Controversial peripheral firm Dbrand has began selling a brand new case which it appears to recommend accommodates a Swap 2.
The Canadian agency posted a teaser picture on X on Thursday exhibiting the again of the case, together with the message “we is not going to be answering any questions presently”.
Nevertheless, it has now posted a hyperlink to its website, selling what it calls the Swap 2 Killswitch.
The product web page exhibits an animation of what seems to be a CG render of its transluscent case, with a console inside it.
It seems, then, that Dbrand is claiming that the console inside is the successor to the Nintendo Swap.
Whereas purported Swap 2 carry instances have been noticed on Chinese language product web sites in current days, that is the primary time a notable western peripheral producer has posted a picture of what it claims to be the console.
If the picture is correct, it might seem to substantiate rumours that the Swap 2 could have an additional button on the precise Pleasure-Con alongside the House button (with the Seize button seemingly nonetheless on the left Pleasure-Con).
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— dbrand (@dbrand) December 13, 2024
It ought to be famous that Dbrand is understood for its controversial stunts, a few of which have included Nintendo as its goal.
Final 12 months it launched a set of unofficial Zelda-themed Swap decals which say “go fuck your self attorneys” in code on the Dock.
The web site for the decals included a piece titled “The Energy of Plagiarism,” by which it criticised Nintendo’s choice to launch a Zelda-themed console and stated it had a less expensive different.
“You see, when one of many world’s most litigious corporations publicizes a $359.99 price ticket to switch your Swap with a restricted version variant, solely Dbrand is as much as the problem of charging you barely much less for a ‘artistic reinterpretation’ of their overpriced novelty console,” it stated on the time.
The render of the Swap 2 Killswitch case additionally has a secret code, albeit aimed on the participant this time as an alternative Nintendo. Written as a collection of hexadecimal numbers, when transformed to textual content it reads “why are you decrypting this”.
