SO to summarize, the most common "evidence" that this is fake:
1. Discrepancy between reported storage and the fact that MK8D is installed: most likely dues to the fact that the gamer is merely a placeholder and is not part of the testing. The console is running beta software and so is most likely being reflashed constantly - and a full game would unnecessarily increase reflashing times and download sizes, and may distract from actual testing. These placeholders also explain why Youtube uses an older style icon.
2. Inconsistencies in the font being used: it's more than likely that the Switch has more than one internal font, the official font and an older development/obsolete font that was being used while the official font was still being tweaked. It's perfectly plausible that in new system elements the alternate font is used, either because the alternate is "safer" (unlikely to cause issues but isn't as pretty) or simply because the developer intends to tweak it later - ensuring that all UI elements match perfectly would have a much lower priority then ensuring the new elements actually function as expected.
3. Doubt about Nintendo releasing several new features at once: it has been nearly a year since the Switch first launched, and it's more than likely Nintendo would make an Anniversary update that includes the features promised at launch. Initially Nintendo would be focused on getting the system out the door and would place priority on a functioning system over a fully featured system, and now that the system is out and critical bugs have been dealt with they are free to work full tilt on adding the features that they had to skip on launch (Switch has had rudimentary theme support since launch, VC was always inevitable, and everyone knows that using your phone for chat was a stupid hack.
I would have to say that this is real just due to the sheer magnitude of work that would have to go into this to fake it. Faking a picture is easy as you can generally make most things based on stock photos and five minutes in photoshop or gimp. But a video? That takes time, and there is a lot of things going on in the video that would take time to perfectly replicate. You can’t just superimpose some stuff on top of a stock video and hope for the best A good example is the pulsing blue selection box. Honestly if this was fake this would be the best evidence – the tempo is correct but the animation is not smooth (appears to be due to the video being compressed and lossy). So much of the UI would literally have to be made from scratch, and painstakingly duplicated to match the official UI perfectly. Every element would have to be very closely looked at to ensure that it looks identical, is positioned perfectly, and is perfectly animated. Several hours along would have to be spent animating the settings icon’s “shake” when settings is launched. Everything is painstaking set up to act like the real thing, and not just “if Nintendo did this then it would probably look like that” but “oh I see, Nintendo planned from the start for this to be there”
Honestly, I think it would be interesting to ask a designer for a quote for how much it would cost him and how long it would take to replicate this video from scratch pixel perfect, using only what he can find on the internet. I imagine his answer would be “too much” and “too long”
1. Discrepancy between reported storage and the fact that MK8D is installed: most likely dues to the fact that the gamer is merely a placeholder and is not part of the testing. The console is running beta software and so is most likely being reflashed constantly - and a full game would unnecessarily increase reflashing times and download sizes, and may distract from actual testing. These placeholders also explain why Youtube uses an older style icon.
2. Inconsistencies in the font being used: it's more than likely that the Switch has more than one internal font, the official font and an older development/obsolete font that was being used while the official font was still being tweaked. It's perfectly plausible that in new system elements the alternate font is used, either because the alternate is "safer" (unlikely to cause issues but isn't as pretty) or simply because the developer intends to tweak it later - ensuring that all UI elements match perfectly would have a much lower priority then ensuring the new elements actually function as expected.
3. Doubt about Nintendo releasing several new features at once: it has been nearly a year since the Switch first launched, and it's more than likely Nintendo would make an Anniversary update that includes the features promised at launch. Initially Nintendo would be focused on getting the system out the door and would place priority on a functioning system over a fully featured system, and now that the system is out and critical bugs have been dealt with they are free to work full tilt on adding the features that they had to skip on launch (Switch has had rudimentary theme support since launch, VC was always inevitable, and everyone knows that using your phone for chat was a stupid hack.
I would have to say that this is real just due to the sheer magnitude of work that would have to go into this to fake it. Faking a picture is easy as you can generally make most things based on stock photos and five minutes in photoshop or gimp. But a video? That takes time, and there is a lot of things going on in the video that would take time to perfectly replicate. You can’t just superimpose some stuff on top of a stock video and hope for the best A good example is the pulsing blue selection box. Honestly if this was fake this would be the best evidence – the tempo is correct but the animation is not smooth (appears to be due to the video being compressed and lossy). So much of the UI would literally have to be made from scratch, and painstakingly duplicated to match the official UI perfectly. Every element would have to be very closely looked at to ensure that it looks identical, is positioned perfectly, and is perfectly animated. Several hours along would have to be spent animating the settings icon’s “shake” when settings is launched. Everything is painstaking set up to act like the real thing, and not just “if Nintendo did this then it would probably look like that” but “oh I see, Nintendo planned from the start for this to be there”
Honestly, I think it would be interesting to ask a designer for a quote for how much it would cost him and how long it would take to replicate this video from scratch pixel perfect, using only what he can find on the internet. I imagine his answer would be “too much” and “too long”
