Nintendo "very, very, upset" by Switch 2 leaks, former staff suggest

The recent deluge of Switch 2 details will have left Nintendo “really mad” and prompted time-consuming investigations into where information has leaked from.

That’s according to former Nintendo employees Kit Ellis and Krysta Yang, who worked at Nintendo of America for more than a decade and experienced the company’s processes when leaks erupted previously.

“This really does have a disruptive impact in what the company’s trying to do now, which is to announce and launch a new console – which is hard enough as it is,” Yang said on the latest episode of the Kit & Krysta podcast.

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“[Nintendo]’s been disrupted daily, for months, with these leaks, and I’m 100 percent sure they are really mad, to the most severe level. We joke around but… they are very, very, very upset by this.”

While leaks of information from Nintendo’s manufacturing supply chain – such as the Switch 2 motherboard – may be dealt with overseas, the duo discussed information they felt may have trickled out from within Nintendo itself, from the team working on the Switch 2 launch. And when this sort of leak happens, Nintendo always investigates internally.

“They do have very good people that investigate these things,” Ellis said. “They will eventually get to the bottom of it, but it takes time and it takes a lot of just talking to everybody involved.

“This is hard work, this is a lot of work and the people working on this – and it’s not the whole company, it’s a small group of people, at this point, who are allowed to know this information – need to focus all of their efforts onto [Switch 2].