Get able to put your detective hats on, of us, as a result of there is a thriller afoot. The Nintendo Switch reveal trailer — you already know, the one the place teams of classy individuals play the up-and-coming console at such memorable and real looking venues as a rooftop get together or at a basketball court docket — has been faraway from the official Nintendo YouTube channel.
This was first dropped at our consideration by Reddit consumer CarbVan on r/GamingLeaksAndRumours and positive sufficient, wanting on the YouTube channel in query, the reveal trailer is nowhere to be discovered. Of course, the video stays out there on-line by way of outer retailers (the one posted by GameSpot, for instance), so you’ll be able to nonetheless discover inspiration for which wacky and fantastic location you’ll play your Switch in subsequent, however the query nonetheless stands: why has it been faraway from its preliminary supply?
The easy (and, sadly, almost definitely) reply is that it has been eliminated as a result of a music licensing difficulty. The trailer’s backing observe, ‘Ha Ha Ha Ha (Yeah)’ by White Denim, is a track that, as Reddit consumer TheyCallMeRadec factors out, seems to be in some authorized bother after the observe’s preliminary distributors had been lately taken over by one other firm. Questions concerning the track’s true proprietor are normally cause sufficient for a video comparable to this to be taken down and there’s each likelihood that we have now seen precisely that on this occasion.
But what if there’s another excuse? CarbVan‘s unique publish does level out that Nintendo has deliberately eliminated reveal trailers up to now to make method for one other, maybe related announcement proper across the nook. We may be changing our detective hats with ones extra of the tinfoil selection, however may we be seeing one thing related occurring right here — in any case, rumours of the ‘Switch 2’ proceed to flow into at the next and better density every week. Is the elimination of the OG Switch reveal trailer an indication of issues to return?
There is each chance that Nintendo is clearing the runway right here, making room for one thing else down the road, although our logical brains can not help however lean in the direction of the previous, considerably extra boring possibility — certainly nothing as large because the Switch’s successor could be teased this near the vacation season, proper… proper?
