UPDATE 2.12PM: Genki has responded to Nintendo’s legal complaint, saying that he is “taking it seriously”, and is “proud of work [it has] made”.
“It is possible that he has seen that Nintendo recently filed a lawsuit against us. We are taking it seriously and working with legal advisor to answer thoughtfully,” said the statement.
“What we can say is this: Genki has always been an independent company focused on building innovative games accessories for the community we love. We are proud of the work we have done, and we maintain the quality and originality of our products.”
“While we cannot comment in detail, we continue preparations to meet orders and show our newest products in Pax East this week.
“We are grateful for the overwhelming support we have received so far. We will share more when we can, but for now, we stay focused on doing what we do best: build equipment for players.
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Original story: The judicial documents submitted in California, USA, Show Nintendo, is formally demanding the manufacturer of Genki accessories for violating its registered trademark, as well as claiming unfair competition and false advertising.
According to the reports, Nintendo’s lawyers visited Genki on the floor of the CES commercial exhibition in January after the videos of their Dummy Switch 2 console became viral before Nintendo formally revealed the system on April 2.
Now, Nintendo has submitted his copyright claim against Genki, accusing the company of “capitalizing” the statements of Switch 2 and giving “contradictory and inconsistent.”
“Starting at least as soon as in December 2024, [Genki] He embarked on a strategic campaign aimed at capitalizing on the public interest around Nintendo’s next generation console, “said the judicial documents, they said,
“In January 2025, [Genki] He began to announce that he obtained unauthorized access to the next Nintendo Switch 2 console in Nintendo, which had not yet been launched or even publicly revealed by Nintendo. After his initial claims of access to a genuine Nintendo Switch 2 console, the defendant’s statements were contradictory and inconsistent, and the defendant later said he was never in possession of a console. However, the defendant has maintained his representation to consumers that his accessories will be compatible with the Nintendo Switch 2 in the liberation of the console. ”
Nintendo said that “guaranteeing the compatibility of the defendant’s accessories would not be possible and until the defendant has access to a Nintendo Switch 2” console and insists that he did not provide or authorize a switch 2 to the company. Therefore, Nintendo alleges that Genki deceived consumers by pretending to have a “genuine console” when it was not, or “obtained illegally or illicitly a real Nintendo Switch 2, or patented technical information about the Nintendo Switch 2, before the launch of the console to the public.”
“Genki boasted its alleged Early Access to the unrelease console and allowed guests to hold and measure the mockups,” Nintendo’s Lawyers Said, Adding the Videos, Renders, and images genki display at its cees booth and on its website infringed nintendo’s nintendo’s copyright and “Garnered and” Garnered Significant attention from the media and public resulting in confusion among consumers as to the Validity of Genki’s Statements and Association with Nintendo. ”
“The public speech and the confusion about Genki’s ads were so important that on January 10, 2025, Nintendo issued a statement to journalists about the incident, clarifying that” the game hardware that Genki presented as Nintendo hardware in CES in CES is not official and was not provided to the company by the United States “, Nintendo added.
Then, on January 20, Genki published a photo of his CEO, Edward Tsai, in his official Twitter account with the legend: “Genki Ninjas Infiltrate Nintendo Kyoto HQ”, which Nintendo said it was “an apparent attempt to further confuse the public in terms of whether Genki had access to a change of Nintendo 2 and/or a affiliation with Nintendo.” Then he updated his website and advertisements “to boast of his early access to Nintendo Switch 2 information,” saying: “Can you keep a secret? We can’t …”
On April 1, 2025, the day before Nintendo’s Switch 2 Nintendo Direct – Genki supposedly “sent a mass on their marketing list and published on social networks an announcement of their own ‘direct’ presentation that will be held the same day as the highly anticipated presentation of Nintendo.” Nintendo then disagreed with the name of Genki’s transmission, Genki Direct, and his brand materials.
“Genki’s compatibility statements would be impossible to guarantee without the unauthorized early access to the Nintendo Switch 2. Therefore, Genki has cheated and is deceiving the public in terms of his ability to guarantee the compatibility of his products with the Nintendo Switch 2.”
Nintendo is asking Genki to use “Nintendo Switch” in its marketing, destroy any product or marketing that use the copyright of Nintendo, and “recover all the damages that it has suffered as a result of the infraction of the accused, unfair competition and false ads, and that the damage is crew.”
Interestingly, the Court documents also revealed that Nintendo did not waste time in the design of the Switch successor, saying: “Shortly after the launch of Nintendo Switch, Nintendo began planning its successor console, with the formal hardware development that began around 2019”.
The Switch 2 will be released on June 5 and will cost £ 396. Nintendo is preparing for the launch of Switch 2 by launching a thick update for the original switch. Update version 20.0.0 adds a series of features to the console, including the new virtual game card system, which allows players to share their digital games with another console or family group members in the same way that they could exchange a physical cartridge.