A dataminer discovers a curious boot animation made for the Switch back when the console was still only known as the Nintendo NX.
A never-before-seen boot animation for the Nintendo Switch has surfaced online, revealing an old logo for the console from back when it was still in development under a codename. The asset was datamined from a Mario Kart 8 Deluxe prototype which was recently pulled from a Nintendo Switch devkit. This is a different version of the game from the one that already leaked back in March and allowed dataminers to uncover two years' worth of planned content for the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Booster Course Pass DLC.
The Switch had been the subject of countless industry rumors for years before Nintendo finally announced its hybrid console in 2016. Prior to that, the seminal device was internally code-named "NX," which is a moniker that the company publicly acknowledged a year later, when its late CEO, Satoru Iwata, made the ambitious claim that what eventually became the Switch was going to "change each person's video gaming life."
