and yet Genki still remains strangely unconcerned.
Genki has stated it never signed any non-disclosure agreement with Nintendo, so it’s not as if it leaked confidential details it had previously been trusted with. In fact, Genki has also admitted that its Switch 2 replica is based purely on the rumoured and leaked information that’s been swirling around online, rather than insider info from Nintendo.
This is according to French journalist Julien Tellouck, who spoke with a Genki representative at CES and shared what he heard via a YouTube Short. ‘[A Genki representative] told me that Nintendo had already sent lawyers their way. But Genki has nothing to worry about because they’ve never signed any papers with Nintendo, no confidentiality agreement, no NDA. So, the Japanese brand is in the clear,’ explained Tellouck (as translated by The Game Post).
