Arrogance or Confidence?

Whatever reasoning that Nintendo Of Japan has or had regarding the rollout of OFFICIAL information regarding the Nintendo Switch successor obviously only they know, but I think it's gone too far now. The sad part about all this is that it doesn't even matter if the leaks are "real" or "fake." It's one thing when some random person on the internet makes statements on social-media or in columns of news journals regarding what they have heard or saw, but now you have 3rd-party accessory companies giving full blow-outs of the console showing the entire world what the Switch successor looks like. Sure, it is possible that the final design could be different, but you are not going to have multiple companies running around spending time, money, and other resources to make prototypes of accessories for a non-finalized design. You certainly would not have them showing it off at an event as huge as CES. I could be wrong, but I think that what we have seen is the final design of the Switch successor. The question is, why is everyone BUT Nintendo showing us this? Nintendo has remained quiet with zero commentary on all these leaks on THEIR device. I've never seen anything like this before. As I see it, there are two schools of thought on this. 1. Complete incompetence. 2. Unabashed arrogance. It doesn't seem to me that Nintendo would all of a sudden become this incompetent to let all this information leak by accident. My bet is on the latter. I think that they are just so arrogant that they can reveal it whenever they want to, however they want to. Under normal circumstances that would be true. Especially if all information about the device was still under wraps. Now, the cat is out of the bag, the horse is out of the barn, and the rats are off the ship. The only things we don't know at this point are, what the games look like, what the games are, the price of the system and games, and release date. That's basically it in terms of information that the consumer needs to know to make an informed purchase. The Bible says, "Pride goes before the fall." Nintendo is being super prideful right now. Legally, they are treading on thin ice as well. Nintendo has an investors meeting schedule for the beginning of February. I'm pretty sure that shareholders are not happy about all these leaks from outside sources but no information from Nintendo themselves. They are not going to be able to stand there and say... "We don't have any information regrading the Switch successor at this time. Please understand." That ain't gonna cut it. If I were a shareholder with Nintendo I would be like, "Naw, ya'll can miss me with that. I want to know what you are doing with MY money NOW." As a shareholder of any stock, it is Federal-law that you are REQUIRED to be informed about activities within the company that are directly linked to your shareholdings. For a company to withhold information in this regard and to engage in any activity that involves shareholder's money without their knowledge and consent, that is Securities Fraud which is a FEDERAL OFFENSE punishable of 5-years in prison per-offense in the United States. Now, I know that Nintendo is a Japanese company, but they have many shareholders in the United States as well as other nations. Plus, Japan has similar laws and consequences with their government. I say all that to say that Nintendo cannot get out of January with announcing the Switch successor. At this point, it is out of their hands and if all we have seen is what we are gonna get, a 3-minute trailer isn't going to do anything for you now. You might as well just scrap that and give us a regular Nintendo Direct showcasing the games and price information. There is no sense of anticipation anymore from a "surprise" standpoint unless everything we have seen thus far is wrong (which is still possible.) It's basically like you peaked in and saw your Christmas present ahead of time. You were initially excited when you saw it first, but when it came time to open the gift it wasn't that exciting because you knew you were getting it already. That happened to me in 1985. My mother came in from shopping and I could see through the bag as she walked past me that the Monopoly board game was in there.

Another time, when she wasn't at home, I peaked into her bedroom closet and saw on the top shelf that she had bought me Omega Supreme, which was one of my favorite Transformers. Sure, I was happy that I finally got to play with it on Christmas day, but I had to "fake" surprise and excitement because I already knew I was getting it.

Now, if ANY portion of what was leaked in the recent patent-filing by Nintendo regarding it's new variant of DLSS finds it's way into the Switch successor, I think the games could blow us away and MAYBE.....................that is the hook in all of this. Maybe the games look so incredible in comparison to what we have come to expect from Nintendo that they feel that will be enough to silence the masses. I guess we won't have long to wait to find out.