cause it's a debug version, and they are not going to put a game in development inside a cartridge just for 10 seconds of advertisement. was probably the wii u version too.

What the actual f**k...

Well seeing as how the the NS took forever for a reveal I'm sure many assumed that Nintendo should've had finalized things like that already disregarding the thought that it could've been a mock-up.

They have plenty of zelda footage that isn't 12fps to use if they didn't want to use live gameplay footage. KLXVER is right, if they were simulating it, it would surely look better.

Jesus Christ Nintendo...smh

I really hope they aren't saving all the bad news till right before the thing launches.

No it shouldn't, given that both Splatoon and Mario Kart featured never before seen assets, including new hair styles, multiplayer map, and kart racer. That's a lot of trouble to go through for "mock-ups" when they have just as easily (and much more cheaply) used pre-existing game footage. This basically just sounds like typical corporate speak companies use when they don't want to talk about something yet.

Even in the gamexplain interview with one of the actors he said that nobody was playing games on the thing. everything was post production.

They wouldn't have to make a cartridge of that debug version. I'm sure the Switch will also run digital versions from flash memory.

are people this naive, companies do this all the time with phones, even with the 3ds. wth...