The Switch 2 game trailers being weird could almost be taken as an assumption, something so obvious that nobody even bothered to put it on their various bingo cards. In the last few days we've seen a cow skateboarding her way through a grand prix, a kaiju woman lumbering in for a coffee chat, and a new sports game with controls that demand you clap like circus seals and make furious shirt-ironing motions against the clock.
In the wake of April Fools Day, my colleagues and I saw lots of press releases that were largely the same two or three jokes being passed around. But what other companies joke about doing – or don't even dare to joke about – Nintendo brazenly steps in to do, sometimes seemingly oblivious that there even is a line being crossed in the first place.
