Should have just gone cat paw all the way. Sereously, the saddest thing about this mess is that Nintendo anticipated it happening.
As for the 'journalist' being 'shocked' that he didn't get to see his own hand, how would you unless you had a second camera setup to, y'know, film your hand?
I don't get why the hand is neccissary in the first place, why not just have a cute curser? Like Mario building the stuff, or something.