Actually, scratch that, it’s not just “one” third-party manufacturer. They’re all coming out of the woodwork at this point, following the first leak from “Dbrand” last weekend.
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Dbrand’s leak came in the form of a Tweet titled “We will not be answering any questions at this time”, which was an advertisement for their upcoming “Switch 2 Killswitch” case.
As you can see, that’s one highly detailed-looking “Switch 2” they’ve got on their site. And assumedly, if they’re already advertising a case for the device, they must feel pretty confident that the case they’re producing is a one-to-one facsimile of the real thing.
Turns out that’s exactly the case, as Dbrand’s CEO Adam Ijaz told Insider Gaming's Mike Straw that “the actual design of the Nintendo Switch 2 is what’s in the case in the animations.”
They’re clearly not bluffing either, as several third-party manufacturers have followed suit and released their own pre-orders for Nintendo Switch 2 accessories.
Twitter leaker @necrolipe recently revealed that a few different Chinese manufacturers have released images of similar Nintendo Switch 2 cases, and their designs do match up with Dbrand’s mock-ups of the device.
How is any of this possible then? How do these third-party manufacturers have access to this information ahead of time?
Well that’s probably because Nintendo are doing a bloody awful job at keeping any of the Nintendo Switch 2’s info from leaking, especially because they accidentally leaked some info regarding the device themselves last week.
We’ll likely see a lot more info cropping up before Nintendo officially reveals the device sometime in the first quarter of 2025, as the most important info (the hardware specs) is still a mystery at this point.
Topics: Nintendo, Nintendo Switch
