A very strange thing happened earlier this year, prior to Nintendo officially revealing the Switch 2: A small accessory maker, Genki, brought a mockup of the mysterious new console to CES 2025 and flaunted it on the show floor,

Nintendo says the Switch 2 renders Genki showed at CES were unauthorized, so it's suing for trademark infringement, unfair competition, and false advertising.

In a lawsuit filed on May 2, Nintendo sued Human Things, Inc. aka Genki, for trademark infringement. It’s a shotgun blast of a lawsuit that claims the accessory maker engaged in unfair competition and false advertising thanks to its use of Nintendo Switch 2 logos and hardware designs.