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Nintendo breaks silence on this week's Switch 2 leaks, as Genki reveals it hasn't actually seen the hardware

There has been a flurry of Switch 2-related news in recent days, but not from Nintendo itself. Now, the Mario maker has broken its silence on the week's reports

During this week's CES trades show in Las Vegas, reportedly-accurate models of Nintendo's under-wraps Switch 2 were shown off by accessories manufacturer Genki. Nintendo has now issued a statement to Japanese newspaper The Sankei Shimbun, telling the world that those images and videos making the rounds are "not official". While this statement is fairly innocuous in a lot of ways, and not exactly surprising given we already knew it was not Nintendo itself showcasing the hardware, this marks the first acknowledgement by the company that these leaks are even happening at all.

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