Nintendo Responds to Leaks: "Not Official"

"We didn't leak this."

Yeah no shit bub.

Why are companies so awkward and dumb and "corporate". Just lean into it and score some fan points.
"We know it can be fun to speculate and people are excited about whatever information they can get about the next Switch; but we've got a lot of amazing things we're working on and it will be worth the wait".
- That also implies that there is more to get excited about. It's entirely possible that the leaks have completely stolen the thunder of their big reveal.
  I also suspect that when they say "not official", what they really mean is "not final". i.e. These are prototypes, and could change by the time it's officially announced. They could also be contractually limited from statements, in a "we can neither confirm nor deny" kind of way.
  I do agree with your larger point that their press release left something to be desired.
- The speculation is free buildup and helps create demand anticipation. Leaks and speculation like this are great advertising. It only becomes bad when the leaks and speculation created are better than what the actual product is, or a lot worse than the product is.
  If the speculation was going around that it would be backwards compatible with all former Gameboy cartridges and include free downloads of any Nintendo games older than 5 years, Nintendo would quickly release the real specs/info.

Anyone else feel like Nintendo is missing the boat here? Every day that goes by, the switch 2 becomes less exciting compared to the competition. They needed to release it 6 months ago.

Nintendo has never really cared about their competitors.
- Or their fans - consequently.
- Yeah but that's because they historically have been so different than the competition. But in this case they have had their lunch eaten by the steam deck, Rog ally, etc.
- That's true, but they still usually aim to be the first "next gen" console on the market every generation. Admittedly it probably would really affect them if they didn't hit that but that's how they've always done it
They wanted to release it 6 months ago, rumor has it. But they postponed it to shore up supply to meet launch demand, give extra development time to its key launch games, or to squeeze the last bit of juice out of the Switch 1 -- or some combination of those things.
The Switch 2 will do just fine, better even, compared to its next closest competition.
Bit odd to complain that a console we know nothing about isn't exciting enough. Maybe wait until they actually reveal the damn thing?
Given how they front-loaded the launch schedule and ended up wiping out some of their own game communities(the corpse of Arms say hi from under the former juggernaut that was the Splatoon 2 launch).
The silence on their front WRT games suggests that they might be ramping up for a similar blitz for a switch 2.

"Not official"

This just confirmed these are legit but because Nintendo didn't make the announcement it's "not official"

Genki: "we bought this switch 2 model off the black market"

Nintendo: "we did not provide the switch 2 to Genki"

Yes, we know. You're not telling us anything new.

...but also, not false...

Interesting choice of words. Saying it's not 'official' just means they're not the ones who posted it.

No shit.

Every 5 years, chodes expect each new Nintendo console to be a copy + paste of the previous one.

It's never happened.

This time it did.
SNES
Every handheld console except for the DS and Switch was a copypaste + upgrade from the last one. GB Pocket, GB Color, GB Advance, GBA SP, GBA Micro, DS Lite, 3DS, 2DS, New 3DS, 3DS XL
- "The new console unfortunately is not backwards-compatible." -> riots
  ...versus...
  "The new console is backwards-compatible because it's an upgraded version of the old console." -> riots
- Every handheld console except for the DS
  I'm sorry but it is quite literally a GBA with an additional touchscreen and an ARM9 processor
- SNES was top loading with receding flaps. NES was front loading with a flap cover.
  Must I point out all of the changes, or can you do some critical thinking before you argue?
Except no one expected the Wii U successor to be the same. The Nintendo switch leaks came years before the release, when it was still known under the codename "NX", and they were 100% accurate