 Did you have Altec Lansing leaking the Nintendo Switch 2 on your pingo card? Okay. I highly doubt any of us had Altec Lansing as an audio company potentially leaking when the Nintendo Switch 2 was gonna release but that's exactly what happened today. That's right. We have to call this a leak because it does come from a real legit company. It happened through CES. It's pretty crazy and if this is true, Nintendo is going to be very pissed off that this company leaked it out there. Although there's a caveat with what they said and we've got to dive into that caveat but first before we even dive into it, we need to make sure we get to the news itself. So we're gonna go ahead and head on over to Digital Trends. Look, this is being reported on at a bunch of places. This just happened to be the place that I saw it first. So let's go ahead and take a look here. As you see, Digital Trends says an AI company may have just leaked Nintendo Switch 2 name and release month. Going down here, you see as part of an ongoing wave of AI related news at CES 2024, Altec Lansing revealed an artificial intelligence-powered successor to Game Shark called AI Shark. More interestingly, the press release regarding the software claims Nintendo Switch 2 will launch in September of 2024. Formerly known as Game Shark, AI is set to redefine the gaming landscape with its revolutionary AI enhanced technology, Altec Lansing explains in a press release. The innovative gaming software is set to mark a significantly forward in the gaming experience, bringing enhanced gameplay for beginner level users. The official launch is planned to coincide with the Nintendo Switch 2 in September of 2024. Now again, Game Shark was a tool that allowed you to do cheating in games, so this would presumably be a more modernized version that would allow you to cheat in games on Switch 2. Of all things, that is pretty interesting. But there's more to this story, because Altec Lansing declared this is very odd considering Nintendo has not confirmed the name of the next console or the release window for it. That's right, this one has actually confirmed Nintendo is going to call it Nintendo's Switch 2 as well. Pretty crazy. That means Altec Lansing either revealed this release window and name information earlier than it was supposed to, or it's speculating on the name and release window. Nintendo's next device, in order to draw up hype for its AI product, which is probably the more likely thing. But we're not done, there's more to this story. In a follow-up to Digital Trends, Altec Lansing backtracked on the September release month, but confirmed that the tenant of launch for the platform is Fall 2024. It, as at Nintendo, has not officially set the launch date yet, but does not deny the existence of the device or the fact it set the launch this year, which is quite interesting because Nintendo hasn't said jack squat about anything related to this platform other than that it exists. They ever had anything confirmed to launch this year. Alright, Digital Trends did reach out to the Nintendo to confirm the accuracy of the press release and will provide an update when we hear back. As for what AI Shark is, Altec Lansing says it's a utilizing exclusive XGPT technology in real-time, tensor processing units acceleration to elevate gamers' users' experiences by providing personalized hints and assistance that keep up with the fast-paced competitive gaming. Press release unveiling AI Shark does not explain what dataset it will pull from in order to give players that advice, so we also asked Altec Lansing for clarification on that, regardless of what they're saying it's true, Nintendo Switch 2 might be hitting store shelves as soon as September of 2024, and that is pretty insane. If Altec Lansing just accidentally leaked the Nintendo Switch 2's name and launch date, that would be damn and that is we don't give two Fs. Now to be clear, Nintendo has never really worked directly with Altec Lansing. Maybe they're involved in some of the technology behind the audio in the Switch because that is what they're known for, is their audio stuff, so it's possible there is some sort of partnership there that we're not aware of, but if they would have had to leak this stuff out there, I think Nintendo's canceling that partnership post-hace and there might even be a lawsuit coming their way if this is like legitimately what happened. I don't know if Nintendo's gonna go that far, but there's some grounds for it here because this is the device Nintendo has not announced. It is pretty insane to me assuming that this report is true. Now this is where we have to get into the caveat. Let me pull off something here quick for you guys. Now here's the interesting thing about Game Shark. Madcats acquired Game Shark from Interact for like five million dollars. This happened all the way back in January of 2003 and I double checked. Madcats has never resold the Game Shark branding. I find that to be 100% fascinating that another company is bringing up Game Shark. Now if we go back to the original article here and we look back at the actual press release here, formally known as Game Shark, AI Shark. I don't know what to tell you all tech land scene. You don't own Game Shark. So formally known as Game Shark, are you also announcing at the same time the purchase of Game Shark from Madcats? Are you also by the way announcing that maybe you have purchased Madcats or have you announced a partnership with Madcats? I actually did some digging and none of those things have happened. So all tech land scene is likely doing one major thing. Lying out there. No, I'm serious. They are lying out there now. To be clear, I'm not saying that AI Shark doesn't exist. I can't possibly know that. I'm not saying they don't know when Nintendo Switch 2 is coming out. I can't possibly know that. I'm not saying they don't know the name of the system and the release date of the system. Those are things I don't. I can't say they're not legitimately making a product that's licensed to use with a Nintendo Switch 2. I'm not saying any of that because they very well could. All tech land scene is actually not like a vaporware company. This isn't just some random company out there. This is a legitimate company that makes real products and has been around for decades. Okay. This is a trusted brand. So I'm absolutely not saying that. What I am saying is the product they mentioned in Game Shark, they do not own any rights to. So there could be a partnership behind the scenes or not. I'm not announcing right now that could explain this, but it's very fishy to me that they're saying Game Shark is now being called AI Shark when they don't actually own the rights to Game Shark. And when you look at Madcats, they're their own company and they're located in like Hong Kong. They're a Chinese based company. They own themselves. They're a self-owned company. I don't understand what is happening right now. This is one of the most confusing reports I've seen, but it's everywhere. It's on IGN. It's on GameSpot. It's everywhere. Everyone's reporting this because of course they are. How can we not? All tech land scene is a legitimate company that makes legitimate products that many of us have heard of. You go through their catalog of products, they make products that people use. They also, by the way, have partnered with a lot of tech companies over the years. So they are a legit company and that's what makes this so confusing to release, to be so bold at CES 2024 as to release a press release that boldly says we're releasing this product alongside Nintendo Switch 2 on X month. That is someone either made a big whoopsy or they're doing this for attention, right? That could be the big thing, but this is negative attention. This is going to be negative attention if it's not true. This isn't going to help AI Shark. This is going to make people not want to buy AI Shark. So I'm just curious and again, I'm not saying AI Shark is vaporware. This is not a vaporware kind of company. They make real products. They've been around a long time. We'll just have to wait and see what happens, but hey, it technically is a leak because this is a legitimate company. The question is, do we think the leak is real? I don't know. The press releases, that's for sure. Thank you guys so much for tuning in and I will catch you in the next video.