{"id":669,"date":"2025-09-09T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T08:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.supercomtech.com\/?p=669"},"modified":"2025-09-10T11:32:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T11:32:42","slug":"nintendo-and-accessory-maker-genki-reach-settlement-in-switch-2-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.supercomtech.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/09\/nintendo-and-accessory-maker-genki-reach-settlement-in-switch-2-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo And Accessory Maker Genki Reach Settlement In Switch 2 Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Genki advertised its products well before the official reveal.<\/strong><\/p>\n

At the start of the year, as the hype around Switch 2 was beginning to reach fever pitch, accessory manufacturer Genki began to prematurely advertise its products for the then-upcoming console. Perhaps most notably, it showcased 3D-printed mockups of the Switch 2 during CES 2025<\/a> before broadcasting its own ‘Direct’<\/a> on the same day Nintendo revealed all regarding its new console.<\/p>\n

Nintendo, as you can imagine, wasn’t best pleased about having its plans revealed early, and proceeded to file a lawsuit against Genki<\/a>, claiming that the latter had “demoed and promoted unauthorised purported mockups and renderings of the Nintendo Switch 2 and its accessories”. It also claimed Genki violated its trademarks by using names similar to the Switch, e.g. Glitch and Glitch 2.<\/p>\n

Read the full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Genki advertised its products well before the official reveal. At the start of the year, as the hype around Switch 2 was beginning to reach fever pitch, accessory manufacturer Genki began to prematurely advertise its products for the then-upcoming console. Perhaps most notably, it showcased 3D-printed mockups of the Switch 2 during CES 2025 before…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nintendo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":670,"href":"http:\/\/www.supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions\/670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}