Unsure how to say this nicely, but no one should take that YouTube video about Switch 2 devkit access and DLSS version seriously. The source article is most likely AI generated.
- Lynxbyte Games, who published the article, is only 6-month old, being registered on 2025-02-28.
- Lynxbyte Games’ address is at a “virtual office rental”.
- It has only four employees besides one founder on LinkedIn. Two of the employees are BDs, one a Unity dev, and one QA. One of the profiles shows “#OPENTOWORK” (i.e., a part-time contractor).
- The founder/CEO of Lynxbyte Games is simultaneously the co-founder of a “stealth AI startup” and also an “AI Consultant”. Three present jobs? Guess AI makes him super efficient?
- I could only locate four articles ever published by them. Their headlines all read like SEO slop.
- The two articles about game porting are as generic as it gets. The name “Mike Chen” is not only generic, but no such LinkedIn profile was ever associated with Lynxbyte.
- The published date of the “Chen” article (2024-12-10) also seems bogus. The earliest Internet Archive snapshot of the site was 2025-02-12.
- Their two Switch 2 related LinkedIn posts were quickly removed after they began getting eyeballs—not suspicious at all. The content of that Switch 2 devkit post is equally full of SEO slop such as “how to”, “verified step-by-step guide”, and “free of charge”.
- Knowing the above, one has to question the authenticity of the post and Lynxbyte’s claim of being “an official Nintendo partner”. If it walks like an AI duck …
I understand that it isn’t easy being a YouTube creator. But if LinkedIn is their niche, I expect them to sniff out LinkedIn hustles like this.
It’s also disheartening that some tech media such like Gizmodo disseminate misinformation without a bare minimum of verification. Gizmodo even threw in their own one weird trick to juice engagement: “Nintendo didn’t want you to know.”
The whole affair is a grim encapsulation of the media landscape today.
[Originally posted on 2025-08-13 Pacific Time]
