Nintendo has filed a lawsuit against accessory manufacturer Genki for showing off 3D-printed mockups of the Nintendo Switch 2 ahead of its official announcement
Nintendo has filed a lawsuit against accessory manufacturer Genki for showing off 3D-printed mockups of the Nintendo Switch 2 ahead of its official announcement
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Ok so was Genki dumb here? Yeah maybe.
But at the end of the day, fuck Nintendo. They go after anyone they can while being as toxic as possible to the video games space.
> Genki’s most famous Switch 2-related incident came in January 2025, when an exhibition page for Genki’s presence at the Computer Electronics Show 2025 was posted. The page read, “Happy to discuss any Switch 2 info we may have as well as the stuff we’re making for it.”
>Shortly after this, Genki CEO Edawrd Tsai “personally showed off the 3D-printed mockups and stated to different reporters that Genki had or had access to an authentic “Switch 2,” on which Genki based the mockups, renderings, and 3D-printed mockups,” according to the suit.
> It was claimed in January that lawyers representing Nintendo approached Genki on the CES showfloor.
>Nintendo has also highlighted that following this, Genki displayed a video at its CES, both showing off a render of the then-unannounced Nintendo Switch 2, a render which included Nintendo trademarks such as the Nintendo Switch 2 logo.
Color me shocked.
nintendo is the shittiest company that gets a free pass because they have some great games
good
Is this a safe space to say that most of Nintendos best games of late are carried more by nostalgia than actual quality?
Imagine being this anti-consumer but yiur consumers don’t care.
People decry capitalism but at the end if the day who bought their system and paid a premium price for their games?
Lol fck Nintendo
So tired of Nintendo and their lawsuits. I’ll never buy another product of theirs again.
If you have to maintain lawsuits and patent gaming mechanics used by hundreds of games, to keep your company afloat… you probably shouldnt be a company.
I’m confused genki clearly broke a contract they had with Nintendo for their own PR/advertising gains and yall are mad at Nintendo.
Imagine if you told a friend you were going to propose and they went and informed your family or partner before you had a chance to b/c they wanted to share the news.
> 3D-printed mockups of the Nintendo Switch 2
So, a Switch 1 then?
Nintendo is also seeking to recover “all damages it has sustained as a result of Defendant’s infringement, unfair competition, and false advertising, and that said damages be trebled.”
This is the BS part. There is likely zero damages to Nintendo due to an earlier leak of what it looks like.
This reeks of the same argument that the MPA and software were claiming about how oiracy hurts their sales as of every pirated song, movie, game was a lost sale.
This is one of the only reasonable lawsuits I’ve ever seen nintendo file.
The Nintendo hate boner is so hard here , that a justifiable lawsuit is wrong for some reason because it’s Nintendo’s ? Some of
You guys need a grip
Wow, the one time Nintendo files a lawsuit for an actually reasonable case, and people are still acting like they’re the ones in the wrong. Nintendo sucks at times, but this time it’s not their fault.
Holy shit the Nintendo hate in this sub is always wild.
Genki is getting sued for literally leaking the Switch 2 months before the reveal but apparently Nintendo is the bad guy here.
Tell me, which company sells a vertical stand and disk drive for $80 each? Which companies release buggy messes on release? Which companies put microtransactions in their games? Which companies buy out smaller developers and runs them into to the ground?
Holy shit dude. Gamers can’t fucking read. They were under no contract or NDA according to a representative. Their designs which were 3D printed just for demonstration were based entirely on the already leaked device.
So many butthurt Nintendo fanboys
Someone someday needs to push Nintendo’s shit in.
because it looks completely different than the first ones right? Jeez they are a litigious bunch aren’t they? and yeah I get it, it’s the principle. but it still seems pithy.
again I don’t own a switch but these look just like the og ones to me. this is like Wilson coming out with a new basketball only this one is green and it bounces better but you can’t see that just that it’s green. And they would sue someone for leaking a pic of a green basketball.
If I had a dollar for every time Nintendo filed a lawsuit I’d be a billionaire.
Fuck Nintendo
Not sure what Nintendo lost from this situation?
I’m not surprised. Nintendo sues fuckin everything
ITT gamers can’t read. You can hate Nintendo for the things worth hating them for: suing a company that leaked their system early to push their accessory is not something to be pissed at Nintendo about.
If I was working with you on a computer tower design to be released and then I went to leak the design of that computer tower to push hype for the fan I made for that tower, is that okay? No. It isn’t.