A never-before-seen Nintendo Switch boot animation has leaked online, showcasing an original logo for the system from when it was still in development under a codename. The asset was obtained by data mining from a Mario Kart 8 Deluxe prototype that was recently extracted from a Nintendo Switch devkit. This is not the same game that leaked in March, allowing data miners to discover two years’ worth of planned content for the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Booster Course Pass DLC.
Before Nintendo ultimately launched its hybrid platform in 2016, the Switch had been the subject of several industry speculations for years. Prior to then, the revolutionary gadget was internally code-named “NX,” a designation that the firm officially recognised a year later, when its late CEO, Satoru Iwata, declared that what would eventually become the Switch would “transform each person’s video game life.”
